天涯孤独 – tengai kodoku

Thanks to icie over at Hunting the Elusive, I had to get the Makoto Shinkai Sakuhin Image Album “PROMISE”… naturally, I went ahead and got a few other things that I’ve been eying for a while now.

Other goodies include the artbook Girls Girls Girls! 4, the Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari CD (late in picking this up, but I could not not buy it. ^^), along with the entire Bakemonogatari novel set, or what’s released of it so far… follow the jump for my crappy and not-so-crappy pictures.I first went through and took images almost at random of these goods.  Well, you’ll have to forgive me, since I’m a complete newbie with cameras… they suck.  Fortunately, I got a little advice (and then some conflicting advice), so I at least went back and got some somewhat decent images.  I’ll be posting both to show you my crappy, nonexistent photo skills.

Those books are pretty heavy, actually… altogether, this shipment weighed almost seven pounds.

Closeup of the artbook and the CDs.  The quality of the second set is realms away from the first, and they’re still not really that good… goes to show how badly the first were done. ^^;;

Closeup of the book set.  Those of you who collect light novels (probably no one reading this blog…) will notice that they’re relatively large in comparison to the CD.  In fact…

Kino no Tabi is, from my experiences, a relatively average sized light novel.  Most light novels seem to share the same height and width, and Kino no Tabi has an average amount of pages (approximately 220 in the first volume).  More than, say, Shakugan no Shana light novels, but less than, say, Ookami to Koushinryou (Wolf and Spice) light novels.  Compare that average light novel to the Bakemonogatari novels…

This novel could probably eat one or two Kino no Tabi light novels for breakfast… and no, my skills are not so bad as to cause the entire binding to turn pink.  I decided to flip it to the other side (the pink side is the binding for the book, which is within a case), to show the binding of the case, instead.

It’s just ridiculously larger…

空白

Well, those are the goods I’ve just recently gotten.  I technically have more on me (specifically, a Hisui figure) and more on the way (three more figures, one being the matching Kohaku figure… waiting on that one to review them).  All of this while C77 is coming up… my bank account is crying.

Also of note, my current obsession is Love Plus.  It’s an incredibly fun dating sim; it’s too bad most people in America have never had the chance to experience a decent one (and trust me, most of the commercially translated ones are not very good, in my opinion.  Too much H, not enough of anything else).  I’ll probably review this once I’ve finished at least one playthrough (I say at least one, since I’m probably going to have to play through another heroine’s route…).  Expect it sometime within the next week.

Oh, I forgot to explain the title of this post; Kaimonogatari kind of a pun on the -monogatari series.  Bakemono + monogatari = monster + story, Nisemono + monogatari = impostor + story, etc.  Kaimono + monogatari = shopping + story.