Miwa Shirow – m3wver.7+ce3 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesMiwa Shirow usually releases full black and white illustration doujins, but in the past year there have been two partial color books. One was VVW Vocaloid Visual Works and the other was m3wver.7+ce, a Comiket 77 release, and the subject of today’s review.
m3wver.7+ce is A4 in size and 48 pages including the covers. It’s half color and half black and white, and the monochrome illustrations are not sketches. Since I’ve always felt Miwa Shirow’s coloring is quite flat, I’m not one to complain about the monochrome works.
The first three works are all spreads, and at least one of them has appeared before in the monochrome collections. They’re all from Atlus games in the Shin Megami Tensei series, but I’m not sure which batch of characters are represented.
There are three color Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann illustrations as well as several Type Moon characters in m3wver.7+ce. Even though the colors are different, based on the clothing I’m pretty sure that Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai makes an appearance, along with Fate/Zero characters in the color and monochrome sections. Also featured are fan arts from Devil May Cry and Gunslinger Girl.
The color portion finishes up with a few color illustrations from DOGS and a spread of Black Rock Shooter, along with an illustration from one of the Supercell CD covers. One thing this collection is lacking is an index, or even text below the illustrations to identify the source.
The black and white illustrations are quite impressive, with my favorite being the fan art of Viral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Perhaps it’s one we’ll see in color in a future Miwa Shirow doujinshi!
- Title: m3wver.7+ce
- タイトル: m3wver.7+ce
- Pages: 48 (including covers)
- Release date: 12/31/2009
