#アキバ冥途戦争

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Akiba Maid War Setting Materials

Akiba Maid War was arguably the start to international viewers becoming aware and cognizant of P.A. Works penchant for anime originals, and their continual improvement with each series (though real ones know The Aquatope On White Sand or Appare-Ranman). What differs here is the reception of the material, one popular enough to warrant an art book. And well, I've got it in front of me finally, so I wanted to share it with those that might be interested in it.

In terms of size and cost and quality, it's what you'd expect. It's that same A4 size that a lot of artbook are, and it opts for a horizontal layout which makes sense. The paper is very white and smooth, but it's somewhat thin as you can see in images like this one, letting you see silhouettes of the other side. At its 3,000 Yen price tag I'd say it's a somewhat decent deal, and I'd expect that after initial purchasing dies down you'll be able to find it for even cheaper. So overall, not a bad first art book from P.A Works, and here's hoping we'll get to see more!

Anyways, I'll get into the book. It's very much setting material. There's not any storyboards, there's not any key animations. There's not even any color (probably to cut printing cost). It's a very sleek art book that puts a focus on getting the material down onto the page for people to look at.

And it does that in three different sections: Character Sheets, Prop Design, and Environment Design. Of course, I'll go in the order that I've listed and that they appear in the book, so we'll start with Character Design.

It's a very uniform approach to it, they don't fill the page creatively with the character designs or details, but rather take the actual sheets for the characters and paste them into this book. You have the horizontal lines to make sure that the character is proportionately accurate and consistent, and even a few measurements listed for things like height. You'll have a front side and back view for the more notable/detailed characters, while more simple characters only have front and back.

Alongside that, the lead characters typically have several outfits so the art book showcases those as well (here I've chosen Ranko to display that). In addition, you get facial expressions and different angles too, plus a close up of the design for the eyes of the characters. It's a very robust showing that might not be everyone's cup of tea considering how rigid the display is.

In comparison to lead characters like Ranko, the side characters get a bit of a mix in terms of character sheets. Some of them are just groupings of characters that appear briefly, shown only in a head on view, others have a single sheet with a front/back and a few facial expressions, and some end up having a mix of the two.

Following the Character Sheets we've got Prop Design, which is a somewhat slim section. There's not a whole lot of props in the series, but they do a really good job at properly detailing and designing them. From the various guns, to baseball helmets, to maid related props, they're all well done. Also, in comparison to the character sheets, the prop design pages are typically more full and "creative" as different ideas and designs share a single page.

And closing it out we've got the Environment Design. This part was really cool, and I sort of wish they were able to make the art book bigger so that the scenes could take up more space. These pages are packed with layouts and flows and structures that form the various locations of the series (apologies for the second image, had to retake and natural light was too dim at that point, so the picture is tinted a yellow/orange. The pages remain fine).

Even cooler is how they worked towards building some of these areas. In a few pages within the Environment Art section they include 3D rendered layouts to give a feel for spacing and depth.

It's just a really cool piece to see, and definitely something that P.A. Works seems to care about throughout this art book. They impart a lot of little details and pieces that you might not otherwise see. For example (though it's a pain to make out because of Tumblr image compression), each page/image/layout has a date associated with it. From it, you can see that the character sheets were made over the span of an entire year (effectively from the start of January to the end of December). And they even include little additional pieces like these logos for the various maid cafes that exist in the world.

In general, it's a really cool but rather simple art book, something I'd say is about what I'd expect from the first art book from P.A. Works. It's got a lot of cool material to it, but is forced to shorten it to make it economic and cost-effective. I feel like they could have condensed some of the character sheets as characters like Ranko can easily take up 5 or so pages on both sides. But that's neither here nor there, if you don't mind a less "artsy" and sort of more technical art book than I'm more than fine with recommending it at its price point.

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La visual key dello spettacolo teatrale di Akiba Maid War presenta il cast in costume Lo spettacolo si svolgerà a Tokyo dal 6 al 10 settembre. Info:--> https://www.gonagaiworld.com/la-visual-key-dello-spettacolo-teatrale-di-akiba-maid-war-presenta-il-cast-in-costume/?feed_id=382698&_unique_id=64ae601453068 #AkibaMaidWar #AkibaMeidoSensō #P.A.Works #StagePlay #Teatro #アキバ冥途戦争

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Bocchi the Rock x Lycoris Recoil

出自 孤獨搖滾 4,10,11,12 / Bocchi the Rock episode 4,10,11,12 

莉可麗絲 1,2,6,7,8,9 / Lycoris Recoil/Rikorisu Rikoiru episode 1,2,6,7,8,9 

秋葉原冥途戰爭 7 / Akiba Maid War/Akiba Meido Sensō episode 7

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アキバ冥途戦争

EDクレジット

闘龍

秀英にじみ明朝 L

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Akiba Meido Sensou -  Akiba Maid War - 2022

アキバ冥途戦争

Episode 12

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