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In the midsts of my Shuffle! merch buying frenzy some months ago, I came across this “Clear Sheet Collection” over at CDJapan. I noticed that of the fifteen “clear sheets” available, two of them were rare images that I really wanted highres copies of (Kaede in naked apron and Kaede in maid outfit) and a quite a few others were images I liked but didn’t have highres versions of. Though, there was a catch: of the fifteen images available, the most you could get from each set was twelve, so you’d be missing out on three of the images no matter what. But despite that little hang up, I snatched this up without a thought and hoped for the best. After a few weeks, it finally arrived at my doorstep (gogo SAL shipping.)

Turns out my luck wasn’t totally horrible like it always is, and I at least got one of the two rare images I wanted. Alas, Kaede in a maid outfit seems forever out of reach, save for bad Yahoo auction pics. If anyone has that one, I’d love a scan of it. Anyways, on to the review…

This “Clear Sheet Collection” is really just a set of transparent pencil boards with various pieces of Really? Really! promotional art on them. Of the fifteen offered, only five of them are the same old recycled art you’ve seen everywhere, with the other ten being rarer images. So, no matter what kind of batch you get, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get some good stuff.

And what good stuff this is! Aoi Nishimata is in top form here with a bunch of cute Kaede renderings along some hot Primula, Mayumi and Sakura action for good measure. Hiro Suzuhira makes some brief appearances with a few Asa and Ama pics, but is mostly absent from this collection considering she apparently left Navel a while ago due to health issues. If I had to say anything negative about this set (aside from the fact that you miss three of the images >:((( ) is that the transparency thing seems pretty pointless. All it really does is make the art look faded, which isn’t a good thing. However, if you’re like me and tape up pencil boards, these look decent against a white surface. They’re also good to collect in an album of some sort!

I’d recommend these to any serious Shuffle! fan such as myself, but good luck finding them now. CDJapan is out, and I have no idea where else they’d sell these. Your best bet is Yahoo auctions, probably. In fact, I should go there right now and see if anyone is selling the Kaede maid “clear sheet”!

Bonus

As a distinguished member of the interwebs, I’ve decided to scan some of the rare images for my fellow otaku. I’ve uploaded all of these to danbooru (18+), but this blog post has a better scan of Naked Apron Kaede. Get ‘em while they’re hot!

JESUS CHRIST CAT EARS OH GOD

Less cat ears but Kaede is still cute as hell <3 

Man, these things are being re-released. Which means they were released once before. I feel like such a fuckup for not knowing these things even existed. I guess I’m too used to looking for Shuffle! merch on Yahoo Auctions and forget that normal stores carry stuff, too. But I sure as hell ordered them this time around! Now if only I could find the Visual Fan Book anywhere, given it has epic works of art like this.

I think this post needs a Kaede CG :3

僕はアブないお兄さん．．．

http://www.project-navel.com/navel/news/events/index.html

Navel is selling a Kaede dakimakura cover at Dreamparty.

I will get it at all costs.

Now the more sane of you will wonder why I would fork over stupid amounts of money for what amounts to a piece of cloth with a girl printed on it. Well, let me tell you that it is WORTH IT. It is. It just is. For the LOVE OF MY LIFE, it is.

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Not really a special occasion or anything, I just got some food and thought, “hey, I’ll do that thing lonely geeks do.”

I am a lonely geek.

Edit: Thanks, Cortana.

After years of difficult fighting up on the eroge front, I’ve finally completed Really? Really! I played it continuously for a while, then the month long winter break at home destroyed my flow. After that, I played it on and off. School work (among other things) piled up and I just couldn’t get to it. Only now, after watching Kaede’s final summary episode in Shuffle! Memories did feel compelled to complete the quest (needed some happy Kaede to balance out crazy face-cutting Keade.) I can’t really say anything about it, because I understood a good 5%. The porn was good, I can tell you that!

Now to never touch it again until my Japanese comprehension improves or a translation patch surfaces! Well, actually, I’ll certainly revisit it for the H-scene viewer…

I swear to god there will be a comic next week…

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Uncensored version here. (warning, nudity!)

The reason why I’m here writing this news post instead of getting ready to go to Karate is because I’m feeling sick, and one should not be punching and kicking other people whilst sick. It’s simply not good form, you know. So here I am, under a blanket (much like this) writing you this lovely news post.

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Warning: This post is going to have a good number of NSFW images. Don’t say I didn’t warn you~

So, I played Really? Really! most of yesterday, only stopping when I got my first ero-scene. Some way or another, I ended up fucking Primula first. While I had planned to fuck Kaede first, you can’t do much when you’re playing the game more or less blind. Most of the time I felt like I was stumbling around a dark maze, not really knowing which way to go. See, Really? Really!’s system isn’t nice and straight forward like Shuffle!’s so it leaves non-Japanese-speaking weeaboos like me confused most of the time. Sure, pretty much most of the game is clicking through dialogue, but then there’s the instances when you “plunge into the really zone” or have to go around to the A, B, C, etc blocks. Ok, so it’s not that much more complicated than Shuffle! (what with its few “Choose Your Destiny” events), but it’s complicated enough to leave a jackass like me with spinning spiral eyes. But, despite all that, I am having “fun”, I guess. I’m not sure if it’s simply me anticipating all the ero scenes, or if the game is tickling some kind of “inner otaku.” Who knows? In any case, I gotta find a away to squeeze out the Kaede ero scenes. Looking at the CG set, they look all kinds of incredible. I really hope this isn’t one of those cases of when you’re on one path, you’re stuck on it. Speaking of the CG set, it was kind of sad to see that there weren’t any kinky threesomes like the ones I saw in the Tick! Tack! CG set. I was kind of hoping for some Kaede x Primula x Rin or some Kaede x Sakura x Rin stuff. Ah well, it’s not too much of a problem. The hotness of all the ero-scenes more than makes up for that. Also, the fact that you can fuck characters like Nadeshiko-sensei and Mayumi also makes the game win. So yeah, once I pick up my pillowcase and come back from Karate, I expect another six or so hours of straight “playing.” Let’s see where my blind stumbling leads me.

Ke

Ke

Ke

…what

EDIT: It would seem that there is only one path according to the amazing, awesome Japanese-speaking DarkMirage. So does that mean if I play my cards right (ke ke ke) I can get all pron in one swift stroke?

EDIT MKII: Thanks to Cortana, I’m no longer shooting blind. Thanks, Cort.

My copy of Really? Really! Limited Edition came in the mail today, and I just finished installing it. I have to say I’m really happy with what the limited edition has to offer. The binder is nice, but I’m not sure I’d use it given I’d be scared to bring it around with me. You know, damaging it and such. The illustrations that came with it are quite beautiful, so if anything it can be used as a mini artbook. It also came with a trading card (not pictured.) I got Sakura. I would have liked it better if it was Kaede, but what can you do? Anyway, you can view the pics (with witty commentary) after the jump.

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