Then we have One Piece – Memorial Best Limited Edition, 2 CDs and 1 DVD. (The DVD is basically all 31 OP\EDs + two episodes and a recap of the series so far.)

Also, I now see why shipping from HMV Japan is so god damned expensive.

I could easily fit about 10 of those boxsets in that package.

Anyway, got something in the mail today.

Oversaturated, argh

Yeah, the Gameboy game is also new.

And a couple of days ago I got this.

Which is actually red, but looks kinda pink because of the light, I have to darken the t-shirt somehow.

And this

Yeah, I really do love my Urusei Yatsura stuff

First of, the games I didn’t have a picture of previously, just for the hell of it.

And a new Manga series that arrived in the mail today.
Blue Drop – Tenshi no Bokura

Also, it might seem very, hmm, I dunno, NSFW?
And well, it might be NSFW, but, it is in fact not an adult manga. (It even has furigana, which helps kids read it. (And people who’re learning japanese.))
Though, it does have some wtf moments, here have a sample. (nsfw)

I poorly edited in a panel from the next page, so if you can read japanese (Very simple japanese with furigana mind you.) go ahead, you’ll go “o_0″

Then, the important stuff.
I got Falconer’s newest album, with their autograph. They’re family, somewhat, kinda.
Also, I got a bunch of gaming stuff
A PC-Engine, second CD based console ever, released in Japan and in the US as Turbografx-16\Supergrafx\TurboDuo. It competed with the SNES and the Genesis\Mega Drive. It actually sold more then the Mega Drive in Japan.
Never released in Europe. :/
The version I got was the PC-Engine Duo R, which is a hybrid of sorts, since the CD playing part originally was an addon.



They forgot to remove their test disc before sending the console I think, so I got the game 三国志III (San Goku Shi III) as well. (I think it’s some kind of strategy game, haven’t played it yet.)

The other PC-E CD games I got.

らんま1/2 (Ranma 1/2, the first Ranma game released, right after the second season of the anime I think? Sidescrolling beat-em-up)
うる星やつら -Stay with you- (Urusei Yatsura -Stay with you-, Adventure game)
Ys 1&2 (Top down slash & hack RPG)
Ys 3 (Sidescrolling RPG)

And last but not least, a Sega Mega Drive.
My Uncle just happened to have on of these with a couple of games.
Unlike the PC-E, I had no idea I was getting this.


A couple of guidebooks, too bad they don’t actually fit inside the covers. (They would if they were about 2-3mm shorter :/ kinda bothers me.)

And the games ofcourse.

Altered Beast (Beat-em-up)
Dungeon & Dragons (RPG\Dungeon Crawler)
Phantasy Star II (RPG)
Phantasy Star III (RPG)
Sword of Vermilion (RPG\Dungeon Crawler)

And I got about 2500kr (about $400), which is nice.

A few days after christmas I bought a bunch of PS2 games. (Really cheap ofc)

The ones that aren’t pushed in completely yet.

A couple of weeks ago I went to Oslo, Why? Because one of my friends is an actor, so I was invited to go watch a play. It ended up being really great. :3
I also grabbed the chance to get the last two volumes of Genshiken (8 & 9)

Today I first picked up a couple of albums on a whim.
Alestorm – Black Sails at Midnight

Yeah I know, “True scottish pirate metal”, god damnit that’s awesome.

and also Masterplan with the album Masterplan.

Sorry for the blurry pictures, I blame the camera.

I got some stuff in the mail today.
Tamaoki Benkyo’s latest manga series, ねくろまねすく (Necromanesque. I dunno why it’s written like that, I figured it would be ねくろまねすくえ, but apparently there’s no ‘e’ (え) at the end in japanese.)

A touhou manga, Bohemian Archive in Japanese Red, with a CD.
Two pictures since the golden part doesnt work with the blitz, and the rest looks terrible without the blitz. :/

And here, have some heavily censored stuff. (Though, it is uncensorable by using gmask’s cpmask filter if you can guess the password.) One of the mangas is by Rate, and the other is by Oyster, which would explain a lot if you know who they are.

But wait, there’s a good reason for me buying “those” kind of mangas.
When I buy a certain amount of manga I get free shipping, so adding more manga is cheaper. (Until a certain point ofc)
But I only buy short series or one shots, and not everything is in stock at all times, so I had to get something.
Also, I felt like I had to own atleast one, just for the sake of owning one.

Anyho’
I didn’t make a christmas update, so one will be coming along shortly.

A few games that came with the console

Fighting Vipers
Sega rally championship ’95
Virtua Fighter 2
Virtual On

Also, last but definitely not least.

