New Stuff from AX 2011

When I wanna be vague when someone asks me what I buy, I say, "stuff". And that's what I bought. Really! So much stuff, lol. I was trying to hold back. I didn't buy any figures either and some of them are freebies and signed stuff. The one up top is one of my favourite things that got signed ^o^

Arakawa Under the Bridge BD/DVD, Katanagatari Vol. 1 BD/DVD, Hidamari Sketch 3rd Season DVD, Gurren Lagann movie 2 DVD (not available in Canada), Haruhi-chan Vol. 2 DVD and K-ON! Vol. 2 Blu-Ray.

The biggest blow to my budget were DVDs and Blu-Rays. NIS America, Bandai and Sentai Filmworks got a chunk of my money! I bought Katanagatari on sale on the last day thankfully, but I paid full price for Arakawa Under the Bridge. That's because if you buy it, you get a priority ticket to get stuff signed from Sawashiro Miyuki ^^

MEIKO shirt! Anime Expo 2011 shirts X 2... One for my brother. And the freebie NicoNico shirt that doesn't fit me... Also goes to my brother ^^;

Shirts, shirts, shirts and more shirts! I think I'm a shirt otaku. I buy so many things with anime things on a shirt and I'd wear'em all XD

2 Mirai shirts

I was glad to see J-List got their big selection of shirts on hand. Wanted to get some of these but didn't want to pay for shipping :P

Would you like to make a contract?

And the picture below is a bit NSFW ^^; Got my hands on a few eroge from JAST USA/J-List... Something I've been wanting to get a hard copy of and not a download copy... Kinda wary about bringing it back, but got in safely :)

Deus Machina Demonbane, Escalation Yukkuri Panic, Tokimeki Check in!, Blazing Souls Accelate

Yah, I got mostly eroge, but one PSP game from Aksys for $10 was irresistible. And it was good dropping by Aksys' booth because I didn't go to their panel, but I found out that they are translating Fate/Extra! It was nice talking to the guy who was doing the translations too :) Will look forward to it in December! The 2 on the top is what I was planning to get when I got to AX. Tokimeki was given for free when I bought both games ^^

I only bought one CD, Kalafina's Magia, and that's mostly because of the DVD packed in. The other 2 CDs were freebies when I bought from NIS America booth.

It was fun talking to the folks at Obitsu. I bought 2 of the Obitsu 11cm bodies so I can use them for Nendoroids :P They also gave me the catalogue and flyers at purchase.

This Itazura Bank with the cat is something I got from J-List. It was just too adorable not to get. But I didn't get it for myself ^^

This Eva Tokyo-3 Base set is from Yakuri! She posted this a while ago, and I was eyeing it, but mostly just for Rei ^^;

Little do I know that she was going to give it to me XD It was like Christmas in July!

I've yet to open it to build it, but soon. It just looks really cool!

I also encountered Kurot while I was there :D I instantly recognized the artwork when I passed by. I had a brief chat with her, but she seemed really quiet, so I didn't disturb her much ^^; All her prints were a bit large for me to bring back home in my luggage, so I just bought this one of Homura. :D

And and and! I also got around to meeting Lene and getting some of her stuff for sale! Kinda random stuff, lol. She was teasing on Twitter about having a MEIKO sticker, so I tried to look for her booth asap! Got Lily (Yuri, teehee!), MEIKO (of course), TakoLuka, Homura (popular item according to Lene... Good thing I got one!), Madoka, Haruka, Mirai and Kanata... And looks like my Tomoe Mami is missing... Darnit Charlotte! Oh wait, no, I gave it to someone who claims her as a waifu :P

Someone from Artist Alley were selling this Tabloid size poster for $1. I couldn't bring it home unfortunately, so I took a photo instead :P I gave it to Tsubasa before I left.

Mostly cuz of MEIKO. The other posters didn't have MEIKO on'em.

These are the concerts I went to... They were a bit short unfortunately... Overpriced tickets at AX, imo. Other cons would have these for free...

