Starry Sky

Starry Sky is a series of drama CDs featuring guys representing aspects of the 12 Zodiac signs. This series has also spawned some otome games and an anime is on the way as well.

Below, you'll find more artwork of the various guys.

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Artist Spotlight: Mentaiko

Today's Artist Spotlight features artwork by the Japanese bara manga creator known as Mentaiko. This artist was suggested by J, who wondered if I had ever featured the artist on the site.

The artwork in today's post is from Mentaiko's official website (link contains non-worksafe content). Unlike many Japanese art sites, there are no explicit warnings in Japanese or English regarding the reuse of the images on the site. I also want to make clear that creators can contact me (lagosta2700 at aim dot com) to have their content removed from HFG.

The rest of the pics below are worksafe so you will have to go to Mentaiko's website (NSFW) to see the explicit stuff. Also, you can legally buy content from Mentaiko via DLsite.

La Corda d'Oro in Black & White

HFG's occasional "In Black and White" series returns with La Corda d'Oro taking the spotlight. For those of you who are unfamiliar with this series, all the pictures in these posts are monochrome. The pics in today's post come from the La Corda d'Oro manga by Yuki Kure.

If you want to check out the previous "in Black and White" posts, check out the recently created blackandwhiteseries tag.

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Bruce Wayne is Back

Bruce Wayne prepares to make his return to the DC Universe in the new limited series The Return of Bruce Wayne. Issue #1 has Bruce in a world with shirtless, hairy-chested warriors. I'm not sure how the other five issues will top this.

Andy Kubert did the cover while Chris Sprouse did the interior pencils.

DuRaRaRa!!

DuRaRaRa!! is a light novel series written by Ryohgo Narita and illustrated by Suzuhito Yasuda. The author of this series also wrote Baccano!. The show deals with a young man who moves to city and everything that happens to him there. There are a ton of characters so instead of trying to condense it anymore, I recommend you check out the Wikipedia page.

Like Baccano!, DuRaRaRa!! has an anime version which premiered pretty recently. Most of the art in this post comes from the anime. However, it should be noted that high-resolution fan art is easy to come by. It took me a little while to comb through what I have to find the official stuff.

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