Dragon Girl and Monkey King: The Art of Katsuya Terada Hardcover – August 5, 2014

The media could not be loaded. The Dragon Girl and Monkey King art book is an excellent and quality product. It's a hardcover, no slip, with the cover illustrations printed on the end pages. The pages are very well laid out with a pleasing type treatment. There are three main bodies of text within the book: the foreword by del Toro, Selected Pieces, and then an interview with Terada.As an artist, I was hoping for some insight into Terada's technical and mental process, but the interview was a wash. It did not reveal anything particularly interesting. It might as well have been a continuation of the Selected Pieces because the interviewer spent at least a third of the interview pointing out pieces from the book he liked and asked Terada to speak about them. In Selected Pieces, Terada says an average of a paragraph about the chosen pieces. The editor then adds some information about the artwork, such as where it was first printed.Regardless of that disappointment, this book is beautiful, well done, and a wonderful addition to any library. Illustrations throughout Terada's career are printed large and in high quality with little to take away or distract from his work.

This is the best all around art book I've seen of Terada's artwork. Now I admit, I haven't seen them all yet, but this is an impressive collection. The large size of the book really shows the drawings well. A lot of his books have too many rough sketches for my liking. I appreciate those things at times, but I really want to see the best the artist has to offer. This book's got it. The book is quality in every sense. The best part is the price. You'll never be able to buy another Terada art book this cheap (at the moment). His books from Japan are expensive. I wish Dark horse would release more of his artwork for those of us who can't afford to lay down nearly $100 for a book.

I was looking for a good illustration art book to get that didn't gravitate too much towards one genre (particularly anime or comic books). I was bit concerned as I wasn't too attached to the "demon-girl" concepts at first, but the artist has sold me on his style and vision. The use of color, lines, and ideas are so well put together and the book is of the utmost quality. I feel like I really got my money's worth buying this and I love looking through this every now and then for inspiration or just for fun.I wont guarantee that you will like it as peoples' art tastes differ but if you do like artists who draw robots/girls well you may like this.

Katsuya Terada remains one of my favorite artists. Great content with artworks that stay as compelling as when you first see it.

Amazing art

I got this book for a friend because the art looked amazing and she's into this kind of gritty, exotic, fantasy/scifi hybrid style of illustration--however, there was quite a bit of stuff in it that was far raunchier than I expected (for instance, one illustration features a bound woman who is literally being bored through 'a certain area' [you know where] by some giant demonic woman-thing's tongue, which she is 'stuck' on, like a twisted version of Vlad the Impaler's work--that's just one example), which made it kind of weird to give as a gift afterward, lol. If I'd known that it wasn't *just* fun cool creative stuff (like cyborg warriors and monkey kings) I might've sprung for something else just to avoid potential awkwardness. (I kind of felt like that parent who thought he was being cool by buying his kid a bunch of 'anime' DVDs off of the internet and they ended up being hentai)If, like me, you are unfamiliar with the artist and are just going off of the inserts/photos shown here, be forewarned that this book contains some slightly graphic sexualized stuff. No complaints about the quality of the art, or the creativity--it's just something I was surprised by! :)

I found out after I received this book that the Katsuya Terada was the one behind the short animé movie “Blood, the last vampire”.The artist was on my nephew‘s Xmas wish list.

This book has some awesome and unique art in it. Would recommend it.