More continuation of the greatest weekend ever. Sorry for any lack of details or people I leave out...it's all kind of a blur, especially the first couple days.
Friday
I woke up fairly early and got to the convention center around 9:30 to meet up with Amy and Rocky (the nugget twins :3)...although I actually ended up meeting up with CK for a little while before they showed up. We sat and chatted in the food court in the West Hall lobby until around 10 or so, at which point he ran off to the exhibition hall to meet someone. Shortly after that, Amy and Rocky arrived, and after they got through badge pickup we ran into Joh and maiZe, shortly followed by Ops (who I hated at the time, since he got to go to the GoH breakfast...bastard) and Paul. After that, I went to the tabletop gaming room to meet up with some fellow wotachatters and talked for a while, then went with Joh to drop our bags off at bag check-in and headed to the concert.
I actually ended up with really good seats for the concert (I would hope so, considering how long my roommates and I waited in line on Wednesday to get our tickets :P)...5 rows back on the right side of the stage, with a perfect view of the girls. :D Anyway, I'll go ahead and write a quick snippet about each song/MC.
Mikan - This has become my favorite Momusu song, no doubt. So great live, and a perfect opener for the show. I get pumped whenever I hear it now.
3,2,1 BREAKIN' OUT - I loved this song from the first time I heard it, and I've been listening to it a LOT since Shouganai was released. Finally getting to hear it live was so unbelievably exciting, I could barely contain myself. XD (then again, the whole concert was like that :P)
MC - I loved all the adorable engrish (and the adorable Japanese, actually :P). I want to beam about all of their MCs individually, but it would just be me repeating what they said and being like "awwwwwwwwwww : 3". So I'll just say that every girl was super cute, JunJun & LinLin's English was VERY impressive ("no borders to music"? hot damn JunJun, that's some deep stuff), and Ai-chan sounds WAY hot speaking English, even if it's totally broken. XD
Shouganai Yume Oibito - For some reason this song registered in my head as Naichau Kamo when they performed it. O.o Sometimes I get a little too caught up in the music, I guess? I don't know, I'm a terrible fan or something :P
HOW DO YOU LIKE JAPAN? - I flipped when this song started...I would NEVER have expected them to perform it and I love this song, so I was ecstatic. The song was practically written for concerts, with all the "jump! jump! come on!" stuff, and it's so high-energy.
Resonant Blue - I've always been kind of neutral on this song. Even so, it was awesome when the bridge came along and everyone cheered for the dance...cause that dance kicks ass. :D
MC - All their little "yayyyyyyy"s were so cute. XD
Medley - Definitely my favorite part of the concert. Kind of wishing people had kept quiet during I WISH (it's a quiet song people, follow suit! :P), but I couldn't help getting a little teary-eyed when the pace picked up (even listening to the recording now... T-T). Words cannot even begin to describe how overjoyed I was when they performed Happy Summer Wedding, my eyes teared up even more when this song started. T____T Koi no Dance Site is another of my favorites, and it was so much fun doing the dance moves, even if I don't know them perfectly. XD Souda! We're Alive made me want to cry like a little girl, especially when the chorus came along...seriously one of the most uplifting, and unexpected, choruses in all of H!P. T-T I have a friend who's WAY too into The*Peace, so I'm honestly a little tired of it...but still, it was a lot of fun to do the peace signs and so forth with everyone. XD And it made me so happy when they did the monologue live, even if it wasn't Rika. :D Renai Revolution 21 is another song that isn't a particular favorite of mine, so I wasn't all excited compared to the rest of the concert when they performed it...although it was still fun to try and do the dance moves (and fail :P).
