Customer Reviews

Let's Draw Manga: All About Fighting

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This book is wonderful! Like all the other let's draw manga books, "All About Fighting" covers everything within its topic and much more. This book has every fighting style from fistfights to virtual reality battles. My favorite part of this book is the character design part, which shows tricks to designing characters, and also shows different kinds of characters and their traits.

Some things included in this book are, costumes and uniforms involved in fighting, various poses involved in different fighting styles, a mini weapons encyclopedia, and short mangas (comics) with almost every fighting style to help interpret the use(s) of the style. Overall, "Let's Draw Manga: All About Fighting" is an excellent source of reference and inspiration.

I think this book is a must buy for artists who want to pursue a job in manga making or if you just want to learn to draw a totally awesome fight scene. It substitutes having to take lessons from a teacher (even though I highly doubt you'll find one), and when it comes to what you can to do with this book, the possibilities are practically limitless! I would recommend this book to anyone who would be willing to listen.

This is an excellent book that has a wealth of detail, drawings, and information related to various kinds of combat in manga. There are sections on unarmed combat, armed combat, uniforms and costume design (as it relates to combat), supernatural (ala DBZ) combat, monster combat, robot combat, and even animal combat!

There are a number of short 2-6 page manga that illustrate various points, and are decent examples of composition. Where this book really shines, though, is in the "Weaponless Fighting" and "Weapon Fighting" sections. There are a wide variety of techniques from various styles of fighting presented, and each section also includes a brief guide to designing characters for action manga.

The book's only shortcoming is that it rarely shows more than one or two views of a particular attack type, but given the scope of the book, that's understandable.

I highly recommend that beginning to advanced artists interested in the manga style acquire this book. For beginners it gives good information on techniques and tricks, and for advanced artists it provides a wealth of reference material.

I bought this book hoping it would help me with my comic I am developing. I got exactly what I was looking for. Though I would only recommend this book to Artist who already are very skilled, It can provide great references and advice for creating a legitimate action manga. If your are looking for some helpful detailed instructions on action manga and how to develop your own, this is a great buy.

WARNING-Nudity in this book!


This is my second Lets Draw Manga book....and it is amazing! If you need karate kicks,this book has it! If you need to draw diferent swords and knives,this book has it! If you need to draw gun poses and supernatural batles,this book has it!

This book has an area of feminine fighters,but has partial nudity.So if your under 12, don't buy this book yet!

This book also has real life situations! If you have to draw any type of fighting, this book is for you! If you wasted your time reading this review,this book is REALY for you! Manga Madden has left the building!

After downloading the sample to my Kindle, I realized that this was not formatted like a regular book. It is viewed like an image without the ability to scale up. Maybe it's just the trial version, but I do not know. Regardless, it is unuseable as it is.

This was a fairly helpful book. It's mostly a few short mangas with instrutional text here and there. It could have a few more fighting stances illustrated from different views, but overall it's a nice addition to my library.

I ordered and payed for a few books, this one included. All the other orders came in, and this book is listed on my recent purchases, but I have not received it.

This book is a great resource for how to draw action in a manga style.

It goes step-by-step into the dynamics of speed lines, structurin the body to show movement without speed lines, Body mass differences, and how to add the quirky manga attitude to your characters.

A simple line drawing can become an action-pact drawing with the use of this book.

-Dash C. B!AM