Here is the first loot of the Japan Expo; at the Wasabi Record booth, Kanon Wakeshima’s new album collector version. It will be released tomorrow in Europe, and on the 27th for the rest of the world ( not only Japan ). Since it has yet to be officially released, I will just provide some sample and a bit of history. Anyway, it’s certainly already available in download somewhere on the intraweb.
People should have noticed a certain lack of update since February. Well it’s a strange one.I had a peak of activity around the end of last year, and in January; did I have free time? Not at all. It was the end of the semester and I was really busy finishing projects. Now in February, it’s simple, it was a very lazy month. So what happened?
Starting the C77 stack with Baby doll biscuit, a collaboration between Morinaga Korune and Okazaki Anko. I’m already familiar with Morinaga Korune, with her loli, lolita dress and overall cute style, but it’s my first time that I see Okazaki Anko. Baby doll biscuit is a 20 pages doujinshi, cover included, and has some high quality printing as I can’t see the screening with my bare eyes, but it might also be an effect of the paper which is grainy, so the processing in the end wasn’t easy. I still have some flaw in the scanning workflow but I should address them for the next release. [PNG]
I haven’t updated for a little while; I have mainly been resting since I finally some time and I felt like I was neglecting myself. Now it’s time to empty the scan buffer before starting digging into C77. I will keep this post short since people should be familiar with Izumi Tsubasu. Colorful Pop is her long series of full color doujinshi released promptly for Comiket… well not always but we are already at the 7th issue. Flipping it from Colorful Pop 1 to 7, it’s really easy to notice how Izumi Tsubasu improved, as well as her support. The firsts Colorful Pop are on cardboard paper while the latter one use plastic paper, which is a lot better. And I just noticed that one page need to be rescanned, sorry orz. I will correct it later. [PNG]
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In the middle of all the art related articles, here is one on music. I think that people discovered Shikata Akiko with Umineko no Naku Koro ni‘s opening, either the anime or the sound novel. In fact, the anime opening is the first anime related single she has ever released. Her previous works involve commercial album, OST of Ar Tonelico, and doujin music under the name VAGRANCY. Since it was requested by icie, I released a torrent of what I have from her, and I really like it so I hope you will enjoy, and I’m also taking the opportunity to make a blog post about her compositions and some of my favorite tracks. Samples are included, so get your favorite headphones, and the torrent for the FLAC! [Torrent]
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