Books and Artbooks

This is an anatomy book strictly for the manga artist. Packed with dynamic step-by-step demonstrations detailing how to draw correctly proportioned manga faces and bodies, plus lots of tips and tricks of the trade, this practical guide has everything aspiring beginners need to start drawing convincing manga characters.

This book presents some very basic words and phrases, along with some that are not usually considered "basic" at all, but the Mangajin method can make even advanced material accessible to students at all levels.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.

In 1966, during the height of the first Batman craze, a weekly Japanese manga anthology for boys, Shonen King, licensed the rights to commission its own Batman and Robin stories. A year later, the stories stopped. They were never collected in Japan, and never translated into English. Now, hundreds of pages of Batman-manga comics more than four decades old are translated for the first time, appearing alongside photographs of the world's most comprehensive collection of vintage Japanese Batman toys.

For over a century after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Ottoman Empire enjoyed an almost unbroken series of victories n Eastern Europe and throughout the Eastern Mediterranean. It couldn't last. In The Battle of Lepanto, Nanami Shiono vividly depicts the fierce sea battle that delivered the Ottoman juggernaut its first major defeat.

With an engaging time-travel adventure storyline, manga-style story pages, and free web-based multimedia resources, Beginning Japanese was written by Japanese language teachers specifically to grab - and maintain - the interest of the learner. The narrative story follows the life of Kiara, an exchange student, Ben, and Kenichi who get caught in a storm and end up in Tomo's time machine, through which they visit firsthand various historical and famous events, places, and people.

This companion to the book Beginning Japanese is the perfect guide for practicing and polishing your basic proficiency in everyday, conversational Japanese. Here are carefully-crafted practice activities for reading, writing, speaking, listening and understanding it. The activities are varied and interesting, mirroring the book, and they help you polish every aspect of your Japanese skills.

This brand new dictionary is genuinely pocketable and highly practical, so whether you are a student or traveller this dictionary is the ideal take-along resource. It contains around 17,000 fully up-to-date entries, including a wealth of modern and idiomatic phrases not normally found in a dictionary of this size. Referencing is quick and easy using the bold, blue headwords and a long-lasting vinyl cover ensures durability.

For people wanting to take a step beyond the textbooks; for anyone wishing to speak like a native without spending two or three decades in the country learning how to do it - for such people as this, Beyond Polite Japanese has collected some 500 words and phrases of prodigious interest.

Bring home more of the gorgeous art of Bizenghast! This limited edition art book has art from the manga as well as brand new illustrations by M. Alice LeGrow. It also comes with 12 pages of stickers and 24 mini-posters so you can beautify anything you own.

In The Art of Blade of the Immortal, Hiroaki Samura's lush color paintings, detailed line work, and selected story pages and chapter breaks are on display in an oversized hardcover collection. This edition also includes an exclusive section with thirty-two extra pages of artwork, an introduction by Geof Darrow (The Matrix Comics, Hard Boiled), and a translated afterword by Samura.

This book contains extensive information on the characters and storylines from Bleach volumes 1-21. It also includes an exclusive poster, bonus manga, the original Bleach one-shot story and an interview with creator Tite Kubo.