2025 HAUL - FEBRUARY v2
Continuing where the previous haul left off, we have more items from a town trip (including a pretty rare/expensive PS3 game) plus more manga.
There's still a few more packages incoming before the month is over, including a MediaOCD haul, so look forward to that.
#06: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction Volumes 7-12
#07: Facets of Love, Kid From Kwang Tung & The Kung Fu Instructor
#08: Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2
#09: Cliffhanger & The Elephant Man
#10: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Volumes 7-12
Continuing where the previous haul left off, we have more items from a town trip (including a pretty rare/expensive PS3 game) plus more manga.
There's still a few more packages incoming before the month is over, including a MediaOCD haul, so look forward to that.
#06: 2.5 Dimensional Seduction Volumes 7-12
Last year the anime adaptation for 2.5 Dimensional Seduction started airing, but unfortunately it was tied to HIDIVE so I wasn't able to check out (as I don't want to buy another subscription for like one series). That said I did however plan ahead and grab a couple of the manga volumes before it aired. A year has passed and more volumes are now available, so I wanted to be ahead of the game and ordered more volumes.
The first order, covering Volumes 7-9, came from Amazon, because Scifier didn't have all of these available in stock on their store. They shipped across three different days; Volume 8 first arrived on Sunday 9th, then Volume 9 arrived on Monday 10th and then finally Volume 7 arrived on Wednesday 12th.
The second order, covering Volumes 10-12, was ordered directly from Scifier and pretty much I have now caught up with the English releases, as Volumes 13 onwards are out this year. These arrived on Saturday 15th.
The first order, covering Volumes 7-9, came from Amazon, because Scifier didn't have all of these available in stock on their store. They shipped across three different days; Volume 8 first arrived on Sunday 9th, then Volume 9 arrived on Monday 10th and then finally Volume 7 arrived on Wednesday 12th.
The second order, covering Volumes 10-12, was ordered directly from Scifier and pretty much I have now caught up with the English releases, as Volumes 13 onwards are out this year. These arrived on Saturday 15th.
#07: Facets of Love, Kid From Kwang Tung & The Kung Fu Instructor
Next we have some more 88 Films Shaw Brothers releases, which is thanks to the distributor running a warehouse sale on their online store which meant a lot of their titles were on offer for as low as £8.88 for a number of titles, and I used that opportunity to order their October 2024 titles that I didn't pick up initially.
In this batch we have Li Han-Hsiang's 1973 film Facets of Love (北地胭脂), Hsu Hsia's 1982 film Kid From Kwang Tung (廣東靚仔玉) & Sun Chung's 1979 film The Kung Fu Instructor (教頭).
In this batch we have Li Han-Hsiang's 1973 film Facets of Love (北地胭脂), Hsu Hsia's 1982 film Kid From Kwang Tung (廣東靚仔玉) & Sun Chung's 1979 film The Kung Fu Instructor (教頭).
#08: Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2
I went to town for the first time in a while, and before I took the trip I immediately checked the CeX website to see if there's anything of interest. Normally this doesn't provide much as my local branch is pretty weak on the selection, and to my surprise they had one game in particular that caught my attention. I did check eBay to see what the prices were like before I would try and hunt it down.
Upon going into the store, they didn't have it on their PS3 selection or on their glass shelves so I asked the staff if they had a copy available (just in case, since sometimes people can beat you to the punch). And miraculously they did as it was behind their counter. I was allowed to check the condition and I went for it, especially considering I did have CeX vouchers already so I only paid for half of what it was going for.
So yes, I now own Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2, the 2012 Dynasty Warriors spin-off game by Koei Tecmo for the PlayStation 3. This is one of the most expensive localised games out there and that's partly due to how it was not only released at the end of the PS3's life-cycle, but North America did not receive a physical version outside of the Xbox 360 release, and considering PS3 games are region free (99% of them that is) it's no-brainer that importers would try to grab the UK/EU versions.
Looking at CeX's pricey PS3 games, there's a fair amount of other expensive ones that I don't own like Godzilla (which had a PS4 version anyway), Blades of Time (a Konami game), the HD remaster for the first Killzone game (which again, will likely get a PS4/PS5 re-release via the PS Plus Classics programme), and Lost Dimension (published by NIS America which I reckon will get a re-release also).
Upon going into the store, they didn't have it on their PS3 selection or on their glass shelves so I asked the staff if they had a copy available (just in case, since sometimes people can beat you to the punch). And miraculously they did as it was behind their counter. I was allowed to check the condition and I went for it, especially considering I did have CeX vouchers already so I only paid for half of what it was going for.
So yes, I now own Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 2, the 2012 Dynasty Warriors spin-off game by Koei Tecmo for the PlayStation 3. This is one of the most expensive localised games out there and that's partly due to how it was not only released at the end of the PS3's life-cycle, but North America did not receive a physical version outside of the Xbox 360 release, and considering PS3 games are region free (99% of them that is) it's no-brainer that importers would try to grab the UK/EU versions.
Looking at CeX's pricey PS3 games, there's a fair amount of other expensive ones that I don't own like Godzilla (which had a PS4 version anyway), Blades of Time (a Konami game), the HD remaster for the first Killzone game (which again, will likely get a PS4/PS5 re-release via the PS Plus Classics programme), and Lost Dimension (published by NIS America which I reckon will get a re-release also).
#09: Cliffhanger & The Elephant Man
In HMV I picked up two more 4K Ultra HD films for the collection, both part of their 2 for £30 range. I went for Renny Harlin's 1993 film Cliffhanger and David Lynch's 1980 film The Elephant Man, both were distributed by Studio Canal for the UK. I've been interested in picking up David Lynch's works as well as Sylvester Stallone's filmography for a while now and this is the start.
#10: The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You Volumes 7-12
Around the same time as picking up the volumes for 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, I also bought volumes for The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You a while back before the anime started airing. I watched the first season of the anime in a single day because it was that good, but it does mean the manga would go out of stock here and there, so I wanted to make sure that this series is also kept up-to-speed as much as possible.
Thanks to Scifier, I was able to order Volumes 7-12 altogether (which were alongside 2.5 Dimensional Seduction's Volumes 10-12 in the order) and they arrived safe and sound. I have also caught up with the English releases, as Volumes 13 onwards are out this year.
Thanks to Scifier, I was able to order Volumes 7-12 altogether (which were alongside 2.5 Dimensional Seduction's Volumes 10-12 in the order) and they arrived safe and sound. I have also caught up with the English releases, as Volumes 13 onwards are out this year.
