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Mar. 27th, 2024 04:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psipsySurugaya's site is usually full of treasures. Although lately, most of the things on my wishlist remain out of stock. I think I've mined it for all I can for now. Every now and then something does show up, and they also sometimes run a sale where there's free shipping via EMS or DHL. For anything coming from Japan, that has serious value. Now when I was in Japan and in Surugaya's actual stores, it was a different matter. The shelves were full of stuff they didn't have on their international-facing website. This includes their 18+ doujinshi.
I thought I was gonna have to (eventually) make a whole other trip to Japan to buy from Volks Hobby Paradise in Akihabara. Apparently they also ship to the US. Awesome! Dangerous too. The Fiore: Primula figure I got a couple months ago was challenging to build and the finished model holds together only slightly better than wet sand but the options make it much more expressive. Weird, I could get the main kit from the US-based site but only the Japanese site had the option parts.
Am I thinking about my next trip there already? Puh-leez, I was already thinking about it before I got home from the last trip. That said, would I do M3 again? Maybe. It was fun! But I also went in like a dog that's been let off the leash for the first time in its life. Considering that I bought 150 CDs in the span of 4 hours, that meant I was averaging one CD in less than 2 minutes. Getting 5 or 6 of them from one seller is what sped up the average. I got a lot of great music to show for it but oh that got expensive. Since M3 was the cornerstone of that particular trip, that was the idea. I could have taken a flight back home the day after and I would have considered the trip a success.
Sokushi Cheat anime: This anime. It sure is an anime. I think this was "written" by writing down a bunch of well-worn tropes on pieces of paper, mixing those papers up in a box, pulling them out one or two at a time to compose this stream-of-consciousness fever dream, and then feeding it into an AI. The plot changes completely every 5 minutes. It's like the anime equivalent of those Russian car crash videos on YouTube. Sokushi Cheat has less continuity than "Italian Spiderman". Drugs had to have been involved in its production. And yet I enjoyed the chaos of it all.
Frieren: From the description, I wasn't sure about this at first because fantasy anime isn't necessarily my thing. There are some I'll watch, and others I'll skip. This one lives up to the hype and then some. It was amazing. The fight scenes are full of action, the characters are interesting, and Frieren is her own comic relief despite her character being written as over 1000 years old and has seen a lot in her day. For most of the series, she's like Konata Izumi from Lucky Star with silver hair and elf ears. During some of the lighter episodes, I was half-expecting Frieren and Fern to start discussing which end of a chocolate cornet to eat first.
A coworker who is also into anime had not seen or even heard of the 90s classic "Neon Genesis Evangelion". So, I suggested he watch it. He seems to like it so far, however he's not quite halfway through.
I thought I was gonna have to (eventually) make a whole other trip to Japan to buy from Volks Hobby Paradise in Akihabara. Apparently they also ship to the US. Awesome! Dangerous too. The Fiore: Primula figure I got a couple months ago was challenging to build and the finished model holds together only slightly better than wet sand but the options make it much more expressive. Weird, I could get the main kit from the US-based site but only the Japanese site had the option parts.
Am I thinking about my next trip there already? Puh-leez, I was already thinking about it before I got home from the last trip. That said, would I do M3 again? Maybe. It was fun! But I also went in like a dog that's been let off the leash for the first time in its life. Considering that I bought 150 CDs in the span of 4 hours, that meant I was averaging one CD in less than 2 minutes. Getting 5 or 6 of them from one seller is what sped up the average. I got a lot of great music to show for it but oh that got expensive. Since M3 was the cornerstone of that particular trip, that was the idea. I could have taken a flight back home the day after and I would have considered the trip a success.
Sokushi Cheat anime: This anime. It sure is an anime. I think this was "written" by writing down a bunch of well-worn tropes on pieces of paper, mixing those papers up in a box, pulling them out one or two at a time to compose this stream-of-consciousness fever dream, and then feeding it into an AI. The plot changes completely every 5 minutes. It's like the anime equivalent of those Russian car crash videos on YouTube. Sokushi Cheat has less continuity than "Italian Spiderman". Drugs had to have been involved in its production. And yet I enjoyed the chaos of it all.
Frieren: From the description, I wasn't sure about this at first because fantasy anime isn't necessarily my thing. There are some I'll watch, and others I'll skip. This one lives up to the hype and then some. It was amazing. The fight scenes are full of action, the characters are interesting, and Frieren is her own comic relief despite her character being written as over 1000 years old and has seen a lot in her day. For most of the series, she's like Konata Izumi from Lucky Star with silver hair and elf ears. During some of the lighter episodes, I was half-expecting Frieren and Fern to start discussing which end of a chocolate cornet to eat first.
A coworker who is also into anime had not seen or even heard of the 90s classic "Neon Genesis Evangelion". So, I suggested he watch it. He seems to like it so far, however he's not quite halfway through.
