Probably my favourite bishoujo artist of all time, the amazing Kantoku has released his usual new illustration doujinshi at comiket. Renka blog kindly took some photos so we can see a sample of what this god-like illustrator has in store for us this time:
The reasons for me to play Nekopara are stacking up day by day. The franchise probably got it’s biggest announcement to date with the news that it will be getting a TV anime adaptation! The world needs more adorable cat-girls, so we should all be happy about this.
I hope it retains some light fanservice and doesn’t go the pure cute n fluffy slice of life route.
Also their booth at comiket had some of their merchandise on display, including figures.
This twitter user took snaps of a brochure which also shows some new planned figures. My heart is currently in a fierce battle with my wallet for a lot of these figures!
Agent Aika is a 7-part 1997 OVA produced by the now defunct Studio Fantasia and directed by Katsuhiko Nishijima, who famously helmed Project A-ko in 1987. Being renowned for ecchi (particularly gratuitous panty-shots), it’s been vaguely on my watch list for a long while now and I finally got an opportunity to watch the whole thing. I honestly went in expecting it to barely hold my attention other than providing serviceable eye-candy but it actually turned out to be surprisingly engrossing on a number of levels.
Unlike ecchi trash produced these days, Aika, being a 90s OVA, is afforded much better production values. The designs are lavish and beautiful and the animation is really well done – from the cute girls in action through to the mechanical designs of ships, boats, guns etc and even the background art. The vibe of the animation overall is reminiscent of Evangelion. Even the music is solid!
In terms of the girls, they don’t get a lot of character development but they’re fun enough. My preference went to the less mature Rion (the glasses-wearing redhead) over the femme fatale style of Aika herself.
It doesn’t disappoint on the fanservice, to the point of hilarity even. The panty shots are the feature-point, and the anime wastes no opportunity to cram as many into frame as possible. They kind of lose their sexual appeal in the end, but it’s all in good fun.
I was happy to find that it delivers more than just panty shots too, with a good dosage of really well-drawn nudity. 90s boobs are hard to beat! (images self-censored for this blog)
It’s that time of the month! The new volume of staple bishoujo magazine, Megami is out, bringing with it a slew of sexy new posters! This volume has a focus on Strike the Blood with the main heroine gracing the cover.
The posters this time aren’t stellar overall (at least, for my tastes) but I am fond of the railgun bathing one and the Domestic na Kanojo nude one.
Scans can be found at yandere here: https://yande.re/pool/show/5536
Perhaps even more exciting is the fact that the magazine seems to have dropped their resistance to showing nipples with pages covering Senran Kagura, Strike the Blood OVA and ImoImo intimate details:
(via Renka Blog: http://blog.livedoor.jp/ren_ka_blog/archives/52091314.html)
AkibaBlog posts about the release of the new bride Ram figure. It’s 1/7 and designed to complement the previous bride Rem.
I have bride Rem proudly displayed on my shelf so I was keeping my eye on this one to see if it would go well. It’s definitely a great figure with the same sexy lingerie style. Since Ram is more flat chested the pose seems to draw your eyes to the ass more!
Overall though it doesn’t look as great as Rem so might have to pass..
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Another artist I’m fond of on Pixiv who focus on drawing pretty girls. He attends Comiket but isn’t a super prominent circle yet. I think his artwork shows a lot of talent and he’s good at bringing out the sexuality of the girls.
He clearly had a thing for LLENN there for a while as she took over his timeline!
A whole suite of sexy new wall scrolls came up for order on Ami Ami recently.
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GOODS-00271941
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GOODS-00271946
https://www.amiami.com/eng/detail/?gcode=GOODS-00271953
Japanese Title: 可愛ければ変態でも好きになってくれますか？
On the prowl for new manga to check out, the volume cover artwork for this one instantly caught my eye for two reasons – cute, petite blonde girl in a state of undress and another girl with a kinky glint in her eye brandishing a pet collar and leash. Intruiged, I read on.
There are two volumes of the Kawaiikereba Hentai demo Suki ni Natte Kuremasu ka manga out so far, and both have been fan-translated into English. It’s actually a manga adaptation of a light novel series that has been ongoing for a fair while (I thought the artwork looked familiar, turns out I’ve been seeing the LN art here and there). Having caught up with it I can safely say those two reasons are still pretty much the main reason to keep reading.
The long dark-haired girl is a complete masochist who wants to be dominated as someone’s pet, while the short-haired blonde girl is the opposite – total sadist in search of someone to enslave. And of course, for whatever reason, they both have eyes for the everyday highschool boy MC. Aligning with my own tastes, I’m quite the fan of dark haired girl and her submissive advances and kind of repulsed by the other girls attitude. But blondie is good to look at so the fanservice scenes are appreciated.
There’s a few other twists to the story – MC has a secret admirer he’s trying to identify who confessed by sending him a pair of her panties – and other heroines with their own strange perversions are starting to adorn the series. Rather than a straight-up ecchi series, the perversity is more played up for laughs so it’s a fairly entertaining read with good artwork. Just don’t expect touching romance or compelling characters.
The manga knows its target audience – promo artwork and store bonuses really sell the girls.
I wonder if the novel would be a good read… In any case it seems to be a popular title so I wouldn’t be shocked to see it get an anime adaptation at some point.
Of all things, Christmas eve in Akiba featured a couple of cute girls in santa costumes giving out promotional leaflets for the next-season anime Domestic na Konojo! The innovative advertising techniques of Japan never fail to amaze me.
The leaflet is actually a promotional postcard, and when unfolded it features the two main girls nude, nipples and all. My interest in this show has risen..
Christmas is now behind is, and that means winter Comiket is right around the corner! Unfortunately we can’t go this year as we’re trying to save up, but that doesn’t stop me stalking my favourite artists’ twitter accounts to see what I’ll be missing out on.
This year actually looks pretty great overall, but I haven’t seen anything much sneaked from Kanzaki Hiro or Akio Watanabe who are usually among my go-tos.
Anmi has another Avian Romance bishoujo illustration book which looks as stunning as ever.
Illustrator of How Not to Summon a Demon Lord light novel series Takahiro Tsurusaki is hitting C95 hard under the circle Private Garden. As usual, his delightfully naked drawings are on full display. The Rem dakimakura is actually pretty amazing looking..
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