I won a giveaway for the first time in my life!!
I won Anibee's giveaway for the Swallowtail Butler Cafe Diary =w= uwaa so happy~ hahas I wasn't expecting to win actually. When I first joined the giveaway, it was about 30mins~1hour after the post was up on Facebook, and I thought there wouldn't be much response (but then at the end of the day.........) so I pretty much gave up hope of winning the giveaway after seeing the number of people who joined. But I won yay~ heehee so happy.
I wanna go Swallowtail Cafe when I get the chance to go Japan (by myself or with some like-minded friends). I sound so sadlife sia omg, go overseas holiday by myself lol. Plus it's dangerous. Hahaha, but even if have friends want to go, also have to consider other limitations like for example their parents' restrictions, money, dates etc etc. Ahh so sad. I wanna go to NatsuCOMI, or maybe a smaller event. Maybe ONLY events as well hahaha if I get the chance to go during those dates.
Anyway this is the diary!
It's super pretty! The box was wrapped in a plastic sheet, and in the box is the diary. I'm not sure what kind of material the diary cover is made of, but it felt really nice to the touch and the design is carved into the cover. It's a diary for the year 2013 though.... lol. And we're already halfway into 2013, which is a bit awkward.
Last week (Friday ~ Tuesday) Kinokuniya had a 20% discount for members to commemorate World Book Day. Of course, I couldn't miss out the chance to grab stuff like artbooks (crazy expensive when brought into Singapore) and some magazines. I broke my spending record though.....*cough* The only place I would spend so much of my own money is at Kinokuniya lol.
Anyway, the lootss~
I bought CosMode this month as well (after looking at the cover and deciding that what's inside is going to be useful). I love CosMode because they provide costume patterns with their magazines heehee. This month's had KARNEVAL's Tsukumo's costume (a top & skirt) pattern in it. And I also got a MOOK called CameCOS (Pronounced kah-meh-cos), which is a smush of camera and cosplay. It's a guidebook for cosplay photography and includes studio information (which is useless here, lesigh). For me, there wasn't much new information for me because. Well. This mook (I believe) is for people who don't know photography... So. Yeah. Well, I did learn a little about lights (which I've little experience with) I suppose.
I bought 2 artbooks: Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (I'm not gonna bother with their random uppercasing) Productions 2 and Starry Sky Vol. 2. STARRY SKY~ STARRY SKY! *throws flowers everywhere* I love Kazuaki's art style~ And Starry Sky was the first otome game I learnt about. There's gonna be a Vol. 3 apparently, so I'm just gonna wait for Kino to bring it in.
Aside from those, I also got vol 1 of Tooyama Ema's GDGD-DOGS. I bought Vol 2 around last year I think, because Vol 1 was out of stock. I love her style and her stories as well heehee. Currently following Watashi ni xx Shinasai! intensely. I bought vol 1 & 2 in Chinese I think, and I also got Vol 1 in Japanese lol. Eh. Wait, I think I have more volumes than that, but I can't remember which language I bought them in.
Also bought KERA JUNE (KERA releases super early sia) since it was out already.
K SIDE BLACK & WHITE wasn't in on Monday when I went, unfortunately. I'm gonna drop by later and see if the stock is in.
Ohyes, Smoothie King opened at 313@Somerset the previous Tuesday and I got the chance to finally try it out on Monday, after a satisfying shopping try at Kino (Oh, and Laduree is hell expensive. Someone, get my macaroons for my birthday TT_TT [fat hope]). I went Kino with Nanami and 2 of her friends from school and after that we went Smoothie King.
I got myself a regular Lemon Twist Strawberry. I think it's good. Not bad. Really nice hahas. My sister says that there's no way one can get full on a smoothie, but I do think that it's filling. I'm not the only one who thinks that way, apparently, because Nanami commented that if she had gotten a regular with her wrap, she wouldn't be able to finish her food. Mirai also said their smoothie was filling.
I really enjoyed Smoothie King that day, that on Wednesday, after my lessons, I dropped by again to have a wrap and smoothie. I also like the layout of the place. It seems like a nice place to sit and chill and maybe draw. I always have this like. Want? to draw at cafes like Starbucks. I got a teriyaki chicken wrap and a Jeju Green Tea smoothie~ The wrap was really yummy~
Time really flies... It's almost May soon. Aaaahhh A levels are coming ohmygosh how. And event events events ahhh I need to order my stuff from Taobao by end-June and start on my props and omg ahhhh (crazy woman having panic attack now)
I still need to practise guy makeup orz Must look ikemen. (Because I'm gonna cos Saruuuu)
Oh, and the swimming anime CM that took Tumblr by storm. IT'S OFFICIAL. So eggcited for it omgomgomg. And Miyano Mamoru is voicing a character for this animeeee (called FREE!). He's voicing the character Matsuoka Rin 松岡 凛. It's gonna start airing in July. Sigh, this year is a shitty year to take major exams in. SIGH. *regrets all the life decisions she has ever made*
Shall end here. See you guys next time!
