Naruko Hanaharu’s Shoujo Material released
Naruko Hanaharu’s first eromanga tankoubon Shoujo Material was released on the 30th of June and it was sold out in 2 hours and 30 minutes in K-Books radio kaikan according to Akibablog, making it the highest selling eromanga that they’ve had in a single day.
Other stores in Akihabara have had huge stacks of Shoujo Material on display in the stores, and many reports of long queues for the book. Senakablog also reports that stores in Nipponbashi have been doing similarly promoting Shoujo Material with their displays, with Toranoana filling 6 bookshelfs with only Shoujo Material.
July 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pm
>Naruko Hanaharu
AUTOFAIL. THATS IT AND THATS ALL.
I COULD GIVE A FUCK WHAT THE COCKSUCKER BELOW ME HAS TO SAY.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
To NOYFB,
Hanaharu just made more money in that single day from royalties than you ever will in your miserable life.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:59 pm
>I COULD GIVE A FUCK
LRN2READ
July 1st, 2008 at 11:17 pm
>I COULD GIVE A FUCK
LRN2GRAMMAR
July 1st, 2008 at 11:19 pm
Damn. Hopefully they’ll have a reprint soon. I want to pick this up in Akihabara in a few months time…
July 1st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
To NOYFB, a comic for you:
http://www.comicswithoutviolence.com/d/20080426.html
I don’t know what makes this particular eromanga so much better than the infinite number of others, but that is definately some crazy demand. Might be worth seeing what all the commotion is about later.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 am
WANT. ;A; I WANT…
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:41 am
I bought two copies because Tora and Melon (in Kobe) had different extras (tokuten). I got the rough sketch book and a A4 plastic paper holder, respectively. The former is interesting because it explains that to make that cover illustration, Naruko sketched, digitized then printed, then he resketched and re-digitized. (The illustration is in autographed framed (?) form also available for 9000 yen, mail-order). Also, Tora said they had 4 different kinds of postcards, but I only saw 1 kind. I’ve probably seen them all in one form or another, though.
WTF do I do with my second copy? Maybe I can sell it later. BTW, I remember one of Hanaharu Naruko-themed magazines (released last year?) going for 4200 yen unopened at K-Books Nipponbashi. Pricey.
Hanaharu Naruko’s illustrations are pretty hawt, because it also “has been popular among certain groups of people” in that certain way. (http://zepy.momotato.com/2008/06/23/goodbye-rune/). I totally expected Zepy to cover this (again). Hahaha. No wait, usually the d00ds are the same age or younger. Carry on. ;-)
As for the book itself, you get a lot for the 1300 yen (don’t eromangas average 900 yen or so?). Not including the store-only extras, you get a reversible cover, a postcard insert, two color sections of 8 pages which includes two fold out posters. Plus the main part is his early (?) works mostly from 2003. I think they pulled out all the stops on this release, maybe. I think he has material for another three books or so, though.
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
piyo from the dead returning to the sun?