What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!

Some things from throughout the week.

The Apothecary Diaries (Part 1) and Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death

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Mob Psycho 100 (Vol. 2) and Shiver

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These two manga I found for £2.00 (Mob Psycho 100) and £2.50 (Shiver) in a charity shop. There was no way I could pass on these and they were in great condition as well though I feel I'm content with the anime for Mob Psycho 100 so I may sell this off as there is enough series I need to finish collecting already and this is a 16 volume series plus the Reigen volume.
 
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BrokenPhoenix said:
I have had this on my list for a long time and I regretted not picking this up when I saw it still in stock a few years ago on the alltheanime site. However, this comes by way of fellow forum member @RB008 who was selling a copy of 5 Centimeters Per Second Steelbook Blu-ray + CD on the forum marketplace for face value.

Despite the great success of Shinkai's more recent stuff (i.e., Your Name, Weathering with You, and Suzume), 5CMPS is still my favourite film by Makato Shinkai and it is his finest work in my opinion.

I was mainly after this for the CD soundtrack as the music is just beautiful (as is the case with all of Shinkai's films, but 5CMPS in particular).

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Now, I'm not usually the biggest fan of steelbooks, but this is a gorgeous one done right, I can't lie.

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I'm so happy to see another 5CMPS fan here, it is one of my favourite movies and definitely my favourite Shinkai one. The soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous too. It was this and the Whisper of the Heart Steelbook that started me on the journey to get a complete set. Like you I'm not usually a big fan of steelbooks but the Shinkai and Ghibli ones are beautiful. After I got this I spent the next few months tracking them all down.

I ended up triple dipping on Shinkai blurays. I already had the standard editions then I got the steelbooks then I got the anthology (As well as the "A Sky Longing for Memories" art book, the 5CMPS manga, One More Side book and the Garden of Words Manga) I am a pretty big fan 😁

This is my Shinkai collection 😊
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RedundantSquash said:
I'm so happy to see another 5CMPS fan here, it is one of my favourite movies and definitely my favourite Shinkai one. The soundtrack is absolutely gorgeous too. It was this and the Whisper of the Heart Steelbook that started me on the journey to get a complete set. Like you I'm not usually a big fan of steelbooks but the Shinkai and Ghibli ones are beautiful. After I got this I spent the next few months tracking them all down.

I ended up triple dipping on Shinkai blurays. I already had the standard editions then I got the steelbooks then I got the anthology (As well as the "A Sky Longing for Memories" art book, the 5CMPS manga, One More Side book and the Garden of Words Manga) I am a pretty big fan 😁

This is my Shinkai collection 😊
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That's a lovely collection! Yours looks much more aesthetically pleasing than mine with those matching steelbooks and the anthology set! I actually had no idea about that art book you mentioned, I'm going to have to pick that up! Thanks very much for mentioning it.

You made me want to dig out my own collection out and put them together, mine is a little bit more of a mish-mash, looks-wise:

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5CMPS was the first film I saw by Shinkai and it just absolutely blew me away in terms of the art, animation, storytelling, and themes it raised. I can't remember exactly when I first saw it (I think I watched it illegally online when I was an angsty teenager, lol) and then I purchased the Manga Entertainment DVD of it soon after, when they came out. I've only got 5CMPs and Your Name in terms of the manga but I'd highly recommend the other light novels if you haven't tried them already (I still need to pick up the LNs of A Place Promised In Our Early Days and Voices of a Distant Star at some point).

Outside of the 5CMPS manga, I'm not the biggest fan of the manga adaptations - I think the 5CMPS manga is essential reading as it fleshes out some of the characters more and you see more of what happens post-film to them. However, I was a bit indifferent to the Your Name manga and I read the Weathering with You manga online and felt the same (nice reads, but I don't think they add much to the stories); which is why I think I stopped buying the manga for the films. Film + novel is my thing for Shinkai films now.

But yes, very big fan here too! 😁
 
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Blind-boxed Sailor Moon mini-figpins. I don't usually try my luck with blind boxes, so I was pleasantly surprised at what I got. Sailor Mars is common (1:5), but the others are rare glitter variants, with Luna being 1:15 and Sailor Moon 1:40. Ideally I would have preferred Jupiter instead of Mars, but really I would have been happy with anything except Sailor Mercury (she's a bit boring), so this is a great selection.

One thing to note about mini-figpins is that they don't have the special back that lets them stand up for display like full-sized figpins.
 
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