Manga & Artbooks (All) - Top 25 at JBOX.com

1. 100 Masters of Bishojo Painting ~ Eshi 100 Nin

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:17:52 -0500

Some of the best manga and anime artists from Japan gather together to give us the very best of bishoujo art. A hundred artists like KEI, Yasu, Kazuaki, Range Murata, Yusuke Shiba and more, for a unique and gorgeous full color Artbook that every bishoujo and Moe enthusiast should have in their collection. This gorgeous book is 215 pages, full color, features more than a thousand piece of bishojo art, with famous heroines like Taiga, Haruhi, Miku and much more. Also contains work from top...

2. Moe Moe Weapon (Sword) Encyclopedia ~ Buki Daizen

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:36:53 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This is the Moe Moe Sword Weapon Encyclopedia, which will teach you more than you ever thought possible about all the legendary sword heroes who's name have traveled through time. It's fascinating, and the art by 40+ different artists is really a treat. 190 pages.

3. The Manga Cook Book

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:13:20 -0500

Featuring more than two dozen recipes, The Manga Cookbook shows you how to make Japanese food with real "character!" Reading manga sure can make a person hungry! Food appears frequently in Japanese comics, but what exactly is it that the characters are eating? Introducing The Manga Cookbook, an illustrated step-by-step guide to preparing Japanese cuisine. Learn to identify and make the same things you see in all your favorite manga: authentic onigiri (rice balls), yakitori (skewered chicken...

4. Queen's Blade The Duel Complete Book

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:44:16 -0500

The ultimate illustration book for every Queen's Blade fan is now in stock and ready to order! This fantastic book features every single illustration that was originally used for Queen's Blade Trading cards. If you like sexy female warrior characters and cosplay themes, this artbook is a must-have to your collection. As with all the artbooks published in Japan, the quality of the glossy printing is not to be believed, and you will spend many hours gazing at the lovely art. Buy 4...

5. Queen's Blade Ruro no Senshi COMPLETE ~ The exiled virgin -- TV Animation Official Book

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:54:59 -0500

An incredible item for every Queen's Blade fans, an essential piece to complete your collection. This is a special Queen's Blade dedicated artbook, featuring the best of Queen's Blade character illustrations as long as never seen before art, commented by staff members and creators. Comes with an original removable cover that let's you dress or undress the cuties on the cover. Just awesome! Buy 4 or more manga comics or Queen's Blade books and get 15% off! (Discount applied at...

6. Moe Moe Sangokushi Encyclopedia ~ Moe Tale of Three Kingdoms Encyclopedia

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:36:53 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This is the Moe Moe Sangokushi book, which presents tons of information on the classic Chinese story of the Tale of Three Kingdoms, which all Japanese grow up reading. Tons of background information on the story, plus moe versions of all the characters in the story, which are great to see. 200 pages, very high quality. ...

7. Megami Encyclopedia ~ Moe Daizen vol. 1

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:30:37 -0500

Here's another fun "Moe Daizen" book that presents dozens of gorgeous illustrations for you to drool over, this time designed around the theme of "megami" or Goddesses. This amazing book presents 80 different historical Goddesses, from Artemis to Isis to Aphrodite and Japanese ones, properly redesigned into kawaii versions. This book comes with a CD-ROM allowing you to get the art in the book in great digital versions. Buy 4 or more manga comics and get 15% off! (Discount applied...

8. Kokon Togihime Zoushi Shu ~ Shirow Masamune

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 05:36:06 -0400

Another fantastic item from the mind of Ghost in the Shell artist Masamune Shirow, a super high quality artbook featuring the colorful and imaginative world of one of Japan's most prominent artists. See old Japan fantasy stories imagined and redrawn by Masamune Shirow. Don't be left out, once these are gone, there won't be any more. Buy 4 or more manga comics or Queen's Blade books and get 15% off! (Discount applied at checkout.)

