How To Draw Manga: Ultimate Manga Lessons Volume 1: Drawing Made Easy (How to Draw Manga)
by Go Office

The foundation for drawing manga begins with the artist copying the works of an admired manga artist. The artist learns the traits of the characters' faces and figures while replicating the eyes, the mouth, and other features and recreating the overall images projected. The first chapter of this volume painstakingly explains the artistic development process beginning with copying professional artists' work to the point where the beginning artist is able to produce his or her own original manga. The second chapter covers the basics of a character's face and body, as well as portraying backgrounds. Chapter Three demonstrates how characters from professional manga artists' work are portrayed.

How To Draw Manga Volume 38: Ninja & Samurai Portrayal (How to Draw Manga)
by Team Esaka

This volume introduces characters appearing in historical manga, anime, etc. in a fun format, to help out struggling artists who need historical references for ninjas and samurai. The end of the book features character designs for anime and manga.

How to Draw Manga: Costume Encyclopedia
by Hikaru Hayashi, Kimiko Morimoto

"I understand the design, but I can't figure out the actually how to portray my character in the costume." Many have likely experienced this dilemma when trying to develop a character's costume and reached for a book on fashion as a reference. In this volume, manga characters appear as models, and the book illustrates aspects that serve as fashion points showing the characters in various poses and angles. This volume boasts more than 4,000 images. With this as reference, the reader should be able to design an original costume with ease by combining the collars, sleeves, cuffs, and other dress details provided.

How To Draw Manga Volume 1 : Compiling Characters (How to Draw Manga)
by Society for the Study of Manga Techniques

This volume is aimed at the advancement of manga and prepared by a group of assistants to popular manga artist Yu Kinutani. It begins with the use of drawing utensils and covers character faces, full bodies, arms, legs, hair and so on. The instructions are presented in easy-to-understand "blocks". A great way to begin a hobby or career in the field of Japanese manga. English Language.

How to Draw Manga: Bodies & Anatomy
by Society for the Study of Manga Techniques

I currently own five of this series, and continue to be impressed by the amount of detail they contain, but this one truly takes it.

Bodies and Anatomy covers it all, and could be used for any drawing type, not just for use in manga. This book is PACKED with incredibly detailed, accurate drawings of the skeleton, muscular system, etc., for every part of the body.

To me, this book felt more professionally and maturely presented than the others in the series, and I highly recommend it for any artist looking for some extra help when drawing the human form.

How to Draw Manga: Male Characters
by Hikaru Hayashi

Have you noticed that a girl takes center stage on ALL the other How To Draw Manga books? They look great, they're fun to draw! But I find that myself and almost everyone else i know who draws manga have an easy time drawing girls and a hard time with the guys. Well here we go! Finally a book to help us out with that! It's very well done, plenty of good, useful advice.

How To Draw Manga Deluxe Official Kit (How to Draw Manga)
by Various

This kit comes complete with its own wholly exclusive edition of the How to Draw Manga series, Mastering Manga Tools, as well as G-pen, Saji-pen, and Maru-pen nibs and holders, manga drawing paper, and tone sheets, which you can trim and etch to add exciting touches to your personal manga artwork. Use this kit to practice and turn yourself into a true manga artist.

How To Draw Manga Volume 34: Costume Encyclopedia Volume 2 (How to Draw Manga)
by Hikaru Hayashi, Kimiko Morimoto

While one would think undergarments are standard fixtures on manga characters, they can be unexpectedly tricky for artists to draw. This book includes more than 4,000 illustrations showing details of these garments worn on a figure in addition to a detailed history of intimate apparel. Moreover, it enables the reader to make practical use of the illustrations provided to create easily their own fantasy costume designs. This volume is chock full of ideas ready for use!

Manga Mania: Chibi and Furry Characters: How to Draw the Adorable Mini-characters and Cool Cat-girls of Japanese Comics
by Christopher Hart

Everyone loves chibi, the newest, hottest manga style out of Asia. Chibis—characters that range from hypercute miniature people to bizarrely sexy furry characters—come in all varieties, all roles, including chibi teenagers, faeries, schoolgirls, nurses, mermaids, devils, angels, and everyone in between. Now Christopher Hart, the world’s best-selling author of cartoon and drawing titles, shows readers exactly how to darw chibis, infusing them with personality and creating authentic costumes for them. Cute chibi-style monsters (small yet powerful), appealing cat-girls (humanlike, but with feline traits), superdeformed manga/chibi characters (used to make funny wisecracks)—every type of chibi character is shown here in crystal clear, step-by-step drawings. Manga Mania Chibi and Furry Characters will get every manga fan in on the chibi fun.

How To Draw Manga Volume 19: Super-Deformed Characters Volume 2: Animals (How to Draw Manga)
by Gen Sato

This volume focuses on animals and (animated) inanimate objects. It starts by introducing key points in drawing animals in that delightful chibi character/ultra-stylized manner. The book also contains instruction on anthropomorphism or how to make animated objects that frequently appear in manga and anime seem to move and talk like human beings.

How To Draw Manga Volume 28: Couples (How to Draw Manga)
by Hikaru Hayashi

This was a good book, and some of the ideas in it were great, but I wish that they would have put more embarissing/sweet sceens into it. So if your looking for things like the guy accidentally falling on the girl, or a guy maddly blushing when a girl comes on to them ,or anything else like that, then this book isn't for you. But it does have some good sceens with hugging and kissing and stuff like that. There was also brother sister, and Big sis, little sis(vise versa) pair ups to so that was an added bonus. All in all, it was good, but it could have been better. I just hope they come out with a second volume like this one but with a little more of the suprising sceens in them!

The Monster Book of Manga: Draw Like the Experts
by Estudio Joso, Fernando Casaus

The popularity of manga-Japanese cartooning-continues to grow, inspiring interest in learning how to draw this exciting style of comics.

From comic illustration Studio Joso comes the ultimate guide on how to draw manga. The Monster Book of Manga is divided into sections focusing on the most popular manga figures and themes-Girls, Boys, Samurai, Monsters, and Computer. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from an initial black-and-white sketch to the final color piece. They're also accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.

From beginner to advanced, this monster-size manual is the must-have book for anyone interested in learning how to draw manga.

How To Draw Manga Computones Volume 2: Depicting Humans (How to Draw Manga Computones)
by Knife Senno

This second volume of the popular series is geared towards artists who have mastered the basic techniques of tone work and want to give their manga three-dimensionality and a wide array of audacious special effects. The bonus CD-ROM contains 100 types of tone patterns favored by manga artists. This Computones series is guaranteed to expand your manga horizons.

How To Draw Manga Volume 15: Girls' Life Illustration File (How to Draw Manga)
by Kazuko Tadano

This volume was inspired by young women working in cafes and restaurants clad in those absolutely charming uniforms. Snowy white aprons and crisply starched dresses are staples of manga and anime. This guide features various popular uniforms and costumes. Select an interesting uniform or costume to try on one of your own characters!

How To Draw Manga
by Katy Coope

Sixteen-year-old author and illustrator Katy Coope has turned her love of Japanese comic art into a super-cool, step-by-step process for kids. Easy-to-follow with its oversized format and accessible text and pictures, this how-to-draw book will find an audience with fans of anime, manga, and all building comic-book artists. Includes chapters on Getting Started, Faces, Expressions, Bodies, Finishing Touches, and Materials.