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This has seemed to have slipped by largely unnoticed, but it appears a "Heisei Perfect" book for Gamera was released last month.



I'll be sure to pick up a copy of this soon and post my thoughts here about it. Hopefully this won't be just a "shill-fest" for Kaneko as the Heisei Perfection Godzilla book was for Kawakita.

i saw it for the first time this past week when someone was trying to sell it for $150 on ebay, so i jumped over to Yahoo Auctions Japan and grabbed a copy for under $50. I'll be sure to post something whenever it arrives

It's a really good book. I highly recommend it.

Any scans?

I managed to hunt down this bad boy at a bookstore in Shibuya Will post my thoughts on in a few days after I've had the chance to look through it thoroughly....

I'd be interested in picking both up but the Godzilla one went OOP already.

I'm more so interested that its thicker than the Godzilla one. Considering the Godzilla series is 3 films longer...

Ordered this from HLJ and it should be arriving in the next few days. Looking forward to it! I've got quite a few books on Godzilla, but none on the Heisei Gamera series (except some Hobby Japans). It'll be a welcome addition!

So my copy arrived...its pretty much a "must buy" if you are a fan of these films. I'll be selling the other 3 or 4 Gamera books that I own that cover the same films...very cool.

Got mine today, and I agree: incredible! I only wish I could read Japanese...

So this book is both thicker and bigger/full of content than the Godzilla Heisei Perfection book? Really? I would also assume there's a wealth of pictures and concept art that most people here have never seen before? How's the printing quality of the book as well? I believe when the Godzilla Heisei Perfection book first released last year some complained about the fact that the book's printing quality compromised the blacks/dark colours resulting in lost details in some of the darker photos. Any problems with that here?

Jim can you post some scans?

Apologies...I'm way late on giving my thoughts on this...haven't had time to hardly breathe lately as I am both working full time (plus part time work on weekends) and going to graduate school at night. Once I get my thesis out of the way (this is the final week of this class from hell, thank God[zilla]), I'll be sharing some thoughts here.

I'm very interested in hearing more about this book. I doubt I'll ever manage to get a copy for myself, so I'd love to see what the inside is like.

Any more info on this?

Yes^ That would be excellent.

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So its pretty thick


Cloud miniatures?! I love this kind of behind the scenes look


Concept art



Making of


Love this miniature set


Building suits and puppets (nice hat)


Anatomy of a scene and occasional accompanying storyboards


Gamera the Brave Set shots


Dat miniature.


write ups and pictures of each of the suit actors (often overlooked in this type of book)


This part gets very wordy which if you can't read Japanese doesnt do much for you, but they have interviews with each of the key actors and talents (Kaneko and Higuchi, etc)


A small spread dedicated to manga and merch


Props


The early review that attributes a large portion of the book to the unused Gamera 3 script (scenario) is incorrect, that section is 29 pages.

So you can probably fully enjoy about 60% of the book without understanding any Japanese, which for a book this size is a good deal. It originally cost 5500 yen, but i picked up a used copy for cheaper, so your mileage may vary on cost

In case anyone doesn't have this book yet, . It's a great book; grab it now!

Ooooh. I've never bought from Hobby Japan before. How are they?

^Thanks!