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.

Kanon Wakeshima is certainly known to western public thanks to the ending of Vampire Knight, Still Doll. I’m quite surprised over the fact that she has her album released abroad, but other than that, I greatly welcome the move and hope that other singer will follow this path.
Now, let me be frank, the ending of Vampire Knight didn’t leave me an impression; meaning I didn’t download the ending single and I don’t remember the name of the singer. It was very dark, fitting for the anime, maybe too dark for my taste. But I became interested in Kanon Wakeshima thanks to a small concert she held at Paris’ Maison de la Culture Japonaise ( House of Japanese Culture ). She did it at the beginning of a gothic lolita fashion show for a very small audience, maybe 200 persons max. She opened with Still Doll, which allowed me to recognize her. Other than being a great singer, she is also very beautiful and a great violoncellist.

Now the two other song certainly marked me most, and having such a small room and audience for a concert was bliss for the ears. Shinku no Fatalism and L’espoir ~Mahou no Akai Ito~ are bright compared to Still Doll. All 3 are featured in her first album, Shinshoku Dolce. This album is a mix of genre, but it is quite on the dark side.

Now, Shōjo Jikake no Libretto: Lolitawork Libretto is a little bit less dark, and more gothic. It also seems to me that her style is more definite in this one. The theme is based around girls’ imagination. Limited edition includes a cardboard jacket and a DVD with the PV for LOLITAWORK LIBRETTO ~Storytelling by solita~.

The european package includes 2 booklets, 1 in japanese, the other one is the translation in english of the lyrics. There is also a card featuring Kanon’s drawing, and her photo on the other side. Now in term of music, there is 13 tracks on the CD. Like Shinshoku Dolce, there are 2 smalls instrumentals one for prologue and epilogue.

First vocal one is Kajitsu no Keikoku, starting first with the instrument, and of course, her cello. Ok I can cheat since I have the translation and tell you that it’s about a forbidden fruit. But for an opening, it’s quite close to how Shiku no Fatalism opened Shinsoku Dolce; strong cello, impressive vocal.

Second vocal is Heroine Syndrome. If you liked these 2, I think you will like the rest. Afteral, this was for a me an impulsive buy, without having ever heard one song from this album, and in the end, I like it overall, which is quite rare. Sellers told me that I had good taste, and that it’s rare from a man ^^;.

Now for those who love her dark style, it’s a lot less present, but the most dark one is certainly celmisia, but it doesn’t trump Still Doll.

Last track, is not the epilogue surprisingly. It’s LOLITAWORK LIBRETTO ~Storytelling by solita~ which is also on the DVD. The PV is quite impressive, featuring a wicked world of literature and fairy tales. Of course, she has a beautiful dress and you can see 2 of her 3 cello. Now, there is also someone else in the PV, solita, a young french vocalist. Now, even if I’m french, I had a hard time to understand since it’s too creamy, but that’s certainly a wanted effect since the song is based around call and response. I regret not having seen the 3D version at the Japan Expo as it seems like something which would profit from it. I didn’t plan to put the full PV, but since it’s already on Youtube, there is little point. Of course, Youtube quality sucks and doesn’t do it justice.

I took a break from my moderating job, as it can get tiresome after one year and half without a break. There are still a few things I think will need to be done on E-shuushuu, but I don’t know if I will have the motivation.

In fact, I have been quite enjoying these last 2 months. Never have I procrastinated so much. I just finished in 2 days a project which was supposed to be done in 2 months. Also I have been playing an MMORPG… Maybe more details on it in another article. Since WoW, I didn’t touch one for 3 years. I spent quite a lot of free time playing meaning you didn’t see much tweet nor activity around the Web.

