Masamune Shirow Pieces Series

[jkno]

http://www.jlist.com/PRODUCT/YB083

This long-awaited, highly-anticipated collection of the work of one of Japan's most famous cyberpunk artists and storytellers is a tour-de-force publication not to be missed by fans. An oversized, softcover publication in full-color, thick with CG and traditional illustration styles. Mecha, girls, guns, cyborgs, games, books, military, RPGs, and more with prevailing themes such as police (or public servant), fantasy and sword wielding plus and military too. Features tons of illustrations not previously released before and the color variations of other artwork from the master himself. Phantom Cats is a fantastic follow up artbook to his PIECES series.

This is a preorder that's set to release near the end of March 2010

[cbeley]

Looks interesting, but I hate to order it before I've seen a few more of the pictures. I'm also curious what the included figure is. Know anyone who has posted some more pictures from this book so I can get a better idea?

[jkno]

I searched a lot for any more news on this and nothing. Maybe on the Japanese sites we might find something...

[Onegai]

Looks like an oversized version of PIECES 1.

Image on the far right is my favourite Shirow image!

[jkno]

Looks like an oversized version of PIECES 1.

Image on the far right is my favourite Shirow image!

I think they don't have the new images and cover yet, that's maybe why they photoshopped from older Shirow works...

[Onegai]

Oh okay. Thought that was a bit wierd.

[Susano]

I have the book on preorder through HMV. It's supposed to be out on the 28th of March, so hopefully it will not hold up my order. HMV doesn't have a cover photo or anything else about it either (it seems to be an ongoing theme with Shirow's recent releases where nothing is known about it until it's released.)

[Onegai]

Which totally defeats the idea of pre-ordering...

[Susano]

Well, it would seem Phantom Cats is now late. I received a notice fromHMV stating that the book has yet to come in for them. I canceled the book since I wanted the rest of my order. I guess I will just wait until its listed as being instock before I place an order for it.

[jkno]

I'll wait for this to be in stock as well.

[Onegai]

Ditto.

[Susano]

HMV has a release date of April 14th for Pieces 2 now. I think I will still wait for it to be instock since I'm already spending way too much this month on imports.

[Susano]

I was just checking HMV, and they finally have the new Pieces art book instock. They also hve an image of the cover.

[jkno]

A picture or link would be great.

[jkno]

It's updated on J-list too. Ordered