Nagi Ryou - S.E.C COLORS

Title: &nbsp;COLORS
タイトル: &nbsp;｢COLORS｣
Release Date: &nbsp;12/31/2009
Pages: &nbsp;32

Reading Time: 3 minutes

With a little something old as something new, Nagi Ryou’s Comiket 77 release COLORS compiles three volumes of S.E.C doujinshi into one 32-page, full color collection of art work from the past few years. The cover art is new to the book, but the rest of the content came from S.E.C volumes 00, 01, and 03 along with a couple of postcards released at past Comiket Markets.

For me, this was a “must get” item. Nagi Ryou’s doujinshi are generally 12 pages including covers and they go for a lot in auctions. COLORS pretty much eliminates the need for me to go backwards with this artist. Although, I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on his Comiket 75 Mixture Graph doujinshi.

The book starts out with the cover illustrations for the three doujinshi featured They’re used as a table of contents. S.E.C 01 Specular Reflection appears first with 7-pages of art work, that include two two-page spread images. And that really is all the art work that was in S.E.C 01 Specular Reflection.

S.E.C 03‘s subtitle is “Armored Skin” and it’s easy to see why. The focus of these 9 pages are girls with mecha armored suits. It’s interesting in that it ranges from the tradition Medieval-look for armor, to space-suit style mecha.

The final doujinshi featured is S.E.C version 0, which came out during Comiket 69. Even though this is the oldest work that COLORS has to offer, it still looks very polished and professional. The content is different from what Nagi Ryou usually draws. The RPG styled characters feature bards, dragons, pirates and mercenaries, but it’s only 6-pages in total.

Overall, this is perfect for people like me who haven’t been actively collecting Nagi Ryou’s art work. It might not be worth it if you happen to have some of these volumes already.