Xebek’s Blog

Well as I’ve mentioned before, other than collecting figures the only other anime merchandise I really purchase would be art books. (Well, other than the five dakimakuras I recently bought, more on that later when some of them arrive in the mail) A while ago I was just randomly searching through some sites that sell anime goods when I saw a Noizi Itou art book I had not encountered before. Noizi Itou is definitely my all time favorite artist and having her other two art books I just had to get this one.

I actually ended up preordering this book, the first art book I’ve preordered, and yesterday it arrived so I figured I get some pictures up as soon as I can. Unlike the other two Noizi Itou art books I have, this book is entirely comprised of Haruhi art. However it’s the kind that is already littered across the internet, its Noizi Itou’s illustrations, not anime style. There is a definite difference in the art and I think it is awesome to be able to see the original artist’s illustrations for a change rather than the anime style ones that are mainly seen.

Now this book is amazingly well put together. Hard cover and the pages are crisp hard stocked paper. This isn’t some flimsy collection. In fact, even in the middle of the book I could not get this thing to lay open, flat, without me holding it down. So I wasn’t really able to get pictures of the two page illustrations, just some shots of the ones that were only on one page. As you’ll undoubtedly notice they aren’t the best quality pictures mainly because this is a beautiful book I didn’t want to ruin by creasing open to take pictures. Still, I think you can get a good idea of its contents form what I have taken. Without further delay, here are some pictures.

This is only a fraction of what the actual book contains and I really would recommend this to everyone. Even if you aren’t a huge fan of Haruhi but like Noizi Itou’s other art, check this out.