Is it the complete content of Fantia?
Thanks deeply my dude

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最近竜胆的作品怎么都不上垒了，触手们都只是摸一摸

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楼上这就不懂了，上垒最期待跟享受的时候就是上垒前的那一刻。就跟拆模型一样，永远都是拆盒那下是最开心的

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Did anyone hear more news about Rindou's plan to make a game. I remember seeing details of it YEARS ago, but to this day, nothing more...

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There hasn't been any new info on the possible game that Rindou was messing around with.

Some of the images he posts on Fantia seem to indicate that they might be intended to be used in a game, based on names and whatnot... but there's no real indication that he's still working on it.

Given that he wasn't able to finish that one Sayaka manga he keeps working on for... 2-3 years now? Yeah. Don't expect a game to come out any time soon.

Hell, just think of the Liese VN. He had that planned out for... 8 years I think, if not longer, before it actually got out... and that was WAY simpler than an RPGM game with a battle-fuck system, sex-stats, and even lewd status effects. His planned project is way too ambitious...

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Thanks for the quick update. Just one question: is the txt file that was mentioned in his latest fantia post also included in the torrent file?
The man is making me upset with all his delays and broken promises. He is sitting on a mine of gold but he chooses to be indecisive. Too bad the good artists are this lazy.

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Pft.

Guys. There's a reason why Rindou is not one of the big names in places like Lilith or other hentai VN producers, in spite of the fact that he's a big fan of Taimanin and Magical Girl Ai and more. There's a reason why he's only done a few small designs for TABA, Eden's Ritter Grenze, and a few other small things...

The reason is that Rindou is a VERY whimsical artist. He likes to draw as the inspiration leads him. He's essentially never motivated about drawing solely for money. Everything is a passion project for him. Which is why unlike Aoi Nagisa, or Kagami, or any other big names that drew art for a lot of popular VNs and games, he's never gonna make it big because he doesn't have that level of consistency. The fact of the matter is that drawing CGs for games is very, VERY tedious work, and he's not good at it. You can notice it in the Liese VN too to an extent. It has a lot less CG per variation than plenty of other VNs out there, and that's because Rindou's bad at that sort of thing.

To an extent though, it's warranted. The amount of detail he puts in an individual image is pretty insane and well above many other artists. I've seen one rare time when he streamed, and the way he draws isn't slow, but it's super meticulous.

All in all, Rindou's an amazing artist... but commercially speaking, he's absolutely terrible. Even then, I still think it's worth supporting him on Fantia because he's cheap as hell for pretty good monthly content. I've seen artists that draw way less with way worse quality, and demanding higher prices... and somehow getting away with it!

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Thank you for the insight, lexist. I never knew that stuff about Rindou. Maybe I was a bit too harsh about Rindou, I really respect his skills and dedication, the fact that he doesn't draw for money is surprising, and it makes me love him even more.

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There were some comments he made on twitter... 4 years ago? More? I don't remember exactly, about how he prefers to draw and whatnot. Also, I've seen more than one person offer suggestions about monetization, and he never went for any of that stuff. Hell. He has a Skeb, and he rarely opens it up for commissions, like, once every 5 years or so, I think. I'm not sure. Basically, Rindou does what he wants, and if not for the fact that he needs money to live, and maintain the kind of expensive PC set-up you need for the level of drawing he makes, then he probably would release everything for free, I suspect.

Hell, I think he only opened up his Fantia and opened up more to digital goods because he was starting to have money issues... But take that with a grain of salt. It's only speculation based on some of the PC problems he described having on Twitter.

As for the stream, he only did one once, two years ago, here:
https://sketch.pixiv.net/@rindou_aya

As far as I know, there's no recording of it, unless someone thought to record it and kept it somewhere. It was at a pretty bad hour for me, so the idea didn't cross my mind at the time. It was pretty amazing to watch, not gonna lie... but it definitely made it clear why it takes so long to do the stuff he does. All that shading, shine, layers, fine details... I couldn't do anything like that if I had a thousand years to practice in learn tbh. No talent at all on my end, while he has enough for at least twenty people if not more.

