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With Soul Calibur IV, it seems the best physicists in the land have been summoned to ensure every knock is accompanied by fluid dynamics to make the supercomputers of yesteryear wince; so what better a theme could there be for a topical video gallery, now the game has shifted millions of copies?
Konami seems to be busy – now they bring Shakugan no Shana to us in figumated form, due for release on the 21st, and available in just about every variety of Shana, as well as side characters (below).
How will this fair against the upcoming nendoroid Shana? At a mere ¥500 each, it may not be a fair comparison, although the finish seems nice enough (actually it seems rather good). Bandage Shana is rare – thank goodness…
Something of an intriguing premise underlies this latest manga adaptation: まりあ†ほりっく / Mariaholic, by lady mangaka 遠藤海成 / Endou Minari, centres around the oppression of a cross-dressing boy attempting to duplicitously fit himself into life in a convent school by disguising himself as a pupil, whilst surrounded by young ladies of the sort of tastes typical in exclusively female Catholic schools. Also, it has sadistic maids, and probably nuns.
If you’re not familiar with the work, a chapter is reproduced below.
As part of an initiative to reinvigorate the local economy, the Hokkaido government is set to establish special areas where cannabis can be grown freely, so as to put fallow fields to work and reduce the need to import.
One of the many peculiarities exhibited by foremost lolicon ero-manga anthology magazine Comic LO is the publication of disclaimer style images exhorting the readership not to touch, complaining about opprobrium, etc. Frequently they are eccentric, often they are strange, but always they seem to be witty and well designed.
Here are most of them for your inspection, now with almost comprehensive translations:
Some rather impressive art from China, employing an interesting choice of medium: the humble watermelon, carved and decorated into a variety of artful representations, all eminently edible of course.
In a departure from the usual character-centric galleries, let us enjoy a collection of superb photographic views, mostly of the Japanese countryside, as collected by the Vippers. Some of the scenes are quite captivating, and it certainly makes an interesting change.
This digest of tentacle anime came up, and it is amusing enough to share. Quite a comprehensive selection, both of anime and girls, and of styles of tentacle. I see some of the more unusual starfish headed types, as well as the more usual plain shokushu. There is plenty of non-ero-anime featured, but rather a lot of mainstream anime also features – 3×3 Eyes I knew about, but Nanoha had those kind of scenes?
Some rather nice wallpaper type Strike Witches images I picked up are presented here. The image above, which looks to be official, is a particular classic, but there are plenty of other rather interesting images below. When you’re finished with them, you can always wonder what might have been had they based the anime on the original loli manga, and see what came to be: plenty of aerial fondling.
The colossal and highly successful グイン・サーガ / Guin Saga series of fantasy novels, by 栗本薫 / Kaoru Kurimoto, now standing at over 120 volumes, will be adapted into an anime airing in the spring of 2009. The announcement was made on the cover (obi) of the just released 122nd volume, though that there was activity in adapting it to anime has been discussed for a few years (three years ago, in fact).
This is sure to be an interesting project, and possibly the start of a major mixed media franchise, although as yet further details are lacking. Via Moonphase.
Some Vippers have been posting interesting images of Japanese girls doing a spot of cheerleading, so allow me to present a gallerified version. Consider it an accompaniment to the earlier sport girl gallery, although with even less posed photography. So now we have all manner of school uniforms, school swimwear, normal swimwear… the only thing missing would be bloomers?
