Xbox Design Labs custom Xbox One X controller
Got my official custom controller today from Xbox Design Labs. Drool. I love it, plus it will hopefully make me a better person by curbing my normal controller-smashing gamer rage. Maybe.
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Three Goblin Art
Today's Document
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祝日 / Permanent Vacation

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Product Placement
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he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
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One Nice Bug Per Day

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Xbox Design Labs custom Xbox One X controller
Got my official custom controller today from Xbox Design Labs. Drool. I love it, plus it will hopefully make me a better person by curbing my normal controller-smashing gamer rage. Maybe.
Comic City Spark 12 #4 - using your brochure and event etiquette
Ok - this is the final post I’m going to write on CCS12, and I want to talk about how to get the most out of your brochure and how to have the most fun possible (i.e. avoid ruining other peoples’ days) at the event. If you missed the rest of this series you can find part #1, part #2 and part #3 here.
First, let’s talk about how to use your brochure to plan your day. Remember in Part #2 when I talked about one of the circles I planned to visit? The info that I wrote down from their Twitter page during my online prep was:
東1ホール シ30b
Ok - let’s cross-reference this information with the brochure. First things first - find the page with the matching hall number:
In the top right you can see it says 東1ホール - so far so good! Next, we need to check the row number. For this circle, it’s the kana character シ. Flick through the 東1ホール section til you find it. Here it is! ^
Comic City Spark 12 #3 - ticketing and what to prepare on the day
You can check out part 1 and part 2 here.
Right, now for ticketing. Basically, your ticket to CCS12 is your brochure:
This brochure is hefty. It’s about 2-3cm thick and contains all of the information about the event you could want including circle locations, maps and even a cartoon explaining how you should conduct yourself on the day. It’s invaluable, not to mention the fact that you physically must carry it around with you as it’s proof that you paid your entry fee.
There are a couple of ways to get the brochure:
Comic City Spark 12 #2- pre-event online prep
As I mentioned in part 1, I attended my first ever doujinshi event in Tokyo this year - Comic City Spark 12, which took place at Tokyo Big Sight on 8th October. For anyone else thinking of attending a fanbook event like this, I’m hoping to give you a bit of an insight into what I found helpful both before and on the day - hopefully you find it interesting and/or useful!
So, before you attend any big comic events in Tokyo (or anywhere else in Japan I guess!), it pays off to do a bit of prep. There are a bunch of ways that you can do this, so I’m going to touch on this in 2 parts - online research and on-the-day prep. First, let’s talk online prep before the day of the event.
Comic City Spark 12 #1- DoJo’s first fanbook event
I attended my first ever doujinshi event in Tokyo this year. It was Comic City Spark 12, and it took place at Tokyo Big Sight on 8th October. I hadn’t really planned to attend when I landed in Osaka on the 3rd, but after a couple of days of it playing on my mind I decided what the hell - when would I be back in Tokyo at the same time as a comic event again?
It’s the best decision I’ve made in ages - I absolutely loved every minute of it.
DoJo in Japan 2017 #1
So! A little heads up - I’ve been in Japan for the last 2 weeks, and man do I have a bunch of stuff I want to share with you guys. This was my third trip to Japan, and I can honestly say hand-on-heart that it’s my favourite place to be. Since my itinerary was pretty similar last 2 trips (I went with different people so I ended up taking them to a lot of the same touristy spots), this time I wanted a few new experiences. We attended our first doujinshi comic event. We visited Hiroshima, Nara, Osaka and Tokyo. We ate our weight in ramen, sushi and zaku zaku. And we shopped. How we shopped.
Sadly lots of the Pokemon and Monster Hunter items were gifts for other people...damn you, friends.
Of course, this wouldn’t be a DoJo post without a gratuitous shot of doujins. Here are all 37 doujins that I picked up on my trip. The bulk of these came from Comic City Spark 12 at Tokyo Big Sight on the 8th October; the rest came from Toranoana and various K-BOOKS and Mandarakes in Ikebukuro, Nakano and Shibuya.
I’ve got a few Japan-holiday-themed posts lined up for the coming weeks. I really want to talk a bit about buying doujins from a brick and mortar Japanese store, and - of course - I really want to talk about my first experience buying doujins at a collectors’ event. Hopefully that’s cool with you guys and you find something interesting!
I'm just gonna put this on my page right here. Y'know. For later.
Loot - ChunColle Gintama Plushes
Check out these guys - ChunColle plushes from Animate. Of Gin and Hijikata. In bird form. There’s literally nothing that’s not awesome about these.
They’re so disgustingly cute!! These guys are made by Broccoli Corp. They previously made mini mascot versions that came with a keychain - these guys are about 23cm / 9in tall, making them a perfectly huggable size. Here’s a pic with my Deku Nendoroid for size comparison.
With the Kuttari cushions I posted about last year. Kuttari Gin and Hiji look pretty unimpressed.
You can pick up your own ChunColle plushes on Animate’s website here.
We went to the Tokyo Game Show today and even though I saw them earlier, I’m now sure, that I NEED them. *throws money at SQE*
A new Vincent Play Arts Kai? GET IN.
What I imagined when I was watching Free! ES ep2. I really wanna see Makoto’s angry face.
