Image used in the video for PutinP's きみに、わたしに。(Kimi ni, watashi ni./To you, To me.). Features Hatsune Miku.

しうか (shiuka) is an illustrator best known for his(?) illustrations for various Vocaloid songs on niconico. His most significant contributions are for doing the artwork and videos to most of プーチンP (PutinP)’s songs, most notably for きえないひとみ。(Kienai Hitomi./Unvanishing Eyes.), and also for this piece of artwork done for mothy’s 悪ノ召使 (Aku no Meshitsukai/Servant of Evil) video. His works are mostly Vocaloid-centered, and especially heavily feature Kagamine Rin and Len. shiuka likes a strong and tough Len (“Ikeren”) the most, and just adores Rin in general. He also uses a computer (without an LCD monitor) running Windows XP, draws with a Wacom Intuos 3, and uses SAI for drawing and Adobe Photoshop 7.0 for further image editing. His blood type is A.

shiuka generally has two different styles. The first one is quite anime-like, with huge eyes, bright, pastel colours, sharp and minimal shading, and undetailed hair. They also usually feature light-hearted content. This style is most prevalent in his older illustrations. As for his second style, it looks very solemn and serious, with almost no smiling characters, muted, cold, and dark colour themes, and quite a few usages of grungy textures in the background. In this style, shiuka also draws strands of hair, uses illuminating highlights, and sometimes even details actual noses and lips. He also sometimes has a mix between his two styles to a very aesthetic effect.

Image used in the video for PutinP's ねむりたいのに！(Nemuritai no ni!/Even though I want to sleep!). Features Kagamine Rin.

Of course, being a collaborator with PutinP certainly means that nothing is ever what it seems, and the best examples of shiuka’s serious style have been from gravely hilarious and near-classic (Please click on this) pieces of art. He also designed the now relatively-well-known Russian Rin (Nicknamed プーリン/Purin as a joke to プーチン/Putin) who is always the subject of PutinP’s videos. He also designed Russian(?) Luka and Miku McDonald, both of which are used in PutinP’s songs as well.

In addition to illustration, shiuka has also helped out some niconico producers with putting together videos and has even uploaded a 51 second song (niconico link only) where he personally tuned an UTAU Vocaloid, 欲音ルコ (Kokune Ruko) to skillfully sing Silent Night in English.

In conclusion, shiuka is a very good artist (with other talents!) who is only getting better and better, as can be seen from his older to newer works, but has already established his own slick and definable style. I personally just can’t get enough of his serious style.

Website: http://agatek.web.fc2.com/
Blog: http://agatek.blog27.fc2.com/
Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=92560
Piapro: http://piapro.jp/agatek
Mylist: http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/5959414
Twitter: http://twitter.com/shiuka

From the PV for AGAINST. Click to enlarge. (Image: meola)

buzzG is a Vocaloid composer who is pretty new to the scene, with his first niconico submission being from July 31, 2009. His best known works are AGAINST, Flashback, 赤い雨 (Akai Ame/Red Rain) and name of memory. His most popular work so far is AGAINST, a GUMI song with a PV done by artist meola, with 2,900+ Mylists. buzzG resides in Tokyo, Japan, and made his first song within only one month of learning how to use midi and Vocaloid.

buzzG composes mostly rock songs and occasionally ballads, and as a result his songs always have an electric guitar and bass playing significant parts. All his songs sound high quality since there’s a quite a lot of depth with all the intruments playing different parts at once, but is well arranged in that it doesn’t sound messy. The flow of his songs are usually relatively predictable, but don’t sound boring as there are enough twists, and the main melody isn’t repeated over and over. buzzG’s Vocaloid tuning is quite impeccable in that even his first work with Vocaloid is easy to listen to and don’t sound rigid and robotic. In AGAINST, his latest song, GUMI’s vocal tuning sounds so natural and well-done that a lot of commenters on niconico say that it sounds nearly human.

All in all, buzzG composes some consistently well-done songs with very good vocal tuning. Looking forward to hearing more works from him!

Essential Works:
1. AGAINST (niconico link)
2. LAST YEAR (niconico link) **First Work**
3. name of memory (niconico link)

Blog: http://buzzg.blog84.fc2.com/
Mylist: http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/13954828
Piapro: http://piapro.jp/buzzg
Twitter: http://twitter.com/buzz_g

Changed the layout around a bit since WordPress gave this layout more customization options. Sucks that the banner isn’t linked to the homepage, though.

