Today was a fun day. In the morning I did a little homework but one of my friends called me up because he wanted to do some anime shopping. He heard that Anime Palace had recently moved but had never been to the shop and he wanted to go check it out. Of course I said yes.
The place was really hard to find...It is tucked way back in this office district. When we first went in I was a little concerned. It looked like they were just operating as a distributor and not as a retailer. After standing around like a fool for a few minutes we noticed the sign that said the showroom was in the back. So we wandered back there and found a fairly nice selection of figures and other goods. I've had some run-ins with A.P. when I was working for Co. B. so I was hoping there wouldn't be someone I recognized working there. There wasn't so, Safe! Tho I doubt they'd recognize/remember me anyways. It was years ago.
Most of their stuff was from new and popular shows, but they did have a whole line of Lupin figures! There was a Fate figure that I wanted but was out of my price range ($92). The also had a Tsuruya Figma that I got. I've wanted one for a whille to add to my Haruhi collection but have been too lazy to order it from HLJ. I now have Haruhi, Kyon, Yuuki, and Tsuruya. Don't really care to get Koizumi or Mikuru. They were kinda 'blah' characters to me.
They also had this super huge Taiho Shichauzo poster...Maybe 6 feet long? But it was their last one and not for sale. Oh well...
I almost got one of these for Ctrl. Z. Super cute loli Alice!!
After that we went to Kinokuniya where I bought Vol 2 of Real and K* picked up a Street Fighter art book. We also walked around and looked at all the Japanese laguage manga that we can't read like St. Onii-San, Moyashimon, Tears of God (which he heard about in his wine tasing class), and a manga about a fat 40 year old man who decides to write manga called Ore ha Mada Honki Dashitenai dake. The Boss had just written about that one for Otaku USA and I ripped him off to look like I knew what I was talking about.
Anyways, after that I took him to Nikaku Animart, which he had never heard about. I guess I'm an old fogie for getting all nostalgic about that place. I remember drooling over their mail order lists on Usenet way back in the day.Even though the place is tiny and a little run down I still love going there because they have all sorts of old stuff you can't find in most anime stores. Like these LD box sets! They also had an old Vampire Princess Miyu manga and figure bundle I wanted. If only I had a real job so I could blow a bundle of money and not feel bad. Ended up gettin a Dirty Pair art book and 2 volumes of Adolf that I was missing.
So, that, in and of itself, would have been a good day. This was my haul. Never did find Aria 4 or Me and the Devil Blues 2 but that is OK. Go home, eat some smoked cheese and play with my Tsuruya Figma? Hell No!
Reactor called me up and said he wanted to try Carne Asada Burritos Mk. II. This time on the grill instead of in a cast iron skillet. Who am I to argue? They came out a little better this time.
Two burritos and a couple Laguinitas IPAs later his brother mentioned that some of his ex-coworkers were going to be playing at a small bar. So, off him and I went. Reactor was in the sculpture shop all day so he stayed home like a punk. Their name was The Mechanical Snails. Played a number of different styles of songs from rockish stuff to a nice blues riff. Some songs were better than others. All of it super loud...We sat right in front of the speakers...again. Like last time, my ears will probably be ringing for the next few days. You'd think I'd have learned by now.
Tomorrow I'm going to finish my homework. Then I'm actually going to write a review for Mangacast. Or at least try to. I feel really bad about neglecting my duties there. Suihelibe! or Astral Project? Hmm...I'm not sure my review skills are up to par to write about Astral Project.
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