TNSK & Saitom's Jewelic Princess Girls

Title: &nbsp;Jewelic Princess Girls
タイトル: &nbsp;Jewelic Princess Girls
Pages: &nbsp;20 (including covers)
Release date: &nbsp;2010/12/31

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Saitom and TNSK have teamed up once again with their third book in the series Chroma of Girls titled Jewelic Princess Girls. The two artists each contribute four illustrations and a cover to this princess collection, bringing a very unique style to the theme.

Jewelic Princess Girls is B5-sized and 20 pages. This is another collection where depending on which side you come in on you would be browsing a different artist. Based on the page numbering, TNSK’s cover is the ‘official’ front cover. Both cover illustrations are inside the book as a spread with a table of contents pertaining to the artists’ side.

TNSK’s princess designs range from innocent to murderous, with the opening post illustration being my personal favorite. At first glance, she just looked like a terrified princess Rapunzel on a battlefield, but then you realize her hair is the murder weapon. If I’ve learned anything from GELATIN, it’s that TNSK’s characters always look best when slightly deranged. And though not pictured, his ogre-smashing, little slugger Cinderella is also a testament to that!

Saitom, whose steady improvement in art work I found especially impressive in the recent Moeru iPhone Reader creates an armored princess regime which looks half-girl, half-machine. The round faces are much more traditionally cute than TNSK’s, but Saitom still knows how to find beauty in ugliness, with a masked, almost cyborg-skull version of his cover girl, Snow White. With great thanks to the creativity in theme, Jewelic Princess Girls brings us a new look at princesses from the uncommon views of TNSK and Saitom.