Now how is this blog going to continue? First of all, if you did keep up with my tweets, you know that my fellow Macbook Pro’s screen has a dead back lighting. The problem started 6 months ago, when the screen connector started to get worn out. I tried to fix it with… pieces of paper. Yes, it did work, and when I got problems, I just needed to twist the screen. But I had to dismantle it several time to get things right, and I put quite a lot of stress on the bezel which got cracks. It’s not a problem because there is the case which still support the weight of the screen. The problem is that the case needs first to be fixed with screws which go lost. I once had a dead graphic card, and I think those who repaired it messed with my screws.
So with the weight started to stress the LCD screen itself, and I think that this stress generated a shortcut in the back light circuitry. In short, it’s unusable, unless I put my desk lamp behind it to replace the back light ( no joke ). So for now, I’m using an old laptop, slightly less powerful than my Macbook Pro and with a clear lack of matte display and multitouch trackpad. I’m in the market for a new one!

This also mean that my main machine for scan is well, dead. Right now, scanning on this one is a pain since I need to adapt my workflow. I have a huge stack of C77 stuff waiting to get reviewed. The problem is that now, I really lack time, and next week, I will be in Canada for internship. So, I won’t be able to provide any update for the C77 loot, or maybe I will take a round of photos before leaving, but scanning is time consuming. Count one afternoon for a thin doujinshi.

The question is what I will do during the 3 months in Canada for this blog. My main focus is out of range. Well I guess I will need to go back to one thing I like; technology. I had in mind to dedicate some articles to technology when I first started this blog. On my Mac, there is already the draft for one article for HTML5/Flash and one about the interface paradigm on tablet. Now I don’t know if people are interested in those, since it’s a deviation of the line I had set up for this blog a few months ago, but it seems like I won’t have any visual goodies for the next 3 months. I guess I can also finally use my manga category, I have some manga I always wanted to review. I guess we will how it will shape.

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]

The doujinshi start with a rather gratuitous pantsu shot. Schoolgirl getting their skirt stuck between their back and their bag is a rare sight ^^;. But this is the only pantsu shot featured in this book. Exactly one half of this book is filled with Morinaga Korune’s art, and the rest is of course Okazaki Anko’s.

We quickly get to Morinaga Korune’s strong point, lolita fashion. I really like lolita fashion, and I find her artstyle really cute. There isn’t a lot of illustration from her, mostly because there is already 2 pages spread. Page spread are usually annoying, but since it’s a thin doujinshi bound by staples, it’s less irritating than lets say, a big artbook.

The middle of the book shows the transition in artist. While the two artist are quite similar, there are small difference which hopefully allows us to distinguish who drew what. If you want to know: The difference is in the eyes, white reflection and shape. I have small preference for Morinaga Korune’s art which seems to be more polished.

In fact Okazaki Anko is more like an older version of Morinaga Korune’s style. With time it should improve. I have no problem with artist copying another as I think that they will always have their own style no matter how hard they try to copy, and in the end they will derivate it and find their own.

Unlike the first part, her half have some different theme, like bunny girl and miko. Less lolita fashion, which I won’t complain either as it’s still cute! You also have the feeling that there are more art since there are less page spread.

In fact the whole doujinshi is cute, so if you like cute stuff, lolita fashion, this is a really nice doujinshi to have. It’s still available at Toranoana for those interested.

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]

Well, I better say that since it’s the first Colorful Pop, the artwork lacks a lot of polish. Some people might not get those old doujinshi considering that the artist lacked experience back then.

However numbered issue always bothered me; I’m pretty sure some people are annoyed when there is an hole in a series. So I searched this one for quite some time and in the end, it wasn’t cheap.

Contrary to later issue, this Colorful Pop has a lot of fanart. At release time, she worked on Aozora no Mieru Oka, which is also my first contact with her. Chance are that it’s what made her well known.
There are very few original illustrations which are my favorite, but every artist have to start from there first.

The coloring is a lot less vibrant than now, and there are less details. But the basis are here, especially the eyes which have already have a lot of element defining her style.

So here is the missing Colorful Pop, the first one. It’s not stellar in anyway, and in fact I don’t recommend to get it for the art, but for the sake of completeness, I got it.

