The coming New Year sees the release of the Bishoujo New Year Collection 2011, a collection of gorgeous New Year themed images from 50 of Japan’s premier illustrators which conveniently allows the reader to ogle usamimi bishoujo under the guise of picking which to send off as a greetings card…
A wide variety of top artists are featured ranging from mangaka and ero-mangaka to eroge artists, illustrators and the cream of Pixiv. The illustrations are divided loosely into themes – Japanese-themed images, usamimi moe (with a number of loli-mangaka contributing) and ero (with a significant yuri quotient).
Along with the original A4 illustrations on their own pages (without the New Year text), the facing page contains a preview of the greeting card, a design sketch and a brief profile and interview with the artist about the work
In addition to the actual book, the collection also comes with a CD containing all 50 illustrations in proper Japanese New Year greeting card (年賀状, nengajō) layout, as shown in this article, at a high resolution suitable for printing straight onto cards for friends and family. Hikikomori can always print the cards for themselves and pretend someone nice sent them.
Some mention should be made of the New Year (正月, shōgatsu) symbology embedded in most of the images; the significance of shrines and shrine maidens (miko) should be obvious enough, but the intense focus on rabbit ears (usagi-mimi, usamimi) is of especial importance this year.
Most obviously, 2011 is the year of the hare in the Chinese zodiac; also, in Japanese tradition the cratering of Earth’s moon is associated with the scene of a rabbit using a wooden mallet to pound mochi, a sticky rice cake traditionally consumed on the new year (which was historically the Chinese lunar year, although it is now January 1st due to Japan having adopted the western calendar completely).
Of course, most of the food featured in the illustrations (including plenty of mochi) is also traditional Japanese New Year’s fare.
The book is of course best ordered before the onset of the new year – it can be had now.
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Good god! Receiving these would be an AWESOME way to kick off the new year XD
So smexy!
I'd applaud anyone who was brave enough to send 08 or 09 as a greetings card...
I'll do it... time to send these print these out... or go buy them....
Happy New Year indeed! I know a few friends and co-workers who would love to get these as a card. I might even send a few to myself....
I'd love to send or get 005.
I love every single one of these images. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone!
Hmmm....
maybe I send one via e-mail to my fellow friends ^^
maybe I send no.9 LOL
But I wish someone send me a real one....
Pic 2 is not a picture of a girl holding dildo.
It's a huge rope tie to a shrine that you're suppose to pull after making a wish.
enough said.
@Number two:
Take about five dozens of eggs, put 'em in a bowl, mix the FUCK out of them...
What do you get?
pic 2 looked like she was holding a damn big dildo when i checked briefly.. then i went "WHAT THE FUCK?" and checked back.. i'm with megidola, i challenge any1 to send those :)
I would love to receive #06 or #05...
Happy New Years & I guess Merry Christmas everyone...
So... is she not holding a dildo?
I don't see anything else in the picture
Yeah 008 is definitely worth to send or to receive.
I'd send it to my fellow hentai-reader.
But he's underage... and he's probably never the first one to open the mailbox.
Heh, guess that's what envelopes are for.
I DARE ANYONE TO SEND THOSE GREETING CARDS TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
nice to see some yuri =3=
Have a yurilolicious New Year!!!
Delicious loli usamimi moe artbook~
Om nom nom nom~
Oh, it's the yuri rabbit!
Yuri Christmas everyone!
I'd have no one to send it to, but I'll get them for myself.
Number 3 is impossibly cute!
That's how I want my gift baskets to look, and normally I'm not too partial to loli.
Shit, I think I just saw a giant dildo on No.2
I need to stop watching yuri hentai for awhile....
No you don't... keep watching them is good for you... good for life...
Good lord, they are all moeblob shit!!!
What a disappointment, Naoko Takeuchi must be writhing in pain... Japan's inescapable downwards trend continues.
All hail, the year of the moe Rabbit~
it's the year of the Tewi!
Moar power to Reisen!
Or, maybe a bigger paycheck would do.
I'll stick with postcard #3.
Look at the girl's legs in picture 6 and 9...so premier illustrators, uh?
Someone who can read/write japanese... Can you check if this book can be bought from Amazon.co.jp and if it can, link please ?
I'll be ordering from there soon again but searching is as always, impossible for me.
aww man 2011 is already here.
i guess fapping throughout the year was fast huh O_O
please send me more of these :D
I'm sorry, and I love all the others, but for me, number 6 is just gorgeous beyond words.
Fappy New Year indeed.
I wouldn't mind having one of those poscards send to me. Not at all.
I wouldn't send one though.
I get the uneasy feeling that I've seen some of their other works...
>Hikikomori can always print the cards for themselves and pretend someone nice sent them.
How thoughtful. You put a smile on my face, Arty.
#4,#8 and #9 for me!
I don't know why but no.7 is my fav
Nanao is really an awesome artist, I really love how he draws too.
i somehow feel very angry.seeing bunnys in these pictures reminded me of the sad stuff from last week
wow good enough that I already have one at my book shelf.
Reisen for me
already bought
me too
aww so awesome...now if only I could get away with actually using these :/
All you fellas born in the year of the rabbit(ie 1987) holla back yo~~~~
Dirty jap blasphemes new year.
Blaspheming 4TW!