Hinayuki Usa - Yumemi Shoujo no Yume Sen

Title: Yumemi Shoujo no Yume Sen
タイトル: 夢見少女の夢占
Pages: 20 (including covers)
Release date: 12/30/2009

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Hinayuki Usa is a prolific artist both in and out of the doujin scene. Yumemi Shoujo no Yume Sen is one of two books she released during Comiket 77. She often works along side Natsume Eri as their styles just complement each other. However, this small Touhou collection includes only Hinayuki Usa’s illustrations.

The best word I can think of to describe Yumemi Shoujo no Yume Sen is flimsy. I don’t usually think this when handling a doujin. But Yumemi Shoujo is light weight—with an even lighter weight, non-textured paper used inside. It feels quite different from other doujinshi I’ve purchased. It’s a total of twenty pages including the covers and B5 size.

There are several two-page spreads in this book, which cuts down on the total number of illustrations. One thing you can barely see in the photos—which would be even harder to see in anything but raw, un-edited scans—are the variety of textures applied to the different colors on many of the illustrations. There’s a lot of brown on brown, yellow on yellow detail that is faint, but really eye-catching in person. it really adds to what would otherwise be fairly straight-forward line art colorings.

As a small and inexpensive collection (￥525), Yumemi Shoujo no Yume Sen makes for a nice little gathering of Hinayuki Usa’s art work. I couldn’t really see myself going out of my way for it, but it’s an easy pick-up when purchasing other things. And they still have plenty in stock on Toranoana.