For starters, listen to the Umineko’s single. Usually I download an anime single for the opening I heard and liked. I just give a try or two to the other tracks but it’s really rare that I catch my attention. When it comes to music I’m quite picky, and my MP3 player is just filled with tracks I like. Now with the Umineko’s single, it’s simple, I like the other vocal, and even more than the opening.

VII

This composition is greatly reminiscent of Kanon Wakeshima, with the presence of the cielo. It’s also quite eery. If I had to image the song, it would be a girl with her doll, walking in the street by a cold night of winter in a dark creepy town, and suddenly, it lights up. Of course I have no idea of the lyrics but that’s the image I have. What I find very nice is that the music is clearly cut in part, the slow beginning which extends for 2 minutes, then a beat up part to finish with another slow one, rewinding the doll.

Kin-iro no Choushou ~Uruwashi no Bansan~

Katakoi

These are the 2 tracks which came with the game opening. Kin-iro got another clear cut composition, with a slow dark lamenting beginning, with impressive vocal, then mid-way the tone changes. Does it remind some witch laughter?

Katakoi is a bit the intruder here, as it’s not as dark as the other two, and fits the jpop category. But it’s a very nice song, one of my all time favorite. I first prefered Kin-iro in this single but Katakoi slowly grew within me. In fact, Shikata Akiko’s style is far wider than what you might have heard from Umineko.

Let’s rewind time to her oldest work now. I have already covered Haikyo to Rakuen a long time ago, and some of the tracks got remixed over time. For instance Se l’aura spira. A short song which I greatly like and noteworthy is the Italian lyrics, which can be found in several of her songs. The song got instrumental remix in VIRIDIAN, a music box album, and Hanakisou Symphonic.

Haiko to Rakuen – Se l’aura Spira
Viridian – Se l’aura Spira
Hanakisou Symphonic – Se l’aura Spira

It’s really a simple music, and that’s certainly what I like the best about it, total opposite of VII in term of atmosphere. Through all her doujin album, she has made several remix from Haikyo To Rakuen and other, and I recommend to listen to them as it’s another take. Haikyo to Rakuen and Kalliope’s Radio Yohou/ラヂヲ予報, Hanakisou Soundtracks and Hanakisou Symphonic Winter/Kuroto/玄冬のテーマ, Hanakisou’s theme. In fact I have never totally dug in these albums as I need time to appreciate music; not as a background noise, but truly for what it’s. As I’m writing this post, I’m completing my collection as well.

Hanakisou Soundtrack – Kuroto
Hanakisou Symphonic – Kuroto no Thema

Haikyo to Rakuen – Radio Yohou
Kalliope – Radio Yohou

Shikata Akiko as I discovered her 1 year ago certainly placed herself within my favorite list of composer and vocalist. She has several unique style, which I hope listeners will appreciate as much as me.

Here is an experimental article; as I might do more artist focus in the future. I don’t expect their content to be always the same. Il will certainly depends of the material I have at hand and my knowledge. I have acquired Let’s Make Character CG 2 month ago, but as you could expect from the title, this is no artbook. So how will I review this book which certainly doesn’t fall in the artbook category? In term of illustration, there is only 3 new one in this book, certainly for the explanation. So instead of reviewing the book itself, I will dig inside Shimeko‘s artstyle as I flip through the pages of this book as she has a truly unique artstyle which I appreciate very much. I have limited skills when it comes to drawing and coloring, but I hope this will also help people who are learning, as I’m filling this article under the “Learning to draw” tag. The new illustrations are processed and saved in PNG, the rest is raw resized JPG. [PNG: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4]

Shimeko start first with a sketch, drawn on paper, then she ( because it’s always better when the artist is female even though I don’t know! ), ink in Photoshop. I won’t comment much this part, but the sketch doesn’t have a lot of details, so most of them are drawn during inking.

