Rainbow-colored HiMEs
Nanairo Ice: Nanao Naru Illustrations and Mai-HiME v1 & v5.
I’ll have a longer entended entry on how I ended up at Kinokuniya in NYC and the “crazy” misadventures had with Matt and Jan sometime later, but for now finally finished getting all the Mai-HiME manga plus scored some Nanao Naru artwork.
The Nano Naru artbook really was an impulse buy after looking through the various anime artbooks Kinokuniya had. I thought I remembered HLJ being out of stock of the artbook when I wanted it, so figured might as well buy it now. Unfortunately when I checked HLJ’s site just now, HLJ still has the book in stock and at a lower price! Argh! Paid $8 more for instant gratification! If I knew this, would have gone for the Aoi Nanse artbook instead!
Oh well, Nanairo Ice is still a lovely buy as I love Nanao Naru’s drawing style. Mostly popular in a lot of dating sim games (almost anything by Leaf), the cute art is always an instant draw for me. I guess it’s also time for me to re-arrange which artbooks I have on display now that I have this baby 
Mai-HiME v1 and v5 back covers
Nanairo Ice: Nanao Naru Illustrations sample shot 1
Nanairo Ice: Nanao Naru Illustrations sample shot 2
Nanairo Ice: Nanao Naru Illustrations sample shot 3
Nanairo Ice: Nanao Naru Illustrations sample shot 4
did nanao draw anything for anime/manga? i like the style =)
Da Capo is another one
Must resist the urge to go…..
I always spend some money if I go there. Always reason that since I’m there it would be such a waste if I don’t buy something……
$8 difference is okay IMO. Would you rather have it now or later?
true bakaboobie but still…
Er… I think Naru Nanao has only done art for Circus and some others, but not Leaf.
http://erogamescape.ddo.jp/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/creater.php?creater=13
hmm… wouldn’t be surprised if I’m wrong. I swear I thought she did TH2, for example, but given my recent track record of naming anything right…
… anyway, thanks OogamiOokami for the correction!
Leaf’s most well known for their Leaf Tokyo branch’s art. Their main illustator is Mitsumi Misato. She was the character designer for well-known titles like Comic Party, To Heart 2, Utawarerumono, and Tenshi no Inai Jyuunigatsu. Her site: http://mitsumi-web.com/
ah… maybe that’s where I got confused. After OogamiOokami mentioned Nanao Naru wasn’t with Leaf, I had a vague thought maybe it was Mitsumi Misato instead.
my bad my bad
i’ve read alot of your blogs. your a crazy otaku but thats why i admire you hahah. all mai hime mangas and dvds… i want them T-T too bad im young and dont have the money. someday i will!!
I love your blogs!