AKABEi SOFT2 Illustration Collection5 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesAKABEi SOFT2 Illustration Collection is similar to MOONSTONE Complete and Circus 10th Visual Album. The major difference is that AKABEi SOFT2 hasn’t been around long enough to bring out this kind of memorial collection. I think they just joined in on the recent trend with this one.
Since the studio is just 5 years old, all of the illustrations are fresh, and from games in recent memory. Most of their artists have really come into their own recently and are more in demand as illustrators. The artists featured are Alpha, Cle Masahiro, Tomose Shunsaku, Refeia, Odawara Hakone, Saeki Hokuto, Yuuki Hagure, Konpeitou, Asami Asami, and Moritan.
This book is 128 pages and A4 size. The layouts vary from a single page with one illustration, to multiple pages with as many as nine illustrations. The low quality printing is noticeable because so many of the illustrations have thin line art.
AKABEi SOFT2 sports an impressive line-up of artists. Refeia does the illustrations for Boku ga Sadame Kimi niwa Tsubasa wo and DEVILS DEVEL CONCEPT. There are 6 pages and 13 illustrations for Boku ga Sadame Kimi niwa Tsubasa wo. Many of those are hard-to-find telecards illustrations. DEVILS DEVEL CONCEPT has four pages with 7 illustrations. Five of Refeia’s illustrations have a full page.
The largest section went to Alpha’s The Devil on G-String, with a total of 16 pages. The Devil on G-String is also in her Toranoana pamphlet, Pictures at an Exhibition of Alpha. Many of the tiled illustrations in this book have a full page in Pictures at an Exhibition of Alpha.
The illustrations are in order by game and year, and there aren’t a lot of illustrations from the current year. Still, this book collects a lot of illustrations that are hard to find. Even if you only liked a few of the artists, you would get some enjoyment out of this collection.
- Title: Konna Gashu ga Detara Boku wa Mou… !! AKABEi SOFT2 Illustration Collection
- タイトル: こんな画集がでたら僕はもう・・・!! あかべぇそふとつぅ と愉快な仲間たち イラストコレクション
- Pages: 128
- Release date: 06/02/2010