MC - I want to take this time to say that Gaki is ADORABLE during MCs. Always. Also, I had no idea what Eri was saying here for the most part...and I don't think anyone else did either, haha. XD
Love Machine - This song is so awesome live, mainly because of the "fu fu fu" and "woo woo" and whatnot, since everybody knows those and most of the major dance moves. Audience participation ftw :D
Sono Bamen de Bibiccha Ikenai Jan! - I've always really liked this song (more than Resonant Blue, by a long shot :P), so of course I was pumped when they performed it. :P
Ame no Furanai Hoshi de wa Aisenai Darou? - Really wish people would have kept quiet during this one, but aside from that it was beautiful. I was so close to bawwwwing when LinLin sang her solo line. T-T
Myspace OPV Contest Winners Announcement - Seriously wish they had just announced this some other time and given us more concert. D: Even so, Sayu's little slip-up during the intro MC was adorable...and seeing Yossui right there in front of me was SO epic, more near-bawwwing when she walked out on stage. I stopped watching the OPVs about halfway through and just looked at Momusu on stage...their reactions were so cute. XD
3,2,1 BREAKIN' OUT Encore - Still love this song, although it was a little hard to muster up the energy to shake my glowsticks and whatnot after resting throughout the announcement of the OPV Contest winner. :P
And thus the concert ended. At this point, a good chunk of the audience started to chant for an encore, but it didn't happen. I even heard the girls wanted to do an encore, but UFA/AX/somebody wouldn't let them. :(
After that, we had made plans for a bunch of wotachatters to go to Taco Bell (yes, Taco Bell...we're cool like that :P), but the place I had Google Map'd as being a Taco Bell consisted of a gas station with a Subway in it and a strip mall with most of the shops for lease. O.o So we went to the food court in the Sheraton instead. XD After that, it was time for Hello!Party...I showed up about 45 minutes early to help out, and I ended up running the sound booth for all of the earlier stuff (guest performances, games). There was a great turnout, and it looked like everyone was having a really good time (thanks Bryan and Jen! :D). After the wotagei and karaoke came along, I spent most of the night just kind of wandering around hanging out with random people. For the last hour or so, I chilled with Joh and maiZe at the welcome/nametag booth. Hello!Party really made it clear to me that this community has needed a way to get together so, so badly...let's hope this isn't the only time. :)
Sometime around 12:30AM, I wandered back up to my hotel room and passed out for the night. :P
Saturday is also on its way. 8D
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Momusu at AX! (Part 2)
Continuation of the greatest weekend ever. Sorry for any lack of details or people I leave out, it's all kind of a blur, especially the first couple days.
Thursday
Met up with some people early on (I believe Johpan, maiZe, Paul Thomas and OpsMonkey). Paul left to get in the line for the exhibition hall (which paid off for him, he got a guaranteed autograph ticket for both Momusu and Hangry :D) and Ops went...somewhere, I think...I don't remember, haha. Either way, I ended up waiting with Joh and maiZe to go to the opening ceremonies...and we were lucky enough to see Momusu walk into the building! maiZe will write up her part of the story at some point I'm sure (it's pretty funny :P), but it was basically just a moment of pure bewilderment for me as Morning Musume walked right by, only 15 or 20 feet away from me. I started to think "I should grab my phone and take a picture!" but my mind just halted and I hesitated, so no pics from me...but wow, that was awesome. XD
After that, it was the opening ceremonies...I ended up sitting by myself because all those IW losers I was hanging around with had press passes and sat in the press section...but seeing Morning Musume up on stage at the ceremonies was still something I just couldn't put into adequate words...they were so cute. T-T (and Ai-chan had a fangirl moment when the Sephiroth voice actor did his impression, which was just adorable beyond words <333) From there we went to wait for the Momusu Q&A panel, which meant sitting through the panel for Sephiroth's voice actor (sorry to anybody who actually wanted to see the guy XD), then a mad dash for close seats in hopes of getting an autograph voucher. OpsMonkey and I made complete asses of ourselves and switched places about 6 or 7 times in the panel room before the Momusu Q&A started, jumping over people and so forth...we decided on our final position when we counted chairs and rows to figure out that we were in the row ending with something like ticket #396 out of 500 tickets being given out, which satisfied us. XD The panel was great...the girls were adorable and a lot of the answers were really cute and funny. It was a great way to kick off the Momusu-related events.
Then the real fun began. At the end of Momusu's panel, the translator lady announced that the autograph session would be behind artist's alley in the exhibition hall, so everyone made a mad dash for there...only to find NO signs of an autograph session. I was with Paul and OpsMonkey at this point, and after asking a couple booths if they knew where the autograph session was only to hear "go ask them over there", we started to walk toward the exit of the exhibition hall in hopes of finding the autograph session somewhere else nearby. At that point, we saw a group of Japanese wota running out of the exhibition hall, so we started following them (which we quickly learned was the right thing to do...follow the Japanese guys, they know what's up XD)...and when they took off up an escalator, we decided to have Paul follow them while OpsMonkey and I went to check out the exhibition hall one more time. Paul actually called us while we were in the exhibition hall, but we missed it, which sucked...since it turned out Paul took the right choice, as the line for autographs was indeed upstairs (and around the corner :P). Ops and I got in the line, which ended up being a huge fiasco consisting of one line for about 30 minutes, followed by another line for 30 more minutes or so...at which point they shut the door, and in another 5 or 10 minutes they announced that the session was over and the girls were leaving. Some people started to make a scene, but I put on my nice face and left cooperatively...no reason to argue with the staff in a situation like that, all you'll do is piss them off.
