The first two volumes cover all the 5.5 parts of Kusama Sakae-sensei's early day doujinshi.
The DJS was published from August, 2000 to August, 2006, so it's quite a progress for the two commercial books to be published within four years lol. She has always been obsessed with a detailed background, instead of leaving it blank or screentone-pasted, so can't be helped.
The literal translation of the commercial work is "How to Use Magic", but we decided to use "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", which is the word choice of the author herself.
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Just side note if you are not familiar with her drawing style:
Sakae Kusama reintroduces the square look with a twist: her layouts are like Mondrian's paintings: there are no white gaps around the squares and rectangles (if there are, their presence indicates a gap of time in the story) and the panels are separated only by thick black lines.
- by Simona's BL Research Lab