I'll add all the info I have on the uploaded card at the picture title, like so.

This and the previous card belong to the same artist, you can find him on twt @ryutmr. I like how healthy the characters look, they seem to be enjoying themselves in a bright, sunny day. The hightec nonsense frying pan on the previous picture is adorable.

Post edited on 22nd Jul 2022, 11:00am

You can easily find a lot of adult manga and illustrations by this prolific author. 火浦R (HiuraR). He has a Twitter @hiurar and a pixiv users/5772729.

This artist still very much active. Twt @punipoyo
Sometimes I'll make assumptions about what series the card belongs, when that happens, I'll add a ().

This artist is currently working in the gaming industry. More illustrations can be found on his Twt, @8nyanco

I wish I could find more of this Fantasy series. I love this flat with muted colors style, it's realy cute. Also I'm 99% sure this artist, たつねこ, wrote his own wikipedia page. I just know it.

This is a neat idea for a thread, OP. You're right, these cards do radiate that '90s style. I'm intrigued to see what else you dig up.
I don't know if you've seen this, but there's a wiki page about these cards, and it looks like the series ended in 2011, not 2008:
https://e-shuushuu.net/wiki/index.php?title=V.I.P

Post edited on 22nd Jul 2022, 10:25am

Love the slightly off sitting position on this one and the obsession with bow knots. When I first saw this illustration I sensed a female sensitivity in it particularly in the hair and clothing. Turns out it is a female artist. There's a English entry for her on wikipedia, look for Ryō Ramiya.

>>3820
Hey anon, I hope you'll enjoy this thread. I actually saw that page and completely forgot to check on it while writing the OP, I stand corrected. I didn't find any cards from such a later period yet, I hope there are some out there. I actually just purchased a CD collecting an entire series of an earlier edition on Yahoo. I don't want to give anyone high hopes yet though, I have bought CDs in the past but they're so old by now a lot of them are corrupted. We'll see. If it works I'll definitely share the contents itt.

>>3822
>I didn't find any cards from such a later period yet, I hope there are some out there.
The 2010 and 2011 runs do at least have some of their art online, albeit with watermarks. More importantly, they have a list of the artists involved, which might help in tracking down more of them.

>Summer 2010
https://web.archive.org/web/20101121074812/http://www.axia-info.com/v2010s/index.php
https://web.archive.org/web/20101113203039/http://axia-info.com/v2010s/prc.php

>Winter 2010
https://web.archive.org/web/20110108062351/http://axia-info.com/v2010w/

>Winter 2011
https://web.archive.org/web/20120125062128/http://axia-info.com/v2011w/

This artist encapsulates a lot of the 90s aesthetic in his work. Bigger heads, bolder lines, flatter colors and high contrast highlights. There's a childlike grace to his art. If a child could improve her drawing skills without losing any innocence, I like to imagine that's how the drawings would look like. I knew about this artist thanks to Doki Doki Vampire and it was a nice surprise to find art by him on VIP as well. He's currently working on character design for mobile games and whatnot. Very active twt @kokomahi. You can also read Doki Doki for free (and legally) on mangaz.com/book/detail/49341. Despite what the card says, his pen name is kokomahi, not kokomai.

>>3823
This is gold mine, thanks! I've been focusing most of my efforts on auction sites since a lot of those images become inaccessible once the bidding ends. I have that nagging feeling I need to comb everything in those as quickly and thoroughly as I can. I'll carefully go through the links you provided later today, I already spotted several cards in there I like and want to know more about.

This card is by the same artist as >>3817. A lot of cards around for sale in auction sites are signed by the artist. I guess people usually did purchase them in Comiket directly from the artist himself/herself and asked them then and there to sign it.

This is a nice thread.

>>3823
>??木信孝
Huh, it's unfortunate that the Wayback Machine mangled the kanji like this. The wiki linked by >>3820 confirms that it's 髙木信孝 (Takagi Nobuyuki), perhaps best known for Kokoro Toshokan. In previous years, he contributed under the name Boo or BOO (pronounced ぶぅ) as a member of the circle M・blem.

V・I・P'99 WINTER VENUS-13
page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/e1018659340
page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/f1018670185

I'd post the image too, but I won't because I figure OP will do a better job of cleaning it up than I would. But judging from the two photos of the front side of this card, it looks like this card is shiny and reflective in such a way that a single scan wouldn't do it justice.

>>3824
>Despite what the card says, his pen name is kokomahi, not kokomai.
It's worth noting that his Wikipedia and pixiv Encyclopedia articles indicate that ここまひ is supposed to be read as ここまい (Kokomai). The romanization "KOKOMAI" also shows up on the front cover of volume 1 of Doki Doki Vampire.
Some words that were historically written with ひ have the ひ pronounced as /i/ nowadays and are typically written with い to match that pronunciation. But in some cases the old kana orthography is alternatively used, e.g. in the title おもひでぽろぽろ (Omoide Poroporo).

No 2Dbijinga collection would be complete without a miko.
Artist's info and gallery:
https://twitter.com/akiyoshi_anorak
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/304907

I've been avoiding to post links to twitter since I know ib denizens usually have a problem with social media but honestly it's annoying for lurkers interested in finding more about the artists itt to have to copy and paste every twitter link, so I'll start to just link them normally from now on, I hope that's OK.

>>3826
I'm glad you're enjoying it anon and thanks for your help. Don't shy away from posting any images you find btw. Even if I already have it, I'll put it at the end of my posting line and repost with any PS edits if I find I can improve it. The one you linked I do have it. Here's the list of auction and sales sites I meticulously comb through regularly: Yahoo, buyee, suruga-ya, aucfan, shop.r10, rakuten, lambissue, mandarake, ebay and amazon. If you find images in any of those sites, chances are I have it as well and will post it here eventualy. Regardless, you should post whatever VIP related things you feel like it. Two people looking is always better than one. I might miss something and new auctions are always coming up, you never know.

Within VIP there are also series or single cards promoting media franchises, VNs, games, anime, manga, etc. Here's one such case.
Artist's info
https://twitter.com/_sakurazawa_
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/125969

>>3832
It's an usual thing for one artist to have designed several cards. Same artist as above.

I love this style as well. A little less goofy and lightheared proportions but still very friendly. It gives the character a warming, approachable personality and charisma.
Artist info
https://twitter.com/kerorinnet
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/2255114

>>3827
Speaking of Photoshop, I don't know what version you're using, but newer versions have a Perspective Warp tool that makes it super easy to straighten/flatten out pictures of cards that have been taken on an angle.

Another signed card. He wrote 'Please return the book by tomorrow.' Notice how he was careful enough not to write over the character. I like this one. It feels like what a Pokemon char would look like if Pkm were more adult-oriented.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/harashow_llcorp
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/22937

>>3835
I'm using CC2019. I'm not sure how much I want to alter the original picture. I feel like I should alter as little as possible, there's always a possibility someone will come along and be able to do a better job than me at it. I'll try do the warp next. Maybe later I'l just dump all unaltered pictures I have for download, that would solve the problem.

One of my favorites. This artist is currently the president and executive producer of Studio Saizensen. Coincidentally, Umihara Kawase is one of my favorite game franchises out there and I posted a fairly large review for one of their games just a couple months ago >>/vg/14447. It's a small world.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/st_saizensen

Post edited on 23rd Jul 2022, 10:21am

I get a little sad seeing how some artists completely abandon their early style for whatever is in vogue. They do this of course in order to continue to be a competitive force in the market. Still, part of me wish they didn't. I found one auction listing by a guy selling a 'complete 99 Summer set', stating there are 180 cards. We'll see, for now I'm assuming there's 180.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/Aoi__Nanase/

Even professors emeritus at the University of Tokyo can draw characters for obscure Comiket card collections sometimes. The seller listed this both as Summer 99 and as a promo card for マリオネットカンパニー (Marionette Company) an early 2000s VN trilogy I never heard about before. I quickly looked through the main characters from those games and none of them look quite like this, so maybe it's a mistake. I'm mentioning just in case I'm wrong and this is in fact a promocard for those games.

Artist info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichiro_Kawaguchi

Post edited on 23rd Jul 2022, 11:40am

>>3815
>>3817
>>3825
These are my favorite. Not a fan of the oddly shaped heads that were common back then.

Also, I wonder how doable it'd be to make a reproduction based on these images using some phostoshop and ai.

Post edited on 23rd Jul 2022, 11:12am

>>3840
The most shocking part of all this is that Zima was still being sold in Japan until last December - and it was actually popular there!

The summer series was probably the most well received. There are a lot of Summer cards out there.
Artist Info
https://twitter.com/kimizuka_aoi
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/2357347

>>3841
2D girls artwork on VIP when focused on more regular proportions have the tendency to have a higher sexual energy to it and it's way less whimsical as a result. There's also a sort of erotic tension to it that is hard to describe. I can definitely feel it on >>3825. My favorite of the ones posted so far is probably >>3819. Of course this is all in my head, it might feel completely different for you. Don't pick favorites yet! We have a very long list to go! I hope you'll continue to enjoy it!

>>3841
Honestly I should just purchase them. Problem is I don't know when to quit and can end up spending enough money I could neet on for a full year, it can get quite ridiculous. I did purchase an official CD gallery with one of the earlier sets, but that as far as I'll go with this. If the CD is not corrupted (happened before) I'll share itt. I found a blog entry by a guy saying there are so many cards he decided to focus on just the artists he liked, so I'm guessing there's just too many out there to seriously try to collect them all, even if you don't need to pay international shipping. Besides, I have enough weeb stuff as is, I can't allow myself to get carried away with stuff like this.