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@Iexist
Although I concure with everything you said about the artist, allow me to turn the attention to the elephant in the room.
As a consumer of hentai, we can agree that we use the material for fapping ultimately. So having a perfectionned product is honestly overkill, especially if it hurdles the production amount, I mean we're fine with gray shaded works if it's gonna be more consistent at this point. In case of rindou, we basically had one good doujin in like 5 years or more, and that's a terrible output. Let's take for example and for the sake of comparison, another Japanese creator like ishimura who produces some high quality anal tentacle stuff, the guy produced in the last 3 years 4 big doujins alongside many small stories in fanbox. Which takes me to the second point, the artist does not have any selling outlet except for the shitty fantia platform that I can't use alongside many other people: its like he doesn't want his products to be sold. Also, he doesn't interact with his fans at all neither on Twitter nor the other platform he put in his account description.
Many other points I'd like to hover over but I believe I made a point already.
The bottom line: unless he changes his approach, become more committed, his fanbase will steadily shrink and he will be forgotten, although his potential can allow him to be amongst the top h-creators.

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It's definitely true that Rindou could use more advertising and more consistency... but that's ultimately only relevant in the context of making more money, which he doesn't seem to care about past a certain point.

Fantia IS a pretty crappy platform, it was a pain in the ass to get money through in there... but as far as I know, that's NOT an issue for Japanese fans... and the bad side of Rindou is that, as far as I can tell, he doesn't care about fans outside of Japan, nor does he have much of an awareness of them. It's why he was so focused on the Comikets for the most part, and why, to this day, most of his products aren't available digitally on places like dlsite. Hell, the recent Sakuya books are only available digitally because Kuroi Hiroki put them up on dlsite under HIS circle (according to Ci-en, the second Sakuya book will be up some time this January). There hasn't been anything new published under Radical Dream or Radical Blacksmith in ages... assuming Rindou even remembers that these exist on dlsite... He's also basically stopped using pixiv. As far as I know, he hasn't touched or done anything with it in years (I have him followed on there too, and nothing new's popped up). He just posts stuff on Twitter and Fantia now.

I don't know the full extent of how much he's been told about monetization, but he obviously just doesn't care. He wants to draw what he wants to draw. The existence, or lack-thereof, of a fanbase, doesn't seem to be a big concern for him, or at least, not outside of Japan. From what I got from Kuroi Hiroki's Ci-en posts, the wall scrolls with Sakuya sold out super fast and there was a demand for more, so it's pretty clear that his fanbase in JP is NOT sufferring in any real sense.

With the quality of his art, and the quality of his characters, I don't think that his fanbase will ever drop completely, especially since people posting said art in places like this and others will basically be free advertisement even outside of Japan... but Rindou will never be a big artist. To be a big artist you need to compromise in ways that he clearly doesn't want too, and that's not gonna change unless his income gets seriously shafted.

Personally, I respect that attitude. XD

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I mean, I'm following Rindou for his top tier character designs more than anything else. The kink level in his hentai is pretty tame. Smash Daisaku and Tamiya Akito and so on are generally more my speed in the tentacle department. In spite of that, Rindou is still my absolute favorite artist because no one else even comes close in terms of designing hot sluts in tight clothing. I'll give some points to the Matai Toshi setting as a whole, for the way it handles its demons and other things which makes it way more internally consistent than say... the Taimanin setting... but overall, the scenes aren't anything I haven't seen elsewhere... It's the characters that make it so good for me.

So even with his weird pacing and whimsical nature. The constant drip of art every month for a measly 500 yen is no real expense for me. So it's easy for me to support Rindou, even though he probably doesn't even know I exist.

As for the overseas thing... Supporting overseas fans means knowing English... and English is hard for Asian language speakers. I can't really blame him for not wanting to make that sort of effort. MTL only takes you so far, and if you want accurate results using that, you need to use several of them, and maybe some dictionaries to cross-reference stuff. It's a massive pain in the ass.

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Well, Rindou is one of the few Japanese artists that makes the genitals pretty detailed on his girls. Keeping it covered with the suits lets him keep some of those details with minimal censorship. Exposing them means that he has to put in more censorship. Take this image for example:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fgktj0dVUAArPjs?format=jpg&name=900x900

It's barely censored really. And he can get away with it like that because of the suit.

Without it, he has to add a lot more to not get in trouble with the law.

He also combines this with "censoring" via overabundance of slime/cum/whatever around the area to obscure things while looking more natural.

That said, I too wish for more extreme kinks... but it's not his thing and that's that. Gotta respect the man for sticking to his guns.

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日本作者里能像龙胆这样不要脸的可真不多见，一年摸出来的赞助图拿出来当c展上的场刊卖，绝了

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The thing is that there's like... 4-5 artists that use some variation of Rindo/Rindou in their name.

