The Monster Book Of More Manga
ISBN-13: 978-0-06-115169-9
Publisher: Collins Design (Harper Collins)
"Author": Ikari Studio
Publication Date in English: 2007
Series: Monster Book of (Manga, More Manga, etc)
Price: $24.95
Pagecount: 367
Color: Extensive
Breasts: Breakdown form only
Short Impression: Not only does not barely have robots, it's pretty useless
     except as a reference of archetypes.  Avoid this turkey.

     Okay, I got this while traveling, and while at a Borders felt like
getting something.  This looked promising, with a back cover blurb stating,
"Including a wide array of images - from giant monsters to mechas, from
villains to heroes...."  However, as it was shrinkwrapped, I couldn't browse
to see how much mecha content.  Taking a gamble that the content was
significant based on being one of only four things explicitly mentioned, I
picked it up.
     Bzzt.  Here's the entire robot content: a chibi Megazord pastiche,
Guyver and Kamen Rider pastiches, a generic armored cyborg cop, a
sueprdeformed Tetsujin-28 homage and a thinly veiled Genesic GaoGaiGar.  The
giant monsters are even less well represented, with just a pseudo-Godzilla
and a giant mantis.  There's also three pages at the end of coloring
suggestions on a scene of an Ultraman homage fighting a beetle monster.
     Still, even that might be okay if it was actually an in-depth look at
how to draw any of those things.  Or of anything at all.  But each character
in the book gets a cursory look at best.  Ball and stick, ovals, pencils,
inks and colors for one picture of each character.  If you go through and
draw your own of every sample character, you might pick up a decent range of
techniques, but it doesn't do much more than simply copying out of comics.
     About the only thing it's useful for is as a catalog of archetypes, and
for that job they'd be better served spending the page count on either
multiple views, or on variations on each theme.
     I suspect that the reason his was shrinkwrapped was simply because the
publisher felt it wouldn't sell if people knew how useless it was before
buying it.