Comic1☆7: TIES / Takei Ooki

Yami, Niko.  Yaminiko.  Yakiniku?  OM NOM NOM

TIES artist Takei Ooki gave a preview image of To Love-Ru's Golden Darkness all the way back in early February, and it seems that he's used every minute available since that reveal in the lead-up to this weekend's Comic1☆7.  The circle revealed a whopping 44-page release, still showcasing Yami on the cover, but one wouldn't be surprised to see some other representatives of Rito's harem in the mix.  In addition, Ooki seems to share the same idol affliction that his colleagues Oyari Ashito and Yusa Saikawa came down with this Spring, with a 16-page release featuring twin-tailed taruento Niko Yazawa of Love Live! School Idol Project for our perusal. 

When Tony Taka Wins, We All Win

Several updates from Tony Taka today, the first time we've heard from the artist since his mid-February announcement of his non-ero art and creation wing, Albion Works.   First, the artist will be the centerpiece of a traveling art exhibition by Art Jeuness featuring original works and concepts from the Shining series of video games, starting today.  With the announcement, a gorgeous new Swan Lake-inspired piece welcomes visitors to his site:

Thankfully, Tony has not abandoned his ero roots, and he revealed a new edition of his Fault!! tennis eroge franchise.  Fault!! Service Ace compiles Fault!! A and S, and a special edition will include a dakimakura featuring Ai Saeki and Mio Sugiyama on one side, and Reiko Date Wingfield and Maya Kamiwazumi on the other.

Also, here in the Third Dimension, an outstanding reveal from Kotobukiya courtesy of Plastikitty shows the planning stages of a figure of Tony Taka's cover girl from last year's mook Girls! Girls! Girls! vol. 9.

I'm a Cowboy, on a Body Pillow I Ride...

Chance for otaku to bunk down next to Ashito's gunslinger girl

 

To commemorate the release of moe strategy eroge Eiyuu*Senki on PS3, PS Vita, and for mobile devices, Oyari Ashito collected votes from fans on which of the game's historical-figures-cum-rail-thin-debutantes would receive dakimakura treatment.  It seems the votes are in, and it's Billy the Kid getting the grand reveal!

Ashito's website indicates that the voting was extremely close, enough to possibly warrant a second dakimakura of the runner-up...

Comic1☆7: Ajisai Denden / アジサイデンデン

After they finally finished up the achingly sweet Spice and Wolf parody Harvest at Comic Market 83 last December, I'd been anxiously awaiting more news from Ajisai Denden in anticipation of their next parody work.  The answer came in the middle of March, when the circle released a very simple black-and-white sketch of C.C. from Code Geass on to their site with a note saying there'd be more to see at Comic1☆7.  Finally, we have the cover and some preview pages, and it does seem that the circle is taking a slightly different approach to ero doujin this go-'round.  It seems to be an extremely text-heavy work, with the ero illustrations serving more as a background, rather than a typical comic layout.

 

Comic1☆7: Clesta / Cle Masahiro

No hope on the horizon...

No doujin news from Clesta yet, and it's been quite a long time since the circle has published a new book compared to their previous production rate.  The circle does show a flicker of life, however, at this weekend's Comic1☆7.  It is a tapestry of, naturally, Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere, the circle's latest and greatest obsession.  We can still hope that a full-length book from a different series is still in the cooker, somewhere...

Comitia104: Abgrund / Yusa Saikawa

No rest for the weary former Otokonoko Ace

While plenty of ero doujin artists have announced new books for next weekend's Comic1☆7, not many have shown any new goods for Comitia104 the following weekend.  Not so for Yusa Saikawa of that delightfully depraved Abgrund!  The preview pages, however, suggest a rather different approach for Saikawa--while I wait for further details to emerge, it looks like this might be a koma book, rather than anything ero...not sure if the circle has ever done a koma series before this, and details wait to be seen...

