abec: Sword Art Online Vol. 9 (Alicization Beginning)
Translation of abec’s personal blog posts.
Mostly comments on the illustrations, since abec’s the illustrator for the series and all.
abec’s blog. (mature content warning)
Sword Art Online 9 Alicization Beginning.
It’s obviously advised to have read through the novels, or seen its illustrations first.
Spoilers are slight if there are even any.
*-s are links to notes. Click on them.
I’m not reproducing any images, so their positions will be marked within {description}s.
Might be a good idea to open a copy of the original post to see the images.
19th February 2012
SAO 9 Now On Sale!
{SAO Vol. 9 cover}
It’s now on sale~ You’ve probably bought it already, but all the same, I ask for your support.
And the drama CD preceding the anime is being released.
For details, refer to the address below.
[Accel World] + [Sword Art Online] Drama CD
The last day to reserve it is tomorrow, the 20th of February…!
Note it down! (just like what happened with Yoshii Hotori-sensei)
Anyway, more about the new book with spoilers in the READ MORE.
>>Character Design
As Alice and Eugeo are key characters of the 4th part from now on,
I figured the web edition readers should have a rather fixed image of them.
Honestly, I’ve never seen those two in the web editions, so I don’t know whether I’m close or far, though.
Just how was it? Especially Alice; there were various difficult points about her, so I was really troubled.
I would be glad if they suit the tastes of both the old and new readers.
>>Cover
There was the idea of making it a 3-person cover with Alice included,
but it ended up with these two. I thought about uploading that rough too,
but I forgot to get permission, so if I feel like it next time.
But it’s 2 rascals for 2 volumes in a row. As expected of Kirito-san!
The outfits for both of these two are plain in this volume, but they should become more cool from the next time onwards, so!
>>Frontispiece
The illustration in the middle of the text was based on an illustration from the time it was published on the web as well.
The original was in a portrait orientation, probably showing the text and 3 characters as the page was scrolled,
but as expected, that wouldn’t be possible for a book, so I made it landscape,
but it seems well-received, so that’s good.
>Illustrations
Selka ended up cuter than I thought, or rather, it ended up looking erotic due to the illustration. (*´▽｀)
I love these sort of plain girls, so I drew with gusto.
Bonus
{coloured scribble with those 3}
That’s right, I thought that I didn’t draw Alice in colour, so here’s a scribble (tentatively, she was drawn among the book’s frontispieces, though)
Perhaps that’s what I was aiming for.