Obviously, the favorite for me, this one, is the one I generally refer to as Rindou:
https://twitter.com/rindou2902 | https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/57364 | https://fantia.jp/fanclubs/7069 -> Calling them Radical Dream might be more correct in some aspects tbh, since Radical Dream/Radical Blacksmith is their more unique calling card.
They use 竜胆 to spell Rindou.

Then there's this one, the one most commonly confused with the afore mentioned Rindou, who USED to go by the name Rindou Aya.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/173578 | https://rindoudaikon.fanbox.cc/ -> This artist is more commonly known for all their Touhou doujins, and here on e-hentai, they don't have a different tag from the aforementioned Rindou.
They use りんどう to spell Rindo, with an accent on the o.

Then there's this one, who I don't think most anyone knows about.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/19355 -> Not really a professional artist in any way, as far as I can tell.
Also uses 竜胆 to spell rindou.

This artist that seems to be retired, or something, ALSO uses the name Rindou.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/33056565 -> Again, almost no one knows anything about them. I think they used to have a Twitter account too, but it seems to no longer exist.
Uses りんどう to spell Rindo, with an accent on the o.

Next is this artist, who does seem to be trying to make money, which, yes, you guessed it, uses Rindou as their name.
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/32082122 | https://rindouringdong.fanbox.cc/ -> Not a very impressive style in my opinion, tbh, and seems to be more focused on gach fanart? I dunno...
Alos uses 竜胆 to spell rindou.

So, as you can see, there are at least FIVE artists that use this name in some capacity or another, two of which regularly publish stuff at Comiket, and possibly many more that I don't know anything about.
I suspect that Rindou is a fairly common Internet name in Japan for some kind of reason, as that's the only real explanation for why multiple peeps seem to use it.

Hell, if you search for 竜胆 on pixiv, you will get 67! results on an exact match, and I didn't bother to check exactly how many on a partial match. Our dear Radical Dream is in the partial match category btw. If you add in りんどう, your probably get something like 150 something rindous... and that's basically just artists of various types on pixiv. No telling how many more might be around twitter or something else.

So. Uh. Yeah. The problem is a tad complicated...

As for Radical Blacksmith and Rindou Aya being connected... I haven't seen any proof or indication of anything of that sort at any point. Dunno what that guy is smoking, but Rindou hasn't mentioned absolutely anything about a partner or significant other or anything of that sort really on their Twitter, and I doubt we wouldn't have seen SOMETHING by now if there was anything going on...

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@lexist: I suspect the Rindou/Rindo Aya confusion comes from the fact that "rindou_aya" was the former tag for this artist's works on Danbooru and Gelbooru. Also, Sankaku Complex uses both tags for the same artist.

New update:https://fantia.jp/posts/1870850

Last edited on 31 March 2023, 16:33.

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@Listeur

I don't think anyone knows with Rindou will do... not even Rindou. Whoever they are IRL, they work VERY randomly by the looks of things. As far as I know, they never streamed again after that one time, much like how they rarely worked on skeb. In general, it feels like Rindou sees shiny new things every now and then, tries them out for a bit, and if they don't like it, they don't stick with it. It's honestly amazing that they're still going with the Fantia... and that's probably more because they really need the money than anything else and that's more convenient than commissions.

@Z4turn

We know that Rindou was messing around with RPGM, and we know that he likes RPGM games and that he wanted to make a Matai Toshi game and has experimented with the idea in a number of ways. However, we do not know if he actually got into coding properly, or if he's just drawing art for a potential game and looking for someone to do the code work the same way her cooperates with Kuroi Hiroki for novels. We do know that he cooperated very briefly with Kooooonsoft, but that broke down for unknown reasons and neither side has mentioned the other since then.

We DO know that he CAN do coding stuff. The original Sayaka bodysuit mod for Skyrim was created by Rindou himself, at least, so it seems based on what info I was able to track... However...

I wouldn't get my hopes up tbh. Rindou's not the most consistent artist, and likes to follow his whims and moods... while the creation of art for a game is very repetitive and methodic, which doesn't really work well with what he likes to do. It's highly debatable if he'll live long enough to ever finish a demo, much less a game. Let's not forget that Nengoku no Liese, the VN, was in the works a looooooooooooooong ass time, since that Appetizer came out ages ago. A VN like that is much easier to make than any kind of RPGM game with battle rape and erotic status effects like increased boob-size... to say nothing of all the issues with art/poses/coding/etc.