Title: 精霊の守り人 (Seirei no Moribito) / Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit
Author: 上橋菜穂子 (UEHASHI Nahoko)
English Translator: Cathy Hirano
Illustrator: 二木真希子 (NIKI Mayuko;JPN ver), 清水裕子 (SHIMIZU Yuko;ENG ver)
Volumes: 10
Genre: Children (Fantasy, Adventure)
Status: Completed. Volumes 1 and 2 published in North America by Scholastic Inc.
My Rating: 8.8/10

Description: 精霊の守り人 (Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit) is the first book in the Moribito fantasy novel series written by UEHASHI Nahoko. There are ten volumes in all and the series is aimed at children, but there are also a lot of teenage and adult fans. Scholastic Inc. in North America has licensed the series and has published two volumes of Moribito books at the time of writing. The English versions are translated by Cathy Hirano, and features artwork by SHIMIZU Yuko. (Instead of NIKI Mayuko’s artwork, who was the illustrator for the original Japanese version) The novels have been adapted into an anime (Seirei no Moribito) and manga.

Summary: Balsa is an extremely skilled bodyguard who is a master of the spear, and is willing to risk her life to protect the people she was paid to protect. However, due to some interesting turn of events, her latest client is a queen who wants to protect her son Chagum, the Second Prince. Not only are the people pursuing Chagum powerful and deadly, an otherworldly monster is also chasing after something within Chagum…

No summary will ever do this book justice, so if it doesn’t seem like the summary I provided was intriguing, please read the book anyways for full details. It’s that good.

Review and pictures under the cut.

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Review: This book, written in third-person, is set in a fantasy world highly influenced by Japan during the Middle Ages, but also with some western-type influences like an association of “Star Readers”. Since it’s a series directed at children, it was written in a straight-forward and easy-to-read language, with probably the most organized and easily comprehendable fight scenes I’ve ever read. Despite having quite a few “action” scenes, they never got too violent, and the injured parties always got well unnervingly quickly. The pace of plot progression was just right, and never lingered for too long on anything, which was a plus for me since I hate reading about tiny little details. The magical elements were weaved in quite nicely and really added to the intrigue. It was never overdone, and was treated as more like an organized, academic dicipline rather than some far-fetched and too-powerful supernatural power. When I first read it, I thought at first that the plot would be easy to predict, but it caught me off guard for about 75% of the book and kept me wanting to read more. The plot is also not that simple, and really give lots of room for imagination and development. Uehashi created a very expansive world here that I believe she will make full use of.

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The characters were great – all were memorable and unique, and it helped that everyone had catchy names. Even though Chagum couldn’t fight, he didn’t deteriorate into a generic “useless thing the awesome protagonist must protect in order to advance the plot” (like Maria from CANAAN), and actually had a personality and resolve of his own. Most of the main characters got enough time in the book for the readers to learn about their personality and pasts, and the adult characters got to show off a lot of their expertise and skills. These two things really help the audience develop attachment to them. My personal favourites were Balsa (definitely) and Torogai, who were both strong and individualistic female characters.

As for the translation, I didn’t find any problems with it, and it read very smoothly. What’s even better is that the whole book has no translation notes whatsoever.

Although everything I wrote up there was devoid of fiery passion, I was extremely immersed in the book while I was reading it, do really, really liked it. I highly recommend it to anyone who likes reading, but especially for people who just want to read a sufficiently substantial yet easy to understand book.

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Packaging: One of my favourite parts of this book. The packaging is just so well-done and so high-quality. The hardcover version has a dust jacket and the cover beneath it is embossed with an emblem on the front flap. The book binding is solid – the book could be opened to its widest and still be closed with all its pages lying straight and flat like it was just bought, but unfortunately it only lies flat if you hold it down. The landing and exit pages are pieces of thick, textured paper, and the regular pages are on smooth, thick slightly beige paper. Everything on the pages were printed in a dark navy blue ink, including the novel’s text itself and the three illustrations within. At the back it included a List of Characters, List of Places & Terms, Author’s Note, and a credits + design details page, the last of which is my favourite page in the book. The illustrations are two-page monochrome spreads and divide the novel into three parts.

