Friend won one for me on Y!J ^___^

Guess, I either have to smuggle it in and risk getting a fine and maybe even jailtime for smuggling ‘pornography’, or just enjoy the digital photos of Shingo here.

Thanks again to Shingo, and in general the Internet for giving us ADULTS freedom to make up our minds what to view and what not to view.

Well, I’d say once again that our opinions are pretty much the same. I’d really hoped that the artists would take this opportunity to showcase their abilities as much they could, but I was left only half-impressed at best. I think it would probably have turned out better as an ero doujin with several pages for each artist. In that case I wouldn’t mind paying even more.

Dragon Destiny artbook, mmm. Don’t give a bantha’s turd about the manga or anime, but we need a collection of related delectable artwork.

Overall it’s an item that smacks of opportunism and probably isn’t worth it from an objective standpoint – if you’re going to do an artbook do an artbook for crying out loud and not something this half-assed – but I’m happy with it from a suppport-the-artist perspective as well as for its utility in finding new artists to follow.

I hope for an official artbook as well, especially if it compiles all of the limited edition work that came with the R2 DVD releases. Wish I’d been on top of those when I had the chance…

I did look at the artist list, but even the few that I do like didn’t seem to do particularly well to me. Maybe because they only had a single colour page to do it in, but Yasuiri Osuke seemed kinda generic, Kino Hitoshi seemed kinda meh, Azasuke and Mogudan were still same old. Recognized a few other names but nothing seen here particularly changed my mind.

Maruto! was the only artist I knew beforehand that pleased me. Several others I’d not heard of before were pretty good as well, but there were just about as many hits as misses. I wouldn’t say that it was a waste of 1050 yen, but it certainly wasn’t as ground-shattering as I had hoped it would be. On the other hand, I’d probably get a Dragon Destiny official artbook if they released one, the official illustrations were mighty fine.

>>DJnerate
A glance at the artist list before purchase might have saved you 1,050 yen. ^^;;

While there are no shots of exposed genitalia or hardcore depictions of intercourse in the book there are certainly images of the bare human female torso, which for some reason tend to injure the tender retina of children in certain countries. Tora might not flag the book as ero but it’s certainly not work safe, and I’d rather be safe than sorry.

>>Y
I’ll have a review of Velvet Skin up on Friday, hopefully (assuming shipping goes as planned). I can’t wait… :3

Now, the book I am looking forward to is INO’s velvet skin, I think we have a winner with that one!

Furthermore, this book isn’t actually 18+. Tora no Ana had it with green stickers, i.e. non-ero.