>>DocWatson
I’ll be listing Amazon links from here on, but I’m not sure why someone would pay extra to order via a proxy service from Amazon when they could use the Rikai plugin or wwwjdic and order at retail price from Mangaoh. To each his own, though.

A note on the Japanese “seijin muke manga” Wikipedia entry: a look at the alternate languages section at the bottom of the left hand Wiki sidebar often does wonders. :3

>> Sydney2K (post #17)
I’m in the United States, which has (or so I gather) a relatively lax policy on importing adult materials. At least, I’ve never had a problem with the hentai art books and laser discs I’ve ordered over the years.

“seijin muke”: “seijin”: “adult”; “muke”: “aimed at / target towards / intended for”–see AnimeLab.com’s dictionary (a port of the EDICT and KANJIDIC files). (I knew seijin, but “muke” I was unfamiliar with.)

The ISBN would still be useful, as YesAsia can be searched via ISBN as well.

I agree that one of Gunma’s strengths is that his portrayals of body shape are largely within the realm of realism (though I also really dig the fantastically unrealistic work of other artists…).

Regarding the “squares”, those are actually stars in Unicode / Japanese font; it’s an encoding issue, so if you switch from your default browser encoding to Unicode you should be able to view them just fine. I was thinking of using pngs for the stars instead but I couldn’t resist the ones right there in the character set.

What I am finding that I like the most of this one review provided are the the pictures shown in that the girls looks “real” and “believeable” as opposed to super sized boobs and anorextic waist lines that is relied upon to sell soooooo many comics and things in general. They have a little bit of size to their proportions. Hats off to the artist.

Overall review of the review- maybe go to full colored circles instead of empty squares- it’s just easier on the eyes to count up. But yeah- please continue to do these reviews. Maybe give an opinion/review what you would consider a “bad” Eromanga book and why. But other than that, spot on feature that I will look forward to again.

Also, tried looking for the article, but it was a long time ago, so I doubt I’ll be able to find it again.

>>DocWatson
The other thing you need to watch out for is your local Customs authorities. Whilst I doubt that Shingo will review any child porn, it won’t stop any overly diligent law enforcement wowser from detaining the parcel if they feel it violates local sensibilities.

So yeah, buyer beware- and be careful.

Regarding the creator spotlight, getting a new one up there is a very high priority and will probably happen in the next week or so. I’ve been waffling over who to cover, but the selection is narrowed down pretty well now…

The sad part is that the town of eromanga is so far inland it probably doesn’t have any broadband coverage or decent phone coverage, so unless you bought some eromanga to read, it isn’t going to live up to your expectations.

There’s also the languages of erromanga, so I guess you can speak it too.

And last but not least, there’s nearby “Eromango Island”. I suppose that’s where perverts grow their delicious juicy mangos, among other tropical fruits used as euphemisms, like melons and bananas.

While this column looks good and decent eromanga reviews are always appreciated, any cahnce of doing another creator spotlight? I suppose this counts as sort of a creator spotlight too…

>>DocWatson
Great suggestions, thanks. I can certainly include more detailed information in future reviews; HD is an Amazon affiliate already, but they don’t ship products tagged “adult” outside of Japan, so I didn’t see the use of including links here. I shall do so in the future.

The vast majority of the manga I’ll be reviewing are books that aren’t commercially available outside of Japan, out of both choice and necessity. In the few cases where material in my collection coincides with stuff that’s come out in the US I’ll certainly mention that fact, as I think supporting the international industry is a Good Thing.

Beauty Hair is a great idea for a review subject. I’d review the original Misshitsu if I could track it down (other than in scans); last time I saw it for sale was for a few thousand yen at K-Books, but that was two or three years ago.

While reviewing Icarus and Eros/Studio Proteus’ offers would be good, I am more interested in manga that has not been commercially released in English, especially since I do not know what is actually available.

As for suggestions, perhaps you might review something by Beauty Hair?

First time I’ve heard about it. But the funniest damn thing I’ve heard in the past couple of weeks.

>>Sydney2K
I thought “Eromanga” the town was pretty well known for its infamous name… maybe only here in Japan. I’d be curious to see the Morning Herald article.

Looking up Bettencourt’s Girlfriend it seems it’s a seinen manga and not seijin muke; I’ll be focusing on the latter here, I’m afraid.

>>Jeff Flowers
I plan to try to review Icarus titles in the future, if possible; I have a couple of the Japanese editions of their books that I want to get to soon. Legitimately licensed English language eromanga is a cause worth supporting!

>>lostdog
I think there’s technically only one incest story in this book, though you have a point, it does seem to be more than a passing interest of his…

I flipped through the tankoubon Iruma Kamiri released recently, but I don’t think I picked it up. I’ll have to check the bookshelf… it would be a good candidate for review, that’s for sure.

>>YnY-u
Thanks! One of my top priorities right now is to get a new Creator Spotlight up; while Sano certainly deserves all the exposure he can get I think it’s about time to find a fresh face for the upper left corner of the site. ^^;;

I look forward to Vol. 2

Gunma’s a freaking beast. His take on the ideal female form is unique enough to stand out from the crowd (I love how some of his heroines have legs just shy of being short, something I usually don’t see as erotic or not.) He does the best doggy shots in the bidness and his facials aren’t too far behind.

I do wonder why he does so much incest stuff though. Not that I’m complaining, mind you.

Suggestion for the next one? Iruma freakin’ Kamiri! I have a stack of HGBC releases bigger than my head (I got a big damn head) and I’m sure I’ve wasted more than my fair share of time talking him up with the guys working the Hen Da Ne booth.

I own all volumes put out by Icarus, as well as Pink Sniper and Domin-8 Me from Eros (with Milk Mama on order). I regularly buy Comic Tenma, which I enjoy dispite not being able to read Japanese. I also own a few h-doujinshi.

So please, continue with this.