drinian wrote:The last time I was in Japan, the gashapon machines were selling miniature busts of Roman emperors right alongside the usual anime figures. Just saying...
I was thinking of that
specific combination. :P It's not like I bought the bust from some random tourist shop either, the guy I got it from also had these huge >100kg "real size" marble busts there and various sizes inbetween. That was one of the smallest and most affordable products I found.
Chances that someone has bought similar bust from that same shop AND also has that figure in particular AND has them side to side like that are pretty low...
Eva Yojimbo wrote:I must admit, nobody can turn a haul into the EGF equivalent of The Super Bowl like Xard... Nice haul man, but I spent the most time looking past the figure and Plato bust trying to figure out what films you had!
I don't get The Super Bowl part... :( Well, if I have to write obscenely lenghty and self-indulgent posts I try to make sure they're at least entertaining...
As for nigh-completely disorganized row of DVDs (only part of which is visible here ofc), what the hell...here's some Jimbo
To begin with there's this bunch of finnish Ghibli DVDs (not all are in pic):
- Ponyo
- Kiki
- Totoro
- Howl's Moving Castle
- Whisper of the Heart
- The Cat Returns
then randomly
- Amarcord
- Ran
- Tekkonkinkreet
- Kill Bill vol 1
- Kill Bill vol 2
- Chunking Express
- Castle of Cagliostro
- Kino's Journey vol 2
- Mulholland Drive
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Inland Empire
- David Gilmour At Hammersmith Odeon
(some random live-DVD about '84 concert I found from small record shop in Munich, looked bootleggy as hell but it was cheap so w/e)- The Last Emperor
- The Dark Knight
- The Elephant Man
- Godfather
(I also have boxset with all three)- 8½
- Casablanca
- Citizen Kane
- One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest
- Charlie: The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin
-3 CSI 2nd season DVDs
(the most random thing there, I'VE NEVER EVEN BOUGHT THESE. I have no idea where these came from and I've never even watched them. They just look ugly there...)- Havukka-ahon ajattelija
("Backwood Philosopher", pretty new finnish film based on book by Veikko Huovinen)- 3-DVD set that has Nosferatu, Metropolis and Battleship Potemkin
- Tokyo Story
- The Hurt Locker
- Pasolini Collection
- Memories
- Trainspotting
- Breathless
- The Sky Crawlers
- Fellini's Roma
- Reservoir Dogs
- A Serious Man
(visible only partly)symbv wrote:That's quite old things they put on: LUNA SEA (on cover) was disbanded in 2000...Perhapsbecause of their reunion concerts held last year?
Curse you for making me to read the story... It's largerly about
this tour from last fall. One of the magazine's people had flown to Japan and interviewed them just before the tour started and then followed them through their gigs from Bochum to LA to Tokyo Dome... The last gig was on 31rd of December. Since this is first issue of 2011 (I don't know when it came out as I've been kinda stuck in my home, y'know) it's just on time.
as for the Yatterman film, as Oz said it's rare for Japanese films to make it to finnish theatres. Excluding studio Ghibli's output (at this point everything by Miyazaki has had nationwide theatre run! I don't think even USA has had Nausicaä etc. avalaible like that!) the only anime film that has made it outside film festivals is Summer Wars...just now! This is because it won audience vote in HIFF last fall...
I don't know what I should say here.
symbv wrote:More precisely, rating is 4.8125 in Amazon JP and that was a very impressive score. And thanks for supporting the anime industry
I'm just happy that most of my favourites (like Utena, Haibane Renmei, Berserk, Kino's Journey, Mushishi etc.) have a low level wallet emptying attacks...this leaves the two gargantual pink elephants in the room unaccounted: Eva and Macross franchises.
Thank God I'm not Gundam fan, at least not yet. I nearly got that great Asuka figma Killer Bee (IIRC) bought recently but apart from that I can say I feel no strong pull towards GAINAX's cashcow. Platinum boxset is enough for me... Luckily (excl. music ofc) out of older Macross titles they mainly sell mecha stuff anymore so I'm quite safe...but I'm pretty helpless with Frontier
It's not like Kawamori
needs my money anyway. I remember reading somewhere that altogether they had sold 900,000 CDs of series's music all in all
(by time 4th single Lion debuted in charts singles on their own accounted for 500,000+ sales out of this figure) and that was in 2008 around the time OST 2 for series came out so it leaves the sales from last few years (including all film music) unaccounted... so I have no idea just how high numbers we're really talking about... then add on this the great BD/DVD sales, theatre revenues and continuously churned out ridiculously expensive model kits (and rest of Media Mix crap) and we're talking about
gargantual, evil business empire that I'm feeding here. It's not like I'm supporting the zany experimenters of Studio 4C or Madhouse's risky films a la Redline or Kon's works...
Quite frankly every time I buy anime merchandise it's as if I'm violating some borderline-ethical principles of mine...but I'm such a tool I can't help it. Gahhh I'm the worst...
Merridian wrote:TBH I think it's the perfect place for waifuistic idolatry. It's such a great correspondence.
"waifuistic" is your favourite word these days, isn't it? You use it all the time yet I can't remember seeing others use it before...
InstrumentalityOne wrote:The Ranka figure is undressable?
