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Official Japanese RWBY Fanbook Includes Art From Yoshitoshi Abe, Range Murata, Others
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Warner Bros. Japan has posted their Comiket 87 offerings, and there's a good spread of merchandise, including hoodies from Shirobako, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, Selector Spread Wixoss, Strike the Blood, and Terraformars; clear files from A Certain Magical Index, and more.
For fans of Roosterteeth's RWBY, there's also an official Japanese fan book, which features illustrations from 22 different artists, including Hiroyuki Asada (Tegami Bachi: Letter Bee), Yoshitoshi ABe (Serial Experiments Lain, Haibane Renmei), Ran Igarashi (Hōzuki-san Chi no Aneki), Hajime Ueda (FLCL (manga), okama (Tail Star, Glass Fleet), Kei Toume (Lament of the Lamb), Jinsei Kataoka & Kazuma Kondou (Deadman Wonderland), Ticketchan, shihou, Shirow Miwa (Dogs: Bullets & Carnage), Range Murata (Last Exile, Blue Submarine No. 6), Yokarura, Mari Shimazaki (Bayonetta: Bloody Fate), Shōu Tajima (Brothers, Otogi Zoshi), CHAN×CO (Vocaloid illustrations), TNSK (Black Rock Shooter: The Game (manga), toi8 (character design MAOYU, No. 6), Nidy-2D- (Vocaloid illustrations), Rco Wada, Mitsukazu Mihara (DOLL), Matayosi, /migi.
The book is selling for 2,000 yen (about US$16.67) and can be purchased at the Warner Bros. Japan booth (#339).
RWBY will be released in Japan on BD and DVD in 2015.
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