What did you RECEIVE today? PHOTOS EDITION!
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Winkuru
Adventurer
Couple movies.
In Bruges is the only film of these i haven't seen before. Just recently saw Seven Psycopaths from the same director and it was pretty good dark comedy and this should be more of that goodness.
Been ages since i have seen other two and it's about time to rewatch them. Especially American Psycho because i was on my teens when i saw it so most of it probably flew over my head.
In Bruges is the only film of these i haven't seen before. Just recently saw Seven Psycopaths from the same director and it was pretty good dark comedy and this should be more of that goodness.
Been ages since i have seen other two and it's about time to rewatch them. Especially American Psycho because i was on my teens when i saw it so most of it probably flew over my head.
D1tchd1gger
Shrine Maiden
sideways
Great Teacher
Earlier in the week i got Eromanga Sensei vol 1
and today after getting a 5000yen voucher from Amazon Japan for my damaged Lucoa i spent my day off today repairing her
it was like a puzzle trying to figure out where all the hair parts went and which finger went where and then finding out 1 of the fingers was missing was annoying but her hand is at the back so on my shelf its not noticeable (though it is annoying)
so now after god know how many hours later she is on a shelf next to Kanna
and today after getting a 5000yen voucher from Amazon Japan for my damaged Lucoa i spent my day off today repairing her
it was like a puzzle trying to figure out where all the hair parts went and which finger went where and then finding out 1 of the fingers was missing was annoying but her hand is at the back so on my shelf its not noticeable (though it is annoying)
so now after god know how many hours later she is on a shelf next to Kanna
Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
thedoctor2016
Mushi-shi
I feel video games ratings have more reason to be big and clear.
Shadow Cat
Death Scythe
I haven't inked them yet but my Tezuka Osamu pens arrived 
Unless I'm mistaken, they were given out with Magazines a few years ago. Some nice weight to them but the nib looks a generic steel nib. Uses small standard ink carts
Also got some Manga and a Record Case (Was going to buy Bebob but gave up with that idea)
Unless I'm mistaken, they were given out with Magazines a few years ago. Some nice weight to them but the nib looks a generic steel nib. Uses small standard ink carts
Also got some Manga and a Record Case (Was going to buy Bebob but gave up with that idea)
Luna
Death Scythe
They do?
(Though, now that I think about it, VNs and all of their Hentai content technically count as videogames too I guess? Never really played one of those either.)
On another curiosity note. How video game fans keep up with all the different platforms? (Plus Region codes, plus ever so quickly changing of console generations.) I barely even keep up with Anime and those just have BD, DVD by now, which both work on a single PC machine and region codes can be made watchable on PC with not that massive of an effort. Doesn't seem to be the case for video games it seems to me. (Or at least not as simple?)
Well I have a PS2, PS3 and PS4/Pro, all of which have distinguishable cases. Similarly my Gamecube, Wii, Wii U, DS/3DS and Swich titles all have unique case designs too.
In essence I find it pretty easy to keep track of my collection. With region codes a fair few consoles play games from around the world, and as far as I fan remember it’s it’s mainly Nintendo who liked to region lock, though nowadays the Switch is region free.
Speaking of regions it is a shame that some consoles are programmed to only play Blu Rays from a specific code though, wish my PS4 Pro was region free.
An interesting discussion point though.
In essence I find it pretty easy to keep track of my collection. With region codes a fair few consoles play games from around the world, and as far as I fan remember it’s it’s mainly Nintendo who liked to region lock, though nowadays the Switch is region free.
Speaking of regions it is a shame that some consoles are programmed to only play Blu Rays from a specific code though, wish my PS4 Pro was region free.
An interesting discussion point though.
Gemsy-chan
Shrine Maiden
Got this when I turned up to work tonight as I’m employee of the month
Girls with Guns
Chuunibyou
You should be able to polish off all that stuff in an hour or so...
Luna
Death Scythe
That sounds like quite an assembly. oo
It's less this, but, those consoles don't live forever, and if they die, aren't all of your games essentially useless? With BD/DVD players you can fairly easily just get another machine, but I've heard enough stories of people moaning about compability etc. It's bad enough with software and normal PC OS, but there you've at least have something like virtual box or so, where you can simulate this. Just copying your game data to PC doesn't seem too trivial, given all of them seem to have their own plugs or so.
At leas, when I dabbled just very shortly in video games in passing I witnessed the Gameboy and that dying, Game boy 2 and that dying (dunno what came after that), PS1, PS2, PS3 and I saw the advent of PS4 (that being tied to the advent of BD). And then nowadays I see people with a Vita here and a Switch there and normal PC games also seem to still exist and whereever Steam fits into all that I do not know. (My best guess is, that's the games for PCs for those who don't want the extra consoles?)
