Comic Market 86: Aozora Shoujo 青空少女 / Shirane Taito

Coming into today, I knew absolutely nothing about Shirane Taito.  Ending the day, I know one thing about Shirane Taito--the artist draws QUITE the Iori Minase.  Highly recommended preview pages over at Toranoana.

Comic Market 86: Shoujo Kishidan 少女騎士団 / Oyari Ashito

File under A for ADORBS

Following the release of Eiyuu*Senki GOLD earlier this spring, Oyari Ashito professed he would be taking a long vacation, and was good to his word by maintaining relative radio silence for more than a month.  He has emerged from his chrysalis seemingly still infatuated with the girls of Love Live! that starred in two full-length doujinshi for him before their performance was interrupted by the Kantai Collection juggernaut at Comiket 85.  While news of an erotic parody doujin is forthcoming, Ashito has shown off a set of clear files (remember his iM@S clear file set from C83?) featuring the Otonokizakans in lovely marching band mode.

Updated 9:51 am 7/4/14:  Ashito recently shared a look at Honoka Kosaka's nearly complete file.

Update 2, 11:22 am 8/10:  Shoujo Kishidan has revealed its full slate of goods for Comic Market 86, and as expected it's an idol-centric showcase, with a surprise guest appearance from the previous spate of song-and-dancers the circle worshipped not so long ago.  

The girls of iDOLM@STER's 765 Productions kick off the show with a soushuuhen of the circle's IDOLTIME works, a collection of six standalone books featuring Iori Minase and Yukiho Hagiwara originally released between 2008 and 2011.  

This makes the second summer Comiket where the iM@S girls have been called into shoushuuhen service, after the circle's In The Harem troika and Love Complex books were compiled in Idoltime SpecialSpecial last August.

For his circle's newest offering, Oyari Ashito's seemed to have caught onto that great American comics tradition of collectible variant covers with his new Love Live! parody book apparently likes the title What is this thing called love? so much, he gave it to two separate, standalone Love Live! parody books, as Eli Ayase and Nozomi Toujou go usagi mode for one, while standby yuri pairing Maki and Nico are ready for a beach day on the other.  The circle has yet to offer preview pages to confirm if this is a gravure-style book, or one involving intercourse.

Finally, the circle's clear file set of the μ's crew in marching band mode is completed, numbered, pinstriped, and ready for the Rose Parade.  

Comic Market 85: Shoujo Kishidan / 少女騎士団 / Oyari Ashito

Singing, dancing, seafaring?--Ashito's idol complex faces fleet of frigates at C85

Prolific erotic stick figure artist Oyari Ashito has been an awfully busy man as of late, with an art exhibit and the publishing of career retrospective artbook Little World 2 giving reason to revisit and retouch some of his old favorites, and the release of world- and heroine-conquering strategy RPG Eiyuu*Senki Gold coming out in January, but it seems that Ashito has had some opportunity to squeeze in a little doujin work, AND flex his admiralty skills as well in the lead-up to Comic Market 85.

For quite some time, Ashito's oeuvre has been dominated by that novel, uniquely Japanese female identity construct, the idol, and C85 currently projects to be no different.  Ashito's two latest doujinshi have focused on the rescuing angels of Otonokizaka Academy from Love Live! School Idol Project--April's gravure-style Kawaikute shikata ga nai! and August's intercourse-heavy followup, Midsummer Night Dream.  Images of μ's Eri Ayase and Niko Yazawa have appeared on Ashito's Twitter feed recently, certainly suggesting a third book is in the works.

Not to be forgotten, it would be no surprise if Ashito's most frequent targets, the girls of iDOLM@STER's 765 Productions, were included in the festivities this December as well.  Ashito posted a sketch of four-time covergirl Iori Minase to his Twitter account not long ago.

Like what certainly seems to be a majority of his doujinka cohorts, it also seems like Ashito will seek to cash in on the popularity of Kantai Collection at C85, if these recently posted images of Inazuma are any indication.

Update 1, 11:15 am 12/9/13:  More evidence from Oyari Ashito's Twitter feed today certainly seems to assert the presence of a Kan Colle parody ero doujin from Shoujo Kishidan at C85--it looks like the diminuitive Inazuma's sharing drydock space with the heavy cruiser Atago!







Update 2, 11:04 am 12/11/13:  Via his Twitter feed, Oyari Ashito confirmed this as the work-in-progress cover of his Kantai Collection parody doujinshi at Comic Market 85.  Certainly an interesting choice, keeping the ports along either side of Inazuma's spine there...







Update 3, 3:28 pm 12/14/13:  Another update from Ashito's Twitter feed today reveals the book's title, Maiden Voyage.









Update 4, 6:41 pm 12/22/13:  Oyari Ashito has confirmed the final version of his Kantai Collection ero parody doujin, Maiden Voyage.  As has been previously indicated, it stars the kanmusu Atago and Inazuma, and of perhaps greater interest, it makes a point of naming those two and those two alone--could it be that Ashito's Christmas gift to fans is a first-ever yuri release?  I, for one, can't wait for preview pages to be released to find out!  Update 5, 10:04 am 12/27/13:  Ashito revealed preview pages on his website today and in doing so confirmed this is definitely not a yuri release.

Radially arched Copperplate Gothic...have the Golden State Warriors been notified of this?

Update 6, 10:06 am 12/27/13:  Via his Twitter feed, Ashito has finally revealed his plans for the Love Live and iM@S sketches he'd posted in the previous month or so--the circle's trying to produce an omake book to be offered at C85, rather than a full-fledged second release.  Love Live's Maki Nishikino graces the cover of the bonus book.