Review date: 8/15/2003

Publisher: Gakken

Artist: Urushihara, Satoshi

Released: 2001

Availability: RARE

Type: Adult Artbook

Bound: Softcover

Review Edition: First Printing

 
 
Personal Story/ Introduction:
This is hentai artist legend Satoshi Urushihara's graphic novel "Ragnarock City". Urushihara-san is most well-known for his trademark of drawing ultra-detailed eyes and nipples in his art. I read about it in some online artbook review site and it peaked my interest. I finally found this in an online store and I had to get it since it was the only store that had it.
 

Main Themes :
Girls, Exhibitionism, Lesbians, Sex, Fantasy
 

Art / Content:
Digital art. "Ragnarock City" is not really an artbook. It's actually a graphic novel or "Sexy Visual Story" as the cover indicates. It features the same type of art and themes in Urushihara-san's artbooks. It's set in a very strange world where girls wear skimpy outfits with their breasts, genitals and asses fully exposed. Very strange indeed. I wish I lived there. ;) I don't really understand the story since it's 100% Japanese but I can tell you it's some sort of love story between two girls. It's an unusual story that doesnt make any sense. There's also some fantasy elements but I have no idea what's that about either. The art style is the same as his "Love" artbook. It has the same colors and clean line art with the realistic pubic hairs. You can actually find a few pages of the art from this book in "Love" as well.

Urushihara-san shows some stuff here that he hasn't shown in his artbooks. One subtle theme that popped up in this book involves nipple erections. Urushihara-san seems to shows this a few times to indicate the main character's arousal. Since there are no men in this world, I guess Urushihara-san wanted to show female arousal in a new way. Urushihara-san also shows actual lesbian sex in a few pages at the end of the book. He hasn't done this in any of his artbooks at all.

 
Overall: A-
This "artbook" has a nice collection of art by Urushihara-san. Anyone who enjoys his art will enjoy this. Even though it's a graphic novel, the art is nice enough to be considered an artbook. The story doesn't seem to make any sense but I don't think anyone cares about that. :P There's solid art here but I wish it had a bit more stuff.
 

Where can I find this?
Quite rare. I only found this in one small online store. It's pretty much sold out everywhere and isn't very well known compared to his "real" artbooks.
 
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