To point out what should be obvious, the text of the book is Japanese. This review is from the perspective of someone who is enthusiastic about the series and MH4U in specific, but is functionally illiterate.The book is very heavy, with color onionskin pages. The book is the size of a regular sheet of paper folded in half and about the thickness of three 3DSs stacked.The book has a textured bookcover that can be removed to reveal a glossy cover with fearsome palico hunters posing for the artist as a イャンクック charges past. The interior artwork is lush, but small. There are models for all of the weapons and armor. The small monsters have paintings for them, while the large monsters have paintings and in-game screenshots of them. The book also has hit-zones and weak-point illustrations for all the large monsters.Drop rates and locations for all the items in the game are presented. Weapon crafting trees are included and, although they spread over several pages (depending on the weapon) are easy to follow due to formatting choices.There are stats for everything. EVERYTHING.The book makes things easy to look up as the book's fore edge is color-coded and edges of the pages have sigils or letters helping to identify where you are in the book.The book has a hollow back binding.For the person who can read Japanese, I'd say that I prefer this to other resources like the monster hunter wikia site. I think that Kiranico has the benefit of being searchable but cannot be stuffed in a bag flipped through and is much more attractive.For the person who has minimal Japanese skill, the book is more useful once you know the Japanese monster names as the book's organization (for example, Najarala is 「ガララアジャラ」, or "gararaajara", so you look it up under "カ", rather than "ナ"). Reading the monster info and histories can make for a good reading goal, however there is no furigana.For someone who has no Japanese skill, the book is pretty and can act as a bragging point of devotion (maybe?). Monster resistances to elemental damage and weapon damage is color-coded (red for fire, etc.) and easily parsed, and the organization makes it easy for someone with a little patience to look information up, but there might not be a lot of useful stuff.