I’ll hopefully have a more concrete entry/review of Nana Mizuki’s LIVE FORMULA DVD in the next 24 hours, so for now I’ll you folks with photos of the DVD and extras after the jump. For a pseudo-review of this GREAT DVD, I highly recommend houkoholic’s post at seiyuu3. Also YouTube is a great place to look as well

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I buy too much anime shiz, plain and simple. This has currently led me to be out of space yet again and thus, all recent purchases are being stacked up and un-opened until I can find/make room somehow. If this keeps up, I’m going to have a wall of un-opened figures by the time Otakon rolls around!

Anyway being the lazy guy I am, instead of trying to formulate some crappy reviews with my awesome Moyism Photography of Merchandises(TM) skills I’ll link to better reviews done by my blogging peers; mostly all from Shingo since it seems we have similar tastes in figures

Clockwise starting from the top right: GSC Fate/Hollow ataraxia Meido Rider (TASTE), Alter Suzumiya Haruhi Nagato Yuki swimsuit Ver (super rats), Alter Franco Il Nero (Shingo), Alpha Omega Queen’s Blade Shizuka (Shingo), Cerberus Project Ikkitousen Ryomu Shimei Pearl Black Ver (Shingo), and New Line To Heart 2 Kousaka Tamaki Private Ver (Shingo).

Many thanks to Shingo, TASTE, and super rats for their excellent reviews and photos! I probably wouldn’t be as broke as I am now if it weren’t for you guys!

In one of my rare moments of insight, I’ve come to realize just how niche my blog and general attitude towards (anime) blogging is. Well, at least compared to the big dogs and majority of other anime bloggers currently out there, that is.

I think in general, and most would agree, blogging about x-subject is usually pretty niche unless it’s something universal or popular like politics, sports, community, etc. And anime, well that’s getting pretty niche in an already sea of topics that is seemingly endless. Breaking it down further, just the general topic of anime itself can be split into god knows how many sub-areas; the biggest off the top of my head being episodic summaries, editorials, and news. One can break those topics even further which at the end, really leads to well… a lot that can be talked about that is all under the subject of “anime”.

And this is where my blog eventual falls under, one of those sub-area so frickin’ niche I can probably count somewhat similar blogs I know of with my fingers and still have a few digits to spare. Actually I guess that’s not completely true since unlike others, I really dabble at a range of styles and topics made popular by other folks; just that I can’t stick to one specific style to make my own. Heck just looking at my “years” of various blogging one can see my failed attempts at trying to be unique or at least somewhat consistent. life line by line which got me started and “famous” (at least with the older gen crowd that are still active) was episodic summaries with 50+ screencaps that later on included “witty” (i.e. toilet humor) comments in the caps. After quitting that blog, and eventually starting again with zero thoughts I tried to recapture some of my hay-day style blogging which ultimately failed. Now with this blog (i.e. 11~15% suki), it initially started as a personal blog that turned into a “what I purchased and be jealous of” blog that later on added anime desktop wallpapers which eventually turned into what it is currently; everything I initially started x or y blog for with a focus on “what I purchased and be jealous of” posts.

In all honestly after re-reading the above paragraph, I can’t tell if where the blog is now is a good or bad thing ^^;; But all I do know, and what I simply wanted to say at the start, is being a niche of the niche of the niche of a topic sure is strange…

… and kind of sucky if you’re ever trying to be popular on the ‘net (aka want a nice sized e-p3n1s)

PS: I apologize if this post seems kind of random and disconnected. I swear I had a nice idea with this post but that eventually got lost as I started to blank out on what to write about once I actually typed this up. Don’t worry, my next couple of posts will hopefully make up for this with the use of my awesome Moyism Photography of Merchandises(TM) skills.

Honestly just a purchase image dump of stuff I got months ago but totally forgot to post about. Unfortunately doesn’t help I don’t remember what 1/2 of this stuff is and am way too lazy to look everything up. Sorry!

If people really wanna know, just leave a comment and I guess when I get enough time (or get off my lazy arse) I can try to remember WTF I actually bought. Alternatively if anyone wants to take up the challenge, you are more than welcome to do so

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Well if the above image isn’t Alto Saotome as a trap, I shouldn’t be in the anime biz at all

Anyway, while watching Macross Frontier episode 2 I noticed two things that some viewers may or may not have. Being the great good horrible old anime blogging guy I am, I figure I may as well post ‘em to help further folks’ enjoyment of the series! (read: I’m calling first on these two potential spoilers!)

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So I finally switched to Vista. Honestly it’s not that bad of an OS but man it really kills the computer. For example, mkv at 720p I used to be able to play in WinXP are now sluggish in Vista, which wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact a lot of new releases (i.e. CODE Geass R2) are at 720p-ish. Annoying but I’ll deal.

Beside that, I’ll have to admit at least Vista is pretty looking

Why the switch? Basically to force myself to learn Vista for work plus I figured it was about time I see what the big deal was. Initially I was going to do dual boot with WinXP and Vista but that didn’t happen due to various reasons. For one, doing the install almost hosed my C drive that I didn’t backup. Luckily after everything was said and done, I was able to at least grab all the data off the old WinXP C partition before I decided to just hose it and do Vista only… which was a pain in itself due to trying figure out why it wouldn’t continue to install after the initial copy (eventually figured it was because of my SATA drive/controller that I temporarily disabled while the install went). Pretty much spent Friday night (how sad) and the majority of Saturday finishing up the install and getting everything how I liked it, which was great for a bit…

… until I found out I had some spyware trojans already! I won’t go into details but getting cracked programs finally got the better of me. Many hours were spent trying to get rid of everything but eventually, ended up formatting the C drive and starting again. This was at 8PM on Sunday with work the following day, so much to say I probably did the quickest install ever all in about 2 hours. And I’m not just talking the Vista install, I mean re-doing all the programs, settings, configurations, etc that I initially spent over 10 hours on before. Pretty crazy right?

