B-Club Special: Bubblegum Crash

Type: Anime Art Book

Author: Kenichi Sonoda and others

Publisher: Bandai

Format: Softback 300mm x 212mm

Cover Price ¥1800

Publication Date: 1992

Page count: 80

This larger format art book, largely printed in monochrome with some full-colour pages including a fold-out poster. It is a softback with a classy matt dust jacket featuring mostly mauve text and drawings on sturdy white paper. There are 30 full colour pages plus one single-sided fold-out poster. These B-Club specials are a kind of book apparently unique to Japan's anime culture. They feature stills, design artwork, character designs, interviews, a story summary and basically anything you would want to know about the show.

As Bubblegum Crash only ran to three episodes, it is unsurprising that even a comprehensive work like this is still fairly skinny. There is a lot of Japanese text so keep your phone with your preferred translation app to hand. These are niche books but if you are after one, the B-Club specials do an excellent job of presenting the material in an attractive manner.