dovac needs a life

Ah Comiket 74, how much must I spend!

dovac — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:27:31 +0000

I budgeted 1.5 paychecks for it, after some of the items showed up, I believe this year things is just more expensive then last year, pretty depressing but I was able to get what I wanted for the most part.

Downside is that I wasn’t able to use my usual auction bidding service so I used a new one. I hope it ends up well.

Its probably also due to me using mainly buy it now prices so they’re always jacked up by a lot, but I think its sometimes worth it so I don’t have to deal with the hassle of constantly fighting with Japanese otaku wanting to get the sets too.

I picked up:

I am missing just two artists till I’m satisfied with the amount of money I wasted, Pink CHUCHU and Himegami are the two missing. I was going to get more stuff but I don’t want to dip in to my credit cards……If I did that then I wouldn’t be able to go to Japan for C75

Gift from Anime Expo 2008 - Aina Kase & Cy-Rim rev. Live at Anime Expo 2008 (20080706)

dovac — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:39:27 +0000

A little gift from AX, turns out a friend of mine got the last Circus concert recorded.

The audio quality isn’t the best but its well worth it.

Anyways you can spot me in at 6:30 in the black Da Capo t-shirt doing part of the wotagei

OTL

Anyways enough talk, you can download the torrent. Poke me on irc if you know where to find me, I have it on my web server as well but its 800mb, and I don’t want the url to be shared.

Looking back at Anime Expo 2008

dovac — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:04:24 +0000

It was one of the better years. Some nice news about various things, but I wont be covering it since there’s other sites that do a much better job then I do.

Some people knew that I was working for hendane this year. Instead of being a con attendee, I was doing sales to people who were unfamiliar with doujin games and eroges. The nice thing about it is that I was able to help sell almost all Touhou and Higurashi stuff by day 2, even the sound novels sold! Simply amazing…

Another great improvement over the past few years, almost everything started on time except opening ceremonies.

Also Circus attended this year again, which made me really happy since I got another signature from Yuka Kayura (she is the character designer for Otome in Da Capo II) on my body pillow as well as another quick sketch from her on a sign board. To top it off I also got signatures from Takehito Harada (Disgaea artist) and Cy-Rim rev. (Moe music band, momo-i part 2 as someone would say). Unfortunately I missed out on getting a signature from Shokotan and Aina Kase (artist who performed the opening and ending songs to Sora wo Tobu, Mittsu no Houhou [空を飛ぶ、３つの方法。], an upcoming game).

There was also THREE mini-concerts at the Circus booth and each time that I attended, I did the wotagei, luckily a few others knew how to do the dance so we were able to lead the crowd to do stuff otaku would do in Japan. What made me feel especially happy was during the last day of the con Cy-Rim rev. and Aina Kase both said that they’re so happy that everyone was enjoying themselves and that the crowds were doing the same things Japanese fans would be doing.

[Sunshine-Creation-40] Himegami (Aoi Nanase) - Colorism

dovac — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:29:02 +0000

Himegami is Aoi Nanase’s new circle name, she used to release under POWER GRADATION.

Didn’t clean off my scanner so it’ll have some dust sorry :/

Himegami (Aoi Nanase) - Colorism

Also I scanned something from Tinkle that came from sc40, I decided not to scan the black and white doujin that came with it.

Have fun.

misc updates

dovac — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:24:17 +0000

Long time no update eh?

1) bought some sc40 stuff, they’re incoming expect some scans :3
2) 11eyes is finally coming to my doorstep, had some money issues and other various problems (as usual)
3) Anime Expo is next week! I’ll be working at hendane’s booth for most of the time.
4) ????

[Comic 1-2] Ice & Choco (Naru Nanao & Kokonobi) - Puchi Design Note

dovac — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:44:26 +0000

Didn’t clean my scanner as usual, also not full color ;( some nice line art and design notes for their previous works, I guess it would be a good reference to use if I ever decide to learn how to draw, unfortunately I can’t read much of the text so its not much use for me. Two stick posters came with it as well.

Ice & Choco (Naru Nanao & Kokonobi) - Puchi Design Note

I am not sure if I have other things to scan from Comic 1-2, I might go though my collection to see what I can scan…..but no promises, I am quite temperamental lately due to some money problems and I want to beat Armored Core 4 (PS3)

I can’t wait for getting flamed again for “stealing” scans <3@two unnamed sites

[Comic1-2] Cut-a-Dash!!(Misato Mitsumi) & Blazer-One(Tatsuki Amaduyu) - Sashie Zakki 2

dovac — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:02:35 +0000

I have no clue what the title means, nor did I know how to romaji it \o/ failure is me. Anyways, there’s scans of this floating about the intarwebs, but I believe my version is far superior. Although there is some dust on it as I am again too lazy to clean my scanner.

This doujin was a bit harder to work with, textured paper is my bane, so anytime I used my filters a lot of details were lost, so I’m stuck between really noisy or lost details, in the end I decided on the more noisy route.

