Final Fantasy Fans: A Chance to Win the Ultimate Art & Lore Collection! UPDATE: Contest closed June 15. Thank you to everyone who entered! Winners were drawn and notified on Instagram by June 17. Congratulations to @sczombie, @leahj159, @54cake, @phasirb, and @dragonfly_alyssa. Stay tuned for more contests and giveaways in the future!On June 10, 2019, the third volume in the Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive became available in English for the first time. Dark Horse is proud to continue to work with game studio Square Enix to bring more Final Fantasy art, lore, and related works to North American readers. You can see more of our licensed Final Fantasy works here >>To celebrate the release of Volume 3, we're giving fans a...
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Dark Horse and Square Enix Bring You Pixelized and Miniaturized Final Fantasy Art Books The highly successful partnership continues to expand as Dark Horse and Square Enix offer two new Final Fantasy art books, Miniature Final Fantasy: No Adventure Too Large and FF DOT: The Pixel Art of Final Fantasy. In Miniature Final Fantasy: No Adventure Too Large, Final Fantasy fans can have a unique and adorable experience with beloved art from throughout the franchise as miniature photographer Tatsuya Tanka takes a whimsical approach to iconic scenes from the Final Fantasy series. Tanaka's vibrant and cheerful miniature photography is showcased side-by-side with concept art that details the process of each photo's creation. This 96-page hard...
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“Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive" Comes to Dark Horse in Summer of 2018 Dark Horse and Square Enix are thrilled to offer the first of three volumes celebrating the entrancing lore and exciting development of the initial six entries into the of one of the most successful game franchises in history! Final Fantasy Ultimania Archive is an astonishing journey through the creation of the seminal roleplaying epic, officially licensed for the first time ever! This holy grail of Final Fantasy fandom is packed full of original concept art, process pieces, and notes from the original artists and designers chronicling the creation of these timeless games. Containing a total of over three hundred pages collected in a high-quality...
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Dark Horse’s release of the individual artbooks from Yoshitaka Amano’s The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy continues this week with the third and final book in the set: The Sky: Book Three! Just like Book One and Book Two, these are the exact same hardback, oversized art books that are in The Sky Boxed Set (sold out) and Slipcased Edition (still available), but now each book is available separately, for those who don’t wish to buy the sets. The Sky: Book Three is only $24.99, yet it’s 156 pages of illustrations on heavy, high-quality paper, 10 5/8" x 11 5/8" (27 x 29.5 cm) in size and bound in hardcover with an elegant metallic ink overprint. Book Three contains Amano's sketches and paintings for Final Fantasy VII...
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Out This Week—Trigun Maximum Omnibus Book Five, The Sky: The Art Of Final Fantasy Book Two! Manga Mondays: At almost any anime con, you’re guaranteed to still see people cosplaying as Vash the Stampede, hero of Yasuhiro Nightow’s Trigun and Trigun Maximum series—whose legend will continue even though the final volume of his adventures is out this week! Trigun Maximum Omnibus Book Five is, of course, Vash’s showdown with his twin brother Knives over the fate of the planet—and if you only know how it played out in the Trigun anime, the confrontation is more developed in the manga. In addition to 530 pages of manga story, Trigun Maximum Omnibus Book Five contains over 60 bonus pieces of...
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One of Dark Horse’s most popular releases in recent years has been Yoshitaka Amano’s The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy. We began with the limited-edition Boxed Set (unfortunately now sold out) and continued with the currently-available Slipcased Edition. There is one thing about both of these versions of The Sky, however—although they sold well, one cost $139.99, the other $89.99. Starting this week, Dark Horse is offering a third alternative, where you can get The Sky art books individually at a lower price, beginning with The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy Book One for $29.99! These are the exact same, high-quality, hardback, oversized art books that were in the Boxed Set and Slipcased Edition; but if you...
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“Hea-a-a-a-vy!” as they used to say on the 1970s TV show Battle of the Planets, originally known as Gatchaman in Japan. But why do I say it? Well, first because it was (even if they didn’t know it) the earliest exposure many American fans had to the work of Yoshitaka Amano, at the time a designer at Tatsunoko, the anime studio that made Gatchaman. And second, because our new release from Yoshitaka Amano, The Sky: The Art of Final Fantasy, is heavy, man! It weighs 12.6 pounds, to be exact. I know because I lugged it in my checked baggage to Anime Weekend Atlanta this last weekend, just to give fans at the Dark Horse panel a chance to have a sneak peek at it before it goes on sale October...
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