oh, pretty.

When I came home from work today, my yesasia.com order of the Making of Hanazakari no Kimitachi e and Miss x Match books were waiting for me. Both of them were smaller than I expected, but chock full of pretty pictures. Miss X Match happens to be the sapphilicious photobook Maki did with her friend (and fellow Sweet Power talent) Meisa Kuroki, and it's got a pretty nifty pedigree attached to it - the photographer is Kishin Shinoyama, who's famous for his photobooks/shoots concerning the female form.

When I looked through the photobook, I finally understood how some comic book geeks can get about bagging and sealing up their precious issues, to keep it archive quality - because really, these photographs are beautiful. The paper's a bit thinner than I'm used to for photograph books, but I suppose that's to be expected, it's a paperback after all.

Anyway, because I want to keep my photobook in a book shape and not smash it out all of its binding (unless I decide to buy another copy just for scanning purposes), I scanned the very last image in the book.

( another side of Maki you may not have expected )

( huge screencaps of some of my favorite highlights of the Hana Kimi finale. Be warned, these are huge. )