Review - Kamen Rider Blade All Collection
Dec. 30th, 2006 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
estiroseWell, that's what the listing at hlj.com said it's called, anyway. :) This is a book covering the entirety of Kamen Rider Blade, from series to movie to direct-to-video offering.
Sample image from book - the three high-level spade Undead. Click to enlarge.
This book is aimed mostly at kids (and thus has furigana on every single kanji within) and goes over (if briefly) the entire series. It's also almost entirely color (with the exception of a few pages in the middle). It's a good book if you want an overview of the series in pictures, and if you're a Japanese learner with a kanji dictionary available, a good place to work on your Japanese.
The first page is actually a fold-out picture of the Riders on one side with every single card on the other. It then goes through all four of the series Riders, with pictures of themselves, their equipment, armor, and the Undead of the same suit. (This is quite handy, as one knows which undead *didn't* show up on screen this way.) Then it covers Board and the Trials, supporting characters, and guests, followed by brief episode descriptions. There's a black and white section that covers various things, including a Q and A section and a list of episodes, their air dates, which Undead are in the episodes, and what cards the Riders have sealed as of that episode. There seems to be a short story (I think) in there that ends the section before we go back into full-color and coverage of the movie "Missing Ace". We get the three movie Riders, and then the characters that show up in the movie (including several of the cameos). A few more pages of movie coverage, and then the last page is a short piece about "Blade vs. Blade", that year's Hyper Battle Video.
All in all, I can't say how well it covers the series text-wise, but it's a lovely set of pictures covering the vast majority of the series. Somebody wanting a brief but fairly complete compiliation of the series would find it worth their while.
113 pages, 1,333 yen.
Sample image from book - the three high-level spade Undead. Click to enlarge.
This book is aimed mostly at kids (and thus has furigana on every single kanji within) and goes over (if briefly) the entire series. It's also almost entirely color (with the exception of a few pages in the middle). It's a good book if you want an overview of the series in pictures, and if you're a Japanese learner with a kanji dictionary available, a good place to work on your Japanese.
The first page is actually a fold-out picture of the Riders on one side with every single card on the other. It then goes through all four of the series Riders, with pictures of themselves, their equipment, armor, and the Undead of the same suit. (This is quite handy, as one knows which undead *didn't* show up on screen this way.) Then it covers Board and the Trials, supporting characters, and guests, followed by brief episode descriptions. There's a black and white section that covers various things, including a Q and A section and a list of episodes, their air dates, which Undead are in the episodes, and what cards the Riders have sealed as of that episode. There seems to be a short story (I think) in there that ends the section before we go back into full-color and coverage of the movie "Missing Ace". We get the three movie Riders, and then the characters that show up in the movie (including several of the cameos). A few more pages of movie coverage, and then the last page is a short piece about "Blade vs. Blade", that year's Hyper Battle Video.
All in all, I can't say how well it covers the series text-wise, but it's a lovely set of pictures covering the vast majority of the series. Somebody wanting a brief but fairly complete compiliation of the series would find it worth their while.
113 pages, 1,333 yen.
