New anthology book 2/29/08

[Sleepy_we]

hobibox put out a collection book of viper series manga.

http://ktcom.jp/book/2dc/2dc128.htm

the back cover of said book is very interesting in that is has the new art work from...

http://fujidokoro.sakura.ne.jp/top.html

and as for the cover art.. never seen it before but it looks like its from him as well.

[Hyperguy]

Stickied.  This is epic.

But what doesn't make sense is that there aren't 29 days in February.

[Sleepy_we]

never heard of leap year?

[bfg00]

never heard of leap year?

Dang you totally beat me to it.  +1 rep

[Hyperguy]

I've heard of it, but never understood where they'd cram extra days.

So, 366 days this year?  I feel older already!

[JG]

This is indeed most epic.  +5 Rep.

We'd seen the Fujidokoro image that makes up the back cover before (someone else posted it in another thread.)

But the cover image is a surprise since it's got Ta152 of Graf Zeppelin fame involved.  Now we know what he's been up to for the last two months.




I gotta get this.

[bfg00]

I've heard of it, but never understood where they'd cram extra days.

So, 366 days this year?  I feel older already!

Yeah well you will have to ask Julius Ceaser or St. Gregory the Great about that at some point.

[dontpanic]

oh man, I would love to see this.  that front cover pic of cala looks great.

[Hyperguy]

Looks like this is on Amazon.co.jp already.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/switch-language/product/4860325362/ref=dp_change_lang?ie=UTF8&language=en%5FJP

Only 990 yen? Fuck yes!

Though with shipping it'll probably be like forty dollars. D:

From official KTC shop:

http://ktcom.jp/cgibin/search.cgi?_file=ktc&strings=CO0707536

[Grishnach]

hobibox put out a collection book of viper series manga.

http://ktcom.jp/book/2dc/2dc128.htm

the back cover of said book is very interesting in that is has the new art work from...

http://fujidokoro.sakura.ne.jp/top.html

and as for the cover art.. never seen it before but it looks like its from him as well.

Wow, that looks totally great!
Thanks for the hint!

I'm not that fluent in Japanese unfortunately, does anyone know if this book will be sold in shops in Japan or only via online-shops?
Perhaps I might be able to get a hold of it ...

[Arizona]

Did any of you chumps get this thing?

[黒い灯影]

I ordered two copies, one of them which I am gonna sell

[JG]

I have it.  But I've not had a chance to scan the whole thing, so don't ask.  Maybe someday I'll get to it...

In the meantime I can share the interior color images that I did scan already.  Click these small versions for larger images.

New anthology book 2/29/08

New anthology book 2/29/08

Regarding the rest of the book:  Art-wise its better than the V series manga but the quality of stories seem lacking from what I could understand.*  It just seems like the same story over and over with a different set of characters.  I mean, five of the eleven stories have some from of tentacle sex going on.  It really needed a general editor to come in and say "That's too much, do something else instead."  Honestly, I was expecting better.




* Barring the second Cala story, which is quite intriguing.  Picking up from the night Elan and Cala almost sleep together, and after he's fallen asleep, she sneaks off into forest to be recaptured and raped by the monsters again.  She's become fond of getting raped and hoping to be rescued and can't quite give them up yet.

[Arizona]

Oh goodness, those are brilliant. Thank you for sharing.

Admittedly, I'm not in a rush for scans or anything, I was just interested in knowing if it actually came out with no problems and if it was at least mildly interesting.

The repetitiveness sounds annoying, but I am glad to know the art is better than the old V series, as those were really pretty painful at times.

I ordered two copies, one of them which I am gonna sell

Are we talking "not far from the actual price" kind of selling or "Imma sell this to collectors and pay my bills for six months!" kind of selling?

Where did you guys pick this up, by the way? Just Amazon Japan or somewhere else? I've only really thought about buying this kind of thing recently, so I only know of J-List, Mandarake, and JP Queen (none of them have it, as far as I saw).

I did see this, though! Sold out, unfortunately, but hey!

[黒い灯影]

hahah  "...pay my bills for six months"
nah.. i aint that kinda seller, I don't have that many bills to pay, just the cell phone bill
it isn't that expensive, so it wont really be too far from the actual price, knowing how hard it is to buy stuff from japan

[dontpanic]

Ordering stuff from amazon.jp is really easy - you can view the whole site in english.  Shipping is admittedly like $30 so you want to either A. buy a bunch of stuff or B. split the cost with someone.  If you're not sure of the name you can do things like search by the ISBN number.

[Arizona]

hmmm

Could anyone possibly, say, take some digital photos of the interior for examples of the art? I'm trying to determine if this might be worth bothering with.

And if it is...

hahah  "...pay my bills for six months"
nah.. i aint that kinda seller, I don't have that many bills to pay, just the cell phone bill
it isn't that expensive, so it wont really be too far from the actual price, knowing how hard it is to buy stuff from japan

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