Makoto Shinkai’s Artbook Makes Amazon Top 10 Japanese Books

Posted on April 27th, 2008 by Xcomp

Makoto Shinkai’s first artbook, which contains over 400 backgrounds from his movies, appears to be selling well. Daike-san tells me that it’s sold out in a good number of shops in Akiba and it’s even managed to make Amazon’s Top 10 list of Japanese books.

Can’t wait to get a hold of it myself!

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9 Responses to “Makoto Shinkai’s Artbook Makes Amazon Top 10 Japanese Books”

  1. Jade, on April 28th, 2008 at 3:08 am Said:

    Do you know if this book is being sold anywhere else besides Amazon JP and HMV JP?

  2. Maltos, on April 28th, 2008 at 4:10 pm Said:

    I think i’m going to be ordering this pretty soon! I really want a first print for some reason. I wouldn’t be able to tell anyway hahah.

    But my 5CM LE DVD and single arrived today.
    I got a pretty unimpressive film strip~ 4 pictures of the arrrows in the target at the start of Cosmonaut. I’m satisfied though. Just happy to be owning a hard copy of the film.

  3. Xcomp, on April 28th, 2008 at 10:49 pm Said:

    Jade,
    I’m afraid they’re the only places I know that will send the book outside of Japan just now.

    Maltos,
    I’m trying to bug someone over in Japan to get me it so I don’t have to pay the high handling and delivery charge but, looks like it’s sold out. Apparently it’ll be another week until the next batch >_>

    Good to hear you got the DVD. So did you get it off PA and risk customs? I know another guy got shots of the stadium lights where Takaki was training for football in Oukashou. As you say, it’s still good to have a hard copy of the film and the artwork.

  4. Maltos, on April 29th, 2008 at 7:54 am Said:

    Hopefully you’ll get lucky then! And i never thought it’d be that popular~ Shinkai obviously has a lot of fans in Japan!

    Yep, from PA and luckily no customs; so i was thrilled XD

  5. Xephyr, on May 2nd, 2008 at 2:47 am Said:

    HobblyLink Japan has the book too http://www.hlj.com/product/KDA64714

    I just ordered mine =D

  6. Xcomp, on May 2nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm Said:

    Nice find, Xephyr! I hope people who are after the book are reading this because HMV appears to be sold out now.

  7. Xephyr, on May 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 am Said:

    No problem I would have missed this too if I didn’t browse so many blogs =D stumbled on this one after I read about the artbook from another blog ^_^

    If anyone already has them would love it if they could post some pictures of it.

    Too bad its Golden Week over in Japan so my order probably won’t ship for a while orz

  8. Xcomp, on May 4th, 2008 at 1:47 am Said:

    There’s a few photos on monta@site. It’s a pity it’s not one background per page but, still looks good. Just the cover alone seem to look so much better in a photo.

    This buyer got a nice surprise after whipping off the outer blue cover, LOL.

  9. Xephyr, on May 4th, 2008 at 4:12 am Said:

    Hmm can’t wait for mine to be shipped out then =X

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