>>3842
Oh, now I want to have a taste of that drink.

Here's the reason this thread exists. I found about VIP thanks to this one, card 09 from the 99 Winter series. I was looking for artwork by this artist and this came out in the results. Did some digging and here we are. You'll notice he changed his style almost completely in the last couple of decades.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/kagap_t
http://www.cc.rim.or.jp/~hime/index2.html

I could not identify the artist behind this card.

I tried my best, but the result is quite shoddy.

>>3847
I hope this helps you.

>>3848
Amazing. Is that from the cd mentioned here? >>3843
Would like to know where I could find the others too.
Edit: found this gallery https://exhentai.org/s/6e7f32720c/1161719-68

Post edited on 23rd Jul 2022, 4:44pm

Here's one of the later ones, 2007.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/zaklero

>>3849
Nope, that wasn't me. The CD will take around 3 weeks to get here. I'll let you guys know when it arrives.

This artist has a very popular style and a fairly large following.
Notice how the backs changed from one year to the next. There's a lot less information in 2007. I much prefer lots of info on the back.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/mikeou_
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%BF%E3%81%91%E3%81%8A%E3%81%86

Artist info
https://twitter.com/yokotamamoru

>>3848
Based on this, I think the card originally looked more like this, with a white border and blue background. This is mostly conjecture though.

Could not find any direct accounts to this artist but if you look up his name several galleries of his work comes up. Here's one: https://akuma.moe/?q=artist%3Ajinnojyou%24

>>3853
Looks good. Just for the record, I'm not making any color assumptions with my uploads. All I'm doing is trimming anything that isn't a card in the picture and adjusting exposition, removing that excessive glare that hides the picture. I'm not touching color balance or anything like that.

Here's one picture probably ruined by a shitty smartphone camera.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/BooMblem (Not 100% sure this is the correct artist, there's a lot of Boos out there as it turned out.)

VIP cards were sold in small, sealed packs. I've seen this one for sale in several different auctions, apparently it was a very common one you would get in every other package.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/nishi_iori (This artist changed her style completely since her VIP days.)

Post edited on 24th Jul 2022, 7:55am

This card would feel nostalgic even in 99. It very reminiscent of late 80s character design you would see in sci-fi manga titles like カプリコン (Capricorn). I like it but don't see something like this making a comeback anytime soon.

Artist Info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8C%E3%82%8F%E3%81%AF%E3%81%AA%E3%81%BE%E3%82%8B

And here's another one that would also feel nostalgic even at the time it came out. Also very inspired by stuff like カプリコン. There are many Ichi artists out there and none I found appears to be the person behind this card. More research required.

Such a collection would not be complete without a maid, so here's one. I can't find the artist behind this card att.

And here's another maid, this time by Boo, same artist as >>3855. Also I'm confirming that is the correct twt account for this artist.

>>3857
IDK, she kind of looks like she could be a .hack character. Still nostalgic, but in the other direction.

Here's an interesting one. This is not a card, it's a phonecard... well, OK it's a card, but you could use it to make calls on payphones, unlike the other ones I posted. I wonder if there's any credit left on that one. I tried my best to remove this damn glare and this is the best I got, sorry about that.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%98%AD%E5%AE%AE%E6%B6%BC
I looked but it doesn't seem like this artist has an online presence. I might be wrong though.

>>3861
Yeah I can kinda see it now that you mentioned it, but even .hack characters look cleaner than that. That girl has like 8 different types of materials on her eyepatch alone, kinda crazy.

Post edited on 24th Jul 2022, 1:33pm

Same artist as >>3838

Someone in charge of VIP really, really liked this one. And I'll tell you why...

Artist info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naru_Nanao
https://twitter.com/ice_to_choco

>>3864
2 years later they made a poster using the artwork from it. Hard to believe on the entire 2007 Summer set they were promoting there wasn't a single illustration they could use instead of going with artwork from a previous collection.

Post edited on 24th Jul 2022, 2:42pm

I'm not sure if this is the same author as the mind behind HunterXHunter but I couldn't find any other Togashis out there.

Spent most of the day today hunting for more cards. I have about 500 of them now. This is getting out of hand, I need to come up with a work schedule to edit these things. I want to do it quickly but something always comes up, specially when looking for information about the artist.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E4%B8%8B%E8%96%AB

Tohno is being a nuisance with posts not getting through or getting delayed today. Speaking of nuisance, here's a really low res. image of a VIP card. It's a little disheartening to only find a digital copy of this quality, but hey, one picture is better than none, right?

Post edited on 25th Jul 2022, 11:14am

I have a lot of these lower quality ones. Not much I can do about it I'm afraid. I'll continue to look for better copies of them. In the meantime these will do, hang in there anons.

It's interesting to notice how so many of these characters fall in two categories. The ones transpiring innocence and the ones transpiring eroticism. Here's one of the latter.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/narumis

>>3868
And here's one of the former. I fell in love with this artist. His characters feel whimsical without giving any airs of idiocy, which is hard to do. He has at least 3 VIP cards that I know of. Unfortunately he deleted his twitter and pixiv accs. Reason unknown. He was working on a comedy title until 2019 called Ultra Kaijuu Gijinka Keikaku published by Dengeki G. It's not that good (at least vol1 isn't).

Artist info
https://myanimelist.net/people/10623/Bakutendou
https://gelbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=bakutendou

Artists info
https://twitter.com/Kai_Seven_
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaishaku_(manga_group)

>>3866
It looks like this card was actually illustrated by Tatsuneko, a far more obscure mangaka:
https://www.mangaupdates.com/authors.html?id=9039

Could not find much info on this artist, but here's one title he published:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A9%9F%E5%8B%95%E6%AD%A6%E9%97%98%E5%A4%96%E4%BC%9D%E3%82%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%A0%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%887th
If you look for his name on amazon.co.jp you can also find another title of his 童子装甲BEE.

>>3869
That looks pretty erotic to me.

This is the type of artist I wish all of them could be. Strong online presence. We need more of that.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A5%BF%E8%84%87%E3%82%86%E3%81%85%E3%82%8A
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/454539
https://twitter.com/yuuri_nishiwaki

>>3871
Ah! Thanks for correcting me anon, I appreciate it. Yes, that did sound very weird, but the seller put that name in there on the title of the listing and I ran with it like an damn idiot.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%95%B7%E8%B0%B7%E5%B7%9D%E7%9C%9E%E4%B9%9F
https://twitter.com/shinyaradio

>>3873
Yeah but she's not aware of that. >>3868 definitely knows, you know? It makes all the difference.

>>3875
>definitely knows, you know? It makes all the difference.
Hmm, I actually see it as the opposite. >>3869 reminds me a tsundere character intentionally trying to arouse, without wanting to admit it, while >>3868 makes me think they're casual and a bit clueless. Red vs pink hair also contributes a bit to my perception.

There are many Kazufumis out there, none I found seem to be the one behind this illustration. I like this one, feels like a character for a nice and involving JRPG I don't know about it yet. It's embarrassing to post pictures of this quality itt in 2022, I hope I can find alternatives soon. This is just so we know it exists.

You can explore his site at least through wayback machine, maybe there's something in there I missed.
https://web.archive.org/web/20050115000000*/http://ww4.tiki.ne.jp/~kazufumi

Artist info
https://twitter.com/S_kikuchi
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8F%8A%E6%B1%A0%E6%94%BF%E6%B2%BB

>>3877
She's not clueless, please consider the evidence I present to you:
1- She has a tattoo (high body awareness)
2- Goes to a salon to get her hair done (thrives on attention)
3- Unabashed bikini user (and pulls the strings in front of strangers. pft!)
4- Blinks to strangers

On the other hand!
1- Sloppy hair, probably cuts it at home due to diffidence and anxiety
2- Mom made gave her a bikini to go to the beach but she hides it under regular clothes anyway
3- Grudgingly has to take it off to go swimming and gets immediately flustered and confused when someone stares at her
4- Unaware how good she looks

Now you tell me sir who is in the right here. I believe I am... this is the internet after all.

>>3879
Eh, I didn't notice most of those details(just judged based on facial expression and hair color) and am admittedly biased by my preference in art style.

If you ask me what is an important step to become a famous mangaka, I would say it's very important to not be named Togashi, otherwise your information will be buried by a million links mentioning a much more famous Togashi. It will take tohno-chan levels of tism to find your information online and you should not count on such a thing ever existing in your lifetime. Also this is the younger brother of HunterXHunter author Yoshihiro Togashi and the brother-in-law Ms. Takeuchi, of Sailor Moon fame.

Please someone explain to me how is that a winter outfit.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%86%A8%E6%A8%AB_(%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6)
https://web.archive.org/web/20120128185148/http://www97.sakura.ne.jp/~metalbox/

>>3880
I'm glad you're lurking this thread anon.

Post edited on 25th Jul 2022, 1:40pm

Speaking of names, don't use a pen name that is also a common word, like 神髄 (shinzui). The only info I found on this artist is his own dead website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20040930184540/http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~shinzui/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030813223400/http://www.d2.dion.ne.jp/~shinzui/mokuji2.htm
And some of his doujin work here:
https://otakurepublic.com/product/tag_page.html?tags=390709&type=suggest

You can find an artist going by the name Shinzui in several booru galleries but if it's the VIP Shinzui or other Shinzui I cannot tell.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/shinji_kirisawa
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/506383

Artist info
https://twitter.com/misapoko
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/43822

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8C%97%E6%9D%A1%E6%99%B6
There's an interview with this artist, you can read it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160213150734/https://manga-time.com/interview/20080205-2.html

Very intense gaze. Same artist as >>3868.