Since I am a huge fan of X-Japan I had to get this. <3

Went to see the “The history behind Desucon”-presentation, with Espen and Alejandro, it was pretty entertaining, especially how Alejandro shows his utter contempt over stuff like Naruto, Bleach and especially Twilight, everytime they get mentioned.

Half an hour after that, I, nekoflaa, Sindre and Ole decide to go relax at Ryko’s (Ryko89 on youtube) AMV lounge, after about 2 hours watching AMVs with Ryko, me and Nekoflaa leave to do some stuff, I went to buy some stuff from Otacon (from japani.no), which we had decided on earlier.
To be more spesific, this:

‘Kimi Tsunagi Five M’, Asian Kung-Fu Generation’s first full-length album.
It’s not their best in my opinion, but it’s still pretty damn good. :3

And also, this:


Genshiken, awesome series.
There’s 9 volumes, so I’m still missing the two last ones, but I’ll get them in the near future most likely.
This is about otakus and comiket, if you like reading about stuff like that, I’d recommend these, or at least the anime. (Same name.)

Then we went back for one more hour of AMVs, before we decided to go do something else.
After that we just walked around everywhere, with no particular goal in mind, until the auction started.
Not a normal auction though, you could bid to keep or to destroy stuff.
With Alejandro (Which hates everything ) as a host this couldn’t be more perfect.
All the money went to a good cause ofc.
There was three really good parts, one can’t be explained though.
The other two was when they cut a twilight poster in two with a katana, and when some (obviously crazy) guy bid 1000kr (about $160) for destroying a $15 hello kitty doll by himself.
That is, first beheading it with a katana before shredding it to pieces with his own hands, that was some pretty strong hate right there.
The twilight poster thing is up on youtube.
here

After that it was pretty quiet until the ending show, which had stuff like caramelldansen on stage with Maid crew and organizers, and some coplay event were people had to introduce themselves as the characters they cosplayed, ‘Shookie monster’ (Cookie monster) won, with especially Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez doing a good job aswell in my opinion, but Elmo was awesome, so incredibly in-character.
Edit: Video

After that it was pretty much over, I went over to Neo-Tokyo’s stand where Kenneth had something which was kinda a surprise for me:


Yes, the newest game in the Touhou series (Touhou 12.3th) Touhou Hisōtensoku.
Oh and it has an actual character printed on the cd, I think that’s a first. (Though, I don’t have every Touhou game yet, only about 2/3 of them, so don’t take my word on that.)

After that I went home and to sleep, which I really needed.
Money used in total: 3800kr ($670)
Now I’m eagerly awaiting (My wallet isn’t though ) next Desucon, which will be in the summer 2010.

Pictures from the event itself will get it’s own post when I get them (and upload them).

Even though this post is named “touhou galore” I will start off with a non-touhou game. >_>

Puyo Puyo Tsu [ぷよぷよ通] (Tsu is a pun on 2\two, and the kanji means “expert”, probably since it’s hard, kinda )
It’s a sealed copy from ’96 (IIRC) which isn’t that common, so I’m kinda reluctant to opening it.
Though I do want to read the manual, maybe it has a story or something, like Puyo Puyo Sun (3) which I mentioned a few posts back.

Now onto the touhou stuff. (Fan games\Doujin soft mostly)

Scarlet Meister, a horizontal shmup based of the touhou series.
Looks pretty hard, and I’m used to vertically scrolling shmups, so it’ll probably be a challenge.

東方活劇綺談 by the circle “Gatling Cat” (DoujinDB link)
A sidescrolling adventure\action\fighter\danmaku game in the style of “Touhou Reitaiki” (Also made by Gatling Cat)

東方琳瑯華～entirety spell timbre
Looks pretty good, looks like a puyo puyo clone with a touhou theme. :3

東方ポケット戦爭 – Touhou Pocket War
Some kind of Touhou RPG o_0 I just hope my knowledge of the japanese language will hold up (Something I doubt)

Touhou Battle Fantasia by Young-ken
eh…. this looks like a game (picture link), but the game cover says “DVD video” “16:9″ and “Color mpeg-2″ and it’s listed as “Animation DVD” ?_?
Well, I haven’t had the time to try it out yet, I guess time will tell.

Patchcon [ぱちゅコン Defend the library!]
:3 I love this game, it’s something in between an RTS and Tower Defense.
(Gameplay video)

Other stuff I got (These where more like gifts or something)

An Aya figurine mobile phone strap\keitei strap and one of those “clean-your-phone’s-display-with-this” thingies with patchouli.

Yeah

My PSP is now pimped :3

I have to get a second PSP.