@poisonace_

I wouldn't say that there's been a lot of AI art attempting to immitate Rindou specifically. There's been a lot of stuff with bodysuits, but Rindou is hardly the only artist that does sloots in skintight bodysuits getting assaulted by tentacles and the like. He's not even the most well known for it, no matter how good he is. As far as I know, and I HAVE looked, no one's seriously tried to train an AI model to specifically immitate Rindou's style... and that sort of thing IS possible and is becoming increasingly more accurate as time passes. Even then, we're years away from having anything other than singular character models. Who knows how long it'll take until AI can draw HANDS consistently, much less complex stuff like hentai scenes outright?

Edit:
On a semi-related side-note... I wish I knew what I keep saying that keeps getting this one dude to keep downvoting every single one of my comments on this gallery. He isn't doing that with anyone else, so this is weird as hell.

Last edited on 03 May 2023, 20:12.

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New update is in: https://fantia.jp/posts/1870850.

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Been a while since I looked in here... Sorry for not replying sooner, @Listeur

When it comes to recommendations of artists similar to Rindou... it kind of depends on what you're looking for exactly here. What I seriously like about Rindou the most is the level of quality in his characters themselves. The fetishes, as I've mentioned before, are not particularly amazing and often quite tame, but his quality when it comes to women/girls in bodysuits/leotards/tight-clothing is pretty much unmatched.

Because of this, I heavily disagree with tentacle_aaa that mochimako is in any way similar to Rindou. The character quality, whether in colored images or black-and-white, or anything, is basically nowhere near close. Maybe they draw similar fetishes and situations and whatnot, but I didn't look too heavily into it beyond the characters. mogO-721 comes closer, but to my knowledge, they only ever drew ONE work with a girl in a tight bodysuit, and while it was pretty good and the character quality was nice... Well. If Rindou is 15/10, then mogO-721 is probably 9/10 in my book. /g/1884532/0d6f65006b/ is a pretty damn good work, but the character is just... not quite as good.

When it comes to similar level of quality in terms of characters, I'd recommend Aoi Nagisa, who draws really amazing characters in tight clothing and bodysuits due to their work for Taimanin Yukikaze and Taimanin Asagi and its gacha versions... however they rarely draw tentacle stuff if they can help it and as an artist they're quite vanilla. Top notch characters to be sure though.

Nandz is a relatively newer artist, or at least one without that many published works that are available, but, they've put up stuff like this: /g/2066019/244b0d210a/, which is 200% amazing. Seems like they're active on Skeb though, so anyone that has the money and can work around Japanese can probably commission them for stuff.

artist:8000$ is also pretty amazing in terms of characters, but they also draw a lot of futanari stuff lately, so I don't know if that's going to be to some people's tastes. Not much full color stuff there though, but very good character designs, especially when drawing girls in tight stuff. Tentacle content is pretty sparse.

The list can go up and down all over the place depending on what exactly you're looking for and what exactly you're seeing in Rindou's art. Everyone focuses on different things with their preferences after all. For me, I think the ideal artist would be someone that could draw in Rindou's style, but with a mixture of fetishes from Smash Daisaku, Tamiya Akito, Fan no Hitori and a dash of Fatalpulse without specifically rampant mysoginy. I probably won't live long enough for AI art to get to the point where it can truly imitate Rindou's art perfectly with added fetishes, so I'll never get to see the combination of my dreams, but someone might eventually.

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自从他能一个月出一张新图以后，这个人做啥我都不奇怪了

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他是不是开始用AI生成图来敷衍了

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Rindou didn't update until 12nd March. I will stop subscribing before he returning if the condition keeps to end of month.

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Rindou seems using AI tools to draw now......

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Honestly, it's difficult to say if Rindou's actually using AI tools in any capacity, experimenting with his drawing style, or has some issues drawing like he used too.

The last one is possible because he's mentioned changes to his drawing environment more than once. On top of that, some peeps have been commenting about his health or been concerned about it in general. No idea what he may or may not be saying to certain peeps, but if he's having health issues, or sufferring from stuff like carpal tunnels for something specific, it'd explain a lot.

Comparing current images with old images closely, you can see that the eye style, lip style and other very minor details haven't changed beyond the requirements created by different poses and whatnot. So if he IS using AI tools, he's still doing quite a bit of manual editing, because even the best Rindou based LORAs out there don't come that close on their own and generally always fuck up when it comes to the eyes in particular.

The biggest difference that's been happening for a while now involves how he draws the labia and the crotch area in general... but that doesn't necessarily mean AI either. Fantia has been notably more strict about censorship for the past year or so, and Rindou's had to update images at least twice because of insufficient censorship, so it's possible that he's over-correcting in the opposite direction so they don't close his creator account. Plus, even this isn't consistent in scope and there are still images in the past year that could probably get him in trouble with Fantia if they paid enough attention or someone reported him.

