Hunting the Elusive

As previously covered, The Sneaker’s main magazine for December 2009 also included a number of coloured pages matching the booklet’s contents. Notables include a Christmas-themed mini-poster by Ueda Ryo, and yet another Tiv illustration for Azukete! Jikan Ginkou. With these two releases, we should be some way toward resolving the woeful shortage of Tiv’s art on the ground. I should also note that surprisingly for a magazine, The Sneaker seems to have printed page spreads with a bit of overlap. This is insufficient area for Photoshop’s automatic algorithms to work with, but could be used by manual stitchers, or even semi-automatic stitchers like Panavue. I’ll leave that work to people more qualified in the art than I. ^^; [Release][PNG]

Note of course that these are selected pages, and are by no means a complete representation of the issue. In fact, there are some colour pages in later sections with THORES’ art and some other stuff which I didn’t scan.

Inside the cover, as with many magazines, is a double-sided poster, featuring Gadget (Ueda Ryo) and R-15 (Fujima Takuya, AKA Essentia: the missing page in the first release of the booklet, but now has been fixed in the original post). Christmas themed, and there is a tsunderekko to boot.

BTW, if you want Japanese name references for the stories and illustrators in The Sneaker, this page could be useful.

Ueda Page spread.

R-15 page spread. As you can see, the magazine is markedly tamer than the little booklet.

Mousou GIRL page spread. Kanji  of the work is for “Mousou Shoujo”, but has a furigana for the intended reading.

Kioku no Mori no ELISE page spread. At least, I think her name is Elise.

Tiv! The black hair girl always looks lost for some reason.

Sakurada Reset, illustration by You Shiina.

Oruka Irukawa’s Tokyo Koutei Houjou Koi Uta.

Baketero, illustration by Akemi Mikoto.

Extra page for Baketero.