Makoto Shinkai Artbook Sora no Kioku Covers Revealed
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I still haven't managed to find a good place to order Makoto Shinkai's first artbook yet. Reader Maltos managed to find HMV (it's in English) but, £7 delivery is just a bit hefty to be honest when the book itself is already around £13 so I'm still keeping an eye out for alternatives. I suppose it's better than Amazon's ridiculous £19 charge, though.
Anyway, CW Films has revealed the covers for the book. The first landscape image you see is the actual cover while the second cover is the removable outside cover. Judging by the looks of this, the artbook will probably have one background printed per page, landscape oriented. There will probably be some comments printed on them but I hope they're in a little white space of their own at the side or something.
Xcomp 作者
As for the artbook, you can always get a preview from the artbook page of my blog ;)
The_emh
Maltos
His work is most definately frame worthy!
On another note, despite my undeniable lack of japanese literacy i still went ahead and ordered the 5CM japanese special edition. I also ordered the One more time... single.
Next on the list is the R1 release and the artbook and novel [which i won't even be able to red u____u ~ so sad]
Xcomp 作者
You're not the only one who's thinking of creating some wallpaper from the book but, I think the ones on the 5cm site are already enough for decorating the desktop with. I've been using the 6th Cosmonaut wallpaper (the one with Kanae and Takaki walking home together) ever since I watched the movie ^^;
I wouldn't mind having a bigger version of the images to frame and hang up TBH.
Lastarial,
I'm sure Shinkai will be happy about the support. Good to see you're getting the novel too. It's actually not that big and heavy. An Amazon reviewer recommends reading it while listening to the OST which is what I done too.
Lastarial
Maltos
I do hope, however, they stick to keeping the image clean with comments neatly away from the actual pictures. Mainly for purpose that i will be looking out for [and maybe try to make some] scans of my favourite backgrounds.
It just screams 'amazing wallpaper opportunity'.