There's also the other head-ache. AI Tools have been improving constantly. The difference between how Rindou based LORAs and whatnot started at, and what they can do now even with no editing at all, is insane.

This creates the problem that we see increasingly close imitations, and that makes it easier to criticize the original artist when they have imperfections of their own for any particular reason. It's easy to "see AI everywhere" after all... and there's been more than a few fights and whatnot over unfounded accusations of AI usage.

All in all, I think the bigger concern is that Rindou's productivity continues to be extremely low, and his activity continues to be extremely low. If anything, I'd say that makes it LESS likely for AI usage to be in play, if only because if he WAS using AI, why not pump out more images than he's currently doing? It doesn't really make any sense...

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That bit of art that was gifted to HaganeF was posted by the guy on their own Twitter, though I dunno if it's the full rez version or a lower rez one or what. You can find it here without the ugly SAMPLE text.

https://x.com/haganef/status/1417472926375313417

Dunno why Rindou made it private when it's already out there... Honestly, given how little he's used skeb, I don't understand why he doesn't close the account outright.

On a different note...

Note how he has made no mention at all of the summer comiket. He mentioned before that he was considering not going in the summer, and it seems that he chose to keep away from it... which does not say good things about his health tbh...

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Welp, he missed his usual end-of-the-month update on Fantia again. At this point, it seems like we're never getting that Sayaka manga or that game.

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Rindou didn't update this month. I wasted 500 JPY again.

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You mean physical figures? I think those exist already?

At least, this post seems to imply that Sayaka figures exist. https://x.com/serow92/status/832781911109931008/photo/1 also https://x.com/serow92/status/798167901572214784/photo/1 and https://x.com/serow92/status/774268118512263169/photo/1

There's nothing recent that's Matai Toshi related that I've heard of... but that's to be expected, given Rindou's low activity levels in the past couple of years.

I'm unaware of what else might be, or might have been out there. Like a lot of other stuff by this artist, a bunch of things basically never made it out of Japan in any capacity.

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Two images only, one of Sakuya, the other of Irina. Busts only. Irina's sucking a tentacle and squished between some flesh walls. Seems unfinished when checking out the hi-rez pic.

The post has the following in it:
しばらく動けなくてすみません。夏コミも行けませんでしたし……(ヽ'ω`)
今回はコミケ用に作業していた物からいくつか。

Is that 1st sentence saying that he couldn't move? Or that he was stuck? Cuz the former has implications that the second doesn't...

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I can't update someone else's gallery even if I wanted too. That's not how e-hentai works. Even if I did, Rindou is the only artist who's Fantia I'll never screw around with because I don't want even the slightest risk of getting cut off. >.>"

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The issue isn't outsourcing the coding. Rindou already had that one co-op with Koooonsoft that went nowhere.

The issue is that making CGs for games is very repetitive, tedious work that Rindou will never truly motivate himself to do.

Just think about how long it took for the Liese VN to come out, after the Apetizer was published, and you should have a good idea of the odds of an RPGM game ever being made. Especially since a basic VN like Liese needs a lot less effort than the kind of battle-fuck filled games Rindou was dreaming of making with status effects that induce breast growth and all sorts of other things...

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99-102 and 120-121 don't have any context that I can remember.

239-240 are part of that mini-release that involves the mook sisters as I like to call them. It had a mini-story involving Sayaka needing to service demons with her tits in an attempt to prevent said demons from harming some normal human hostages and trying to get them released. I think the implication was that it was a race between her satisfying them and her succumbing to the effects of the miasma she was literally bathing in and ending up begging for dick herself.

I don't remember Rindou ever doing anything with hypnosis.

As for Sayaka servicing someone with her boobs for information, that was mentioned in some notes in the C95 mini-release Matai Toshi 7 Ma ni Aimasen Deshita.... It was in the second image that showed a disgruntled Sayaka giving a tit-fuck to a floating dick. The original image wasn't colored, but I think someone else created a colored version of it that's now floating around the Internet.

In general, most of Rindou's images don't have a context beyond Rindou mentioning that he felt like drawing so and so or whatever.

Stuff like 96, which came with the mention that he wants to do erotic status effects like increased breasts size that also affects stats like dodging ability or speed and the like... or 113 which at least mentions that this is a member of Mitsuru's clan in sticky situation or 148 which mentions that this Sayaka coming out of something she killed from the inside...

