Adumi Tohru – Flower Dust Crown and Happy Heart Gift5 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesAdumi Tohru’s summer Comiket release is a two-parter. One book is Flower Dust Crown, full of original art. The other is Happy Heart Gift which was more of a fan art collection. They sell together, even on shops like Toranoana, so I got both.
Flower Dust Crown
Flower Dust Crown is B5-size and 30 pages when counting the covers. The cover has relief lettering with a plastic texture and a little glitter. Inside the pages are glossy and smooth. If you’ve seen Adumi Tohru’s work, she tends to add textures onto her art work.
The art work in Flower Dust Crown has beautiful details, especially in the clothing. The lacy garments are stunning, with realistic patterns and very fine details in most cases. The character costumes are equally stunning, ranging from casual outfits to period costumes.
The page layouts in Flower Dust Crown are varied between full page illustrations and half-page presentations. The printing is very high quality and as such, half-page illustrations aren’t diminished from the formatting style. As expected, Adumi Tohru continues to impress with this release, with detailing seldom seen from other artists.
Happy Heart Gift
As I mentioned earlier, Happy Heart Gift seems to be the fan art portion of Adumi Tohru’s summer release. It’s also B5-sized, but unlike Flower Dust Crown it’s staple-bound and 16 pages counting the covers. Even the front and back inside covers are used for illustrations, so it’s very packed even for its size. The opening illustration for The Borrower Arrietty is a favorite. I’ve rarely seen published fan art from it.
There are also more illustrations of guys in Happy Heart Gift. All the original character illustrations in Flower Dust Crown are girls, and maybe that was intentional. Either way with fan arts from D. Gray-man, Fullmetal Alchemist, Howl’s Moving Castle, Gundam Wing, and something called Messiah, she satisfies her female audiences as well.
Title: Flower Dust Crown タイトル: 花屑王冠～フラワーダスト・クラウン～ Author: Adumi Tohru Publication Date: 08/15/2010 Size: 30p + 16p NDL: -
