This book has a variety of things inside. It has maybe like nine pages of hand poses (which is extremely helpful), eight pages of hair styles, but they only have 2 different hair styles for both girl and boy, which is pretty weak. They have examples of mecha drawings, guns, and swords. Another thing they have are examples of facial expressions, and fantasy creature ideas,(like dragons) and some little animal that looks suspiciously like pikachu to me. Why did I say not really a how to draw manga book? Well the reason is simply because the drawings are not manga styled at all! It's more like american comic style. Sort of like how they draw justice league on cartoon network. Now not all of them look that way because there are other artists' contrubuting to this book as well, and the drawings still don't look manga styled. So, if that doesn't bother you, then this may be the book for you. Some of you may benefit from the variety of weapons and everything. If that's the case, then go for it! This book may benefit you in the long run.