Shirogane Hina's Bougainvill Illustration Book

Title: Bougainvill
タイトル: Bougainvill
Pages: 20 (including covers)
Release date: 8/15/2010

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Initially, I thought Bougainvill was going to be by two artists, as it was listed as a co-authoring by Shirogane Hina and Kodama Naoka. But on looking through it, Kodama Naoka only contributed one illustration, so she was more of a guest artist for this collection. Luckily, it was Shirogane Hina‘s art work that I was interested in.

Bougainvill is a staple-bound, B5-sized, full color doujinshi that’s 20 pages with covers. The illustrations vary between fan arts and original works, and even manage to squeeze in a Touhou illustration.

Shirogane Hina works with a very pale color palette, and aside from the cover art, most of the illustrations washed out. There’s a yellow overcast to many of the illustrations, something that isn’t found on the same digital works, so I can only guess it was a printing error. It doesn’t affect the images too much, as they were already quite pale to begin with. The printing is very high quality, with a clean FM screening.

There was no theme to the overall book, and the fan arts included came from Angel Beats!, Touhou, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Vocaloid, and Precure. A fan art of Cure Sunshine received a two-page spread.

My main reason for trying out this relatively unknown artist was for the Angel Beats! illustrations. The play on Angel Beats!/The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya parody illustration turned out to be the one illustration by Kodama Naoko, but it was also one of the works I had been looking forward to seeing close up. MILK BAR has released another full color illustration book from Comiket 79, and though I bought this one for the fan art, I’m hoping to see more original works from Shirogane Hina in the future.