Urushihara Satoshi – Cell Works (Movic, 1994) – My Comment

Urushihara Satoshi is a mangaka and illustrator known for his distinctive style and fondness for highlighting female breasts. His works were the basis for such anime as Plastic Little and Legend of Lemnear. He has also worked on character design for games such as Langrisser and Growlanser. I personally love his style, but these days it’s quite hard to find artbooks with his works. Especially collections of illustrations not dedicated to a specific game. I’ve been looking for this particular one for a long time. And finally managed to find it in almost perfect condition at a certain auction in Japan (it’s almost thirty years old).

Cell Works is divided into several chapters. You can find his works dedicated to anime series, games, but also original illustrations, unrelated to any other titles. At the end – as it usually happens – quite an extensive interview with the author himself. Urushihara’s character design probably needs no introduction. Attention to detail, unique style, excellent shading and strongly contrasting colors are still impressive. Cell Works was published in A4 format and contains 134 pages. Most of which are devoted to presenting the author’s work in full color on nearly full pages. In short, a must-have item for every fan. If anyone would like to see how his style looks in animation, I recommend one-episode OVA Plastic Little (review here).

Before proceeding to the gallery, where you’ll be able to see some photos of the artbook’s contents, it’s good to show how it looks from the outside.

Urushihara Satoshi – Cell Works (Movic, 1994) – Show Off

This is how it looks in the wrapper:

And without:

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