Dengeki Daioh GENESIS Vol. 01 & 025 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesDengeki Daioh GENESIS Vol. 01
Dengeki Daioh GENESIS is a new comic magazine that comes out quarterly like Gelatin. The first issue came out January 2010. Like Gelatin, the comics inside are original, and “one shot” features done by popular artists. Unlike Gelatin, this phone-book thick magazine includes only monochrome comics. So why the interest? The original magazine exclusive posters by artists like Redjuice and Kishida Mel, of course.
The premiere issue came with a supplementary booklet preview of the upcoming CHOCO manga Igna Cross. The magazine came with a large, A2-size poster of the cover illustration by Yostuba&! and Azumanga Daioh artist Kiyohiko Azuma. The first fold-out posters inside featured a very Assassin’s Creed-esque poster by Redjuice, and a solo ballerina illustrated by Kishida Mel on the opposite side.
The other two posters in Dengeki Daioh GENESIS Vol. 01 are by Gundam 00 and Loveless character designer Kouga Yun along with Matsuda98, who illustrates the manga version of Tetsudou Musume. Also pictured above are some of the comics in this issue.
This small, supplementary booklet is a guide to the new manga by CHOCO called Igna Cross. It will run in Dengeki Daioh Magazine starting in the June issue. The booklet includes four color illustrations with some old ones from Igna Zero, along with a few pages of character profiles, and 32 pages of manga. CHOCO’s illustrations are gorgeous as usual, so it was a real treat to stumble upon this small extra.
Dengeki Daioh GENESIS Vol. 02
The second issue of this quarterly magazine came out recently, and once again it includes posters by Redjuice and Kishida Mel. The cover is by Zekkyou. Kuroboshi Kouhaku is a newcomer in Dengeki Daioh GENESIS Vol. 02, with a scenic A2 fold out poster featuring two girls in school uniforms in an underwater train station. Redjuice does another original poster with the same character that was in the previous issue, and Kishida Mel switches up his style with a more realistic face on his knitting girl.
Kouga Yun has a poster again in this issue, and Miwa Shirow illustrates the opposite side of the fold-out. Once again, all the posters are new and all the comics original. Above are some of the color title pages for the comics.
