How to attract people, especially otaku, to learn more about a subject? Make them moe. Previously, there was a book about nations of the world with a moefied girl representing each country. Mecha musume isn’t something new. But when a selected topic being represented in moe form, it becomes interesting. Consider this as something similar to Strike Witches but more in-depth and accurate information.
The book cover
The book provides more than 50 planes illustrated, moe-ly. So here I show some of the famous planes.
Nakajima Ki-61, that's the cover girl
Mitsubishi A5M the first carrier-borne monoplane aircraft
Mitsubishi A6M2, the infamous Zero
Mitsubishi A6m3/5/7, another variants of Zero
Kyushu J7W, glorified in Sky Crawlers
Republic P47 Thunderbolt
North American P-51 Mustang
Vought F4U Corsair, highly maneuverable
Messerschmitt BF109, the main combat aircraft of Nazi Germany
Focke Wulf FW190A, versatile against air and ground targets
Boulton Paul Defiant, actually was a failure project but this representation picture of the plane is cute <3
Hawker Hurricane, the backbone of RAF during Battle of Britain
Supermarine Spitfire, continuing the success of Hurricane throughout the Battle of Europe
Gloster Meteor, arguably the first jet engine fighter
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG 1/3, spelt ミグ and does have resemblance with Hatsune Miku xD
Yakovlev Yak-1/7/9/3 was considered as the best Soviet airplanes
Lavochkin LaGG-3/La-5/La-7
Fiat G.50/55, an Italian airplane, only a decent fighter
Dewoitine D.520 was arguably better than its counterpart, BF109, but French lacked of tactics made them inferior
Of course that there are other planes like I stated earlier for example German’s own jet fighter the Me 262, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, De Havilland Mosquito, Macchi M.200, Morane Saulnier MS.406 and many more. Truly moe and I grabbed it at Kinokuniya for RM 100++ since I am a military-cum-moe fag.
Fuck you Japan.
the Zero-sen could be better… but oh well
and Miku with large breast? does not compute.
Stuka takde?
stuka bukan fighter.
Very cool moe-conversion. Lol.
Bought this artbook yesterday at Kino. FEELS GOOD MAN
i really hope if they could release modern jet fighters version *puppy eyes*
Well there are some modern jet fighters version (along with old and modern moe-military things) in the serialized magazine MC Axis at which I subscribed :3
Here is one of them : http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B003P4Z0VC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1280422834&sr=8-1