A most-wanted doujin find, and a lesson in avoiding the reseller trap
Cast your mind back, if you will, to day 20 of the Doujinshi Challenge. I mentioned that my most-wanted doujins were any of the FFVII books published by the circle Ginger / artist さと [Sato]. I’m utterly, unashamedly in love with her interpretation of Vincent Valentine, but trying to track down copies of her books - mostly published in the mid- to early-2010s - has been a major pain in the butt, and I’d only ever managed to find one in my months and months of searching.
A couple of weeks ago, a certain doujin reseller whose website I frequent alerted me to the fact that they had a copy of a Ginger work - 気の長い話 [Ki no nagai hanashi] - available. A work I didn’t already own. I’m not going to lie; I went into full-blown frenzy mode. All I could think was “Mine! Mine! MINE!!”. The only thing was, I really, really didn’t want to pay the $25-odd inflated asking price. Tsk, these resellers preying on our perversions…can’t we trust anyone these days?
Luckily, ol’ DoJo had a couple of tricks up their sleeve. I had worked out that this particular reseller doesn’t hold any stock themselves - their website just displays stocks from other Japanese online stores. In other words, this book was available somewhere online at Japanese retail price - all I had to do was find it at the original store and save myself from paying a huge markup.
So, off I went to trawl all of the Japanese doujin sites I knew of…and, as luck would have it, my first stop (Mandarake) turned out to be the pot of gold. The price of the doujin? 400JPY (about $3.50), plus 680JPY shipping. About $9.80 / £8 all in. I’ve said it and I’ll say it again - it seriously pays to directly source your own doujins.
If that weren’t enough, I’ve got some awesome news for you fellow Vincent aficionados - 気の長い話 is available to read in its entirety on Sato’s Pixiv page. Enjoy!
Yaoyorozu: Rising
Doujinshi 30 day challenge - Day 30
Here we are - the final day of the challenge!
Day 30: What is the best and what is the worst part of collecting doujinshi?
The best: Doujinshi extends the life of a fandom, and allows it to explore ideas that don’t exist in the main canon. I love the fact that I can buy entirely new instalments of a fandom I like without having to rely solely on the official releases - I’m the kind of person that throws myself into a new passion with unbridled enthusiasm (at least for a short time), and doujinshi really panders to that.
The worst: That more of them aren’t in English. I would love artists to work with translators (most of which I’m sure would volunteer willingly) to produce English-language doujins, and I’d gladly pay a premium for them. I understand their reluctance to open the world of doujinshi to non-native speakers though, so it’s a bit of a pipe-dream I guess.
And there you have it! I actually really enjoyed this challenge, even if I came to it 4 years after everyone else. I’d love to read your own doujinshi challenges, so message me up if you decide to do it. Cheerio!
Doujinshi 30 day challenge - Day 29
Day 29: How do you take care of your doujinshi’s?
Using a buttload of Golden-Sized resealable comic book sleeves/boards and an IKEA NORDLI chest of drawers:
Most of my sleeves are by Ultimate Guard, but I recently bought some from BCW which I like a bit better - they feel a bit thicker, and the overall dimensions are a millimetre or so smaller so they fit the doujin more snugly.
Doujinshi 30 day challenge - Day 28
Day 28: Can you show us a sneakpeak of your next order (The covers of your next order)?
Certainly:
A mixture of Gintama, FFXV and My Hero Academia doujins from K-BOOKS. I’m most excited about REC by 4o5Notfound, which is a unique doujin in the shape of a mobile phone featuring Shinso x Aizawa. You already know how much I love the artist Yoko’s style. Oh yes. I will be looking forward to this delivery.
Doujinshi 30 day challenge - Day 27
Day 27: A doujinshi you are unhappy about (pairing/art reason, etc)?
Hmm, I don’t know...how about ALL OF THE 90s FFVII DOUJINS THAT I CONTINUALLY BITCH ABOUT?
All bitterness aside, I do have a real answer - it’s these (they’re both part of the same series so I am counting them as one. Like the royal “we”.):
Deja vu, right? The Schwarzwald series of FFVII doujins was mentioned on Day 8, so I’m sorry about the rehash. The reason they stand out is because I really, really dislike the presentation of Vincent in these. The illustrations are technically beautiful, but Vincent is a skeletal downtrodden waif in them and I really, really dislike that. I mean, sure - he had a pretty shitty time at the hands of Hojo. Sure, he was shot at point-blank range and subjected to grisly experiments while the love of his life gave birth to a genetic mutant with another man. BUT - he fought his way back from the brink, and he sure as hell didn’t need to rely on a man (I’m looking at you Seph) to get there.
I guess the issue I have is that these books don’t align with my perceptions of Vincent, and that’s what it all comes to down to. I see Vincent as a man hounded by his past. He’s seen and been through some of the worst atrocities a person can, and that makes it hard for him to open up to and relate to other people; it makes him appear distant and aloof, self-sufficient and unwilling to rely on anyone. But he’s still a human, and a good human at that - all it takes is his AVALANCHE teammates to really get past his guard and see what lies beneath.
So, as you can see - I don’t believe in a passive Vincent who needs to be saved from physical bonds. And that’s the issue I have with Schwarzwald.
(I also prefer Vincent as a seme. Maybe I should have just said that and saved writing such a long post.)