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rhymeMmm, so we went to Osaka today, ostensibly to buy cameras and omiyage for Addie's brother. Okay.
My laundry didn't dry correctly and I oversletp. Okay.
As expected the cameras were all in the $300-$500 range. Okay.
So I saw I Prince of Tennis Alarm clock. One of the talking ones. And I well...bought it. (It's the one with Ryoma's, Tezuka's, Fuji's, Kikumaru's, and Atobe's voices. It suddenly occured to me that a alarm clock with Jirou's voice might just be the best thing ever, should they ever decide to make one.) -___________-;;
And then I ran into the Festival bromides. Ummm.. Yeah. Iendedupbuying3. In my defense, the store was selling them at 11% off! It's one of those kinds of department stores. >>;;
We ended up having gigantic pieces of cake for lunch. It ended up to be a bit more expensive than a normal lunch, but it was very good cake. Mine had a lot of strawberries in it. X3
I opened the bromides at lunch. The first one turned out to be the Mizuki in a maid's dress. I laughed. And um...didn't show it to anyone else. The other two turned out to be Sengoku as Indy and Kamio and Shinji as ninjas, so I had pretty good bromide luck.
I had pretty bad random nuigurumi keychain luck, though. Out of all the possiblities, I got Gema! And the ribbon was broken, so he fell off of the keychain. *wanted Puchi Charat* >>
Next was Mandarake, where I spent a lot of money. The end.
Total damage:
Yodobashi Camera:
3 festival bromides: 840 yen
1 dorky alarm clock: 1980 yen and my pride, but they also threw in a point card
Total points earned: 369
What the points do: I have no clue.
Mandarake
420 yen: 9 books
210 yen: 10 books
630 yen: 1 book
1050 yen: 1 book
Dream Carnival (used): 2940
First batch:
Bleach:
Title: 休 （きゅう） （Taking a day off)
Artist: Mei Kisaragi
Circle: 97町 (97tyo)
Focus: hituhina+(alpha, which I don't feel like looking up the character code for atm)
Date: 5/04/2005
Price: 420 yen
Comments: I wasn't sure aobut the art on the cover, so I almost put this one back. ^^;;
It turned out to be a really good choice! I spent half the train ride home giggleing over it. First story: Matsumoto asks Hinamori what she'd do if Hitsugaya asked her out, except she phrases it in a really embarassing manner (I'm not sure how to appropriately translate "Become my thing!") and Hinamori almost suffocates in her bosom. Hitsugaya has a beautiful reaction.
The second story is about a "couples/lovers" contest for a Chappy stuffed animal. Naturally, Hinamori wants it and drags Hitsugaya into helping her. And naturally, the archrival for it is Rukia. Involves Renji in a wedding dress and strip Jan Ken Pon. I think this artist is going along with the "I like Hitsugaya so let's embarass him as much as possible!" train of thought. I am not complaining! >D
Title: リッサの鋼の柩 (Lissa's Iron Coffin)
Artist: Nao Izumi and Hiro Kazusa
Circle: Chronic Love
Focus: Bleach No. 3 only fan book (Translation: IchimaruXKira)
Date: 03/27/05
Paid: 420 yen
Comments: Pretty, pretty cover, style doesn't suit black and white quite as much, but the story is good, so that's forgivable. Set while Kira is still in the academy and Ichimaru is still fukutaichou of the 5th. Kira buries a dead cat, Gin is confusing. Also, Gin might have killed the cat. He destroys the grave afterwards. ("Because I'll make it so you can't see anything but me.")
Title: Feel So Happy
Artist: Viva!Soul Society (Side- Vitamin Kiss Kiss)
Circle?: Monme
Focus: Gin and Izuru show up a lot?
Date: 12/28/2004
Price: 210 yen
Comments: "B" quality due to a slightly bent back cover. Aizen's funeral portrait is another canidate for the best thing ever. Hitsugaya reading a newspaper is very cute. ♥
Tenipuri:
Title: 乙女よ、撃ちませ。("Shoot, maiden." There's probably a better way to translate this, but I'm lazy)
Artist: Yuno Kamitsure
Circle: Prison
Focus: "Fujiko in Wild West!!"
Date: 12/29/2004 (probably winter comiket)
Paid: 210 yen
Comments: Remember that one chibi episode? >D
Fujiko wins at poker, then gets kidnapped. Eiji is recostumed in a Digi Charat type maid outfit. Planning pages in the bakc have Sei Rudolph portrayed as a monastary and Yamabuki being Yamabuki. I really like the art in this one.
Title: Pumpkin King
Artists: Aoyama and Dekopon
Circle: Aoiro Range (I'm guessing?)
Focus: Rikkai
Date: 09/19/2004
Comments: Team is brainstorming about what to do for Sanada's birthday. Kirihara's answer! Let's tie Yukimura-buchou up in ribbons! Yukimura's response! No good! We've already done that!
I like some of the art better than others. Aoyama and Dekipon might be circles, which would make "Aoiro Range" the combined name of the two, because there were 5 little mini personal freetalks in the back, and there was definitely more than two drawing styles. I hoped that the theme would be "Halloween," but it turned out that all of the orange on the cover was just their jerseys. ^^;;
Okay, bored now. More later.
ETA: (on the subject of cosplayers) "Did you see that girl?" "What girl?" "The one that was practically naked." "No, did you see the guy dressed as one of the girls from Pretty Cure?" "No." "Be thankful, he had a five o'clock shadow."
(Mandarake staff Rolecall: Seishomaru, Ohtori, random Hagane military personal, and I think Lilim from Lilim Kiss. In retrospect, they might have been talking Lilim earlier.)
