Last weekend, I went to Comifuro 22 at ICE BSD Tangerang. For those who doesn't know, Comifuro is an Indonesia convention similar to Japan's Comiket and US's Comic Con. It's being held twice a year.
My friend opened a booth there, so I asked for a free pass in exchange for helping her watching over and promoting her booth. While not watching the booth, I walked around and shopping the booths I'm interested in.
Here are the details of my hauls from both days according to their fandoms
Sonic Merch
I bought some stickers, except the Sega Fansclub Indonesia (SFI) sticker that was given as a freebie. There were the keychain versions of the four hedgehogs sticker, but because of my decided budget, I couldn't afford them. And there were also some items that were already sold out by the time I arrived at their booths, so I could only buy the available ones.
I love the keychain versions of the four hedgehogs stickers, I especially wanted Amy's because when I saw it directly, I thought hers was the prettiest. Hopefully I can buy them on the next occasion.
The keychains I decided to buy were mostly Shadow-related. For Jet and Sage, I bought them because I'm collecting the keychains made by sagtavilia on Twitter/X, I already have the rest, only those two I hadn't to complete the collection. For Tikal's, it was a freebie given to me by my fellow SFI member after I gave him my Sonic & Shadow art print.
Among the keychains, my favorite was obviously the Live & Learn shaker keychain. I'd be enjoying the song while having that keychain attached on my bag.
There weren't much of the art prints that I wanted to buy, so there are not much of them. Maria and Shadow art print was the one I'm looking forward to buy the most. I had my eyes on that one since the last CF, but I couldn't come, so I had to wait to this CF.
These are bookmarks, pin, and card pics. I bought the bookmarks as one package. Since it wasn't so expensive, I thought better just buy all of them. The Sonic card pic actually could change into Excalibur Sonic.
Last but not the least, the compilation of Shadow-centric doujinshi book made by sagtavilia. You can also read them in her Twitter/X posts. I recommend you to read it if you're especially Shadow or Sonadow/Shadonic fans.
Fate Merch
The art prints and bookmarks. Unfortunately, I couldn't Gilgamesh and Enkidu art prints, so I settle with the bookmarks. I immediately fell in love with the Saber art print, also drawn by sagtavilia whom I bought the majority Sonic merchs from. Saber look so majestic that I had to buy her art print. The Sakura and Shirou art print also a great piece, truly expressing their emotions at that moment, so it instantly captivated me.
Kotomine and Karen stickers were freebies from Chaldea Picnic Club, while the rest I bought them. I always loved Nitocris in her Medjed cloak and Arjuna is one of my favorite Servants, so it didn't take me a second to buy their stickers. But my personal favorite among them, is obviously, the RichAya stickers. Having Enkidu among them was a plus too!
There were a whole lot of fascinating Fate keychains that I wanted, but again, due to budget restriction, I couldn't afford them all and had to settle with buying these ones. The wooden strange Fake keychain was the last one, so I was very lucky I got it right on time. And I just had to buy Hakuno and Gilgamesh keychain for the sake of fulfilling my GilHaku ship. lol
RichAya and Saber keychains have two different sides. I'll upload the back side later.
Seeing this bag, I laughed internally. It's very fitting of Gilgamesh and Ozymandias. Seeing these two laughing together like these with those big smug adorable smiles, I couldn't help but want the bag! LMAO
Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Merch
Imagine how extremely happy I am to find some booths selling KHR merchandises! I'm so glad that there are still people who loves KHR and still willing to sell them despite the popularity of other fandoms! I'm so grateful to the artists who created these wonderful KHR merchandises!
These are the first ones I bought on the first day. I just happened to come across the booth when I was taking a walk around the venue. I was speechless when I found the booth and saw it selling these KHR merchandises. I thought it was too bad there was no Chrome merch, but these were great artwork too, so I decided to buy them.
The Mukuro and Hibari standee will have slight differences depending how you view them from.
These three pins were the very last one when I arrived at the booth selling them. I was right to leave my booth the moment my friend returned. The three of them were the pins that I really aimed to buy from the booth. They're so cute!
