Comic Market 84: Popochichi / ぽぽちち / Yahiro Pochi

Puni puni Popochichi infiltrates IS Academy at C84

After their last parody ero doujin, the eye-searing, stomach-turning Tamako Market-themed romp released upon an unsuspecting public at Comic1☆7, it seems that Popochichi might be trying to get back into the good graces of fandom at large by doing what they do best--beautiful girls made slightly soft, slightly round, and completely sexy.  In anticipation of this Fall's second season debut of Infinite Stratos, Germany's Laura Bodewig, Russia's Tatenashi Sarashiki, and France's Charlotte Dunois grace the cover of the circle's C84 release, She Is a Technician.

Comic Market 84: Men 120 Percent / 綿120パーセント / Menyoujan

Indecency is the new decency at Comiket 84

If Ishikei is the progenitor of the sexy multiple-position montage cover, Men 120 Percent is certainly one of its most worthy offspring.  The circle's A4-sized, full-color releases have been very well regarded, and their artistry is consistently high-quality and seldom if ever takes liberty with the bounds of human anatomy.  The circle's C84 offering will follow up their Comiket 82 To Love-Ru parody with the release of the Yui Kotegawa-centric Tastyui2.

Comic Market 84: Karomix / Karory

Goods business must be good business for Karory

After maintaining uncharacteristic radio silence in the weeks leading up to Comic Market 84, we finally have Karory's assortment of offerings at Tokyo Big Sight, and, puzzlingly, the circle's new ero doujin seems to be close to an afterthought for the usually proud and prolific group.  Karorful Mix Ex11 features Attack on Titan's Mikasa Ackerman on the cover, but the book is buried under a dakimakura of the same original character creation that was figurized at December's Comiket 83, and what I would guess is a book of original character designs, KAROLOG, offered as one part of a set of goods.

Comic Market 84: Mugenkidou A / 無限軌道 A / Tomose Shunsaku

An original moon-eyed maiden introduces herself at Comiket 84

One of the great joys of doujinshi collecting is finding an artist you like and discovering artists with similar styles.  So it was for me with Tomose Shunsaku's Mugenkidou A, a veritable artistic clone of Hisasi, both incredibly adept artists who draw their girls with positively abyssal eyes, approaching a point where their work is practically indistinguishable.  Mugenkidou's release for Comic Market 84 puts the circle in waters they haven't tread since 2010--an original work.  It looks like the circle's going all in on their new girl's talents, with a dakimakura to go along with an ero doujin, and original character creations gracing all of the circle's goods for the convention. 

Comic Market 84: Maigo Tsuushin / 迷子通信 / Mel Kishida

Poolside with the Master of Non-Ero Natsukashii

Mel Kishida is one of those rare artists whose fame is directly tied to their lack of erotic works--no artist emphasizes the kawaii part of ero-kawaii quite like Kishida, and no doujin-ka does more with a reader's imagination than he.  Maigo Tsuushin's Comic Market 84 release, melbook.2013.summer, will surely carry on the tradition in high style. 

Comic Market 84: Number2 / Takuji

Full-color Kirino End from the Titan of Titles

No circle has more fun with the absurdity of the length of long light novel series titles than Number2, who has penned such remarkable works as the Haganai title I Have Too Much Cum, I Can't Stop Cumming Inside Your Pussy, and the OreImo parodies Going Bareback and Coming Inside My Sister and My Sister's Friend.  The circle's devotion to Kirino and Chums has been going on strong for quite a while; they released a soushuuhen of their previous six previous OreImo doujin AND a new OreImo parody book, I Had a Crush on Onii-chan.  He Stole My Virginity From Me In Front of My Friend, at Comic1☆7.

With the anime and light novels both coming to an end recently, one could not be blamed for hoping that the circle would keep the hits on coming, and today's reveal  Regrettably, because of my complete Japanese illiteracy, I cannot read what looks to be another hefty title from the quality circle, but with the world's favorite ota-imouto gracing the cover of their Comiket 84 offering in fine bridal fashion, it's sure to be another championship-calibre edition.

Additionally, it looks like a previously untouched character in Number2's version of the OreImosphere, Saori, gets featured in an omake booklet.

