The Art of Cardcaptor Sakura #1 [Paperback]

Satsuki Igarashi (Author), Nanase Ohkawa (Author), Mick Nekoi (Author), Mokona Apapa (Author), Robert Coyner (Author), Clamp (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

Fans of Cardcaptor Sakura, rejoice! TOKYOPOP is proud to release the first of three art books from the top-selling girls’ manga series. There are 120 pages of full-color artwork, most of which have never been seen in America before. Also included is an EXCLUSIVE 15 PAGE MINI-COMIC, not available anywhere else, which no fan will want to be without.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: TokyoPop; First Edition edition (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591820006
• ISBN-13: 978-1591820000
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,857,839 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Clamp, stylized as CLAMP, is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that formed in the mid 1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. It consists of their leader Nanase Ohkawa, who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively, and three artists whose roles shift for each series: Mokona, Tsubaki Nekoi, and Satsuki Igarashi. Almost 100 million Clamp tankōbon copies have been sold worldwide as of October 2007.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like Sakura - especially the art - this is a must!, December 15, 2002

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"sylk" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Cardcaptor Sakura #1 (Paperback)

I've been a fan of Cardcaptor Sakura for a while now and when I was at an anime convention this summer, I had a chance to look at the artbooks. I was reluctant to spend money on something that I was never going to be able to read, so I passed it up - but boy, am I glad I did! I was thrilled when I found out they were translating the artbooks and releasing them here and they're well worth the price here on Amazon.

All of the pictures in the book are absolutely gorgeous; there are pictures of every character except Eriol and his guardians, who I expect will be in the second artbook (this one is the first of three). I cannot say for certain, since I won't get my hands on that one until *after* Christmas. However, there's much of the pastel CLAMP colors that we've come to expect in the beautiful artwork for this series. The printing is clean and nice and so many of them would make wonderful scans if I were so courageous as to attempt to scan them. Most CCS fans will recognize these pictures as ones they have seen online though - to have the real thing in your hand finally is thrilling.

The book is read like most traditional Japanese books, with the opening held to the left - backwards to us 'Americans' but a format that's becoming more and more familiar to anime fans. After all of the pictures is a section that describes where each picture is from, what the depiction means (or what the artist was aiming for), how it was done, and other little tidbits. The manga in the back is an adorable little story focusing mostly on Sakura and Touya and a cute little scene. As a bonus at the end, there's a full color pullout featuring the girls of the show as angels on the front and the boys as devils on the back - very cute!

Overall, if you like the series and love the artwork, there's no way you can pass this up! I'm eagerly anticipating getting the next two, as well as some of CLAMP's other work.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Illustration of A Lifetime, May 11, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: The Art of Cardcaptor Sakura #1 (Paperback)

I am a huge fan of Cardcaptor Sakura and I bought this book. When I first flip through the book, I was already amazed. With colorful detail, and beautiful illustration,every inch of this book was unbeleivable! The good thing about this book is that these are picture that is never before seen in Amereica! You also get a mini- comic book of Cardcaptor Sakura, artist notes, and an EXCLUSIVE poster of 5 main girls in pretty angles costume on one side, and 4 main boys on the other side and the funny thing is that Yamazaki-Kun is in color for the first time and his eyes are open too!!! (LOL) ;)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that's worth getting no matter how much it is., September 20, 2003

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Gwenn Cosmis "cardcaptor moon" (the planet cosmos) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Art of Cardcaptor Sakura #1 (Paperback)

A definate get for CCS fans. I thought that you could only get this on the internet, but when I purchased all three at the mall, I was obviously proven wrong.
I have to say this is the second best one. It has all the extra stuff{a mini ccomic and poster}, but the art work isn't as good as in the second one, but it is better than the third, and still a must get for fans.
The comic is of Sakura being sick. The poster is double-sided and has Sakura, Tomoyo, Chereu, Naoko, and Rita on one side and has Touya, Yukito, Syoran, and Yamasaki on the other.