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Storyboards, illustration books, and official guidebooks of Japanese animated films. In their original Japanese edition.

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Ghost in the shell archives
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ISBN: 978-4-8000-0353-9 // ISBN: 9784800003539Year of publication: 2021Publisher: Mag GardenNumber of pages: 286Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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The Man who Leapt through Film -The art of Mamoru Hosoda
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ISBN: 978-4-7661-3633-3 // ISBN: 9784766136333Year of publication: 2022Publisher: GraphicshaNumber of pages: 271Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Groundwork of FLCL (Reprint Edition)
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ISBN: 9784909466150Publisher: GroundworksLanguage: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Kimi no na wa - "Your Name" - Makoto Shinkai - Official Visual Guide
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ISBN: 978-4-04-104780-4 // ISBN: 9784041047804Year of publication: 2016Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 128Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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The Garden of Words directed by Makoto Shinkai - Artwork
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ISBN: 978-4-7580-1709-1 // ISBN: 9784758017091Year of publication: 2021Publisher: IchijinshaNumber of pages: 160Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Storyboards by Makoto Shinkai - Hoshi wo ou kodomo - Children Who Chase...
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ISBN: 978-4-04-105880-0 // ISBN: 9784041058800Year of publication: 2018Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 688Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Storyboards by Makoto Shinkai -Kumo no Muko, Yakusoku no Basho -The...
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ISBN: 978-4-04-105881-7 // ISBN: 9784041058817Year of publication: 2017Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 424Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Suzume no Tojimari by Makoto Shinkai - Artwork
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ISBN: 978-4-04-681917-8 // ISBN: 9784046819178Year of publication: 2023Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 208Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Suzume no Tojimari Official Visual Guide - Shinkai Makoto Sakuhin
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ISBN: 978-4-04-113229-6 // ISBN: 9784041132296Year of publication: 2023Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 127Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Storyboard by Makoto Shinkai 6 - Tenki no ko - Weathering with you
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ISBN: 978-4-04-109656-7 // ISBN: 9784041096567Year of publication: 2021Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 781Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Storyboard by Makoto Shinkai 1 - Byosoku Go Senchimetoru - 5 Centimeters...
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ISBN: 978-4-04-105883-1 // ISBN: 9784041058831Year of publication: 2021Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 327Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Storyboard by Makoto Shinkai 5 - Koto no Ha no Niwa - The Garden of Words
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ISBN: 978-4-04-105882-4 // ISBN: 9784041058824Year of publication: 2021Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 215Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Paranoia Agent/ Ohayo - STORYBOARD BOOK (Satoshi Kon)
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ISBN: 978-4-8354-5897-7 // ISBN: 9784835458977Year of publication: 2023Publisher: FukkanNumber of pages: 600Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Satoshi Kon Paprika - Complete Storyboard Collection
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ISBN: 978-4-8354-5519-8 // ISBN: 9784835455198Year of publication: 2021Publisher: FukkanNumber of pages: 700Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Tekkon Kinkreet The Movie - Character Art Book
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ISBN: 978-4-86518-070-1 // ISBN: 9784865180701Year of publication: 2023Publisher: TaiseidoNumber of pages: 190Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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kimi no Na Wa - Your Name art works
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ISBN: 978-4-7580-1564-6 // ISBN: 9784758015646Year of publication: 2021Publisher: IchijinshaNumber of pages: 208Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Animation Works "LUPIN THE IIIRD" Shiriizu Koushiki Konpuriito Bukku
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ISBN: 978-4-295-20838-9 // ISBN: 9784295208389Year of publication: 2026Publisher: MdN CorporationNumber of pages: 216Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Rurouni Kenshin - The Movie - The Final/The Beginning - Photobook
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ISBN: 978-4-08-790013-2 // ISBN: 9784087900132Year of publication: 2021Publisher: ShueishaNumber of pages: 184Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Rohan au Louvre - (Kishibe Rohan Louvre e iku) Visual Book - Hardcover
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ISBN: 978-4-08-790119-1 // ISBN: 9784087901191Year of publication: 2023Publisher: ShueishaNumber of pages: 160Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Shirow Masamune Artworks In the Shell
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ISBN: 978-4-06-539901-9 // ISBN: 9784065399019Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 304Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Yamato Iconics - Michio Murakawa Illustrations
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ISBN: 978-4-04-115778-7 // ISBN: 9784041157787Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KadokawaNumber of pages: 248Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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All you need is kill - Art Book
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ISBN: 978-4-86518-286-6 // ISBN: 9784865182866Year of publication: 2026Publisher: TaiseishaNumber of pages: 248Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Look Back - Animation Key Frame Arts (Artbook + Flipbook Vol.1 &...
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ISBN: 978-4-902948-66-0 // ISBN: 9784902948660Year of publication: 2025Publisher: STYLENumber of pages: 918Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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ISBN: 978-4-902948-57-8 // ISBN: 9784902948578Year of publication: 2024Publisher: STYLENumber of pages: 176Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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What is animated cinema — 70 years of the Japanese feature film's lineage

Japanese animated cinema has two origins. The first is Toei Doga, founded in 1956 with the ambition of becoming "the Disney of the East." Its film The Tale of the White Serpent (1958) was Japan's first color animated feature, and it was also the work that led a still-teenage Hayao Miyazaki to want to devote himself to animation. At that studio there already worked, as part of the in-between team, Yasuo Otsuka, who had joined the company in the year of its founding. The second origin is Mushi Production, Osamu Tezuka's company. After consolidating the format of the television series with Astro Boy (1963), its people gradually moved over time toward the feature film. On the opening day of the film version of Space Battleship Yamato (1977), queues formed that spent the night in front of the cinemas: it was the first time it became visible on a large scale that animation had become the culture of an entire generation. One film calls to the next generation, and that generation trains the one after. The history of Japanese animated cinema is the accumulation of that chain.