The only newish Vocaloid song I’ve been continually listening to this past month. Recommended by 古川P (FurukawaP).

This post consists of three parts:
1. Original lyrics
2. Transliteration
3. Translation

ココロノコリと浮遊 (KOKORONOKORI to Fuyuu / Regret and Float)

Lyrics: ぽわぽわＰ（仁王立ち） (PowapowaP aka Niou Tachi)
Compose: ぽわぽわＰ（仁王立ち）
Arrange: ぽわぽわＰ（仁王立ち）
Vocals: Hatsune Miku

Nico | Youtube
MP3 | MP3 (Luka ver.)

仁王立ちさんのコメント：
(ピアプロから）
死別曲です。いちどやってみたかった。
かつて恐れてた事が起きてしまったって感じの曲です。

Niou Tachi’s Comment:
(From Piapro)
This is a bereavement song. Trying it out just this one time.
It’s a song with a feeling of suddenly remembering something you used to be afraid of.

Artwork used in the video for the song. Click to enlarge. (Illust: つりざお@Piapro)

Descrption: A requiem with a peaceful electronic twist and simple atmosphere. Great song to loop while reading or doing homework. Vocal tuning is good, but the whole mood of the song is quite moving and is the most notable. I recommend the Luka version over the Miku version.

Original Lyrics

あの日を浮かべながら
重ねた。「さよなら」と。
あの空が落ちたような
悲しみを。僕は独り。
「さよなら」聞こえたら
別れを。これから独り。

バラバラになったコラージュ　捨てきれず
何も掴めない手に雫が落ちる

晴れのち曇り　時々雨　風また晴れ
そんな風にして
すぎさってよ　この気持ちを
思い出すことのないように

「あらゆる過去に意味は有ったの？」
ある日の君はそう呟いた
知らないけど　知りたいけど
僕にはまだわからないんだ

目がまわって真っ白になって
仕方ないって呟いた
きみは空へ浮かんだけど
僕はまだ不自由みたいだ

判ってたんだ。解ってたんだ。
仕方ないって呟いた
だけど胸が苦しいのは
きっと君も同じ事なんだ

Transliteration

Ano hi wo ukabe nagara
Kasaneta. “Sayonara” to.
Ano sora ga ochita youna
Kanashimi wo. Boku wa hitori.
“Sayonara” Kikoetara
Wakare wo. Kore kara hitori.

BARABARA ni natta KORAAJYU Sute kirezu
Nani mo tsukamenai te ni shizuku ga ochiru

Hare nochi kumori tokidoki ame kaze mata hare
Sonna fuu ni shite
Sugisatte yo Kono kimochi wo
Omoi dasu koto no nai youni

“Arayuru kakou ni imi wa atta no?”
Aru hi no kimi wa sou tsubuyaita
Shiranai kedo Shiritai kedo
Boku ni wa mada wakaranain da

Me ga mawatte masshiro ni natte
Shikatanaitte tsubuyaita
Kimi wa sora e ukan dakedo
Boku wa mada fujiyuu mitai da

Wakattetanda. Wakattetanda.
Shikatanaitte tsubuyaita
Dakedo mune ga kurushii no wa
Kitto kimi mo onaji koto nanda

Translation

While remembering that day,
it was piling up. That “Farewell”.
It was like falling from the sky above,
my sadness. I became alone.
If your “Farewell” could be heard,
it’d be a parting. From now on I’ll be alone.

A collage that fell apart, abandoned and scrapped.
Drops of water falling into a hand that can’t catch anything.

After sunshine is fog, sometimes rain, wind, and sunshine again.
It’s just like that.
It’s passed, these feelings
It’s like I’ve never remembered them.

“Was there meaning in all of the days I’ve lived?”
That was what you muttered that day.
Even though I don’t know, even though I want to know,
I still don’t understand.

Your eyes were spinning, becoming all white.
It can’t be helped, you muttered.
Even though you rose to the sky,
It looks like I’m still not fine with it.

I understood. I knew.
It can’t be helped, you muttered.
But it hurts because
You’d definitely feel the same.

Part Six. The more I write about this artist the more I love his work, which is why I guess I wrote so much. Sorry.

Sara from Dragon Fly. Click for full version. (Ages 16+!)