Adorable illustration.

Artist info
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/17774
https://twitter.com/chiruwo3
http://chiruwo.net/

Artist info
https://twitter.com/kiri_idu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Kirihara
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/12062048

This card reminds me how unusual it is for manga to use prehistory as setting. In fact I don't remember any, close I can think out of the top of my head is Papuwa-kun but he's not a caveboy, he's just lost in some weird idyllic island imbued with powers.. or something. I have to read that title again, I can only remember I liked it.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/minakatasunao
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/209109

Artist info
https://twitter.com/takatoayumi
https://skeb.jp/@takatoayumi
https://tkt-store.wixsite.com/fomu
Watch her draw on yt!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTfLB3Lk4tVdonJ8UZAmZpQ

Today I'll be uploading the characters I find the least visually appealing amongst the cards I've collected so far. Might as well get it over with. I just don't get these, it's my fault. If you like them let me know, I'm curious to hear from people who can appreciate them.

Same artist as >>3881.

Huh, I swear I didn't realize I would be picking on this author so much. ごめんね冨樫先生。
Same author as >>3891, >>3881

This is the author behind D4 Princess, a lighthearted, feel-good mecha and magical girls title, really cute. The art is actually fine in this card, it's just the costume is not complementing the figure one bit.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/harashow_llcorp
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/22937

I think this style and design does have a place, but it's not in my heart. I could not identify the artist behind this card att.

I like her current style a lot better. Also I bet this should be a winter card but they added to Summer for some reason. Maybe a mistake? It really feels like a winter card to me.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/bell_o2
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/4991173
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8A%E3%81%8A%E3%81%A4%E3%81%8D%E3%81%B9%E3%82%8B%E3%81%AE

This artist passed away in 2011. His art lives on. お悔やみ申し上げます。

Artist info
https://mangaseek.net/person/860.html

I could not find any direct info about this author. All I know att is that he was or is part of the 遊星本舗 circle and worked on another card collection called Aquarian Age:
https://www.aquarian-age.org/
You can also find his old work here:
https://otakurepublic.com/product/tag_page.html?tags=294916&condition=used At least we get a good idea about the covers.

>>3890
Her art seems to follow the times closely. To be honest, I prefer the 2006 look.

>>3897
This card is what people who hate anime think all anime looks like.

The eyes. They're so intense and in an very specific and uncomfortable manner. Feels like she's screeching in pain inside and is desperate to shout for help but something... or someone, doesn't let her. There's an intensity here that saps my mental wellbeing.

Artist info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiji_Gotoh
http://goto.cute.or.jp/
His website is really useful to collect VIP data. Go to gallery you'll find all the illustrations he did for VIP in 99 and 2000 including this one.

>>3898
I'm the type of person who will browse safebooru for hours looking at artwork but I never really paid attention to the artists themselves. It never occurred how most of them are always changing and trying to update their style. It was a surprise to me.
>>3899
Hah that's true. The eye size is not what bothered me on that card. I mean I really like the one I used on the OP, it's one of my favorites and the eyes there are huge. It's a combination of things I guess.

>>3900

Only results I could find for this artist are related to this very card. Further research required.

One of the interesting things about gathering information about these artists is finding out a bunch of games I never heard about before. I'm even building a backlog at this point. For example, this artist is the character designer for 雛鳥の囀with殻の中の小鳥. I'll check it out sometime.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/arai_kazuki
https://dochashiko-manga.com/2022/07/02/%e4%b8%89%e9%a3%9f%e7%97%b4%e5%a5%b3%e4%bb%98%e3%81%8d/ (free story by this author)
https://ec.toranoana.jp/tora_r/ec/app/catalog/list?searchActorName=%E6%96%B0%E4%BA%95%E3%82%AB%E3%82%BA%E3%82%AD

Same artist as >>3837.
Now, this looks like a character in CCS. The one that starts evil but it's only because she's trying to solve the same problem as Sakura using bad magic, without yet realizing Sakura's way of solving the same problem is better. They end up being friends afterwards. She also secretly falls in love with Sakura at some point.

Same artist as >>3870.
Here's one more Fantasy card. >>3819 still my favorite as far as Fantasy goes.

When the clothing looks uncomfortable, it saps some of my enjoyment when looking at the artwork. This parafernalia does not look comfortable.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/piyopoo/ (not much artwork here though, but she uploads lots of pictures of her very nice and expensive kimonos. I love kimonos so I guess it could be worse.)
And! You'll love this, she's a prominent player at the Japanese circles of Magic: The Gathering. http://www.mtgwiki.com/wiki/%E9%87%91%E6%BE%A4%E5%B0%9A%E5%AD%90

This is the type of background that complements any figure. We need more flowers and trees on the backgrounds of VIP cards. Half your charm is how good the flowers on the background looks.

Couldn't find much on this artist att. https://vgmdb.net/artist/51080 for some CD covers. If you look the name up, some more artwork for auction can be found.

And here's another nice background for a VIP card. I dislike the foil cards, I don't think it complements the artwork at all. It's rare for it to look good (image at OP being one of the exceptions). I much prefer nice background art instead.

Artist info
http://blog.livedoor.jp/natsuno1/ (some artwork can be found here)
https://twitter.com/natsunosuika
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/1039317

Same artist as >>3884.
Speaking of backgrounds, some are weird. Look at this one. Is that a key coming out of her head?

Here's another odd choice for a background. This one is getting in the way in an almost offensive manner. Real pictures do not belong here. Specially not the ones you took from your hotel bedroom the day before editing these. Was nothing else available to complement the artwork? Was it time constraints or this is a fully calculated artistic decision?

Artist info
https://twitter.com/exhminakami (Only a few followers att. >>3815 follows him, I hope they're friends irl.)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E4%B8%8A%E5%BA%83%E6%A8%B9
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/543279
And here's a nice surprise:
https://archive.org/details/Cotton-manga/img001.jpg
He did a Cotton manga! As I mentioned in my Umihara review I quite like Cotton as well so this is great. I might post about this one on /ma/ later.

We're not done with the hotel lampshade yet! Using real pictures as backgrounds happens a lot in cards from the year 1998. Same artist as >>3817 >>3825.
I'll link normally here:
https://twitter.com/punipoyo
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/16584138

Same artist as >>3881

>>3911
Nah, the artist used a photo of a desk/table for the background. That's just what was on it.
I think it looks great by the way.

>>3911
This card reminds me so much of Erika from Hacker's Memory, plushies and all.

This image contains the character art for the 98 Winter Venus card depicting Boo's original character, Ishimaru Mika. She has at least four variations: Venus (this one), Fantasy, Natural, and Costume. Source is his personal website: https://web.archive.org/web/20150626233649/http://homepage1.nifty.com/Mblem/G1.html
I believe this is the same girl as in >>3860, correct me if I'm wrong.

>>3855
Found this image from the same place as >>3917.
>>3860
>高木 信幸
Interesting that the back of that card actually reads "髙木信幸" even though his name is actually 髙木信孝 >>3826, commonly also written as 高木信孝, where 高 is the more common or standard form of 髙. It's strange that neither any variation of his name nor any alias of his that I'm aware of shows up on the artist list for VIP Final (https://web.archive.org/web/20050211043109/http://www.ufo.co.jp/FB/maker/vip_f/list.html) even though his art for that card is clearly visible on the index page.
He also has this Pixiv account: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/34965

>>3837
>tomorrow
That should be "the due date". It's 期日, not 明日.

>>3840
>Artist info
That would be 河口洋一郎 according to that article. The artist's name is 川口洋一郎. Are you sure they're the same person?

>>3846
According to https://e-shuushuu.net/wiki/index.php?title=Trading_Cards_Illustrated_by_Ramiya_Ryou the artist is the same as >>3822 as I suspected and the card is from 2002 Summer.

>>3849
Nice. I guess it's no wonder that Poyoyon Rock's art looks like Watanabe Akio's, given that they are the same person.

>>3919
Hello anon, I appreciate your attention. I'm doing this thread before bed half asleep most times, please continue to look out for any blunders, I'm sure there will be more to come. I would like to make this a complete and accurate catalog of VIP cards and the artists involved, so your help is most welcome. Right now I'm focusing on getting the most cards cleaned up and uploaded here with at least some basic info on them as fast as possible. I figure if we have like 500 pretty and neat VIP gallery itt it would be easier for people to find an artist they like and do some research themselves, it might be fun. I'll get there.

Now, you're right. 河口洋一郎 is definitely not 川口洋一郎, even half asleep this crass mistake is embarrassing. I looked up "マリオネットカンパニー" "川口洋一郎" this time and unfortunately again couldn't find any info on the actual artist. I did find he has a credit in another game, 英雄志願 Gal ACT Heroism (pic related) but that's about it.

