
This chapter of the Toradora! manga, published in now defunct Dengeki Comic Gao, has attracted note recently for a sudden deterioration in the quality of its art, to a level which, as you can see above, many fans are likening to mere scribbles.
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Delicious Horo-tan juice by way of the recent Dengeki event; the flavour is a Horo-esque apple and honey blend. The cans come in two versions, with Horo hoarding apples and guzzling honey, sure to keep you nourished, in a fashion, until the new season commences.
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The above illustration of frolicking sukumizu clad schoolgirls appeared in Dengeki Moe-Oh some months ago as part of a how-to article on drawing sukumizu, surely an essential skill for aspiring illustrators.
The creator has recently published a sukumizu illustration guide on his site, focused on the finicky business of colouring and reproducing wetness, so should you be of an artistic bent, or simply curious, you might want to check it out. Stretching to three pages, it is quite detailed.
If you are interested in this, you may also be interested to view the video of master CG artist Ino creating one of his works.
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Dengeki have issued a platitudinous apology for their use of illustrations traced from deceased artist 堀部秀郎 / Hiderou Horibe’s works; they promise it won’t happen again (it has in fact happened several times previously, and they were most evasive in this case until exposed thoroughly on 2ch).
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Dengeki Playstation magazine stands accused of freely helping themselves to dead mangaka 堀部秀郎 / Hiderou Horibe’s illustrations, in what seems to be flagrant plagiarism of the cover illustration of a 2004 edition of eroge magazine PC Angel (see above), as well as other instances (below); whilst Horibe may have passed away two years ago, observant eyes spotted the traces, and Dengeki and publisher Ascii Media Works refuse to apologise or even respond to the allegations.
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The latest edition of 新生電撃大王 / Shinsei Dengeki Daioh magazine has apparently provoked something of an availability crisis with the prominently displayed thighs of Fuuka – the shelves are as bare as her fine thighs, and a restock is apparently in order.
Of course, we might also be led to think less charitably that it was the enormous thickness of the tome, or it being packed with such notable artists as Naruko Hanaharu, rather than the presence of such a notable Yotsuba&! character which prompted the brisk sales… Via AkibaBlog.