前嶋重機 (MAESHIMA Shigeki) is a professional illustrator and manga artist best known for his artwork and character designs in the 戦う司書 (Tatakau Shisho/Armed Librarians) series of light novels, as well as for his full-colour manga, Dragon Fly, serialized in the Robot and Gelatin full colour comic magazines. Maeshima is married to manga artist 伊藤悠 (ITOU Yuu), was born on February 6th, 1974, and usually draws his artwork by hand then colours and finishes it on a PC. He is also part of an illustrator+publishing unit called 42, along with three other professional artists.

Maeshima’s style is mature, slick, super-sexy, and kind of violent. All his female characters exude womanly vibes, with narrow eyes, thick eyelashes, actual lips and mouths, and very generously proportioned bodies clothed by provocative, well-designed attire. As well, they all give off a high sense of strength and independance, and most look as though they’re not to be messed with. His male characters number few when compared to his female characters, but they are also just as mature and strong, and all seem to have quite a bit of muscles. His character designs are unique, recognizable, and distinctly Maeshima-esque, thanks to how incredibly creative he is with hairstyles and costumes, but even though they all look like his work, they don’t look repetitive or recycled at all. There’s so much variation that they all look truly individualistic. As well, facial expressions usually quite varied in his manga since Maeshima knows how subtleties, like wrinkles, in the human face works to express emotion, but in his illustrations, his characters just usually pose for the picture and put on a pretty face. Another part that makes me love Maeshima’s work is how he actually draws noses and lips, and colours them realistically. Most of the lips on his female characters are luscious and full, a feature that I very much appreciate. Vague lines for mouths just doesn’t cut it sometimes, and even his teenage female characters have actual lips and nose.

Artwork from the novel 蟲忍 (Mushinin). Click for full version.

His colouring style also significantly adds to the cool nature of his artwork, but is slightly hard to describe. Although at first it looks like he lays his colours on thickly, he actually only has sharp, deep shading in the hair (Which gives it a thick, solid look) and some types of clothing, but for everything else, he does quite a bit of blending to make the shine look natural and more realistic. The lighting in most of his pictures is dark and muted, and the overall effect is somewhat similar to taking a photo without using flash in a softly lit environment. He is also very good at colouring skin, especially on faces, and they always have a shine that is similar to an actual person’s face under differently lit settings. He can even make faces look practically realistic as well. The colours he usually uses are whites, dark greys, cold blues, deep browns, and soft purples, but he can definitely do lighter colours as well. Another thing to add is that his work is really detailed, even in his full-colour manga, and his compositions and planning in both individual illustrations and a full manga is action-packed, well coordinated, and fully completed.

In short, Maeshima Shigeki is a superb illustrator and manga artist who solidly defines his own style and shows a real grasp of all the fundamentals of art (depths of field, anatomical proportions, lighting, cropping, etc) not seen enough in the highly stylized world of anime-type art, and the few, low-quality example pictures I provided above really, really don’t do justice at all to Maeshima, whose work (especially the manga Dragon Fly) is best seen on paper and at the highest quality. I understand that his style isn’t to everyone’s preference, but Maeshima is the real deal, in my opinion.

Maeshima Shigeki at Wikipedia: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/前嶋重機 (Japanese)
Interview with Sync Future: http://p2.pixiv.net/2009/05/13/1582.html (Japanese)
Brief profile at Sync Future: http://www.lpei.co.jp/sync_future/profile/#creator19 (Japanese)

Part Five. This marathon unintentionally turned into a moé fest or something. Don’t worry, that’ll end soon.

Original illustration. Click for full version.

ゆーげん (yuugen) is the artist name of a professional illustrator best known for his artwork in the light novel グリモワールの契約者 (Grimoire no Keiyakusha/Grimoire Contractor). yuugen currently lives in Tokyo, Japan, his birthday is on March 8th, his blood type is A, he uses a Wacom Intuos 3 (A5 Wide), and he likes coffee, black tea, and reading books. His website name is Castleton, which comes from the name of the area that produces a black tea he frequently drinks, although lately he has been drinking only coffee.

yuugen’s style is polished, glassy, and has a very high degree of completion. Everything, even down to the smallest details, is meticulously coloured, giving yuugen’s artwork an extremely professional and detailed look. Just one piece of his fully completed artwork should take someone more than 5 minutes to look at all the details. As for characters, yuugen’s are most definitely of the moe style, and is impeccable at drawing attractive and cute female characters. His characters’ eyes are not overly large and have a glassy look to them, and he is also great at detailing the folds in the well-designed clothing. He usually draws hair with the general outline then shaded with deeper colours to indicate depth, and adds shiny stray strands to make it look lighter. In addition to drawing people, he’s also impeccable at drawing colourful skies for his backgrounds and coordinating colours. He seems to like using lots of gradated and blended colours, and using near-white spots to add shine. Even though his characters are usually in static poses with standard expressions, he is more than capable of making his artwork look lively. His analog (non-CG) work seems to stays true to his colouring style too. Really looking forward to seeing more from this artist!