However, my personal favorite, is of course, my most beloved favorite cutest character CHROME! I was sad when the first time I thought no booth would sell Chrome merch, but I found a few them selling them! Thank goodness! I'm extremely very happy! And I bought them along with Mukuro's to fulfill my 6996 ship! But I stupidly forgot to ask the name card of the one who drew the Chrome art print, I only remembered she was from Malaysia.
Ichi the Witch Merch
I was delighted when I saw the post that there'd be booths selling Ichi merchandises. Not only that, they even held a stamp rally on the second day of the event! The first thing in the morning when the event just started, I immediately joined the stamp rally. Since it's the second day, it wasn't so busy and not as crowded, so the rally went smoothly, I got all these wonderful merchandises. I hope Ichi the Witch fandom in Indonesia will continue to grow.
But, because I was too focused on the stamp rally, I completely forgot about another booth that also sold Ichi merch but didn't join the rally, so as the result, I didn't get those merchandises from those booths. I hope I can get them next time.
Mairuma Merch
When it comes to Osamu Nishi, aside from Ichi the Witch, of course Iruma-kun, a series written by Nishi, was also part of a fandom that I follow even if I rarely speak about the series. And obviously, I also join the stamp rally of this series! I wanted to join on the first day, but I was too late and the limited stamp rally was already distributed. Not only that, the booth where the stamp rally started on the first day already sold out the majority of their Mairuma merch. Luckily, there was still the love trio snow statue keychain, the one I wanted to buy the most, and it was the last one. I even got a discount!
And so, to make sure I won't miss the stamp rally on the second day, I immediately headed to the booth of Mairuma day 2 stamp rally started. This time, I successfully joined and got all these merchandises. It's limited because the majority were already sold out on the first day, but again, I'm grateful. I especially love the Azazel family pin. After the recent chapters of Mairuma, seeing them happy together was very soothing! (TT_TT)
Tekken Merch
Last but not the least, the Tekken art prints and doujinshi! I initially only bought Jun and Kazuya's, but I thought since Jin was there too, might as well buying the whole family together! I love all three of them anyway! Truly reminded me of Jun's character ending in Tekken 8. (TTvTT)
The AU doujinshi that depicted Lars as a child being adopted into Jin's family was also both funny and heartwarming. The way Kazuya and Lee were dumbstruck by finding out Lars being their youngest brother was hilarious, and then Lars realizing he was welcomed as part of Jin's family was heartwarming.
In all honesty, CF22 was not as exciting as the previous one. That said, I appreciated and grateful to all the artists who made and sold all these merchandises. I'll be sure to cherish them.
Picturing the mafia thinking, after Tsuna’s coronation, that Mukuro is weak to women and sending their daughters his way bc of Chrome and MM
And then he sends them home in tears because he’s so fucking mean
I don’t think he’d risk turning the girls themselves into unwitting spies against their family, mostly because a physical cut is a much bigger issue, politically and socially, than being a bitch
If the girl’s body guard just so happens to “accidentally” get scratched, though—
If confronted about his secondary mist guardian’s behavior, Tsuna calmly informs them that Mukuro just isn’t the type to suffer fools gladly.
“Mukuro hates the mafia, so I don’t know why you expect him to play by the rules just because you send a lady his way. He’s an equal opportunist like that”
And if pressed why on earth he keeps a man in his employ who hates them, the answer is simple “because he likes me.” a selfish tyrant
Tsuna, later, “what did you say to that poor girl…” he’s tired. He’s so tired. He’s glad you didn’t make a bigger mess but did you really have to make her sob like that?
“Noted her enhancements and said she slept with her bodyguard,” while pretending to inspect his nails.
Tsuna, absolutely scandalized, “Mukuro!!! …….. Did she?”
Mukuro snorts. “Of course not. He’s far too ugly.”
Okay also: Haru complaining to Chrome that Mukuro’s face is wasted on a guy like him and Chrome quietly agrees that yeah. Mukuro’s personality IS bad.
“But that’s also why I like Mukuro-sama so much. Even though he’s terrible to others, he’s kind to the people who matter.”
Haru goes :( “Chrome-chan, isn’t your taste kinda bad?”
I think this song encapsulates them so much. I love love love 6996 (both as a ship and as individual characters) and I really want to write a fic about them. If anyone has any cute or random headcanons about these two, I'd love to read it!
