Hunting the Elusive

Wind Mail (An2A)’s last work quite blew me away, and judging by the comments on that particlar post, it impressed many readers too. Petite fatal 3rd is a follow-up on Wind Mail’s series of books, so there is actually no continuity from the Monomind Remains Gensou Kaikyou booklet, which is a pity, because I would have loved to see more of that photo+art stuff. So Petite fatal 3rd, released C77, is just An2A’s stand-alone illustrations, and as always, it’s Touhou themed. As it’s a fairly thin book at 16 pages, including the covers, Wind Mail seems to have taken the liberty of pushing quite a lot of page spreads into this book. [Release][PNG]

In fact, even the cover is a picture spread over the fold. This same image is produced in full as a single pager.

For the most part, Petite fatal 3rd covers stuff Wind Mail has done before, and this is mostly for Touhou doujin music groups.

As such, if you have been a follower of Wind Mail, some of the art will seem familiar to you. For those who are less obsessed however, Petite fatal 3rd represents a good way of getting up to speed with this artist.

We also get a page spread of the illustration from the Remains book, though I think this is a bit more complete than what was available.

Well, this book also saves the obsessive from the trouble and expense of getting albums for the art on their cover (I used to do this, but don’t anymore, since it’s an altogether dumb thing to do).

And so it ends with a number of artworks which I don’t recall seeing before, but these are apparently just from Wind Mail’s blog.