Comic Market 84: Kohakutei / 琥珀亭 / Sakai Hamachi

What's old is new again

I first became a fan of Sakai Hamachi's Kohatukei after reading his 2008 pair of Spice and Wolf parodies and have been a casual follower of the circle's work since.  The circle tends to over-exaggerate his characters' bodies just slightly, lending a little extra heft to all the juicy bits without getting grotesque (though some need no additional assistance in that regard) and, if I'm being honest, I enjoy that he doesn't make all of his girls hairless naifs, and he draws a pretty darned erotic erection to boot. 

Kohakutei has a pair of ero doujin in store for fans at Comiket 84.  Confusion Level Q looks to reboot the circle's long-running Evangelion books, disengaging from the Asuka x Shinji pairing of their six Confusion Level A parody books of the original TV series, which came out in a trickle between 2007 and 2012, to instead join the timeline of the series-reimagining films.

The circle's second C84 offering, StarDust Scene2, continues the Precure! parody story the circle began at Comiket 83 last December.

Comic Market 84: Alpha to Yukaina Nakamatachi / 有葉と愉快な仲間たち

Alpha gets in the Mysterious Transfer Student game at C84

When I bought my first Alpha to Yukaina Nakamatachi doujinshi, April 2012's Papakiki! parody Mama ni Naritaino!, I hoped I was getting into a relatively unknown artist with a considerable backlog of parody works.  While I was right about the size backlog, I was way way off regarding the circle's source material--Alpha operates almost exclusively in the realm of its own original stories and character creations.

After spending many years in the school halls of the Let's Become an Expert series, Alpha's more recent attention has been focused on a certain sordid family's affairs, with twin sisters Yui and Sui Takanashi the starlets of the circle's Comiket 82 and 83 efforts, and "Nasty Aunt" Aya Natsuki at Comic1☆7 this past April.  The family business continues, it seems, at C84 this weekend, with a new argentine-haired duo on the cover of Transfer Student of Twins Ema & Eve. 

Alpha's slate of goods at C84 includes a new omake book, BISCUIT POSiTION, moving the circle from sweet to savory names, as well as an ID card holder, label set, 4-koma book, and a rather beautiful trio of seifuku'd girls on a clear file.  Regrettably, Alpha has yet to reach a distribution deal with Melonbooks or Toranoana, so the convention will be the only opportunity to buy the set. 

Comic Market 84: Wireframe / Hagure Yuuki

Wireframe takes a victory lap at C84

A bit of a disappointment from the Wireframe camp in anticipation of Comic Market 84 this weekend, as circle artist Hagure Yuuki revealed plans to publish a collection of the circle's past few years of work, with parodies of iM@S, OreImo, High School DxD, Maken-Ki!, Angel Beats!, and more.  Idolm@ster girls Miki Hoshii and Airi Totoki get new artwork on the cover of the omnibus, DDD-Wireframe soushuuhen.

It also seems that Hagure has caught the Kan Colle bug spreading through the ranks of doujinka, with Shimakaze on the cover of the Wireframe Extra vol. 8 omake book, and Atago possibly making an appearance as new content inside of the soushuuhen.

Comic Market 84: Raijinkai / 雷神会 / Harukigenia

Scourge of Chiba reasserts her dominance at C84

Raijinkai has been rather prolific in their choice of series over the past several years and perfectly happy to follow trends rather than stick to one series, with Henneko, SAO, Watamote (way before the anime!), Haganai, AnoHana, Penguindrum, and more all being covered in the past couple of years, rarely doing more than one parody book per series.

Earlier this summer, the circle released a rare soushuuhen, which collected what came as close to a series fixation as the circle's ever shown, OreImo parodies Oreimo Binetsu Tyuihou 1, 2, and 3, all from 2010.  After a long break away, the circle will return to the underbelly of Chiba for their Comic Market 84 release, Oreimo Binetsu Tyuihou 4, featuring lovely yandere Ayase Aragaki on center stage.

Updated 11:35 a.m. 8/9/13:  The Kan Colle affliction continues to run roughshod through the ranks of doujinka at Comic Market 84, with Raijinkai's contribution to the outbreak, a 20-page romp featuring Shimakaze.

