If I’m quiet this weekend, it’s ’cause I’m at Yaoi-Con. Yes, I’m crazy. It’s going to be a rough weekend.

For those of you actually interested in yaoi news, you should hit up Jen and Jordan over at YaoiSuki. They cover everything pretty much on the spot (they’re almost as obsessive about it as me). I, for one, am leaving it to them while I wander around and yell “GOTH BARBIES!” at all the people carrying Dolfies.

GAH! I hate it when I think I’ve posted an entry but I actually haven’t. But instead of posting this and then a new entry, I’ll just say that they have so much more Code Geass stuff here than they did at the big cons throughout the summer. It makes me want to cry. But I had really good luck with my figure picks (got all the ones I wanted!)…

So I just got my Amazon.co.jp shipment for the month, containing the October issues of Newtype (JP), Animedia, Animage, and this month I also got The Sneaker, the light novel magazine that publishes Haruhi (among other things). As always, the swag is slightly overwhelming.

1. Darker than Black artbook.
2. Full-size Darker than Black poster (with Geass on the other side, but I already have Geass posters a-plenty…but where will I put it? T_T)
3. Gurren Lagann art/info book.
4. Evangeliwon tote bag.
5. Lucky Star poster.
6. Lucky Star stickers (which will be on my laptop shortly).
7. Haruhi fan (you have to have a handle for it, but it’s pretty nice– Noizi Ito is fabulous).
8. Zero no Tsukaima paper stands (there are Nanoha ones too).
9. Mushi-Uta art-book (*drool*)
10. An animator guidebook.

Most of the US mags come with, what, a centerfold and a DVD? Eh. Oh, and not pictured here– one of the mags comes with Lucky Star English/Japanese flash cards. Like, one side has a Japanese quote, and the other side has the English. AWESOME.

A friend wanted me to snap shots of my little poster collection, so here it is. COME SEE WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS (or, well, doesn’t).

Or ignore the post. It’s really not that exciting. ^_^;

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Current Mood:  Huzzah!

To make up for being all gone and stuff over the weekend, I thought I’d share a few photos.

Apparently in the future of Final Fantasy VII, someone invented a holodeck or a time/universe travel machine, or something, because I can’t fathom any other reason for Tifa to be in a Renaissance village. On the other hand, it was technically a “Renaissance/Fantasy” faire. I just didn’t expect it to be a “Renaissance/Final Fantasy” faire. (There were a couple of Clouds there too, and neither appeared to be with this Tifa, which is kind of funny. Also, she seemed amazed that I recognized the character. Huh.)

Okay, we may not have full-on itasha, but I still love the fact that I live in a city where you can have an UltraMan sticker on your car and not only will other people (like me) recognize it, you also won’t have your windows smashed in and your car keyed for it.

They were out of chocolate T_T so I had to get “cream” instead. (Dirty!) it was super-yummy though. A lot bigger than Konata’s. (Dirtier!) Also, they ARE kinda hard to eat. I started from the big end but because of the spiraly shape it was hard to tear off a bite cleanly so it was kinda messy and the cream got everywhere. (DIRTIEST!) But it was super yummy. I also got a maple pan that I had for breakfast this morning that was pretty good. ♥

And yes, I do have a lot of posters. Even more now that I just got my shipment of newtype/animage/animedia/comptiq/megami. I AM OUT OF WALL SPACE. (And I can’t reach the cieling.) What am I gonna do? @_@

Current Mood:  Tired

…But not much! I picked up some manga at the Go! Comi booth (Train + Train volume two, After School Nightmare volume four), and then I headed to Hen Da Ne! for some doujinshi ♥

I would like to note, for the record, that as usual I bought more het than yaoi. Two yaoi Geass doujinshi (and one’s just gag, not smut), two het Geass doujinshi (one CC, one Viletta), and two het Gurren Lagann doujinshi (one Yoko, one Nia - yay for Hen Da Ne being fast, even if that guy who does all the yelling about the yaoi is a complete asshole).

I have a friend of mine keeping a watch out for my Geass figure that I want, though I don’t hold a ton of hope that he’ll be able to find it, but beyond that, all I have left to buy is…a big stack of manga. I should make a list of stuff so I actually know what to look for. *grumble*

Anyway. I’ve covered VIZ, Seven Seas, Bandai Visual USA, and the Haruhi seiyuu panels so far, and I’m hanging around waiting for the Aurora Publishing panel, after which I will meet my boss (and, quite possibly, my coworker Dale, who I have yet to actually meet in person).

No really major news so far; VIZ didn’t announce a single new license, amazingly. It looks like they’re saving up for Otakon. 7S is broadening their ranges to include both yaoi and children’s books - go figure. BVU snagged Super Robot Wars and a CG Gundam spinoff called MS Igloo. They SAY they’re not going to start taking over the Gundam franchise from Bandai Entertainment, but we’ll see.

Alrighty, just a few minutes until Aurora. I’ve declined to wait in line for a raffle ticket and swag bag. (Hopefully I can get the swag later, and I’m not sure I’m even allowed to enter raffles. I’m so well-behaved I can hardly stand myself!)