Hi Minna-san! Sorry for just suddenly disappearing, but a lot of stuff has been going on (none of it good) and so I had to take a break for a while. Should I have not replied to your email, I apologize and please resend it as it was probably lost in my email (at one point I had over 400 new emails each in two seperate email accounts... that's over
800 total ^^;;).
As I havn't been collecting much there isn't much to report. I won't be spending a lot of money on cards at this point as I can't afford it :( but will still be interested in getting some certain high priority cards. I am trying to sell off some stuff, so if you're interested please email me an offer.
I'm also not officially 100% back. I will be on vacation starting soon for a few weeks, and even then it will be random.
Akemashita Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Wow it's been a bit too long since I've last updated. Gomen ne!
New Stuff coming in: HUGE YYH lot! Includes PC1 SPs/Rares/Regs, PC2 SP/Rares, PC3 Regs, and the PC1 Mailaway! Can't wait for it to come in! Also, FY PW Magazaine 8! Includes Miaka, Suboshi, and Urumiya (at least half of him). It's taking a while, but hopefully it will come in soon! Last but not least, I just won an almost complete CCS Clow Chapter set including the Binder and Binder card! Listed all the extras I will have as well!
New Stuff just arrived: Fate/Stay Night Silverblitz box AND Fate/Stay Night Movic box! Got rather lucky with my Silverblitz box too! Within the first 3 packs I got Rin and Saber's SPs (the ones I wanted the most), and in the FIRST pack I got the ATARI insert for the mailaway binder! Woohoo!!
Finally an update! Wow it's been a month.. gomen ne!
Just got my box of YJP auctions in, and some wonderful goodies came out of it! Got the YYH Binder (no binder card but oh well), Recca TC full set, X Promos, Spiral Promos, Slayers Next Clear Specials, Black Cat Special, and then came the big surprise. The cards that came with the YYH PC2 Mailaway were all in an official Trading Collection Binder (Amada), and it came with an almost complete set of PC2 regs, almost ALL the rares, and some specials as well!! I'm officially deciding that the specials are all trade only, and only for either PC3 specials I need or HIGH Priority sets of equal value. Also got a few PC1 cards (plus one rare), some Hunter x Hunter CM1 and Special Limited cards (and these 9 NFS HxH cards that I think were some kind of promotion... on the back they have a scratch-off part that was scratched off but they're really cute... does anyone know if there are more? I have 4 Kurapika, 4 Killua, and 1 Gon). That's not even all either. I got some Senkaiden Houshin Engi Final Edition cards, including 2 types of EX cards AND a Super Special!! A couple of AP cards and 1 Lami rounds off what was in the binder.
Don't have much else coming in except a bunch of the Rayearth OVA Sps (YAY!) and a bunch of FY PC2 Sps (More Yay!). Hoping to get some more stuff soon.
Last piece of official business. Again, Shocomi is deciding to be mean, and has moved the date of the next FY Perfect World Magazine to January 9th. They've also mentioned that this will be the last installment of the Shichiseishi cards which doesn't make much sense considering the fact that there is still room in the binder for 9 more cards after Volume 8 comes out. Not sure how they're going to do it (and are they REALLY going to leave out Suzuno?? Hidoi!!!)
So it's been a long couple of weeks = ( and the work doesn't seem to be lightening up much. Oh well. Card-wise, getting some great cards! I managed to win a FULLY complete set of Flame of Recca!!! Yay Tokiya Cards!!! Also won the YYH PC2 Mailaway ^_^ it comes with some regs and rares so the rares will be listed shortly but won't know exactly which regs until I get them. Also some Hunter x Hunter cards, but not sure if they're lamis or not (probably lamis tho). If they are lamis, I'll scan and sell those.
