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hi! i’m a super avid collector and never knew a sub like this existed which is wild! anyway one of my all time holy grail items popped up at a value village for 8$ and i had a full on moment of “this isn’t real life”

in all my years of collecting this was one of the most amazing finds at thrifting i’ve ever had in my life. even better it’s just a week away from my birthday :)

love to know if anyone has found a insane book at the thrift store and your stories!

First commercial artbook by artist AU. Very little Fate/Grand Order but nothing from their doujinshi like Anathema, which I posted a while back. Good for me, a bummer for others I guess.

You get full-page illustrations, sketch art, character/costume designs and a handful of short manga (about 5-6 pages each) which probably are just samples or chapters of longer works. While the content is a bit random the art is still gorgeous.

Release: 04/30/2026, 3000 Yen, ISBN 978-4-768331-43-9

So I preordered this book off Amazon JP, however, I've been getting several damaged books from amazon US and was considering switching to another place to buy the book. However in the title it says that it will come from Amazon JP. So is CD japan just going to be a middle man in this scenario with more shipping procedures? This seems like the case but I want to confirm because I am not familiar with the Proxy shopping service

I was also considering switching to CD Japan so I can buy other things at the same time so they can be shipped together.

Awesome book if you can get ahold of it. I had been looking for it for quite awhile. Ended up paying around $80 I think. Totally worth it IMO. https://www.instagram.com/blackysan/

I really got to get more shelves. I truly do. Especially since I got the rare art book for 9 (2009) on the way.

Took a few weeks but I finally got it. Compromised of 2 chapters: the first is about the restoration of Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and the second is about HEMA practices. Only available in Korean, though the author has expressed they want to get an English version and on the bio of their blog stated there is a sequel in the works.

Compared to their 4 previous works, it is much more stylized. From the pages I could find showing pages from the 4 previous books, there seems to be the finer details not available and might be planned for the sequel. It does state on the back the purpose of this book is to capture the core principles of Western Swordmanship in one volume.

On a separate note, the author has been asked if they are willing to do Notes on Eastern Swordsmanship, but stated that they are more people suitable than them as they primarily study HEMA and have been for 12 years.

Update: Just found out on one of their old blog posts states the book is compromised of their first 3 books, not including their 4th which is on plate armor. Although it does feature a small section at the end about fighting in armor. This book seems to focus more on their 'longsword' and 'rapier' books while having a small section for their 'shield and one-handed sword' book.

It’s scary flipping through these books and closing them with the covers, but they look so unique.

Vol.2 is all about the Fate franchise. It's mostly Fate/Grand Order which I am a little obsessed with even though I never played it much. I really like when different artists reinterpret well-known characters in their own style or seeing those characters in unusual situations. These are all from artists I'm not usually collecting so there will be more FGO in artist-specific collections and there was already in the artbooks post.

Picked up this art book a while back.

Robot Carnival was a 1987 anime OVA consisting of 9 shorts each by separate well known animators/directors.

I loved the variety and different styles for each short. It's not something I would expect to see done today.

Animators/Directors include:

• Hidetoshi Ōmori
• Hiroyuki Kitakubo
• Hiroyuki Kitazume
• Katsuhiro Otomo
• Koji Morimoto
• Mao Lamdo
• Takashi Nakamura
• Yasuomi Umetsu

Some of the books are hidden behind the shelf pillars (photo 1). Been collecting since 2016, my first book I think was over the garden wall.

I will say: most of these are actually thrifted- I’m lucky I live in an art college town area gifting me with many treasured pieces.

Beautiful art in this book, I wish I could show all 413 pages but reddit only allows 20!

I didn't hear about this anime until recently. It is based on a 1967 manga.

This 1983 film was the 1st highest grossing anime film and the 8th highest grossing film in Japan for that year.

The art might look familiar because the character designer was Katsuhiro Otomo who is also the manga/anime creator for Akira (1988).

Nier mainly has art from Koda Kazuma and Akihiko Yoshida. FFXVI is mainly Kazuya Takahashi.

Listed: https://myfigurecollection.net/list/386644