Hakua Ugetsu’s WORKS Flamboyant

I love you amazon.co.jp! Miracles of miracles, I was somehow lucky enough to order Hakua Ugetsu’s WORKS Flamboyant artbook for $31 even though now, it’s unavailable on their site and retails elsewhere online for $50+.

All I can say is… “whoa.” So beautiful! I seriously wish I had a scanner so I can show people just how wonderful Hakua Ugetsu’s art really is. He easily makes it to my top four favorite anime-related artists; Oh! Great, Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, and Yoshitaka Amano being the other three of course. Anyway, the artbook contains a good amount of Bakuretsu Tenshi work since it’s probably his most recent work, including some fun character sketches of the crew (Jo in facial expressions and clothes one would never think possible). I would say that makes up about half the book while the rest are various other works, all deliciously eye-pleasing in my opinion (love the Saber piece from Fate/Stay Night). And I can’t forget the two fold out posters with artwork on both sides… simply beautiful and there is no way in hell I’ll ever be taking those out of the book.

… now I wish I had order two copies, one to have more or less untouch while the other to “use and abuse” so to speak. I’ll leave off with some crappy camera shots of the artbook to wet your whistle while drooling over Hakua Ugetsu’s killer designs.

Front cover of slipcover
Back cover of slipcover
Front cover of Flamboyant
Back cover of Flamboyant
Sample shot of 3-page spread. Meg of Bakuretsu Tenshi hotness!
Sample shot of Akane from Bakuretsu Tenshi
Sample shot of Jo character sketches from Bakuretsu Tenshi
Sample shot of 2 pages of other works
Sample shot of another 2 pages of other works
Sample shot of yet another 2 pages of other works
Sample shot of 1 page Matrix-like work
Sample shot of 1 page Neko Mimi + Miko girls

Posted by moyism June 2005

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