I'm really happy to see so many of you excited for this book. I've been a Kito fan since I saw the Smiling to Huffing chapter in the magazine when I started working here and went "THIS IS MINE. I AM WORKING ON THIS CHAPTER." And it's pretty much been that way since. The sheer absurdity of his work makes me laugh like none of the other artists.
ntfakku wrote...
I wonder if these redraws are for both language releases or for FAKKU?
Still, the extra effort is much appreciated.
The redraws were done for the initial book release, so not just the English book. It's really apparent with his oldest chapters, Love & Juice Beat in particular. I'm guessing it was one of his first magazine releases, so from what he learned there he applied to everything else, or just wasn't happy with how he drew particular things in it. There are a few changes to the other chapters, but they mainly consist of a face change here, or moving a sfx away from the edge so the printer doesn't cut it off, or even adding sfx when there weren't any previously.
Here's an example of added sfx.
I recently got done with the Smiling to Huffing 3D chapter (aka the most amazing maid chapter ever created) and oh man, the sfx kicked my ass. lol. You may have seen these little memes via FAKKU staff where we post the handwritten for a chapter in an image, so here's mine for that chapter.
I'm currently working on the Urashima chapter now, and it's up there with one of my all time favorites. Though I dunno which Kito chapter I'd pick for my favorite, it's either Urashima with all the amazing underwater monster girls and Otohime-sama, Smiling to Huffing 3D, or Outdoor Break with that amazing ending. But working on Urashima's chapter just had me giggling like a nerd, remembering when the latest FFXIV Stormblood expansion came out and they had their own Urashima dungeon . All I could think about was the Kito chapter.