Much to say, my weekend was wasted due to Vista and bad luck. Thankfully at least now *knock on wood* everything is good and running fine… minus 720p mkv videos, but I guess that’s something I’m going to have to live with until I upgrade some parts or just build another system. Hopefully, I’ll do the former cheaper method first before going all out and spending money I don’t have

And of course with a new install comes a new wallpaper, in part to honor our id@lmaster guru DiGiKerot, I found this lovely wall somewhere on the ‘net. Go ask him for more information on the girl and the game while I crash for the night k? Thanks!

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I should probably apologize for a few things first before anything else. Sorry DiGiKerot but it ain’t a Mikan box; I’ll try harder to get one next time! Also I’m sorry about my appearance as I usually look like that after work; I mean I normally look like arse in general but look 10x more arse-ish on the weekdays due to the grind of the IT field (as weird as that may sound to some).

With the apologies out of the way, today I received a nice sizeable package containing something(s) that figure collectors have been raving about recently. If you don’t like surprises, photos after the jump but for those willing to wait, any guesses? Maybe a Hatsune Miku or two? A Kotona Elegance as well? Or did I finally get back to building some gunpla like HG Gundam Throne Zwei? Heck maybe my Saber (or general TYPE-MOON) fetish got the better me?

… or did I just order everything under the sun again?

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In what was one of my non-bumming weekends, I ended up adventuring to NYC on a whim all without spending money on anime related goods to boot!

To make a long story short, it all started with going out to eat at White Mana for lunch in Jersey City with some friends. Definitely a Jersey thing, but man oh man White Manna has some kickarse burgers! Personally I would recommend the one in Hackensack as the better of the two, but in either case both locations make some excellent cheap fresh burgers on the fly. Honestly it’s hard to describe without actually tasting them but all I can say is, if you’re ever in Northern Jersey and are looking for some cheap good eats, White Manna would be the place to go. Definitely unhealthy as hell but just so dang good for “fast food”!

After lunch, we were planning of just heading home but me being bored and needing something to do, we randomly decided to head to the city instead. With no real plans in mind, it really came down to RPG-style world map walking as we eventually ended up going to Kinokuniya and BookOff. One guess on who’s ideas they were The new Kinokuniya I got to admit looks pretty nice and is a lot more spacious than before; doesn’t feel like I’ll accidentally bump into something/one when looking through stuff. Plus if anything else, one really can’t beat the art by Takehiko Inoue on the 2nd floor… very sweet! BookOff, on the other hand, wasn’t so hot. I guess cause the last time I went it wasn’t that busy but man, the 2nd floor where all the manga was killed with all the human heat. Walked out with a killer headache for a few hours after that but I guess if one wants cheap manga, it’s worth the pain? (Un)fortunately I ended up not getting anything but EXP for future reference? O_o

Beside visiting some Japanese bookstores, pretty much just roamed Chinatown as was our usual routine. Along the way ended up going to TenRen for some boba tea and Jamba Juice for more drinks. I have to admit the boba tea at TenRen was rather good, or at least better than some of the other places on Mott St that totally rip you off (or have crappy unique drinks like chocolate boba tea or strawberry cake milkshake. I kid you not). Jamba Juice was Jamba Juice although having it while it was a bit cold probably wasn’t the brightest of ideas ^^;;

So yea. Totally pointless entry other than that “I’m alive” and that I do get out every once in awhile LOL

It has been a few months since I last changed wallpapers, so figured it was high time for something new. And what better way to do so than with a nice clean and simple Rukia (from Bleach) wallpaper

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The spending continues in the new year. The past two months saw me receive yet another stockpile of various anime goods that looking back upon, can only shake my head and sigh, wondering just where I’m going to display/store everything.

At least for now, with the new job keeping me rather busy, I’ve pretty much stop spending on anime and have just let the various preorders I made last year come in as time goes on. If my current self control keeps up, I’ll actually have money to save for once! So can I get a “yay” for some self control this year hmm? ^^;;

Anyway, 92 photos after the jump which include Suzumiya Haruhi no Yakusoku Super Premium Box PSP, Xenosaga III KOS-MOS Ver 4, Seena Kano, Shuraki: Trinity Box 02 Liu Meifeng, Tamaki Mini Mini Pillow, Minami-ke v1 LE, Kusugawa Sasara Swimsuit Maid, Queen Blade’s Airi, Queen Blade’s Nix, Aisaka Taiga, Makimoto Misae Fantastica, Rio Calendar 2007, Saber/Zero, Kiritsugu/Zero, Kousaka Tamaki Wafudoh Ganguten, Tsuruya-san, Clannad v2 (not photographed), and Minami-ke v2 (not photographed).

For this post, I’m also going to be doing something different in that it’ll only be photos of the merchandise I got. I figure since there are already other great reviews out there of the stuff I got, there’s little to no point in me saying the same thing (plus I really don’t want to comment on 92 photos). Instead, if anyone has questions or want my opinion on a particular purchase, simply leave a comment and I’ll answer there. This way I’ll have a little more interaction with my readers plus it’ll save on useless ranting that everyone has already read about. Killing two birds with one stone, oh yeah!

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