逆転裁判4アンソロジーコミック

Worth hunting down!

This is the comic anthology published to promote the game 逆転裁判4 (Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney). It's a fanbook, so there's no content in here for anyone who has not already played and enjoyed the game (it does contain spoilers), but if you have, it's a great companion book and I'm happy I managed to find a copy.

It didn't particularly stand out as a great resource to learn with, but if you're already coming in with knowledge of the series and characters, then there are lots of little connections to be made that can help with parsing dialogue and giving vocabulary memorable context. There is no furigana, but the text density is pretty light, so even though I was looking up a lot of the legal and series-specific vocabulary throughout (since I've only played the games in English), it remained quite approachable. One or two of the fonts used were a bit of a pain to read, but nothing crazy.

Most of the comics really nailed the tone of the humour of the games and how the characters bounce off of each other, so as a fan I found this very satisfying to read. None of them are very deep or dramatic, they're all just meant to be silly and fun, and overall they succeed in that. The comics are all short and disconnected from each other, so it was a good book for just picking up and reading a handful of pages whenever I had a few minutes to spare.

This book is long out-of-print and pre-dates digital publishing, so it may need some dedication scouring second-hand stores to find (I found my copy at Mandarake), but if you have any love for Apollo Justice at all, it's worth the read.