After that, I hung out with Joh, maiZe and K in the convention center for a while (went to the H!P booth in the exhibition hall and bought some stuff...more on that after I get home :P), then went to dinner with K at IHOP. While we were waiting for our food, we pulled out all the stuff we bought (official photos and tour pamphlets and such XD) and spread it all out on the table to look at it...and when the waiter brought our food out, we had to rush to get it all out of the way. :P After that, K and I went to my room and chilled for a while, and when he left I went to OpsMonkey's hotel to leech off his internet and get on wotachat (my hotel was charging $13/day for internet, no way I was paying that much). Upon finishing that, I went back to my hotel and got to bed.
Friday is on its way :D
Thursday
Met up with some people early on (I believe Johpan, maiZe, Paul Thomas and OpsMonkey). Paul left to get in the line for the exhibition hall (which paid off for him, he got a guaranteed autograph ticket for both Momusu and Hangry :D) and Ops went...somewhere, I think...I don't remember, haha. Either way, I ended up waiting with Joh and maiZe to go to the opening ceremonies...and we were lucky enough to see Momusu walk into the building! maiZe will write up her part of the story at some point I'm sure (it's pretty funny :P), but it was basically just a moment of pure bewilderment for me as Morning Musume walked right by, only 15 or 20 feet away from me. I started to think "I should grab my phone and take a picture!" but my mind just halted and I hesitated, so no pics from me...but wow, that was awesome. XD
After that, it was the opening ceremonies...I ended up sitting by myself because all those IW losers I was hanging around with had press passes and sat in the press section...but seeing Morning Musume up on stage at the ceremonies was still something I just couldn't put into adequate words...they were so cute. T-T (and Ai-chan had a fangirl moment when the Sephiroth voice actor did his impression, which was just adorable beyond words <333) From there we went to wait for the Momusu Q&A panel, which meant sitting through the panel for Sephiroth's voice actor (sorry to anybody who actually wanted to see the guy XD), then a mad dash for close seats in hopes of getting an autograph voucher. OpsMonkey and I made complete asses of ourselves and switched places about 6 or 7 times in the panel room before the Momusu Q&A started, jumping over people and so forth...we decided on our final position when we counted chairs and rows to figure out that we were in the row ending with something like ticket #396 out of 500 tickets being given out, which satisfied us. XD The panel was great...the girls were adorable and a lot of the answers were really cute and funny. It was a great way to kick off the Momusu-related events.
Then the real fun began. At the end of Momusu's panel, the translator lady announced that the autograph session would be behind artist's alley in the exhibition hall, so everyone made a mad dash for there...only to find NO signs of an autograph session. I was with Paul and OpsMonkey at this point, and after asking a couple booths if they knew where the autograph session was only to hear "go ask them over there", we started to walk toward the exit of the exhibition hall in hopes of finding the autograph session somewhere else nearby. At that point, we saw a group of Japanese wota running out of the exhibition hall, so we started following them (which we quickly learned was the right thing to do...follow the Japanese guys, they know what's up XD)...and when they took off up an escalator, we decided to have Paul follow them while OpsMonkey and I went to check out the exhibition hall one more time. Paul actually called us while we were in the exhibition hall, but we missed it, which sucked...since it turned out Paul took the right choice, as the line for autographs was indeed upstairs (and around the corner :P). Ops and I got in the line, which ended up being a huge fiasco consisting of one line for about 30 minutes, followed by another line for 30 more minutes or so...at which point they shut the door, and in another 5 or 10 minutes they announced that the session was over and the girls were leaving. Some people started to make a scene, but I put on my nice face and left cooperatively...no reason to argue with the staff in a situation like that, all you'll do is piss them off.
After that, I hung out with Joh, maiZe and K in the convention center for a while (went to the H!P booth in the exhibition hall and bought some stuff...more on that after I get home :P), then went to dinner with K at IHOP. While we were waiting for our food, we pulled out all the stuff we bought (official photos and tour pamphlets and such XD) and spread it all out on the table to look at it...and when the waiter brought our food out, we had to rush to get it all out of the way. :P After that, K and I went to my room and chilled for a while, and when he left I went to OpsMonkey's hotel to leech off his internet and get on wotachat (my hotel was charging $13/day for internet, no way I was paying that much). Upon finishing that, I went back to my hotel and got to bed.
