Kiracna Days Presents Mimesis Illustrations

Title: Mimesis
タイトル: Mimesis
Pages: 28 (including covers)
Release date: 2010/12/31

Reading Time: 2 minutes

Mimesis is a philosophical term that can mean anything from mimicry and imitation to the act of expression and presentation of self (thanks Wikipedia). Haruse Hiroki’s intent in using it as the title of his Comiket 79 release Mimesis isn’t entirely clear, but the girls illustrated through out the doujinshi seem to become one with their surroundings, which range from bunnies to autumn leaves.

I’d only recently encountered Haruse Hiroki’s art work in the Bishoujo Illustrations New Year Collection 2011, and that alone wouldn’t have been enough for me to pick up his doujinshi. But after checking out his Pixiv and absolutely loving his clean, colorful designs I just went for it.

Mimesis is B5-sized and 28 pages counting the covers. The print quality is very high. Haruse Hiroki works very generously with colors giving nearly every illustration a different, vivid color theme. The majority of the illustrations are full page, but it should be noted that a finished art work more or less appears on every other page. The adjoining page includes the artist’s comments on each illustration along with the sketch.

The last few pages of Mimesis include some rough illustrations and art works without backgrounds. I was getting a serious Tiv-vibe throughout Haruse Hiroki’s doujinshi, but this explains it: Haruse designed the characters Kitajima Sorako & Tink and Tiv drew them in her C79 doujin. And Tiv designed a character for Haruse Hiroki illustration. Their styles really mesh!