Stuff from the last update that I never wrote an update about. Also managed to win a set of X Kadokawa Promos, so I'll have X1, X3, and X4 for sale or trade!! Last thing I won lately was Spiral Promo 2!!! An incredibly rare card (that I've never seen for sale before). Comes with an extra PR01 which I'll consider selling if anyone's interested. That's pretty much it for now. Ja ne!
So it's been a while... got some of the SHANA specials that I needed, still have yet to find any of the others. FINALLY got Slayers NEXT Clear 124/125 ^_^ I thought I'd never find 124 and it was pretty cheap too. Now only missing reg 108 (Lina/Gourry kissing memorial scene card), but I'll find it eventually. Almost won Spiral SP9, but got complacent with my bidding and didn't end up winning due to a too-low bid (forgot the fierceness of YJP).
Ouran HS Host Club cards came out last week. Rather cute cards actually... wasn't planning on buying any, but I might change my mind. Loveless will be out tomorrow ^_^ As for PoT SC5... I'm really not sure about these cards. They're all playing instruments for the SPs (and NO EIJI SP TO BOOT), the first set of rares are rather nice, but the second set is a bit strange. It's all the characters dressed up as animals (Tezuka as an owl? who would have thought). And the regs are all regs from other special bromide sets, so there's no fun in that. So will I collect it? Probably not. Will be interested in certain Sps/rares, but that will probably be the extent of it. Not like I ever get the rares/sps I want out of Konami's boxes anyway, so I have no real drive to buy any boxes.
And this is a bit old, but since it was never in an update, I'll just mention it. I FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY got EIJI'S SHINING CLEAR CARD ONE SPECIAL!!! One of my highest priority cards!!! It was a great moment, really.
10-08-06
Woohoo!!!! FY PW 7 has ARRIVED!!!! Inami has joined the team, and we finally meet Urumiya!!! Just as most people predicted, it's Haagas! Wow, those chapters and the AnC Gaiden chapter were positively amazing. Glad it finally came out! And on the same topic, ALL FOUR of the new cards are scanned and up on my scan page!!! Go see them!!
As for cards.... Got 4 boxes of Shakugan no SHANA in today... Got tons of double Sps and extra reg sets. Take a look and see if you can help me finish this set!!!
The con I went to had positively no cards whatsoever. The only guy who was selling cards was selling regs from PoT SC3 and SC4... no rares, no specials, and everything else was lami cards. Oh well. Got some nice cheap shitajiki including my ALL-TIME FAVORITE of FYGK's Uruki and Takiko... SO amazing.. and my Vampire Knight Shitajiki came in as well... KANAME!!!!!
10-2-06
Sigh... Just received my box from YJP, and was a bit disappointed. The 10 packs of HnG were somehow all packs that contained the 9 Special cards, so now I have 9 extra sets of HnG specials. Am willing to trade or sell these sets (7 of them are still sealed in their packs), so please let me know if you're interested. Spiral cards came in good condition as did the Ribon cards (tho Spiral SP8 is officially being declared as lost), and the HnG binder was in good condition (but didn't come with any card sheets which was slightly odd). The FY GK Drama CD 4 was positively WONDERFUL, and Aira-chan's card is just too cute for words... I'll have it scanned as soon as I can, but my computer has been completely overtaken by spyware so much so that I can't use it unless it's in safe mode (and my scanner doesn't work on this mode). So the moment I have the chance, I'll have the card scanned and posted.
9-29-06
Wooopppss... it's been a month since my last written update... Gomen! College has been pretty much running my life (LAST YEAR!!!! YAY!!!!). So anyway, on to the cards!!
First of all, I'm getting 4 boxes of Shakugan no Shana Movic (2 Tsun, 2 Dere). Those should probably be in by next week. With those, I'm hoping to get a Vampire Knight Shitajiki of the entire main cast (I love Kaname!!). Also getting a lot of my missing FMA Gangan vs Neo cards!!!!
