Art and Character Design: This is Yukine Honami’s artwork and I’ve always found her sweet, sketchy style appealing. No real surprises here, though, except that her boys look a little older than usual — and by that I mean late as opposed to early teens. Their appearance really doesn’t seem all that [...]

Art and Character Design: The kind of art my good pal Bill S. loves to pieces, yet most often leaves me frosty cold. Sketchy, ragged, messy are all the unfair words that spring to mind when I gaze upon the pages. And yet, even though I much prefer clean lines and naturalism, [...]

Art and Character Design: The character design is a bit more Western and naturalistic than some yaoi, and while not outstanding, was compelling enough to get me to pick this book up out of a sea of other titles sent to me by the same publisher. Every now and then, the eyes look [...]

You can read a review of the first Little Butterfly book here.
Art and Character Design: More of the engaging and beautifully rendered shojo-style we’ve come to expect from Takanaga-sensei: The panel layouts are ambitious and interesting, adding to the emotional impact of the story, while only very rarely becoming slightly difficult to follow. [...]

Art and Character Design: Yumeka-sensei uses simple character designs and lots of white space — in its minimalism, the art is somewhat reminiscent of Yukine Honami’s work — and the effect is often beautiful and striking. The panel layouts and framings, in particular, are well chosen and do a great job of [...]

Art and Character Design: Quite good in places and, in others, confusing and lackluster. For the most part, the character art is excellent — with beautifully drawn bishonen characters in striking poses, framed with flowers and bubbles. The chibi art starts off in the first chapter as some of the weakest I’ve [...]

Art and Character Design: No one does adorable, boyish character art quite like Yukine Honami. She could draw a quick pencil sketch of your worst enemy and I swear you’d want to hug him. Thus, her work is completely appropriate for this story and a pleasure to view. There’s rarely much [...]

Art and Character Design: Very competent. There is rarely much detail in the background, but the characters are well-designed, each with a distinctive look that approaches more “Western” realism. Both the pouty bishonen young adults and the clean-cut, hunky “geezer” (at age 41, thank you) are attractively drawn and masculine. A [...]

Art and Character Design: Quite nice. Panels are clean and uncluttered. With traditional big eyes and narrow chins, the characters are cute and charmingly expressive. Every character has a unique look, with plenty of engaging and beautifully rendered close-ups of our heroes.
Characters: Our heroes: Kojima — a friendly, energetic high [...]

Art and Character Design: The main selling point. The art and anatomy are solid overall, with some truly beautiful close ups on the faces. Nice clean lineart. Character expressions — the “acting” — are clear and engaging. The characters themselves are definitely bishonen, especially the protagonist, but they never just [...]