I found a whole bunch in a place I never thought to look: e-hentai.org Just look for the tag “artbook” and you already find a bunch. Or look for something more specific. Yes, you will have porn in between. Yes, its just the images without text embedded etc. But it’s a decent source.

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Do a blank search under Pictures.

I got the FLCL art book from somewhere. I’ll try to remember and find my sources, but probably tomorrow since it’s late here right now.

I don’t know where else you could look but the common E-Book & Audiobook places. So far many Books were not listed in the usual piracy sites. I had to search explicitly for the only Book/Comic/Audio Book related ones.

These sites however have TONS of Material in all kinds of categories. So even if there wouldnt be a “Artbook” Filter, if you look for a reocurring comic, make use of the reocurring name and hit the search with it.

You may have to check what are the best sites for your language though.

does anyone know of any Chinese or asian anime/art/manga forums? like forums which are not known to english speakers? for example tsdm39

the specific artbook of the picture you posted is available on archive.org with the title “evangelion material”, you can download it separately with the torrent they provide. the internet archive actually has a pretty impressive artbook collection, though i actually found that specific file under a mirrored torrent on one of the dht search engines on the megathread, which are surprisingly helpful/extensive, though a lot of torrents (especially older ones) aren’t being seeded, but it’s a good start once you have the filename.

as for non-english forums, i’ve had luck with baidu search: you’ll be mostly looking for pan.baidu links in animanga forums/sites (which may be hidden behing login walls, but most of the time you can use google’s cache view), though you do need an account to download from them, which can be difficult to get depending on your location. one specific forum that seems to have a lot of content not available elsewhere is otomedream, but it’s 1) very difficult to get in, i’ve been on the waitlist to get my account approved for like two months; and 2) requires you to use their currency to get dl links to the actual content. also worth checking out is vk and japanese+chinese torrent aggregators and book download sites, fmhy has some in their non-english section. in most of these, you’ll have the most luck searching the original japanese title in quotation marks.

i can’t personally attest for private trackers like bbt and ab, but i imagine it’s worth checking out if you have an account.

I don’t suppose you’ve checked Anna’s archive. Probably so, just didn’t see it mentioned by name.

Have you tried /a/ or /c/ or /jp/ on the 4chan? Pretty sure those are blue boards so they’re gonna be SFW. I think there was also an old site called kissmehentai which obviously is NSFW if that’s what your looking for.

I have tried searching on perfect dark but wasn’t great

Man, sexualizing Rei is so weird.