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.

And can somebody please tell me what the fuck this is supposed to mean?

Seriously, what?

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.

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).

And you can get everything that’s not on the album for free over here:
Soundclick – Eddie Rath

Starting of with: (Everything will be named from left to right, starting in the top left corner of the picture)

Gallhammer – Ruin of a Church [DVD] (I still don’t like them that much though, it’s just that I have their previous stuff )
Apocalyptica – The Life Burns Tour [DVD] (Apocalyptica is just awesome, or atleast unique)
Apocalyptica – Enter Sandman (Live in Düsseldorf)

Some Beatles documentary, I like it.

Dir en grey – Uroboros [CD] (Their newest album, it’s pretty good, not my favorite though)
Dir en grey – It Withers and Withers [DVD]
Dir en grey – A Knot Of [DVD]
(I’ve not seen any of the DVDs yet)

I found a lot of CDs from MUCC, so here:

MUCC – 6 [CD]
MUCC – Homura Uta (葬ラ謳) [CD]
MUCC – Houyoku (鵬翼) [CD]

MUCC – Kyutai (球体) [CD+DVD]
MUCC – Kyutai -Sphere- (球体 -sphere-) [CD+DVD]
MUCC – Shion (志恩) [CD+DVD][Limited Edition]
I’m not completely sure what’s up with those Kyutai albums, I figured they would be Edition A and Edition B, but it seems like they are 2 different versions of Edition A. (I think?)

Pendulum – Hold your colour [CD] (Their best album in my opinion)
Pendulum – Live at Brixton Academy [CD+DVD] (Haven’t seen it yet)
Pendulum – In Silico [CD] (Honestly, not that good, in comparison to Pendulum’s other albums)
That means I have all their releases as of now
Pendulum – Slam

Girugämesh – Girugämesh [CD] (Only missing one album by Girugämesh now)
D’espairs Ray – Mirror [CD]
An Cafe – Harajuku Dance Rock [CD+DVD] (Harajuku just reminds me of that shitty Gwen Stefani who stole the name of the most awesome style in the world and made some shitty crap out of it oh why, why couldn’t you just fuck off. An cafe on the other hand, is awesome)

Eluveitie – Slania (Tour Edition) [CDx2]
Metal with a bagpipe, how can you not love it
Eluveitie – Inis Mona

HORSE the band – The Mechanical Hand [CD] (HORSE the band – A Million Exploding Suns)
Dvořák – Symphony No. 9 ‘From the New World’ [CD] (4th movement, ’nuff said)
Andrew W.K. – I Get Wet [CD] (Party hard and get ready to die)

Decay of the Angel – Decay of the Angel (?) [CD]
Monster-0 – Entertainment System [CD]
I randomly bought these, Decay just felt….broken (I don’t know how to word it) and monster-0 was quite boring.

Moi Dix Mois – DIXANADU ~Fated “raison d’être”~ Europe Tour 2007 [DVD]
Mana

Live at Wacken ’07 (Limited edition) [DVDx3+backstage pass+one of those thingies you can sew to your pants, I don't know what they're called] (Wacken… need I say more?)

The Berzerker – The Berzerker [CD]
The Berzerker – Dissimulate [CD] + The Principles and Practices of The Berzerker [DVD] [Limited Edition]
The Berzerker – World of Lies [CD+DVD]
The Berzerker – Animosity [CDx2]
The Berzerker – The Reawakening [CD+Poster+T-shirt]
I had Dissimulate and The Reawakening already, I just felt that I should get a picture of all five together

Well, that’s about it, atleast for the music. the rest will be following tomorrow.

Now with added Proson Conquest 6020 MKII speakers :3

I also changed the architecture of the floor, it is now wood-based.

And ey, if you like j-music check out Radwimps with the song いいんですか (iin desu ka, which mean something along the lines of “Is it okay?” If I’m not mistaken)
いいんですか
They have some heavier stuff which sounds kind of similar to bands like sr-71, sum 41, like なんちって. (nanchitte, derives from nanchatte which means “just kidding”)
Both being cool songs

なんちって (Bad quality )

And this おしゃかしゃま
It’s kind of “technical” sounding, but it’s kinda cool.

And “4645″ is nice too, it’s entirely in english.
Well, that’s one song from each of their albums, excluding the first one.

Yeah, I’m making up for inactivity by posting music. :3

Now I have videos of Taiko, DJmax and Stepmania, I’ll probably do Beatmania, Guitar hero and possibly Ouendan sometime.