War.......

Got some more dvds today.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED volume 3 and 4. Saw vol 3 today and it was excellent. Wonder what Flay is going to do....

Seems that the first episode on vol 4 is the episode that had Japanese parents up in arms over a scene of Kira and Flay (?) in bed.

Finally, amazon.....

Well Yotsuba&! vol 2 shipped today. Thing is, it came today as well O_o

Bloomin amazon. At least send emails when its actually dispatched, sheesh.


Anyway, thats that, plus the New Fist of the North Star Collection (not complete collection, in ADV speak its a complete collection if it has extras, which this doesnt)

anime and manga makes the world go round......

In other words, i got some anime and manga today (plus a game)
First of anime (and game) all from play.com:

Thats Halo 2 (a lil late i know) D.N.Angel volume 1, Divergence Eve volume 1 (with the most ridiculous boobs ive seen in anime O_o), Witch Hunter Robin volume 3 and Last Exile volume 5. Saw LE today and its getting reallll good now. Tho i swear they changed the birthday song in the dub.

Manga (which i got from Ottakars in Enfield):

Thats Ai Yori Aoshi volume 3 & 4 and Princess Ai volume 2 & 1

Who knew that Courtney Love (who was in the news recently) was a manga fan.....

Ok the double packing thing

Double packing refers to putting two dvds in the one case. I use double m-Lock cases for this purpose (my fave type of case!). I get them from JetLogic (scroll down to Super clear double DVD case).

Heres the 2 dvds (in there cases) plus the double dvd case:

US is one the left, Japanese middle and the double case is on the right

Heres what it looks like on the outside (US cover out):


And heres the inside:

The Japanese dvd goes on the left, US on the right. The Japanese dvd cover faces in (so when i take the US dvd out i see that lovely cover art). The inserts go in the clips on the left. No inserts in the US release (cheapo Bandai)

The hardest bit is getting the covers aligned, but once thats done it looks so nice!

(oh yeah, for those who didnt get my last entries title, it was from the movie Dodgeball. VERY FUNNY!! Watch it!)

If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.

Todays stuff that came in the post

I won Lady Death in a competition and im going to double pack SEED movie 1 with the Japanese release (mainly so i can reuse the lovely Japanese artbox)

Ill make another entry about the double packing

I always dress for the occasion.

I got Lots o stuff today!

This is the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine, the 2006 Doctor Who Annual (some great stuff in this, including a bit about other possible survivors of the Time War) and Doctor Who the Movie. Which i enjoyed, and is where this entries title comes from


This is my long awaited amazon order. Negima! vol 6, Fahrenheit 451 and Sexy Voice and Robo. Still waiting for Yotsuba@! vol 2 to come however....

Wahoo

I got into the university i wanted to!!

But (theres always a but) they seem to think im going to stay at home and travel every day... Theres no way im going to be able to do that!

Anyway, still waiting for my amazon order that shipped on Tuesday....

Todays stuff

Ghost in the Shell SAC vol 5, NGE Plat vol 4 and Sakura Taisen Ecole de Paris (which came yesterday)

NGE isnt due out till next week, but HMV had it in early.

GITS SAC vol 5 was great as usual.

Paypal button

You probably noticed it...

Well im going to uni soon, and if you want to send me some beer money well, you know what to do.

Warning - mild swearing

Hoo-fuckin-ray! Amazon are finally dispatching part of a manga/book order i made before i went on holiday. Thats over 2 weeks ago now!!

Greetings from Amazon.co.uk,

We thought you would like to know that the following items have been sent to:



using Parcelnet.

For more information about delivery estimates and any open orders, please visit:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/your-account

Your order #******************* (received 29 July 2005, 21:54 BST)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ordered Title Price Dispatched Subtotal
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Fahrenheit 451 5.59 GBP 1 5.59 GBP
Sold by Amazon.com Int'l Sales, Inc.

1 Negima! 6: Magister Negi Magi 5.65 GBP 1 5.65 GBP
Sold by Amazon.com Int'l Sales, Inc.

1 Sexy Voice and Robo 10.31 GBP 1 10.31 GBP
Sold by Amazon.com Int'l Sales, Inc.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Subtotal: 21.55 GBP
Delivery Charge: no charge
Total: 21.55 GBP


Finally. Now im just waiting for Yotsuba&! vol 2 to dispatch.

Warning - moaney post!

This is a moany post about people over on a cetain anime forum.

I have 3 people on my ignore list for various reasons, however i cant hepl but veiw there posts on occasion just to see what they are saying.