The coloring is really what makes Shimeko’s style unique. She first start by giving a general look of the skin color. Also it seems like she already gives some substance to the eyes by using a gradient. As a noob in coloring, I know also that a lot of people make this mistake: they start to color in detail one part of the body, leaving the rest blank. This is also true for sketch and lineart; but having seen some step by step explanation from some artist. I think they all give a general feeling of the illustration color scheme. This is certainly an important step as it determines the contrast type, the color coherency and of course, the general feeling of the image.

The book also have some technique, apart from the step by step explanation. Here we have Shimeko’s coloring stroke. The first one is an hard brush with varying size, like ink; the second is like an airbrush, and the last one is more like watercolor, with varying opacity. While I have an idea how to do ink and watercolor with the pen pressure setting, I’m not sure for the airbrush as it looks more diffusing than the default soft brush in Photoshop with dynamic size.

Of course, the lineart doesn’t remain plain black with most artists, as the surrounding color has an effect on the visual perception and in fact, the black will no longer look black. Shimeko used brown here for eyes lashes, and all other the stroke.

Then, Shimeko do a basic shading of her illustration. At this stage it looks already quite like a digital drawing, without much details left to add; but she doesn’t have this digital style and in fact, her coloring as people know s rather soft and painting like. The first step in this magic is certainly her light casting. Objects reflect light and give certain shade to other element. It’s the case here for leaves and strawberries.

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To finish her artwork, Shimeko makes a copy of her artwork, then apply a gausian blur and modify the fusion mode and opacity. The difference isn’t so visible in the book as the images are a bit small. Then she adds the frills to the dress. As it’s simple frills, she draw them by hand and lastly, she modify the curves. Once again, I can’t tell the visual difference, but here is the finish artwork.

The book has 2 more illustrations with their step by step coloring. The process is bit different for these 2 but I won’t get in details. At the end of the book, there is also 2 other illustrations, but they are already on the Internet, either in digital form or as a scan. Ultimately, this book is really nice if you want to learn Shimeko’s style, and if you do understand Japanese as it’s not easy to get anything from the images. I also hope that I will be able to do more of these focus in the future.

For books layout, this is normally a job left for the publisher who have to send then the PDF file to the printer. For doujinshi I will guess that it’s the artists themselves who are doing the job. For such job, publisher normally use DTP softwhare ( Desktop Publishing ) like Adobe inDesign, or Quark Xpress, depending of their computer environment. Layout in artbook can be quite different between them, but I will distinguish two cases, one where they put the illustration as large as possible, and then another with small illustrations.

Illustrations taking whole pages, were from the beginning prepared for printing; they can be on one page, or spread on 2 pages. The later case must have certainly annoyed a lot of people. Why can’t they just rotate the image to put it sideway. I’m not sure myself, but I will guess that turning a book is a taboo. Nevertheless, they should normally take into account the thickness of the artbook especially for glue binding which usually eat a part of the image; but in most case I have seen they will print on the full page.

Here is a normal page layout. As you can see, there are plenty of margin; as a normal book will look bad without them. The best layout would have even more margin than this but artbooks usually doesn’t waste that much space. Most of them remove the margin, even the outside one for thumbs and notes. This margin is convenient so as to to not put fingers on the illustration, but I guess everyone are careful with their artbooks and flip the pages with just the border. The inside margin is here to take into account the eaten part but artbooks spread the illustration in there. In fact in the DTP software it’s pretty simple, you put the illustration in the middle of the double page layout and you get your 2 page spread illustration with the binding in the middle. I will admit that margin would certainly kill the illustration, but it seems that some people do take this into account, and in fact make overlapping pages. While there is still a part of the illustration eaten, visually it will be less apparent as the binding is compensated by the overlapping.

Now we can get onto the printing, and sadly, there are still color problem there. Getting an image in CMYK will not guarantee the quality of the color. The problem here lies in the different ink used. First of all, it’s normal for an artist to preview their art on paper, and they have a very good inkjet printer for that job. Inkjet printer aren’t for intensive printing, so they use liquid ink, which have a very good color restitution. It will be rather faithful to the screen. However, the ink used by professional printer are different. It’s a paste ink, used for offset printing ( most common printing method as it’s cheap for mass good quality printing ). The difference of the ink can change how an artwork looks.

