Affordable, accessible, pretty and well designed. A great answer to the higher cost of the Ufotable Deluxe artbooks. 

For it’s relatively small size, this book is thick and incredibly dense, just like Demizu Posuka’s artwork. The dramatic and extreme perspectives are impressive, inspiring and a little intimidating

​The colors in this book are so vibrant, it’s really a treat for the eyes. Iroiro by Kato Kazue is 150 pages brimming with color, energy and personality. Thankfully the whitespace is kept to a minimum and the layouts show off the artwork instead of the book design.

I bought this book set knowing I'd enjoy it because I love one Piece and Oda’s philosophy. Once I sat down to go through them I began to think about the healing power art can have.

​Flowing fabrics, jewels, wind swept hair, mythology, sparkles and so on. Fushigi Yugi by Yuu Watase is a Shojo Isekai reverse harem (sans the game mechanic trope) What’s not to love? My only question, where is truck kun?

​Where ever you are in your manga art journey, do not sleep on this gorgeous pair of illustration books from the manga series Tokyo Ghoul by Sui Ishida. I have found them inspiring and they are a joy to look through.

​You would think, as I did, that the largest book would be my favorite, but actually the tiniest one is. These books are like goldilocks' porridge.

Yaaaaaaaallll. This book is beautiful, a huge coffee table display book of Takeshi Obata’s colored illustrations from the early 2000's. It's truly something uniquely and special, go find one.

​Twisted Visions by Junji Ito turned out to be strangely, and appropriately cursed. There is a little story to go with the review, I returned it but really should have cast it into a well or volcano. 

If you collect Manga art books, Naruto is obviously a classic and the first book is a must have. The other two are skippable but If you love the show, all three are reasonably priced and well laid out so…they’re fine I guess.