Circles – Artists

Gothical Blade – Ruroo

Ruroo must be best known for his/her work on the light novel Mushi-Uta While I have no doujin from him/her, I always keep an eye on this artist as I quite like the art. Invalid Target though seems to be a doujin filled with rough art and some story, no full color.

Pink Chuchu – Mikeou

Mikeou always have a lot of goodies for the Comiket. The C77 set contains 2 adults doujinshi, with 28 B5 pages each. Then there is the Game Collection Box, which has 108 B5 pages… except that only 8 is in full color. Lastly the 9 telephone cards. Specific to the set is the paper bag and the calendar. While the set has an interesting price of 2000¥, I certainly won’t get it as there is a lack of full colour doujinshi.

Sold separately are one dakimakura which I find very cute, but alas, very expensive as well, and a previous doujinshi.

Rocket Guy – Bekkankou

I’m surprised I had this artist in my bookmark since I don’t particularly follow him. Maybe I had him since I collected the CG of Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na and Fortune Arterial. Otherwise, this C77 doujinshi seems to be your standard black and white.

Afterschool of the 5th years – Kantoku

This year has been wonderful for Kantoku’s fan. C76′s doujinshi had around 60 full color pages at a very decent price. Then there is the upcoming release of Kantoku’s first commercial artbookAshiato and of course the C77 set, with one doujinshi, one paper bag and a clear file which I will certainly get as it’s not all expensive, and Kantoku is one of my favorite artist. Also I caught up with the Check Pattern doujinshi collection.

Coconut Bless – Coco Natsuki

I don’t know much about Coco Natsuki. The first time I must have encountered her is in fact while browsing all the auction for a Comic 1. She is not on my must get list, but I always have a few doujinshi to round up my order at the end, and her set seems quite nice. Of course as it’s an image I can’t tell you exactly what is written, but it seems like there is a paper bag, 2 doujinshi, one safe, the other isn’t, and a calendar. Aside of the set, there is also a PSP case.

Kotobukitei – Tohru Adumi

As a follow up of Vanillesose Marchen, here is another full color doujinshi, with 40 pages! I must say that I’m quite interested in it, and the cover is really nice. The cover also look quite unique with a very big cat on it. It seems this doujinshi will be a collection of her artwork she did for trading card game, except in higher resolution.

ZIP – Fumitake Moekibara & Hirorin

Nothing new coming from ZIP. There will be a doujinshi filled with Quiz Magic Academy illustrations, then the bunny mascot will have her own shitajiki and a dakimakura. Then an illustration of Nue from Tayutama and finally a bag with their mascot.

NEKO WORKs – Sayori
NEKO WORKi – ideolo

Let’s get a little abroad with foreign artist Sayori. She is Chinese, she is quite popular, and I already had trouble to find her doujinshi. Anyway for C77, she will release first a B4 calendar, NEKO BIBLE, featuring her catgirl mascot Vanella and Chocola and in all sort of outfit. The previews are available on her website and her Pixiv. The calendar will be sold with a bag for 1500¥. Better say that I will grab it.

In another register, a collaboration with ideolo for Eastern Side, a Touhou themed doujinshi which will be sold with a clear file. Now… this is too bad but I’m fed up with Touhou art as much as Vocaloid since I moderate already an image board which has a daily flood of them ( around 50 per day), so while the art is good I really don’t feel like getting it. There are few exception but I’m seeing too much of them.
Aside of this, there will be also a free distribution of card for the upcoming tiger year and they will resell NEKO PARADISE.

Eternal Phantasia – Capura Lin

To finish this post, Taiwanese artist Capura Lin. This time the news was first available on Pixiv. It will be a 24 B5 pages doujinshi collecting artwork from 2006 to 2009. From the sample I have seen, it will have the illustration from RE:Volte‘s CD cover, and this is already awesome as I really like these covers. She is at the top of my to get list along with some usual artist.

Next post will have information for Yukiwo, RAMI, Shiro, H2S04 as it’s not complete, shops’ good, and plentiful of other artist who didn’t update yet or who I will just add after as this post is getting quite long.

Spring !

I finally received my package from Japan, small one for once but full of awesome.

The first figurine is just a bonus from the Dengeki Hime magazine for May, which I get mostly for the posters inside. Some of them are already scanned, so you can have a look at them there.

Aside of this, the usual suspect: artbooks !

Taiwan Teki Shoujo

One I meant to get for some time already, Taiwan Teki Shoujo as its name indicate is an artbook with Taiwanese artist. Notable one is Rei who is quite well known  in Japan too. But this artbook is also a chance to discover other taiwanese artist. If you want to see the inside, you can always poke at Hunting the Elusive . Personally I like the artbook. I don’t have problem with Taiwanese art, since it’s as moe as Japanese’s one.More is always welcomed ! I would have more gripe with manwha though, but that’s another issue.

Lyrical

Then, quite a thin one, Lyrical. It’s Fumitake Moekibara’s first commercial artbook as far as I know. Not really surprising but one part is the artwork for eroge by Lump of Sugar, Itsuka, Todoku, Ano Sora Ni and Nursery Rhyme. Then there is the fanart and lastly, a PurismxEgoist part, which consist of artwork by his circle, ZIP. I should be writing another article for the inside.

Pixiv Girls Collection

Last artbook I got is the Pixiv Girls Collection. It’s a compilation of the best artwork of the Pixiv community. I don’t usually browse Pixiv since I already moderate a board where people post Pixiv’s artwork over there already.

First thing that strike anyone when they see this artbook is its thickness.

On the left you can see the two previous artbook stacked, and the Pixiv artbook is on the right. The artbook has 164 pages, and thick smooth paper hence the total size. Cover is by tearfish and sadly it’s the only illustration by him or her in this artbook. With my recent addiction to Persona 4, I wish there would be some fanart by him/her. Otherwise it’s a nice choice and recommended artbook. Like most compilation, some art is not up to my taste, but there already quite a lot I like. Pixiv managed to get a good community of artist, so I hope in the future there will be another artbook. Chance are that otherwise, none of them would get a publication unless they make a circle. Once again you can poke at Hunting the Elusive for some scan

Last thing which I got some time ago, but didn’t write anything about because I was quite busy finishing a certain game.

Sakura Sakura

I don’t usually buy figurine but I made an exception for this one. Gymnastic sure is attractive ^^;