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A challenge...
...for you who can read Japanese or who can fake it well enough to navigate Japanese fanart/doujinshi sites, and are in the mood fo digging for info on obscure circles.
I'm again attempting to find any information about an artist or circle known as Aileen. The only reasonable web reference I can find is, naturally, in Thai. Well, I think ti's Thai. It may be one of the other South Asian scripts that I'm unfamiliar with.or if that's just a list of doujins that someone bought at once. Seems to be an anthology, but I can't tell if the contributors are connected to each other in any way. I can't tell by the art, because the samples show art that's above average in all of them. I can't even tell if Aileen etc. are actually Thai, although I know the one doujinshi I own by Aileen is in Japanese.
From another Thai site, this one on Livejournal, I find what I think is a link to 8-Pochi and what looks like their booth number at a 2005 Comiket or Comiket-type convention. If someone could poke about this site and see if it gives any information as to who's in 8-Pochi (or information that they're still active), I'd be happy. There's an image in the page you reach by the "off" link, this page that looks vaguely like Aileen's work - the B&W picture at the top of the page featureing Mello's fabulous ass, although the subject matter isn't quite Aileen - but I can't read anything about it, obviously. The picutre link at the bottom, with Mello and Mat in a car, goes to sample pages of a doujinshi by 8-Pochi whose work ... has some elements of what I see in the doujinshi by Aileen, but isn't really good enough to be her/them, although the cover looks like her/them. So, y'know, I'm probably completely chasing phantoms here. :) Especially since there seems to be a link credit on the cover which goes to a fanart site that is definitely not Aileen, and is somewhat NSFW in places as I discovered when clicking and was confronted with a blurred picture that was still obviously Mello and a string of sausages, I think, so be careful if you click at work or school.)
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Okay, by poking around and looking at the URL on Aileen's scan on the first Thai page, I think that they were part of an anthology called Spicy Nova, which may or may not be credited to a circle called 8PLUS: Spicy Nova (8PLUS Anthology). Or at elast the cover on the anthology says "Presented by 8PLUS Steering Committee."
So ...if anyone can find any information on Aileen, 8PLUS, Spicy Nova, 8-Pochi, D-Brand, Sabi, etc., I'd be ever-so grateful. :D
And now I'm going to a meeting.
I'm again attempting to find any information about an artist or circle known as Aileen. The only reasonable web reference I can find is, naturally, in Thai. Well, I think ti's Thai. It may be one of the other South Asian scripts that I'm unfamiliar with.
มีเซอร์เคิลที่โปรดปรานลงผลงานอยู่หลายเซอร์เคิลเหมือนกัน เช่น 8-pochi, Aileen (ที่เพิ่งได้มาทำความรู้จักในงานนี้), Thomas, D-Brand และ Sabi (2 เซอร์เคิลหลังลงแค่อิลลัสอย่างเดียว)Leastways, I think that's Thai. It's from this page. There's sample pages from 8-Pochi, Aileen, and D-Brand in that list, and I'm trying to work out if they're connected in any way,
From another Thai site, this one on Livejournal, I find what I think is a link to 8-Pochi and what looks like their booth number at a 2005 Comiket or Comiket-type convention. If someone could poke about this site and see if it gives any information as to who's in 8-Pochi (or information that they're still active), I'd be happy. There's an image in the page you reach by the "off" link, this page that looks vaguely like Aileen's work - the B&W picture at the top of the page featureing Mello's fabulous ass, although the subject matter isn't quite Aileen - but I can't read anything about it, obviously. The picutre link at the bottom, with Mello and Mat in a car, goes to sample pages of a doujinshi by 8-Pochi whose work ... has some elements of what I see in the doujinshi by Aileen, but isn't really good enough to be her/them, although the cover looks like her/them. So, y'know, I'm probably completely chasing phantoms here. :) Especially since there seems to be a link credit on the cover which goes to a fanart site that is definitely not Aileen, and is somewhat NSFW in places as I discovered when clicking and was confronted with a blurred picture that was still obviously Mello and a string of sausages, I think, so be careful if you click at work or school.)
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Okay, by poking around and looking at the URL on Aileen's scan on the first Thai page, I think that they were part of an anthology called Spicy Nova, which may or may not be credited to a circle called 8PLUS: Spicy Nova (8PLUS Anthology). Or at elast the cover on the anthology says "Presented by 8PLUS Steering Committee."
So ...if anyone can find any information on Aileen, 8PLUS, Spicy Nova, 8-Pochi, D-Brand, Sabi, etc., I'd be ever-so grateful. :D
And now I'm going to a meeting.
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However the 55Electric site is run by someone called Nakacoco and makes no reference I can see to anyone called Aileen except the note: 'occasionally I draw under another name.' If Aileen is an established djka then she's probably someone other than nakacoco; if she shows up only occasionally they might be the same person. And to make matters harder to judge, Nakacoco's taken down her galleries on the site.
Obviously what's needed here is someone who reads Thai.
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Or does this oekaki board (http://bbs3.oebit.jp/nakacoco/) seem to have anything to do with her?
Gaaaaah, the problems with tracking down flaky people online in other languages! I suppose it's a symbol of living in the future, huh? I'm actually quite surprised I managed to get this far. I only know of three doujinshi that Aileen's produced besides the anthology - one is the Vacation one I mention in my next post, and I have a Volume 2 by her whose title I've forgotten, which presumes a Volume 1.
Of all the various languages that people on my LJ read, I think that Thai is probably not one of them. Unfortunately.
BTW, thank you very much. :)
(http://blog.goo.ne.jp/bitter_choco_or_milk_choco/e/8e07e83ceb787f649ac5ca099e6d4665)
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I r a web perfeshunal.
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The oekaki person seems to be the same.
When you say anthology, do you mean a professional publication or a dj with a bunch of different artists? If the latter, it's actually very common to invite a bunch of friends to contribute to your dj, which means these guys all know each other from fandom but probably aren't the same person. If the former, the selection is perfectly random. The publishers just get the biggest named fans they can and ask to use one of their dj stories.
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I'm actually surprised at how much information I've been able to pull out of that page without being able to read any of the text. :D
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On the other hand... you could just try emailing her for more info? It's always worth a shot~.