Friday, November 27, 2020

Shinohayu 84: Faith & Achiga 27: Smile

The 15th anniversary of the Saki series is coming up early next year and the publisher is preparing to commemorate the event in a few ways. For example, there will be a Saki-related exhibition in Tokyo for several days in January and February. New volumes for all series will also be released in January, including the first volumes for MakoMeshi and Saki:re. There's also the book with Ritz's illustrations mentioned in an earlier post. Anyway, probably nothing too interesting for most of you but just to let you know this is a thing. Also, the reason the spinoffs are skipping an issue next month. On the other hand, Saki returns December 18th. Toki should be up in a few days.


 
The picture below is the promo art for the 15th anniversary commemoration exhibit. Neither chapter has a proper cover so let's use this. Besides, school-age Hayari drawn by Ritz is super rare.
 

5 comments:

  1. ...is it me, or is ritz getting worse at drawing big boobs?

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    1. I'm not that good at anatomy, but to me it feels like the problem is not the boobs, but the rest. Some legs seem a bit longer than normal, while the trunk seems smaller (look at distance between Nodoka's boobs and bellybutton).

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  2. Thanks for the chapter. To be honest I find it slightly regretful that Yuki couldn't countinue winning. After all in a wave once one is at the bottom it can only rise again. I wanted to see this concept in her winning streak. It would have been a far greater evidence of the dangerousness of Yuki's East 1.
    And I find the Achiga chapter too fast. The East 2 and 3 should have been further elaborated. Especially Teri's turn, it could have been given more pages or an entire chapter to it (for example: when she didn't discard Kuro's winning tile or when she disrupted Yuki's draws).

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