Artbook "Wild Flower" by Shunya Yamashita

Titre : Wild Flower
Auteur : Shunya Yamashita
Éditeur : Kotobukiya
Date de sortie : 2008
ISBN : 978-4-7753-0639-0
Tarif : 2 762 Yen

Composition
You can discover Wild Flower from left to right (not the usual japanese way). The summary, if you can give it this name, is in the end. It is rather a combination of each miniature illustration with information about them (unfortunately these informations are in japanese). The artbook is composed of 130 pages (including 112 illustrations pages), in A4 format. Around cover, there is a removable paper "Cute & Funny & Erotic!". This is a content summary of Wild Flower, and finally, it is a good interpretation.

This artbook is divided into seven parts, each with a name : Unpublished Works (16 pages), Original Works - Figure (22 pages), Original Works - Video Game (39 pages), Original Works - Card Game (23 pages), Original Works - Web & T-Shirt (4 pages), Original Works - Magazine & Book (5 pages), and Monochrome Illustrations (3 pages).

Notice
Wild Flower is an artbook that I have always wanted since I started my figures collection. Indeed, I haven't figures of Shunya Yamashita's illustrations. However, I particularly like his style. He shows the sensuality and sexuality of women with a warlike aspect. Men are also present in Wild Flower. While their importance is minor and we can see them in following categories : Unpublished Works, Original Works - Video Game, Original Works - Card Game and Monochrome Illustrations. In Original Works - Video Game we can even find creatures and monsters in three pages. It's amazing, and we understand that Shunya Yamashita can draw different things and not only beautiful girls. Initially, I fell in love of the picture 5 (right illustration). I would like many new Shunya Yamashita figure, but there are so many that my banker curse me. The artbook was published two years ago, but I'm happy to have it finally. It's, for the moment, my favorite artbok in my small collection (Iriya no Sora ~ Official Illustrations ~ and Tsubasa Reproduction 2). If you still hesitate to get Wild Flower, I can only advise you! It 's still in stock on HLJ.

You can find the full review (with more pictures and details about artbook categories) on Shadonia.