2006-04-29, 00:44 | Link #1 |
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Air - Merchandise (Figurines, Artbooks, OSTs, etc.)
Thread dedicated to Air related merchandise - including... art books, figurines, games, manga, plushies, CDs, OSTs, DVDs, etc., or if you know where you can find such items, then please post here.
__________________ For music related items, please check the following sites: http://www.cdjapan.co.jpIf you can read Japanese, then you can also try: http://www.amazon.co.jp__________________ Please Note: This thread is for official merchandise only, no bootlegs or cheap illegal imitations! Hi everyone, I'm new to these forums (albeit a long time lurker), but had to post something about my new acquisition: Air artbook (the one for the game, not the tv or movie artbook). My friend from Japan came to visit and brought along some goodies which included the artbook. The artbook is much better than the movie and tv artbooks. It came with a hard cover case thing that the artbook can be inserted into. Very nice. The book itself is much bigger than the movie/tv one, in terms of size and content-- its thick. I was a bit suprised at first when I was looking throught it. It had naked pictures of Misuzu and the other characters, and other pictures with the characters engaged in very proacitave situations. I then remember that the anime was based off an h-game and obviously I was looking at the AIR game artbook. I suppose these pictures were taken from the game. Aside from the echhi stuff, excellent art. High quality paper too. So far it is my favorite out of my 3 other AIR artbooks I own. BTW there is a sketch book type artbook out there as well. So if you ask me about the 3rd one its that one I refer to. If anyone else owns any of the other artbooks, how much did you pay for them? I showed my friend the sketch book AIR artbook (which I bought for $30 usd), and he tells me it would cost him 500 yen ($5 usd) in Japan. Last edited by xris; 2007-07-06 at 03:44. |
2006-04-29, 02:37 | Link #2 |
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I recently ordered the game and TV artbooks from amazon.co.jp; after shipping and everything, they came to about ¥7100, which was a little over USD 61.00 at the time. It's true, if the anime was your introduction to the story (as it was for me too), the game artbook definitely shows you a very different side of the characters. And on one hand, you can say that that's how they really were originally, but on the other hand, it wasn't the adult content that got it voted game of the year two years in a row in Japan...instead, it was the story. Either way, I think there's enough beautiful work in there for it to be worth owning regardless of one's opinion regarding the adult portions.
I haven't bought the movie artbook yet, because I didn't really care for the visual style of the movie as much, but I'll probably end up buying it eventually, just because. The manga has me curious, too, and it's cheap enough (at ¥567, from the same source as above) that I could probably justify buying that and a few other things for, um, reading practice. Yeah, that's it... |
2006-04-29, 12:38 | Link #3 |
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I did try to order some stuff off amazon.co.jp a while ago, I was to stupid to navigate through it, so I gave up. I wish I knew how to read Japanese, but sadly I can't. I suppose I can get a translator, but then again I'm lazy. Meh. It would be nice not having to pay triple the retail price that some online stores are asking for. Beggars can't be choosers I suppose.
The art style in the AIR manga is kinda ugly. The same person who did the Kashimashi manga is at least doing the art in the AIR manga. Their eyes arent big enough in the manga I tell ya! That and they're chubby-looking. Even though I say that I still want to check it out. |
2006-04-30, 19:53 | Link #5 |
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My Japanese reading comprehension isn't very good yet either, but I kind of got lucky and stumbled across reviews of the books that included their ISBN numbers, which made them much easier to locate. In case it'll help anyone:
Air Art Works (game): 4894903180 Air on TV artbook: 4861272114 Air Movie artbook: 4861271738 As far as amazon.co.jp goes, finding what you want seems to be more difficult than buying it once you do...once you locate it, the rest of the process is close enough to how it is on the English site, and there's enough help along the way that it's not too hard. This may not be a good thing, though, as it's ended up costing me a lot of money over the last few months... |
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2006-05-06, 01:19 | Link #8 |
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If there was, rest assured, I'd have it. The only one I've seen is the resin kit that CD Japan is still carrying - there's nothing complete that I've seen. Personally, I'd love to see a completed PVC version of that kit (I think it's a Kotobikuya one), as well as a Kanna one as well... sigh.
Even better would be a licensing deal for AIR - but a Minagi figurine would be nice. -Anidyar
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2006-05-06, 02:17 | Link #9 |
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Well, I found this picture from http://cupped-expressions.net/air/in...se-figures.php.
I think it said that the figure was from http://nipponproducts.com/index.php?...n%27t+found%21 but was there a while ago. |
2006-05-08, 13:39 | Link #10 |
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3 new AIR figurines available for preorder at HLJ:
http://www.hlj.com/product/ORG02015 http://www.hlj.com/product/ORG02016 http://www.hlj.com/product/ORG02017 one of them is Minagi |
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