Archive for December, 2009
Today, 29th, Comiket already started! Meanwhile here is another preview since anyway, most stuff will be sold on the third day. Some artist updated only today, and of course, I overlooked some as there way too many to monitor. That’s also why I suggest you to read some other preview from icie and from Ippiki Ookami. Not many artist to cover in this preview, but they are worth a look.
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One more preview; and it might be the last one if there is no more updates, as we getting closer to the first Comiket day. My French translation is now available at Doujinsuki. Now everyone I know has put their own articles for the upcoming Comiket, and while there is a redundancy in the information, it’s interesting to see how everyone cover it and the circle they are interested in. Also, Crescent Shop is closed until the 2nd, but I’m too lazy to make a deposit to another deputy, so I guess I will have to wait. Hoefully, I just put my pre-order before they closed ^^. Now it seems that for this third preview, I have quite a number of well known artist this time. Oh and quick warning, this post start with a pantsu collection.
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Another preview for C77. I’m working in parallel with the French translation. The French one will have less circle, focusing mainly on high profiles first. I also talked about artist drawing for eroge, and eroge company do participate in Comiket. I tend to overlook them though as their set tends to be quite expensive, but nevertheless, they are good sources for artwork. We are still in the middle of the update period and it’s still slow *sigh*. I did put my preorder at Toranoana though. Also, most images I upload is resized to fit my template, but you can click on the circle/company name to get directly to the event page. Lastly, as I’m splitting the preview in several articles, you can take a look at the tags in the left sidebar and see who/what is featured.
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It’s that time of the year again! I first didn’t plan to do any preview for this upcoming Comiket since icie did it for each Comiket with plenty of details and circle, which I don’t always follow. My scanlation teammate did it as well, so it would be quite redundant. But I was contacted recently by Fettgans @ Doujinsuki and asked if I wanted to promote doujinshi in France. This is something which I would like to do, and is the primary reason I will do the preview. While the French translation will be aimed at a broader audience, the one I will put here in English will be more personal and I won’t bother people with details. I will also split these preview in several part as we are in the middle of the updating period meaning not everyone has information about their release. A change from previous update is also the use of Pixiv to spread the update. It’s going to be in random order, and I must remind that I don’t speak Japanese.
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Released last month, Pixiv Fantasia III ( ISBN: 978-4047261549 ) is the third installment in the series. The first two though didn’t have any publication and were only distributed on the Internet. As the name suggest, it’s a book with fantasy themed illustrations, ranging from humans to mythical beasts, to heaven from hell. I must say that this artbook is a departure from my usual collection, meaning bishoujo, moe… Quite a lot of new artists are featured, but none really stroke me so I will skip that part; I just focused a little bit more on my favorite illustration. At the end of the review, I will talk about their upcoming artbook, Pixiv Girls Collection 2010 which I hope will redeem the 2 previous Pixiv book I got.
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