Comparing with book 1, book 2 is much better because it covers something that book 1 has missed for the earth side. However it is not understandable that why the size of the colour picture is different. Those printed in book 1 are relatively bigger than those printed in book 2. Comparatively the colour pictures in book 2 are not big enough. For instance, the enormous battle ship, the super enormous aircraft carrier , the missile battleship, most characters are printed in very small sizes too in order to make room for the art specification and other promotion posters. It obviously has created a sense of imbalance between book 1 and book 2. In short, book 1 is spacious whereas book 2 is overcrowded. Why not putting all the colour pictures of the earth side in book 1 and leave book 2 with Gamilas and Gatorantisu to achieve a balance ?
By the way something is still missing in the details of the colour specification. For example , the enormous battle ship in black, the missile battleship in black, the big battleship of gamirasu with a big shield , the soldiers of the earth side, the soldiers of Gamirasu and the soldiers of Gatorantisu etc Just to name a few.
To compare , Kadokawa had done a very good job in releasing the magazines of Disney animation such as Zootopia, Inside out , Big hero 5 in the past and Star Wars complete works and Penguin highway in recent years. However it is not the case in Yamato 2022.