My Favorite Girls - Touhou Illustrations

Title: My Favorite Girls
タイトル: My Favorite Girls
Pages: 20 (including covers)
Release date: 08/15/2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes

My Favorite Girls is a full-color illustration collection of Touhou character works by Korean artists Nyanya and Cu-rim. Though I purchased this because of Nyanya’s involvement, I quite like Cu-rim’s colorful style as well. For Nyanya, this was one of two books that she participated in for Comiket 78.

This staple-bound book is B5-sized and 20 pages when counting the covers. The cover art gives you a quick visual summary of what artist is drawing which characters, with Nyanya’s works on top and Cu-rim’s at the bottom. They both illustrate the same number of characters, but Cu-rim has one less illustration technically, because one is a two-page spread.

In a lot of ways, Cu-rim and Nyanya have very similar styles, but they both distinguish themselves when it comes to illustrating the eyes and also in their respective coloring styles. The eyes on Cu-rim’s girls seem overly round when compared to Nyanya’s, but the coloring style gives a lot of depth to the illustrations, making Nyanya’s seem flat by comparison.

Both artists did a great job overall in depicting their favorite Touhou girls, though Cu-rim’s illustration of Izayoi Sakuya and Nyanya’s Hatate Himekaidou in particular stood out to me.