The box full of "Lucid Dream" books arrived today and all the pre-orders are packed and ready to be shipped out tomorrow.
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Each book is SIGNED and DATED (in Kanji) in gold metallic ink with a red hanko mark too.
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Welcome to AkaTako - your USA based source (with a small outpost in Europe) for underground and hard to find Japanese art: signed art books, limited edition prints and posters, licensed enamel pins and t-shirts, artist produced postcards and mini books, original drawings and paintings, and lots more. We ship worldwide!
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.
Not sure where to start? Check out the more popular artists and items just below. A bit further down the page is a news feed of everything going on with AkaTako.
POPULAR ARTISTS
THE LATEST NEWS
Oct 14, 2011
They're heading to the printer in Japan right now and then to Takato Yamamoto to sign them... After that - to AkaTako! Three new posters with Takato Yamamoto's works are available for pre-order right now.
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| "Fermentation of a Hermaphrodite" | "Twin Roses" | "Sacred Mutant Birth" |
They will all be signed, size 20.25" x 28.675" (51.5cm x 72.8cm), and should arrive the first week of November +/-.
Oct 13, 2011
It has been sold out for over four months but Fuco Ueda's LUCID DREAM Special Edition is FINALLY going to be back in the beginning of November - likely November 1st!
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The regular edition remains sold out for the time being. I'm not sure when I will be able to get it back in stock. Special thanks to Fuco Ueda herself - her direct intervention helped to bring Lucid Dream back to AkaTako!
Oct 3, 2011
Romaine Slocombe's "manga" Prisonniere de l'Armee Rouge is back in stock at AkaTako.net as of today!
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Softcover book with full page illustrations of Romain's medical bondage ladies. Trilingual captions - French, Japanese & English.
Sep 29, 2011
Bunches of items back in stock - especially Toshio Saeki books, Suehiro Maruo manga & signed Vampire Panorama, AND limited edition Divertimento for a Martyr!
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| Akai Hako | Gokurakujou | Inkenka | Yume Manji |
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| Kinrandonsu | Yume no Q-Saku | Signed Vampire Panorama |
And Takato Yamamoto limited edition Divertimento for a Martyr:
Sep 21, 2011
A new artist to AkaTako.net - Mari Shimizu is a Japanese contemporary doll artist. She favors ball-jointed dolls and is pretty well known for her Victorian tableaux which are inserted into the chest cavities of her dolls.
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Her work has also been featured in several magazines including Talking Heads No. 47, Yaso Doll, and Yaso Monster & Freaks.
More doll | ball joint items
Sep 14, 2011
A brand new Yaso magazine was released just last week and AkaTako already has it available. "Doll & Body" focuses on doll artists of the 2010's and features the works of Ryo Yoshida, Etsuko Miura, Tari Nakagawa, Hizuki, Midori Hayashi, Mitsubachi@BabyBee, Mantam, and LIEN. A few of the artists include works that are tributes to Hans Bellmer.
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Also back in stock is the Yaso Bellmer Poupée magazine!
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Sep 12, 2011
AkaTako.net now has the full range of every Trevor Brown "My Alphabet" that has been published! A couple of them are permanently sold out.... but now there are three more versions that are available as of today.
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| Plum My Alphabet w/ Coloring Book (signed) | Black My Alphabet (signed) | Brown My Alphabet (unsigned) |
Other versions: Blue My Alphabet (sold out), Orange My Alphabet (sold out), Brown My Alphabet (signed).
