Today I got six books: Okamax is Okama's first book, I got the scans and fell in love with his style, where erotic and naive themes blend, he's one of the few "big big eyes" Japanese artists I like.
Virtua Fighter Ten Stories is Katsuya Terada's comic book on VF, I got it just to complete my Terada bookshelf and I usually adore the composition of the tables in his comics, Saiyukiden is another planet anyway, hope to see vol.2 soon...
Phantom Core, the only Nirasawa book I missed except the very old Fantastic Creature World. This is Phancure's story, I like Nirasawa's sculptures more than his drawings but this little books rocks!
D.D.D. vol.1, Eisaku Kito page features a wonderful model of a mecha, and there are around ten pages of illustrations by Ryuichiro Kutsuzawa, alias my new obsession with Japanese artists.
C.D.B. is Character Design Bible and features articles and making of various artists, this issue has a lot of design of monsters by Takayuki Takeya so it's cool.
The last one is Kazuhisa Kondo's Go Ahead. Kondo designs look like those of a kid if compared to the old designs by Kobayashi, anyway he made some great mechas such as the Breda and the Latch Bum so I was curious to see more of his original works.
I also got some resin figures last week, and some modelling tools and putty, I'm going to start doing some models and attempt some sculpting next week, just in time with the winter holidays... Hear ya soon!
