Japanese anime art is more than a category of collectibles. Cels, genga, douga and illustrations preserve specific moments from the making of an anime, leaving behind a physical trace of the production process that can endure over time.
This category brings together analysis and reflection on artworks and visual materials connected to Japanese animation: production drawings, official reproductions, promotional illustrations, artbooks and other forms of art created through, or inherited from, the animation process.
Through their aesthetics, history and production context, these articles examine what such images reveal about the works they come from, as well as the way we look at them, collect them and preserve the memory of Japanese animation.
This article documents a rare original reproduction of an illustration from volume...
Documentary analysis of a rare visual reproduction believed to be an original...
This reproduction artwork (複製原画), hand-signed and numbered by Norihiro Yagi, is one...
Discovered by chance on Mandarake, then missed by a breath on Yahoo Auctions in...
