Red Data Mini Book

The Red Data Mini Book (RED DATA 豆 'Mame' BOOK) is a "pinup" Takashima did for Libre's BE-BOY GOLD magazine. The book contains personified versions of endangered species found in Japan, thus the "Red Data" part, refers to this.
== List of Included Species ==
A total of 8 species are featured:
*Japanese Otter
*Tsushima Wildcat
*Erabu Fruit Bat (A subspecies of the Ryuukyuu Fruit Bat)
*Island Owl (A subspecies of the Blakiston's Fish Owl)
*Tufted Puffin
*Woodpecker
*Iheya Ground Gecko (Called Toyama's Ground Gecko in English)
*Tokyo Lower Shrew (Called Eurasian Least Shrew in English)
Takashima also included herself as a final, gag entrant. She classifies herself as a "geek" subspecies of the Great Ape and says that even though she's not particularly threatened, she likely to become extinct.
== Publication ==
Red Data Mini Book was published in Libre's BE-BOY GOLD August Issue in 2010.https://shop.libre-inc.co.jp/shop/commodity/00000000/17779-2010-08/ There were four mini books, including Takashima's. The "pinup" was 3 pages (front and back) with all four artists' books on each. The pages were perforated so that if you carefully separated them, you could make a "豆 (まめ 'mame' Lit. 'Bean')" Book with a total of 12 pages.
These are advertised as "大豆本 (だいまめほん 'Dai Mame Hon' Lit. 'Big Bean Book')" and a "Mame Hon" is an actual size of book in Japan. Though often translated as miniature book, it can be anywhere from 1 to 3 inches (8.5 to 76.2 mm). Anything bigger than this is called a "Small Book," and anything smaller than that is called a "Micro Book."https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%B1%86%E6%9C%AC That said, the pages measure in (mm) which may be why it was called a "Big" Mini Book. Alternatively, it could be because the artists were relatively big names in the industry. (In addition to Takashima, the other three were Shimada Masako, Tamaki Ren, & Yamato Nase.)
== References ==
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