Muur said: we have proper art of the awakened sistermons, although theyre pretty small pics Click to expand...

Since my copy arrived just recently I feel I should add a few impressions on the physical book.There is indeed no foil effect on the cover this time and there's also no holo-glitter this time around (maybe it wouldn't have looked as good on black?). One surprising detail that is not apparent in the scans is that despite being about 40 pages longer than the previous art book it's not any thicker... in fact it's slightly thinner since it was printed in much thinner paper.Overall the book is really great but still has a few flaws. As usual I really love the little illustrations from cards and guidebooks provided the main art, much moreso this time around since many illustrations in that style for the Digimon in early V-pets had a somewhat rough and sketchy appearance while here many are nice and detailed in their own right.I am however surprised about the number of Digimon that didn't get anything besides main art and sprite when they clearly had plenty card art that could have been used to fill out the page.The biggest letdown of the book has to be the "reprint" of the chronicle manga... it looked worrying in the preview but I hoped that in print it would be fine but it's not.The pages are just way to small, too many on one page with covers, character profiles and lore pages (that have been shrunk down to be) awkwardly stuck inbetween with no regard for reading flow. It seems like it's not really meant to bebut just to show "this exists". I feel if they had put about 4 manga pages per page it could have been a far better experience.I do have to say that the following section containing the illustrations for the X-antibody Digimon has to be my favorite part of the book, even if it is not completely exhaustive.The last pages being in black and white was somewhat annoying. Although in fairness it has to be pointed out that the pendulum art book has more color pages than the ver.20th artbook has pages in general, having the backgrounds for the different areas and the big render of folder continent in grayscale when we saw File Island in full color in the first book it seems kind of wasted. At least last time the black and white section only included pages filled with text and v-pet lines where nothingto be in color, making the change mostly unnoticeable. But in the Pendulum art book it just really jumps out at you.Overall, still a great book though.A bit of a side note: There are quite a few Digimon that have concept art showing them in the same pose form different angles and with arms and other details "detached". This type of reference art is especially often used for the production of 3D models and in fact most Digimon shown with this kind of art have been recently featured in a Game, for example Dagomon, Tururiemon, Lavogaritamon, Ouryomon, VoltoBautamon, Dorugoramon and so on. There are howevera few Digimon that are shown with the same type of concept art that have not yet debuted in any 3D game. This includes BeelStarrmon, Lotusmon, Manbomon and Astamon (the non-XW version). There'S no way to say for sure but I wouldn't be surprised if any of these will show up in the next game (not necessarily survive though).Same art we've had for over 4 years.