Comic1☆7: Afterschool of the 5th Year / 5年目の放課後 / Kantoku

Wool skirts relegated to secondary status by the Tartan Tsar

Kantoku's offering for this weekend's Comic1☆7 looks to be a simple one, with the 33rd edition of their Tachiyomi collection of genga, along with a rather gorgeous-looking file folder, perhaps inspired by Bioshock Infinite to stick a cute girl on a zeppelin.

Comic1☆7: Shadow Sorceress Communication Protocol / 影法師通訊協定 / Hiten

It looks like Shadow Sorceress Communication Protocol artist Hiten has decided to tap into the potential of tired and ronery otaku with this newly revealed dakimakura of Yomi from the Senran Kagura fighting game series, looking in both A- and B-Sides like she has not had a very good time of things whatsoever.  The pillow cover will be available at this weekend's Comic1☆7, along with a good-sized tapestry of Haganai's Kobato Hasegawa in catsuit mode.

Comic1☆7: Alpha to Yukaina Nakamatachi / 有葉と愉快な仲間たち

Fire up the Motley Crue for a sticky-sweet new iM@S Cinderella Girl!

Hot on the heels of Airi Totoki's dakimakura debut back in mid-March, Alpha to Yukaina Nakamatachi has announced a new iDOLM@ASTER Cinderella Girl dakimakura treatment, this time of the sugary sweet Kanako Mimura.  Like Totokin, each side of the new dakimakura features the slightly puni Kanako emerging out of outfits she appears in on her normal and S Rare+ cards.  For all the iM@S love Alpha has shown of late, perhaps it's not unrealistic to hope for a new parody doujinshi featuring the girls of 765 Productions at Comic Market 84 this August...?

 Thank you to Project-IMAS.com for the card images!

Comic1☆7: Digital Lover / Yuka Nakajima / D.L. Action 75

Fluttering pink petals on display.  Oh, and hanami too.

Click here for information on D.L. Action 76

The workhorse of the ero doujin thoroughbred stable, Digital Lover, never fails to impress with their impressive production rate of top-flight quality goods, and next weekend's Comic1☆7 will not disappoint.  On the heels of Rough Sketch 74 which debuted at last week's Sankuri 59, and the previously announced dakimakura of OreImo's Kuroneko sporting her winter seifuku and cat tail that made Comiket 83's D.L. Action 73 such a delightful read, we will have yet another full-length ero doujin, D.L. Action 75, dedicated to that tsundere muse, Ruri Gokou.  Decked out in a pink ensemble more befitting her more benevolent alias, Kamineko, looking more than a little tentative amidst the hanafubuki, there's no telling how long she will hold dominion over Nakajima's talents but I am in no particular rush to have the circle move on.

In addition to the new ero doujin, Digital Lover will offer an A6-sized book cover featuring the circle's previous obsession, Misaka Mikoto of A Certain Scientific Railgun, sharing cover space with Misaki Shokuhou.

Comic1☆7: Popochichi / ぽぽちち / Yahiro Pochi

Tamako Black Market Goods

Being a fan of ero doujinshi exposes one to plenty of sights that one does not anticipate, and ones that cannot be unseen.  This is an accepted matter of consequence and is best embraced as just part of the fun of the medium, that the distance between imagination and reality is as short as the distance from the top of an artist's head to the tip of their pen.  Such it is with Yahiro Pochi's offering for next weekend's Comic1☆7, as a super-cute lolified Tamako Kitashirakawa and Choi Mochimazzi from Tamako Market grace the cover.  This, in itself, is not disturbing, nor is it rare.

The preview pages, featuring a human Dera Mochimazzi, however...

Comic1☆7 Update: Yasuda / Yasudanchi

The Yandere Scourge of Chiba Strikes Again!

Recently revealed on charming chibi-fier Yasuda's website, the circle will once again be tapping into the charms of OreImo's yandere darling Ayase Aragaki for their newest release, to debut at next weekend's Comic1☆7.  This outing is the circle's first since Comiket 83 and second consecutive book featuring Ayase.  Lucky early buyers will receive a set of five bookmarks showing what might be the results of Kirino's attempt to get her friend into cosplay, much to our delight.