I mean, that kind of looks like a present if you Photoshop it haha (Image credit: Thanks Ibuki-chan!) |
I kept thinking throughout this month that I'm celebrating my sis' birthday,
I'm playing Secret Santa and I have to give stuff and where's my damn
Christmas present, and here we are. *laughs* So yeah, thanks me, you have been
a good boy this year lol
Eh, I could've done this earlier, like for example two days earlier (or even
one month tbh), but due to unfortunate circumstances involving me breaking a
cloud service (OOF) I literally burnt my Tuesday and made me lose my good boy
standing so Santa won't give me shit now (haha), but still, I lived to see
this package when I reached home late at night, and I couldn't be happier.
Sadly, I could only be happier today because yesterday so a Wednesday which is
stream night lol. But yeah, at least we have today to ACTUALLY finish this up.
It's never too early for this Early Christmas Special anyways even if this is
more than a month late already so the title still holds haha *dabs*
This package is also a conclusion to a lot of things for the year including
Klassic Note and my direction on buying these stuff going forward to reduce
physical merchandise which I will elaborate at the end of this post, but
first, let's get in the present-opening season before I actually get stuff I
don't want on Saturday, yes? HAHA let's do this
Just a little, just a little UNBOXING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!okay my
keyboard had a stroke lmao of course not
Hey, it's a journey, alright? It's easier to write a narrative with an
unboxing haha
So yeah, the box looked like this, probably the smallest box for this year huh remember when it was all about T-shirts and posters? |
It's all miscellaneous in life until you know I'm into music lol |
Thanks Japan for the packaging as always nothing is fragile inside btw lol |
What even is this? Can they not wrap more though haha |
Ah okay flipping this around I know what this is and I'm soooooooooooo hyped |
Another thing worth mentioning though, is that this one, like another which
we will mention later, got delayed. Because the "Seiyuu Grand Prix" based
online shop ST-info is such a bad sport, this one which was probably(?)
supposed to be dispatched in November got delayed to early December which
ended up being the final package to arrive (and just in time to be sent
here) instead of being the first. But you are the first in my heart
RumiRumi- Okay I'll stop haha
The four sets of bromides I bought, and yes I like both cute and beautiful RumiRumi, don't ask |
Shoutout to the high-end restaurant that I had to pay for- Uh, the staff had to pay, to watch her eat quality food and watch steak being cooked instantly in front of her lol |
Wow I like the lack of lighting it brings in suspense haha I'm sorry |
And how can I have 3 out of the 8 unique is still a mystery (~35% duplicates btw) |
Ah yes we'll talk about you in a different post haha |
Hey, I've waited long for these Naomi-chan released some bromides man! *smiles* |
Badges and bromides? What can it be? (Like really, you can't even guess we still have at least three other sets of these lmao) |
Next up, and this is pretty hype in my opinion too because why are we
getting all the good stuff from people that have never released goods before
all at once, it's Oozora Naomi web series official goods!!
Interestingly, this is just one of those (paid) web livestreams of dear
Naomi-chan wanting to be an artist (of drawings), and this is somehow what
made this took off as its official merch, and among what I bought this is
just bromides and badges because I've never thought of buying anything else
from this girl before (in her 30s btw there is a theme here lmao) but also,
she has her own artwork on some of the goods, so if you are interested in
them please... just stare at
this Tweet
and think of how much you may have missed it lol I regret nothing BROMIDES
FTW haha
Great, 0 out of 0 haha (I gotta, hey, I gotta) |
1 out of 1, no surprises there |
2 out of 2, good good (Need more close-ups though but the line-up didn't include those so) |
3 out of 3, I'm lovin' it |
Is that... a duplicate but also, a rare autographed one!!?? (You know how one buys two photobooks, reads one of them because they keep the other? This) (58.9% getting duplicates FYI, but autographed though!) |
If you take a closer look and also from the official site,
the 8 types of bromides spell her name at the top right of each photo, but reading from right to
left I got, uh, "O-o-o-ra" lmao (Don't worry, wasn't aiming for that level of perfection anyways) (If I were to though you know I only simp for close ups) |
It's always scary and exciting to see this... |
...but hey I got the not drawing ones! Yay!! (FYI there are 5 types, the others are drawn by yours truly) (But damn what are the chances I'll get this- Oh 20% lol) |
I still don't know what this is even though it's at the top of the pack but... |
... I do know what this is hey Akarin hehe |
This one is seriously in the smoked-too-much-weed addiction level because I
think this will be THE LAST TIME I buy from her I have so much already, it's
Kitou Akari 2nd live tour goods!! Yep, she's back at new songs this
year again, and this is going to carry her far and above they know this is
earning them money at PONY CANYON, so I gotta pay for this anyways I paid
for her fanclub stop asking questions *laughs* Anyways, didn't buy much from
her besides adding on to the already crazy amount of bromides from her and
badges because I already bought so many of the latter in this package why
not buy more, and don't ask me why I love them bromides if you don't like it
just move on please (lol)
These are so good I can't even (Akarin~) |
You think my chances are good? This has the lowest to get duplicates so I hope so |
Thank goodness they are different I didn't hit the 12.5% on dupes |
A very familiar envelope tbh I think the last time it was used to
house some Tomita Miyu goods (Yes from the same online store ASMART) |
Ah I know this, this is the good stuff no one will sell online (lol) |
I would say this would have been a bigger thing if that other event earlier
this month after this one were to sell their event goods online too instead
of physically but I guess that is not talent company specific but features
them too, here we go this is... *searches high and low for info because
forgot what it is* AMUSE Voice Actors Channel Fes 2021 bromides!!
