…as my dear kouhai arrives from his business trip to Japan, so does my Hana to Yume magazine with the SIZZLING HAWT Skip Beat Furoku!! *squeals in the corner* Consider this my obligatory “My Skip Beat Kokoro no Tamago is not dead yet!” post, as I am finally In The Zone to catch up with the ongoing anime, after getting stuck at episode 4 a few months ago orz. Pressures from blogging begone! I’d rather watch and love Skip Beat and not just follow it for the sake of blogging. Lazy excuse to not blog about Skip Beat regularly, but makes for a more enjoyable and worthwhile experience for me ^__^

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In the words of Seleria, “I’m not sure if i should be insulted or amazed or amused at their marketing strategy”
And in case you’re wondering, I was sane enough to avoid buying this when I saw it in Animate Akihabara. Their jedi mind tricks won’t work on me! Though I can only wonder [...]

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Lo and behold!

An idle mind is the devil’s playground, they say, or the otaku devil’s playground, in this case. One idle moment in the office was all it took for me to start searching for available Toshokan Sensou loot, find an online shop that sells them (hurray for Animate!), register (had to use my Chinese name because the shop is not gaijin-friendly), and with a few clicks, voila, order placed and set to be delivered to officemates who are currently in Japan for training! orz.

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I spotted this soon-to-be-released Oryzae cosplaying plushie (lolz) when I ordered a pair of Moyashimon cellphone strap in Amazon JP a few days ago, and it never fails to make me chuckle every time I see it Just look at that! Look at how cute and silly it is! ROFL.

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Well well, it seems that Cospa has decided to fool TS fans into buying give us more TS goodies, some shirts and tote bag which basically scream “I LOVE TOSHOKAN SENSOU!!” When I heard about this from Yu Ominae of AnimeSuki since the official TS site never mentioned anything about it, I went “Holy Mackerel!” 8O, pleasantly shocked and surprised by this news. Obviously, the next thing I did was to find out where I can order this, despite it being a unisex shirt (aka not really a cute fashionable shirt). Preorder seems to have ended in other shops, but luckily, Amazon JP still have them in stock And hurray for friends and officemates in Japan who can bring these stuff for me!!

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Almost all my life I�ve been so used to pirating watching fansubs that I rarely bother buying the original DVDs. I have a decent job, but I don�t have enough monies to splurge an enormous amount of cash on these otaku goodies, especially DVDs. The only original DVDs I have in my �collection� are the first and final volume of La Corda d� Oro (LOL), and Tokyo Marble Chocolate. My love for Toshokan Sensou outweighs these two animes by a mile, and I know for a fact that the Toshokan Sensou DVDs will be a worthy addition to my [small] collection, not simply because of the mini-short stories and other thingamabobs that will be included in each volume, but because of the wonderful anime itself.

But again, the real question is, should I splurge cash and pledge my loyalty as a Toshokan Sensou fangurl fanatic by buying these DVDs, or not? Such a tough question.

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peek a boo!

By the time this post is published, I’d have already gone for our company’s Beach Party, and won’t be back till Sunday afternoon. I remember mentioning to some people about my Oryzae plushie, and how it’s going to become our Beach Party Mascot character. And well, I wasn’t kidding when I said that.

See, this cute Oryzae is like the epitome of a happy summertime, with its sun shape and its radiant smile. So a couple my officemates and I suggested Oryzae to be our official mascot, and it was heartily approved What can I say, Oryzae is well loved <33 xD

Enough with the talk, and on with the pics!

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Shiraishi, you lucky bastard star, you! That satisfied look on his face says it all, doesn�t it?

Maybe not� Shiraishi has been dating these primas, one after the other. Eventually, they found out and are gathered here now. Looking at him with such betrayed eyes, their main objective: to give Shiraishi paddles of whoop ass. The cat even pities you now, Shiraishi.

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While our hamster chef is still deployed and busy in Japan, she managed to grant me yet another one of my wishes (yes she’s my genie hamster! X3), a set of Shugo Chara cards, with the Amu x Ikuto card I was hoping for!!! This caught me by surprise coz she initially told me the card I wanted wasn’t in the pack she bought. teehee~ She’s one lucky hamster, considering she got this special card despite a 1/30 probability

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I learned from the hamster last Saturday that A. oryzae plushies were being sold already. So off I dashed to the neighborhood Animate shop to get me one of these cute things.

Animate is having a one month Moyashimon fair. Plushies aside, there are also other Moyashimon merchandise for sale, such as notebooks, stickers, CD’s and [...]

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