Website: http://yuugen.hiyamugi.com/
Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=806502

Part Four. I got a suggestion saying that I should add more pictures, but this is a difficult request to implement. Hopefully I did it okay. If you liked the old post format better, please tell me, because I liked it too.

Aurica Nestmile from Ar Tonelico I. Click to enlarge.

名木良 (NAGI Ryou) is a professional illustrator who is more widely known under the artist name of 凪良 (nagi). His representative works include providing the character designs and artwork for the Ar Tonelico video game series and doing the illustrations for the light novel series 風水学園 (Fuusui Gakuen/Feng Shui Academy). nagi’s doujin circle name is S.E.C., which he says stands for “Stylish”"Erotic”"Cool”, or “少し””エロいけど””クール” (“Sukoshi”"Eroi kedo”"Cool”/”A little”"erotic but”"cool”), and although he usually goes by the kanji 凪良, which normally reads as “nagiryou”, it’s always read as “nagi” when used as his name. (However, it is sometimes subtitled on the credits as “nagiryo” in English on the cover of light novels.)

Click on the pictures for the full size, and footnotes for each pictures are on the bottom of the post. These pictures are also included in the links in the paragraph below.

True to the words used in the acronym of S.E.C., his style really is “stylish”, “erotic”, and “cool”, though the word “sleek” should be included as well, plus most of his work aren’t overly erotic, and instead seem more tastefully sexy. nagi’s characters are probably in the moé category, with almost exclusively female characters, large, glassy eyes, odd-coloured hair, and quite a bit of fanservice. Poses are always varied, but expressions seem to number only a handful, most of them being cool gazes and sweet smiles. What sets nagi’s artwork apart from the other more standard moe styles, though, is that he frequently designs very unique, sleek, and streamlined outfits for them, adding a bit of acceessories here and there. This mechanical look is reinforced by his incredibly clean, nearly sterile, colouring style, where he uses a small selection of usually light pastel colours for everything from shading to the outline. This gives less contrast and depth, but really makes everything look smooth and clear. His older works have significantly more dark shades and depth, but his current colouring style is absolutely top-notch, and his latest works sport lots of gradients that makes it look even cleaner. The fact that nagi almost never draws actual strands of hair enhances this too, and in fact almost all of his characters have a head of hair with only the ends marked by darker shading. Another thing that makes nagi’s works so popular are his character and costume designs, which are beautiful, unique, and memorable.

Website: http://www.sec.or.tv/ (Japanese)
Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=773040
nagi at Wikipedia: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/凪良 (Japanese)

- Cover artwork from his doujinshi S.E.C.-influence of Ayanami Rei and Asuka Langley from Evangelion. Cool gazes and great mechanical detail.
- Cover artwork for the light novel Heavy Object. Unique costume, glassy eyes, and undetailed hair.

Part Three.

Haruka and Chihaya from The IDOLM@STER. Click to enlarge.

シオミヤイルカ (SHIOMIYA Iruka) is a professional illustrator who also releases independant doujinshi. He is best known for illustrating the covers of the two 戦姫 (Senhime/Battle Princess) light novels, and also for contributing this ED sequence artwork of Senjougahara Hitagi from Bakemonogatari. However, most of his non-commercial artwork are of The IDOLM@STER characters. Shiomiya owns a Mystic Silver PSP, listens to NAKAJIMA Miyuki and The Carpenters while drawing, uses Photoshop CS4 with a Wacom Intuos 4 on a Mac, and his favourite movies lately are Roman Holiday and Ratatouille.

