


The importance of practice and perseverance to an artist’s improvement are again highlighted superbly by the now popular annual progress charts, showing once again that practice makes perfect.
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Top ero-mangaka and illustrator Satoshi Urushihara‘s first wholly 18+ artbook “Kan” has been unveiled, providing the expected dose of sexy illustrations.
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Shigenori Soejima, the artist in no small part responsible for the success of recent Persona games thanks to his distinctive character designs, is receiving an English language artbook covering his fine character designs, and also including an interview and various other details of interest to Persona fans.
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The unexpected conjunction of moe bishoujo and genuine fashion (as opposed to the fantasy sort involving cat ears and maid outfits) has resulted in “Moeurs” – a fashion mook eschewing bony 3D models in favour of svelte 2D girls by top artists.
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Mangaka Kei Aoyama has killed himself, announcing the fact by Twitter.
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2ch is violently debating a putative ranking of mangaka by drawing ability, with the top spot proving particularly incendiary…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Manga, News
- Date: Sep 7, 2011 09:23 JST
- Tags: Animals, Artists, Bestiality, Doujinshi, Ero-manga, Fetish, Furries, Loli, Moe

Even the most hardened kemono-haters soon found themselves in difficulty after being presented with this tale of a man’s encounter with a cute little kid.
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Even the notoriously anti-Korean inhabitants of 2ch are praising Korea’s new Vocaloid design for her excellent design – behold See-U:
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Manly Miku apparently not having proved a debacle enough, Hatsune Miku finally has an official American version, although not everyone seems likely to be overjoyed by the design selected.
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One of moeblob overlord and K-ON! creator Kakifly’s first manga, a 2003 Leaf doujinshi, has been discovered and shows the rather stark difference a mere eight years can make to an artist’s skill (to say nothing of his bank balance).
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Jun 12, 2011 13:57 JST
- Tags: Artists, Character Design, Image Gallery, Oppai, PS3, PSP, RPG, Simoshi, Vanillaware

It is hard to see the mixed reaction to the idiosyncratic art style adopted by upcoming Odin Sphere successor Dragon’s Crown having arisen were the designs more along the lines of top artist Simoshi‘s ravishing conception of the game’s sorceress character, above.
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Top moe artist Kishida Mel has had his first substantive western print debut, by way of a newly released Atelier artbook featuring not only his superb work but also much of the other art to have made the Atelier series such a favourite amongst bishoujo RPG fans.
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