These are more exceptions rather than the rule, and tidbits are minor anyway.

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But what if what I really want is to BE one of those girls and get fucked retarded by tentacles on a regular basis?

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My understanding on what was posted (including twitter) is that:
1. The new girl is another mook type exorcist.
2. Mook type exorcists are primarily meant to handle lesser demons and whatnot and act as support to big-name exorcists.
3. Their suits are more erotic than useful, but Rindou's statement is a bit ambiguous. Would need someone who properly understands Japanese to pick up the exact nuance.
4. I didn't see anything mentioning that these girls are expendable though, just weaker in every way than the likes of the big name girls.
5. The situation this one is in is either a training accident, or she got caught and is getting "trained" by a demon. Unclear again.

At the end of the day, I honestly doubt that they're expendable, given that Himemaru's story emphasizes just how much they NEED exorcists that they'll basically grab ANYONE with spiritual power to work for them.

It'd also contradict the idea that exorcists routinelye rescue other exorcists and so on that was previously established. That said... it IS possible that these types actually end up dying more than any of the big names. That worm thing from Irina's mini-story was absolutely going to eat her alive once she ran out of spiritual power if she wasn't rescued in time, and it's entirely possible that these weaker girls don't have the spiritual power to last long enough to BE rescued under certain circumstances if things go bad.

Who really knows in the end? It's not like the setting is entirely coherent and consistent after all...

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Ah, that statement. Yeah, google defaults to killed if you take everything, then gets confused if you take out JUST that sentence. DeepL translates the singular statement as just "Even if they are defeated and beaten", but the whole text goes to "killed". GPT goes to "even if they lose and get taken down", and I suspect that's the closest to the real meaning.

"Supervisors in charge of cleaning up miscellaneous weaklings that appear haphazardly. Even if they lose and get taken down, it's still okay because it delays the progression of the otherworldly phenomenon! I wanted to depict the ordinary sisters of Ibara. This time, it's someone who mistakenly set their level wrong during training." - This is what GPT pumped out, and I'd say this is more accurate than other MTLs...

In any case, I don't think it's meant to imply that these girls are expendable. However, it's hard to be sure. As I said in my original post, it's hard to be sure about the exact details without knowing full on Japanese.

Would've helped if people made more comments to translate those too... but Rindou doesn't get that many comments on Fantia, and of those that did pop up, three are more focused on the fact that she's hot enough to be a main character all on her own. One is basically begging for a fantia specific setting to be changed. The last one more or less just praises the setting. Though this does make me doubt that Rindou said anything about them explicitly getting killed.

In any case, I personally think it's more meant to say that if these girls lose and get raped, it's not as big of a deal, unlike when it happens to the big names. Even their defeats serves to distract the opposition and make said opposition less effective. The setting also already established the fact that it's rather normal for all exorcists to end up getting fucked on a regular basis. You see it in several of the small books, and you also see it in the Liese VN, even that Matai Toshi mini-VN implies it. The key difference here is that when these girls lose, it's never a big deal for the world, and they're easy to rescue too. Whereas if the big names lose, there's generally serious consequences for the region/world/whatever, and they're difficult to rescue to boot.

That's my interpretation at least. However. Who knows with Rindou?

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I don't think the comment section of a gallery is the best place to share what would essentially be Matai Toshi fanfiction.

Even if it were, given that I'm a fan of the likes of Smash Daisaku, Fan no Hitori, Asanagi, Somejima, etc... anything I'd come up with might end up giving nightmares to the more moderate Rindou fans. XD

That aside, I'd have to re-read all the translated media that features Sayaka to grasp her character well enough for writing it. Beyond "arrogant exorcist in a needlessly skimpy bodysuit that has no shame about the appearance of said outfit"...

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Hey guys, I MIGHT have discovered what Rindou's been up too lately that's keeping him distracted. Just might, because this is rather difficult to confirm.

Check out this ci-en article, specifically the 4th entry listed there, along with the image and the listed artist:

https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/16239/article/1204244

Seem familiar?

This article is from the start of august, but based on what the ci-en is saying in general, if this IS the Rindou we're all following (and it seems likely based on spelling and art-style), then they started helping at least several month before this point, maybe as early as February and January which was their biggest dip in activity in 2024.

Being the dedicated artist to a battle-fuck focused RPG would definitely explain their low activity, and if previous patterns from when he's worked on games CGs for others apply (even in a minor way like that Super Robot RPG where he did a side-character), he won't actually post anything about it until the game's out.