And here are the signed loots! Different circumstances for each item, lol.

The first one is a signed AFA09 card. I actually got it with Danny's signature already. This came from Singapore last year, probably Kodomut sent it to Chun and then to me ^^ Then I just needed Takanori Aki's autograph ^^

This one was a fun one to get. Sawashiro Miyuki was signing at the NIS America booth and when my turn came up, I showed up with Puchiko's hat in my hand and she was a little bit shy seeing it. "Bikkurishita", she says as she covers up her face. ^o^ Then she asks 3 or 4 other people to stretch out the fabric and then she signed on it. I asked her to write "nyu" as well, hehehe. I had this hat for a while too... I wore it back in the first Anime Boston I attended in 2007.

Next is Momoi Haruko's autograph! Ah, well... She wasn't really there, lol. Yakuri attended Fanime in May and got this for me! Oh you're so kind Yaku-chan ^o^ Thank you very much! I've been a big fan of Halko for a long time now, ever since Nakahara Komugi. I hope I get to meet her one day ^_^

Lastly is my Demonbane copy signed by Kosaka Taiki-san. I kinda wished I brought my copy of Phantom of Inferno instead ^^; Oh well... Time to play this game soon :3

Errr... Well this is from 2009 when Kalafina attended AB, lol. So this isn't recent, but I can still show it off, right? :P I didn't get their autograph this year unfortunately...

The next few batch of new stuff I got will be presented by my imouto, Helen. Here she is with a new nekomimi hat that she got from the Artist Alley... Oh I wish I took a card or remembered whose booth it was ^^;

She also got a new usamimi hat, since it's the year of the rabbit after all. They came in different sizes, but Helen's head is the size of a MSD, so I got those with a cheaper price too than a DD or SD size. :P

Errr... I got this for free when I bought Katanagatari... I thought it was some kind of pouch, but when I opened it...

Helen: "Oniichan ecchi..." Ah! I didn't know it was a pair of pantsu! Maybe I can wear it as a new hat...

This is Jonathan from Kaleido Star. A friend told me to pick something for free when he got something from buying over $50 at the Sentai Filmworks booth. I've been wanting a Jonathan plushie for a while too.

And here's the last new stuff... Another plushie with a cute baby blue ribbon! Helen seems to like it...

Ah shoot... I forgot to take the label off! Helen don't read that! Helen: "Silly oniichan, what's the harm of reading the label?"

"Baka ecchi oniichan..."

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AB 2009 Loots

And after all that coverage of the AnimeBoston convention, we get to the loots! I was carrying around a half-filled luggage when I went there and I filled it up when I got back. I was prepared to get lots of loots, but I was also limiting myself because I know I may not have all the room in there ^^;

I made close-up pictures of each item above except for two things. One is the Nanoha DVD box. It's actually just an empty box that I got from the Anime on DVD panel ran by Chris Beveridge. They're no longer called Anime on DVD anymore though. They're under the Mania banner ever since sometime last year. The second one is also from the same panel, which is Aqua Bless. No need to mince words here, it's a hentai manga. Yep, but it was free! Something that I could've bought from the dealer's room for $20 and I got it for free! So glad I attended this panel. Basically in the panel, you ask a question and you're allowed to take something for free from the table. He's got LOTS of free stuff there. Although by the time I was able to ask a question, all the good stuff were mostly gone. There were one copy left of this manga after I picked it up, I wonder who got the second one ^^;

I usually buy a lot of shirts from anime conventions, but there weren't a lot that interests me. The one on the left, Lucky Eva shirt featuring Tsukasa as Rei and Kagami as Asuka was one of the shirts I was looking to order from JList, but thankfully I waited and got it from the convention. Tsukasa being my favourite character from Lucky Star and Rei as my favourite from Evangelion ^_^

As for the Yoda shirt... I didn't really buy it. My brother who went to Disneyland around the same time I went on my trip bought it for me. I just had to take a picture of it since it looks so funny. The front of the shirt is in the image below.