Friday is on its way :D
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Momusu at AX! (Part 1)
Okay...greatest weekend ever, seriously. Sorry for any lack of details or people I leave out...a lot of it is kind of a blur, especially the first couple days.
Wednesday
CRAZINESS. My plane left at 6:00AM, we had a connecting flight in Phoenix and arrived in LA around 9:00AM. Took a taxi to the hotel, which took about 35 or 40 minutes, ended up arriving there around 10. Dropped off my stuff and ran off to the convention, where I proceeded to sit/stand in line for about 7 or 8 hours, including the event ticketing line (it would have been less if the AX staff hadn't run into trouble with the computers for registration, delaying the line for a good 45 minutes, at least...a sign of things to come :P). I ended up meeting up with some online friends after I got my concert ticket (Johpan, maiZe, Kirarin*Snow, OpsMonkey, Paul Thomas), which was super awesome. After that, I joined OpsMonkey and some of his friends (Tris, Jessie, some other dude and LOTS of people I didn't know, I think we took up 1/3 of the restaurant, at least XD) for dinner. BUT, on the way we had to stop at the Mayfair Hotel in the ghetto to wait for some JPH!P people for wayyyy too long, then we drove through more ghetto to our destination, an In-n-Out on Sunset Blvd. Of course, I dropped my tray like a big dope so I couldn't eat my fries (>.>), but the burger was DELICIOUS. Like, oh my god. Go to In-n-Out, eat a burger (double-double animal style), die happy. Also, there were some Japanese Momusu fans (somehow connected to JPH!P, I believe?) at In-n-Out who were selling sealed copies of Eri's photobook Hatachi for $30, so I went ahead and grabbed one (as did Ops Monkey). From there we drove back through the ghetto to the Mayfair in the ghetto where I picked up my bag, at which point I was dropped off back at my hotel and crashed for the night. :P
Expect Thursday's post in the next couple days. :D
Wednesday
CRAZINESS. My plane left at 6:00AM, we had a connecting flight in Phoenix and arrived in LA around 9:00AM. Took a taxi to the hotel, which took about 35 or 40 minutes, ended up arriving there around 10. Dropped off my stuff and ran off to the convention, where I proceeded to sit/stand in line for about 7 or 8 hours, including the event ticketing line (it would have been less if the AX staff hadn't run into trouble with the computers for registration, delaying the line for a good 45 minutes, at least...a sign of things to come :P). I ended up meeting up with some online friends after I got my concert ticket (Johpan, maiZe, Kirarin*Snow, OpsMonkey, Paul Thomas), which was super awesome. After that, I joined OpsMonkey and some of his friends (Tris, Jessie, some other dude and LOTS of people I didn't know, I think we took up 1/3 of the restaurant, at least XD) for dinner. BUT, on the way we had to stop at the Mayfair Hotel in the ghetto to wait for some JPH!P people for wayyyy too long, then we drove through more ghetto to our destination, an In-n-Out on Sunset Blvd. Of course, I dropped my tray like a big dope so I couldn't eat my fries (>.>), but the burger was DELICIOUS. Like, oh my god. Go to In-n-Out, eat a burger (double-double animal style), die happy. Also, there were some Japanese Momusu fans (somehow connected to JPH!P, I believe?) at In-n-Out who were selling sealed copies of Eri's photobook Hatachi for $30, so I went ahead and grabbed one (as did Ops Monkey). From there we drove back through the ghetto to the Mayfair in the ghetto where I picked up my bag, at which point I was dropped off back at my hotel and crashed for the night. :P
Expect Thursday's post in the next couple days. :D
Friday, June 5, 2009
Sunday, May 31, 2009
April 2009 Purchases
Super, super late on this one. My schedule's always crazy in the summer. >.>
No thoughts this time, sorry folks.
