Maybe he wants to level up and evolve into Ghostbuster, but he doesn't understand that Shadows aren't Ghosts--unless you're playing Pac-Man.
I recently received a shipment of items I won from Japanese auction sellers, adding even more to my Voogie's Angel collection. This time, I snagged two full-size posters and a mini poster (called a "chirashi" in Japanese, which is a homophone for another word that basically means a bowl of sushi; I think we call these little posters "handbills" in English?). One of the big posters is a promo ad for a specific CD volume of the radio drama, hyping the date (in 1996) of its release, and features a beautiful illustration used in that volume's liner notes. The chirashi is the same but for a different volume, featuring its cover image. The other big poster is of another volume's cover art, but without any release info; it's more like straight merchandise. All of these should count as pretty rare nowadays, so I'm happy I got them. In the way of posters, my Voogie collection now includes seven big posters and just this one small poster, split 5:3 between ones for the original radio show and ones for the later anime OVA. I also have all the solo character posters, one for each of the main cast members, plus another poster about the SD-characters spin-off radio show, Super Angels. Of course, the posters are but a small subset of the collection. . . .
Elsewhere in the haul was a mid-size figure and a Blu-ray. The figure has, I believe, the longest span of time between manufacture and my acquisition among the figures I own; it's from mid-2008, so it's been about 11.5 years, whereas the previous record-holder in my collection had a span of under 10.5 years. The Blu-ray is Volume 2 of Valkyria Chronicles 3's two-volume OVA series. I've been interested in that OVA ever since it came out eight years ago, but it never got localized (for obvious reasons) and I couldn't find the Japanese releases at prices I could afford. I still haven't found Volume 1 at such a price, which is why I only have Volume 2 now--it just so happened that someone put up an unopened copy of Volume 2 for sale at a really low price (it should be noted that Volume 2 seems to have sold worse than Volume 1, since online stores have plenty of new (and still full-priced) stock of it but not of its predecessor; I wager that unopened copies of Volume 2 are much easier to find than of Volume 1, perhaps because viewers, er, didn't like Volume 1 and passed on the end chapter). Will I actually watch this second volume without ever seeing the first? Who knows?
- 2019/10/08 GMT