>高木信幸 髙木信孝 髙木信幸 高木信孝
The names can get finicky! I have found artists who toy with the kanji on their names and it makes an annoyance to track. Then again a lot of these guys don't really have an online presence and people reselling cards make some really interesting mistakes themselves at times. Well, part of the fun I guess.
>期日, not 明日
Yup, clear as day, and I mistook 河 for 川 before that. I really should be more careful when doing research for these. I got so happy finding the artist that I glazed over the fact it wasn't the same person at all.
>Illustrated_by_Ramiya_Ryou
It's funny how obvious it is when someone points it out. The obsession with bows and knots really gives away..
>>3917
It does look the same character to me, too. Also nice find!

There's a very comforting warmth in the characters made by this artist. Notice the same background used on >>3814.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/dai_greyhound
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/16037203
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Moriyama

>>3915
I'm glad you liked it. The background felt a little odd to me, nothing serious like the lampshade, but it made me notice it.
>>3916
You're right, it does look similar. Are you a Digimon fan? I was always dimissive of Digimon because they don't look as cute as Pokemon, imo that is. Then I go the 'oh well, I already have my fill of that with pokemon' and forget about it. Maybe I should take a closer look.

Here's another maid. Not nearly the last one.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/shanghaihoneybe
https://www.pandako.net/ (some artwork can be found here as well)

This one made me smile. She looks like she's wearing at least a couple more uniforms under the one we can see. What is she hiding in there?

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%98%AF%E7%A9%BA%E3%81%A8%E3%81%8A%E3%82%8B
https://twitter.com/zekuyan

Blogging is a dead art. Lots of dead blogs everywhere. Seems like at one point everybody had one.

This artist has a rather cerebral type of drawing, very economical use of lines. The character looks serious and respectful even with this silly, silly outfit.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%B1%A0%E5%AE%9A%E8%B7%AF
https://twitter.com/koike_sadaji
https://sadajiokiba.blog.fc2.com/ (and here's a blog that is not dead for once)

Artist info
https://twitter.com/watasimusou
https://www.pixiv.net/users/197938
I suspect this person has given up on being an illustrator.

>>3927
Here's another one by the same artist. It's been half a decade since he uploaded any artwork and even before that he would just uploaded some very quick sketches. His Phantasy Star character also has wings.

Very whimsical, amusing design, I like this one a lot.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%9B%E3%81%9F%E3%81%AE%E3%82%8A%E3%82%84%E3%81%99
http://www2b.biglobe.ne.jp/~youz/seta/ (Fan page. Is that still a thing? It was 20 years ago. If you go to http://www2b.biglobe.ne.jp/~youz/seta/treasure.html you can see the site owner met the artist at a convention and had this sketch done for him. Real fan too, he got one in 92 as well! -> http://www2b.biglobe.ne.jp/~youz/seta/image/sketch.gif it's a pity he ruined the digital copies by ramping up the contrast like crazy..)

Same artist as >>3897
Did a quick search using different keywords but nothing came of it again. I'll be skipping ahead and come back to the ones I couldn't find any info later.

Lots of wings today.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/KiranPLN/
https://www.pixiv.net/users/3728

When it comes to 2D, some people prefer hot, some prefer cute. I'm 99% pro cute but I have a feeling if I were a hot supporter, this artist would be one I would like a lot. More wings. At this point it's expected.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%82%E3%81%84%E3%81%96%E3%82%8F%E3%81%B2%E3%82%8D%E3%81%97
https://twitter.com/aizawahiroshi
https://www.pixiv.net/users/684233
http://www.highriskrevolution.com/wp/ <- Doujinshi circle he's part of.

Like many artists featured here, she changed her style considerably.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%A3%AE%E5%B6%8B%E3%83%97%E3%83%81
https://twitter.com/jyaraya
https://www.pixiv.net/users/18855670

>>3932
Makes sense. I'd consider myself the former. To me, their art feels too "clean", and maybe a bit half-hearted, compared to the people I follow on pixiv.

>>3923
>Are you a Digimon fan?
Yes.
>I was always dimissive of Digimon because they don't look as cute as Pokemon, imo that is. Then I go the 'oh well, I already have my fill of that with pokemon' and forget about it. Maybe I should take a closer look.
There's plenty of adorable ones. You just can't go into Digimon expecting it to be Pokemon because they aren't really that similar. If anything, Digimon is closer to Megaten in terms of aesthetic/tone whereas Pokemon is more like Dragon Quest-meets-Sanrio.

This artist did some work for the gaming industry in the early 2000s as a character designer and illustrator, and also a fair share of doujinshi, but apparently it never got stable enough. She continues to draw while working at a restaurant. Apparently a foodie.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/kouno05
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%93%E3%81%86%E3%81%AE%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D%E3%82%88
https://kenzan5.exblog.jp/ (dead blog, but there's art in there I found nowhere else.)
https://vndb.org/s4607

>>3934
It does have a tendency towards simplicity as far as anatomy goes. I feel like cute has to be easier to take all in at once, like >>3819 and >>3890. There's a fine line between cute and hot I think simplicity helps cute, complexity helps hot >>3825 which imo aims more to be hot/erotic than cute, has quite a bit to observe, you can't quite see the whole thing at once. It might be different for everyone of course, but that's now I feel about it. It's not half-hearted!

>>3935
I'm looking at some Digimon right now. I think you're right. In fact I completely lost focus here and spent 40 minutes going through a digimon list, some do look cute, and a lot of them look quite menacing and some definitely look demented, which matches your Megaten comparison. I liked Ice Devimon Daipenmon Enhancement and Shakkoumon visually.

Post edited on 28th Jul 2022, 9:24am

>>3937
>I think simplicity helps cute, complexity helps hot
That's a neat way of looking at it. But then there's also artists like Hakika that have a style which is both simple and erotic. Maybe exaggerated proportions offset the simplicity.

Here's an artist I think many people know by style alone. It was my case until doing some research for this card. Feels like she had a huge impact on the anime aesthetic in the earlier 2000s. I quite enjoy this but nowadays I believe not many people would like it, including the artist herself, who draws a lot more well behaved proportions nowadays.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/1093yuiko
https://www.pixiv.net/users/155301
Unfortunately her current gallery doesn't have her earlier, more distortive style. If you look her name up (Tokumi Yuiko) you can find some old artwork by her using a search engine.
There are figures made after some of her illustrations:
http://www.akane-shop.net/cargo/image/604Cs401.jpg
https://static.myfigurecollection.net/upload/pictures/2013/08/21/789710.jpeg
https://static.myfigurecollection.net/upload/pictures/2013/08/05/771634.jpeg
https://www.1999.co.jp/itbig04/10046046a.jpg

>>3938
It helps but it's not exclusive. The father of lolicon himself, Azuma Hideo, said his goal was doing baby face (simple, cute) in a woman's body (hot, erotic). So it was a balancing act from the very start I think, but many pictures I see fall more in one side than the other and usually cute is simple and hot is more complex, but not always as you point out. There are other things that adds up when I'm looking at a picture, for example the character's intention or awareness. Your picture I would say it feels way more like cute than hot and one of the reasons is the character is not aware/not trying to be erotic, and that strikes me as cute. I mentioned something about this briefly on >>3879. Besides she looks almost like a cute potato wearing panties, not exactly hot from the start. Of course these are very personal standards.

Same artist as >>3881.

I couldn't find much about this artist besides the fact it's not one, but four people working under a pseudonym. Also they're siblings. There's a nice image for you, 4 brothers drawing doujinshi together. If you look the name up on the Japanese wikipedia a couple of credits come up on their work for pornographic games 20 years ago. But that's about it, more research required.

Artist info
https://web.archive.org/web/20050210120516/http://www.try.asu.ac.jp/~sst/sryk/prof.html (their old 2005 website)
https://www.animate-onlineshop.jp/products/list.php?mode=search&smt=%E3%81%97%E3%82%89%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D%E6%98%AD%E5%A3%AB%E9%83%8E (Some doujinshi from 2011, latest info on this team I could find.)
https://mangaseek.net/person/22823.html (mangaseek doesn't have anything on them, either.)

Post edited on 29th Jul 2022, 6:04am

Putting this card under the Pleasure set strikes me as a masochist move somewhat. In the old bijinga tradition, figures would have their faces covered sometimes by a parasol, paper fan or the kimono sleeve, delineating their shy, feminine nature. Here you have a face covered by a menacing, armed movement. I like the illustration but it feels out of place.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/tat_blackfly
https://www.pixiv.net/users/37152

Post edited on 29th Jul 2022, 8:09am

Couldn't find a single piece of information about this artist att. More research required.

Same artist as >>3882.

Apparently today is not my day for finding info on these artists. The artwork is really solid, I wonder what happened. This artist simply vanished.

Artist info
http://nary.sblo.jp/
https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/search/?radio=on&kw=%E4%B8%8B%E5%8C%97%E6%B2%A2%E9%88%B4%E6%88%90 (published author and under Kadokawa which is saying a lot.)

Post edited on 29th Jul 2022, 7:33am

A lot of the artists on VIP were just starting out at the time. This artist continues to work on his craft and changed his style considerably since then but kept the colorful, optimistic atmosphere he imbues his figures with to this day.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/seikunsan
https://www.pixiv.net/users/36405
http://yuseihonpo.web.fc2.com/index.htm

Post edited on 29th Jul 2022, 7:43am

Here's an artist I'm a fan of for many years now. This is the author behind one of my favorite comedy titles, Ninin ga Shinobuden. I really like Shinobu. A lot. His works are lighthearted and invite nonstop chuckles. Very endearing stuff.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E8%B3%80%E4%BA%AE%E4%B8%80
https://twitter.com/kryo1


And here some Shinobu for ya;
https://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=ninin_ga_shinobuden

>>3939
I guess I've been conflating what I(or someone else) find arousing, with being erotic.
>>3942
Can you explain what being in the pleasure set means?

