Mare Holic 4 Just announced.
http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=56628576

Supposedly it will be available on 5/3 locally and will be online a bit later.

In other news, I found a Profile for Nezumi and it clearly states that Nezumi is a female. Just thought that be nice to share. :P
http://www.stickam.jp/profile/nezunezu

cool, shame it'll be a couple years till it can be seen on e621 but i can keep an eye out for it elsewhere. :)

Qmannn said:
I like these, but I'm kinda sad that they don't do books like these for female feral canines and felines.

As for Nezumi's sex, I thought that was confirmed a long time ago. Was it only strongly implied before?

I lot of people were saying it but nobody had a source.

So a few of the artist have posted previews on their Pixivs, here are a list of them.

叙火
スガイ
はちこう
なべ
ぞこいら
千本
渡会ミナト
小石ちかさ
ﾕｶﾗﾝﾉｽｹ例大祭す08ab
みどるあ～す

doujinshi.org has been updated with information though it isn't yet complete. In the previews it reveals that Nezumi has brought back the Bicorn character from "Muma-san 2" and there is a list of artists, though in Japanese.

Qmannn said:
I like these, but I'm kinda sad that they don't do books like these for female feral canines and felines.

As for Nezumi's sex, I thought that was confirmed a long time ago. Was it only strongly implied before?

I also found out that they did do a "Cat Holic" last year but it doesn't look like it was released online.

Qmannn said:
I found the doujinshi.org page for cat holic. I bet it would be a pain to search for. It's a shame, because I really like the way both female and male cats from Mayoineko are drawn.

maybe because it's almost identical to the word catholic. you type cat holic or cat_holic into google and just about the ONLY results you'll likely get are results with the word catholic, not the 2 separate words, cat holic.

-_- in an age of search engines prone to giving irrelevant results, that's not the best title choice. i've had this happen when looking for games to try out sometimes as well. it's no less annoying in either case.

heres one of the results i got. oi, bible thumper, i got a very good question for you: what isn't a sin? impossible, flawless, perfection?

edit: ah, adding mayoineko to the search changed things somewhat. mayoineko cat holic first 2 results are on ebay and terapeak.com

treos said:
maybe because it's almost identical to the word catholic. you type cat holic or cat_holic into google and just about the ONLY results you'll likely get are results with the word catholic, not the 2 separate words, cat holic.

-_- in an age of search engines prone to giving irrelevant results, that's not the best title choice. i've had this happen when looking for games to try out sometimes as well. it's no less annoying in either case.

heres one of the results i got. oi, bible thumper, i got a very good question for you: what isn't a sin? impossible, flawless, perfection?

edit: ah, adding mayoineko to the search changed things somewhat. mayoineko cat holic first 2 results are on ebay and terapeak.com

Powersearching is your friend.

Try Cat Holic -Catholic, or even "Cat Holic" -Catholic.

Clawdragons said:
Powersearching is your friend.

Try Cat Holic -Catholic, or even "Cat Holic" -Catholic.

huh, all this time and i didn't know you could filter search results on google like that.

treos said:
huh, all this time and i didn't know you could filter search results on google like that.

Search engines have a variety of fancy tricks now. The exact phrase ("") and negation (-) are the most useful general ones, though the thing I use the most frequently is bang searching (duckduckgo only, I think?).

Anyhoo! Glad I was of some help.

Clawdragons said:
bang searching (duckduckgo only, I think?).

Yes, but it's just a fancy name for site restriction. Google lets you do it with site:example.com. For example, searching for site:e621.net mare holic 4 shows this thread.

leomole said:
Yes, but it's just a fancy name for site restriction. Google lets you do it with site:example.com. For example, searching for site:e621.net mare holic 4 shows this thread.

Not really. It functions quite a bit differently both in theory and in practice.

Compare:

Google: site:e621.net canine_pussy
DuckDuckGo: !e621 canine_pussy
DuckDuckGo: site:e621.net canine_pussy

There's a pretty significant difference between using site restriction, and using a site's own search feature.

So really !e621 and similar are more like a 'redirection macro' (step 1: reformat search parameters to suit the site in question, step 2: redirect to the site search with the adjusted search terms filled in.)

savageorange said:
So really !e621 and similar are more like a 'redirection macro' (step 1: reformat search parameters to suit the site in question, step 2: redirect to the site search with the adjusted search terms filled in.)

Seems like a reasonable way to think about it.

Clawdragons said:
Not really. It functions quite a bit differently both in theory and in practice.

Compare:

Google: site:e621.net canine_pussy
DuckDuckGo: !e621 canine_pussy
DuckDuckGo: site:e621.net canine_pussy

There's a pretty significant difference between using site restriction, and using a site's own search feature.

That's actually pretty cool.

parasprite said:
That's actually pretty cool.

If you've ever used a wikia or forum that had searches through google, they do so by adding that bang search "Site:" to it. I kind of figured it was common knowledge due to this.

Furrin_Gok said:
If you've ever used a wikia or forum that had searches through google, they do so by adding that bang search "Site:" to it. I kind of figured it was common knowledge due to this.

I was actually talking about the duckduckgo one.

Also google has custom search pages that websites can pay for, but they are based on usage and expensive as hell :x

Tip: Use -site:.com to filter TLDs. :)

parasprite said:
That's actually pretty cool.

It is, but I feel like a shill for praising any company, even one I generally like.

parasprite said:
Tip: Use -site:.com to filter TLDs. :)

That's kinda dandy, actually.

Mare Holic 4 is finally on sale!

http://alice-books.com/item/show/254-17

In case you're new, simply click "english" at the top of the page to translate the site.

Qmannn said:
I forgot that these were quite a bit cheaper than the Kemokko Lovers books. Still, I wanted to let others know that international shipping prices have increased.

I still intend to pick this up one of these days.

Price for EMS (7-14 days) is 3600yen and price for Small Packet shipping (14-20 days) is 2650yen.