Category : Artbooks
Subcategory : Animation

Date added : 2024-04-28

Notes :

Official artbook (512 pages) commemorating the 25th anniversary of the TV broadcast of "Cowboy Bebop". Featuring artwork and interviews with staff from the show. All text is written in Japanese.

It consists of a color artbook (256 pages) and a black-and-white book (256 pages). The three-sided box that holds the two booklets features a design by graphic designer Toshiaki Uesugi (Mach 55), who also created the eye-catchers for the film. The box cover is gold foil stamped and embossed for a luxurious finish, and the back cover features boards signed (via the printing process) by Shinichiro Watanabe (director), Masahiko Minami (producer), Toshihiro Kawamoto (character designer), Kimitoshi Yamane (mechanical designer), Yoko Kanno (music composer).

The front and back covers of each book feature new illustrations of Spike, Faye, Jet, Ed, and Ein by Toshihiro Kawamoto. The background design is by Toshiaki Uesugi (Mach55). The black-and-white book contains character-designs and mecha-designs from the series and also the movie ("Cowboy Bebop : Knockin' on Heaven's Door"). The color book contains character and mechanical setting drawings, art settings, monitor screen settings, illustrations, etc., from both works, as well as storyboards for some of the opening and ending.

In addition, the book includes interviews and dialogues with the film's staff members.

- A dialogues between Shinichiro Watanabe and Masahiko Minami

- A dialogue between Toshihiro Kawamoto and Kimitoshi Yamane

- Interview with Yoko Kanno

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