>>3950
>Can you explain what being in the pleasure set means?
Not him, but if you look more closely at the filename and the card itself (and few other card in this thread), you can see the word Pleasure. This likely means that the card belongs to the set of cards called Pleasure.

Here's another artist I couldn't find anything att. If you look his name up on twitter, some results come up of people talking about some work he did in old magazines and things but that's about it. Further research required.

I'm reposting this one, I forgot to clean up the picture.

>>3950
Like >>3951 mentioned, that card is part of the Pleasure set of cards. To be honest though, many titles for the sets within VIP strikes me as just a name they though it was cool, rather than a direction or motif for the artwork.

>>3952
There's a mangaka by that name who contributed to manga anthologies for Gundam: Gihren's Greed and Tales of Phantasia. Not sure if it's the same guy.
https://www.mangaupdates.com/author/zsmlvie/kobayashi-takashi

>>3953
On second thought, I'm pretty sure pic related was done by the same guy (due to the Namco connection) and the artstyle is so different, I'm not sure it's the same artist who made that card after all.

>>3954
On the other hand, this artist also apparently did some Super Robot Wars 4-komas and the artstyle here looks a little closer to that card. Hmm.

>>3953
>>3954
>>3955
Nice! Seems like there's no reason to doubt it's the same artist. Those came out around the years he was most active and it's the stuff he worked on the most (game-related parodies). Those mags are all anthologies with several authors involved, so the cover might not and is probably not by him. If you go to twitter and look his name up you can find some people talking about other anthologies he was involved, but they're all from 20 years ago, unfortunately.

>>3952
So any artist could call there's part of the "pleasure set" and it doesn't really mean anything, or you don't know.

>>3956
Those 4-komas are from 2007 promoting SRW W, so it looks like he was active well into the 2000s at least.
https://voltron.fandom.com/wiki/Super_Robot_Wars_W_4koma_KINGS

I like when you have characters in Chinese looking outfits. It looks like a cerimonial thing and she has some paper talismans with her. If anyone knows more about this outfit let me know. That reminds me, what VIP is really missing is a Jiangshi girl. I haven't seen all the cards yet, so maybe there's one out there.
Same artist as >>3937.

>>3957
I don't understand what you mean.
>>3958
Definitely a nice find! I'll eventually incorporate all the info we dig itt into some online gallery or something, maybe a wiki, I don't know yet. We'll see.

This character seems stuck between a rejected draft for Saint Seya and a generic magical girl villain but with happier colors. It looks rather unique. Artist is a Megaman fan apparently.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/iwamoto_yoshi
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B2%A9%E6%9C%AC%E4%BD%B3%E6%B5%A9

The elusive Shinzui again >>3882, >>3945.

The decision of making backgrounds in brighter colors than the characters themselves might have been an error.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/SucharaOhtuki
http://suchara.sakura.ne.jp/
https://www.pixiv.net/users/443173

This is another one of those cases where if I were a hot supporter, this artist would probably be one of my favorites. This nurse reminded me of a random scene from the manga Blame! when Cibo uses a huge container to carry a child they believe to have untainted human DNA so they can access the network... or whatever it was they were trying to do, I forget. I really like this artwork.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/akiyoshi_anorak (For some reason I was already following this artist on twitter but I don't remember how or why I found him in the first place. Probably after seeing some illustration by him in a booru somewhere.)
http://anorakpost.net/
https://www.pixiv.net/users/304907

'Hello officer, I just shot some pervert creep 8 times in the face, he was staring at my legs. Also I shot his cat just to make sure.' Couldn't find much on this artist att. More research required.

Artist info
https://imhentai.xxx/artist/kotoe-murasaki/ (probably him)
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,636054/ (it might be him, not sure)

>>3959
>I don't understand what you mean.
I don't know how collectable cards work or what a "set" is.

Nowadays this artist has that 'glowing figure' type of drawing, I'm not sure how to call it but it became a very common thing now that many artist are going digital. Everything is very shiny and hairs look almost like metal. This is her pre-glowing period, probably before she went digital. Also I was waiting someone to bring this up but if anyone is reading the info on the cards you might have noticed some of them say Venus Idol Project instead Venus in Paradise. At some point around 2002, they changed from 'in Paradise' to 'Idol Project'.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/yasuyuki_syuri
https://www.pixiv.net/users/111010

>>3965
I get it now, sorry about that anon. VIP is a collectable cards brand and under this brand several different collections or sets were released over the years. VIP Summer, VIP Winter, VIP Private, VIP Fantasy and so on. Each set has more or less a direction or motif for the illustrations, though sometimes it's hard to understand what those directions might have been. This thread has a lot of cards from the same sets, you can go through them and try to see a conection for yourself, your guess is as good as mine.

Post edited on 30th Jul 2022, 6:17pm

I'm sorry about this quality, there will be lots of cards like this. I'm always trying to find better copies than the ones I currently have. I really like this type of hair that goes way out of the immediate head area and goes its own way like this, it gives me the impression of a supernatural energy animating the character.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/nakamura_takesh
https://www.pixiv.net/users/1835729

Post edited on 30th Jul 2022, 6:33pm

There is a VIP set dedicated to the characters of To Heart games. This one was apparently big enough to get some figures as well. Here's a video of a person opening one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHu6oyu75Wk and uploaded you can see the card made for the same character (char in question is 小牧愛佳 -> https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%B0%8F%E7%89%A7%E6%84%9B%E4%BD%B3)

Artist info
https://twitter.com/amaduyu (lots of art here, really worth to check it out!)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%94%98%E9%9C%B2%E6%A8%B9

Post edited on 30th Jul 2022, 7:19pm

Here's a poster with the new name for VIP. Venus Idol Project. Seems obvious they wanted to keep the acronym VIP. Funny I never actually looked up what VIP originally means until this very day. It stands for 'very important person'.

Artist info
>>3864
She also did another poster for VIP as well >>3865.

There are other franchises VIP was involved with besides To Heart. There's also a couple of sets for Galaxy Angel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Angel). Here's a card from VIP Tribute: Galaxy Angel Edition, depicting Ranpha Franboise (https://galaxyangel.fandom.com/wiki/Ranpha_Franboise), the most Japanesy understanding of how a French name sounds like I've ever seen.

I quite enjoy this artwork. I like the style and characters being lighthearted and/or happy is a lot more enjoyable to look at than when they trying to be sexy, serious or commanding. I'm just not sure what's so awesome about a tabasco bottle, maybe it's her favorite condiment? She obviously like the color red anyway.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/minamoto_
https://www.pixiv.net/users/236286https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%90%E4%B9%85%E4%B9%9F
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%BA%90%E4%B9%85%E4%B9%9F

Post edited on 31st Jul 2022, 5:47am

I don't know why but I always find a little bit grating when nipples can spear through layers of clothing like this like they're made out of plastic. A lot of people must enjoy that because it's very common. Here's another signed card. Unlike >>3837 who went through the trouble of avoiding writing over the character, Mr. Amano didn't seem to care. As one might expect, signed cards tend to be more expensive, though I wish they would sign the back and let the artwork untouched on the front. Guess I'm a purist when it comes to those things.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/yokiamano
https://www.pixiv.net/users/2373645
http://amanoyoki.web.fc2.com/

Interesting to notice how far this artist went to make the metallic parts on this character's clothing to actually look like metal. It's even a little bit distracting, for my eyes at least.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/yano_t
https://www.pixiv.net/users/64306

Not much has surfaced about this artist since I last tried to find her >>3907. Running her name on the Japanese wikipedia I found she did some work for the Weiß kreuz franchise. https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AD%E3%82%A4%E3%83%84
Really solid artwork, I wonder what she's doing these days.

Here's one of those I love the artwork and wish I could find a better quality digital copy of it. This artist almost exclusively draws the 'superhot girl' type these days.
The character here is from Comic Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Party). More specifically https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%A4%A7%E5%BA%AD%E8%A9%A0%E7%BE%8E https://myanimelist.net/character/17257/Eimi_Ooba

Artist info
https://twitter.com/nekoshaa
https://www.pixiv.net/users/9777680

This art strikes me as very reminiscent of Azuma's style. You can check his thread on >>/ma/3785. The legs in particular. Character: https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%A1%9A%E6%9C%AC%E5%8D%83%E7%B4%97

Artist info
https://twitter.com/kanamoru
https://www.pixiv.net/users/80890
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanao_Araki (the English entry has very little info but at least it's there)

There's an energy here that I quite like it. I also like plain looking characters with hair of regular colors and not too crazy. Also, I think this strikes home with me because she reminds me of old illustrations for Fio, the Metal Slug character. The artist behind the artwork is also an interesting case. Ms. Furudori began working professionally with illustration and manga quite young, in 2001. Did a few things and suddenly gave up on art around 2008 and vanished from the scene since. Who knows what she's up to these days.
Character on the card: https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E7%8C%AA%E5%90%8D%E5%B7%9D%E7%94%B1%E5%AE%87

To go on a tangent, if you like Japanese prints, you probably remember the same happened to a very famous artist, Sharaku. During a single year, he produced several of the most recognizable, interesting ukiyo-e prints out there and then completely vanished. Nobody knows what happened to him.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%B5%E3%82%8B%E9%B3%A5%E5%BC%A5%E7%94%9F

I have a request for anyone reading this. My eyesight is crap and I need new glasses I guess. I've tried but I simply cannot read the link on the back of the card. If I zoom in it's just a mess and if I zoom out it's too small for me to make out anything. If you can read it please let me know, maybe we can get something from archive.org out of it. Thank you!

