
Underground Beast Kingdom is a book by the Japanese novelist Kusei Toran (1902-1957), translated by Xiao Yunjing and published by Xinyu Publishing House. Synopsis of the story is that the Soviet investigation team asked the Japanese captives to find a tunnel from under the volcano to Japan, and in the process the two sides chased underground, experienced the shroud of hunger and pain, and saw the ancient extinct creatures, dinosaurs, still alive underground...
This book, some people are introduced like this: decadence and elegance, crazy and real interlaced, obscure and lonely but gorgeous, this is the most brilliant and magnificent fantasy epic of Jiusheng Shilan, here, there is no painless text, it embodies the cruel aesthetics of "Japan's strongest fantasy hero".
The binding of the book comes from Cai Jiahao, how does he express the cruel aesthetic of "Japan's strongest fantasy hero"?
He painted a scene in red and black tones for the story in the book: the top of the volcano resembles claws and sharp teeth, the reflection symbolizes the underground, the reflection below resembles the claws of an animal, and the severed blocks of text on both sides of the reflection simulate the state of "crossing the ground", and finally supplemented by large mesh lines to create an atmosphere of imprisonment and isolation.
The title of the book adopts the design style of fine art characters to reflect the background of the story, the 1830s, and adds a small print on it, which not only enhances the readability, but also strengthens the visual features.
The front and back of the inner seal are volcanic and reflected, respectively, symbolizing the two perspectives of the ground and the underground.
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