I've been disappointed by Ishikei's Comiket work ever since I started looking forward to it 2 or so years ago. :\ His work is -- was -- much better in serial magazines. The stand-alone picture crowd has remained loyal to him, I've noticed, but small surprise: stand-alone pictures are about all his Comiket "doujins" are good for these days anyway. -.- Sorry for being such a downer. I agree that Ishikei's artwork is nice. It's just ... bah. The < 20 pages that is "BetsuJIN" speaks for itself, I think. And that's how most of his Comiket releases are.
As for this year's Comiket, I'm still trying to get through them. I'm multi-tasking between:
- C75 doujins
- misc doujins from between C74 and C75 that I have been getting around to slowly-but-surely
- misc tankoubons from between C74 and C75, ditto
- the occasional H-anime or (GASP!) porn video (I downloaded this 3 hour 45 minute one that has been fucking awesome, which is an all-time first for me and porn, but then again I'm only 50 minutes into it so who knows how long the love affair will last *roll of the eyes*)
From what I've read so far, I'd recommend the following as gold:
................... well, that was embarassing. I thought I was going to be able to give you 2 or 3 at least, but it looks like everything I've read so far from C75 has fallen under my following ratings:
- silver (1)
- bronze-greatart (half)
- bronze-neutral (about half)
- bronze-packrat (the rest)
The one silver medalist was Hellabunna's Rei 06. Great story, would have been epic had it been the original Rei 02, but sadly we can't rewrite history and so we have to deal with the fact that Rei 02 and Rei 03 were disappointing filler, Rei 04 was disappointing but less so than 02 or 03, and Rei 05 was very good but was a side-story. As for the erotic factor, I'm sad to say that Hellabunna's just not doing it much for me anymore these days ;_; , but I think it's because of how much I enjoyed the man's work over the years and so my brain's burned out for now. Or so I can only hope: 'cause I'd be sad if I never liked his work ever again. :\
As for this year's Comiket, I'm still trying to get through them. I'm multi-tasking between:
- C75 doujins
- misc doujins from between C74 and C75 that I have been getting around to slowly-but-surely
- misc tankoubons from between C74 and C75, ditto
- the occasional H-anime or (GASP!) porn video (I downloaded this 3 hour 45 minute one that has been fucking awesome, which is an all-time first for me and porn, but then again I'm only 50 minutes into it so who knows how long the love affair will last *roll of the eyes*)
From what I've read so far, I'd recommend the following as gold:
................... well, that was embarassing. I thought I was going to be able to give you 2 or 3 at least, but it looks like everything I've read so far from C75 has fallen under my following ratings:
- silver (1)
- bronze-greatart (half)
- bronze-neutral (about half)
- bronze-packrat (the rest)
The one silver medalist was Hellabunna's Rei 06. Great story, would have been epic had it been the original Rei 02, but sadly we can't rewrite history and so we have to deal with the fact that Rei 02 and Rei 03 were disappointing filler, Rei 04 was disappointing but less so than 02 or 03, and Rei 05 was very good but was a side-story. As for the erotic factor, I'm sad to say that Hellabunna's just not doing it much for me anymore these days ;_; , but I think it's because of how much I enjoyed the man's work over the years and so my brain's burned out for now. Or so I can only hope: 'cause I'd be sad if I never liked his work ever again. :\