Azalea Floating Miyasu Risa Illustrations

Reading Time: 3 minutes

I was able to purchase Azalea Floating Miyasu Risa Illustrations directly from Amazon Japan, so this only deepens my confusion as to what makes an art book +18. As usual, Miyasu Risa does what she does best and alternates her girls between very naughty and nice. But if you’ve seen her work before, there won’t be any surprises in Azalea Floating.

Azalea Floating is an A4-sized, 128 page art book that includes a variety of original works and commercial illustrations by Miyasu Risa. Though she has done a lot of fan art work, there isn’t much of that in this collection, so you’d be better off sticking to doujinshi like Grande Desserts Risa Miyasu Color Illustrations if that’s what you’re looking for.

On the topic of Grande Desserts, there is a notable amount of overlap between these two art books, although there’s no argument that Azalea Floating has a better presentation, with non-textured pages and more full page illustrations. And although the printing in Azalea Floating is a high AM screening, it still looks better than the FM screening used in Grande Desserts due to the paper quality.

Actually, because everything looked so familiar, I went through and counted the duplicates, and there were 27 in total. But out of 130 illustrations, that’s not too bad.

As far as new illustrations go, the cover art (which is repeated inside) and the first spread illustration are both new drawn for this art book. The final illustration in the book, with a girl trying desperately to hold up her bikini top, is also new. I should also mention that the spreads were printed with a small amount of overlap, but the binding is so tight that may be a little hard to notice.

I’ve left out the naughty pictures in the book, and that includes about 20 illustrations. Overall, as a comprehensive collection Azalea Floating Miyasu Risa Illustrations flows a lot better than Grande Desserts, with more full page art works, fewer spreads and more recent art work from Miyasu Risa. If you can only buy one, definitely go with Azalea Floating.