To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T – Visual Book 1 & 2 (Kadokawa, 2021-2022) – Komentarz

This review will cover two artbooks, as they belong to the same series. Both publications contain the official illustrations of the third season of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun showing the series’ heroines in various situations. Published in A4 format, they run to about 80 pages and are bound in color wrappers and obi. Most of the graphics fill entire A4 pages, with quite a few illustrations taking up both pages. I can’t fault anything about the quality of the printing and paper.

Content

It is worth saying something about the content itself. Basically every page contains beautiful art, full of details and brilliantly saturated with colors.

To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T - Visual Book (Kadokawa, 2021) - recenzja artbooka - rascal.pl

Importantly – these are not screenshots of individual episodes or existing promotional materials. Unfortunately, quite a few artbooks of this kind have been released, but this one is fortunately not one of them. The vast majority are graphics prepared specifically for both artbooks. To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T – Visual Book is divided into thematic sections in the form of chapters. There are those devoted to everyday life, swimsuits, as well as those directly relating to the events presented in the third season. Of course, there is also an introduction of individual heroines. You can find, among other things, information about their voice actresses and a brief description. There’s plenty to choose from. There really is something to look at, and nothing gave the impression that it was crammed in somewhere by force.

The first and second parts of To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T – Visual Book are extremely well done publications. I wholeheartedly recommend them to fans of this universe and collectors of interesting artbooks in general. The prices are not exorbitant, and they will certainly be a valuable part of any collection.

Presentation

Before moving on to the gallery, where you will be able to see some photos of the contents of the artbook, it is appropriate to show how it looks from the outside.

This is how it looks in the wrapper:

And without:

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