The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening artbook coming from Dark Horse in 2016

Publisher Dark Horse will bring The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening, an "in-depth, behind-the-scenes" artbook featuring character artwork, storyboards and weapon designs from the Nintendo 3DS game, to North America next year. It will also include "the entirety of the script with every possible branch of dialogue" from Fire Emblem: Awakening, according to a release from Dark Horse.

The Art of Fire Emblem: Awakening was released as Fire Emblem: Awakening — Knights of Iris by ASCII Media Works in Japan in 2012. The English-language edition will be available in comic shops on Aug. 17, 2016 and in book stores on Aug. 30, 2016.

The 320-page artbook will retail for $39.99.

For more on Fire Emblem: Awakening, read Polygon's review. The next entry in the long-running role-playing game series, Fire Emblem Fates, arrives in February.