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This is the archive for all officially printed Guilty Gear media. Including but not limited to: art books, novels, manga, guide books, and magazines. Note that while some items on this page have unofficial translations by fans, the focus of this page is not on them. Translation status will be listed, but links to them will be over on the translations page. It is organized this way to reduce the size of this page (which is the largest out of all the archives) and because it's a pain in the ass for me to update links on multiple pages.
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Please contact me if there are translations in other languages (or I missed something) and I will add them to this post.
Wanna help out but have never scanned a book before? Here's a guide I wrote on book scanning: Tumblr Link
See this page for a guide to the "canon" of Guilty Gear as well as how the hell to get into it all.
NAVIGATION //
Art books
- - Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2004
- - Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007
- - Guilty Gear X Drafting Artworks
- - Guilty Gear Unaired Drafts Collection
- - Guilty Gear Codex
- - Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator Visual Book (European version)
- Guilty Gear Xrd Series Official Artworks
- - Guilty Gear Strive digital artbook
- - Guilty Gear Strive Switch Edition; Guilty Gear Digital Art Collection
- - Guilty Gear Strive Artworks Archive
- - Guilty Gear 10th Memorial Book
- - ASW 25th Anniversary Official Character Collection
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Novels/short stories
- - Guilty Gear X: Lightning the Argent - Main
- -- Lightning the Argent - Spanish
- -- Lightning the Argent - Summary (Spanish)
- -- Lightning the Argent - Chapter 1, English (Radguy)
- -- Lightning the Argent - Chapter 1, English (Volcanic Fighter)
- - Guilty Gear X: The Butterfly & Her Gale - Main
- -- The Butterfly & Her Gale - Summary (Spanish)
- -- The Butterfly & Her Gale - Chapter 1, English (Volcanic Fighter)
- - Guilty Gear 2 Overture Material Collection - Main
- -- All 8 short stories, Spanish
- -- All 8 short stories, English
- -- Izuna, Dr. Paradigm, Valentine short stories, English (Volcanic Fighter)
Guides/encyclopedias
For a list of missing volumes, go here.
- - Guilty Gear Bible
- - Guilty Gear X SLASH Encyclopedia
- - Guilty Gear Isuka Complete Guide
- - Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival Starter Encyclopedia
- - Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival Burst Encyclopedia
- - Guilty Gear XX Slash Beat Encyclopedia
- - Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R A Gainful Material
- - Guilty Gear Isuka Outlive Encyclopedia
- - Guilty Gear Petit 1 & 2 Official Fan Book
- - Guilty Gear Vastedge XT Official Guide Book
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Magazines
- - Character Designer Magazine, Issue 1, Fall 2003, raws
- -- Character Designer Magazine, Issue 1, Fall 2003, English
- - Dengeki PlayStation magazine archive - This is a separate page with every pre-2000 GG article published in Dengeki PS
- - Dengeki Maoh Guilty Gear 2 article
- - Dengeki PlayStation Guilty Gear & Blazblue promotional booklet
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Manga raws
For a list of missing volumes, go here.
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ART BOOKS //
Books with art.
Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2004
- Raws: Unknown, possibly Windborn
- Scan quality: Poor
- Host: Archive.org
Art book collecting a decent chunk of Daisuke' art from GGX through to early GGXX. Contains more rough sketches than the 2007 sequel as well as an interview with Daisuke in the back.
Artworks of Guilty Gear X 2000-2007
- + English translation
- Raws, translation: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Art book collecting (most) of Daisuke's work going from GGX through to Isuka. Does not have anything from Overture, despite it being in production around the time this book was published. The webview file is the one with English translations attached; loose file scans are in the .ZIP download.
Guilty Gear X Drafting Artworks
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Collects a bunch of concept sketches for character designs but most of it is roughs for their moves. Has some lore stuff and map design concepts and commentary on how they created them.
Guilty Gear Magazine 1st Gig
- Raws: Lux/Xaeldritch
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Small art booklet with the first half containing staff artworks rewarded to players in Guilty Gear XX Slash and Gear XX Λ Core for completing arcade routes or mission challenges, while the second half of the booklet collects the Guilty Gear Gig articles from Gemaga. Has an Overture preview in the back. Pretty cool.
Guilty Gear 2 Overture Material Collection
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
A collection of mostly concept sketches for Overture units and characters with a small Daisuke gallery in the front. Has 8 short stories in it too. This book is print-to-order on Amazon.jp, so don't let anyone trick you into paying more than about us$60 for it. There is a rarer version that comes with an obi though, and maybe has better paper quality too.
