September 27th 2005

• Artist
• ISBN
• Published

• Price
• Dimension

• Sakura Kinoshita
• 4-901926-35-7
• 03/2003

• ¥ 2980
• A4

I looked up this artist's artbook after watching and reading her Tactics series, loving the mythological aspect of the series. At first, I found her Tactics artbook through Ivy, but being broke at the time, I couldn't afford it. A few months later, however, Ivy showed me a few sites, and I ran a search for Sakura Kinoshita, finding this artbook. It is all thanks to Ivy that I am able to purchase many of the artbooks I have. =)

Anyways, this artbook is hardcover with an additional plastic cover, and it focuses on the artwork from The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok (Matantei Loki Ragnarok) series (licensed to ADV manga in the US). Sixty-three pages of color and an additional twenty monochrome pages at the end, the artwork contains many chibi characters and blank backgrounds (earning the Good rating), but the ones that contain backgrounds are of birds and flowers in the water-painting style (even if they aren't water-colors). Most of the characters wear an old style of clothing where there are giant bows (pointed out by a friend) and long flowing jackets (my interest).

While many of the images are small, I can happily say that they don't go into the binding. I would recommend this artbook mainly to those who like the art style of Sakura Kinoshita, as most of her artworks from different series look similar, or just someone who loves this style of art and clothing in general (me).