I’ve yet to have a console die on me so I wouldn’t know that struggle I’m afraid. If my PS3 for example suddenly died I could very likely transfer over the hard drive at least. I also don’t use a PC for gaming so emulation doesn’t apply to me.
unknownfate
Pokémon Master
Unless the Hard Drive dies
It was only last year I believe that I finished with my PS2 (which I sold) the same PS2 I'd had at that point for around 15 years. Aside from some occasional fiddling with the lens alignment and the disc tray mechanism wearing out right at the end I had no issues with it during that time. My PS3 tray mechanism is starting to wear down now (I miss disc trays ) so I'll likely have to repair/replace the system before I manage to work through the RPG backlog ( Agarest, Atelier, Neptunia, Disgaea, Tales etc) but even so I've had it for over a decade.
It was only last year I believe that I finished with my PS2 (which I sold) the same PS2 I'd had at that point for around 15 years. Aside from some occasional fiddling with the lens alignment and the disc tray mechanism wearing out right at the end I had no issues with it during that time. My PS3 tray mechanism is starting to wear down now (I miss disc trays
) so I'll likely have to repair/replace the system before I manage to work through the RPG backlog ( Agarest, Atelier, Neptunia, Disgaea, Tales etc) but even so I've had it for over a decade.
Denny Fisher
Dragon Knight
Yay my correct size bed cover came!
ActionFaust
Cardcaptor
New 32" TV to replace the old 18" as well as volumes 2 and 3 of I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years
Luna
Death Scythe
Half a year's (or partly almost a year?) worth of collective UK stuff part 1/3 with some posters. (This will take a while to sort out, going to do that tommorow.) (Also a bulkload of Manga, but that's for sunday.)
And on top of all of that my late Rakuten France order. (It was shipped on Tuesday and already got here. That was fast!)
The first item was 16,69€ on shipping, addind Eupho was 1€ shipping extra and Last Exile was 2€ extra. Figured I might get the latter, so that I have S1 on BD or rather at all next to the S2 from Funi that I already have. I used to have the old collector's DVD box of S1, which had the nicest cover illustration of them all, but was also a very much unhandy monster digipack. (Definitely more than a few panels too much on one piece.) But that box now doesn't have that artwork on the digipack design and even in its artbook. .__. The digipack is pretty nicely designed and artbook's content is, aside from the missing favorite illustration of mine otherwise pretty full of content. But they stuffed so many of the key illustrations (especially the landslides) as 2 on one page, and the size really does them no justice at all.
Eupho is literally the same as the UK AL one except for the slipcover's backside's text. I also got the UK one (which I just got the same day, lol), but the French one was actually cheaper than the UK one's and figured I'd keep the French one and pass on the UK one, since I could read the texts. But given that the booklet doesn't actually really contain any text, I wouldn't have to worry about that anyway...
And then goes the main attraction of the last few days with that A4 Steins;Gate box.
I first saw this unboxing:
And though, yay, can do some frankensteining with it and some books with artwork, some of which seem pretty exclusive.
Turned out, that box was actually OOP and instead the one that's just about listed everywhere is a lesser version of it with just about exactly the same box design and cover. (Dybex, why o why.) By a hair I ordered that one, but thanks to @mangatoon 's comment in the French editions thread that was avoided. (Like really, that passing comment came to be exactly 1 day before I had planned to order it. What a timing!)
After some adventures I wound up with the original box after all. Though it's sub-only, which wasn't exactly my original plan, but whatever. At least I got both books.
The box really is massive and sizewise puts the Terror in Resonance AL box to shame:
(The Ghost in the Shell CE is probably closer to it? Don't have that one yet) It's indeed exactly A4, when I matched a sheet of paper on it, but on it's own it very much looks a whole lot bigger.
Tried matching up a NISA and had to learn that NISA's aren't really A4 at all, but probably more like B4.
But yeah, being exactly A4, it could indeed go the the artbook shelf sizewise (while putting all the loose artbooks to shame by having a much bigger spine). My Hyouka artbooks have the same size as the box's face, indeed. (And yes, I just had to show off the most expensive book I ever bought again.)
Now that I think of it, the AL UE size might be the weirdest of them so far. The NISA ones can turn 90° and then they're as high as normal DVDs. The A4 can go next to artbooks in theory. And the UE is just an ??? atm. Gues that's just me having one single UE in my permanent collection, so it's weird.
Anyway all of them are going into the "random sizes" box:
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Korean Hyouka still beats them all. Seeing it like that makes me wonder, why I even ever made a fuss about the A4 size.
That S;G artbook is really cool indeed. Even without the second the normal one is massive enough on it's own. While differentiating their three almost identical looking release editions was a major messy confusion, really thumbs up for all those illustrations, which I hadn't even seen on the net before.
