Girls Girls Girls! 7 Illustrations7 min read
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe latest installment of collected E☆2 Magazine illustrations is Girls Girls Girls! 7 ~Anniversary Girl Collection~. The title introduces the underlying theme and the pictures on the whole tend to have a celebratory theme. In all there are 52 artists participating in this volume, with some of the illustrations gathered from E☆2 Magazine issues as far back as 2007.
Girls Girls Girls! 7 ~Anniversary Girl Collection~ is A4-sized and 96-pages. There are a total of eight illustration themed sections, starting out with 12 pages of New Year’s zodiac animal girls. Each of the illustrations are done by a different artist, with art work from Mikeou, Noritama, Hinayuki Usa, MALINO, Kagome, and KEI just to name a few.
The Angel theme is the next section of illustrations, although they’re not all a standard depiction of the idea. Some are angel costumes while others are closer to being fairies. And some of the girls don’t even have wings! There’s a nice variety of artists featured, with Fuyuno Haruaki, Hayase Akira, Matayoshi, and ten others each contributing an illustration.
The next group of illustrations, under the heading Change! approaches the theme in a variety of ways. Goto P depicts a school girl with her middle school uniform in the background, posing for a mirror with her new high school uniform. A few other artists drew girls with butterfly wings, as butterflies are a universal symbol of change. Miyu’s illustration was definitely the best one out of those.
Mikeou and Shiki Douji have contributed original works to several volumes of E☆2 Magazine, and their works are gathered in this Girls Girls Girls! 7. They’re all printed with overlap too, as they are in the initial magazine publication.
The next section is the titular Anniversary Girls, with 20 illustrations of girls celebrating their birthdays to their wedding days and everything in between. There’s a great variety of artists in this section and some of the more notable illustrators featured are Watanabe Akio (Poyoyon Rock), Kobuichi, Kuuchuu Yousai, Shintaro, and Aoi Kimizuka. While all the illustrators are excellent, these artists aren’t E☆2 regulars, so it makes it more of a treat.
Sakura Nitohei’s artists’ corner comics and the Date Illustration Story section finish off the book. Although they’re still big on illustrations, there is text all over the art work. The Date Illustration stories run from pages 79 through 94, with the Tony Taka cover art as the last illustration.
Title: Girls Girls Girls! 7 Illustrations タイトル: ガールズ・ガールズ・ガールズ！7 Author: 東京 : メディエイション Publication Date: 06/01/2011 Size: 96p NDL: https://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/000011199207
