From the publisher:

The ultimate illustration collection of Haruhiko Mikimoto, one of the greatest character designers in Japanese animation, now available in an updated English edition!

Haruhiko Mikimoto is a Japanese illustrator, manga artist, and character designer who has led the Japanese animation industry for more than 35 years. He has participated in the creation of a number of masterfull animation works that have gone down in the history of Japanese animation, and has created numerous unique and beautiful characters that have become an indispensable element in each animation. His work is not only historically valuable, but it also influences young animators who are active in the modern anime industry, along with those who aspire to be part of it. This book offers a thorough introduction to the process of creating various masterpiece characters from "KABANERI OF THE IRON FORTRESS" to "Mobile Suit GUNDAM: 0080 War in the Pocket", "Gunbuster", and "Mobile Suit GUNDAM Hathaway." Handwritten comments by Haruhiko Mikimoto are featured next to some character images, which help the readers to know more details of the character designing process.

In addition to original character drawings, this book also contains rough sketches of character designs, character illustrations, and original cell illustrations of animation masterpieces that Haruhiko Mikimoto has contributed. Until now, this book was only available in Japan. Now it has been revised and updated, making it available for all the Haruhiko Mikimoto fans in the world. Why not discover the origins of Haruhiko Mikimoto's imagination yourself?
Haruhiko Mikimoto is a Japanese illustrator, manga artist, and character designer. He started his career with character design of animation series Super Dimension Fortress Macross. After that, he worked on many character designs for popular and topical works such as Gunbuster and Mobile Suit GUNDAM: 0080 War in the Pocket. His innovative and sophisticated character designs for many popular and topical animation series gained an overwhelming support which established his firm position in the animation industry.

Watch PIE International's interview with Haruhiko Mikimoto on the updated English edition of Character Design Archives: