Rincchi's Lair

Oh my gosh!

Finally!!!

Mutsukiya's "Little Braver" doujinshi finally showed up on Suruga-ya again (I added it to my wishlist on Suruga-ya about a year ago, it showed up once but I missed it, I was so bummed out...) and this time I managed to get it! \O/

Those months of checking my wishlist on Suruga-ya every day have come to an end at last for I've finally managed to order my most coveted doujinshi. Huzzah! Man, I'm so happy... I love Mutsuki's art, and I'm really interested in seeing their take on the Natsume siblings' past.

Now I just have to wait a million years for Suruga-ya to ship it to the forwarding service. They are always so slow when it comes to shipping things out. x_x Pretty annoying, really... I wonder if they will actually use a sensibly sized box this time? The forwarding service does repack though. I learned my lesson after the Cospa Rin incident...

Seems Suruga-ya does notify you of wishlisted items coming in stock on the account page, whoops. I must have just not noticed it last time... I still think notification emails would be a good idea.

I love Suruga-ya. Even if they love oversized boxes and take forever to ship things out...

I really haven't been posting much lately. Welp. So, anyway...

An Ayumi nendoroid is being released. Surprised Ayumi is first. I was expecting Nao or Yusa first. She's really cute though so of course I pre-ordered her. There's a bonus pizza sauce and hand parts with her on the GSC store... but I didn't opt for that. 1k yen extra and EMS shipping which means Customs would charge me for shipping as well as the nendoroid? And ParcelFarce's extortionate handling fee on top of that? No thanks. I ended up pre-ordering her on Ixu's Deviance. It seems cheaper than Figuya so that's good. Maybe they will be my go to European figure shop.

Nippon-Yasan with inter transilogistic shipping is an option too, but pretty expensive. For a single nendo, not really worth it.

So, anyway, it's pretty neat Charlotte got a full nendoroid release... unlike Angel Beats. Maybe GSC figured people only care about Kanade but since she's so devoid of emotion, they didn't bother. I dunno though, Bunshin Tenshi is a valid option for an alternative faceplate.

I dunno. But Kanade does get a lot of love figure wise, compared to even Yuri. If they had ever decided to make a full sized AB nendo, I'm sure it would have been of Kanade. Heck, Kanade's even getting a new figure soon. And she got a figure rerelease.

Speaking of the rerelease, wonder when Figuya ships them out? I think February according to their site...

I really am neglecting this poor journal. Sorry, journal. D:

Charlotte is airing today. I'm looking forward to it. \O/ Dat Ep. 9 preview, aw yeah. Charlotte's actually really popular in Japan, it seems.

... so where are our Charlotte figures already? All we have so far is a Nao garage kit. This is an injustice. Gimme a Yuu figure.

The only male Key character to ever get a figure is Otonashi, and that was just a Nendoroid Petit. T_T Why must we be so deprived. *sob* Oh right, because Key works are usually aimed at males.

It's hard, not being part of the target demographic.

At least Rin has a decent amount of figures. Poor, poor Mio...

Poor Kanata too, she doesn't even have a single scale figure. At least Mio has... one.

Anyway. I wonder if I should try to come up with a fanfic idea for NaNoWriMo... pfft... haha... ahahahahahaha, what a good joke. I'm so funny, I should be a comedian. It would die on me and I would end up cheating and combining word counts from a bazillion one shots again.

I didn't even bother last year. T.T Maybe this year I could attempt something.

So much for resisting the Tenshi figure. :D; I ended up pre-ordering her through Figuya. My first broken figure rule! Welcome to the world of figure collecting...

But... but... she's so beautiful. ;_; She's so graceful and the dress is just lovely, and her face looks really nice, and the wings and... yeah. She's not being released until late this year/early next year anyway, so there's plenty of time for me to figure out what the hell I'll do with storage.

Sigh. It sucks living in such a tiny little house.

