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hanaoka-a — It was June (Blush cover) by-nc-nd

Published: 2013-04-12 10:43:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 821; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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Description I drew this cover for the first number of the BL anthology Blush. The theme was "first love" so I made up a short story about two junior high school students who meet for the first time.
I wanted to draw boys in gakuran and hydrangeas but while in it I noticed that those two things couldn't go together. I mean, hydrageas are from rainy season, and rainy season comes with the summer, so it had to be summer uniform. No gakuran!
I liked "It was June" as the title, because kind of echoes the June genre from the beginnings of BL comics, so hydrangeas won over gakuran at the end.

You can read the rest of the submissions in Blush anthology here [link]

And here you have the comic pages: 

1 [link]
2 [link]
3 [link]

As always as I'm writting a short story, I get a lot of ideas of the things that could happen after the last page, but I don't think I'll be able to draw more chapters of this for the moment.
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Comments: 6

LifeEvans [2013-07-01 17:35:54 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful!!! I love it!!! *_______* <3

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hanaoka-a In reply to LifeEvans [2013-07-02 13:42:19 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!! <3

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LifeEvans In reply to hanaoka-a [2013-07-02 17:47:38 +0000 UTC]

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Zewdi [2013-04-15 17:51:38 +0000 UTC]

I loved this one because even though it was short, it had a lot of emotion
to it and had a good meaning. I just adore the pastel-like colouring and
their designs.

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hanaoka-a In reply to Zewdi [2013-04-15 19:14:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!! I wanted to try to tell a story without words.

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Zewdi In reply to hanaoka-a [2013-04-16 23:08:56 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure, and you conveyed that perfectly!

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