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Statement of delivery from Gonzo Style
After hearing in September that Gonzo would be closing its official online store at the end of that month, I ordered some items from the GONZO Style store since there were heavy discounts on a number of products. (Like usual, I waited until the last day to place the order.) I used a forwarding service called JSHOPPERS that worked pretty well and the package arrived yesterday through DHL.
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Tags: brave story, getsumen to heiki mina, gonzo, pictures, products, pumpkin scissors, Shopping
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.
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Tags: anime expo, anime expo 2009, ax 2009, book off, Conventions, evangelion, fans, Manga, pictures, Shopping, swag
Monday afternoon I stopped by the Best Buy in Natomas (store #660) and bought Case Closed Season 3, which was 17.99 after the half-off discount. Ghost Hunt Parts 1 and 2 were also there for the same price but I’m a little tight on money right now (typical college student excuse). But I’ll try to pick those up at a later time, promise. Once I got home, I was surprised by how thin the volume actually was, given this was my first neo-FUNimation set.
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Tags: best buy, case closed, Detective Conan, packaging, pictures, Shopping
It’s been two weeks since FUNimation premiered its long-form trailer for Darker Than Black, which recently had its English cast announced at NYAF, on its weekly Quickie video podcast. I thought it was well put together and one of the best anime trailers I’ve seen in a while, but I rolled my eyes when I saw the tagline they chose: “Everyone Wears A Mask”. After seeing that they were giving away shirts bearing that slogan last weekend, I decided I HAD to do something with the phrase so I chose to have some fun using some other mask-wearing characters that came to mind last night. Check them out after the jump and feel free to best my efforts with more humorous ones.
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Tags: darker than black, masks, parodies, pictures
Recent Consumption
Why Are “Interactive Menus” Still Listed on DVDs?
August 12, 2009 in Commentary by Tom Langston (calaggie) | No comments
I received the Cowboy Bebop Remix set in the mail last week and soon noticed that “Animated Interactive Menus” was mentioned under DVD Features. I remembered seeing that interactive menus touted on the Kannagi and Lucky Star volumes and mentioned that on Twitter, complaining that such a basic feature of the format shouldn’t really be mentioned. To me, it’s like saying CDs have Dynamic Track Navigation. Later that night, I realized that ‘features’ can be also used as a verb so the listing on the box is about what the DVD features, not what the DVD features are (those are called “DVD Extras” on these releases) so I felt a little stupid. However, I still felt my main complaint may been worth writing about.
This week, I received the Lucky Star OVA and the first Hayate the Combat Butler volume and as I expected, those two also had menus listed under what the DVD features, effectively giving me the green light to continue working on this post.
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Tags: bandai, DVD, menus, packaging, pictures, terminology