Miwa Shirow usually releases full black and white illustration doujins, but in the past year there have been two partial color books, one being VVW Vocaloid Visual Works and the other being m3wver.7+ce, a C77 release and the subject of today's review ^^

m3wver.7+ce is A4 in size and 48-pages including the covers. It's about half color, half black and white---although the monochrome illustrations are exactly that, illustrations and not sketches. Since I've always felt Miwa Shirow's coloring looks a bit off, I'm not one to complain about the monochrome works ^^

The first three works are all page spreads and at least one of them appeared before in one of the monochrome collections. They're all from Atlus games from the Shin Megami Tensei series, but I'm hazy on exactly which batch of characters are represented.

There are three (color) Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann illustrations as well as several Type Moon characters in m3wver.7+ce. Even though the colors are different, I'm pretty sure based on the clothing that Shiki from Kara no Kyoukai makes an appearance along with Fate/Zero characters in the color and monochrome sections. Also featured are fan arts from Devil May Cry (with a two-page spread) and Gunslinger Girl.

The color portion finishes up with a few color illustrations from DOGS and a spread of Black Rock Shooter, along with an illustration from one of the Supercell CD covers. One thing this collection is lacking is any kind of index or even text below the illustrations identifying the where they're from ^^;

As I mentioned before, the black and white illustrations are still quite impressive, with my favorite being the fan art of Viral from Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Perhaps it's one we'll be seeing in color in a future Miwa Shirow doujinshi!

• Title: m3wver.7+ce
• タイトル: m3wver.7+ce
• Pages: 48 (including covers)
• Release date: 12/31/2009
• Buy: eBay, Yahoo! Japan Auctions