That was quite the title seriously, but yeah, I'm literally buying these
because they can be bought lol, but more of I'm into the 2 out of the 8 of
them namely Isobe Karin and recently Tomita Miyu and obviously, their
bromides are hard to find so I'm willing to take the extra mile here. There
is a pamphlet and random 37card if you remember what those are, but I don't
like the other 6 so I can't take random lol (BOOM GOT'EM) and I'm lazy
to call a phone number which requires a Japanese phone number, period. Yay
for everything else though haha I like myself some Karin-chan and Miyu-chan
Gotta say here though? They took the pictures too clearly so Miyu-chan wins haha |
Ah I know what this is... |
... so now I finally know where these badges are with they were with these other bromides lol |
So yeah, as if we didn't get enough of them from last year and really it has
somehow turned into liking both of them tbh, it's
Hondo Kaede and Naganawa Maria's collaboration event goods!! Yep,
Ede-chan teamed up with Naganawa Maria again for the latter person's
birthday (I always remember Ede-chan's is in March I'll probably buy those
too next year lmao), but yeah, this one is not exactly focused on any of
them since it's a collaboration, but yeah, I guess convincing myself to buy
only for the one might have made me liked the other over time. Or maybe it's
the Anime roles, Maria-chan, but hey, I guess it's worth buying for both now
haha. This time, apart from buying badges too because read previous
paragraphs, they released a crazy record-breaking
FIVE
SETS
OF
FOUR
bromides it's so much I didn't buy all of them I think I didn't buy
the C set
but I can't refer to the original site now already they removed the images
thanks ST-info I had to Google for these sample images
Yep, if you find that name familiar this one ALSO got delayed this one was
waaay worse I pre-ordered this when
they announced this back in August. *silence* Yep *looks at Minase Inori calendar* And they STILL had the
balls to delay it from October to November, these guys. Have they never
heard about Rage Quit- I will never do that I'm an otaku I'll wait patiently
for everything haha I'm just glad it even appeared to be honest these guys
don't even have a release date planned on their initial sale of these unlike
the one I misread for Sumipe's goods lol
I somehow prefer this birthday party bromides to the Ede-chan ones did
they get to decide what these will be? If so Maria-chan we have quite
the synergy- (No no Ede-chan I love you too and your weird fashion tastes lol) |
Well the line up for this isn't great so fingers crossed... |
... and they are unique thank goodness but single member images would've been great imo |
See? Kana-chan be telling you to open them bromides (Hehe) |
Last but not least, and I hate it how it was released RIGHT AFTER I bought
the Akarin ones because they be from PONY CANYON too and that means I burnt
on shipping feed twice *sob*, it's Hanazawa Kana's live tour goods!!
Yep, Kana-chan is back, she's under a new music label now along with
Taketatsu Ayana and Kitou Akari to name a few, but still retains its usual
producers specifically Kitagawa from Aniplex where she was from, but also
probably because, she moved music labels to cater to an international
audience! If you find her in China streaming at bilibili or have heard the
two Chinese songs in her latest single don't be too surprised lol. Anyways,
this is not about that, I'm just here to buy me some bromides because now
that she is out of Sony Music's Communist-level corporate hands I can get
myself some novelty prints! *giggles* Thanks for everything Kana-chan the
songs might not be swag but these photos are lol 30s FTW btw
Damn I'm tired so let's do this quickly haha this desk mat is not
very clean lol (Just a little sneak peek at behind-the-scenes of this reveal if the keyboard isn't an obvious indicator) |
1 out of 1, love the close-up, please give me more (I don't care how much makeup you put- Okay me lol) |
2 out of 2, awesome |
3 out of 3 but goddamn I paid for this why don't you look towards the camera |
Oh seriously man why not look this way? |
And... I think I cleared all the landscape photos
there were 10 types
and the other half are the portraits I rather have lmao (*silence* I, I don't know if I should be happy or not lol) |
Yes it's going to look ugly for the time being, and I'm sure it'll look
shorter and have a nice table of contents in due time, but meanwhile I'm
just trying to rush through all this so I can actually got for another way
of work- Yeah, I didn't get work leave on Christmas Eve and trust me, I
wanted to. If not for my poor planning and screw ups at work I believe I
would've tried to align all the planets and make this a Christmas miracle in
itself- Hey me, why didn't I do that? *laughs* Should've done so, huh.
Anyways, I feel bad now, this is not a miracle anyways, but I think so
because it did arrive after all before the new year which is what I've
prayed for since all of this dropped by for consolidation last month.
Before I go though, I'll briefly talk about what will make of this special
series starting from next year and we will do so soon after the next package
arrives which should've been consolidated by the end of the year but I
highly doubt so: I'm going digital mainly because these physical
goods are taking up space and I don't have much of it. Instead of being a
otaku junkie and pile up stuff, I rather take these as a rarity and keep the
physical goods to the minimum so hopefully just the occasional bromides with
CD runs I'll still do, and maybe for my birthdays. Even so, I'll try to
support them through digital means from getting photobooks digitally from
say Amazon Japan, or even sign up for their fanclubs if my cards let me do
so. So yeah, will be quite a big change as I try not to burn money on
international shipping and maybe avoid taxation to be honest, but I'll still
give them money somehow. *laughs* Good night.