The lastest installment of collected E☆2 Magazine illustrations is Girls Girls Girls! 7 ~Anniversary Girl Collection~. The title belies the underlying theme, and the pictures on the whole tend to have a celebratory theme, or were illustrated for that purpose. In all there are 52 artists participating in this volume, with some of the illustrations gathered from E☆2 Magazine issues as far back as 2007.

Girls Girls Girls! 7 ~Anniversary Girl Collection~ is the usual A4-sized and 96-pages. There are a total of eight illustration themed sections, starting out with 12-pages of New Year's zodiac animal girls. Each of the illustrations are done by a different artist, with art work from Mikeou, Noritama, Hinayuki Usa, MALINO, Kagome, and KEI just to name a few.

The Angel theme is the next section of illustrations, although they're not all a standard depiction of the idea. Instead, some are angel costumes while others are closer to being fairies. Some of the girls don't even have wings ^^ There's a nice variety of artists featured, with Fuyuno Haruaki, Hayase Akira, Matayoshi, and ten others each contributing an illustration.

The next group of illustrations, under the heading Change! approaches the theme in a creative variety of ways. Goto P depicts a school girl with her middle school uniform in the background, posing for a mirror with her new high school uniform. A few other artists depicted girls with butterfly wings, as butterflies are a bit of a universal symbol of change. Miyu's illustration was definitely the best one out of those.

Mikeou and Shiki Douji have contributed original works to several volumes of E☆2 Magazine, and three of these two-page spreads for each artist are gathered in this volume of Girls Girls Girls! 7. They're all printed with overlap too, as they are in the initial magazine publication.

The next section is the titular Anniversary Girls, with 20 illustrations depicting girls celebrating everything from their birthdays to their wedding days and anything in between. Again, there's a great variety of artists in this section and some of the more notable illustrators featured are Watanabe Akio (Poyoyon Rock), Kobuichi, Kuuchuu Yousai, Shintaro, and Aoi Kimizuka. Though all the illustrators are excellent, the ones I named aren't E☆2 regulars so it makes it more of a treat.

The full-page illustrations more or less end on page 72 with the start of Sakura Nitohei's artist's corner comics (7-pages) and the Date Illustration Story section, which features four illustrated 'dates' for you to go on. Though they're still big on illustrations, there is a text narrative over the art work. The Date Illustration stories run from pages 79 through 94, with the last illustration in Girls Girls Girls! 7 ~Anniversary Girl Collection~ being the cover art work by Tony Taka. I liked Girls Girls Girls! 7 a lot more than the previous volume, it just had better themes overall. I'm sure if you buy these, you generally know what you're getting by now, so hopefully this is helpful in making that crucial decision! ^_~

• Title: Girls Girls Girls! 7 Illustrations
• タイトル: ガールズ・ガールズ・ガールズ！7
• Pages: 96
• Release date: 06/01/2011
• Buy: Amazon Japan