Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion (Volume 1)

I bought this as a gift for a friend, but I looked through it beforehand and I thought the artwork was beautiful. I'm not a big Eva fan, but I really liked it and my friend who is a massive fan loved it. So I think it is a great book for those who like Eva and art/concept art.

I bought this for my grandson and as he is already a great fan he was over the moon.

Brilliant Book, If you're a Fan of Neon Genesis Evangelion....Think You Going to Like this :)

The media could not be loaded.  Der Mond: The Art of Neon Genesis Evangelion is just one of the many books on the popular anime. Many of them are in Japanese. This is one that's translated to English by publisher Viz Media. It's a larger than usual art book, hardcover, 120 pages and reads from right to left.It collects the art of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, the Japanese artist who created the characters for Evangelion. The pages are filled with huge beautiful prints. If you collect the manga series, you'll find some pieces familiar because they are the chapter splash pages. Most of the art are character based, and there are also some sketches which I like.It's not all Evangelion art though. Towards the back there are also illustrations from other projects like games and other anime. The only I recognise is Fatal Fury fighting game. The others are The Wings of Honneamise, Leiqunni Nondelaiko, Nadia of the Mysterious Seas, Aoki Uru and others. There's even an album cover for Eric Clapton.There isn't any commentary beside the credits for the illustrations.Nice book for the anime and manga fans of the series.(There are more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)

This art book is huge! It really highlights the great artwork by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto. The comments towards the back end of the book are also really interesting as you can learn about some of the techniques used to create his pieces of work. The Evangelion pieces are fantastic and beautiful to look at/take inspiration from. However, I wish that it was only book about Evangelion though as the last 10 ish pages are otherworks. They are still beautiful but, I would have preferred to have seen more Evangelion works.

A sumptuous feast of Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's superlative art-work. Measuring 10 inches by 13 & 120 pages it's crammed from cover to cover with full-colour pictures of all the EVA characters (human, angel & bio-mechanical) plus early concept sketches & with an added 30 pages of "other Works" - what's not to like? A must for every Evangelion fan.

I attained this as a birthday gift from a friend a few years ago. The main attraction if you're big into Evangelion is going to be the full-page watercolour style masterpieces depicting Shinji, Rei, Asuka and the Evas of course. The book also contains early development sketches of the characters, looking quite different than they do in the final animation. Several high quality pieces of other miscellaneous characters make up the bulk of the book, mostly following a futuristic/cyberpunk theme.If you're a fan of Eva or wanting some great reference pictures for inspiration; well, you could do a lot worse.

Full of of early sketches and conceptual artwork, a great present for any Eva fan.