I was saving space in my lugagge for figures, but I couldn't find any scaled figures that I wanted badly from there, so I got these smaller types instead. I've finally got my hands on the Yoko movie version, and was able to give my older Yoko to someone who wanted it more. I resisted on getting this cheerleader Haruhi, but the faces on this was so hard to resist... I may have a use for these faces for my comics. Since I bought a Ryomou figma, I thought I'd have Kanu as a part of my collection too, perhaps I can use it for the comic as wel, lol. And lastly the Oukachan Nendoroid; possibly the ONLY nendoroid that was being sold in the building! I mean, I did not see any other Nendoroids there at all except for this one. I've never even seen this one before, but it looked so cool that I had to get it, after going back and forth in my mind whether I should get it or not.

I usually don't buy trading figures anymore... but these ones are interesting enough that I manage to get one of each. Well the one on the left, Flat Style, was already opened, so you can pick and choose what you want.

Whereas the other one, the box on the right, have this mosaicced picture that caught my interest, lol.
So I got this twin tail girl with striped pantsu from the Flat Style box and got the nekkid girl riding on a goldfish for the one with the mosaicced picture on its box ^^; I really wanted that one with the mosaics, lol.

I was planning to get more DVDs but nothing else caught my eye and they were mostly expensive. I got Princess Blade for $5 from the ADV booth... though I'm thinking I may have this one already. I was going back and forth about the Macross Ace Frontier game too... I found out that this vendor was selling it cheaper than the other one, so I thought it was a pretty good pickup. Kinda hard to play, but that's because I was sleepy when I was trying it, lol. Lastly, the Kalafina CD. Really good songs on it, especially after listening to them live. I got mine autographed by the three vocalists along with Yuki Kajiura. Some of the songs are already some of my favourites.

Something I picked up from the Artist Alley, Samus in zero suit. I was going to buy a Miku from them as well, but they drew her with a bigger oppai which was not accurate ^^;

Here's the back of the eroge I picked up. Brave Soul, Bible Black and Kana ~Little Sister. I've been wanting to play Brave Soul since it's like an actual RPG and it's got the same art as Scrapped Princess character design. I heard Kana had a really good story. And Bible Black... is Bible Black. I had a stopover in Ottawa where I had to pick up my luggage for the connection... I was so worried because I had to go through Canadian custom and was asked several questions. Thankfully he didn't ask me to open my luggage or these three will not be here in this picture. At least Bible Black wouldn't be... It was quite nerve-wracking. Remind me to never go through a Canadian city stopover again.

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Alter 1/8 Nagi, God of Death Cloth Version

A good shot of the undercleavage & barely there thong pantsu ^^;

Another one of those figures where I saw someone's picture of this figure on the Anime Figurine Network on Facebook and I want it. At first I thought I could live without it since it's kinda ecchi and hard to find... but then came eBay -_- I swear that place is just a black hole for money in your wallet! For now she is still in her box (with many of my other figures) until I find a place to display my ecchi figures ^^;

I actually had no idea where this character's from, but I checked Wikipedia for Peace@Pieces and found out that it's an eroge... Now it all makes sense why her clothes show her undercleavage, and barely-there-thong pantsu :P

I have no idea what she's riding on either... some kind of fat green hornet thingy? Doesn't look like Seth Rogen to me XD I really have no idea about this series, all I know is that she's sexy and cute and I'm glad I got a Piece of her :D

Oh and I wanted to show off this new mirror base that I just got too ^^ It wasn't for this figure specifically, but the result isn't too bad, eh? It's suppose to rotate, but I don't have the battery, a D battery that is. Who has that kind of batteries lying around??

A good view of her cute thigh high boots and her face at the same time! I love this base!

This is supposed to be sideways, but Blogspot is really messing with the horizontal pictures. Sometimes it's making the vertical pictures into horizontal pictures and apparently horizontal pictures into vertical pictures... Anyone have an idea how to fix this?

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