Shiomiya’s not-really-anime style is marked by realistic shading, and the themes of his artwork are usually non-fantastical. His characters all have large round (sometimes oval-ish) eyes, but they usually have plausible poses, hairstyles, and clothing. Faces are wonderfully expressive, with many different emotions. Hair is probably one of his strongest points, since it always looks like it has weight and actual strands. However, Shiomiya’s colouring style is what makes his artwork stand out. Shading is sharp and accurate, and even though uses a lot of different colours, they’re always skillfully coordinated and never clash. He also has a good grasp on lighting, and knows how to integrate his beautiful backgrounds with the characters in the setting. Incredibly, his rough drafts are almost equally awesome as his coloured artwork.

Website: http://www.geocities.jp/shiomid/ (Downloads of his artwork+sketches for each year are posted here)
Blog: http://yaplog.jp/shiomid/
Pixiv: http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=9769

Part Two of the Illustrator Marathon. The next few posts will be in this category as well. The juvenile reason for this is because I want the Illustrator tag to surpass all other tags by a bigger margin. I don’t want the Music tag to” catch up”.

舞野咲 (MAINO Saki) from the cover of “不思議”取り扱います 付喪堂骨董店 (Tsukumodou Antique Shop) Volume 6.

タケシマサトシ (TAKESHI MASATOSHI) is the artist name of a Japanese illustrator best known for his artwork in 御堂彰彦 (ODO Akihiko)’s light novel series, “不思議”取り扱います 付喪堂骨董店 (“Fushigi” Tori atsukaimasu – Tsukumodou Kottouten/We handle “Curiosities” – Tsukumodou Antique Shop). He has also provided artwork for an H-game called 天ツ澪 (Amatsumiyo) as well as for Square Enix’s Eternal Wheel TCG, and did the mecha designs for a PS2 game called バルドバレットイクリブリアム (Baldr Bullet Equilibrium).

Takeshi Masatoshi’s style is sophisticated and slightly dark. He’s capable of drawing pretty and smart-looking girls and moderately frilly outfits, and seems to draws eyes in a pretty typical style. Although his characters look nice, I think the one thing that really drew me to his covers for Tsukumodou was how he set the mood of the picture. There were always different detailed backgrounds that accompanied the character, and this atmosphere is impeccable. Takeshi Masatoshi’s colouring style is lovely too, with mostly muted colours and gradated shading in the hair that reminds me a bit of pako’s artwork, and it’s nice how he can make even the folds in dull black clothes easily distinguishable. He sometimes also blends different slightly shades together when colouring a large area, which gives it a slight pearl-like sheen. He’s come a long way from the colouring techniques he used to use. Of course, he’s also capable of producing vibrant pictures as well as something totally different from his usual style.

Website: http://members.at.infoseek.co.jp/scene11/ (Unavailable)

Seems like I’ve been neglecting this category as of late…Sorry!

Artwork for an MMORPG called Bell Isle. Click to enlarge.

芳住和之 (YOSHIZUMI Kazuyuki) is a professional freelance illustrator best known for his work on the Mana Khemia video game series. He was also the original character designer and illustrator for the 宇宙をかける少女 (Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo/Sora Kake Girl) light novel, which was adapted into an anime. Yoshizumi was born in 1977, lives in Saitama Prefecture, his hobbies include taking photos of scenery with his Nikon D70 while taking a walk, and likes to make coffee. His favourite games are the Ogre Battle series and the Panzer Dragoon series, and his favourite artists are Frank Frazetta and Norman Rockwell. Yoshizumi has most recently contributed to the character designs for the 闘神伝 (Toshinden) Wii remake, which is probably my favourite work of his.

Yoshizumi’s style is of the anime style but with a fantasy twist. Most of his female character sport round eyes and uniquely designed costumes, and his male characters have narrow eyes and range from manly men to effeminate guys. Both genders seem to sport a lot of thick, shiny hair. The accessories, costumes and weapons he designs are astoundingly elaborate and elegant, and he always adds a lot of different, super-detailed motifs to them. Yoshizumi uses a lot of deep-coloured shading that makes everything look like it has substantial weight, and uses white spots to give things a touch of shine. His colouring usually uses moderate but varying shades of colour, and uses more vibrant colours for highlighting, but I think that his black and white artwork are most lovely. His overall style is pretty similar to Hyung-tae Kim’s.

Website: http://www12.big.jp/~s03tk/
Yoshizumi Kazuyuki at moe.imouto: http://moe.imouto.org/wiki/show?title=yoshizumi_kazuyuki