I could probably fit in a display case but I don't really want one of those glass display cabinets. Glass is scary. It can break and get everywhere and I don't want that. I might consider display shelves instead. Only downside is figures getting dusty, but they can be cleaned. I'm lazy about cleaning though. XD; I clean my house like once a month.

... well, I'm the only one living here so it's fine, surely? >_>

So, I broke the Rin scale rule anyway... eh, I would have broken it if certain other LB characters were made into figures anyway so it's not like it was really set in stone.

Will we get Charlotte scale figures? I'd definitely want a Yuu figure. Please gimme a Yuu figure. I'm not sure about whether I'd get Nao or Yusa scales. But I'd definitely get a Yuu scale figure.

I doubt I'll be breaking my other figure rule. Key figures only. Yeah, not too worried about that... though I did drool over the Alter Luke fon Fabre figure, but it's not like I bought it. ^^; (I was really wanting it for a short while though, ahahaha...)

Well, anyway... Kyouriki prompts going well~ 51/100 prompts done so I'm definitely caught up so far. A lot of these prompts are very short though so, yeah. ^^; I may be a bit half-assed, honestly, but geez, it's a lot of prompts.

Man, resisting the urge to buy more stuff really is difficult. @_@

Just now, I looked at Yahoo Auctions and someone had listed some anime style posters, including Rin ones, and I was all "omg so cute must buy want to buy rin-chan too cute" but I'm resisting as well as I can.

Honestly, I should just buy a colour printer and some photo paper, and print pictures off. Yeah, the initial purchase of a printer would be more expensive, but I think it would be worth it in the long run.

I was also interested in this Komari & Rin tapestry though I don't know if it's still there. Tapestries are nice.

I still need to get a new flatbed scanner as well. So many things I want to get.

Rin-chan really is so cute though~ I love Rin-chan~

I still need to make more journal icons. Saving pictures off Flickr is annoying though, I can't just do 'save image as'... and there's no option to download the images in bulk. ... Yeah, I don't have the original images because I'm dumb. But I think photo album sites really should have the option to download your images, you know? Flickr's album layout is really annoying now too, ugh.

Problem is, I don't really know of any photo album sites besides Flickr or Photobucket. '-'

Oh god, what. The Natsume siblings tapestry is up on Suruga-ya again *already* and this time, it's 6k yen! The first time I saw it there, it was 4k. Then I bought it for 5k. Now it's 6k...

I see what you're doing, Suruga-ya. (￢ε￢　)

Haha, it's not like I'm upset or anything... I already got it, didn't I? It's a business after all. They just jack up the prices to see how much people are willing to spend.

"What, someone bought it? It's too cheap! Jack it up by 1k more!"

For a holy grail, it sure popped up again fast.

Wonder how long it's going to stay up this time?

This was a pre-order bonus for ordering the first 4 Little Busters DVDs/BDs from Animate, wasn't it... how much would that have been? Hmm, Amazon has the retail price at 8k per BD, 7k per DVD. @_@

So, the Natsume siblings tapestry technically cost 28k/32k if you got it by pre-ordering. @_@ (Unless Animate had a reduced price for the offer, but I get the feeling it wouldn't have been by much...) Ouch.

It came, it came! :D The holy grail came!



I finally own it, my most coveted Little Busters merch item. At long last... ;o; I'm so glad.

Waiting for it was excruciating, oh my god... >< Yeah, okay, it only took 12 days from BiJ posting it to get here, but still... I'd rather go with SAL than EMS though. Like I'd want my beloved tapestry being held up by that insufficient address nonsense.

I'll put it on my wall soon. Just gotta put up some Command hooks first.

At last it came to me. My own, my love, my preciousss… ahem. I speak of none other than the almighty Holy Grail.

The Natsume siblings Animate tapestry!



At long last, I have finally obtained this precious treasure. ;o; It took a few months of constant bookmark checking (I've only been doing it for that short a time because it took me a while to realize if I'm going to find it, I have to be serious about it.)