Post edited on 31st Jul 2022, 8:36am

>>3978
>If you can read it please let me know
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~furudori/

>>3978
***
Notification[1]
(2008/8/21)
Since working on the first tankobon[2], my physical and mental conditions has been getting worse. For a while I was unable to draw any manga or illustrations. My lack of self-management caused a lot of trouble for Arikawa-sensei[3], publishers and others, and it made a lot of people uncomfortable. I'm trully sorry. I apologize. Recently, little by little, I reached a point I can draw again, so I'm resuming production[4].

On the magazine released this month (October issue of Dengeki Daioh) as well as last month release, the work got suspended. I hope it will be possible to continue the publication on the next month's issue. I'll do my best to catch up with the delay. I'll be very happy if you could read our work again.

Also, I'm sorry for suddenly erasing the website. There were lots of awful comments and emails in there, so it was decided to shut the page down until things settle down[5]. For those who sent us their thoughts and comments, I'm really sorry. I've kept the comments I received before. Thank you for your work.

Yayoi Furudori
***

[1]Original Notification page: https://web.archive.org/web/20081020104453/http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~furudori/
[2]She's referring to the first volume of 図書館戦争 SPITFIRE! released in 27th of June, 2008. This work is a manga adaptation of Library War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_War). Ms. Furudori was doing the artwork while dialogue and plot was by Ms. Arikawa herself.
[3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiro_Arikawa
[4]A second volume was never released.
[5]The website went offline around 2009 without ever being back up. The notification page for the message above was the last thing she ever published on the site. As for the original website, lots of it is available on archive.org. You can even find her earlier illustrations: https://web.archive.org/web/20050206065019/http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~furudori/illust.htm The illustration uploaded with this post can be found in there as well.

Running her name on a search engine doesn't do much. Some people on Twitter commenting about her old work but that's more or less the end of it for her mangaka career as far I know att. I wouldn't be surprised if she's still working with illustration for an advertising company or something like that. I'll continue to do research on this.

And of course, thanks to >>3979 for his help and 20/20 vision.

Post edited on 1st Aug 2022, 6:26am

The gentle, rounded lines and snug summery colors this artist uses to create his images are incredibly soothing to me. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. The character is 猪名川由宇 (Inagawa Yuu) from Comic Party again. Second time she appears itt, you can check another version of her just above; >>3978.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/_matsuda98_
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATSUDA98
http://mat98.littlestar.jp/ (didn't need the help of 20/20 vision anon this time, it's linked on the wiki.)
https://www.pixiv.net/users/479080
https://www.youtube.com/c/MATSUDA98Tube/videos <- Watch him draw live!

Someone explain to me the events that took place for the wizard's apprentice here to end up on black magic class without her pants. Was there some swimming P.E class just before it or this scene is actually taking place on P.E class and there's magic involved?

Artist info
https://twitter.com/minaduki_t
http://bungle.cocolog-nifty.com/work/
http://bungle.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/ (dead blog but lots of art in there.)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E7%84%A1%E6%9C%88%E5%BE%B9

Post edited on 1st Aug 2022, 7:45am

I wonder if the characters on >>3972 and the one on this upload are sisters. Not even the same artist.

Artist info
https://web.archive.org/web/20071101093218/http://metamorphose.w3.to/
https://www.pixiv.net/users/512727 (he toned-down the bimbo-level of his figures a lot since this card.)
https://twitter.com/guy_n

Post edited on 1st Aug 2022, 6:28pm

I wish I could see this same illustration but without the boots.

Artist info
https://www.pixiv.net/users/2801107
https://pawoo.net/@konnsuke

I could not identify the artist behind the artist att.

This artist was very prolific within VIP.
>>3913, >>3817, >>3825. Notice the band-aid again.

I didn't care for >>3973 but this character here I quite like. Same artist as >>3973.

Here's an interesting case. This artist shifted her interest from illustrations to BJD and specially doll's clothing. I can see the connection.

Artist info
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/mri/omoiataru/
https://twitter.com/kaerihana
http://mdcbiog.seesaa.net/

She uses those Parabox dolls for posing sometimes and they don't look so good, but the clothing is pretty nice.

The proportions here are really unique. This single card is all you need to immediately recognize any other illustration by this artist. It's rather odd but it has a charm to it. The more I observe the less the head looks attached to the body. I found a bunch of these cards and they're all entitled Swimsuit cards but I'm not sure if this is a set or not, I would need to check the back of one to make sure.

I couldn't find any recent info on this artist att.

Artist info
http://www7b.biglobe.ne.jp/~helloworld/top/top.html
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%80%E3%81%A3%E3%81%A1%E3%82%8A%E3%82%80%E3%81%86%E3%81%AB%E3%81%84

Can you guess the artist?
>>3989

Post edited on 2nd Aug 2022, 5:39am

And here's another Galaxy Angel card. As soon as I looked at this one my brain screamed 'Tenchi Muyo!'. I guess her hair reminded me of Washu. It's been at least 20 years I watched that show, more like 25 at this point. This character has one of those eager-to-smile faces I can't quite explain why it feels that way for me. Maybe it's the impression I get when the mouth is drawn very close to the eyes.

Same artist as >>3990, >>3989.

And speaking of Galaxy Angel, here's the official card binder for it. Card collectors must have tons of these laying around. I was never much of a collector myself. My money usually went to video games, but it's not like I was collecting them. Having a bunch of cartridges and CDs was a by-product.

God, I love every single one of these.

>>3985
I could be totally wrong, but my best guesses are either Takumi Yano or Matsuda98.

Today the cards I have are a little better than thumbnails but they're still good enough to appreciate the artwork. Let's begin with this one, it's is a little confusing. Is she holding a pillow? Her pants have frills or is that a skirt?

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B2%B3%E5%8E%9F%E6%81%B5
https://twitter.com/kawahara_ja (dead twitter)
https://www.pixiv.net/users/4039 (Still very active here though, favorite subject: girls with monstrous breasts.)

>>3994
I'm glad you're enjoying it.
>>3995
That's a good guess, if I ever come across the back of that card we'll know for sure.

The artist who is the reason for this thread existing makes a come back. >>3845. Not only that but yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Cleopatra's Fortune, the game that is also the catalist for this thread. >>/ot/40084. Should've posted this one yesterday, what a pity. Here's an illustration of Cleopatra by Mr. Tomonogu to celebrate: https://twitter.com/kagap_t/status/1554432172458536963/photo/1

Artist info
>>3845

Also, at least to me, this is the BGM for this entire thread. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49MH6AeFA2k. That's the tune I listen to while looking for twitter accounts and edit the images uploaded itt. This is what I was listening to when I first saw a VIP card, so in my brain they'll be forever related.

Post edited on 3rd Aug 2022, 4:57am

This artist was very much involved in BL back in the day. I could not find any recent info on her att.

Artist info
Katanagi Yuna (たかなぎ 優名)
https://web.archive.org/web/20070114100528/http://www.takanagi.info/cypress/index2.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20070415000000*/http://cypress.obi.ne.jp/

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%97%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%AF%E3%83%88:%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E3%81%AE%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E

5%AE%B6_%E3%81%9F%E8%A1%8C#%E3%81%9F%E3%81%8B%E3%81%AA%E3%81%8E%E5%84%AA%E5%90%8D (copy and paste this whole wiki link, otherwise it won't work)

https://www.amazon.co.jp/%25E3%2581%259F%25E3%2581%258B%25E3%2581%25AA%25E3%2581%258E-%25E5%2584%25AA%25E5%2590%258D/e/B004LSUHZ0%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Post edited on 3rd Aug 2022, 5:15am

The figures made by this artist have that serious tone about them, very imposing and full of dignity, even when the clothing is rather silly like in this case.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/tobashi_rj
https://www.pixiv.net/users/50964687
https://www.youtube.com/c/tobashi/featured

This character feels like she could be in a Bakemonogatari episode somewhere.

Artist info
>>3972

No 2Dbijinga collection would be complete without a student in uniform, so here's one.

Artist info
>>3925

And one more maid just to make sure. This card is illustrated by the same artist featured in >>3816.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/hiurar (dead twt)
https://www.pixiv.net/users/5772729 (last illustration is from 2 years ago)

And for the last 3 cards of today I'll be posting my favorites of the bunch. Here's a very endearing figure. Not sure if she has powers or not. Maybe it's one of those cases where she does have powers but they only manifest if you mess with her.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/SmakiS
https://www.pixiv.net/users/3767

Flowery outfit, what else you need? Looks a little bit like a reject for a Pokemon Gym Leader but it's OK, she finds Pokemon games too boring. I could not find any recent info on this artist. More research required.

Artist info
http://nary.sblo.jp/
https://mangaseek.net/person/5118.html
https://profile.ameba.jp/ameba/mitsukiya3298/
https://www.amazon.co.jp/s?k=%E4%B8%8B%E5%8C%97%E6%BE%A4%E9%88%B4%E6%88%90&crid=1NIL9X7T6A2R0&sprefix=%E6%BC%AB%E7%94%BB%E5%AE%B6%2Caps%2C288&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

Here's the 3 favorite foods of this character:
Tutti frutti bubble gum, tutti frutti ice-cream and tutti frutti tutti frutti. She wears rubber boots even when it's not raining because it sounds funny when she walks.
Could not find any recent information on this artist att. More researched required.

