dat ass!

(tags Windows 7, Nanami Madobe, Quo cards, poster, collectibles)

dat ass!

dat quo card ass!

dat blown up, multiple ass!

dat clear file ass!

dat big ass poster sofmap ass!

Wipe dat ass!

WIPE DAT PREPRINTED ASS!

...

Ahem, Windows 7 Mania, indeed. This "official" mascot, Nanami Madobe (窓辺ななみ), sure is moe. And Windows 7? It's a pretty good Spider Solitare platform. Heh.

2008 is already here! Animedia Nanoha Calendar

(tags poster, anime, Nanoha, 2008, sexy)

Well my Winter vacation has come and gone and I haven't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I did go crazy on Friday and Sunday (eg purchases) so there's that to document. I haven't yet talked about my own version of "best and rest of 2008", like last year.

But 2008 is already here and so that means a new calendar. But this one is not very functional, rawr.

I am so behind on reading Moeyo Akibajin blog. I read the news about this interesting calendar just last week even though it was posted on 2007-12-11 (「なのは9歳？、15歳？、19歳勢ぞろいカレンダー付属のアニメディア発売他」). Luckily Animedia is a monthly magazine, though I never regularly buy it. This particular calendar comes with Animedia issue 2008-01. I bought two of the same issue at only 500 yen each. Unfortunately the poster's paper is flimsy so I put both of them up in that plastic sheet.

Also this reminds me of that special poster when you buy that Nanoha StrikerS DVD 1 which features a young (9) and mature (19) Nanoha. I like that one better than this one. :-/ It was also illustrated in a one-of-a-kind POP back in 2007-07. I found a copy of the poster version at Books Lashinbang, and it could be mine for only 4000 yen! No thanks.

Also as a special addition to the 2008-01 issue, there was a data book about all the televised anime since 1962 till 2007. Whoa 45 years of anime. No pictures, just director, seiyuu, etc. It's surprisingly small at 130 pages, with a big chunk of it devoted to seiyuu data as well. Of course with Japanese kanji you can squeeze a lot in, plus it's normal to read a book really close to your face. It would be so cool to have this data digitized, though.

Looking for this: Yuiko Tokumi stuff

(tags stick poster, poster, anime, gal-ge, zettai ryouiki)

I'd like to think I learn from blind purchasing, but I'm just barely checking the Yahoo Auctions for illustrator Yuiko Tokumi == Hakka-ya stuff (keywords: 「篤見唯子」 or 「薄荷屋」), before I head out today.

Looking at that page reminded me about the stick poster postings I promised to show. Well here's one from my collection illustrated by Tokumi, on the right.

Yes, Comic Market 73 ended yesterday, but will those returning-to-Kinki-area otaku resell their stuff to K-Books, et al, in time for me to scoop them up today and tomorrow? I doubt it. I bet you the action day is January 2nd, Wednesday. I don't really want to spend that much time in Den Den Town, yikes.

Evil revisited: my second binder for Stick Posters

(tags stick poster, poster, anime, gal-ge, zettai ryouiki)

As I said, I was cleaning my bomb shelter and I unearthed my Stick Poster Collection binder (pictured left). I celebrated by buying a second binder. :-/ I forgot who did the cover for the right binder, but its one of those Leaf/AquaPlus illustrators, right? Zettai ryouiki FTW, rawr.

The second binder was marked down to 2000 yen. Basically I bought it for the inserts, because they DON'T fsckin' SELL refill inserts (at the shop). Where do I get refills?

Remember that Stick Posters (スティックポスター) are an AquaPlus invention that measure 182 mm by 515 mm (B3 paper size divided in half). On the same page, lots of interesting illustrations come out for the format. Personally I hope Stick Posters die a fast death, but it seem Mobile Suit Gundam will appear 2007-12-20, which will float this troublesome collectable a little bit more. Hm, do those Gundam heads go for paper? I thought they go for model kits and video game demos.

I will slowly posting pictures of my stick posters collection, so keep the label "stick poster" at the ready. Too bad my hand is not steady and my digi-cam is Sony quality.

Can't take it with you, but you can certainly put it in plastic

(tags poster, anime, game, seiyuu)

I don't collect posters really, but they just seem to accumulate. I finally started organizing some of them:

I love this poster set from Kimi ga Nozumu Eien (君が望む永遠) DVD series. Animation character designer Youko Kikuchi (菊地洋子) translated this PC game well.

When I first tried to take a picture of this poster set, it was hard to capture the immense size of two A2 B2 JIS B2 posters side by side (which makes it A1 B1 JIS B1 size but I digress). So I put in the other posters that were laying around, though I probably have twice as many stuck in the closet.

I am sticking the unravelled posters into a poster binder. Unfortunately it's hard to get the paper to stay unravelled while I put it in the plastic sheets, so I prep them by hanging on my refrigerator. I do have wall space but it's undiscovered country. In fact, I still have some calendars from up from previous years, even a Salvador Dali one from 2003. Ugh. I don't really want to turn my rooms into an emulation of a gal game shop, however.

You may notice that posters on the right hand side are from Mahou Shojo Lyrical Nanoha A's (魔法少女リリカルなのはA's) by the font design. Also there are some seiyuu artist and game posters mixed in. I probably need to buy another binder though, this one is getting heavy and full. At 3000 yen a pop, though, it's expensive to keep paper.

(I wrote this post because I wanted to take a picture of the Hekiru Shiina poster)

edit: The posters are JIS B2, not A2 or B2.