Six months ago, I originally ordered the tapestry off Suruga-ya when I happened to stumble upon it during a Google Image search in the frail hope of finding it somewhere. (Yes, my method of grail hunting back then was to do occasional image searches... I was still a bit clueless about buying stuff from Japan.)

Unfortunately, it ended up being out of stock so no tapestry for me. D:

I had to get serious about grail hunting. I added bookmarks in Chrome for Yahoo Auctions, Suruga-ya, Mandarake, Rakuten, Mbok... @_@ And I checked them every day. Several times an hour even. I was very, very serious about it. O/

And then, finally, finally, the tapestry appeared again on Suruga-ya and I caught it right away. I forwarded it straight to Big in Japan and had it sent to me.

And now, here it is. At last I own my precious treasure. I'm so glad. ;~;

I love this illustration so much. It's so cute. This is my most favourite piece of Little Busters merchandise ever, next to the Kyousuke dakimakura, and I finally own it! Yaaaaay! \O/

The holy grail appeared on Suruga-ya! ... Again.

I ordered it! ... Again. With a forwarding service, not a proxy, and I chose BiJ's repackaging option too.

Now let's just hope it is actually in stock. Well, I haven't had any bad experiences with Suruga-ya since that time, so I think it should be alright. It was 1k yen more than the last time it was on Suruga-ya, but who cares...

Please let it be successful this time. Please let me get the Natsume siblings tapestry. I need it. I need it so badly.

Want to hear something funny? I already ordered a custom wallscroll with that scan from Rindou. :D; Oh well...

Meh, who cares about money anyway. Money's overrated. O/

Natsume siblings tapestry... you shall be mine, no matter what!

Damn, I wish I had some fizz to celebrate. ... No, self, don't be ridiculous. I do have wine though but it's chilling in the fridge. I've had a massive wine craving since yesterday. c.c So I ordered a box of wine this morning. It got here three hours later. The local wine shop is awesome. <3

Natsume siblings tapestryyyyyyy...

All these hours of repeated grail hunting with constant bookmark checking may have finally paid off. Thank god. ... I think I'll keep checking bookmarks though. Never know when something else nice might show up.

EDIT: Actually, there was an explanation for what happened with the Natsume siblings tapestry last time. Someone on MFC told me they had ordered the Kurugaya & Kud tapestry, but Suruga-ya sent them the Natsume siblings tapestry instead. e.e So I guess that would explain why it appeared to be in stock when it wasn't.

I was actually really bummed to miss out on the tapestry... not once, but twice, because it also appeared on Yahoo Auctions around that time. I didn't know about it though, because I only checked Yahoo Auctions once every so often.

Now I check it every day. Several times. An hour.

Please let me get it this time. I want it so badly. ;.;

If this is indeed a success, what else shall I aim for? Eh... I dunno, just keep an eye out for any nice Kyousuke merch, I guess. Yeah.

Alright! Rindou's at the local Parcelforce depot! :D When will I get it, tomorrow, or the day after that? Who knows... hmm, looking at my previous delivery, the parcel was delivered the day after it reached the local depot. It actually didn't say 'loaded to vehicle for delivery'... until 11 minutes before it was delivered. 0_o Okay.

So, it might come tomorrow, huh?

It's actually been a month since I won Rindou on auction. A month. T_T

I should try to be productive today. Hmm... maybe I'll force myself to get back to proofreading the Mio game. Who knows. I'm progressing very slowly. Gotta go correct those hundreds of mistakes littering the script.

Need energy first... x_x

EDIT: Oh goody, it's been loaded to vehicle for delivery so it might come today after all. Yay~

EDIT 2: It came! \O/ Hurray! ... Man, it's bigger than I thought it would be o_o The book is so wide. I assumed it was A4 size? I don't think it's going to fit in my bookcase XD; I'll probably have to put it in my cupboard instead.