*LIY でした
Labels: 2013, anime FREE, anime talk, artbooks, kinokuniya shopping trip, life, miyano mamoru, purchases, swallowtail butler cafe
Yosha yosha konbanwassu mina-san!
So anyway, sometime last month (2nd week of March?) I bought some stuff from Japanese online stores through a proxy (: Because as you know, many Japanese online stores don't ship outside Japan. The shops that I purchased from were THREE!, Animate and ToraNoAna.
This is the whole set of items I got:
Not gonna insert photos of the covers of the CDs because they are available on the websites, but sometimes the CDs have special designs on them, or the inside of the CD case, so I'll include photos of those instead~!
But first below, this is the tokuten (特典) for Mi-chan's doujin CD 7-2.5~My Hobby~. It's just a plastic card, like a credit card. There are 7 seven designs, for 7 songs, and the design I got was for the song GLAMOUROUS SKY. (btw Animate sells this CD too, but I just decided to go with THREE instead.)
The CD and the inside~ Look at pretty Nana-chan~~ (but I think Moca is prettier, sorry Mi-chan!)
Next CD is 7-My precious 2 years-. The 2 years is the time that he and Nana-chan have been together~ And there's a small booklet that comes with it and it's super (*´∀`*). みーちゃんいけめん。It's basically a photo booklet of Nana-chan & Mi-chan. The lyrics booklet for 7-2.5 is also full of his photos and it's just. (*ﾉ▽ﾉ)(ღ˘⌣˘ღ)ヾ(＠⌒ー⌒＠)ノみーちゃん大好きwwww
Third CD I got was Dasoku's first solo album "DASOKU". The illustration for the CD is really cool! And this is the inside of the CD~ I couldn't take a photo of the CD itself straight-on because its surface is mirrored. So yeahhh I had to take it at an angle. The CD design is really beautiful as well!
This also comes with a tokuten but it was sold out before I could get it. (Do you even use sold out, because technically it's a gift but they just have lesser stock than the actual product.) So I didn't get the tokuten. If I remember, it's a calendar or something?
And there's a secret track and it's Scissorhands. Yup.
Last CD is Honeyworks's Utattemita compilation album No. 3 (ハニワ曲歌ってみた3), that they released for FuyuComi (Comiket83) last year! I love Honeyworks, and the utaite/producer list is just (☆▽☆) Yup. Ohhh and I bought the Limited Edition one, because the tokuten for that was a illustration card for Love Confession Rehearsal. The tokuten for the Regular Edition is SUKI KIRAI. But the cover for the ltd ed was a Thai celebrity/entertainer(? - was mentioned by Honeyworks) LOL.
But anyway, the inside of the CD case is really cute!
So that concludes the CD section(?)! Now on to the books~
I actually ordered one more doujinshi from ToraNoAna through another proxy (whose work schedule clashes with the post office's so yeah, not sure when s/he will be able to mail it). But anyway, I bought 3 doujinshi and 2 K artbooks (I don't really know if I can call them artbooks because the second one is more like a collection of concept sketches/character design settings.) By the way, speaking of character designs, I heard (on pixiv, lol) that the initial designs for Misaki and Fushimi for their hair was that Misaki had his fringe held up by a hair band[alice band, headband, however you call it...] (like Ritsu from K-On) and Fushimi had the side of his hair braided [um yeah, like I don't even? lol. why would a guy bother braiding his hair for school everyday....] BUT anyway. Yeah. I like those designs actually. LOLOL. Let me find a link for the fanart where I found out about this... (butbut lemme just say I really don't know whether it's really their initial designs lol, I think tumblr would have told me /hit) 絵リンクこちらです: ♥
Anyway!!
Aside from the doujinshi, I got K Original Artwork Collection (?? I'm sorry man, I'm just interpreting based on the Kanji. My Chinese background makes me lazy /hit) Vol 2! Which was only sold on Animate on a pre-order basis and I was like wow screw you now I can't get it through Kinokuniya (OH by the way I found out that Kinokuniya stocks spoon2Di so Imma get vol 33 from them because I realised it's cheaper. Even though by a bit. AND I WANT PRINCE ANIMAGE SPRING 2013 OMG THE COVER IS SO PRECIOUS AND APPARENTLY THERE'S A POSTER OF THAT COVER ILLUSTRATION INCLUDED. [i sound like a sarumi shipper even though i don't ship sarumi that way why lol.] Well, I'm just gonna go down Kinokuniya and check if their spoon2Di stocks are in~ maybe I'll go down this Sunday, and get Popteen and KERA at the same time. (Okarie is graduating from Popteen you knowwww. May's Popteen will be the last issue that she's in)
Erm yeah so I digressed.
So I got the K artbooks from Animate because nowhere else sells it. Yup. I haven't gone through the artbook yet soooo. Yeah.
はいここで終わります。
My items from CDJapan actually arrived today but no one was at home to receive the package so tomorrow morning I'll have to go down Serangoon post office to get the stuff before school. Haiiz.
Goodnight people~
*LIY でした
Labels: 2013, animate jp, artbooks, doujinshi, K, lagoa three, life, online purchases, toranoana, utaite talk
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