My laundry didn't dry correctly and I oversletp. Okay.
As expected the cameras were all in the $300-$500 range. Okay.
So I saw I Prince of Tennis Alarm clock. One of the talking ones. And I well...bought it. (It's the one with Ryoma's, Tezuka's, Fuji's, Kikumaru's, and Atobe's voices. It suddenly occured to me that a alarm clock with Jirou's voice might just be the best thing ever, should they ever decide to make one.) -___________-;;
And then I ran into the Festival bromides. Ummm.. Yeah. Iendedupbuying3. In my defense, the store was selling them at 11% off! It's one of those kinds of department stores. >>;;
We ended up having gigantic pieces of cake for lunch. It ended up to be a bit more expensive than a normal lunch, but it was very good cake. Mine had a lot of strawberries in it. X3
I opened the bromides at lunch. The first one turned out to be the Mizuki in a maid's dress. I laughed. And um...didn't show it to anyone else. The other two turned out to be Sengoku as Indy and Kamio and Shinji as ninjas, so I had pretty good bromide luck.
I had pretty bad random nuigurumi keychain luck, though. Out of all the possiblities, I got Gema! And the ribbon was broken, so he fell off of the keychain. *wanted Puchi Charat* >>
Next was Mandarake, where I spent a lot of money. The end.
Total damage:
Yodobashi Camera:
3 festival bromides: 840 yen
1 dorky alarm clock: 1980 yen and my pride, but they also threw in a point card
Total points earned: 369
What the points do: I have no clue.
Mandarake
420 yen: 9 books
210 yen: 10 books
630 yen: 1 book
1050 yen: 1 book
Dream Carnival (used): 2940
First batch:
Bleach:
Title: 休 （きゅう） （Taking a day off)
Artist: Mei Kisaragi
Circle: 97町 (97tyo)
Focus: hituhina+(alpha, which I don't feel like looking up the character code for atm)
Date: 5/04/2005
Price: 420 yen
Comments: I wasn't sure aobut the art on the cover, so I almost put this one back. ^^;;
It turned out to be a really good choice! I spent half the train ride home giggleing over it. First story: Matsumoto asks Hinamori what she'd do if Hitsugaya asked her out, except she phrases it in a really embarassing manner (I'm not sure how to appropriately translate "Become my thing!") and Hinamori almost suffocates in her bosom. Hitsugaya has a beautiful reaction.
The second story is about a "couples/lovers" contest for a Chappy stuffed animal. Naturally, Hinamori wants it and drags Hitsugaya into helping her. And naturally, the archrival for it is Rukia. Involves Renji in a wedding dress and strip Jan Ken Pon. I think this artist is going along with the "I like Hitsugaya so let's embarass him as much as possible!" train of thought. I am not complaining! >D
Title: リッサの鋼の柩 (Lissa's Iron Coffin)
Artist: Nao Izumi and Hiro Kazusa
Circle: Chronic Love
Focus: Bleach No. 3 only fan book (Translation: IchimaruXKira)
Date: 03/27/05
Paid: 420 yen
Comments: Pretty, pretty cover, style doesn't suit black and white quite as much, but the story is good, so that's forgivable. Set while Kira is still in the academy and Ichimaru is still fukutaichou of the 5th. Kira buries a dead cat, Gin is confusing. Also, Gin might have killed the cat. He destroys the grave afterwards. ("Because I'll make it so you can't see anything but me.")
Title: Feel So Happy
Artist: Viva!Soul Society (Side- Vitamin Kiss Kiss)
Circle?: Monme
Focus: Gin and Izuru show up a lot?
Date: 12/28/2004
Price: 210 yen
Comments: "B" quality due to a slightly bent back cover. Aizen's funeral portrait is another canidate for the best thing ever. Hitsugaya reading a newspaper is very cute. ♥
Tenipuri:
Title: 乙女よ、撃ちませ。("Shoot, maiden." There's probably a better way to translate this, but I'm lazy)
Artist: Yuno Kamitsure
Circle: Prison
Focus: "Fujiko in Wild West!!"
Date: 12/29/2004 (probably winter comiket)
Paid: 210 yen
Comments: Remember that one chibi episode? >D
Fujiko wins at poker, then gets kidnapped. Eiji is recostumed in a Digi Charat type maid outfit. Planning pages in the bakc have Sei Rudolph portrayed as a monastary and Yamabuki being Yamabuki. I really like the art in this one.
Title: Pumpkin King
Artists: Aoyama and Dekopon
Circle: Aoiro Range (I'm guessing?)
Focus: Rikkai
Date: 09/19/2004
Comments: Team is brainstorming about what to do for Sanada's birthday. Kirihara's answer! Let's tie Yukimura-buchou up in ribbons! Yukimura's response! No good! We've already done that!
I like some of the art better than others. Aoyama and Dekipon might be circles, which would make "Aoiro Range" the combined name of the two, because there were 5 little mini personal freetalks in the back, and there was definitely more than two drawing styles. I hoped that the theme would be "Halloween," but it turned out that all of the orange on the cover was just their jerseys. ^^;;
Okay, bored now. More later.
ETA: (on the subject of cosplayers) "Did you see that girl?" "What girl?" "The one that was practically naked." "No, did you see the guy dressed as one of the girls from Pretty Cure?" "No." "Be thankful, he had a five o'clock shadow."
(Mandarake staff Rolecall: Seishomaru, Ohtori, random Hagane military personal, and I think Lilim from Lilim Kiss. In retrospect, they might have been talking Lilim earlier.)