Artist info
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8F%BE%E6%B4%A5%E3%81%BF%E3%81%8B%E3%81%BF
https://mangaseek.net/person/22086.html
http://red.ap.teacup.com/akitsu/ (inactive, but you can use the archive, there's lots of art here.)

This is one of the cards that appears on the VIP CD-ROM case. I'm not sure if it came with the CD or what.

Artist info
>>3912

And this is another one that also appears on the case of the CD. This artist produced a good number of cards for VIP.

Artist info and other work itt
>>3837
>>3893
>>3904

And here's the third one.

Artist info and other work itt
>>3925
>>4001

There were lots of promo cards like this. This is the one for 99 Summer. I have one of the cards featured in it, and another one >>3917 is already uploaded to this thread.

'Add the number of Venus de VIP cards on the field to the Power value.
After the event is settled, hide it at the bottom of the file.'

So there was an actual card game in there somewhere within VIP sets. Reading the rule for this card it seems it's some sort of MTG clone. This is the only gaming card I've found so far, it would be great if I could find others.

Artist info and other artwork itt.
>>3837
>>3893
>>3904
>>4007

Post edited on 4th Aug 2022, 5:26am

Here's one artist that didn't change his or her style very much for the past 20 years. I think this illustrator might be from Taiwan.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/shinia
https://www.pixiv.net/users/44778
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfK-WiWdrAa-jpRm3BkrgCg

Post edited on 4th Aug 2022, 5:25am

The quality for this one is particularly bad, I increased the contrast a little bit more than usual so it's easier to see. This character loves a good snack, she's surrounded by all types of it.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/tntr_art
https://www.pixiv.net/users/41067265
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGYLRhFVVh2_q9OWZSFwmNw/videos

Speaking of card games, there's this one, too, you get 2 points... Actually I'm not at all sure what this is. 2 points of what? The character is apparently the same as >>4008. Is it the back of that card? We may never know. Probably the same artist as >>4008 but I can't be sure att.

Here's something different. 9 cards at once. I did my best to improve the picture. It's nice to have cards side by side like this. First two from left to right, top to bottom, are by the same artist. I like those more out of proportion characters, usually they'll look happier and express a more heartening outlook. For me that is. From the first two I prefer the first one. Yellow clothing is hard to make it work because it's closer in tone to the skin so it doesn't look more striking. Nice artwork on both regardless.

Then the one from Bobu, by far my favorite of this bunch. She's obviously a miko, judging by the clothing and the fact she's sitting on a rock fastened by a shimenawa. I quite enjoy it when an aspect of Shinto makes an appearance on illustrations but what I like here the most is the style, though this is probably the most of distortive proportions I'm willing to take (see >>3939) but the artist made it work. I like the pose as well.

Next one, the blond girl with the wings looks like an amalgamation of several European fairy tales into a single character. Hair from Goldilocks, cloak from Red Riding Hood, apple from Snow White and the wings... there gotta be a fairy tale involving an winged girl somewhere. Next to her is some girl that crawled out of a Christmas decoration shop, she must be made of velcro or something because objects haphazardly got attached to her. I don't like the chaos here tbh.

Next one looks inspired by an Hindu deity or one of those Bharatanatyam dancers. I like the mudras she's doing. If I had to guess she's the 2D cute form of Durga (honestly though I say that only because it's the only Hindy female deity I remember the name of without having to look anything up.)

First of the last line is Santa's helper and she's trying very hard to look sweet. She probably went to the decoration store with the other girl but she has an actual fashion sense, unlike her buddy up there. Next to her a Christian angel, or at least she things crosses are cool, it happens. I like the ahoge interfering with the halo, nice touch there.

Finally we have the second card by Takepon. This time is an 'evil' girl with bat wings and a black cat but a fully black cat wouldn't look nice on the picture so purple it is. I like this one, it's cute, the hair might be too shiny for the overall composition though, but I don't mind.


Artists info

すぎやま現象
Sugiyama Gensho
https://gensho999.wixsite.com/mysite
http://adagio.s113.xrea.com/ (lots of art here)
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%99%E3%81%8E%E3%82%84%E3%81%BE%E7%8F%BE%E8%B1%A1 (talks about his recent work as well)
***
暴武 R (Boubu R)
BoBu (on the card)
https://hentaiera.com/artist/bob-r/ (lots of hentai artwork here)
https://twitter.com/search?q=%20%E6%9A%B4%E6%AD%A6%EF%BC%B2&src=typed_query&f=top <- Apparently he had a twitter https://twitter.com/hammer_108 but it got suspended many years ago.
***
たけぽん
Takepon
https://twitter.com/takepopon
http://www8.plala.or.jp/nekonekohouse/himetono/
https://www.pixiv.net/users/26253
https://seiga.nicovideo.jp/user/illust/208570
***
いけだかなめ
Ikeda Kaname (notice it's spelled Haname on the card for some reason)
https://twitter.com/ikedakaname
http://clockup.net/ (Either it's his company or he works for it att. It's a studio making adult games)
***
花屋敷 ぼたん
Hanayashiki Botan
https://web.archive.org/web/20091019152301/http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Denei/9297/
https://mangaseek.net/work/78284.html (This artist works under other names as well)
Couldn't find any recent info on this artist.
***
たわばあべし
Tawaba Abeshi
https://aquaplus.jp/cp/iframe/cpc_da.html (Some work he did for Aquaplus)
https://otakurepublic.com/product/tag_page.html?tags=351673&ref=product_page&type=desc_link_author (Old stuff on sale)
Couldn't find any recent info on this artist.
***
是空とおる (To-ru Zekuu on the card)
Zekuu Tooru
>>3925
>>4001
>>4008

Here's another group of cards, all from the 2000 Winter set. We're about 160 cards deep at this point and some of these artists are now familiar. Here's a red cross nurse by Mr. Sugiyama. She's holding a holy bomb to kill infidels, or maybe it's a healing bomb, she looks like a healer PC. I don't know why but she looks rather upset. Then again, Christian art is all about depicting the suffering of martyrdom, so it fits. Next is Ms. Akayama's middle school student. This illustration feels very chaotic to me, like there's a strange wind blowing from all sides at once. The clothing feels like it's being pulled in all directions and it looks uncomfortable. She has an interesting gaze, I can't tell if she's looking at someone familiar or at a stranger.

Next we have a very NES-like character by BoBu. I like the emphasis on the bottom part of her body. Feels like a Mega Man character in a way. Now, I've looked at this card for a solid 10 minutes and still can't really define what that object is on her back. Probably a backpack or purse but I can't be sure. Eitherway, I like this artwork. I can't decide what my favorite is from this image, I'm between BoBu's and the next one, by Ms. Ikeda. I didn't like her last char to appear itt (>>4014) but I like this one a lot. Getting her a tan to give a better contrast to the clothing is a detail that really improves the whole design imo. It feels very 90s this one and I quite liked the idea of carefully covering her legs, feet and arms but letting her torso virtually naked. Not usually how clothing works and it makes it interesting. This is the second time itt we have an ahoge interfering with an angelic halo.

Next is another middle school student, this time by Jinnokyou. I enjoy straight forward figures like this. Clear, warming gaze, clear, chilling ice cream, not so clear pets though. Some sort of rodent that clearly doesn't care about ice cream. Next is Mr. Jiro's bubble gum hair girl. She has that type of commanding pose mixed in with the need of showing her cute, 90's style butt. Definitely the type that is easily misled by a villain, like Knuckles.

Last but not least we have another one by Ms. Yoki. This is the most contemporary style of this bunch and the one that looks the least dated att. More realistic proportions and a more modern way of drawin hair. I like how the lines define so much of her body and clothing and the economical use of colors (not something common on the style you usually see in 2022 though). All in all this was a really nice bunch.

Artist info

すぎやま現象
Sugiyama Gensho
>>4014

あかやまゆきへ
Akayama Yukihe
https://web.archive.org/web/19990401000000*/http://www.tk.xaxon.ne.jp/~ya0824
http://www.ya0824.iplus.to/ (her new site but the only thing there is a picture.)
https://www.mobygames.com/game/playstation/nijiiro-dodgeball-otome-tachi-no-seishun/credits (some game credits for a PS1 game.)
If you run her name on a search engine some of her old doujins come up for sale. Could not find any recent information on this artist att.

暴武 R (Boubu R)
BoBu (on the card)
>>4014

いけだかなめ
Ikeda Kaname (notice it's spelled Haname on the card for some reason)
>>4014

仁之丞
Jinnojyou
仁之丞 is just a pen name, real name is 渡真仁 (わたり まさひと). I think he used the 仁之丞 pen name for pornographic content in the past.
https://twitter.com/watarimasahito
https://www.pixiv.net/users/333829
https://vndb.org/s4489 (gaming credit as 仁之丞)
https://web.archive.org/web/20060216013809/http://www.purple.dti.ne.jp/watari_m/
https://web.archive.org/web/20030601000000*/tiki.ne.jp/~jinnojyou

佐治ジロー
Saji Jiro (also uses the name はりけんはんな)
https://twitter.com/jirosaji (very active until about a year ago)
https://comic.k-manga.jp/search/word/%E4%BD%90%E6%B2%BB%E3%82%B8%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC (you can read some of his stuff for free here)
https://web.archive.org/web/20000930103608/http://www.big.or.jp/~hannaya/ <- two of his illustrations on the gallery are up on the archives: https://web.archive.org/web/20001030132303/http://www.big.or.jp/~hannaya/image/maki03c.jpg and https://web.archive.org/web/20001102083745/http://www.big.or.jp/~hannaya/image/sougo.jpg

あまの・よ～き
Amano Yo~ki
>>3972

Post edited on 6th Aug 2022, 8:07am

Here's four cards for the day. Two of them I've posted itt before (>>3818 and >>3964). It's nice to have more than one picture of the same card, though the quality of this image is not very good. The other two are new.

