2nd Native/Ashito Collabo Princess Stella Makes Her Debut

Pre-orders open for striped stunner

Pre-orders have opened for the highly anticipated second collaborative effort between Native, at one time considered the preeminent erotic figure maker, and fan-favorite sexy twig designer Oyari Ashito.  Following up 2012's Princess Mordina (a Because Japan favorite!), Princess Stella looks to be a charming companion piece to her sister.  While the two share their striking blue eyes and white gloves, Stella's edgier, almost militaristic costume and playfully aggressive brandishing of her flail stands (kneels?) in sharp contrast to Mordina's ethereal dress, heavy restraints, and submissive positioning.  Pre-orders close on March 10, with a May 2014 release expected.

Sunshine Creation 62: Mugen@WORKS / むげん@WORKS

Thigh-highs, green eyes, no surprise (this time)

Mugen@WORKS paired their third consecutive Kantai Collection parody doujinshi featuring Kongou with an unexpected companion, starring the game's blue-haired belle, Suzuya, at Comic Market 85 in December.  Circle artist Akiduki Akina will stick with Suzuya for Sankuri 62 this weekend.

Sunshine Creation 62: AYUEST

All paper planes, no M.I.A. at Sankuri 62

My favorite erotic doujinshi embrace the carnivalesque, the ribald and whimsical and festive spirit that bridges the schism between comedy and romance.  The best sex is fun and flirty and definitely doesn't take itself too grimly, and the fact that many doujin artists seem to embrace this keeps me coming back for more and more.  AYUEST will do their part to keep things light as air (with a wink and a nod to the Bernoulli Effect) at Sankuri 62 with Kantai Collection's aircraft carrier Shoukaku gracing the cover of their latest effort, and attendees will be given their own version of the paper airplane she's holding to enjoy at home!

Comic Treasure 23 & Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6: Shigunyan / しぐにゃん

Kansai's kanmusu fans served

Credit to Shigunyan for not abandoning the well-worn trail and foregoing the attention of Kansai's Kan Colle cravers, as the circle will have a presence at both Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6 in Tokyo and Comic Treasure 23 at INTEX Osaka this weekend, moving this weekend-exclusive omake book featuring a stripped-down Shimakaze on the cover and other ship girls in the mood to dock.

Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6: Digital Lover / Rough Sketch 80

Kanmusu idolized

Digital Lover will take their Kantai Collection parade to Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6, with the shipyard's resident idol candidate, Naka, soaking up the spotlight on the cover of Rough Sketch 80, alongside a face towel featuring Yamato.

Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6 and Comic Treasure 23: Karomix

Dakimakanmusura

Karomix has definitely swung their attention from producing doujinshi to festooning all matter of goods with their distinctive artwork--the circle only produced one doujinshi, the Attack on Titan parody Karorful Mix EX11, last year.  So it goes at Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6 at Tokyo Big Sight and Osaka's Comic Treasure 23 this weekend, as the circle has revealed a preview of a dakimakura of Kantai Collection's Haruna. 

Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6: ReDrop

Kan Colle Kaga Kash-in!

ReDrop presented an iDOLM@STER parody alongside an Evangelion parody at Comic Market 83 in December 2012, and it's been a steady diet of the girls of 765 Productions since, with five full-length iM@S books from the circle last year.  It required the unquestioned current juggernaut of the doujinshi scene, Kantai Collection, to change the circle's trajectory, as the aircraft carrier Kaga sheds her muneate for the circle's release at Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6 at Tokyo Big Sight. 

Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6: Clesta / Cle Masahiro / CL-orz 34

Heavy Big-boned cruiser

Count Clesta among the circles straying from the tried-and-true doujin path, skipping Comic Treasure 23 at INTEX Osaka this weekend for a return to the island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay for the all-kanmusu Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6.  Having featured Haruna and Nagato on covers at last year's Comic Markets, Cle Masahiro has called upon a spectacular and robust Atago, one of the first kanmusu to capture the otaku population's obsession, for the cover of CL-orz 34.

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Comic Treasure 23: Raijinkai / 雷神会

Busty Builder on display

Count Raijinkai amongst those doujinshi circles not sucked into the whirlpool created by the circling ship girls of Kantai Collection--the circle will attend Comic Treasure 23 with Gundam Build Fighters' Iori Rinko on the cover of their latest effort. 

Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6: Abgrund

Same great taste, new venue for Kan Colle vanguard

To the surprise of absolutely no one, Abgrund's Yusa Saikawa, the premier doujin-ka adopter of the Kan Colle lifestyle, will depart from the well-worn doujinshi pilgrim's path by foregoing an appearance at Comic Treasure 23 on January 19, instead appearing at the all-Kantai Collection convention Raigeki-sen Yoi! 6 the same weekend.  While Saikawa is quick to display the newest additions to her arsenal via Twitter (and producing fan art just as prolifically), she seems to have found a muse in Yamato, placing her on the circle's third straight cover, each one getting progressively more lewd with the passing of time. 

Comic Market 85: Cat FooD / NaPaTa

Shibuya Scramble

At C85, upper-echelon ero manga-ka NaPaTa followed through on the promise made to feature iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girl Rin Shibuya in an ero doujin mentioned in the closing notes of Cat FooD's C84 offering, along with an omake book with Kantai Collection's Inazuma-class sister Ikazuchi on the cover.

Comic Market 85: Jenoa Cake / TakayaKi

Love, Ship Girls, and Other Delusions

While waiting for the second season of Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai to launch (and therefore reaping an excuse to draw more Nibutani), TakayaKi offered an erotic doujinshi featuring Kantai Collection's Suzuya at Comic Market 85.