Manga Design

by Masano Amano, Amano Masanao (Editor)

Get the skinny on the Manga phenomenon and it's superstars - both human and fictional - via 140 A-Z listings.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Art, Nonfiction, Japan, History

568 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Gabriel Benitez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Manga Design es un muy interesante catálogo de 150 mangakas, o sea, autores de manga, sus estilos y sus historias. Es un muy buen material de referencia para encontrar opciones de lectura y no navegar a ojos cerrados en la historieta japonesa. Incluye un DVD con 900 portadas de las historietas, dos entrevistas con autores y una visita a una tienda japonesa de comics.
Muy interesante.

[David · Rating 1 out of 5]

Numerous errors in the assignation of sample pages and introductory blurbs to artists, little new information in said blurbs, all of the sample pages are left untranslated, and even at the time it was published there were online guides that surpassed it as a reference resource. I haven't watched the dvd (interviews) that it came with, so maybe that's worthwhile, but the book alone isn't worth the price.

[Susan · Rating 2 out of 5]

The coverage was pretty broad, but it was incredibly shallow, and there were several mistakes, like artwork being mixed up or text not edited properly. Also, the text got really creepy when talking about eromanga. There was a lot of commentary on how women were drawn, and none on men. The strength of the book is in the production design and paper quality.

I did not watch the DVD.

[Oriana]

Manga Design by Julius Wiedemann (2004)