The Godzilla Art of KAIDA Yuji

I was somewhat familiar with the artist because I believe one of his art of the 1954 Godzilla breaking through the Power lines was used back on the now-defunct website Monster Zero. Upon reading this book, one of his artworks made a CD compilation and a lot more were discovered about the Showa, Heisei, Millennium series and Shin Godzilla and the anime trilogy. There is an impressive art of Monsterverse Godzilla fighting Monsterverse Ghidorah that, plus some of the Shin Godzilla arts, is alone worth the price of this book. Highly recommended for Godzilla fans, some incredible artwork in here.

Ordered this for my son...came in excellent condition...son loves it

Beautiful Godzilla artwork from a gifted artist. Some of these works have graced book and magazine covers, there are some excellent pencil sketches and there is a also nice interview at the end. The pages are slick but as other reviewers have described this is a paperback and the binding could be better, but for approx $20 this is a wonderful collection of art and I am happy with it.

The art in this book is absolutely amazing. There's even detailed descriptions of each artwork at the end of the book. Definitely worth buying it. (cool little detail is that they messed up some godzilla info on page 51).

If you're not new to Yuji Kaida's works, you're not going to find anything new here. Most of this is only a small part of his larger Japan-only books and collections of Godzilla artwork, so you're going to find it to be full of repeats from his previously published books.If you're new to Yuji Kaida's works, you're in for a treat. However, the publisher seems to have skipped out on a lot of his grander pieces for some odd reason; chibi art, marketing work, and color swaps that don't compare to his other digital paintings. It honestly gives a slightly paltry interpretation of his entire collection, sadly.

Very nice introduction to artist Yuji Kaida who has done a lot of Toho monster illustrations dating back to the late 80's for things as diverse as Laserdisc sleeves to magazine covers to model kit box art. This book includes both full color paintings and digital illustrations as well as b/w line art. The range of illustrations covers the entire range of Godzilla movies from 1954 to the US and animated movies of the last few years. There's several arguably better books about the artist from Japan but are much costlier and harder to procure.Only complaint is this soft cover book is the cover binding which because it's about an eighth of an inch oversized on all corners, is easily dinged. Also, some illustrations are spread landscape style over two pages making the art in the center gutter binding hard to see without damaging the book.

The cover art enticed me to buy this book. So my expectations were pretty high. But in a percentage of “love” and “that’s nice” the take away is 40/60. When the art is great, it’s a total knockout, but when it’s only so, so, it’s underwhelming. Plus entire half pages, where copy could have gone is collected in a gallery at the end of the collection. Perhaps the intent is an art museum experience? Pages and pages of Godzilla and his Rouges Gallery of characters, but a better context of understanding, materials used, and artists decisions would really help fill this book a complete knock out.

The art in this book is glorious but its frequently cropped with black bars. The construction of the book is also so incredibly cheap I questioned whether or not I would return the dumb thing. While this looks like a hardback its actually made with soft materials and a weird overlap that I guarantee will bend and tear overtime with being stood up.I cannot recommend this outside of the diehard Godzilla fan who has to have everything no matter how overpriced and cheaply it is made.

A mi hijo le parecio geniar, llego un poco maltratado de las orillas pero el contenido esta genial.

Bought for a gift but having a flick through it’s very beautiful. It’s a must for Godzilla fans

Ein sehr schöner Godzilla Bildband. Die Druckqualität und Farbqualität des Bandes ist sehr gut.Sehr schöne Motive von Kaida Yuji - für jeden Godzilla Fan ein tolles Buch.

Las ilustraciones tienen ese estilo tan característico de los carteles de cine. El libro no trata sobre películas o kaijulogía, es sencillamente un festival de imágenes sobre nuestro kaiju favorito. Al final incluye una entrevista con el autor y hay un glosario de las imágenes mostradas en el libro donde se especifica su fecha de creación, dónde aparecieron, etc.Estupendo libro de ilustraciones, me ha gustado mucho. Gracias, Titan Books :)

イラストレーター初の海外版画集に期待大でした。そして期待を裏切らない画集に盛り上がりました。印刷も丁寧、発色もよく、紙質も充分。届いて手にして、見開きが多い事がわかり、バリっとページを180度に開いて観倒おしたい欲求に駆られ、もう一冊注文しました。二冊目の見開きを開いて判りましたが、糸で綴じられているため、目一杯開いてもページが外れたりしない様ですし、左右の画がズレたりしないのは嬉しい仕様です。ただ、二冊目が届いて気がつきましたが、一冊目は全体にダメージ無く美麗品でしたが、二冊めは背の下角に若干のひしゃげや、表紙上部に打撲痕がありました。一冊目はヤマト便で、二冊目はAmazon便でした。出荷先も違うものでした。取り扱い問屋や配送便で、こんなに商品に違いがある事が驚きでした。観倒し用ですし、表紙画や、中の画にダメージは無いので、返品はしませんが、配送には一冊目の様に、充分に気を使って欲しいものです。ですが、画集は素晴らしく、間違いなく星5です。