I have an Eroica question. There were novels at one point with more realistic art styles for the covers. I remember them from the Eroica forum back in the early 2000s. I only have some parts of one cover still (from a background page I made for Gaia online). Do you know of these novels? I’m trying to hunt down the cover art again and it’s proving difficult.
they are actually the bunkoban editions of the manga! they're A6 sized, 300 page-ish versions of eroica (so, bigger than the average volume).
they were drawn by an artist named kazunori bannai. there's about 20 of them altogether. you can't find them in akita shoten's official website anymore, so they're presumably out of print, but you can still find them to buy in mandarake. here's volume 1.
these were all scanned by the lovely @vampyrlig! you can find them easily in their eroica tag (with the exception of the last one, which is from mandarake)
btw i hope you don't mind me posting the image you made that you sent in another ask bc it's glorious
