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The Princess Mononoke:
The Art and Making of Japan's Most Popular Film of All Time

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• Tentative release date: September, 1999 [*]
• Hyperion Press; New York
• Trade Paperback; 224 pages
• ISBN 0-7868-6609-8 (was: 0-7868-8385-5)
• Tentative price: US$29.95

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THE ART OF THE PRINCESS MONONOKE

• 1997
  
• Tokuma Shoten, Studio Ghibli Company (ISBN 4-19-810002-0)
• 223pages
  
• ¥2,762
  
• Paperbound but printed on high quality glossy paper. It contains a variety of sketches, storyboards, background information, and cel reproductions (with backgrounds). It is quite a beautiful book. Unlike some of other "Art of" books, this one does not contain the script, but it contains the production diaries of Studio Ghibli, detailing the three-year process of the movie making. It also has a section about CG in Mononoke Hime.

ROMAN ALBUM "MONONOKE HIME"

(Roman Album: Princess Mononoke)

• 1997
  
• Tokuma Shoten (ISBN 4-19-720026-9)
• 130pages
  
• ¥1,143
  
• Interviews of Miyazaki and staff members. Story summary with many color pictures. Character introduction. Color pictures of background art and interviews of art directors. Article about CG technology in Mononoke Hime, etc

ANIMAGE COMICS SPECIAL "MONONOKE HIME" vol. 1-4

• 1997
  
• Tokuma Shoten
  
•  ISBN4-19-770052-0 (vol.1), 144 pages
  
•  ISBN4-19-770053-9 (vol.2), 143 pages
  
•  ISBN4-19-770054-7 (vol.3), 143 pages
  
•  ISBN 4-19-770055-5(vol.4), 144 pages
  
• ¥552 each
  
• Film Comics. They are basically color manga made entirely of cel setups (i.e., there's no additional art beyond that in the film or video), with the complete dialog for the film (sometimes minus an occasional background line) in the word balloons for the manga (as well as overlays of the usual manga sound effect words).

THIS IS ANIMATION "MONONOKE HIME"

• 1997
  
• Shogakukan (ISBN 4-09-101542-5)
• 49 pages
  
• ¥900
  
• All color book with a lot of pictures. It tells the story of Mononoke Hime. Font is big and Kanji comes with furigana. Relatively easy to read.

TOKUMA ANIME EHON "MONONOKE HIME" Joukan & Gekan

(Tokuma Anime Picture Book: Princess Mononoke, vol. 1&2)

• 1997
  
• Tokuma Shoten
  
• ISBN 4-19-860762-1 (vol. 1), 113 pages
  
• ISBN 4-19-860763-X (vol. 2), 121 pages
  
• ¥1,500 each.
  
• Hard cover with storybook type text accompanied by frames from the films. Pictures are fairly large and nice to look at. Sample page

MONONOKE HIME

• 1993
  
• Tokuma Shoten
  
• ISBN4-19-860040-6
  
• ¥2,913
  
• This is the original imageboards Miyazaki wrote in 1980, and totally different from the story in the movie. It's huge print size (about A3), hardcovered, and a bit expensive. There's Akira Kurosawa's comment as the liner note.

• September 2, 1997
  
• Kinema Shunpo-Sha
  
• Kinema Junpo Special Issue, No. 1233
• 182 pages
  
• ¥1,524
  
• Interview of Miyazaki and staff members. Articles by anime and movie critics. Filmography and other data concerning Miyazaki and Ghibli. More information is available at Kinema Junpo's web page.

• 1997
  
• Fusion Product
  
• Bessatsu Comic Box, vol. 2
• 172 pages
  
• ¥1,000
  
• Interview of Miyazaki and staff members. Ghibli Production Diary. Detailed articles about background of Mononoke Hime, such as cultural and historical facts behind the story. The book is available in PDF files at Comic Box's web site.

• 1997
  
• Fusion Product
  
• Bessatsu Comic Box, vol. 3
• 192 pages
  
• ¥1,000
  
• 400 articles, letters, and illustrations sent to  Comic Box from those who saw Mononoke Hime. Also includes articles by 88 manga writers, anime creators, and critics. Interview of staff members, such as Yoshifumi Kondo, Masasi Ando, Kitaro Kosaka, and Yoshikazu Mera. For more information, see Comic Box's web site.

• 1998
  
• by Toshiro URATANI
  
• Tokuma Shoten (ISBN4-19-860930-6)
• 423 pages
  
• ¥1,900
  
• A book by the director who made the Making of Mononoke Hime video. His record of what he saw and heard while filming Miyazaki and staff members at work.

• October, 1998
• by Tsutomu Kuji
• Hihyousha (ISBN 4-8265-0261-3)
• 213 pages 
• ¥1,800
• Studies Mononoke Hime from 14 perspectives such as "Characters," "Forest," "Language," "Technology," "Symbolism," and "Civilization." Through the scenery of Jomon Era, the book talks about Emishi, the clan of Ashitaka.

• August 1997
  
• Seido-Sha
  
• Eureka Special Issue (ISBN 4-7917-0020-1), vol. 29-11
• 264 pages
  
• ¥1,143
  
• Collection of articles about Miyazaki, Mononoke Hime, and his other works by subculture writers. Includes an interview of Miyazaki.

• 1997
  
• Seikyuu-Sha (ISBN 4-7872-7082-6)
• 180 pages
  
• ¥1,200
  
• Collection of articles about Miyazaki and Mononoke Hime by subculture writers.

• 1997
  
• Eijin Sha (ISBN 4-87100-125-3)
• 445 pages
  
• ¥2718
  
• Contains several movie scripts, including Mononoke Hime. Sample page

• July 18, 1997
  
• Asahi Shinbun-Sha
  
• Weekly Asahi Graph
  
• ¥533
  
• Interview of Miyazaki. Articles and color pictures of past works by Miyazaki.

• Feb. 1998, No. 213
  
• Madora Shuppan
  
• ¥524
  
• Contains an 30-page length interview of Miyazaki and Takeshi YOUROU, a kaobougaku professor, about Mononoke Hime.

Mo Fa Gong Zhu (1-4)

• China Times Publishing Co. (in Taiwan)
  
• vol.1: 144 pg; ISBN 957-13-2478-7; 8 Mar 1998
  
• vol.2: 144 pg; ISBN 957-13-2479-5; 8 Mar 1998
  
• vol.3: 144 pg; ISBN 957-13-2480-9; 8 Apr 1998
  
• vol.4: 152 pg; ISBN 957-13-2481-7; 8 Apr 1998
  
• Order numbers: FD0060, FD0061, FD0062, and FD0063.
• NT$120 each
• Chinese translated version of the corresponding Film Comics.

• 1997
  
• Fairy (ISBN 4-89442-147-X)
• 8 pages
  
• ¥750
  
• Piano score

YASASHIKU HIKERU "MONONOKE HIME" SOLO ALBUM: IMAGE ALBUM & SOUNDTRACK

(Easy Playing "Mononoke Hime" Solo Album: Image Album & Soundtracks)

• 1977
  
• K.M.P (ISBN 4-77321-172-5)
• 106 pages
  
• ¥1,400
  
• Piano scores of the pieces in Image Album and Soundtrack Album.

• Yamaha Music Media
  
• 40pages with a Floppy Disk
  
• ¥2,300