NATSUHIME – Vol. 015 min read
Reading Time: 3 minutesNATSUHIME is the spiritual successor to the discontinued GELATIN magazine. It offers similar content with a little more nudity.
The first 15-pages of NATSUHIME are about Kuroboshi Kouhaku. It features an interview scattered with his more recent illustrations. There is a “making of” feature that shows the creation of the cover art.
The biggest improvement is that the pin-up gallery has a total of 16 pin-ups, all drawn for the magazine. They stopped using special paper. This time, it’s the same paper used for the rest of the magazine.
The artists with pin-ups featured in this issue are Tosh, Saitom, Shirabii, 2D, Daisuke Kimura, Sakura Kotetsu, Yuugen, MEME50, Fujioka Toki, Sasahiro, Kamo, Ruria Miyuki, FCT, Shihou, Mutsutake, and Bosshi. Several of the artists had previous works in GELATIN.
The first comic is by Mebae, titled The Road to Paradise in Heaven. The illustrations are nice, but it includes a lot of nudity. It’s a ghost story with an amusing twist. NishiEda‘s 12-page comic titled Shinobigura is the kind of work you’d expect from NishiEda. Yu has a 10-page comic with beautiful illustrations and minimal dialogue called Natsu no Ito.
There are several artists that didn’t participate in GELATIN that are in NATSUHIME like Rco Wada, Yoshinori Shizuma, and Piroshi.
Takamichi introduces a new comic called Megane Kinoco no Machi, which is different from the previous summer series in GELATIN.
Toi8 has an 18-page comic called Neko Mata featuring characters from one of his GELATIN comics. Fuyuno Haruaki‘s 10-page comic also carried over from GELATIN. Shin Hashimoto finishes the comics section with a 15-page story.
There are a couple of pages of Range Murata‘s character designs for Last Exile: Fam the Silver Wing. There is also one for Redjuice and Guilty Crown, and Toi8 for No. 6. Although it’s a new magazine, NATSUHIME Vol. 01 is like GELATIN, so if you like one, you’ll probably like the other.
Title: NATSUHIME Vol. 01 Summer 2011 タイトル: なつひめ-黒星紅白- Author: Publication Date: 09/02/2011 Size: 224p NDL: https://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/023112786
