Daria Kostaniakさんのイラストまとめ

Comparission of Akatsuki no Yona 1st volume covers: the first one is Polish version by @Studio_JG and I think it handles the ideas of oryginal logo very well. The french version is also really elegant!

I found some nice covers of Tsumugi Taku's manga. Realistic & minimalistic, with a lot of unspoken, white space, I really like it!

Fashion is a great way to express oneself.After war shoujo manga was being published in lifestyle magazines for girls, where fashion was an important part of it.Most influencal shoujo illustrators (Nakahara Junichi)were also fashion designers.Via Kiss me at the Stroke of Midnight

New Taamo manga, Atsumori-kun no Oyomesan: it is about a village girl that meets a boy from prestigious school in Tokyo. She study hard for entire two years to get into his school, to be near him and marry him. And I'm so frustrated!!! She did so much hard work studying and she-

STRELIZIA - It is an exotic plant, definitely a metaphorical one, because of its english name: bird of paradise. The colours and shape of its flower looks like exotic birds'

GENISTA - I think the flowers of this plant weren't the inspiration for mecha design. instead, it was the shape of this plant, cushiony and compact

It's time to compare darlifra's mecha names with their meaning. All names are just a flower names written in Latin. DELPHINIUM is a flower that blooms in summer, is vertical, really tall and only in white, pink, purple colours. Its really easy to see the similarities in design

@PeterFobian How about Kentaro Miura drawing fanarts for Akatsuki no Yona, a real, traditional shoujo? (Since Chica Umino's works were published in magazines like Young You or Young Animal which are not shoujo magazines so she is not a shoujo artist)

#shoujo manga is very lyrical. Most important components of shoujo narration are: flowers, ribbons/frills, big galaxy eyes, hands. Here is a comprarission between 1960's art (Miyako Maki) and art nowadays (Honey Lemon Soda by Mayu Murata). The tradition is still alive