/kemono/ - Kemono Art

The board owner mentioned in IRC once that he owns just about all the commercial books for the series (there's like 20 now), and a bunch of doujins, sfw or otherwise.

>>3318

>The board owner mentioned in IRC once that he owns just about all the commercial books for the series (there's like 20 now)

I'm jealous. I only have the one I got last Summer.

>>3406

Whoopsie. I don't think XSEED made any changes to the text when they brought it to NA so I'm assuming that's a Nintendo of Europe goof.

>>3413

Yeah, it's a rom of the European version. Nintendo of Europe tends to do dumb shit just like NoA.

I might have to replay it one day when I learn moon runes.

>>3416

Allegedly there's really no difference in the English and Japanese versions aside from 1 scene that's not even important. And obviously little mistakes like that.

So. Thanks to tax returns I decided to get all 3 volumes of the Solatorobo art books, the fanbook collection, a doujin, the summer and winter comiket packa AND the Tail concerto art book.

I am also highly considering sending the art books to a non-destructive scanning service. But in all it would be 200 dollary doos, but finally we can all see -everything- and perhaps work towards some translation.

Is this a good idea?

>>3482

Also I forgot to add: I ripped the soundtrack that came with the Vol 3 book, the entire sound track from the game in high quality. https://mega.nz/#!7kRWCIqA!q33K_S0SlQoZ3kpyBMCLG9i6bgEgrPDamULKwBIgEy8

>>3482

Where did you find all three books? I saw a couple on Amazon last Summer, but that's about it.

I would love to see scans, but seeing how it's 200 bucks it's all up to you.

>>3482

Gonna give you a heads up, the fanbook collection will be nigh-useless for scanning about half of its content. I have both the fanbook collection and the 8 original books; the collection's pages are somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3rd of the size of the original books, some of which I've scanned already, and it's kind of hard to make out the kanji in the originals because of how small it's printed.

I ended up showing some parts of the collection to a native Japanese speaker, and they struggled to read lots of the print. I don't know what they were thinking 1/2ing the resolution (especially since some artists chose some fonts that are hard to read in the first place, or are handwritten and have thick lines), I'd rather have bought two books that were larger but I guess it would have been incredibly expensive to produce.

>>3486

>the collection's pages are somewhere between 1/2 and 1/3rd of the size of the original books

That's a shame. Now I'm not so sure about getting that collection. I'm sure it's better than nothing. We are talking about the 700 page one, correct?

>>3487

Yes, it's a compilation of 8 other fanbooks they made that are now sold out and out of print, plus a few pages of bonus content.

I think it's still worth it for personal use if you like the art in it, (there's a lot of it so you'll probably like something in it), but for scanning purposes I think it would be extremely difficult to have it scanned without being damaged, and I think a lot of the print was originally too small and thick to be legible in its form in the collection.

I'm on the IRC if you have any more questions.

>>3489

I have no other questions so I won't be joining you on IRC.

I was just wondering if the book is legible as it is, since I have don't plan on scanning when I get it.

>>3490

It's really just the more complicated Kanji but it throws a huge wrench into reading it since you have to stop and hopefully make out what it's supposed to be from context. Some of it is fine though, very clean, thin, printed lines.

Can someone name exactly how many official books it has?

>>3493

Oh boy, I think I have just about everything so let's go through the list.

There's the three anthology books, Blue Sky, Daybreak and Starlet.

The eight original fanbooks (Carmine, Rose, Red, Vermillion, Rouge, Nero, Blanck and Last Order). These are the books that the fanbook complete collection is a compilation of, so there's that too, it has some bonus content.

The Solatorobon art books (1, 2, 3, 4, 5th anniversary summer and winter)

There's some booklet that came with the Collector's edition of the Japanese version, and a couple of short comic booklets of an action hero in-universe, I think there's some other small thing I have laying around from one of the collections but I can't remember since they're not that important.

I THINK that's about it for official books. Everything else is REALLY obscure and long gone since they only ever sold it at cons one year or it was printed in certain editions of certain magazines.

>>3495

Forgot, there's also a book that has storyboards and initial art for the intro.

>>3505

Yeah, that's the in-universe action/comic hero I mentioned, there's a full comic issue (I think it's 50 pages+) they gave out in one of the packs that I have, his name is like super Nata or something, I forget and I can't find the book right this second.

>>3506

By packs you mean those Winter/Summer things, right?

>>3508

Those are also packs but not the one where I got the comic I was talking about. I THINK I got that in a limited (as in, now unavailable) pack that came with the third anthology book, Starlet.

>>3511

WAIT no I'm wrong, it's totally still available, you can see it in this pack.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/LITTLE-ARCHIVES-%E3%80%8CSolatorobo-%E3%81%9D%E3%82%8C%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89CODA%E3%81%B8%E3%80%8D%E5%AE%8C%E5%85%A8%E8%A8%AD%E5%AE%9A%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99%E9%9B%86--Starlet-%E3%80%80%E9%99%90%E5%AE%9A%E7%89%88/dp/B00D15LCKI/ref=sr_1_17?m=A04514841W6CO9WQ78206&s=merchant-items&ie=UTF8&qid=1456500553&sr=1-17

>>3512

Thanks again. I'll be sure to check it out.