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Hiroyuki Imaishi Anime Art Collection Book (Style Japanese Edition)

Hiroyuki Imaishi Anime Art Collection Book (Style Japanese Edition)

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📖 Book Overview & Summary

Unleash the raw, explosive visual velocity of a legendary anime pioneer! Published by the highly acclaimed [Style (アニメスタイル)](1.4.1, 1.5.5), Hiroyuki Imaishi Anime Artworks (今石洋之アニメ画集) is the definitive, long-awaited first official art compilation tracking the historic career of acclaimed director, key animator, and Studio Trigger co-founder Hiroyuki Imaishi. Renowned worldwide for his distinct, ultra-stylized, and high-energy artistic styling, Imaishi's debut monograph is a core asset for animation libraries.
Spanning 224 pages of premium, heavyweight full-color portfolio layout paper, this massive archive compiles an extensive curation of landmark visual properties from across his celebrated tenure at both Studio Trigger and Studio Gainax. Trace your favorite adrenaline-fueled sagas through a spectacular array of promotional illustrations, magazine column prints, rough design sketches, and raw keyframe drawings.
What's Hidden Inside This High-Octane Chronicle:
  • Blockbuster Trigger Productions: A massive curation of definitive illustrations and key animations for smash hits like Kill la Kill, Promare, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, and Space Patrol Luluco.
  • Cult Legacy Vaults: Extremely rare behind-the-scenes layout matrices, mechanical setting blocks, and character sheet drawings from foundational titles—including Dead Leaves, FLCL, Ninja Slayer, and his legendary animation run on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
  • Boutique Media Reprints: Features full-color layouts and original graphic columns originally serialized exclusively across premier industry outlets like Animage and Newtype magazines.
Housed in a gorgeous, large oversized A4 format scale, this premium Japanese edition serves as an indispensable tabletop reference manual and blueprint library addition for digital painters, animators, graphic novelists, and dedicated collectors of high-end animation monographs.
Product Details & Technical Specifications:
  • Title: Hiroyuki Imaishi Anime Artworks (今石洋之アニメ画集)
  • Artist & Director: Hiroyuki Imaishi (今石洋之)
  • Publisher: Style (スタイル) (Japan, First Edition)
  • Format: Softcover Japanese Import Artbook (Mook / Magazine-Book Hybrid) with Premium Textured Dust Jacket
  • Print Length: 224 Pages (Full Color & B&W High-Fidelity Plates)
  • Dimensions: 29.6 cm x 22.2 cm x 2.0 cm / 11.65" x 8.74" x 0.79" (Official A4 Layout Size)
  • Item Weight: 1.06 Kilograms (Approx. 2.33 lbs)
  • Language: Japanese Text Entries (Visual-heavy layout sequence easily appreciated without translation)
  • ISBN-10: 4902948346
  • ISBN-13: 978-4902948349

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