This is my first landscape artbook in real artbook size and not just booklet size, but the advantages are really obvious for landscape format illustrations. (Normal artbooks either have them go through two pages and the spine is in the way, so you don't actually get the full image to see or they squeeze two landscapes on one A4 page.)
The only solemn points I have is that the huke artwork for the first BD box in Japan, which was used for the French DVD box, isn't included. (Even though they used 2 of the three those BD covers from the box insides.) And that two images, which were among my favorites, wound up like this
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While they do portrait with the more detailed key illustrations otherwise like this:
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Which just makes me go a little bit why did it have to be exactly those two. ;___;
And there I realized I totally got spoiled within a couple of minutes into raising standard. Those two illustration's size isn't any smaller than a BD booklet's image would have been and I used to be fine with that.
Now I'm kind of glad I looked into Last Exile before S;G, it looks really terribly cramped in comparison. I might get used to those A4s after all. Though I'll have to see about the IDP A4s, which are not exactly A4, being as high, but only about as wide as a BD height. (And that slim format looks less nice in my eyes somehow, same way I prefer BD cover aspect ratio over DVD cover aspect ratio.)
At any rate, there was one thing I wasn't accounting for, that was that the inner boxes weren't chipboxes, but just cardbox boxes. So my frankenstein plan kind of failed after all, because
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doesn't look healthy at all.
(I originally had the LE part from Funi with the chipbox (which has the cover of half set part 1 on one side) + Part 2, but had ditched p2's slip (p1 never came with one in the LE) and later the sets themselves in favor of the Anime Classics Editions (liked the artwork better), but that one doesn't fit into the chipbox. I thought originally to get the US Essentials one from Funi (same cover as the AC edition) and put it with the movie into the LE chipbox, while putting the slipcover of P2 over it the essentials edition to have that cover artwork once, too. So I got the halfs again. But of course I had completely forgotten, why I had ditched the slipcovers back in the day. They are DVD sized! S;G has been one of those early era BDs when the height was puffed up to look more like a DVD. x.x)
Now I do wonder what material Dybex used for the artbooks. Same stuff as the first S;G BD box? The book cover kind of looks the same, but the Japanese ones supposedly has 200p. Also the French ones definitely aren't the same as the Anniversary box' booklet contents, which includes some storyboard pages:
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But yeah, that box would be a 500€ import, not going to happen any time soon, even if it has the Beta episode and the IBM shorts...
So my current S;G Anime count:
1x Funi TV half sets Blu-ray/DVD Combo
1x Funi Anime Classics Edition Blu-ray (Combo DVDs ditched)
1x Funi Movie Blu-ray (Combo DVD ditched)
1x Peppermint Movie Blu-ray (still didn't manage to get it sold...)
1x French TV sub-only BD + 1x French TV sub-only DVD + French movie sub-only Blu-ray/DVD
And I'm probably getting another one with the French dub at some time. And whatever edition with the beta episode and the IBM shorts will cross my way first. the JP LE movie is also on my search list, because I want one of the Drama CDs.
Hm, the last shows I went to overboard at having too many(/fancy) editions were all shows on my favorites lists. Might be high time for enlisting a new entry in there. It's been a couple of years since the last one.
And on top of all of that my late Rakuten France order. (It was shipped on Tuesday and already got here. That was fast!)
The first item was 16,69€ on shipping, addind Eupho was 1€ shipping extra and Last Exile was 2€ extra. Figured I might get the latter, so that I have S1 on BD or rather at all next to the S2 from Funi that I already have. I used to have the old collector's DVD box of S1, which had the nicest cover illustration of them all, but was also a very much unhandy monster digipack. (Definitely more than a few panels too much on one piece.) But that box now doesn't have that artwork on the digipack design and even in its artbook. .__. The digipack is pretty nicely designed and artbook's content is, aside from the missing favorite illustration of mine otherwise pretty full of content. But they stuffed so many of the key illustrations (especially the landslides) as 2 on one page, and the size really does them no justice at all.
Eupho is literally the same as the UK AL one except for the slipcover's backside's text. I also got the UK one (which I just got the same day, lol), but the French one was actually cheaper than the UK one's and figured I'd keep the French one and pass on the UK one, since I could read the texts. But given that the booklet doesn't actually really contain any text, I wouldn't have to worry about that anyway...
And then goes the main attraction of the last few days with that A4 Steins;Gate box.
I first saw this unboxing:
And though, yay, can do some frankensteining with it and some books with artwork, some of which seem pretty exclusive.
Turned out, that box was actually OOP and instead the one that's just about listed everywhere is a lesser version of it with just about exactly the same box design and cover. (Dybex, why o why.) By a hair I ordered that one, but thanks to @mangatoon 's comment in the French editions thread that was avoided. (Like really, that passing comment came to be exactly 1 day before I had planned to order it. What a timing!)
