Miyu - Mitsu*Mitsu Visual Book

Title: Mitsu*Mitsu
タイトル: 密*みつ
Release Date: 08/15/2010
Pages: 24 (including covers)

Reading Time: 2 minutes

For Comiket 78, Miyu released another installment in her visual book series, Mitsu*Mitsu, featuring a collection of original illustrations. While Miyu isn’t that well-known, she has been one of the contributing artists for Etsu Magazine’s themed galleries, which later go on to be in the volumes of Girls Girls Girls! Illustrations books. She had one illustration in the most recent book.

Mitsu*Mitsu is B5-sized and 24 pages including the covers. The covers have a shimmering finish, but the cover illustration is repeated inside. Like with other Miyu collections, there are plenty of illustrations of girls in ruffled dresses and lolita styles.

There are more color illustrations in this book than were in her last two Comiket releases, which both only had 8 pages of color illustrations. Mitsu*Mitsu has 12 in total, with a couple of spreads. For the most part, illustrations are printed on full pages. The clothing details in these are beautiful, and I love the wa lolita style that Miyu has been dressing her characters in more frequently.

The last six pages of the book are in black and white, and feature sketches along with grayscale art works. Miyu’s commentary is on each illustration. In previous volumes, there were a lot more monochrome illustrations, and not just gray-scaled color ones, so I do miss that. But seeing as how the trade off was more color illustrations, I think I can live with that decision!