wednesday_10_00 | Japan shopping list

OK....I think I have my Japan shopping list pretty much done. No doubt I will be adding things here and there, but here it is: more or less final version

Google docs seems to eat the sheet titles, so:

sheet 1: manga (tier 1)
sheet 2: manga (tier 2)
sheet 3: novels
sheet 4: misc.

Originally, "tier 1" contained manga I definitely wanted to get, and "tier 2" was stuff I figured I would get only if I had room in my luggage/shipping container/whatever. But after a while I started...I don't know, feeling sorry for the tier 2 manga? So I moved basically everything to tier 1 except those that I'm not really planning on getting. (I still might get some of them, you never know, but the plan is to skip them. And don't ask the point in taking a list of things I'm NOT planning to buy--it makes sense in my head, OK?)

The yellow rows designate manga that I researched and decided I wanted to buy (and would forget about otherwise). It's not a true "must buy" category in that there's lots of stuff I do not want to leave without, but I don't think it's likely I'll somehow forget about them. (Series books, for instance, and titles by authors who are automatic buys for me--none of those are yellow.) For novels, yellow designates series books I don't want to get lost in the shuffle (because I have such a huge novel backlog right now that pretty much all the other novels are the same level of "maybe"). Sheet 4 is pretty unorganized and mostly just notes to myself.

I am...pretty sure my suitcases are already crying in anticipation of the abuse I'm about to put them through.

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I will be researching your and Sara's lists throughout the week and will probably have questions (though, really, better than questions would be me shutting up and just looking at it after you buy it). Loving all the notes I can read, but special LOVE for the Umetarou notes.

I am relieved special Love Mode 6 is not on the list. I pictured blood in the aisles for stuff on all three lists.

To be honest, I just forgot about Love Mode and will probably add it now. But I'm not going to fight anyone over it. I'm still torn on whether I would need the matching set or not.

LOL, there is going to be blood in the aisles over a few titles. (I am distressed to see that Count 0 is apparently oop.) But at least Love Mode is in print and could be purchased new (yes?). Still, remember there are LOTS of Mandarake branches to resort to. Also, around Comiket, the shelves at K-Books seem to turn over very rapidly.

I am distressed to see that Count 0 is apparently oop.

What?? But the sequel just came out! Ugh, Gush is the worst sometimes. Well, hopefully it's recent enough that no one will have trouble finding it. There are a LOT of bookstores in Tokyo. XD (PS Two of them need to have Will, ugh.)

Will is going to be the source of serious bloodshed. ^_^ (I never found that at ALL last year, woe.)

Ah well, let's hope for the best. (If you have actually READ the whole series, you deserve to have it first, as I cannot claim the same.)

I have, ha ha! (Though I can't say I missed it--not much significant can have happened in it.)

I love that you have Usagi Drop on there. It's adorable. So is Natsume!

I might have the Umetaro volumes, if you want them for price of shipping. I'd have to check my stash.

I definitely have most of the Fujisaki Kou volumes sitting around. I was going to do them with the group but another team listed them out and then I took this job. :P

Ooh! I will definitely take you up on whatever you have. Just let me how how much and I'll Paypal you. :)

Cool! I'll try to dig into the piles tonight and tomorrow and send you a list. =) I'd be happy to have them go to a good home.

In the first pass through, I have:

Playboy Amour
Crazy for You
Virgin Love
Beautiful Beast
Happy Yarou Wedding

There's a ton more. I should make a list and let you and Sara pick from what you want from the Japanese language stuff. I'll try to dig in more later this week.

Hmm, I actually have most of those already, but I would love to get Playboy Amour. A list would be great, but no rush, we're not leaving until August. :)

Sadly, having an "I am not going to buy this" list makes complete sense to me. (Not that I actually have one, yet, but, yeah. I do have a "rejected" list in goodreads.)

Thank you for sharing! I will study and peruse (though, god knows I don't need to be making any additions, and I too would probably be better off just waiting for room-pimping).

I do have a "rejected" list in goodreads.

I have a list of "sold" books in Delicious Library, because I don't want to end up buying them again. (Sad enough when that happens on purpose, but doing it on accident is the worst.)

I'm afraid of room-pimping this year. My list is so long already. :(

Did you remove the spreadsheet? I can't get it to load, and there was some "cute yakuza" thing I wanted to look into before adding it to my list. *pout*

Never mind. Got it to load. (I am soooo impatient. Love me for my bad qualities!)

I am back with questions about the anthologies.

What can you tell me about 萌え男子がたり? I've just added the first to my shopping list, because it lists Yoneda "I will give her both my kidneys if she will return to manga" Kou and Nakamura Asumiko among the contributors. But the "look inside this book" feature on Amazon for volume 2 looks very texty-mono.

Also, for why are you collecting those specific volumes of Honey? (Mostly curious, not competitive.)

萌え男子がたり is a collection of moe points by various artists. (Not standard ones like "glasses," but more specific ones; the cover of the first one is the illustration for "unfashionable guys" (hence reindeer sweater). Each moe point has an illustration and an essay, but to be honest, I haven't read many of the essays, I just view it as an illustration collection. I would have to count to be sure, but the first one has something like 20 full-color illustrations.

(At one point I think I edited a collection of icons from the illustrations, but never got around to posting them. I should do that.

Edit: the icons are in here (http://pics.livejournal.com/wednesday_10_00/gallery/0000btbc?page=5&.view=grid), if you want to get an idea of what the illustrations are like. [Vaguely nsfw warning.] I think I never posted them because I was unhappy with how some of them came out and wanted to recrop them before I posted, and obviously never got around to it.)

re: Honey - I'm just going by collections that sound interesting to me. Well, except for 2, which I just want because I think the cover illustration is hilarious. The other two are "ugly collection" and "dad collection." Looking at the newer issues, I may check out 9, also, but I'm not sure if it's going to be a collection of m-preg or newborn babies or what. (And the really sad thing is, I'm not sure which I want it to be...)

Edited 2011-07-25 14:08 (UTC)

Oh, dear. I had hoped you were collecting them for a particular story. If I start buying anthologies based on theme again, I will need to remove all my furniture except the bed and TV.

GAH! Texty-mono. Do I love Yoneda Kou enough to want to look at her kanji?

I had hoped you were collecting them for a particular story. If I start buying anthologies based on theme again, I will need to remove all my furniture except the bed and TV.

Funny, it's the exact opposite for me. Well, I guess collecting by theme is only dangerous for me if I start looking at ALL anthologies, which I don't really do. It's just that since I get B-boy (the magazine) I see the ads for Honey, and that makes me want to buy it. Only a lot of the themes are pretty distasteful to me, so I've moved beyond blindly collecting the whole run and now will only get the themes I like. Unless there's a story I like in one of those issues, in which case I'll be in trouble again.

...OK, anthologies are just dangerous in general.

Do I love Yoneda Kou enough to want to look at her kanji?

If you want, you can look at my volume 2 there, and see if you think it's worth getting?

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