Doujinshi update gaiden
Feb. 25th, 2015 02:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigozealI got the Akari Funato 201108B doujinshi today, just to check to see if there were any Lunar pieces in it. There weren't - besides a nice portrait of Angelique Collet & Victor from a short Victorian AU Angelique manga she did and a sweet scene of Sailor Moon's Haruka & Michiru relaxing together, it was basically all stuff with which I'm not overly familiar: Rayearth, Madoka, Tokimeki Memorial, Tales of the Abyss, Densha de GO!! (of all things), etc. So was the 201108A doujin, but those pieces were so high-quality that they were stunners even if you weren't familiar with the source material. The 201108B pieces seem to be incidental art from Funato's blog, and they're nice (well, except for a page of semi-explicit loli sex doodles), but they're more for pre-existing fans of the works involved. The doujinshi has a darling scrapbook theme to showcase these smaller pieces, but I can't recommend the book unequivocally like I can the 201108A doujin.
I did order this book from Mandarake, which has an English-language site (though you'll get the best results if you enter your search terms in Japanese) and ships directly to U.S. addresses. Shipping was by EMS, again, and relatively affordable; Mandarake does, though, add a 500-yen surcharge if your order is under 5000 yen. The doujin came shipped in a box automatically - unlike Buyee, where you have to upgrade your shipping explicitly - but the inside packing was a bit sparser & cheaper than the previous two, excellent transactions. That puts Mandarake in third place in terms of doujinshi purveyors - but I'd still purchase from them again, albeit after checking other outlets first.
(In other news: Synopsis of Vheen Hikuusen doujinshi series coming, eventually.)
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I did order this book from Mandarake, which has an English-language site (though you'll get the best results if you enter your search terms in Japanese) and ships directly to U.S. addresses. Shipping was by EMS, again, and relatively affordable; Mandarake does, though, add a 500-yen surcharge if your order is under 5000 yen. The doujin came shipped in a box automatically - unlike Buyee, where you have to upgrade your shipping explicitly - but the inside packing was a bit sparser & cheaper than the previous two, excellent transactions. That puts Mandarake in third place in terms of doujinshi purveyors - but I'd still purchase from them again, albeit after checking other outlets first.
(In other news: Synopsis of Vheen Hikuusen doujinshi series coming, eventually.)
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