What will you find in "Other manga and anime"?
This category brings together the art books of very diverse works, those that fit neither in the main genres — shōnen, seinen, shōjo, BL — nor in the categories devoted to a single series. Works born from anime, works based on novels, and classics read from generation to generation: here are gathered standout titles that stand beyond the borders of a single genre.
Original anime works
There are works that do not start from a manga, but are born directly as animation. Bocchi the Rock!, about some girls who form a band; Lycoris Recoil, the story of two young women; or Cowboy Bebop, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe: all arose directly from animation as a medium of expression. Their original-drawing books and their visual books show, without the intermediate step of an original manga, the world that their creators conceived from the start as a moving image.
Works based on light novels
Another of the great sources of manga and anime culture in Japan is the light novel. Sword Art Online, KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime) and No Game No Life all began as novels and reached worldwide popularity through their anime adaptations. These art books gather the color work of the illustrators who gave image to the novels, as well as the character design created for the animated version.
Classics that endure
There are also in this category works read from generation to generation. Hi no Tori (Phoenix) and Black Jack, by Osamu Tezuka, called "the god of manga"; GeGeGe no Kitarō, by Shigeru Mizuki, pioneer of yōkai manga: the work of the great masters who laid the foundations of Japanese manga. These art books offer the chance to approach the origin of manga as a medium, something different from current works.
The art books of "Other manga and anime"
This category brings together the art books of very diverse works, beyond the borders of genres. Art books, design books and fanbooks in original Japanese editions, published by publishers such as Kadokawa, Shueisha and Kodansha. It is a shelf where you can find, side by side, the world of a work born from anime, the illustration of a beloved novel, and the line of a master who founded the manga of today.