At Comiket 77, Shigatake, the artist behind those silly Habanero-tan comics, published a doujinshi that reimagined all of the lumbering statues from Shadow of the Colossus as cutesy girls. Even though most doujin is scanned within days of the convention, images beyond the official ones have eluded the internet. In the interest of bizarre collectibles, I placed an order with Toranoana, which seems to have been a good call, because the second printing they put up at the end of January recently sold out.
I just got my copies in today. I was originally afraid of scanning it because I though it would break the binding, but the book's pretty small and held together by staples, anyway. But, I don't have a working scanner, unfortunately, and this isn't exactly the sort of thing I'm going to take back to my parents' house, lest they continue to give me the kind of look they did when they saw me playing Twinkle Star Sprites. But I do have a digital camera, so I took pictures of most of the book. They're not perfect quality, obviously, but it's far better than nothing, right? And no offense to Shigatake, of course, but outside of Yahoo Japan auctions, the thing is bloody well sold out on the net, unless there are more printings, which are still damn near impossible (or at least quite expensive, if you go through deputy services like me) for foreigners.
Anyway, this doujin isn't exactly pornographic - some of it is really more for laughes (I hope) - but much of it is...provocative (those bits by the crotches are technically armor plates), so make sure the room is clear of anyone that might judge you. Also, since I don't think the colossi have official names, I just ganked them from a FAQ. There are a couple of other pages with 4-koma comics and two more pages that had small pictures of all of girls/colossi, but I didn't take pics of those.
Colossus 1: The Minotaur
Colossus 2: The Mammoth
Colossus 3: The Knight
Colossus 4: The Horse
Colossus 5: The Vulture
Colossus 6: The Ancient Minotaur
Colossus 7: The Electric Eel
Colossus 8: The Gecko
Colossus 9: The Tortoise
Colossus 10: The Desert Snake
Colossus 11: The Boar
Colossus 12: The Horn-eyed Gorilla
Colossus 13: The Sand Dragon
Colossus 14: The Lion
Colossus 15: The Minotaur Sentry
Colossus 16: The Titan
Agro 1
Agro 2
Guest Drawing - Colossus 9: The Tortoise
Is it OK to say this is kinda awesome? Or would that be weird? I always like seeing radical re-imaginings of any established creation. This reminds of those Mario drawings by some Japanese guy, where they all ended up looking butch and rough.
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So I take this post has shown us everything from the book? I mean, it's not still worth trying to find, right? I spent ages looking for the Arzac artbook which inspired Panzer Dragoon, spent about $15 on it, and in about 5 minutes had visually gleamed everything it had to offer. Sold it for a 3rd of the price on eBay and felt disappointed at having gone to the effort.
So thanks for sharing the knowledge of this!
That's really nice quality for photos. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteFYI, the colossi do have what I believe are official names.
1). The Minotaur "Valus" [Minotaurus Colossus]
2). Taurus Major "Quadratus" [Taurus Magnus]
3). Earth Knight "Gaius" [Terrestris Veritas]
4). Equus Prime "Phaedra" [Equus Bellator Apex]
5). Delta Phoenix "Avion" [Avis Praeda]
6). The Goliath "Barba" [Belua Maximus]
7). Sea Dragon "Hydrus" [Draco Marinus]
8). Wall Shadow "Kuromori" [Parietinae Umbra]
9). Storm Echo "Basaran" [Nimbus Recanto]
10). Sand Tiger "Dirge" [Harena Tigris]
11). Flame Guardian "Celosia" [Ignis Excubitor]
12). Great Basilisk "Pelagia" [Permagnus Pistrix]
13). Trail Drifter "Phalanx" [Aeris Velivolus]
14). Destruction Luster "Cenobia" [Clades Candor]
15). The Sentinel "Argus" [Praesidium Vigilo]
16). Grand Gigas "Malus" [Grandis Supernus]
And the horse is actually Agro, not Argo.
Why did someone have to make this? WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHY (imagine some hilarious overdramatic shouting :))! This is ruining my perception of Shadow Of The Colossus. I'm open to radical redesigns of popular characters, but SotC and anime do not fit together! I'm hoping they don't do this to Ico :(. I liked how those games had a mature art style (not as in Metal Gear Solid, more like, say, Castlevania), but reimagining them in a doujinshi way...:(.
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Ico actually takes a lot of inspiration from Disney animated films (particularly the Dark Queen design), so if someone did do an anime doujinshi version of Ico, it'd be like the whole had come full circle.
ReplyDeleteAnyway you could make a download link? I heard about this doujin after the comiket and really wanted to have it. I understand if it is too much trouble.
ReplyDeletei've been looking for the scans to no avail too T.T
ReplyDeletethank you so much for sharing this! i would die to order a book too but it's just too hard to get them over here.
Hideki Yamada [or "Konchiki"as he is also known as] made what looks like a very good doujin based on Ico that looks hilarious. you can see some pages of it at http://www.mandarake.co.jp/zin/male/ichioshi/005/index.html. Too bad finding scans of the full doujin online is probably all but impossible.
ReplyDeletemmmm....Colossus 12: The Horn-eyed Gorilla:
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noooooooo kawaaaiiiiii
ReplyDeletePorn. Fuck this shitty art.
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