Here are sample of Noizi Ito’s first and second artbook, GU-RE-N, and KA-E-N. GU-RE-N has always been a deceiving artbook for me compared to KA-E-N. The difference are in the color; GU-RE-N just looks bland, compared to KA-E-N which has the nice and vivid color of Noizi Ito’s style. The problem here is not between the RGB and CMYK space, since the illustration of Shana were for printing already, and actually looks good in the light novel. This is just a problem of quality check on the printing, but the one who signed the “Good to Print”, mustn’t have checked the quality of the color. These sort of issue needs to discussed with the printer so as to solve them.

On the photo provided by Tinkle for their C77 sets, you can see stripes in cyan, magenta, yellow and black, meaning that the sheet here is just for checking purpose. It’s not cut yet in small cards as well. Printers will always provide such sample to their client so as to check the quality of the printing before mass printing them. I will also note that since C75, Tinkle, with a few other artist, has the best printing quality I have ever seen in all my doujinshi, but I should cover this in the last article.

I will just skip the Etsu magazine and Tsukiyo no Fromage vol 2, the former is just to get some art magazine, the latter for scanlation, but you can still read more about them in icie’s review here and there.

Girls Girls Girls 4
As this artbook has a number, I feel compelled into getting it, especially since I already own the 3 previous one, and I have been happy with them. This 4 issue like the other collect the artwork from the Etsu magazine, and only the cover is a new artwork by Tinkle, which is the first highlight for me. Now there are always some artist I only find in the Etsu/Girls Girls Girls, like A=g, as it’s not so easy to get her doujinshi. Now there is one thing which bother me in this book; it’s the rather long undressing theme in the middle, and it’s not really SFW. It’s a bit too ecchi for my taste, and while I’m not bothered by the ecchiness itself, when it comes to artbook I prefer it to be consistent in either safe image, or ecchi, but not a mix with ecchi in plain middle. Otherwise, It’s really great as I rarely get magazine especially the Etsu which is quite thick. For a more in-depth review, you can read natalie’s.

Ashiato
2009 is the year I started to collect Kantoku’s publication; so I get the previous doujinshi in the Check x Check collection, and the C76 and C77 sets. Now a commercial artbook is another beast as it implies some enjoyable thickness compared to most doujinshi, and Ashiato deserve in this aspect. Quite a lot of full page illustration as I like, and even when there is 2 it’s really nice to see. There is so artist which are just better to see on paper, and I think that Kantoku is one of them. The paper of the cover is the usual smooth one, but it fits the soft color tone used for it. Then, as Kantoku use a quite contrasted and vibrant artstyle, the paper by it’s semi matte finish puts that little bit of sparkle which makes it a wonder to see. Then again, for the review, check natalie’s ^^

100 Masters of Bishojo painting
To finish, the delayed artbook, which is a collection of 100 artists as you could guess, with 2 pages each, usually one illustration full page, and the other page has smaller ones. The choice of artist is very good; I don’t know/remember a good part of them, so it’s also the chance for discovery. It’s too bad that there is no Tinkle though inside, not for the art as chance it would have been already published, but just to know their gender. Artist gender seems like so funny topic for enthusiast as it’s never easy to know their gender. Depending of the artworks, it seems like we are more inclined to think that the artist is either male or female. I will note though that some didn’t put their gender in it like Shimeko. There is also some wallpaper to download; I wonder if it’s not also a way to check for oversea traffic…

The added value is certainly the English translation. Yes this is a publication for a more international audience, and they know who they are since they kept the term “doujinshi” most the time. As I goes through the pages, I noticed that my attention is focused on the CV and message of the artist. It’s the first time that such information are easily available for us foreigners, and this is certainly a nice point. Until now, all these artists always felt distant to me and we would still be watchers from afar with our telescope as if they were unreachable stars, but this artbook make them feel closer, as a bridge between us and them, and they don’t lose their sparkles. If you feel like they are distant, this is certainly the artbook to get, and also it gives me so hope that one day we will be more than simple watchers.

