Kouga Yun - TORNADO:5 – artbooks.me

Title: &nbsp;TORNADO:5
タイトル: &nbsp;TORNADO:5
Pages: &nbsp;28 (including covers)
Release date: &nbsp;04/29/2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Kouga Yun, best known as the illustrator for Loveless and the character designer for Mobile Suit Gundam 00, released her fifth doujinshi illustration collection with the COMIC1☆4 publication TORNADO:5. Although the previous TORNADO volumes are mostly rough illustrations, this one is in full color, with only four pages of sketches.

Kouga Yun isn’t a regular participant on the doujinshi scene, so her last volume of TORNADO came out in 2007. This A4-sized, 28 page collection brings together both original and fan art illustrations, several of which I’d seen commercially before this release. TORNADO:5 also came with a clear file, that has a slightly different version of the back cover illustration on it; the back cover has the girl wearing a see-through skirt, and the clear file doesn’t.

Inside, there’s fan art from Kara no Kyoukai, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Gunslinger Girl, Mirai Nikki, DOGS, Fate/Stay Night, He is My Master, and Soul Eater. Both Maka’s dad and Professor Stein from Soul Eater are in the book, and Kouga Yun illustrates the two with a nice blend of her and Atsushi Ohkubo’s style. I also really liked her take on Mirai Nikki’s Yukiteru Amano and Yuno Gasai.

Also included were her two K-BOOKs Knights Kingdom Chess cards illustrations in full A4 size. Kouga Yun’s male illustrations many of the characters look androgynous.

There are four pages of sketches at the end. It was good to finally see more art work from Kouga Yun that wasn’t Gundam 00 or Loveless related. Not to mention, it features more illustrations of girls than guys, which is not usually her style!