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- Momusu - Osaka Koi no Uta LE (w/box case & cards)
- Momusu - Namida ga Tomaranai Houkago LE (w/box case & cards)
- Kusumi Koharu - Happy RE
- Country Musume - Iroppoi Onna ~Sexy Baby~ RE
- Country Musume - Koibito wa Kokoro no Ouendan RE
- Kira*Pika - Hana wo Pu~n/Futari wa NS
- Nakazawa Yuko - GET ALONG WITH YOU RE
- Melon Kinenbi - 1st Anniversary LE (w/foldout & stand/case)
- W - Duo U & U RE
- Pucchi Best 5
- Momusu - 7.5 Fuyu Fuyu Morning Musume Mini! LE (w/DVD)
- W - 2nd W
- Pucchi Best 6
- Ayaya - YOUR SONG ~Seishun Sensei~ Single V
- Ayaya - Suna wa Kamu You ni... NAMIDA Single V
- Ayaya - Zutto Suki de Ii Desu ka Single V
- Ayaya - Watarasebashi Single V
- Ayaya - Sougen no Hito Single V
- Nakazawa Yuko - Single M Clips 1
- Momusu - Eizou The Morning Musume 2 ~Single V Clips~
- 2001 Shuffles - Chu! Natsu Party/Summer Reggae~ Rainbow/Dancing! Natsu Matsuri Single V
- Kusumi Koharu - Balalaika Single V
- Momusu - Concert Tour 2003 ~15nin de Non Stop!~ Concert DVD
- Hello! Project 2009 Winter ~Kettei! Haro☆Pro Award '09 Elder club Graduation Special~ Concert DVD
- GAM - 1st Concert Tour 2007 Shoka Natsu ~Great Aya & Miki~ Concert DVD
No thoughts this time, sorry folks.
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Free Bawww? Ohhhhh yeah. :P
So uh...Bryan's pretty much the coolest.
<333
Thanks Bryan, you rule.
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<333
Thanks Bryan, you rule.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
A Collecting Experiment
I was recently given a little advice by someone from a forum I used to frequent about how to quickly obtain large amounts of Japanese CDs. Basically, put in vague searches on Yahoo! Japan Auctions and trudge your way through the results until you find large, cheap lots of stuff. Well...I took that advice, and here are the results.
^This is the package itself. It cost $80 to ship...because it weighed about 9 pounds and had to be shipped EMS. XD (sorry about the big black splotches - I'd rather not have internet pedophiles stealing my personal info :P)
^This is the box upon opening the lid. Everything is packed nicely, thanks to either Ohta or the seller. I'll give the credit to Ohta since he's a cool dude and bid on the auction for me, haha.
^Here's all the CDs unpacked and stacked up. 55 in all.
^And sorted in stacks. The left stack is CDs I didn't have already. Middle stack is CDs I already had. Right stack is doubles from within the box.
Here's a list of the contents of each stack:
New (34):
Already Had (16):
Doubles (5):
The auction ended at 8000yen (about $80). With Ohta's middleman fees and the seller's shipping fee, the total without shipping to the US was $120. Add in shipping, and it comes out to $200. That's a little less than $4 per CD, and a little over $2 per if you don't include shipping. All of them are releases from 2002 or before, so I suppose that's not quite as good of a deal as if they were stuff from 2003 to present...but they're all in good condition, and I can sell/trade the ones I already have (which I'll be doing very soon - I already had a decent-size pile of stuff to get rid of before this monstrosity arrived XD). I'll most likely be doing that in a thread over at H!O, by the way - I'll make note of that here as well, for those who don't regular the forums and may want to make me an offer I can't refuse. ;)
All in all, I'd say this is a pretty good way to get a running start on your H!P collection (or, if you're already well on your way, to give it a quick boost and get some leverage to work with in the H!P selling/trading community). It's obviously a fairly large chunk of cash to drop in one shot, but I think it's worth it for anyone who enjoys collecting H!P stuff, or who wants to start doing so.
Now...NO MORE SPENDING UNTIL ANIME EXPO, DAMMIT. >.>
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^This is the package itself. It cost $80 to ship...because it weighed about 9 pounds and had to be shipped EMS. XD (sorry about the big black splotches - I'd rather not have internet pedophiles stealing my personal info :P)
^This is the box upon opening the lid. Everything is packed nicely, thanks to either Ohta or the seller. I'll give the credit to Ohta since he's a cool dude and bid on the auction for me, haha.
^Here's all the CDs unpacked and stacked up. 55 in all.
^And sorted in stacks. The left stack is CDs I didn't have already. Middle stack is CDs I already had. Right stack is doubles from within the box.
