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Today I am posting about a doujin from the earlier years of Comiket, while there is not much written history on these early cons in English the general look of the manga of this era is well known. This doujin has a very classic nostalgia look which is likely in part caused by the scanner used. LOOK OUT 5 itself is interesting for not being about a single series but seems to focus on various mecha and sci-fi works of the period.

There are some quite beautiful standalone illustrations like the one above.

The above is a title page for the collection with artwork that really fits well within the "space age babe" look of series like Urusei Yatsura. While I would need to find studies to support this I would be willing to bet this specific look arose from Shojo manga of the 1970s alongside Post Star Wars influence and over the top fashion of the 1980s.

The panel work in some parts of this is quite lovely and helps you get a sense of scale.

The page above features a lovely example of a typical spacecraft look.

While I am personally more or less indifferent to the majority of the art of this piece there are a few pages that has a style reminding me of shojo works of the late eighties and early nineties.

The main novelty of this work is that it has sex scenes utilizing a boiled egg. And if you are wondering if they somehow use the eggcup they do not. But an interesting example of egg sex that does not involve monsters laying eggs.