Small time haul from CM 75, and retry Osaka

(tags doujinshi, Comic Market 75, 薄荷屋, Osaka, character goods)

Some goods from Comic Market 75: Hakkaya / Yuiko Tokumi (薄荷屋 or 篤見唯子) calendar (2), Doki Doki Tama-tan, Hello World, a free booklet for GA Bunko Publishing with a nice illustration of Polyphonica Corti. This was last weekend's haul.

In Osaka, Books Lashinbang had one CM 75 Hakkaya / Yuiko Tokumi Calendar for 1500 yen, which I thought was great, until I found Hobby Vanilla selling multiples for 600 yen each. Ouch. So I bought the second one to average the cost out. :-/

I only bought the Polyphonica leaflet because of the illustration on the cover. Inside was merely a catalog of new light novels coming out. 200 yen via rental space case (委託販売), really not worth it.

And Tama-tan (たまタン) related goods, which was a CD to be eventually be sold at Tora no Ana. I got this one at K-Books just because I felt the haul was small and the Tama-tan goods need to be collected.

I can't say that I am looking for more CM 75 stuff to buy. I probably missed most of the good stuff going in on 2008-01-11 Sunday anyway. I did pick up some other goods from previous CMs that I missed. The picture shows in the background the bag from Hakkaya CM73 goods. Also I picked up some drama CDs and other おまけ/特典 (exclusive goods) not related to CM. 

Still today I plan on going out to Nipponbashi to swim through the goods again. Also, today is World Hobby Fair (for the Pikachu in me) at Osaka Dome. Also a new event for me is Comic Treasure, a doujinshi fan event sponsored by AoBoo, but it's a non-free event. It appears to be held at Intex Osaka, the same place as Dream Party I attended last November. I learned about this through Aoi Nishimata's blog (大阪にむけて出発です). Is she visiting?

Let's see what's there. Osaka Osaka, nande nande ya nen.

Eyes on the prize: Comic Market 72 (by proxy), Den-den town romp

(tags Comic Market, doujinshi, goods, Osaka)

Comic Market 72 ended on Sunday, and I tried to anticipate the proxy selling by going to the doujin resell shops in Osaka Den Den Town just one day after. I predicted that some Osaka-based early bird otaku returning from Tokyo would sell their spoils on Monday morning and afternoon. I saw many people in the kaitori (sell-back, reuse) counters and I even saw one guy being handed multiple 1_0000 yen bills. I bet you it was for those Lucky Star framed illustrations going for 3_0000 yens. Its big money.

Since I wasn't looking for doujinshi resell but more like goods resale (telephone cards, new full set circle goods), I spent more time at Lashinbang, K-Books and even Sofmap Treasure Box. Places I skipped today like Tora no Ana and Melon Books do sell CM related stuff but its all sealed and not reused stuff.

The eyes have me. The bottom thing is a Kasimasi themed "Stick Poster" illustrated by Yukimaru Katsura (桂 遊生丸), but it is not a Comic Market item.

There were a few things I wanted from Comic Market like a Ruriiro Rinne (るり色輪廻) pencil card by Atsushi Yoshinari (吉成篤), but I settled for some doujinshi. I'll grab doujin games later. Basically I was looking for new stuff from circle Hakkaya (薄荷屋), which is the pen name of my favorite illustrator Yuiko Tokumi (篤見唯子). I didn't find a package of goodies, but I found two doujinshis, Petit Fours 4 (a collaboration) and Plus Minus (right). Finally Tokumi does some Nanoha doujinshi for the epic kawaii. The remaining doujinshi on the left is by circle Tiny Feather (illustrator Sin-go) which I'll just leave as NSFW.

For my other favorite illustrators, I didn't remember the names of the circles, let alone their names. I can't remember their kanji, either. Luckily, K-Books has some handy dandy illustrator to circle charts reference. Now I know that Barasui (ばらスィー) is Sweet Rose, Naoto Tenhiro (天広直人) is Cielo, etc.

Other than that, I just picked up some other junk that I didn't yet have. Well actually I had a Pocket Pikachu pedometer years ago but it was stolen from me, heh.

I got that deck of cards from K-Books (「K-BOOKSスペシャルトランプ」) for buying more than 3000 yens worth. Supposedly there are a lot of famous doujin and professional illustrators. There was a lot of glass case space devoted just to show off these cards, and it already sold out at the Tokyo store. I hope an Yuiko Tokumi illustration is in there. I'll open it up, but only if I have some plastic card protectors.

I'll probably go to Osaka Den-Den Town again next weekend but it will probably be stripped clean of the interesting stuff. I can't compete against those full-time otaku.