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by Rasberry » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:34 pm

what did you buy?

Madman:
vampire hunter D with a cut on the case $5
3 FFU shirts all too large anyway but cheap $9
FMA Alchemist tin on sale with CD and vol.6 $20

Shintokyo:
Negima manga vol. 14 $12
set of 2 waitress figures $30

Pulp fiction:
negima wall scroll $20
5vols of girls bravo (3-7) $25

total of $121

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shintokyo
2 wall scrolls $35

Pulpfiction
2 copys of jamwaf $8
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by IceLee » Tue Jul 24, 2007 2:40 pm

bought from pulpfiction vol.8 of Tenjo Tenge dvd... dave got me a FFU tshirt for 2 dollars... more for taekwondo while i wait for the uniform to arrive
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by edible_hat » Tue Jul 24, 2007 3:13 pm

I got cheap stuff from the Madman $10 box and Pulp Fiction's $5 manga rack. And the $2 t-shirts from madman and easydvd on Sunday. I probably spent more on food than in the vendor's area. Spent most of my money on my DS Lite last week.
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by Atory » Tue Jul 24, 2007 7:52 pm

I got 12 more manga (9 from Pulp Fiction and 3 from shinTokyo):
Legal Drug 1 - 3
Paradise Kiss 2
RG Veda 7 - 9
Tenjho Tenge 12 - 13
Tsubasa Chronicles 5 - 7

Also 4 Capcom Vs SNK figures (from shinTokyo):
Akuma
Chun Li
Haohmaru
Mai
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by Xenesis » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:35 pm

I bought:

Yeah. I'm cheap.
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by (mad) » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:55 pm

same with me, the only thing i would've bought was a mini tachikoma figurine, but i couldn't be bothered finding anyone to split the 2 for $10 deal with. they were the only good part of that series...
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by Bazza » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:52 am

>>I bought:

Yeah. I'm poor. :cry:


Skyline ECU's aren't cheap to replace. :x
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by Pirate Man » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:21 pm

This is what I bought:

Games:

KOF XI - 45
KOF MI2 - 45
Zombie Hunters - bikini clad women killing zombies - 25
All star Fighting - more bikini clad women fighting - 25
Zombie Virus - Driving around running over Zombies - 25
Dragon Sisters - Side Scrolling fighting - 25
Virtual Fighter 4 - 25
God of War II - 45

DVD:

Doom - 10
Aeon Flux - 10

Plushes:

Tonberry - 40
Goomba - 15

Total : 310 most I spent in any con most of the time its that - 310
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by Dhumahn » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:52 pm

I won't disclose what I bought (too tired), but I fell somewhere into the $600 - $700 category.
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by asurin » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:49 pm

Pirate Man wrote:
Doom - 10


Hmm, even for that price...



..or any price I wouldn't take it due to the space it would take wedging up my fridge.
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by Xenesis » Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:26 pm

Dhumahn wrote:I won't disclose what I bought (too tired), but I fell somewhere into the $600 - $700 category.


I see you did get some shopping done on Sunday, despite restraining yourself. :P
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by michu_kitty » Wed Jul 25, 2007 9:43 pm

I bought the avcon baby tee and a cute cat beanie.

(P.S are you talking about buying stuff at avcon or...)
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by asurin » Wed Jul 25, 2007 11:40 pm

michu_kitty wrote:I bought the avcon baby tee and a cute cat beanie.

(P.S are you talking about buying stuff at avcon or...)


Cats make such cute damn beanies dont they.


Couldn't find a real cat beanie but I found these...

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/MonorailCat.jpg

http://vicissitude.net/Images/Cat-CatHat.jpg
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by Bazza » Thu Jul 26, 2007 10:02 am

>>what you buy?

>>All your hall are belong to us!

...can't believe I didn't pick up on this earlier. :D
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by Rasberry » Thu Jul 26, 2007 11:32 pm

slow bazza is slowwww
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by Mappy » Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:07 am

From Madman (tot $30):
My Neighbors the Yamadas
Planetes Vol 1

From Shin Tokyo (tot $30):
Genshiken 1-3

From Pulp Fiction (tot $100):
Hyper Police 1
Life 1-2, 4-5
Someday's Dreamers: Spellbound 2
Grenadier 1
Mushishi 1
Murder Princess 1
Venus Versus Virus 1
Gothic Sports 1
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by Rasberry » Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:47 am

Mappy wrote:

From Shin Tokyo (tot $30):
Genshiken 1-3


i was with you when you bought this, don't forget the $2each del ray surcharge!
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by Mappy » Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:53 am

Forgot about that....
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by Last Exile » Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:15 pm

I thought you didn't like Grenadier, Mappy. Don't worry, she is a looker. Not to mention her reloading technique. ;)
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by Mappy » Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:42 pm

Grenadier the anime was only very average. They made Rushuna a female Vash the Stampede (which she only partly was, originally), never killing any of her opponents despite being the most proficient shooter in the world. In the manga she's dispatching villains left, right and centre. They just toned everything down, as they usually do....
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by Last Exile » Sat Jul 28, 2007 2:09 am

Er, I think you mean the blood/violence was toned down. Her twin peaks, poses, costumes, everyday wear, tight spots and the like were definitely heated up in the anime. Come to think of it, several were literally heated up, weren't they? Been ages since I watched it. Hmm, manga might be worth a look then.