From person to person — a lineage passed on

The animation director of The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), Hayao Miyazaki's debut as a feature director, was Yasuo Otsuka, his colleague since their Toei days. More than three decades later, another cinematic installment of that same Lupin III, the series Lupin the IIIrd, would bear the signature of Takeshi Koike. Koike is an animator who emerged from Madhouse, trained alongside Yoshiaki Kawajiri, and belongs to a lineage distinct from Otsuka's. The current that comes from Toei and the one that springs from Madhouse, heir to Mushi Production: the two origins of Japanese animation cross, half a century later, in a single cinematic installment of Lupin. For his part, Satoshi Kon worked as an assistant to the mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo. He cut his teeth alongside Otomo during the years AKIRA was being serialized and, after joining animation production with Roujin Z (1991), would make his directorial debut with Perfect Blue. In Millennium Actress he portrayed the very history of Japanese cinema through the memories of an actress; the work received in 2001 the Grand Prize of the Animation division of the Japan Media Arts Festival, alongside Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Mamoru Hosoda's trajectory illustrates this crossing of lineages well. He began as a director at Toei Doga (today Toei Animation), came to be at the helm of Howl's Moving Castle at Ghibli, then directed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars at Madhouse, and in 2011 founded Studio Chizu. Mirai (2018) was the first Japanese animated feature outside Ghibli to be in the running for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Toward the world — 1988 and 1995

There are two years that mark the moment when this lineage influenced cinema all over the world. In 1988, Katsuhiro Otomo directed the adaptation of his own manga AKIRA himself. The Neo-Tokyo he drew, of an overwhelming density of animation, made an impact on foreign audiences and remains a constant reference in later science-fiction imagery. And then 1995. In October, the television broadcast of Neon Genesis Evangelion began, which became a social phenomenon and led to the film The End of Evangelion (1997). In November, Ghost in the Shell premiered, the adaptation Mamoru Oshii made of Masamune Shirow's manga, which would leave a deep mark on Hollywood science fiction. That same 1995 also saw the release of Toy Story, the world's first feature made entirely by computer. The year in which hand-drawn animation reached one of its peaks was also the year the digital era began.

The digital century — Makoto Shinkai

The author who symbolizes that digital era is Makoto Shinkai. Coming from the world of video games, Shinkai made in 2002, almost single-handedly and by digital means, the roughly 25 minutes of Voices of a Distant Star, and entered animated cinema from outside the usual studio lineage. Your Name (2016) surpassed 25 billion yen in box-office takings, the first animated film outside Ghibli to reach that scale. The twenty years that run from an author who began making films all on his own to becoming a mass author are also the twenty years in which digital production came to occupy the center of animated cinema.

Storyboards and art books — in what form to leaf through history

All the history above remains, in book form, on this shelf. The storyboard (continuity book) is the director's blueprint: the place where the framing, the dialogue and the timing were first fixed on paper. Read after having seen the finished film, it lets you follow each one of the staging decisions. The storyboard series of Makoto Shinkai (KADOKAWA) and those of Satoshi Kon (Fukkan.com) are their best example. The art and background books gather in large format the background art and the key images; the original-animation books (Look Back, Ghost in the Shell) record the very pencil stroke of the animators; and the official visual guides, with setting material and interviews, are a gateway into the world of each work. Of one and the same film, depending on the form of the book, something different is seen.

Toward a history of animated cinema you don't yet know

All the books in this category are original Japanese editions. Miyazaki and Ghibli, Katsuhiro Otomo and Evangelion each have their own category. What we have gathered here is the history that unites them: Satoshi Kon, Mamoru Oshii, Mamoru Hosoda, Makoto Shinkai and the Lupin lineage. Seventy years since Toei Doga: here is a history of animated cinema you don't yet know.

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Animation Films

Ghost in the shell archives

The Man who Leapt through Film -The art of Mamoru Hosoda

Groundwork of FLCL (Reprint Edition)

Kimi no na wa - "Your Name" - Makoto Shinkai - Official Visual Guide

The Garden of Words directed by Makoto Shinkai - Artwork

Storyboards by Makoto Shinkai - Hoshi wo ou kodomo - Children Who Chase...

Storyboards by Makoto Shinkai -Kumo no Muko, Yakusoku no Basho -The...

Suzume no Tojimari by Makoto Shinkai - Artwork

Suzume no Tojimari Official Visual Guide - Shinkai Makoto Sakuhin

Storyboard by Makoto Shinkai 6 - Tenki no ko - Weathering with you

Storyboard by Makoto Shinkai 1 - Byosoku Go Senchimetoru - 5 Centimeters...

Storyboard by Makoto Shinkai 5 - Koto no Ha no Niwa - The Garden of Words

Paranoia Agent/ Ohayo - STORYBOARD BOOK (Satoshi Kon)

Satoshi Kon Paprika - Complete Storyboard Collection

Tekkon Kinkreet The Movie - Character Art Book

kimi no Na Wa - Your Name art works

Animation Works "LUPIN THE IIIRD" Shiriizu Koushiki Konpuriito Bukku

Rurouni Kenshin - The Movie - The Final/The Beginning - Photobook

Rohan au Louvre - (Kishibe Rohan Louvre e iku) Visual Book - Hardcover

Shirow Masamune Artworks In the Shell

Yamato Iconics - Michio Murakawa Illustrations

All you need is kill - Art Book

Look Back - Animation Key Frame Arts (Artbook + Flipbook Vol.1 &...

The Millennium Actress: Archives

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