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First of all.

If this IS our Rindou, and IF this goes through to the end, it might actually be a good thing for the potential RPG in the long run. Given that what he wants to make involves battle-fuck, it may mean that he gains the needed experience in terms of what's needed for this sort of thing to make his own RPG. Or he might be able to lean on the connection with this circle to have them do the coding for him.

It's an extreme long-shot tbh... but it's definitely a possibility...

Either way, the only way to confirm would be to ask him directly and hope he answers... but there's no guarantee he'd give an honest answer.

Second of all, he did exactly one character's CGs in this game, with the gallery being here.
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The character in question is from 315 to 326.

Supposedly, the game is quite good, but, at the same time, I'm not aware of it having a translation anywhere. I remember trying to play it in JP and having to give up because the systems in it were too complex to manage with just MTL-ing it. This was more than 5 years ago though... so things might work better now.... but I haven't had any incentive to really try.

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The new post is https://ci-en.dlsite.com/creator/16239/article/1255680 for anyone too lazy to look it up themselves.

I think the images in it will put to rest any ideas about Rindou using AI, if the quality of even the sketches and their hands are any indication. It's probably just a whim that recent images haven't had hands displayed or anything silly like that.

This may not be the Sayaka game I really want, but A game is better than no game, and virtual magical girls are hot too, even if this thing will have too much of a focus on sex with humans for my tastes.

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Good luck getting something like THAT to change in a place like Japan.

Realistically, we'll be dead, and probably our children's children will be dead before that stupid law changes.

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I dunno if the US is exactly specifically responsible for the censorship law. I remember looking it up and that it had a fairly convoluted history.

What I DO know is that our current difficulties in paying anything on fantia/dlsite/etc ARE happening because of retarded US laws and their impacts on people's ability to purchase shit.

This makes it even less likely that the Censorship law will get tossed in the bin, because it's people from the West that are more likely to push about that sort of thing and thus more likely to make it notably more profitable in the long run to want to get rid of it.

Right now, the only hope one has for decensoring is mainly for H-games picked up by certain Publishers.

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For the people commenting on the shoulder stuff. The metallic part going MIA isn't new. Pics like 162 did it before. Additionally, there's a number of poses where they could be MIA or just aren't visible, like 159 or 197. So that's not really new.

My understanding is that he's changing the fabric underneath to better show off the armpit. What that means in the long run, I'm not entirely sure, but we'll see. I personally hope the shoulder-guard thing stays, though I'm all for tightening the fabric underneat even if I don't specifically care about armpits.

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I honestly have no idea how expensive it could theoretically get to have something animated using L2D tech, but it can likely get pretty pricey for Rindou's stuff because the slime covering and stuff can be pretty difficult to work with and the tentacle restraints add additional moving parts you have to account for. L2D, after all, works by cutting up an image into various component parts and working them over into an animation, and there can be quite a bit of trial and error while doing that, especially if you don't have access to stuff like the .psd file for the image that breaks it up into multiple layers to better account for shadding and other things.

It's probably a moot point anyway. I'm not aware of any animators that take random commissions. Partly because of the aforementioned problem of it being harder to work without full materials. Partly because, as far as I'm aware, making money like that without the artist's consent can be legally dubious. Though, obviously, the latter point depends on where you live yada yada.

I have no idea if that one specific Sayaka animation was commissioned or if the guy did it on his own though. The post was done by an account called "hyperblaster", which makes me think that the animator himself put it up and did it because he felt like it, rather than being commissioned... However, who can say?

What I CAN say is that it's unlikely to Rindou to get any big amounts of animations since he doesn't seem particularly interested in them (or he may not be aware of the possibilities of l2d). So unless one of his fans gets into l2d and starts animating his stuff as a passion, odds are that we won't be seeing much animated Rindou content. I at least definitely don't have the time or talent to work out something like that, no matter how much I'd enjoy seeing a number of stuff animated. (Primarily Sayaka's stuff, and primarily focused on the more penetrative images. Starting with some of the images in the older Matai Toshi mini VN and then picking up stuff like 33, 135 and especially 191.)

In any case, it IS possible to make a rule34 account and try to reach out to the uploader of the image and see what he knows. I think. But given that they haven't posted anything for around a year, it's debatable if they'll respond, or if they're even still around to respond. Never know what happens to people these days...

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It was still Sayaka in the flash game with koooonsoft.

Not Sakuya.

Seriously... I know the names are similar but the characters are so different... How do you peeps keep mixing them up...