After some adventures I wound up with the original box after all. Though it's sub-only, which wasn't exactly my original plan, but whatever. At least I got both books.
The box really is massive and sizewise puts the Terror in Resonance AL box to shame:
(The Ghost in the Shell CE is probably closer to it? Don't have that one yet) It's indeed exactly A4, when I matched a sheet of paper on it, but on it's own it very much looks a whole lot bigger.
Tried matching up a NISA and had to learn that NISA's aren't really A4 at all, but probably more like B4.
But yeah, being exactly A4, it could indeed go the the artbook shelf sizewise (while putting all the loose artbooks to shame by having a much bigger spine). My Hyouka artbooks have the same size as the box's face, indeed. (And yes, I just had to show off the most expensive book I ever bought again.)
Now that I think of it, the AL UE size might be the weirdest of them so far. The NISA ones can turn 90° and then they're as high as normal DVDs. The A4 can go next to artbooks in theory. And the UE is just an ??? atm. Gues that's just me having one single UE in my permanent collection, so it's weird.
Anyway all of them are going into the "random sizes" box:
Imgur
Korean Hyouka still beats them all. Seeing it like that makes me wonder, why I even ever made a fuss about the A4 size.
That S;G artbook is really cool indeed. Even without the second the normal one is massive enough on it's own. While differentiating their three almost identical looking release editions was a major messy confusion, really thumbs up for all those illustrations, which I hadn't even seen on the net before.
This is my first landscape artbook in real artbook size and not just booklet size, but the advantages are really obvious for landscape format illustrations. (Normal artbooks either have them go through two pages and the spine is in the way, so you don't actually get the full image to see or they squeeze two landscapes on one A4 page.)
The only solemn points I have is that the huke artwork for the first BD box in Japan, which was used for the French DVD box, isn't included. (Even though they used 2 of the three those BD covers from the box insides.) And that two images, which were among my favorites, wound up like this
Imgur
While they do portrait with the more detailed key illustrations otherwise like this:
Imgur
Which just makes me go a little bit why did it have to be exactly those two. ;___;
And there I realized I totally got spoiled within a couple of minutes into raising standard. Those two illustration's size isn't any smaller than a BD booklet's image would have been and I used to be fine with that.
Now I'm kind of glad I looked into Last Exile before S;G, it looks really terribly cramped in comparison. I might get used to those A4s after all. Though I'll have to see about the IDP A4s, which are not exactly A4, being as high, but only about as wide as a BD height. (And that slim format looks less nice in my eyes somehow, same way I prefer BD cover aspect ratio over DVD cover aspect ratio.)
At any rate, there was one thing I wasn't accounting for, that was that the inner boxes weren't chipboxes, but just cardbox boxes. So my frankenstein plan kind of failed after all, because
Imgur
doesn't look healthy at all.
(I originally had the LE part from Funi with the chipbox (which has the cover of half set part 1 on one side) + Part 2, but had ditched p2's slip (p1 never came with one in the LE) and later the sets themselves in favor of the Anime Classics Editions (liked the artwork better), but that one doesn't fit into the chipbox. I thought originally to get the US Essentials one from Funi (same cover as the AC edition) and put it with the movie into the LE chipbox, while putting the slipcover of P2 over it the essentials edition to have that cover artwork once, too. So I got the halfs again. But of course I had completely forgotten, why I had ditched the slipcovers back in the day. They are DVD sized! S;G has been one of those early era BDs when the height was puffed up to look more like a DVD. x.x)
Now I do wonder what material Dybex used for the artbooks. Same stuff as the first S;G BD box? The book cover kind of looks the same, but the Japanese ones supposedly has 200p. Also the French ones definitely aren't the same as the Anniversary box' booklet contents, which includes some storyboard pages:
Imgur
But yeah, that box would be a 500€ import, not going to happen any time soon, even if it has the Beta episode and the IBM shorts...
So my current S;G Anime count:
1x Funi TV half sets Blu-ray/DVD Combo
1x Funi Anime Classics Edition Blu-ray (Combo DVDs ditched)
1x Funi Movie Blu-ray (Combo DVD ditched)
1x Peppermint Movie Blu-ray (still didn't manage to get it sold...)
1x French TV sub-only BD + 1x French TV sub-only DVD + French movie sub-only Blu-ray/DVD
And I'm probably getting another one with the French dub at some time. And whatever edition with the beta episode and the IBM shorts will cross my way first. the JP LE movie is also on my search list, because I want one of the Drama CDs.
Hm, the last shows I went to overboard at having too many(/fancy) editions were all shows on my favorites lists. Might be high time for enlisting a new entry in there. It's been a couple of years since the last one.
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