Shonen Bride Volume 4 by Okano Maria and illustrated by Honami Yukine

Tsurugi to Mizu no Mai (Dance of Sword and Water) has probably my favorite cover of the series so far. I love the composition and the colors...Honami-sensei, you totally rule. XD In any case, I feel kind of silly posting about this stupid series when there are better books out there I could be talking about...Of course, talking about those better books takes a lot more time. It's easy to scan all the pics in these books and post them up with some brief (though sometimes not so brief) description.

I suppose it'd be easier to just throw the pics up with nothing at all, but frankly I find novel illustrations by themselves rather boring without the context. Maybe one of these days I'll give a similar treatment to one of those not very good books Yamane Ayano keeps illustrating (I have yet to come across a good book illustrated by her, for some reason), just for fun. But before that maybe I should finish that summary I've put off for a couple of months because I kept translating passages from the book...*sighs*


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