As for my YJP order, even though I told them to mail them out 2 weeks ago, they never did. So after emailing them, I learned that there had been some kind of misshap and that my order is JUST being shipped out now >sigh< Oh well, at least its coming and not lost in the mail... It looks like I may have lost yet ANOTHER package in the mail.. that's the 3rd one in the past 2 months... NOT good... lots of wasted money...
On to upcoming sets. October is another 'empty your wallets' month, with the arrival of THREE new sets. The first one being PoT Shining Clear 5 (another evil evil set), and the other 2 are new Movic Sets meaning they'll have 2 box types, multiple box cards, a ton of specials and only 8 packs in a box. Those sets would be Ouran High School Host Club anime version, and Loveless MANGA version!! I'll definitely be getting some of the Loveless boxes as I absolutely love manga art (and loveless' is really nice), so I'm very excited for those!
On to the BIG news of the day!!! Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World Volume 7 is now OUT!!! My guess on who was on the Shichiseishi cards was DEAD ON: Inami, Tomo, Nuriko. The cover's really nice too with Uruki, Tomite, Hikitsu... then again, you can see the image above so I don't have to tell you that! I'm still looking for the best place to buy it from... I can't wait!! ^_^
Well, it looks for the most part that my luck on YJP changed for a few days. After managing to win 10 packs of Hikaru no Go cards, I also managed to win the official binder. I also won a lot of Spiral cards that included SP7, 4 rares, and 11 extra regs. Non-card related, I got the Furuba manga-version cell phone strap. My luck sadly changed back to bad when I tried to win an Ayashi no Ceres lot that included almost all the Sps, some washi, full reg set, the MAILAWAY and PROMO 2. But sadly, I didn't have a high enough bidding limit and so I could not win it >sniffle< So to make myself feel better, I bought another Spiral SP ^^;;
But on to the BEST part! The new Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden Drama CD (Volume 4) was set to come out 8/24. When I went to preorder it from the site I normally buy these from, the site made no mention about the first edition printings. After emailing them (after all, I'm mainly looking for the card), I got the response that after talking to the company, there was no guarantee that there would BE any bonus items, but if I ordered then, I could still get first edition. So I waited until the CD came out, confirmed there was a card and emailed them again. But this time, they were sold out =( So I headed back to YJP. In the past week, I've only seen THREE auctions for the CD, and only ONE of those actually had the card. Luckily, I managed to win that one. I figured since this CD finally introduced Hikitsu, that the card would be of
Aira-chan (Hikitsu's little sister), and it looks like I was right. Image is up above the update.
As for other news... I've been reading a TON of scanlations lately... finished HnG and Black Cat, and am almost done with HxH, YYH, Death Note, and something else. Honestly, if anyone can explain to me WHO was talking on the last page of HnG, I'd really appreciate it. As for Black Cat... Train is so CUTE, as is Xiao (No. X), River, and Kevin. And Eve with short hair is actually a lot cuter than with long hair. Reading so much has pushed me to redo my favorites page, so that should be done rather soon!
8-22-06
Well it took me longer than expected to update. Gomen! I actually spent over an hour and a half redoing my second card page, and as I'm trying to save, the program crashes. Then I restart the computer and update my first card page and yet again it decides to crash. Oh well, at least I managed to get the updates done right? I went over all my extras recently and found a bunch of discrepancies between my site and what I actually have. I believe I lost some cards recently as I can't find some that I know I have, but they should pop up soon (perks of having my room repainted as I have to empty out the entire room).
Like the new main image on my site? I'd been debating on changing that picture for a while as the newest chapters of Tsubasa has REALLY made me dislike Clow World's Syaoran. Seriously, CLAMP is psychotically twisted to come up with the story-line they did, and to hurt my favorite character (not Syaoran) like they did is SO not cool. Anyway, yes, my new image is Sesshoumaru's mother, though she looks more like a sister to me. Was I the only one who figured that since the father remarried a HUMAN that the first YOUKAI wife was dead? I guess maybe youkai just mate for mating's sake and don't really marry? Well at least now we know where Sesshoumaru gets his twisted personality from... his mother is even WORSE if you can imagine that.. She really is, it's scary. If you're interested in seeing these latest developments on the Inuyasha front, she appears in chapter 466 and continues into the most recent chapter, 469.