Comic Market 84: Aspergillus

BiriBiri boomsauce at C84

After months in the hopper, Aspergillus has finally revealed the cover of their newest offering at Comic Market 84.  Darlings of the year Misaki Shokuhou and Mikoto Misaka grace the cover of Level: Five, both looking lovely in their Tokiwadai uniforms, though BiriBiri certainly looks less than happy to share the spotlight with her towheaded rival.

Comic Market 84: Ajisai Denden / アジサイデンデン

A bright-as-day victory lap for circle's Darker Than Black work

After the circle's triumphant, nearly canon-worthy treatment of Spice and Wolf at Comic Market 83, and this year's Code Geass parody from Comic1☆7, I was greatly looking forward to see what Ajisai Denden had in store for fans at Comiket 84.  Naturally, my luck being what it is, the circle's next release is a retrospective, as the circle will be releasing their first series-specific soushuuhen, in scores, collecting at least the circle's four previous Darker Than Black full-length features, all featuring blind, emotionless Finnish doll Yin.  The circle reports a 140-page length, including 26 pages in color.  

Comic Market 84: Tony Taka / T2 Art Works / Recollect2

Another A4-sized retrospective from the King of Doujin Kings at C84

The Tony Taka character creation business is big business--one need only consider the unrelenting deluge of somewhat similarly faced PVC damsels cascading from the studios of Kotobukiya, Alphamax, Max Factory, Native, Arcadia, Good Smile Company, Clayz, and on and on and on.  Quite truly, someone new to the doujin scene could be excused from not knowing that Tony honed his craft just like countless artists will next month, by producing and publishing parody ero doujinshi--it's been two years since Tony last parodied a franchise he was not directly involved with, a Working!! parody from Comic Market 80 in August 2011.

At Comic Market 83 in December 2012, T2 Art Works released its first A4-sized publication, Recollect, which included 64 pages of some of Tony's finest original erotic character creations as well as erotic parody portraits, reproduced and retouched for the larger format.  So too shall it be at next weekend's Comic Market 84, as revealed today on Tony's website.  Recollect2 will be another 64-page A4-sized retrospective of some of Tony's finest works, both of his own characters as well as parodies.  This book's cover girl clearly attends the same school as Recollect's cover girl, and Alphamax revealed at Wonder Festival its intentions on producing that previous girl in 3D form...could we have a double display to look forward to in the future?

T2 Art Works' slate of goods for sale at the convention is as impressive as ever, with a dakimakura of an original creation as well as other various goods and sundries.  More details to come!

Comic Market 84: Afterschool of the 5th Year / 5年目の放課後 / Kantoku

Tartan Titan lightens up for some fun in the sun at C84

Kantoku exists in the rarefied air of anime artists who are popular in spite of, rather than because of, their erotic artworks, whose fans would rather see his creations clothed than unclothed.  Such is the power of the tartan-checked skirt, and we are hopeless to resist the appeal of those patterns, those lines and checks and colors, whether swirling beguilingly from a girl's hip or tracing the outline of her bust.  So shall it be at Comic Market 84--it looks like the Tartan Titan's offering will be a non-ero book featuring original creations in the summer-weight outfits and fabrics we all know and love the artist for. 

The artist also revealed a sweet B1-sized tapestry released by eroge publisher CUBE, featuring the girls of [your diary] ready and waiting to serve.

Comic Market 84: Digital Lover / Yuka Nakajima / D.L. Action 78 & 79

Vanguards of the Digital Lover empire meet a new challenger at Comiket 84

Digital Lover has been nothing if not ardent in their devotion to their muses, OreImo's Kuroneko and Index/Railgun's Misaka Mikoto--21 of the circle's last 33 books have featured the Czarina of Chiba or the debutantes of Academy City, with those other 12 books' attention spread across six different series.  Suddenly, a new challenger appears, and with a considerable network of friends to call upon should circle artist Yuka Nakajima be so inclined.

Shinobu Oshino, nee Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade, vampire princess of the Monogatarisphere, has been given the cover of D.L. Action 79.  This marks the first expedition in to the world of ghosts for the circle, and the mind simply reels at the prospect of the circle's mining the rest of the spirited cast for future books.  Shinobu also appears on the circle's C84 omake book, Rough Sketch 77.