For more review, there is icie’s and of course natalie’s

Frill*frill – Morinaga Korune
Nostalgic Barbie – Okazaki Anko

I think I have never seen Morinaga Korune draw something else than loli, and it seems to continue with Baby Doll Biscuit, a collaboration doujinshi with Okazaki Anko, who I have never heard of before. Both have a distinguished and recognizable artstyle, and they are rather fitting in this 20 B5 pages doujinshi. Going by past experience, it’s not going to be cheap. There is also a little set which will have a telephone cleaner, and a bonus book.

And just to verify my theory, here is one more DS case.

CHRONOLOG – Izumi Sakurazawa
Fururi – Hinayuki Usa

They must really like each other as they have yet another stand together. Now as there is quite a lot of stuff, you better check the webpage directly. So Sweet is a monochrome yuri hentai doujinshi, featuring yet again Youmu and Yuyuko.

Sakura-Rou- is a collaboration between Izumi Sakurazawa and Kijima Renga of RengaWorks, with 36 pages of black and white manga for Touhou.

Kairo is Hinayuki’s doujinshi, a huge doujinshi of 120 B5 pages, 32 in colors, the rest in monochrome. This is rather interesting as it features more color page than a thin doujinshi!

Yumemi shoujo no yume sen is her second doujinshi, with 20 pages of color illustrations for Touhou.

Then, the collaboration doujin is just a Touhou calendar to hang on your wall, with 7 sheets.

To finish, the real set will have a cute bag as shown here, and a dakimakura, one face drawn by each artist. I think that in all these goodies, I would only pick Fururi’s.

CASCADE – Hasekura Chiaki

Hasekura Chiaki has a nice set, with 2 doujinshi, Macarons Color 5, a full colour doujinshi, and Alice Mode 2, a monochrome doujinshi, featuring a manga. Then, there is some shitajiki or something like that with an hologram surface and a bag. Not on the image is Alice Mode which will be resold.

Cut a Dash! – Misato Mitsumi

Misato Mitsumi will have her traditional calendar, with 16 pages which I guess will cover a bit of 2011. It’s mostly original art, with some fanart. The rest is Roughplus, which as it’s name indicate, a doujinshi with rough art, and then, Esquise Monochrome, with monochrome illustration.

Strawberry Pink – cuteg

Ok, just continuing from where I left of, since cuteg has now posted some previews for her doujinshi. Sweet Impact, is a full color doujinshi… and full of pantsu. Now the other doujinshi will have several fanart of different sources, and they all wear glasses! I will admit, I do find the Miku cute.

Tinkle

Even if I had no information, I think I would have grabbed it nevertheless, especially since Tinkle is always late for updating! First of all, the doujinshi, Bianco El Dorado, which is full color and the cover seems to use a special silver paper.

Then the set is comprised of a clear box, featuring the cover otf the doujinshi, and inside, shitajiki, one of Pinot Noir which I already had from the last JIF. Then there are clear cards. I just noticed it but on the photo, it’s not the final goodies, as they are not cut. I wonder if it’s not a preview pages; nevertheless, it seems like Tinkle put a lot of effort in the printing process. Finally, a pencil case with Black Alice.

Finally, there is some special PSP and DSi case. Last Comiket, I saw plenty of Keyboard/Mouse, for this one, I found quite a lot of case for portable console. It does look pretty nice, and sure would like something like that for my DS!

AMR – Ikegami Akane

Speaking of artist rather late to the update party, is Ikegami Akane. For this Comiket, it’s a mix of To aru Kagaku no Railgun and Vocaloid. The doujinshi is only filled with Railgun, and it seems like there is only one part in full colour, the other one being black and white.

