Suppose it's kinda nice to talk, for once, about a circle that is still around and pumping out stuff... I do enjoy my dōjin archaeology, but I get the feeling sometimes that the stuff I talk about is a bit too dead for its own good.
But not this time around! Circle FASHIONSNAP-02 may no longer be around, but its sole member U10 is still very active under a number of different names, pumping out roughly the same content. That is, stylish illustrations of gals sporting the kind of outfits you could see in places like FRUItS or Larme. Not my kind of outfit, nor my kind of content, but I have to say U10 has the skills to make it palatable even to a country bumpkin like me.
A thin but glossy 20 pages, full color deal, 2010's U10folio is but one of the many pinup collections U10 has put out in the last decade or so. The deals' quite simple: no backgrounds, just wiry, stylish gals dressed in that kind of mature, earthy tones fashion that has more or less taken the place of that loli nonsense from a few years ago. Most of the illustrations are 'originals', in the sense of 'mannequin with clothes on', but there are also a couple Hatsune Miku inspired ones (pretty good), and a few illustrations celebrating Japanese band Perfume (nuke from orbit). The tract's thin and detailed, and the colors have an almost watercolor-liek quality that I really dig. Text is minimal, kept to a brief and inconsequential foreword.
All in all, a nice collection of illustrations, nothing groundbreaking but still a nice take on a certain kind of fashion you might or might not be interested in.
