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So my copy of Carmine arrived today. First impressions: "I paid for the packaging." It's definitely well packaged, but the extras weren't all that worth it. The digital copy has wallpaper version of the images from the book, ranging from 800 x 600 to 1280 x 1024! ~_~ There are two posters, Rei and Asuka, long and body sized. They're new, but the pictures look pretty generic if you ask me. I actually though I saw one inside the book.
Packaging first:
The book comes in a hard outer casing. Really nice looking aesthetically. The book itself is larger than A4 (whatever that next size is) and hard cover. Contents were a bit disappointing because at least a third of it is Evangelion, and images that were in Die Sterne as well... But there's .hack GU, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, FLCL, Gunbuster 2, a couple from Nadia Secret of Blue Water, and... a few original drawings. Kind of got carried away with the picture taking...
Personally, this book is asking a lot at a price tag of ￥ 13,650. It's worth maybe half that with the amount of re-prints from his previous publications, and previous Gainax publications. It's looks great, it's really over the top in presentation (which is why that's what I felt I paid for) but lacking as far as content goes. There is one awesome Evangelion picture that I hadn't seen before, with Asuka and Rei in ballerina clothes. A couple of his original ones are beautiful. And there was an awesome pic of Haruka from FLCL that I'd only seen as a tiny picture. Oh, and the one with all the Gainax girls on motor bikes looks great. So... it was good, but not $150 good