On to the cards. Yup, YJP is kicking my butt all over the internet. The only thing I've managed to win recently is 10 packs of Hikaru no Go part 1. At least that's a start right? The YYH PC3 SPs also came in yesterday, and really were worth every penny. On new set news, I'm going to start collecting Death Note cards once I can find them decently priced. I'm also interested in starting the Fate/Stay Night Fate Fact Card set (the one by SilverBlitz, NOT the anime version). I don't know anything about the game/series, but the cards really are gorgeous. Once I can find a box or two, I'll start collecting that.
And on to the BEST news of this update! After a YEAR of waiting, Shocomi has FINALLY released an OFFICIAL release date for Fushigi Yuugi Perfect World Volume 7!! It will be out September 26th, and will come with the usual 3 cards and probably other nice, pretty extras. I'm actually more interested in what's going on in the story than the new cards. After leaving the last chapter in the middle of the Takiko/Inami fight with Takiko in a VERY bad position, we FINALLY get to see the conclusion. But honestly, I'm just glad that Watase-sensei is back up to strength and is ok. There's also some new merchandise out like Shitajiki/Tshirt/Lami cards(?) Not 100% sure about the lamis tho. Well that's it for this update... I'll try to update more regularly soon as I'll be heading back to school in a couple of weeks.
8-7-06
Well luck on YJP has not gotten any better.. did manage to win a couple of rare cards on ebay recently, so I'm pretty happy bout that. Don't have much to report right now EXCEPT: Please note that I will be on vacation all week until Friday, so my apologies in advance if I cannot respond to any emails. Have to go pack now... C u in a week!
8-2-06
Wow.. sorry for the delay in updating.. I've been bidding on YJP auctions just about every day. Auctions won: 0. >Mega Sigh< Found lots of great cards, but apparently Japanese bidders are super-fierce, so I havn't had much luck. Here's an idea of some of the great auctions I didn't manage to win: Sakura Wars CM lot including SPs, Full Flame of Recca CM set including all SPs, Candidate for Goddess Set 1 lot including SPs/metallics/foils, Near complete CCS Clow Chapter set including Binder, PoT SC1 SP3, Loki complete set (didn't bid on because needed the money elsewhere and a friend bought it). And these are just a few examples of what I didn't win. Oh well.. I'll keep trying and maybe one day I'll actually win something.
On another note, it looks like the CCS Clow Chapter cards I bought are MIA in the mail. That's upsetting, as I really wanted that Touya foil (and I paid a lot of money for all those cards). And still no word on FY Perfect World 7. It probably will be November after all.
7-19-06
So here's the holdup.. I've been meaning to redo page 2 of my cards, but somehow never managed to get around to it, so that will happen soon, I promise. On the card front, well I've been trying with YJP auctions, but those are getting harder to win as well... Plus I have a bidding limit on those auctions, so once an auction goes past what I can spend, then I can't win it. >sigh< Oh well... Let's hope things start turning around soon. That being said, there's not much else to update right now.
7-09-06
I've decided that as my site is now 2 years old, I'm going to reformat the entire site. I have not finished yet, and it's taken me almost the entire day so far (still have to do page 2, Inuyasha, Tsubasa). I was originally planning on putting page 2 together with page 1, but page 1 was SO long that I knew it wasn't possible. Oh well. I've always liked sites that gave some kind of image along with the set information, so I decided to do it that way. I have a feeling this will completely eat up my bandwidth and I will have to make changes yet again, but it looks cute in my opinion. I've decided to go with a favorite card from the set instead of the pack/box as that seems to give a little more personalization, but that's just me.
