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二乃ちゃん
先日、五等分の花嫁を初めて読みました。めちゃくちゃ面白くて感動して最高の作品でした。そういう訳で推しの二乃を描きました。制服が描きたかったので学校の放課後のシチュエーションにして、申し訳程度ですがバレンタインっぽく手作りチョコを作って渡そうとしてる場面をイメージしました。二乃の恋愛に積極的なところやオシャレで女子力が高いところも大好きです。
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五等分の花嫁を読んで個人的に最もすごいと思ったのは構成力の高さでした。緻密なストーリーから伏線、コマ割りといった表現まであらゆる点がとても丁寧に作られていて非常に読みごたえがありました。特に感銘を受けたのが、ラブコメでありがちな「個別回の多いヒロインほど最後に結ばれる」といった先入観を逆手に取りつつ、読者目線と風太郎目線を巧みにズラして見事なミスリードを演出されたことです。この作風によって謎解きモノとして種明かしの衝撃を大きくしつつ、同時にラブコメとして負けヒロインを魅力的なキャラに引き立てていて脱帽しました。事実、二乃と三玖は早々に負けヒロインとはなりましたが読者人気はダントツの2TOPだと思います。読者目線ではなく風太郎目線で読み返してみるとまた違った印象を抱いたのも面白かったです。長々と語ってしまいましたがそれだけ自分にとって五等分の花嫁は素晴らしい作品でした。そのうち機会があればまた五つ子ちゃんを描きたいです。
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Nino-chan
I read The Quintessential Quintuplets for the first time the other day. It was very interesting, moving, and the best work I've ever read. That's why I drew my favorite character, Nino. I wanted to draw her in school uniform, so I made the situation after school, and I imagined her making handmade chocolates and trying to give them to him like Valentine's Day. I also love the fact that Nino is proactive in love, fashionable, and has high girl power.
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What I personally thought was the most amazing thing about reading The Quintessential Quintuplets was its compositional skills. From the detailed storyline to the foreshadowing and the panel divisions, every aspect of the story was very carefully crafted, making it a very rewarding read. I was particularly impressed by the fact that the author took the preconceived notion that the heroine with the most individual appearances is the one who will end up getting married in the end, which is often the case in romantic comedies, and skillfully displaced the reader's perspective and Futaro's perspective to create a brilliant mislead. This style makes the shock of the revelation as a mystery solving story bigger, and at the same time, as a romantic comedy, it makes the defeated heroine an attractive character. In fact, I think that Nino and Miku are two of the most popular heroines in the world, even though they lost early on. It was also interesting that I had a different impression when I read it again not from the reader's point of view but from Futaro's point of view. I've talked about it for a long time, but for me, The Quintessential Quintuplets was a wonderful work. If I have the chance, I'd like to draw another quintuplets.
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