First one is Naiera. He has this really bad, somewould say trollish hatred of dubs. In fact, if you post about dubs outside of the English Track forum he will bad mouth you. Today he had a go about the Robotech boxset that ADV US are putting out. I mean come on, who doesnt know about Robotech! well he obviously doesnt. He also is one of the subscribers to the UK dvds suck brigade, despite the fact he doesnt buy any...

Anyway, seeing his posts today reminded me why hes on my list, along with:

Advent_Nebula - A English Track regular with a strange hatred of NewGen pictures. he bad mouths there dubs and the actors/directors who work on them on a regular basis. He also rants about them on other forums too (just search for his name, tis fun reading his posts!)

Finally, theres Gersen - He has a real bee in his bonnet about UK release. If you dare say that a UK release has video quality equal or better than a US release he will immediately reply to you bringing up the whole PAL conversion thing and how your an idiot if you dont notice it. face it, most people dont. You dont have to accuse us who dont of been an idiot.

Id also like to know if he ever has watched a UK dvd... I get the feeling he hasnt.

Anyway, there goes my slightly bitchy post.

Saturday, cruddy Saturday

Well not really cruddy...

Anyway got some manga today, as well as a Japanese magazine



The manga i got today was Fruits Basket vol 4 and DearS vol 1 (yummy!)

The magazine is an adult orientated anime/games magazine called Dengeki Hime. This is the July 2005 issue, the latest issue that Anime Ten had in. The cards where thrown in for free by the guys @ Anime Ten (Thanks Guys!)

Oh yeah, just had to delete my first comment spam. I feel wanted now!

Jump Superstars

My imported copy came in the post. The games good. Its like Smash Bros, but with SJ characters.

Wish i knew Japanese tho, the one player mode kinda demands it. (you have to win fights in certains ways, like not puching a certain button at all, or by using a certain amount of moves)

The touch screen is not really used, cept to change your player in battle. It seems you can have 2 main characters (the first ones in one player are Naruto and Luffy) plus a few "support" characters, who do special moves when you touch em.

The music is good tho. Im not sure if its from any anime series tho. Oh yeah, theres no voices either. Which imo is a good thing, since if it did get a US release people would moan if they dare change the voices.

London

If theres any bombings in London tomorrow i apologise. Every time ive gone down there recently the day after theres a bomb attack....

Anyway, todays stuff!



Thats Fushigi Yugi volume 1 and 2 (manga/UK printing), Case Closed vol 2(manga/UK printing), Magical Meow Meow Taruto vol 4 (US dvd), Scary Movie 3, Shoalin Soccer plus The Omega Factor.

all in all, a good day.

Todays stuff

New stuff i got today.
First of all, i got this Dalek (from Doctor Who) poster



Thats it on my (old) door.

And heres the other stuff:



The herbie dvds are my mums, and the other things (Edge of Darkness dvd, and Case Closed vol 1) are mine.

Plus the Asuka Gothic Lolita Ver figure came in the post. Heres the pics: http://homepage.mac.com/iancharles/PhotoAlbum23.html

Its a very nice figure!

Holiday pics will be coming....

But not yet, Took way too many pics (241!!!) and i havent sorted the good from bad yet. Keep checking www.iancharles.net if your that desperate. Heres a pic of the stuff i got during the week tho.



Killer7. Man what an AWESOME game. Best game of 2005?

So far, yes.

Shopping, again

Last day of my hols (yay)

Anyway, went shopping again today.

Got:
Books:
Spiral

DVDs:
Alexander Directors Cut
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Hero
Finding Neverland

So, back home tomorrow..........

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Does this sound, well, "dirty"?

"The only person who can come inside me is the "someone just for me""

That was from Chobits vol 5. Not quite sure what it means. Think ill have to reread Chobits once i've read all of it.

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Shopping

One of the best things about holidaying in the UK is the shopping.

So far I've brought
Games:
Harvest Moon A Wonderful Life (Players Choice edition)

Books:
Doctor Who Short Trips:2040

Manga:
Dragon Ball vol 1 (Gollancz Manga edition)
Dragon Ball vol 2 (Gollancz Manga edition)
Ai Yori Aoshi vol 2
Chobits vol 8 (series done!)

plus the free Tokyopop UK preview book, Tokyopop Sneaks 2005 Volume 1

This has preview chapters from 15 titles

Still hoping to get Killer 7 (game), Case Closed vol 1 & 2 (manga), D.E.B.S (dvd) and Alexander Directors Cut (dvd)

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Not a lot happened today

Yep

What a boring day.

Congrats to BBC on Doctor Who been first in a SFX poll of home-grown scifi/fantasy.

That top fifty thrown out some im goting to try and get on dvd, like The Omega Factor.

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