On 8/6/20 9:35 AM, Jack Bohn wrote:
Bobbie Sellers wrote:
On 8/4/20 9:17 AM, Jack Bohn wrote:
Among the things Bobbie Sellers wrote:
I am not quoting prices here but Preorders save about $75
<https://www.rightstufanime.com/Mobile-Suit-Gundam-SEED-Collectors-Ultra-Edition-Blu-ray>
I'm as big a Gundam fan as the average bear. But I don't think I've spent $75 on any series, let alone saved $75. But I'm notoriously cheap.
#1 I am not a Gundam fan.
#2 You are cheap. I bought the whole DVD set of Maison Ikkoku,
and both versions of MI in print both Graphic Novel and the manga.
All of Kimagure Orange Road plus the Movies, all 3, and the OVA. All of
Genshiken manga and anime, the original Yawara box set then downloaded
all the remaining episodes and the HD versions being slowly issued by
the Fan Subbers plus a bunch of other stuff. If I could get the manga
I would. I did read first the manga script of KOR and then the manga
online as well as the fan fiction about college.
I thought Gundam fans were equally committed.
I am cheap. I was going to give examples of my cheapness, but it's actually a bit embarrassing. Maybe I need another modifier for my fanhood. (And, Wow! If we could convert you to a Gundam fan you might become dangerous! The closest I come to
something like that is the "Crest of the Stars" series with the first three light novels translated, the anime series of "Crest" and "Banner", and the manga adaptations of the anime. I think all in one fell swoop online. I feel more engaged in the "
Planetes" DVDs and manga as I searched for those in the shops at the time of release.)
Art book. Ok, $30-$40, if I want it.
I don't buy Art books or build plastic models. I basically read
manga and watch some anime. Princess Jellyfish disappointed me severely
especially after the excellent manga and the further works of the author
But I am buying the Blank Canvas manga though I read it all online.
Presently I am reading a manga featuring two Gunplay fans who
are building plastic models one is JK and the other an Office Lady.
Hg Ni Koisuru Futari Ongoing Author: Kudo Makoto and that is online.
Featuring the ideal price for someone who does not want to spend that
much.
Yeah, model building is a specific taste. At the risk of sounding even less of a Gundam fan, one representative of a type of Mobile Suit is enough for me, I don't need variants. (In fact, I'm more of a big ship fan despite them telling us since
before World War II that bombers can take one out and then go do other useful things.) Gunpla Builders, with customization and tactical gameplay I have actively avoided as a money pit.
Many of the old stories in anime could do with some revisions.
KOR could be brought closer to the manga with great improvement to the
series. Another OVA could finish Dragon Half.
I guess it takes a massive success (such that lower sales on a revision would still be a success) and a creator obsessed enough to put in more work on what was "good enough" to be a massive success.
But you are not much of a fan if you won't spend more than $75
for a series. But you will likely be able to pick up what you want at a
discount eventually.
"Discount," my favorite word, even when paired with "eventually." I was afraid I may have spent more than $75 for a series, I scanned my shelf... After Christmas I did drop $120 on a domestic TV series -- 7 seasons averaging about 24 eps per (
Discount!) Then there's the big space taker on my anime shelves: a 14-DVD series divided into 7 boxsets of two program disks and an Extras disk, all in their own individual clamshell (remember when anime, Star Trek, and Doctor Who were sold by the
episode rather than the season?); I saw it in the store and was struck by the idea of One Fell Swoop, I doubt I got enough of a discount twenty years of inflation ago to keep it below $75 total.
On the other hand I got a advertisement from TSRI the other day
which I did not forward to the newsgroup. It asked $39,999.99 for a
life size plastic model. And even if i wanted such a thing I would not
spend so much on it. A cardboard figure would do as well or better.
Seems like it might be intended for store decor or for the
fan with a room full of stuff who wants a permanent hostess who will
only require dusting.
For that kind of money (a car or light truck) I would want a life size Gundam! Alas, probably a static model, but maybe with a lighting kit!
I don't need to be a Gundam fan to be dangerous. ;^)
Gundams are a fantasy but motorcycles as with aircraft are real
life.
When I was well in my distant youth half a life time ago I was
an avid motorcyclist, I did not get to manga until I was around 65
and it was the MI Graphic Novel that I bought to find out what happened
to the characters when the VCR tapes were discontinued that got me
into manga. I have been a graphic narrative fan since the 1940s when
I learned to read and before that I had to depend on dear Mama to read
the comics to me. I read Westerns then SF when I discovered public
libraries in Fallon, Nv. But I continued my graphic narrative interest
right through all the ages of DC and Marvel, into the Comix era with Underground Vegetable Stagecoach and Bob Crumb's various endeavors.
But as the time went by I found anime on TV with Card Captor Sakura, Yu-gi-Oh and Pokemon which were interesting then had some
luck as the old PBS 54 had Dr.Who on late Sunday night. I turned it on
early and there were Evangelion and a few other items, and we had
a local Japanese station that showed a few things, and others
showing Tenchi to Paradise Kiss.
Right now my favorites are "Ooku" set in alternate Japan
where the Red Face Pox kills a lot of males. and Blank Cansvas
about a mangaka and her best teacher as well as a few other
other items. Waiting on TSRI to get next volumes out to me.
Favorite online humor manga right now is:
Nietzsche-sensei - Konbini ni, Satori Sedai no Shinjin ga Maiorita
Author: MATSU Koma
Genres: Comedy Seinen Slice of Life
The comedy manga follows a male part-time late-night convenience
store worker named Matsukoma, and the new part-time worker he
trains named Tomoharu Nii, nicknamed Nietzsche-sensei. Tomoharu
is a university student in the school’s Buddhism department. When
an angry customer screams at Tomoharu, “Customers are gods!,“ he
replies, “God is dead.“ The manga follows the part-time worker life
of Matsukoma and Tomoharu, the latter of whom continuously
baffles his customers and co-workers at the convenience store
with his odd ways.
Nii is a very interesting character, and Matsukoma is also
excellent.
bliss
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