I'm surprised you got Life though. Did you look at it when I lent it to White? I thought it'd have been too dark/mürrisch for your liking. I don't think I'm gonna finish getting that series, it's a clear ripoff on the market Confidential Confessions created, which was much better, less mürrisch and got to the point.
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by Atory » Sat Jul 28, 2007 8:26 pm

Yet you were trying to get me into it?
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by Last Exile » Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:29 pm

Atory wrote:Yet you were trying to get me into it?


1. NANA > Life manga. Thank you for that.
2. Adult drama > mürrisch teens.

Nuff said.
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by Mappy » Sun Jul 29, 2007 3:49 am

Life starts well, then just goes very very strange....
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by Atory » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:24 am

NANA turns mürrisch too.
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by Last Exile » Sun Jul 29, 2007 10:07 pm

Life gets to the point where instead of reading it for Ayumu, you read it for Hatori.

NANA does get like that but it's relevant, characters get stronger, there's a believable element to it, it's a fairly accurate trip into the J-music industry. From what I've heard, Ai Yazawa's earlier works like Paradise Kiss are more mürrisch/goth.
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by Atory » Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:21 pm

I think Ai Yazawa's earlier works are a lot more cheerful and happy go lucky than NANA. There is a lot more optimism in Paradise Kiss. Name one gothic character in any of the earlier works... in fact, name one in NANA.
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by Last Exile » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:55 am

I meant more of a goth look than actually being goth.

Hmm, interesting you think that. My female friends that have read everything by Yazawa and found Paradise Kiss to be the darkest, the ending hard to take albeit realistic and painful to reread although still enjoyable. NANA is more optimistic from the long time fans of hers that I've spoken to.
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by Atory » Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:38 am

Please get your facts straight before rambling... the only thing that "looks" gothic about any of the NANA characters is that they wear Vivienne Westwood. Punk isn't Goth. I've been studying gothic fashion with the ACG for about a year now. The closest characters would be Takumi (almost aristocratic) and Reira (minderjährigen mädchen).

Are you not currently talking to a long time fan? Maybe it just depends on the reader, Paradise Kiss seemed like a fantasy encased in reality to me.
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by Last Exile » Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:39 pm

Atory wrote:Please get your facts straight before rambling... the only thing that "looks" gothic about any of the NANA characters is that they wear Vivienne Westwood. Punk isn't Goth. I've been studying gothic fashion with the ACG for about a year now. The closest characters would be Takumi (almost aristocratic) and Reira (minderjährigen mädchen).

Are you not currently talking to a long time fan? Maybe it just depends on the reader, Paradise Kiss seemed like a fantasy encased in reality to me.


I know that, Scott. My point is that is what a lot of readers, especially those I have spoken to, 'perceive' it as. And yes, most of the people I spoke to see Paradise Kiss as a very negative, dark and goth series, but they still like it. If it's not, then so be it. I'm just passing on what other people said.
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by Pirate Man » Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:22 pm

Last Exile wrote:


I know that, Scott. My point is that is what a lot of readers, especially those I have spoken to, "perceive" it as. And yes, most of the people I have spoken to said "Paradise Kiss is a very negative, dark and goth series", but they still like it. If it's not, then so be it. I'm just passing on what other people have said.


Fixed.

"Quote" it if u didn't say it, confusing confusing I'm just as bad but it helps to see which position your talking to and from.
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by Atory » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:23 pm

Last Exile wrote:I know that, Scott. My point is that is what a lot of readers, especially those I have spoken to, 'perceive' it as. And yes, most of the people I spoke to see Paradise Kiss as a very negative, dark and goth series, but they still like it. If it's not, then so be it. I'm just passing on what other people said.

So have you even read/seen Paradise Kiss? If not, ask Mappy, I'm pretty sure he has at least seen the series. You usually listen to him don't you?

I still don't quite follow how you or anyone else could use the word "goth" to describe Paradise Kiss?
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by Mappy » Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:50 pm

I've only seen the first episode. I'd asked you for the rest recently, remember?

I don't know if I'd class it as dark and gothic.... Both it and Nana are pretty much the same, style-wise.
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by Pirate Man » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:25 pm

Atory wrote:

I still don't quite follow how you or anyone else could use the word "goth" to describe Paradise Kiss?


Just done a quick search, you do have the anime of paradise kiss Atory?
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by Atory » Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:34 pm

Yes I do.
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