Guilty Gear Unaired Drafts Collection
- Raws: Guilty I-No
- Cleanup: Lux/Xaeldritch
- Scan quality: Good. Has some gutter blur, but don't skin your copy about it.
- Host: Archive.org
A small artbook exclusive to the Limited Editions of the Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary Pack, a bundle release of Guilty Gear and Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus R for the Nintendo Switch.
Guilty Gear Codex
- Official English translation
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Digital masterfiles
- Host: Archive.org
A small lore/story glossary exclusive to the Aksys Games limited edition release of Xrd Sign. Lots of interesting lore things in this. Some of it seems to have been translated from the 10th Memorial Book, but some of it seems to be bullshit blazing. Check with some other sources before citing it exclusively.
Guilty Gear Xrd Revelator Visual Book (European version)
- Official English translation
- Raws: birthdaytrain
- Editing: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Small art book included in the special edition release of XrdRev in Europe and Japan. This is a scan of the European book, which is in English (mostly). The Japanese version has a few extra pages and some transcriptions of in-game dialog, but those seem to have been reprinted in the Xrd Series Official Artworks book. Someone kick my ass into uploading a better .PDF for this that wasn't made in Google Docs once Archive's outta read-only mode.
Guilty Gear Xrd Series Official Artworks
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: mega.nz
Very decently sized art book collecting a ton of Xrd era Daisuke illustrations, some guest art, concept/design work for every playable character up to Rev2, stage design stuff, the chibis, transcripts of in-game spoken lines, and three short stories. The short stories feature Sol/HOS and Ky; Answer and Chipp; and then Jam and Elphelt for the third one. Translations over on the translations page.
Guilty Gear Strive digital artbook
- Raws: Toxic Pyro
- Scan quality: Digital masterfiles
- Host: Archive.org
The digital Guilty Gear Strive artbook from the Steam release of the Ultimate Edition of the game. Contains a few illustrations from GGML through to Xrd Rev2 and then the last half of the book is all concept works for Strive. Has some overlap with the Artworks Archive, but also has unique pieces or sketches that had details removed in the Artworks Archive release.
Guilty Gear Strive Switch Edition; Guilty Gear Digital Art Collection
- Raws: Task Ace
- Scan quality: Digital
- Host: Archive.org
Preorder goodie pack that came with the Switch port of Strive. The pack includes 4 .MP3s and a digital .PDF of some art. There's a little bit of overlap in the content in this and the above Strive Digital Artbook from the Steam port.
Included .MP3s: Just Lean, Extras, Symphony, and Ups & Downs.
Guilty Gear Strive Artworks Archive
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good. Has some gutter blur but it is what it is
- Host: Archive.org
This is the small art book that came with the Guilty Gear -Strive- 25th Anniversary Box. Has a lot of the same character concept art that can be unlocked in the game, but a few characters have some new pieces too. There is also a gallery for NPCs, story mode/stage props, and concept art for the stage. I also included scans of the little notecard with a message from Daisuke Ishiwatari.
Guilty Gear 10th Memorial Book
- Raws: tallgreenlady/ashunera
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Book celebrating the 10th anniversary of Guilty Gear. Clear images of some rare illustrations in it that weren't reprinted elsewhere, such as the Isuka arcade ending art. Invaluble lore resource if you know Japanese.
ASW 25th Anniversary Official Character Collection
- Raws: tokimekicn
- Scan quality: Serviceable; watermarked camera photos.
- Host: Archive.org
Celebrates Arc System Works surviving for 25 years. Sol's on the cover but has stuff for Blazblue and some other ASW properties too.
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Books with words.
Guilty Gear Begin - English
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Translation: Sol Radguy
- Proofreading: Asuka, PDB
- Rubber Duck: Dakota R.
- Host: Archive.org
Light novel focused on Frederick (pre-Gear Sol Badguy). The current earliest point in the lore.
Guilty Gear Begin - Spanish
- Raws: TooManyMetaphor, Gear Project, Theadvicetroll
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter
- Proofreading: Black Skull, Incamaya
- Host: Archive.org
══════ GGX: Lightning the Argent ══════
Light novel focused on Ky. Currently only has a full translation into Spanish, but an English one is in progress.