The second card is by >>3943, the elusive Uozumi Akihiro. I made a mistake last time I posted a card by this artist. His name is not 魚住明宏. It's 魚住明広. Two separate auctioners wrote his name incorrectly on the card description and I copied their mistake by accident. I finally realized the typo while going through the list of artists for the 99 Winter set for a completely different reason (https://web.archive.org/web/20010629073421fw_/http://www.ufo.co.jp/FB/maker/vip99w/intro.html#winter). Anyway, it didn't help much to know his correct name, though I did find a doujin https://otakurepublic.com/product/product_page_1031697.html?ref=tag_page&type=tagpage_product and an angelfire website. I'm sure the old-timers among you are having some memory flashbacks about this host's name. https://www.angelfire.com/comics/stakaya/kg213.html
The card itself is a very safe sort of illustration and perhaps it lacks a little enthusiasm. I have a better copy of this artwork, I'll post next.

Second card is by 片山ユキオ (Katayama Yukio). It was a surprise finding him on VIP. I've been following his ふろがーる series since it came out a couple of years ago, way before I knew about this card collection existence. I feel like we share some of the same tastes for plainness.

Artist info

魚住明広
Other than the website I linked and the doujin for sale I could not find more info on this artist att.

片山ユキオ (the author now uses the ユキヲ spelling)
https://twitter.com/inugawan
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%89%87%E5%B1%B1%E3%83%A6%E3%82%AD%E3%83%B2

Post edited on 7th Aug 2022, 6:59am

>>4017
Another card but same illustration. Yeah this is a lot better and we get to see her sweet, unpreoccupied gaze. There's a charm to this figure it doesn't show up on the previous copy I posted.

Post edited on 7th Aug 2022, 7:12am

This artist went on to make quite a name for himself in the game industry. If you like JRPGs chances are you've come across his artwork before. I'm still looking for a better copy of his VIP Winter card but this will do for now.

Artist info
https://twitter.com/HARATAKE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takehito_Harada

>>4019
It's a shame his style became more anorexic after Disgaea 1

Here's a party of 3. The first two cards have a heavy bearing that is saddening to look at. The clothing also make them appear to be going through some sort of mourning. I prefer happy figures as I said before itt many times so those are not the sort of cards I would like to have inside my random pack. The third one is happier but due to the influence of the other two I can't shake the feeling she's feeling some discomfort herself.

Artist info

思い当たる (first card from left to right)
>>3988

コゲどんぼ (middle card)
https://twitter.com/koge_dobo
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7JOoKc6wnExSmJ54ZlMEMA
https://www.pixiv.net/users/106417
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koge-Donbo (En version has very little info, try the Jp one.)

水上広樹 (third card from left to right)
>>3912
>>4006

>>4020
I never followed Disgaea games closely, is he involved on the sprite work for the games too or is it the promo and box artwork that went anorexic? The Prinnies at least still look rather plump and healthy, at least that's what it looks like from a quick image search.

Post edited on 9th Aug 2022, 5:05am

>>4021
>is he involved on the sprite work
I don't know. His art shows up inside the actual games though since there's a story line and plenty of dialogue.
>The Prinnies
I did not mean the prinnies.

Kiran's characters are a little bit shaped like the Smurfs now that I think about it. I really enjoy the second card here from left to right. If you're going to make a serious looking character, this pensive mode is probably the best way to go about it. Next is some tattered looking girl. She looks like she needs 4 or 5 days of uninterrupted sleep.

I've posted the nurse before (>>3963). Interesting to see her here again with more Winter Private cards. Last but not least, and in fact this is my favorite both in style and posing, we have this card by Mr. Suzuki. It's interesting for this figure to be included in a Winter set when she's wearing a yukata with strong summery motif, and also her pose really strikes me as someone having fun in a warm season.

Artist Info
From left to right:

Kiran
>>3931

なかの弥生
https://twitter.com/nakanoyayoi1 (inactive)
http://narchives.web.fc2.com/ (this site lists all her work)

山本京
https://twitter.com/kyou_yam
https://www.pixiv.net/users/57145

あきよしよしあき
>>3963

鈴木典孝
Seems like this artist worked on every field within the Japanese entertainment industry at this point. Manga, games, anime, he did it all.
https://web.archive.org/web/20181101022351/http://www.geocities.jp/suzukitenko/
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/people.php?id=20563
https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,491919/

>>4022
I know you meant the human figures anon, it was just a bad joke. I don't know if he did the sprites either but if you look his twitter up, he does lots of pixel art as well.

Post edited on 10th Aug 2022, 7:24am

It's funny, I mentioned something about hairs like the ones in the first card (>>3967) but this one goes above and beyond, it almost doesn't feel like hair at all. Perhaps that was the point. This is a very safe illustration, both the clothing and the posing, and makes it feel a little inhibited. The second card is signed by a group rather than a single artist. This one also feels very by the numbers (not a bad thing necessarily) but it has a stronger summer feel than the first one and the pose is also a lot more relaxed. Perhaps the first one feels a little tense to me because she has to focus on that can she's about to catch.

Third one if my favorite of this upload. I like the traditional burial clothing both in ghosts and people pretending to be ghosts, which seems to be the case here, I even bought a Figma a while back because of it and my only complaint about that figure (yurei-zu #SP-107) is she didn't come with a tenkan (天冠) the triangular headwear you can clearly see in this card. Such a shame. I'm assuming she's the designed ghost in a test of courage. It is summer after all.

Artist Info

Mokemoke
>>3927
>>3928

UNITE SOUJI
https://www.pixiv.net/users/8477130
http://yuni.michikusa.jp/index.html
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A6%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%88%E5%8F%8C%E5%85%90

Thekutheku
https://twitter.com/technonch
https://www.pixiv.net/users/1858104

One more by Mr. Kagawa (first left to right). I feel like his style reaches its full potential and it works best on characters where the face and head occupies a more prominent place in the overall composition. His more proportionate characters maybe don't have the grace that his more chibi characters do. Regardless, I like this one, specially the hair which I reminds me of Yae from the Goemon games. Next one is a very safe summery card. I find it curious she's wearing shoes in there and fairly office-like shoes at that. Casual friday?

Third card for the day is by Mr. Suzuki. I really like his lighthearted figures. They seem like they don't have a care in the world. These cards are badly photographed and behind a plastic holder at that, I'm trying my best on ps. I hope I'll eventually find better copies, but these will do for now.

Artist info

Tomonobu Kagawa
>>3845
>>3997

Yasutomo Miyagi
https://twitter.com/miyagi_phc (inactive)
https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/879930 (He deleted all his content for some reason)

Suzuki Noritaka (鈴木典孝)
>>4023

Artist info

Takumi Yano
>>3973
>>3987

Ryusuke Mita
https://twitter.com/ryusukemita
https://kaizoupurin.wixsite.com/website/ (some manga narration can be found here)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ry%C5%ABsuke_Mita

Suzumari Shimokitazawa
>>3946
https://twitter.com/bsw_mitsui
https://www.pixiv.net/users/2392990

I feel like the first card would work better with a background. Her hair is so strongly braided it defies gravity. She seems to be wiping sweat out of her brow but I see no sweat anywhere. Second card is the artist behind Umihara Kawase again. To go on a tangent here, Kawase is one of those female characters that kept getting bigger boobs as more games got released. She's back to more regular size recently. Last we have a peasant girl back from picking flowers on the field. Funny, the student seems a little out of place here, surrounded by rural people. Notice how radically different the styles are from the last card in this post and >>3906. This happens a lot, specially among artists who are strictly illustrators, often you see artists trying very different approaches to their figures and it's also common to see they abandoning a style completely in favor of something else.

Artist info

Rururu Kondoh
https://twitter.com/kondourururu
http://k-rururu.com/
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%BF%91%E8%97%A4%E3%82%8B%E3%82%8B%E3%82%8B

Toshinobu Kondo
>>3863
>>3838

Naoko Kanazawa
>>3906

Post edited on 14th Aug 2022, 6:18am

Artist info
介錯 (Kaishaku)
>>3870
>>3905

竹本泉 (Takemoto Izumi)
https://web.archive.org/web/20081223004146/http://www.himawarihouse.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izumi_Takemoto

Artist info

Yumeji Kiriko
https://twitter.com/yumejikiriko
https://www.pixiv.net/users/27457

Yasuyuki Syuri
>>3966

Fujimoto Sei
>>3947

Just want to say that you're doing a great job. I appreciate it very much. Keep it going.

It's been a while since the last reply in this thread but I'm replying to say that I'm trying to buy a bunch of V.I.P cards online and if i get any that aren't in this thread I'll post them with information.