...yes. Reason being it's clearly based on ep 4 Miss Macross contest. Or at least I prefer to think that's the reason...you never know with those wacky Japanese.
and uhhh, so is Sheryl... clearly it can't be helped
┐('～`；)┌InstrumentalityOne wrote:(Although I
did wrote down the lyrics of
this and put your Ranka card in a
Red Envelope.)
Ahh so
that is what you wrote there.
Thanks, oishii nyan~ indeed. :) And if I had known the red envelope had such an history I of course would've included pic of it. I tried to cut down the amount of uploads I had to do so I didn't include one...
I still don't know what the SHAFT part had to do with anything
child of Lilith wrote:Nice haul, Xard.
thanks! Hopefully I managed to deliver plenty of "lolXard" moments to y'all, albeit I must admit it somewhat bothers me I can never be sure if reactions are more "oh Xard you card" or "oh Xard you fag"
Well, not like it matters either way I guess...lulz are still delivered.
...in fact yesterday was such an high concentration of
LOLXARD I decided to handle only stuff that
arrived in order to avoid post becoming pile of derp and information overload that would just baffle people. Might as well shift some of the good old fashioned public humiliation for today, after all.
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Unfortunately one thing tends to lead to another and arrival of this order "forced" new, hefty purchases upon me aaaaaand now I'm pretty much "broke". No big purchases for me anymore, I need to desperately save money... Hell, this order ended up €100~ more expensive than my initial self-imposed "upper limit" was so who knows how well I'll be able to hold this up
You see, arrival of my order forced following realizations upon me:
- I now own three CDs
- Plato desperately begs for another bitch on his left side...the visual composition is all messed up otherwise.
...aaaaaand as one thing leads to another I soon ended up 340 euros poorer - that's 484~ dollars for you americans
As per point one, I basically went
"what the hell, if I already have three I might as well get them all " - I had no intentions of ever getting more than those three originally - but since I had been thinking about starting to collect Kanno shit for ages I might as well get them all and start with a bang.
For some variety I also got Madoka's great insert song/ED Magia by Kalafina. Kajiura is fantastic as always...
What I bought...
Albums:
- Macross F OST 1 Nyan Furo
- Macross F OST 2 Nyan Tora
- Macross F: Universal Bunny
- Macross F: CMRanka (idk if I should count this as single or album but whatever)
- Macross F: Cosmic Cuune
Singles:
- Ranka Lee Debut Single: Seikan Hikou (man, how can I own this much Macross crap and
not have the goddamn kira cover?
So yeah basically I bought this for cover, music is on other CDs anyway)
- Kalafina: Magia Limited Edition (the anime cover with magia mix~ ver, tv size and instrumental ver. as bonus tracks)
That's it for the music... Now only things I don't have are some singles (Sakamoto's Triangler, Sheryl's first and pink monsoon, Lion, those "Bobby" joke/novelty releases) :P
I'll probably get either Macross Plus or Arjuna (
Kanno's most underrated soundtrack, easily) next as they only have few albums and as such are much cheaper investments... not that I intend to get anything like this again in a long, long while
I also bought the so called
MacrossF "Nyandora" manga from CDJapan (link to jlist due to better product description) as it's art is good and I can find translations to original CD Drama stories if I want to. :P
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More importantly however
I ordered more figures It just looks wrong to have figure only on one side of Plato...the other side looks so empty now. It begs for something to fill its place!
Well, at least that's how I justify the first purchase. As for the second...well, let's enjoy another round in Xard-eats-his-words-and-kinda-despairs tragicomedy
To accompany Plato the Pimp and Ranka I got what is the best Sheryl figure out there:
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...last picture included to pre-emptively answer IO's "is that undressable too" and for better or worse the answer is yes... -____-'
Awesome
That should be the best Sheryl figure out there and I don't doubt that particularly much, esp. since
emotion style Sheryl sucks.
Looks like it goes well with Ranka indeed So that's the pair for the figure I already own! She'll look perfect with Plato and Ranka. :)
...but that wasn't all I got.
oh no.
I also got what's very probably the best Ranka figure out there... and this ground zero I hit of my own free will
Excellent Model CORE Ranka Lee (N.A Ver) 
I....Merri already said it all in pm
Merridian wrote:Xard wrote: Macross Frontier : Excellent Model CORE Ranka Lee (N.A Ver)
Guhhhhhhhhhh I feel so dirty after hosting and posting all those pics...
hahahahahaaaahahaha
I KNEW YOU’D GO FOR IT EVENTUALLY
IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIMESweet fig, though. fuckin sweet
ha...ha...ha.
IN MY DEFENCE:As for why I felt desperate need to natch it up DESPITE HAVING NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK TO DO WITH IT/WHERE TO PUT IT (I mean it's not like I have place thought out for something like
that, unlike the Plato figs)...well, let's just say that as HIGHLY sought after figure it's been practically sold out everywhere...even Amazon.jp sells only second-hand ones and they won't ship figs to foreign countries anyway.
YesAsia was the last, only place where the figure didn't simply scream SOLD OUT...
so I wanted to get it before it's too late: if I changed my mind in future and decide to get it it might not be avalaible anymore...
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*sigh*
And that's all of my bigass haul (even bigger than previous one)...and I can't even blame symbv for last one this time around, oh joy.
Oz says: (21.29.57)
And on the eighth day, God created Xard so that they could have their lulz.
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