Special collection book deviated from the manga and anime series Sugar Sugar Rune. Includes full-color printing illustrations and detailed explanations of the world view in Sugar Sugar Rune. [Makai Mail Order Book] is included too.
Moyoko Anno (安野 モヨコ) is a Japanese manga artist and a fashion writer, with numerous books published in both categories. Her manga and books have attained considerable popularity among young women in Japan. Though she primarily writes manga of the josei demographic, her most popular series, Sugar Sugar Rune, (serialized in Nakayoshi) is targeted at primary school-aged girls. In a recent Oricon poll, she was voted the number eight most popular manga artist among females and thirteen in the general category. Her manga Happy Mania was made into a television series in 1998, followed by Hataraki Man in October 2007. Sakuran was made into a movie in 2006. In the movie Japan Sinks, she has a cameo role alongside her husband; their characters were also married. The movie was directed by Shinji Higuchi, who, like her husband Hideaki Anno, is a co-founder of Gainax.
Anno won the 29th Kodansha Manga Award for children's manga in 2005 for Sugar Sugar Rune.
It's a color illustration guide book to the Sugar Sugar Rune series. Unfortunately it only features selected color illustrations of people and props, as well as some from the magic world.
However, this is not a traditional artbook. The full color chapter covers are not printed here. There are a few colorized panels from the manga though.
I absolutely love it, and also the little heart-shape magical world catalogue that came with the book.
But I do wish there was more!
The 160 pages feel even shorter because many pages are dedicated to just a few tiny props and a small comment, instead of huge illustrations you can stare at for hours.
I hope there will be a real artbook for SSR one day.