>>5698827>>5698835if you want the best bang for your buck:
Sky: art of Final Fantasy box set, has mostly his looser sketches (45-60 usd on amazon) 800+ pages if you have money for only one thing on this list get this one
Mateki: the magic flute, gorgeous SUPER loose sketches. 35 USD on amazon 128pages great addition if you like Sky
Amamo: beyond the fantasy 35usd If you wanna learn about amano himself, how he thinks, works and then his illustrated biography is really fascinating, he really lived an amazing life
and there's lots of stuff you can learn that can make you an better artist 300+ pages
If you want the best stuff from Amanos career (pre 00s) :
Biten: 55+ USD on ebay pretty rare but kino 200+ pages
Think like Amano 45+ USD on ebay too much blank space keeps this from being the best book in the collection but still on my favorite. 300 pages
Expensive,flawed, but highly kino:
The collected art of vampire hunter D 65+ USD amazon another book that could've been the absolute best in the collection had it not been smaller format and had straight-up cropped art work. the range of art is amazing tho 380 pages
Collected painting of Amanos world 75+ USD everything i said about Vampire hunter d applys here as well 300+page + miniature prints, this is his newer art as well
If you want only the kinoest of the kino and don't care about the price:
Katen 100usd+ ebay ultra rare book comprised of maten, hiten, kiten, mono, the world of amano. Hands down the best book with all of his greatest art from the pre 00s , luckily for you most of its contents has been scanned so you can download the book for the previous sentence and enjoy.
the rest are good but I'm suggesting you the best of the best
