User blog:Morgane of the Mists/USN Fleet Collection

After thousands of IJN-related doujins, the US Navy gets a doujin work, at last!

This is not my work. I am simply serving as an imprompt fan "translator," so to speak.

I bet you guys have seen the pictures of USS Iowa and Enterprise floating around, right? Well, turns out that these characters are created by a talented pair of Chinese artists, November☆ and Aura 遗迹. I am personally a huge, huge fan of these guys. The degree of professionalism found here is stunning, and I would say that it is easily official-quality material. The reason why I'm personally jumping in now is because they have something amazing in the works - a 54 page colored character book detailing all the USN ship girls that they've painstakingly created over the past months. I've attached preview pages below, and the book is scheduled to come out sometimes before the end of the year. The actual book itself is less than 8$.

One of the reasons why I worked up the courage to contact them in the first place is because good secondary creations - no matter what the nationality, language, or other intangibles - deserve to be seen and recognized by fellow fans like us. Based on my conversation with them, November and Aura have said that as soon as they recoup the cost of creation, they would like to make this book available to the public (likely via e-pub or something electronic).

I, of course, will be more than glad to translate. I think it's a magnanimous gesture on their part, especially considering how hard it is for doujin artists to eat these days. xD The question now is: What do you guys think? Do you want to see more stuff like this from them in the future? Does this look like something you'd be interested in supporting in the future?

Leave comments here, and I'll translate/deliver the message to them. November can be reached at his pixiv account here, and Aura has recently made a forum account on Himeuta under the handle zeroblaze44. (Other methods of contact pending).