Tales of Symphonia Illustration - Kosuke Fujishima Character Works (Tales of Symphonia Illustration - Kosuke Fujishima Character Works) (in Japanese) Paperback – January 1, 2004

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I bought this book and was impressed. As its title indicates, it's a "character works" book. It shows details on outfits for characters, both in color and original b&w. The characters in the game appear somewhat different than they do in this book.The first section of the book, which is bound and read right --> left, features Fujishima's finished sketches in color. The second section is filled with close-ups and details of characters in rough sketches, both in color and b&w. The last section is filled with the chibi sketches and finished color sketches.This is a good art book to reference if you're looking for sketches of Lord Yggdrasill and Mithos who don't get much attention in the US-released promotional art book. The book features them and the main characters printed on thick high quality paper with a nice glossy cover and obi [or spine card].It makes a nice collectors item!

A lesson in how to create an artbook using as little art as possible! There are only around ten pictures in the entire book (the majority of pages are either text or white space), all of which can be found online in some way or another, though this is hardly the book's fault (but still! Where's the art, people?) - these pictures, a coloured sketch for each character, are then re-used later on in the book to fill another 20 pages or so. Nto good.To be fair to the book, the writing may be amazing. As I know practically no Japanese whatsoever, though, this doesn't help much (and besides - they call 'em ARTBOOKS for a reason!). So do yourself a favour, and trawl t'interweb for pics if you need 'em. Don't waste your money!

When i first got this game back in the Summer of 2004 I was amazed at the gameplay. But not only the gameplay was cool, the music got the battles going and kept it alive. I thought that the character were cool and being an amateur artist I drew some pictures. When I found this book I immediately ordered it hoping for some cool drawings. Sadly this did not happen. Not one picture of the Summon Spirits were to be found. Only the playable characters and Mithos were in it. Kinda short and was a waste of money. DO NOT GET THIS BOOK!

元々このゲームが大好きで、リマスター発売でウッキウキで3つソフト買って友達に布教しました。イラスト設定資料集があることは知らずこちらも購入し、友達に見せており、怖がられました。新規プレイヤーの悲鳴を聴くことが、楽しくてしかたありません。ロイドの初期設定案も載っています。

L'article est sympa ! Après il n'y a pas enormement de dessins mais c'est déjà pas mal de voir comment les personnages ont été fait :).

ページ数もイラストの数も、思っていたより少なかったです。見開きでキャラクターを紹介している割には、イラストは片方のページだけです。定価で買うには高過ぎる印象が･･･。各キャラクター毎に衣装の細かい設定等が見れるのは魅力的です。インタビューやいのまたさんとの対談も読み応えがあります。それでもやはり･･･内容と価格が釣り合っていないのではないでしょうか。資料として欲しい方には多少は重宝するかもしれませんが、オススメしません。

希望で購入をいたしました。喜んでいる姿をみると購入をしてよかったと思います。