La Peche! Hinamatsuri Touko Art Works5 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesLa Pêche! Hinamatsuri Touko Art Works is the first collection by the artist, and it collects her illustrations from magazines like Dengeki HIME as well as her doujinshi. Nearly every illustration gets a full page, so we’ve got ourselves a winner!
If you’re not at all familiar with Hinamatsuri Touko’s art work, her genre is solidly fan-service. This means that while there are plenty of panty shots in La Pêche! there’s also a bit of nudity.
La Pêche! Hinamatsuri Touko Art Works is A4-size and 128 pages. The cover art work is new and also appears inside. Underneath the slip cover are rough sketches showing another potential pose for the cover girl. Including the cover there are four new works for this book.
The art book is divided into sections, several of which cover the games Hinamatsuri Touko has worked on. The book starts out with original illustrations for 32 pages and the works in this section are predominantly from Dengeki HIME posters and doujinshi works. Art work from the game Mikoko! (みここ!) followed by Imouto Smile (妹スマイル) and Can☆Fes! (きゃん☆フェス！) make up the next 32 pages of La Pêche!.
There’s a funny thing written in English on the contents page of the art book, “Somewhere in this book: Secret Illust.” Since nothing was technically hidden, I’m just assuming it’s just the very last illustration in the book. Some of the nicest art work in the book is in the RE:LOADED CARMINE section which covers 12 pages and is the most recent game Hinamatsuri Touko has worked on.
The art book finishes with nine pages of illustrations from the light novel Tadayou Shokono Verutetella (漂う書庫のヴェルテ・テラ) followed by seven pages of miscellaneous illustrations, mostly from promotional items for Melonbooks mascots. The index has three pages and includes artist comments for each work. La Pêche! Hinamatsuri Touko Art Works really turned out to be much better than expected, and if you don’t mind the fanservice, I’d really recommend it.
Title: La Pêche! Hinamatsuri Touko Art Works タイトル: La Peche! : 雛祭桃子ARTWORKS Author: Hinamatsuri Touko Publication Date: 03/30/2011 Size: 125p NDL: https://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/000011162043
