Comic Market 85: Popochichi / ぽぽちち / Yahiro Pochi

Double-barreled puni-puni Kan Colle action at C85

Yahiro Pochi, Master of the Warm and Soft and Roundish and admiral of Popochichi, has revealed a double feature of Kantai Collection parodies for sale at Comic Market 85, tapping early-leader-in-the-clubhouse fan favorite Shimakaze for one, and Kongou and her sister Haruna for the other.  

Comic Market 85: Digital Lover / D.L. Action 82 & 83 / Yuka Nakajima

The doujinshi James Brown plunges fast and deep at C85

The hardest-working artist in the ecchi parody doujinshi business, Digital Lover's Yuka Nakajima has started to reveal some of the goods the circle will be featuring for sale at Comic Market 85.  Already once dashed upon the rocks by the sirens of Kantai Collection, Nakajima has thus far revealed a 60cm x 120 cm bath towel featuring two of the Kongou sisters enjoying a good hull-debarnacling, and what looks to be a small desk-sized calendar with super-deformed versions of an assortment of the girls.  If past performance can be used as an indicator of future results, I'll be not at all surprised to see a pair of ero doujin unleashed by the circle between now and then, though what series shall be lampooned is anyone's guess at this time.

Update 1, 9:01 am 12/12/13:  Yuka Nakajima has released more images of the desk calendar her circle will be selling at Comiket 85, and it certainly seems there's far more than just chibified Kanmusu in fans' future.  Many series lampooned by the circle in the past (Index/Railgun, SAO, Evangelion, OreImo, Monogatari) join girls that have yet to receive their own D.L. Action title (Madoka Magica, Attack on Titan), and a few series for which Nakajima designed the characters (Papakiki, Amagi Brilliant Park) on the pages of the calendar.  The only one I can't identify is the one in the bottom left--any helpers out there?

Update 2, 1:43 pm 12/16/13:  The latest reveal of goods offered by Digital Lover at Comic Market 85 showcases that most robust of the Kanmusu, Atago, on a clear file.  Similar to the treatment Shimakaze got at Sunshine Creation 61 in October, Atago's uniform is perfectly intact on the outside, obscuring her post-skirmish condition on the interior.

Update 3, 12:45 pm 12/23/13:  To the surprise of not a single person paying attention, as revealed today by Yuka Nakajima, D.L. Action 82 will indeed return to the waters of the Kantai Collection universe.  Shimakaze's presence carries over from D.L. Action 81, but she's joined on the cover this time by Kongou and the Submarine I-19.  Nakajima seemed to confirm that the same shota inexperienced admiral from the circle's previous Kan Colle parody book will repeat his performance in this edition.

Update 4, 10:12 am 12/27/13:  And there's the surprise release we've come to expect from Digital Lover--time to reach behind the Rock Band drum set, dust off the Nerve Gear, and plug back into the world of Sword Art Online, as Asuna Yuuki graces the cover of D.L. Action 83.  While it seems like forever ago that SAO was in the forefront of fandom's collective mind, it was only back in February 2013 that Asuna last appeared on the cover of a Yuka Nakajima doujin, on Sankuri 58's D.L. Action 74.

Comic Market 85: Mugen@WORKS / むげん＠WORKS / Akiduki Akina

All Kongou, no Kurtz at C85

Mugen@WORKS' Akiduki Akina was among the earliest doujin artists to start milking the cash cow that is Kantai Collection, managing to eke out a full-length book in less than three weeks for Comic Market 84, but unlike most artists' eagerness to exploit the vastness of the game's roster, Akina has found his girl and stuck with her.  The personification of the battleship Kongou will make her third consecutive cover appearance for Mugen@WORKS book at Comic Market 85 with the release of Kon-Colle 03--frequent readers will also note the artist's continued proclivity toward considerably kyonyuu'd covergirls squeezing, grasping, clutching, and otherwise manipulating themselves for the reader's titillation.  

Update 1, 6:48 pm 12/22/13:  In a completely unheralded move, Akiduki Akina revealed yesterday that Mugen@WORKS would have a second book for sale at Comiket 85.  Kongou will be joined by the kanmusu aircraft cruiser Suzuya in the waters around Odaiba, though it looks like she may need some assistance replacing a gasket, of the cover is to be believed....

Sunshine Creation 61: Mugen@WORKS / むげん@WORKS / Akiduki Akina

Kyonyuu Kan Colle's Kongo Kontinues Koncerning Krafting

Because Japan first became a fan of Akiduki Akina's Mugen@WORKS after enjoying the circle's two 2011 Haganai parodies featuring Kobato Hasegawa at the fore, and greatly enjoyed the circle's Waiting in the Summer and Accel World books that followed in the first half of 2012.  Since then, however, a certain physical feature has dominated the majority of the circle's books that certainly sways opposite the heroines that captured this writer's initial attention.

I'm not saying that these books are no good, nor am I saying that Mugen@WORKS is a one-trick pony.  I simply hope and wish that the circle would show a bit more creativity in the presentation of its subject matter than it has over the past year.  Kon-Colle 02, featuring Kantai Collection's Kongo, will be released at this weekend's Sunshine Creation 61.

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.