Here's a list of the contents of each stack:
New (34):
- Morning Musume - Manatsu no Kousen (Original 8CM Release)
- Taiyou to Ciscomoon - Magic of Love
- Ichii Sayaka in CUBIC CROSS - Shitsuren LOVE Song
- Heike Michiyo - Murasaki Shikibu
- Morning Musume - Single Medley ~Hawaiian~
- The Douyou Pops 1 - Christmas to Fuyu no Uta Shuu
- Morning Musume - Best! Morning Musume 1 (SEALED)
- Morning Musume - Koi no Dance Site (SEALED)
- Pucchi Moni - BABY! Koi ni KNOCK OUT!
- Pucchi Moni - Chokotto LOVE
- Pucchi Moni - Seishun Jidai 1.2.3! / Baisekou Daiseikou!
- MiniMoni - MiniMoni Hinamatsuri!
- MiniMoni - MiniMoni Jankenpyon! (SEALED)
- MiniMoni - Minihamuzu no Ai no Uta (SEALED)
- MiniMoni - MiniMoni Telephone! Rin Rin Rin (SEALED)
- Tanpopo - Tanpopo
- Tanpopo - Last Kiss
- Tanpopo - BE HAPPY Koi no Yajirobee
- Melon Kinenbi - Amai Anata no Aji
- Melon Kinenbi - Saa~ Koibito ni Narou
- Melon Kinenbi - Kokuhaku Kinenbi
- Melon Kinenbi - Natsu no Yoru wa Danger!
- Coconuts Musume - Jounetsu Yuki Miraisen
- Coconuts Musume - Watashi mo 'I LOVE YOU'
- Coconuts Musume - DANCE & CHANCE
- Coconuts Musume - Tokonatsu Musume
- 7nin Matsuri - Summer Reggae! Rainbow!
- 3nin Matsuri - Chu! Natsu Party
- Sexy 8 - Shiawase Desu Ka?
- Odoru 11 - Shiawase Kyouryuu Ondo
- Happy 7 - Shiawase Beam! Suki Suki Beam!
- Akagumi 4 - Akai Nikkichou (SEALED)
- Kiiro 5 - Kiiroi Osora de BOOM BOOM BOOM (SEALED)
- Aoiro 7 - Aoi Sports Car no Otoko
Already Had (16):
- Fujimoto Miki - Sotto Kuchizukete Gyutto Dakishimete
- Nakazawa Yuko - Kuyashi Namida Porori
- Nakazawa Yuko - Shanghai no Kaze
- Nakazawa Yuko - Futari Gurashi
- 10nin Matsuri - Dancing! Natsu Matsuri
- Morning Musume - Mr. Moonlight ~Ai no Big Band~
- Morning Musume - The Peace!
- Morning Musume - Renai Revolution 21
- Morning Musume - Koko ni Iruzee!
- Morning Musume - DO IT NOW!
- Tanpopo - Oujisama to Yuki no Yoru
- Tanpopo - Otome Past ni Kandou
- Country Musume - Hajimete no Happy Birthday
- Country Musume - Koibito wa Kokoro no Ouendan
- Country Musume - Iroppoi Onna ~Sexy Baby~
- V/A - Pucchi Best 2 (SEALED)
Doubles (5):
- 7nin Matsuri - Summer Reggae! Rainbow!
- Kiiro 5 - Kiiroi Osora de BOOM BOOM BOOM
- MiniMoni - MiniMoni Telephone! Rin Rin Rin
- MiniMoni - Minihamuzu no Ai no Uta
- Morning Musume - Koi no Dance Site
The auction ended at 8000yen (about $80). With Ohta's middleman fees and the seller's shipping fee, the total without shipping to the US was $120. Add in shipping, and it comes out to $200. That's a little less than $4 per CD, and a little over $2 per if you don't include shipping. All of them are releases from 2002 or before, so I suppose that's not quite as good of a deal as if they were stuff from 2003 to present...but they're all in good condition, and I can sell/trade the ones I already have (which I'll be doing very soon - I already had a decent-size pile of stuff to get rid of before this monstrosity arrived XD). I'll most likely be doing that in a thread over at H!O, by the way - I'll make note of that here as well, for those who don't regular the forums and may want to make me an offer I can't refuse. ;)
All in all, I'd say this is a pretty good way to get a running start on your H!P collection (or, if you're already well on your way, to give it a quick boost and get some leverage to work with in the H!P selling/trading community). It's obviously a fairly large chunk of cash to drop in one shot, but I think it's worth it for anyone who enjoys collecting H!P stuff, or who wants to start doing so.
Now...NO MORE SPENDING UNTIL ANIME EXPO, DAMMIT. >.>
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