The Spoils of Anime Expo 2009, in Many Pictures

No, I didn’t buy that long bag for $5 but a bunch of other people did.

I decided to write about the swag, purchases, and other tangible spoils from AX 2009 separately from the standard report because I figured I would be including many pictures, which you may gaze at below.

Assorted Things From The Exhibit Hall #

Vertically from top left:
- BlazBlue clear file from AKSYS
- flyer for Katayanagi Institute
- DVD of 2006 Creative Works Collection from Manga Animation Dept. (Nippon Engineering College of Hachioji)
- MangaGamer trial DVD (I have two other ones…)
- Gundemonium Collection flyer
- Tenshinma postcard from www.ouranimelife.com
- DS stylus shell/extender, bought from NIS America booth for $1
- Neo Steam postcard flyer with promo code on back (found in Atlus bag?)
- JTVA flyer

Vertically from top left:
- MangaGamer flyer
- ShoDojo postcard from FUNimation
- Gaia Online with code for item (found in registration bag)
- Marble Pop free shipping from Amazon (2DVV2CZZ until Aug 31st)
- Crispin Freeman & JTVA flyer for panel
- FUNimation “Stay Connected” bookmark

Disc 1 of Tylor for asking a question during Nozomi’s panel & a Pangya foam golf ball from TOMY

Every once in a while, we’d get approached by these electronic music promoters. I read a little bit of the edm magazine.

The registration bag and the comparatively larger bag I got from Atlus’ booth.

Not pictured: a KIRAKIRA poster bought for $3 from the MangaGamer booth.

Three Exhibit Hall Fans #

Front side: Otakushoptokyo.com, Shuffle! (MangaGamer), and Prinny (NIS America)

Back side: Otakushoptokyo.com info, Suika A.S+ (MangaGamer), Rosenqueen.com

Eva Magazines From Kinokuniya #

I bought the August Newtype ($12) and Evangelion Special ($6) from the Kinokuniya booth.

The summer Eva special consists of chapter 13 through 26 of Sadamoto’s manga, five EVANGELION@SCHOOL strips, three “Anthology” short tales (including one where Keroro shows up!), and a 20-page teaser for the Summer Wars manga that is set to start running in Kadokawa’s new Young Ace monthly magazine. Vol. 1 of Young Ace came out in Japan on July 4th and there were many reminders of that throughout the issue including a full-page color Summer Wars image with the slogan “Magazine for people who never give up reading Comic!”.

Part of the Summer Wars section. (I’m digging Natsuki and the movie hasn’t even come out yet.)

The Newtype issue came with an Eva 2.0 T-shirt with Asuka on it (with dominant flash…).

The other side of the wrapping.

The shirt folded out. This one seems to be an adult small, like another shirt I’ve gotten from a Japanese magazine.

Autographs #

Booklet from Madlax volume 1, signed by producer Yosuke Kuroda

Inside of Trigun manga vol. 1: Yasuhiro Nightow on top, Satoshi Nishimura on the bottom

Seiji Mizushima’s autograph on Shaman King vol. 1. Yes, he did direct this.

I also had Mizushima sign the inside booklet of the FMA movie special edition.

A closeup on that page. He drew a quick Al sketch after starting to do a Gundam one.

Book-Off Purchases #
After leaving the Convention Center but before heading home to northern California, I went down I-110 and stopped by the Book-Off in Gardena. I’d never been in one before but it was nice to saunter down the aisles and pick up some manga I had planned to look for as well as discovering ones I hadn’t.

Book-Off bag with the manga stacked up within it.

The manga laid out.

Vols. 1 & 2 of Natsu no Arashi and vols. 1 & 2 of Shikabane Hime

Interior pages from Natsu no Arashi vol. 1

Interior pages from Shikabane Hime vol. 1

Now I have the first 4 volumes of Mahoraba – I already owned vol. 2.

Interior pages from Mahoraba vol. 1

First two volumes of The D.E.D. Trick!

Interior pages of The D.E.D. Trick! vol. 1

Sutekina Ai no Monogatari (すてきな愛の物語), WORKING!! v.1, and Shibuya Guardian Girls v.1

Interior pages from Sutekina Ai no Monogatari.

Interior pages from WORKING!! v.1

Interior pages from Shibuya Guardian Girls v.1

I forgot to venture into the other half of the store since I wanted to start my journey home and already spent too much time in there so I don’t think I came across the artbook section like Alex did. Maybe next time…

Anyway, my plan for each Book-Off item is to try slowly reading through them (some will be slower than others) and writing a post for most of them. My in-store buying strategy was to not get a volume of something I’d already read or was already available in English, meaning I had to leave the Ghost in the Shell manga, Hayate no Gotoku! vol. 6, Manabi Straight, and a few others behind. That was partly from wanting to support those works with retail purchases but it was more motivated by the desire for discovery. I hope that decision pays off once I manage to get through these.

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