Then the Vocaloid set.. more cute Miku with glasses. I guess I’m weak when she wears glasses ^^;. Anyway, it’s limited to Miku, Rin, and Luka, Len being a bonus plushie. So there is a paper bag, a blanket, stickers for the DSi and towel to clean screens.

Third goods is a cool Railgun pouch in microfiber. It’s sized for portable console to iPod, or phone. Now I’m not sure I will let my electronic gadgets near Railgun ^^;. But Mikoto will also be available as an oppai mousse pad… I think I will just ignore it of my image of the anime will just die.

QP:Flapper – Sakura Koharu & Ohara Tometa

No QP:Chick Colors 03 in sight. But there is QPchick16, hentai doujinshi in monochrome on Love Plus. Then there is Dramatic 2009, which collect the roughs sketches for several magazine.

Instead of a telephone card, they will sell a Web Money Card, worth 500¥. I wonder if telephone card are still used in Japan, when it’s also the country where almost everyone has cellphone. Moving to web money card seems to be a fair evolution.

Then for the end, a priceless T-Shirt. Spacecats, parodying Space Invaders. The geek inside me feels compelled; my wallet not so much.

Island of Horizon – H2S04

A very cool doujinshi, with 34 B5 pages, which will collect artwork from its ( hey, it’s sulfuric acid ) his/her previous doujinshi, Last Summer Vacation, First Snow, Tropical Nights and 白い花びら. If I find it, I will try to get it!

Muzin Syoujo – Korie Riko

Korie Riko put her information one month ago… which consisted in this image which might be the cover. Her website is down and there is no information on her blog; so it will be my guess based on her previous doujinshi, full colour, with several fanart.

ICHIGOSIZE – Natsume Eri
Suijou Kurena

Huge image, and so little I can understand. Natsume Eri is sharing a stand with Suijou Kurena, which I have never heard of. First set has one card, 2 doujinshis which I’m not sure if they are in color or not, then a keychain, a think black and white doujinshi with certainly sketches, and something featuring Marisa ^^;. I need to train a little bit for reading these Comiket information.

Then, there is a Touhou calendar, and mug with a chibi Cirno drawn on it.

The bottom of the image features the doujinshi of Risa Miyasu, with a Prunus Girl one, and a Saki doujinshi

Rio Grande – Mana Mitui

Mana Mitui finally put her information, which consist in one doujinshi on Saki, with illustration, and one hentai story. Then there is another doujinshi of 60 pages, collectin sketches.
For the set, there is a bag, a handkerchief, another PSP case, a memo mouse pad, and a phone strap which can be used to clean the cellphone. The doujinshi doesn’t seem that interesting to me, but the set has some nice goodies.

Hisuitei – Izumi Tsubasu

No Colorful Pop for this Comiket, but we get a big taspestry, a shitajiki, a calendar, a stick poster all in the paper bag. The doujinshi in fact consist in MOEPOP15, which has traditionally featured black and white illustration, and Low of smile, an hentai doujinshi.

Indico Lite – Mitha

Mitha will continue her collection, with Flower Tiara 2, a full color doujinshi, but rather ecchi. Going from the past publication, there is no hentai, but only nudity. It seems like there is another doujinshi, Art Mix, but I’m not sure about it’s content, some card/poster/shitajiki, and ecchi stick posters. Finally, a “now printing”, which seem in fact to be a CG collection.

Hato no Tamago – Hato rami

Rami will sell her 19th visual book, which is another fully coloured manga. I think there might be some illustration in it, but I’m not all interested in this.

What I’m more interested in is the Galette des Rois Calendar, which will feature illustration of the web animated manga. It’s CD sized though, but I think it’s worth getting, as you can already see the illustration on the website of the manga.

For some time Rami had a Black Rock Shooter illustration for her website, and here it’s, a 8p B5 doujinshi with color illustration of Black Rock Shooter. Sadly, BRS is like Vocaloid for me :/

Finally, she will sell postcard, a gum from Galette des Rois, and her previous fully colored doujinshi from C76, Water Proof.