9. Moe Moe Ikusa Otome Encyclopedia ~ Ikusa Otome Jiten

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:00:00 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This is the Moe Moe Female Warrior book, which documents the various strong female personas in history and literature, and illustrates them with kawaii updated artwork. Strong females from around the world are all included, including Philippa of Hainault, Joan of Arc, Mulan, and from American history, Calamity Jane. Wow! 180 pages...

10. Moe Moe Angel (Side White) Encyclopedia ~ Tenshi Jiten

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:30:37 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This is the Moe Moe Angel book, which illustrates various famous angels in literature and history, updated with cute moe anime-style designs of course. The major angels of Judiasm, Christianity, Islam and even Zoroastrianism are included. Includes a poster inside. 180 pages.

11. Moe Moe Ghost (ZERO) Encyclopedia ~ Youkai Jiten

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 19:20:41 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This is the Moe Moe Ghost book, which presents information on the pantheon of "folk ghosts" (in Japanese, youkai ) and mythical creatures from around Japan. Each region of Japan is represented, with different traditional monsters and beasts present, of course with sexy illustrations for each one. Very educational and entertaining...

12. Japanese Sword Girls ~ Moeru Nihontou Daizen

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:33:47 -0500

What's better than a Katana Sword? Girls! And what's better than girls? Girls with Japanese Swords! The folks at Core Magazine bring together art work from over 30 of Japan's top illustrators solely focused all around one theme Girls with Swords creating one of the most kick ass photobooks around. Artistically written in full Japanese kanji, but with Japanese names written in Romaji (standard alphabet) you get an artwork gallery that's absolutely breathtaking from artists such as OhTenta...

13. Moe Moe Fairy Encyclopedia ~ Yousei Jiten

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:08:23 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This is the Moe Moe Fairy Encyclopedia, which will teach you more than you ever thought possible about all manner of fairies and other magical beings. Since the image of fairies emanated from the British Isles, there are sections on the classic Celting fairy beings as well as the traditional folk magic creatures of Ireland...

14. Moe Moe Oshioki Item Encyclopedia ~ Oshioki Item Jiten

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:38:00 -0500

Oshioki is a Japanese word literally meaning "punishment," and it's most famous because Sailor Moon says it all the time ("In the name of the moon I will punish you!"). This is an interesting guidebook filled with all the possible tools of punishment that exist, some of them rather ecchi , and all illustrated with beautiful moe art by Japan's best artists. Included are the iron mask, the ball gag, rope bondage, thumbscrews, chastity belt, and the master punishment tool of them all, guillotine...

15. Moe Moe Military Uniform Encyclopedia ~ Moe Moe Gunpuku Jiten

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:24:21 -0500

The Moe Moe Encyclopedia series is an interesting line of artbooks that present information about a specific subject, interjected with gorgeous original moe artwork. This book features highly educational information of all the goddesses (in Japanese, megami ). This amazing book covers all types of gunpuku , or military uniforms, from classic uniforms of the middle ages, the armor of the Knights Templar, the era of Napolean and 18th century British uniforms, Japan during the Edo Period and the...

16. Dengeki Daioh Feb 2010

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:51:45 -0500

Dengeki ("electric shock" in English) is popular for it's gaming magazines and reviews. This is the monthly Dengeki Comic Daioh! A thick, slick, hip manga featuring some of the best artists and stories in Japan today in a telephone book-thick book for you. Written in full kanji with furigana pronunciations to help those learning Japanese, this is a great monthly manga of 18 different tales, occasional specials, omake ("freebies"), done in black and white and color. 880+ pages a month -- a...

17. Nyan Type vol. 5

Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:59:11 -0500

A newcomer in the world of more & bishoujo characters magazines, this is NyanType, a Megami-like magazine, full of sexy girls chara posters, articles on the latest bishoujo anime series and more. Featuring series and characters from Strike Witches, Haruhi, Magical Lyrical Girl Nanoha, Queen's blade, Gurren Lagann, Koihime Musou and more many more, this new magazine is just an awesome release for every moe character fans. IN THIS ISSUE : 18 super sexy pin-up posters and articles featuring...