Complete, Spanish
- Raws: Volcanic Fighter
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter
- Proofreading: Black Skull, Incamaya
- Host: Dropbox
Summary (Spanish)
- Raws: Volcanic Fighter
- Translation: Aegis High
- Editing: Fedeternum
- Additional editing: Volcanic Fighter
- Extra information: Blade
- Host: Neocities
Based on an English document by Ed Chang.
Chapter 1, English- Raws: Volcanic Fighter
- Translation: Sol Radguy
- Proofreading: Everyone That Read The Draft Documents
- Rubber Duck: Shottie, Raven, Sydney, the Library of Illyria server, those that have offered constructive feedback, and to everyone that's listened to me complain.
- Host: Neocities
Likely abandoned project.
Chapter 1, English
- Raws: Volcanic Fighter
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter
- Proofreading: Blade
- Host: Dropbox
Unknown status, probably abandoned.
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The Butterfly & Her Gale - Summary (Spanish)
- Raws: Unknown
- Translation: Aegis High
- Editor: Fedeternum
- Visual formatting: Volcanic Fighter
- Host: Dropbox
Light novel focused on Chipp. This is a summary of its story. The Guilty Gear Wiki has a basic summary of its story in English.
The Butterfly & Her Gale - Chapter 1, English
- Raws: Volcanic Fighter
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter, BrainChoco
- Host: Dropbox
Progress on a full translation of Butterfly is unknown, but it may be an abandoned project.
══════ GG2O Material Collection ══════
This art book had 8 short stories in it that were focused on a character from the game. Sol, Sin, Ky, Valentine, Raven, Izuna, Dr. Paradigm, and That Man.
All 8 short stories, Spanish- Raws: Gear Project
- Translation: Aegis High (EN->ES; Sol, Sin, Ky, Raven, That Man); Volcanic Fighter (JP->ES; Paradigm, Izuna, Valentine)
- Special Thanks (from Volcanic): Aegis High, rednecked_crake, José Manuel, mentalblack34, Black Skull, Incamaya
- Host: Dropbox
Ky, Sol, Sin's stories were translated from Japanese into English by Noa with editing by Kitsoru & Nainsoo. Raven and That Man's stories were translated from Japanese to English by Shuzaku. Japanese raws for Paradigm, Izuna, and Valentine's stories by Blade. Full file was edited by Volcanic Fighter.
All 8 short stories, English
- Raws: Sol Radguy (Sol, Sin, Izuna, Ky, Raven, That Man); Volcanic Fighter (Paradigm, Valentine)
- Translation: Sol Radguy
- Special Thanks (from Radguy): Dakota R., Sydney, Raven, and my Tumblr followers.
- Host: Neocities
- Host: Archive.org
Izuna, Dr. Paradigm, Valentine, English
- Raws: Blade
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter
- Special Thanks: rednecked_crake
- Host: Dropbox
Guilty Gear Xrd The Unseen Sign - English
- Raws: Blade
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter
- Proofreading: Blade
- Special thanks: rednecked_crake, José Manuel, Incamaya
- Host: Dropbox
Intro? story to Guilty Gear Xrd included in the Arc System Works 25th Anniversary Official Character Collection art book.
Guilty Gear Xrd The Unseen Sign - Spanish
- Raws: Blade
- Translation: Volcanic Fighter
- Proofreading: Blade
- Based on translations by: Aegis High, mentalblack34
- Special thanks: rednecked_crake, José Manuel, Incamaya
- Host: Dropbox
guides/encyclopedias //
Books with words but this time they show you how to do stuff.
List of missing guidebook scans on this page.
Guilty Gear Bible
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Interesting lore resource. Has the first iteration of what would become the in-game "Guilty Gear World" encyclopedia/glossary in it.
Guilty Gear X SLASH Encyclopedia
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Special Thanks: dizzyrobo
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear Isuka Complete Guide
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival Starter Encyclopedia
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear XX The Midnight Carnival Burst Encyclopedia
- Raws: Tillman
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear XX Slash Beat Encyclopedia
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
A.B.A. and Order Sol were introduced in XX Slash, so this guidebook has a lot of stuff featuring them. Intro/win dialog transcriptions + Slayer haiku table, too.
Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R A Gainful Material
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Also has scans of the System Data Booklet extra that this guide came with.