As was suggested at the tail end of Sankuri 60's D.L. Action 77, D.L. Action 78 returns the focus on the Railgun girls, with Misaki Shokuhou and Mikoto Misaka sharing cover duty, Mikoto in a trademark sweet plaid pattern while Misaki goes the glamorous gold-trimmed (and two sizes too small) route.  A B5-sized, 36-page effort, this book will surely have a considerable amount of conduct for us to consider. 

Kuroneko fans will have the opportunity to relive former glories with their tsundere queen with the release of Digital Lover's second character-centered soushuuhen.  DL-Kuroneko will be released at Comic Market 84, a B5-sized, 172-page book collecting D.L. Action 55, 56, 57, 59, and 60, which were released between September 2010 and May 2011.  The circle's previous character-centered soushuuhen?  You guessed it--Mikoto Misaka's omnibus from Comic Market 81.

Overheated otaku of the black cat persuasion will be able to display their devotion with a fan and a totally sweet don't-pick-me-up-by-there netsuke, while BiriBiri fans will be whisked away to the seashore with a B2-sized tapestry.

Finally, Nakajima revealed an iPhone case featuring his character designs of the girls from Full Metal Panic! author Shoji Gatoh's newest comedy novel project, Amagi Brilliant Park.

Comic Market 84: Shoujo Kishidan / 少女騎士団 / Oyari Ashito

A Love Live! sister act takes center stage at Comiket 84

Erotic waif generator Oyari Ashito has revealed his circle's intentions for mid-August's Comic Market 84, and, with a new parody book, a soushuuhen, and a dakimakura to offer, his fixation on doe-eyed damsels doing their damnedest on stage continues.  Love Live! School Idol Project sisters Eri and Arisa Ayase will receive the dakimakura treatment, each sister appearing on either side of the cover together:

After receiving a gorgeous dakimakura treatment back at COMIC1☆7, Maki Nishikino graces the cover of Mid Summer Night Dream, along with cover debutantes Rin Hoshizora and Hanayo Koizumi, all looking more than a little bit distressed at the situation they've found themselves in.  One wonders if this books might contain more of a storyline and more sexual content than the gravure-style Love Live! book that was released at COMIC1☆7.

Shoujo Kishidan has also revealed details of their iDOLM@STER soushuuhen to be sold at C84--it looks like it will collect the three In The Harem books from Comic Markets 81 and 82, and Comic Market 83's Love Complex, featuring Yukiho Hagiwara front-and-center.  Ashito also revealed that the soushuuhen will be B5-sized, down from the A4 size that the original releases were printed at.  It's yet to be known if there will be any new artwork contained inside beyond the cover.

Comic Market 84: Clesta / Cle Masahiro / CL-orz 30

Warship worship and a Horizon superfecta from Clesta at C84

Though the circle did stray to other series with a two-book dalliance of CL-orz 26 and 27, Cle Masahiro's Clesta continues to reaffirm its devotion Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, which has been practically uninterrupted since Sankuri 53 in October 2011, at Comiket 84. As always, Clesta's artistry is ravishing, with a remarkably drawn slate of goods for fans to enjoy.  The circle's erotic doujin, CL-orz 30, pairs Tomo Asama and Neito on the cover--this makes Tomo's third cover appearance, and the second for Neito.

Additionally, Asama will be tasked with preventing carpal tunnel syndrome this August, with a 3D wrist health mousepad for purchase:

Horizon's Kimi Aoi, herself already an oft-featured cover girl on Clesta's doujins, receives the dakimakura treatment this time out:

In fact, Aoi will be pulling double duty at the convention; in addition to the new ero doujin, mouse pad, and dakimakura, Clesta will have a soushuuhen harkening back to the start of Clesta's obsession with Horizon for sale at C84.  This particular collection compiles CL-orz 19, 20, 21, 23, and 24 (skipping over the Papakiki! parody CL-orz 22).

It seems that, like so many of his doujinshi brethren, Clesta likes to wind down by waging war with the kawaii Kantai Collection girls, and has put Haruna on the cover of the circle's omake book, CL-ev 11, an eight-page A4 release.