18. Comic Yuri Hime Reserve Subscription

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:28:35 -0500

Manga (comics) is a piece of Japanese culture that the Japanese can proudly boast about, not only because of their fantastic work, but their ability to appeal to a wide variety of audiences. Shonen Ace and Ultra Jump are among the two most popular publications that bring you the latest and greatest adventure stories for hungry readers to consume. J-List is happy to add to their list of publications, Comic Yuri Hime, a delightful publication that caters to the female crowd. Published quarterly...

19. Master of Queen's Blade - Photography Book

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:37:42 -0500

When you think "Queen's Blade," for many fans the first thing that comes to mind along with the series of scantily clad combat artbook heroines is the equally skimpy line of character figures that has accompanied it. The history of Queen's Blade figures is chronicled here for the first time, in gorgeous full-color photographs, showing off the amazing detail and craftsmanship of the Excellent Model CORE lineup from Megahouse as well as many other Queen's Blade inspired figures from other makers...

20. Touhou Bou Getsu Sho ~ Vol. 1 -- Silent Sinner in Blue

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 12:19:12 -0500

A new official manga from the Touhou universe is here! Touhou Bougetsushou Silent Sinner in Blue features an official story written by Touhou creator Zun, and illustrated by popular doujin artist Akieda. The first volume features the adventures of Yakumo Yukari, Kirisame Marisa, and Hakurei Reimu, among other famous Touhou heroines, as they confront various personifications of Japanese fairy tales and nature deities. Special features of the manga include a three track album of Touhou music...

21. Queen's Gate -- Dizzy (Guilty Gear)

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:03:48 -0500

J-List's has been handling the successful artbook series of Queen's Blade and Queen's Gate for quite some time now and we are proud to bring to you the next special release of the Queen's blade series, a book featuring one of the most famous girl fighter characters out there: Dizzy from Guilty Gear X. Dizzy comes alive in this gorgeously rendered hard-cover artbook like never before, with 60+ sexy spreads of her in various combat poses showing of her so sexy goth-loli style! Great for fans of...

22. Queen's Blade ~ Spiral Chaos

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:43:25 -0400

One of the most excellent games for the PSP is the Queen's Blade Spiral Chaos fighting game, which combines amazing combat between beautiful princesses wielding swords as the fight for victory with wonderful ecchi visuals and a fantastic story mode. All 19 characters are present in this amazing game. Features an awesome "armor damage system" which causes the clothing of your opponent to fly off in interesting ways, and jiggling boob animation everywhere. Order now! About this software product...

23. Angels III -- Kanan's Works

Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:06:22 -0500

Here's a great artbook for fans of the "Galaxy Angel" anime and game series. This illustration collection features the original works of "Galaxy Angel" character designer KANAN in a fun and wacky perfect bound artbook form, with lots of glossy artwork for you to enjoy. Features page to page full color illustrations showcasing all the characters (with character profiles) in various poses and expressions utilizing his trademark elements of Moe (large expressive eyes, sexy costumes, and a girlish...

24. Headphone Girls : A Pictorial Book ~ Headphone Shojo Gahou

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 21:03:38 -0500

An amazing concept, this is a book that reviews the top headphones available in Japan today, but with a twist: each reviewed headset is illustrated with a beautiful "bishoujo" anime girl, which makes it all the more appealing. A great idea that you can enjoy even if you don't actually read the reviews, as the skills of the selected artist for this artbook are amazing! An instant J-List staff favorite.

25. Megami Magazine Creators vol. 17

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:28:37 -0500

Megami Creators is *the* premiere quarterly artbook-style magazine that showcases the work of the hottest upcoming and veteran talent of Japan's bishoujo ("pretty girl") art world. This latest installment of the perfect-bound archival quality magazine features the work of: Nishi E Da, Tsuji Santa from Nitroplus, Ishida Hiroyuki, Migi, Kyosuke Himukai, Ito Ben and many more! Also includes a focus on 'Dream Club' and the last Queen's Blade Rebellion characters. For the latest word on "more" in...