CAA: Christian Anime Alliance

PostPosted: **Sun Dec 28, 2003 6:42 pm**

Hmmmm wasn't sure wether to put this in Manga or here so I decided here. . . hope its okay . . . anyway, does anyone here collect artbooks from animes or mangas? I have Magic Knights Rayearth 1 and Fushigi Yuugi artbook now. Thye are both really good and the art is beautiful. If you are a fan of art in anme/manga as well as the stories, then check these out! There is also some for Cardcaptor Sakura as well. (btw these are only the ones I know about anyway) Do you collect them? Can you think of others I may have forgotten about? Leave thoughts please! ^_^

PostPosted: **Sun Dec 28, 2003 8:05 pm**

I don't have any of those, but I have the Trigun artbook. It's really neat...^^ I like the concept art type sketches. Can't read it (it's in Japanese) but heck, it's a picture book anyway...

PostPosted: **Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:16 pm**

I have the books you have Belldandy except for the Fushugi Yugi one. I love my Cardcaptor Sakura one - which is actually the only one which is mine. *hehe*

Me and my kids collect art books. I mainly buy them for the kids, but I love to look at them too. We have both the Magic Knight Rayearth hardcover art books, chibi-chan bought those. I bought her the Tenchi No Shippo artbook this Christmas. I also have the Neo Ranga and a Slayers art book. There's the Devil May Cry artbook which is great, but it's not really anime. I love the InuYasha art book my son has. I also have two really cool ones of Fruits Basket and Digi Charat, those are just too cute. We def collect the art books. LOL I have a bunch, but I don't have them right here where I can see them right now. Since both my kids are budding artists it goes with the territory. Is there an art book you've been wanting for your collection?

PostPosted: **Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:54 pm**

Awesome! I didn't know there was Trigun and Fruits Basket art books! Where or how'd you get em? Soooo cool! ^_^
Art books are great and I like em because you get to see sketches of the different things!

PostPosted: **Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:13 pm**

I didn't buy mine (it was a gift) but I think it was purchased from Anime Nation. You have to be careful searching for stuff there because they sell hentai, though...-_-

PostPosted: **Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:29 pm**

There was a local anime store, Planet Anime, that I bought my Fruits Basket art book from; but the store is now closed down and I bought it over a year ago. I also live near another great anime store, Anime Pop (it used to be called Pop Culture) that we get a lot of our anime stuff from.

I also get a lot of my stuff from Asylum Anime out of Pittsburgh, Kansas. The owner is really nice and I've met him at Animefest here. We've been buying stuff from him for the last two years. I always try to get to know the people before I buy from them. I tend to befriend a lot of people and then know them for awhile. The girl who used to work at Planet Anime is now the artist for my manga and one of my closest friends. LOL

Wow, I just went on another rant. Sorry. ^_^

PostPosted: **Tue Dec 30, 2003 10:44 pm**

I have a few artbooks.

Hikaru no Go
BackGammon 1 and 2 (Saiyuki)
Evangelion 1 and 2 (the ones by manga artist Sadamoto), preferred 1 since 2 reprinted anime pics...
Detective Conan

I'm a big fan of artbooks and would like to collect more if it weren't for the fact that I move alot. ^^