Scan: Dmyotic 5.0

Dmyotic5 coverReleased at C76, it’s the 5th doujinshi in the Dmyotic series… which is just collection of artwork by Dmyo. Even if it’s the 5th, it’s the first time I get anything from her, and it’s to my delight to see how awesome her art is on paper.
Scans here

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Tony Taka JIF 2009

tony taka figurine Now,.. let’s not think at the money required to get this one…

update: It seems that this figurine will be in fact a next special order from Etsu…

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C76 Loot

lootIt’s finally here, after one week of shipment… Did I say I hate customs? It was stuck at their office because they didn’t have the invoice. Hopefully, I got taxes for cultural goods, which is less expensive than usual VAT.

Anyway, the loot is quite good, and some of these are already flying around on the Internet. There are other freebies from previous Comiket as well, for Kantoku, Rei, some Tinkle goods which was released for some event, and finally, K-books 15th anniversary artbook.

PIxiv Official Book 2009

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Here it’s, the 1kg, 2cm thick artbook from Pixiv, and I guess anticipated by artbook collector. I was expecting the same format as the Pixiv Girls Collection, but it’s not, and in fact, I’m a little bit dissapointed.

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Scan cleaning with a trackpad

Text removal sessionFor now more than 2 years, I have been cleaning scan by removing crease, text, filling gap, either as part of high quality scan correction, or scanlation job. Usually I do it in one hour, but I have feeling more and more the limitation of my methods… I have been using a trackpad for these job.

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