I was excited to see the comics by women artist because it is about woman artists! The first impression about 'This One Summer' was that the artist has really nice style.
It seemed drawn in some computer program with nice brushes. The artist might used the charcoal brush and these kinds of brushes tend to have traditional qualities but in digital world so you could feel the roughness of the strokes. Personally I am fan of these brush settings and also this comics made me feel to buy the brush. The mood of the comics and the characters' body shapes and the gestures were great overall. The story of this comic focused a girl who visited her family's summer house near by beach and happenings around her including her family and with other girls. The story plot seemed quite flat, this is not the story which has up and down story plot. I think the main girl is going through puberty and experiencing many emotional changes. Something like you will never be same as before.
The mood of 'This One Summer' reminded me Mushishi byYuki Urushibara although they shares nothing in common. But the overall calm, odd sometimes quite cold (in my opinion) many nature drawings made me think of Mushishi.
I really like the story and the style of this comic. Although it's black and white, it showed good atmosphere changes. Actually I think her choice drawing without colors was good because it provided more imagination of colors and mood.