With a little something old as something new, Nagi Ryou's Comiket 77 release COLORS compiles three volumes of S.E.C (Sensuous Expression Content according to the cover) doujinshi into one 32-page, full color collection of art work from the past few years. The cover art is new to the book, but the rest of the content came from S.E.C volumes 00, 01, and 03 along with a couple of postcards released at past Comic Markets.

For me, this was a 'must-get' item. Nagi Ryou's doujinshi tend to be on the short side (generally 12 pages including covers), so the idea of buying his past volumes for the exorbitant prices they usually go for on Yahoo Japan just didn't sit well with me. COLORS pretty much eliminates the need for me to go backwards with this artist... although I wouldn't mind getting my hands on his Comiket 75 Mixture Graph doujinshi.

The book starts out with the cover illustrations for the three doujinshi featured, used as a table of contents with the corresponding page listings for where the art work can be found in COLORS. S.E.C 01 Specular Reflection appears first with 7-pages of art work, that include two two-page spread images. And that really is all the art work that was in S.E.C 01 Specular Reflection.

S.E.C 03 is subtitled Armored Skin, and from the photos above it's easy to see why. The entire focus of the 9-pages covering the art work from S.E.C 03 Armored Skin is girls incorporated with mecha-ish armored suits. It's interesting in that it ranges from the tradition Medieval-look for armor, to space-suit style mecha. Of course, all armor is designed for maximum sexiness, though I'm sure armor has another more practical purpose... right? XD

The final doujinshi featured is S.E.C version 0, which came out during Comiket 69. Even though this is the oldest work that COLORS has to offer, it still looks very polished and professional. The content is a lot different from what Nagi Ryou usually draws, with RPG styled characters featuring bards, dragons, pirates and mercenaries, but it's only 6-pages in total. For the sake of completion with his early works, I'm glad it's included.

Overall, this is perfect for people like me who haven't been actively collecting Nagi Ryou's art work. It might not be worth it if you happen to have 2 out of 3 of these volumes, but I know most fans and collectors like to have complete collections ^^;

• Title: COLORS
• タイトル: ｢COLORS｣
• Release Date: 12/31/2009
• Pages: 32
• Buy: eBay, Yahoo Japan