Girl's Avenue Vol. 1 – artbooks.me

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Girl’s Avenue Vol. 1 is a rather disorganized assortment of posters, many of which are from issues in the past year. Some of the illustrations only appeared in Megami Creators Magazine. There’s plenty of material for them to milk this franchise. The next Girl’s Avenue art book comes out August 2010!

The first 30 pages are dedicated to Eiji Komatsu’s art work. He illustrates a lot for Megami Creators Magazine, in terms of covers and B2 posters. He also did the new cover art for this volume. Inside, there’s a double sided fold-out poster with the art work again. The opposite side has a re-print of the B2 poster that came with Megami Creators Volume 14. It also appears again on a full page in Komatsu’s section. Basically, if keep up with Megami Creators magazine, then you’ll have seen all of these illustrations before.

Thirty-two pages into the art book, we finally get into the Girl’s Avenue poster portion. As of now, there have been 102 Girl’s Avenue posters in Megami Magazine. Only 24 of those posters featured in this art book. The art works pictured above were all originally posters in Megami Magazine.

The other 12 come from from Megami Creators Magazine, which does have “Creator’s Original” illustrations in issues when there isn’t a Girl’s Avenue poster available. Taking that into consideration, at this rate they can definitely make at least three Girl’s Avenue volumes before they catch up to what’s already out there. The art works pictured above were all originally for Megami Creators Magazine.

I also found the arrangement of the book a little sloppy. Instead of the usual artist intro page, interview, and then art work order, they took a sort of “centerpiece” approach. Basically, it went intro-page, interview, then illustration, followed by the reverse: illustration, intro page, interview. Sounds confusing when you read it, but it’s definitely a non-standard approach.

I’m not sure if I’m going to collect the rest of these. I wouldn’t recommend Girl’s Avenue Vol. 1 to anyone who actively collects Megami Magazine or Megami Magazine Creators. Just about all of the images looked better in their respective magazines.