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I'm not. Let's face it. Rindou's never been able to respect any self imposed deadline or anything of the sort. That's not gonna change now.

Especially since we have no idea how much work he may or may not be doing for that game. Depending on how things were arranged, and what contracts may be involved, everything that's not work for that game may be entirely on his free time now.

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Rindou updated last month's post, instead of making a new one. I have no idea what that means... or if perhaps it means that there will be a new post too a bit later or something.

Unlikely though...

It's basically just the completed version of that image on twitter, plus a higher rez version of the Sayaka image he posted last month. A total of 4 images if you count the higher rez version. ~2.7 if you don't, since the 3rd image is a mix of the other 3.

EDIT: He did a completely new post too. Just one image, but that's still more than what we usually get in a month these days. Must've been more motivated than usual.

Last edited on 30 November 2024, 15:06.

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Not so much losing the touch and more like Fantia is cracking down harder on any censorship they consider insufficient.

What's "sufficient" varies from platform to platform and publisher to publisher etc.

EDIT: For clarity, as far was I'm aware, either someone reported some of his posts, or Fantia staff inspected him and asked for more censorship. I'm not sure when it started happening, but I CAN say that, for example, I have a version of page 191 that does not have the black bars. And possibly some other posts, but I'm not scouring my whole collection and this gallery for differences.

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I am indeed going through dubious web-sites to get Tora-Coins. I've supported Rindou for a long time now, VISA and MasterCard are not gonna stop me from throwing my money at him!

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Here's one option:
https://www.seagm.com

You need to look up Bitcash items, which give you a hiragana code, which you can then use to load up Tora Coins through Fantia. Make sure it's the digital item and NOT the BitCash physical gift card things.

That said, the site is... iffy. I'm not gonna comment on what you may need to access it properly, because that depends on what region you're from, whether you're using VPN or not, so on and so forth, so any instructions I give may be incorrect and may say way more than I want about my RL than I'd ever want to share anywhere on the Internet.

Which means you're on your own in terms of figuring out how to get your BitCash from there, which you then convert into Tora Coins.

As I said, dubious websites...

Btw, those BitCash codes should also be usable on dlsite. Or... at least they USED to be usable... haven't checked in a while... so don't take my word for it.

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And another one with a censor bar. We are having a fantastic end of the year.
Someone should tell him he is not on the garbage of fantia or pixiv. He is on "twitter" and shouldnt be that much of a cuck.

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@Listeur

I am pretty sure that the new artwork is supposed to be a redraw of pages 269-270. If you layer them on-top of one another, they look almost identical, even down to the tentacle details. Could be that they want to redraw some of the older bits of the Sayaka comic since it has been years since he started so his style changed a bit over time. Also might be because he wants to enhance her ass, which is welcome LOL

Though, this will make the already long as hell production time even longer

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Personally, I'm not gonna overthink the random ass-pic lol. XD

Also, that fanfic is 33 chapter long, the re-tweet is about using that Grok AI thing to translate from Chinese to Japanese.

There's a FUCK-TON of text written by that guy on pixiv... No idea if it's any good tho. Cuz Chinese. Not that Japanese would have been better. With that sort of volume, the amount of MTL-ing you'd need to do to get anything even semi-accurate would be excruciating...

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The battle UI CGs for the side project Rindou is working on were completed on the latest update on the circle's page. The H-scenes are being worked on too. I wonder how far along he is now that the variations for that UI are done. Hopefully it won't take but a handful of months to complete the rest. I'll be buying that game on day one and playing even if I don't understand Japanese. I just gotta see the art he drew for the hentai scenes since it'll be different from what he usually makes.

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Pft.

You should have translated the full post. The game Rindou is working on as the artis is slated to come out in late 2025 or early 2026. Their order of business was listed in the post, and that game is basically second-to-last in terms of development. The first thing that will come out around February is the Append for the game they currently have out. After that, March at the earliest, will be the Kutan game, which I can't complain about because I do like Kutan's art quite a bit.

So yeeeah.Be patient, it's gonna be a while. Not to mention that Rindou's not good with tight deadlines anyway, so this game taking longer means there's better odds for a high variety of CGs and whatnot.

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AAAAAAHHHHH I'M RETARDED. Well, at least I'll have a reason to live to the year it releases. I can't wait regardless. I have patience after all, and you pretty much become as patient as a monk when you're a Rindou fan. I'll be posting December's Fantia art when it drops, so make sure to shower my post with lots of comments. Hopefully the guy on this thread is still alive.

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