Granada Level Q – Kuroboshi Kouhaku3 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesKuroboshi Kouhaku is well-known as the illustrator for Kino’s Journey. But he worked on numerous other games and series like Summon Night, and Allison & Lillia. While Kuroboshi Kouhaku does not participate much in the doujinshi scene, Granada Level Q is one of them.
Released during Comiket 69 during December 2005, Granada Level Q is an A4 size, 56 page, and mostly color book. The collection features both commercial and original designs, along with special illustrations done for stores like K-BOOKS and Melonbooks.
There is a smattering of Kuroboshi Kouhaku’s non-Kino’s Journey art work in The Beautiful World Kuroboshi Kouhaku Illustrations. But there are no overlap in illustrations between the two books. Most of the illustrations have a full page, but some were originally small, so those are half a page. There’s even a bit of fan art: Dejiko from Di Gi Charat and Komugi from Nurse Witch Komugi Magikarte.
Kuroboshi Kouhaku really likes to draw girls who wear glasses. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many in one collection. Kitty ears also seem to be a popular addition for most of the girls, too.
The last 12 pages are monochrome illustrations along with sketches of some of the color illustrations. Kuroboshi Kouhaku also provides his comments under the sketches. It kind of doubles as an index, even though it does not include all the works.
Granada Level Q is probably the best collection of Kuroboshi Kouhaku’s work that isn’t series related. Even with these illustrations being 5 years old or older, they manage not to look at all dated.
- Title: GRANADA LEVEL Q
- タイトル: GRANADA LEVEL Q
- Pages: 56 (including covers)
- Release date: 12/30/2005