Guilty Gear Isuka Outlive Encyclopedia
- Raws: Bocchi the Rock FGC
- Cleanup: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear Petit 1 & 2 Official Fan Book
- Raws: Tillman
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear Vastedge XT Official Guide Book
- Raws: Tillman
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear Terminological Concentration
- Raws: Bocchi the Rock FGC
- Cleanup: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
A Guilty Gear booklet with 364 different words, terms, and phrases defined and explained in it, some lore and some real-world stuff like game release dates. This is the one with the HOS cover, but there was another one with both HOS and Ky on it. It seems like they have the same info in them and were published at the same time, just at different events. Would like more solid information about this.
[return to navigation]magazines //
Books with mostly words but some pictures too.
Character Designer Magazine, Issue 1, Fall 2003
- Raws: lesbiangiratina
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Google Drive
Magazine article showing super early concept art for characters with an interview with Daisuke in the back. Text is in Japanese but Radguy is working on an English translation. There is an English translation of the GG article in this.
Dengeki Maoh Guilty Gear 2 article (2007?)
- Raws: Unknown
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Some early concept art for GG2 characters that weren't reprinted in the Material Collection. I don't know who scanned this or how it even ended up on my hard drive, so I rehosted it on Archive.
Dengeki PlayStation Guilty Gear & Blazblue promotional booklet
- Raws: Elk
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Google Drive
Free promotional booklet with preview stuff for Xrd Sign and Blazblue X-Blaze and Chronophantasma 2.0 for arcade cabinets. Published in 2014.
Famitsu No.1811 (2023-09-07) - ASW 35th & GG 25th Anniversary Article
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
History of ASW, popularity poll, some stuff about Strive up to Johnny's release, Daisuke interview.
[return to navigation]manga raws //
Books with pictures AND words.
Manga volumes that haven't been scanned yet are listed over on this page.
Guilty Gear Comic Anthology (1998)
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
The oldest official manga volume. English translation.
Guilty Gear X Anthology Comics (Bros. Anthology Comics)
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear X Comic Anthology (DNA Media Comics)
- Raws: lesbiangiratina
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear X Plus Anthology Comics Vol.1 (Bros. Anthology Comics)
- Raws: FlareHabanero
- Scan quality: Serviceable. Pages are pretty yellow, some rotated weird, text may be cut off in some areas.
- Host: Archive.org
- - English translation of vol.1, chapter 1 by Renexuz. Abandoned project.
- - Volume 2
Guilty Gear XX Anthology Comics Vol.1 (Bros. Anthology Comics)
- Raws: FlareHabanero
- Scan quality: Good, though yellowed
- Host: Archive.org
- - Volume 2
Guilty Gear XX Comic Anthology (DNA Media Comics), Vol.1
- Raws: Tillman
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
- - Volume 2
Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload Comic Anthology (DNA Media Comics)
- Raws: Tillman
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear Isuka Comic Anthology (DNA Media)
- Raws: Seaguck
- Scan quality: Poor - Placeholder scans until someone can get better ones. Do not reupload.
- Host: Google Drive
Guilty Gear Isuka Anthology Comic (Ohzora Comics)
- Raws: Lux/Xaeldritch
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
No webview.
Official Guilty Gear Anthology (Strive)
- Raws:
- Scan quality: Digital file rip
- Host: Archive.org
- English translation: Guilty Gear Comic Anthology, English — Complete
A short anthology book containing illustrations, short stories, 4koma strips, and some teaser stuff for Strive season 3. It was released as an April Fool's joke in 2024 and taken offline a few days after.
══════ Yonkoma ══════
Guilty Gear X 4koma Kings (DNA Media) Vol.1
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear X Plus 4koma Kings (DNA Media) Vol.1
- Raws: Sol Radguy
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org
Guilty Gear XX 4koma Kings (DNA Media) Vol.1
- Raws: Tillman
- Scan quality: Good
- Host: Archive.org (922mb .PDF)
- - Volume 2
- - Volume 3
Guilty Gear XX ♯Reload 4koma Kings
- Raws: Seaguck
- Scan quality: Poor - Placeholder scans until someone can get better ones. Do not reupload.
- Host: Google Drive
Guilty Gear XX Slash 4koma Kings
- Raws: Seaguck
- Scan quality: Poor - Placeholder scans until someone can get better ones. Do not reupload.
- Host: Google Drive
Guilty Gear Isuka 4koma Kings
- Raws: Seaguck
- Scan quality: Poor - Placeholder scans until someone can get better ones. Do not reupload.
- Host: Google Drive
