Posts Tagged ‘Ishikei’

Ishikei’s C76 To Love-Ru Doujinshi “MikanAL” Translated

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

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NiseMIDI Doro no Kai’s (the circle name of the well known artist Ishikei) main Comiket 76 offering, MikanAL, is likely among the more sought out and lusted after books to come from the event, featuring To Love-Ru’s youthful imouto Yuuki Mikan in Ishikei’s distinctive style.

Sankaku Complex’s own Quen has turned his expert hand to a translation of the short book as a send-off for the recently cancelled To Love-Ru series – hopefully bereaved fans can find at least a little solace amongst the pages of yet another Ishikei doujinshi.

The entire doujinshi can be read here on the Channel, in what is almost certainly the best quality scan available of the book online so far.

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Some may find the Channel’s translation interface confusing – remember to click on the image to turn the transparent mouseover boxes on or off.

Unfortunately a full scanlation was not doable, so anyone with the requisite image editing skills may feel free to typeset the pages properly, or use the translation as basis for their own scanlation.

Last of all, thanks must be extended to artist Ishikei (official website) for producing this fine work of art.

Ishikei Ero-Manga Plagiarism

Thursday, August 13th, 2009

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Top ero-mangaka Ishikei seems to have been the subject of some not so subtle tracing in the unidentified ero-manga above.

His previous brush with this sort of thing was more firmly in the “tribute” vein.

Of course, Ishikei’s usage of To Love-Ru characters is itself unauthorised, so perhaps he had better not complain too loudly…

Ishikei “Impersonator” Betty Draws Yui

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

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This fine pair of images of K-ON!’s Yui Hirasawa, receiving some tender attention from some of her countless male admirers, comes from a gifted new artist on Pixiv going by the name of Betty.

As some will recognize, the similarity between this artist’s style and the well-known Ishikei is so great as to create some problems in telling the two apart…

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Betty’s Pixiv profile contains a little information (”There’s a lot I still can’t draw, but I want to learn how to draw bit by bit.”), but unfortunately only these two pictures so far.

Hopefully the artist (gender unknown) will release more art in the near future, as these two examples definitely show a great deal of potential…

Ishikei’s Comiket Plans? To Love-Ru’s Mikan & K-ON!

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

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This new artwork from ero-artist extraordinaire Ishikei (aka NiseMIDI), of To Love-Ru’s resident loli imouto Mikan, has been attracting attention for some time now, both for what’s shown in the full image (shown below), but also for reminding us what we can expect from the artist when his scheduled Comiket 75 doujin becomes available this August…

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The back cover to his recent Oshirito doujinshi (shown below along with the cover), as well as Ishikei’s usual selection habits for what series he’ll cover in a current year, makes a K-ON! book practically assured for C76.

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Considering what he managed to do with this lovely preview image of Yui that was posted to his website some time ago, fans will doubtless be anticipating his next release:

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