Here is a superior artist producing colour dojinshi of an amazing quality. It is none other than 石恵 / Ishikei, who may also be familiar to you as 偽MIDI泥の会 / NiseMIDIDoroNoKai. Not only does he produce colour CG work of rather shockingly good quality, he also tends to work with the most popular titles, such as Lucky Star, Haruhi, etc. If you have not already had the pleasure of viewing his work, then you may wish to rectify matters promptly, easily accomplished by reading on.
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I came across a very nice collection of OS-tan images here and here, the best I’ve seen, and I’ve taken the liberty of mirroring the most interesting below (some are wallpaper sized). The kind treatment given to Windows 95 seems a little inexplicable now, but I suppose that is the effect of time. I certainly approve of the Windows 2000 adulation though – as fine a Windows OS as could be, for its time. Vista makes me laugh, but then so does the OS.
If you’re not familiar with OS-tan, these are attempts to anthropomorphise the features of various operating systems (mostly Windows) using anime styled characters; some of them are, in my opinion, very witty, and the vast majority are quite cute or sexy.
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Saw this one a long time ago but was recently reminded of it, and refound the source – those panels are pure genius. The whole story is below, and is quite steamy.
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The long awaited release of the new Slayers anime, Slayers Revolution, after an 11 year hiatus, is heating up with the start of the manga version, being serialised in Dragon Age – see here for some more detail. Whilst it would probably be an exaggeration to say the manga adaptations of Slayers have ever been highly regarded in comparison to the excellent anime and novels, it is heartening to see Lina Inverse and company back in action after such a long gap – who can doubt that Megumi Hayashibara will reprise her role with as much gusto as ever?
Did you think tentacle porn was a recent development? Or, for that matter, erotic manga? Not at all, as Japan possesses a long and glorious history of erotic art going back centuries (as in fact do most cultures), called 春画 / Shunga, which flourished particularly during the reign of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
I came accross an interesting representative sample, and some of the themes may be familiar to you, though some are perhaps more bizarre than contemporary works (unless you spend much time on /d/, in which case these subjects will all be familiar to you). There is even an illustration of someone using an ancient dakimakura. I am mirroring most of the images below, though I leave the illustration of man and his faithful companion as a dubious incentive to visit the originating site, if you dare.
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One of the first, and best, erotic manga I have had the pleasure of reading is Take On Me, by 竹村雪秀 / Takemura Sessyu, a manga which has run into two volumes and attained no small popularity. It is not hard to see why; his works possess an immaculate and detailed style, engaging story and characters, and cover a broad range of sexual interests.
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水無月十三 / Juuzoh Minazuki is an artist whose work has been a favourite of mine for some time. I can’t give the kind the kind of unqualified praise I’m delighted to lavish on the likes of Nekomata Naomi, but I can certainly introduce and recommend his works wholeheartedly. His works cross a variety of genres and formats, so you can probably find something to your taste. The stories, where actually present, are short but frequently well done, and certainly erotically charged. His main strength is doubtless his considerable artistic talent.
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Some dojinshi are conspicuous in how great they are – most of the works of ねこまた屋/Nekomataya fall into this category (also published as ねこまたなおみ/Nekomata Naomi). Nekomataya’s works are probably also essential reading for anyone looking for Genshiken or Naruto dojinshi, but original works have also lately been forthcoming. Whatever the genre, they are some of the most artistically accomplished and erotically potent works around.
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Interesting comparison of the censorship of serialised versus compilations of ToLOVEる/To Love-Ru here – it seems quite heavy handed, but this is Shonen Jump so I suppose it is understandable. What of the TV versus DVD versions of the anime, I wonder? Personally, I think I prefer seinen manga, of either variety, where this sort of thing is not an issue.
This is 田中ユタカ/Yutaka Tanaka. His stories tend to be more sentimental than the norm – or perhaps they are normal and the unsympathetic treatment is not. Anyway, they are full of warmth. He is extremely prolific (in fact there is a suggestion several authors use the same pen name, or at least that plenty of assistants are involved). You may also be familiar with the erotic anime adaptation of Virgin Night (初夜), based on his work. He has a slew of normal (non-H) manga published as well, but I am concentrating on the H part of his portfolio here.
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One of my favourite manga, and in fact the first I ever read in the original Japanese, is よつばと!/Yotsuba&!, by 東清彦/Kiyohiko Azuma. It is an entertaining and easygoing manga, with good art and story, so that alone is enough to recommend it; it is a best seller in Japan so many would agree. However, I think it also happens to be the ideal beginner’s manga for learning Japanese, for several compelling reasons.
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萩尾ノブト/Nobuto Hagio is a mangaka most known for Yuria 100 Shiki, and whose works are easily recommended, both as normal H (seinen) manga and as more adult works – some examples follow.
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