Range Murata - THROWLINE Illustrations

Title: THROWLINE
タイトル: THROWLINE
Pages: 36 (including covers)
Release date: 01/01/2008

Reading Time: 3 minutes

THROWLINE is an older Range Murata publication, released for Comiket 73 at the end of 2007. Unlike his most recent doujinshi publications, it features monochrome sketches along with color art works. The gorgeous cover art work on this book still hasn’t managed to find its way into another re-collection, though Range Murata has indicated in a recent Kikan Sissue that he’s working on another illustration collection tentatively titled GAME WORKS. I didn’t think he worked on a lot of games though…

THROWLINE is A4-sized and 36 pages when counting the covers. It’s split up into 14 pages of color and 16 pages of monochrome, which mainly feature sketches. The cover itself has a shimmery finish that shines at an angle and the printing through out the book is high quality, FM screening. The color illustrations are printed on smooth pages, but the monochrome pages actually feel like sketchbook pages.

There is one illustration featuring nudity, but it’s done in that artful way. A couple of the illustrations were in volumes of ROBOT as well, though I’m not sure which issues. I was really impressed with the Astro Boy tribute illustrations!

As for the monochrome works, while some are sketches of the color works featured in THROWLINE, there are also a couple pages with more finished-looking monochrome works. On the whole, Range Murata’s doujinshi have vastly improved, especially in regards to including more color works, but his older illustrations are still just as captivating, with a beautiful level of depth and detail.