Inuyasha : 2005 Wall Calendar

Rating:
Summary: Well printed composites, good theme... but starts on Sunday.
Review: The printing on this calendar is fabulous. It's halftone on velvet-tooth matte paper, theoretically stochastic SHOULD be used for this type of work, but the detail is clear enough. Brilliant colours and gradients - looks more like a hexachrome than a CMYK press, and the cover (front and back) is glossy. On the back there's thumbnails of the calendar images. The front has Inuyasha and the "written-in-paint" freehand logo against a woodblock-print-style background with a tasteful border and a hexagon-design.

The images for each month have original composites of various characters looking like they are posing. The background isn't too original - effect backgrounds instead of actual background - but the colour schemes look pretty. On the adjacent page (the dates) there is another image on the upper-right part with a character 'portrait'.

This is a RTL-row block calendar (reads right-to-left, one block of 4 rows), with US/Canada holidays marked on the day blocks. The new moon is marked with a black-haired InuYasha. It's the same one on every page, but at least they though of that. (I won't spoil the series if you havn't watched it - there's a reason why the InuYasha has black hair on that day).

The only problem I've had with this calendar is that is begins the week on Sunday, which is wrong unless you're in Vancouver, B.C. I used glossy label paper, Photochop, a printer and a craft blade to fix the problem. I also added things like Boys' day on May 5th and National Day. Overall, it is a great decoration if you don't mind fixing the days of the week.