To be honest I could of released it at 600 dpi, but I resized them to 300 dpi in hopes that someone will buy a copy….even though sadly you’ll only find them on auction. Hope you enjoy

Cut-a-Dash!!(Misato Mitsumi) & Blazer-One(Tatsuki Amaduyu) - Sashie Zakki 2

[Comic 1-2] Rio-Grande(Mana Mitui) - Fraise.

dovac — Mon, 26 May 2008 00:33:30 +0000

Another easy to scan doujin, not full color like Heart Work’s but still very nice. Mana Mitsui actually is part of another doujin circle that does futa (Harthnir), but I wont go there. I like girls without dicks thanks :3

As usual I didn’t clean my scanner too much, basically the same amount of dust as the earlier one. No noise filtering done either so if it can be improved feel free to improve it.

And I changed my mind again, direct linking to the pool is easier then adding thumbnails

Rio-Grande(Mana Mitui) - Fraise

More to come I guess?

[Comic 1-2] Heart Work(Suzuhira Hiro) - Pretty Girl

dovac — Sun, 25 May 2008 22:21:29 +0000

I love how the past few doujins Suzuhira Hiro released had a simple stapled binding instead of most other artists using stiff glued ones.

SO! Simple binding = easy to scan! deeerrrr anyways I didn’t really clean up the scanner so there will be some dust, so you can have fun cleaning it up if you want, lastly one more note, I cropped out the top and bottom a bit more then normal but it did not effect the general picture, so yeah without further ado here’s you go.

Heart Work(Suzuhira Hiro) - Pretty Girl on moe.imouto.org

Next time I do this I think I’ll add the thumbnails in the post so people would have a better idea of what they’re about to click on.

[Comic1-2] Happy Birthday - Code Geass R2 Stick Posters

dovac — Sun, 25 May 2008 01:57:46 +0000

Here you go, two stick posters from Happy Birthday (yes I know AMR’s art looks very close to Happy Birthday’s.) Just a warning, they’re a bit eroero.

One is the Lovely loli Anya Earlstreim in her uniform (if you would call that a uniform) and the other is Kallen Stadtfeld in a bunny outfit.

I will be scanning some other stuff I got tomorrow.

Running a free site is a hassle

dovac — Sun, 25 May 2008 00:51:14 +0000

in before RAGEQUITFUCKYOUALLASSHOLESRAGE

I love how little respect I get for trying to run a free site, I can’t wait when I finish my new scans and upload them to Moe and watching people upload them to minitokyo and animepaper and then in a few days people will claim that I stole them.

I also love being called a fag, excuse me while I go on my knees and start sucking cocks for 5 dollars so I can keep running the site for free.

OH WELL WHATEVER, GO SUCK A COCK IF YOU THINK MOE SUCKS

goods incoming! + real life?

dovac — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:38:25 +0000

So I got my stuff from sc39 and comic1-2, unfortunately I’m worn out from work and I need to charge my camera, I will instead scan the covers on Friday if I’m not totally worn out and people can request which doujin to scan. As long as I can scan it without fucking up the binding too much I’ll go for it.

Back to real life, work makes me cuss way too much, I had to untangle 2 or 3 networks the past 2 days. (basically telling them to remove 3 or 4 routers between the pbx and the ip phones) That made me really tired since I had to ask them to describe in detail how they have it setup and so I can map out what things I can remove.

Lastly I ran in to another interesting thing, tracerouting to ip was failing, but when I used its hostname it works, yet the hostname and the ip match each other, DNS issue? whatever….

COMIC1☆2+Sunshine Creation 39 goods

dovac — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:59:24 +0000

Some links are probably nsfw
COMIC1☆2:
AMR
HappyBirthday
Heart Work
Noizi Ito
Cut-a-Dash
Mitha
co2a
Rio Grande
Pink Chuchu
Naru Nanao
One is missing, Chronolog’s COMIC1☆2 set for 7000y
Sunshine Creation 39:
dmyo
Coconutbless
Cielo
Joker Type

I ran out of money at this point. Oh well, 2 weeks till next paycheck o/

I hate being a victim

dovac — Fri, 02 May 2008 03:45:23 +0000

This past week has been like hell. First some back story, last Wednesday I went to get gas, unknowingly my debit card got cloned at that location. I wake up to a phone call on Saturday saying 400+ dollars was posted to my bank account and they were double checking if it was fraud or not. So I got my debit card closed and began the process of trying to get my money back.

Fast forward to today, I got my new card, and guess what? When I tried to activate it they said the card was already activated. GEE THANKS.

Called up to the fraud department again, got transferred over to card services. Got my brand new card canceled, since I won’t be very happy if my I lose my direct deposit paycheck tomorrow to some asshole who cloned my card again. I suspect this card got cloned though the stupid shitty RFID “speed pass” shit, basically its a “convenience” for people who don’t want to sign stuff for things under 25 dollars, swipe the card and you’re good to go! Yeah fuck that, so I asked to get a new card with out that. Turns out, due to my account being overdrawn the rep can’t send me a new card. So now fuck it I’m never going to use a debit card ever. I’m just going to live with a credit card, paypal, and direct transfers.

So I preordered 11eyes

dovac — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:23:17 +0000

Spur of the moment thing. I wanted the bed sheet, its nsfw so check it after the jump. I’ll probably try to scan it.

(anyone want to buy the game off me? I don’t plan on playing it)