Comic Market 86: Number2 / Takuji

MakiNicoise salad, not fishy

After pounding away at the sensibilities of doujinshidom with absurdly lewd and lengthy titles skewering OreImo, Number2's more recent Love Live! releases have been slightly more tame in name if not in content. Prevalent series pairing Maki Nishikino and Nico Yazawa star in the circle's Comic Market 86 release, following the Eli Ayase C85 release, and the wider-scoped gravure release from COMIC1 earlier this year.

Comic Market 86: Raijinkai 雷神会 / Harukigenia

Uni Umi Roe Whoa!

Credit where it's due to Raijinkai; the circle held off longer than most before succumbing to the onslaught of the Otonokizakan Empire.  After going the Shimakaze route back at October 2013's Sunshine Creation 61, the circle had taken the path less chosen with parodies of Kill la Kill, Gundam Build Fighters, and Mahouka in succession, before going back to the naval base earlier this summer.  Finally, those persistent charmers of Love Live! have broken through, with Umi Sonoda on the cover of the circle's C86 offering.

Like any good old-school doujin-ka, Harukigenia's loath to let us think he's sold out, though, with Sword Art Online 2's Sinon on the cover of an omake book.

Comic Market 86: WIREFRAME / Hagure Yuuki

On the idol comeback trail

It's somewhat shocking to find that it's been a full two years since WIREFRAME's Yuuki Hagure has gifted doujinshidom with new content, but it's true--after two skipped Winter Comikets and a soushuuhen at last summer's event, the last new doujin the circle produced was August 2012's iDOLM@STER parody, Cinderella Festa.  From iDOL to idle and back to idol, it's Love Live!'s Eli Ayase on the cover of the circle's Comic Market 86 release.

The circle has also revealed an omake booklet and a t-shirt for sale, both featuring Kantai Collection's Amatsukaze.

Comic Market 86: Clesta / Cle Masahiro / CL-orz 38 & 39

Choose μ's to snooze and for lewd cruise views

After breaking through the KanColle flotilla at Sankuri 64 with the Love Live! erotic parody doujin CL-orz 37, it looks like Clesta will continue their idolization of the girls of Otonokizaka Academy at Comic Market 86.  Nozomi Toujou becomes the latest candidate for dakimakurization by Dr. Cle, getting a Rubenesque treatment not dissimilar to the way he depicted Atago back at Comic1 earlier this year.  

Updated 1:35 pm 8/3:  Clesta's pushed all his ceramic betting discs onto the Love Live! space for Comiket 86.  Having already featured Nozomi, Maki, and Nico on the cover of CL-orz 37, it looks like the rest of the μ's girls will be put into Cle Masahiro's service.  Preview pictures shared by the artist on Twitter suggest a pair of new books from the circle, with the remaining six of the nine getting their due.




Cle also indicated via Tweet that event attendees would have access to a bonus item featuring some of the mothers of Otonokizaka's finest!













Update 2 10:23 am 8/10:  As previously suggested, there are indeed two new Love Live! parody books from Clesta coming to Tokyo Big Sight at C86.  Following up Nico, Nozomi, and Maki's lingerie-clad effort on CL-orz 37, Kotori Minami, Honoka, and Umi Sonoda take the cover of CL-orz 38, while Rin Hoshizora, Hanayo Koizumi, and Eli Ayase claim CL-orz 39 in beach wear more appropriate for the sweltering climes of Odaiba.

Cle also revealed the Love Live! moms's role in the proceedings, as they appear in the convention-exclusive CL-ev 12.

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.  

Sunshine Creation 64: TIES / Takei Ooki

Lovely & Lively

Back at April 2013's COMIC1☆7, Takei Ooki's TIES snuck in a completely unheralded Love Live! parody doujin featuring Nico Yazawa that did not see any kind of retail distribution--the book became somewhat of a white whale for Ooki's fans to find on the secondhand market.  Perhaps heeding his fans' call, and most definitely cashing in on the popularity of the series' second season, TIES offered a new book, LOVE NICO! one two, at Sankuri 64 today, capturing the sprightly sensation's first encounter with groupmate Maki Nishikino with a new chapter, making for a whopping 42-page B5-sized release.

Fans seeking to commemorate the coupling can buy a pillow cover, featuring a member of the pair on each side (naturally, not wanting to choose a favorite and hurting feelings, I would encourage buying two).

Sunshine Creation 64: Clesta / Cle Masahiro

Aμ'sing to no end

In the past several weeks, Clesta's Cle Masahiro has taunted his fans with sharply finished images of girls from Love Live! School Idol Project via his Twitter feed.  Having never touched the series before, it was not too difficult to imagine the girls of Otonokizaka Academy in the middle of a CL-orz erotic parody.  Finally, Masahiro confirmed the cover-image-in-process, likely to be done for Sankuri 64 later this month. 





Updated 7:24 am 6/21:  No significant changes on the finalized cover of CL-orz 37, revealed by Clesta earlier this week in preparation for Sankuri 64.

Additionally, attendees will have access to the circle's latest omake book, featuring Love Live! rival raconteur Tsubasa Kira on the cover.

Comic Market 85: Number2 / Takuji

Russo-Japanese relations burgeoning at C85

While an overwhelming number of doujinshi circles have heaped their attention on the Anglo-Japanese battleship Kongou, Number2 has gone the Cyrillic route at Comic Market 85, it seems.  After years of near-exclusive devotion to the harem circling OreImo's Kyousuke Kousaka, the circle's most recent doujin featuring Kirino on the cover (and the rest of the girls inside) seemed an appropriate capstone to go along with the light novel's and anime's finales, leaving fans to guess what would be the circle's next target.  While a cover image is forthcoming, Number2's website has been overwhelmed overnight by an image of Love Live! School Idol Project's part-Russian darling, Eri Ayase.  Considering the circle's penchant for cycling through heroines from the same series, Love Live! certainly makes for a logical yet exciting option.  

Update 1, 9:22 am 12/30/13:  An update from Number2 shows the cover of their Love Live ero parody and other goods offered at Comiket 85.  An omake book featuring Sagiri Izumi of Eromanga-sensei, the new light novel series from Tsukasa Fushimi (Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai), a calendar, and a tapestry featuring Kirino Kousaka from the cover art of the circle's OreImo C84 doujinshi will be found at Takuji's booth.

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.

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.