I found a review for the exact book I use, and still use to this day. While it doesnt show it as much, the book covers things like action (eating, running, angles for all of them, ext) types of expressions (Dont know if you can get a better guide for this, as it even shows human gestures and positions for different things like anger, that you wouldnt normally catch) proportions (even with a page of them all lined up next to eachother, and more and more) lots and lots of angles (like a picture drawn in 10 different angles) animal aditions guide, a coloring guide (digital and traditional), a comparison of adults to chibis, which is all over the book from the basic body to doing the hands, feet, ect, and surprisingly, the very first few pages of the book are more like a, oh how would you put it,,...draw this guide (they show you step by step on how to draw certain characters, likely to get you used to the feel of proportions before the initial study, and to see if your ready for it or not. I only did like two of them, so you dont have to do them. their only a few pages anyways)
Now personally, Ive seen a lot of how to draw manga books, from library, friends, they all suck compared to this. No I mean really, they all SUCK. their all mostly draw this character draw that character, if not that being the entire book, and what do you learn from that? You dont even realize what your doing.
http://parkablogs.com/node/6028Best book
Go here to see a few pages that you can actually read
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teohyc/with/5639712516/#photo_5639712516This book is about, oh, 25 bucks? Shouldn't break the bank compared to some. Now go buy it. Now. It's worth every penny. You will worship it.
(if you want some picture examples from some things from the book, I can do that, But I can't forsay scan the whole thing. Thats a lot of time, and I dont want to get into legal issues. Just go buy it)