AMG PC cards in! Have most of the reg set but no specials as of yet.. Still looking for those.
Spiral cards came in as well! One of the specials I had never seen before so I took a gamble on it being nice, but it's actually the nicest of the 9!! It's a Xmas themed card ^_^ A little disappointed that the rare cards didn't really have anything rare about them... they looked like regs but were called rares...
Placed a couple of bids on YJP this week.. only one of the 2 I managed to win. The one I didn't win was the Hunter x Hunter CM2 SP3 of Kurapika... the NICEST special (if you've seen it you know what I mean), but oh well. Let's hope I find another one of it. The other auction that I did win was a lot of Ribon Furoku cards... ALL SEVEN RMC cards and 2 FM foils! So I will be getting an extra RMC1 and foil (42 I believe), and all the rare RMCs... Fuzuki/Moe, Oshige/Wakaouji, Madoka/Nachi, Sheldan/Death Master (and the common Eichi/Takuto, Izumi/Johnathan). Got them super-cheap, and REALLY looking forward to them coming in!
7-03-06
Wowee... It's been an interesting week or so... Apparently I have NO luck on ebay whatsoever anymore, as almost ALL the auctions I bid on recently I did not win. The only thing I won was an X furoku card from one of the manga... Kamui with a cheetah I believe. However, I did get lucky in that I'm getting a HUGE lot of Spiral Movic cards... An almost complete reg set, all the rares, two specials and a promo. I'm also starting the Ah! My Goddess PC, getting a HUGE lot of regs as well. I'm REALLY looking for Peorth's specials, but all of them are gorgeous and I'd like to finish that set.
I also found out that there are TWO sets of Promos for Black Cat. There are PR01A and PR01B, and apparently also PR02A and PR02B. Could have gotten PR02A, but it was a bit pricey for my current budget so I'll lay off and hopefully find it elsewhere.
And no, there's STILL no word about the next FY Perfect World... I'm starting to think it really has been pushed back to November...
Congratulations to my site on being up and active for TWO YEARS now!! I'm so happy!!!!! I thank all of you for all of your help and kindness these past two years and hopefully down the road as well!
Woohoo! Just got back from vacation, so most everything should be updated. Havn't been able to do a lot of card searching in the past month or so, so there wasn't a lot to update unfortunately, so this will probably be very short. Have some cards hopefully coming in soon, including almost all the Black Cat specials I need! Will be missing 2 that I believe I can find, and I'm also getting one of the signed rare cards (Eve's), so I'm very excited for that. I'll post a more detailed update later as it's late and I still have stuff to do.
6-11-06
Hisashiburi minna! Sorry its been so long since I last updated... Camping, now vacation... Lots of time with no internet access. Just to let everyone know now: There is a 95% chance that I will not be able to check anything for the next week. Therefore, please be patient with me. Second: I've gotten a few emails saying I never responded to them. This would be because I never got them. Yahoo is funny sometimes and blocks emails without telling me. If I never responded, please resend your email. Anywhoo... as for actual card updates... not much on the front here as I really havn't been able to go online very much. Still looking for Black Cat traders.... Really want to finish my specials. Also decided (against my wallets protests) to start collecting Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok manga cards... I'm buying an almost complete set (2/6 SP, 12/18 Rare, 1/3 Box, All Regs), and have a good chance of getting another SP and a few of the missing rares. Sigh....
Ooh oohh... Completely NOT related to real cards, my online TCG just made a Fai deck (from Tsubasa)!!! It's absolutely GORGEOUS... If I just saw this deck somewhere I'd join just to collect it. You can see it on my page here, or you can look it up on the actual game site itself here.
Sorted through the regs out of the other 2 BC boxes... have 3 complete reg sets for sale or trade! Also have a near complete, but I probably will split it up to have spare regs. Besides that, I will be going camping this coming up weekend (so cannot respond to anything this weekend), then going on vacation for 3 weeks the day after I get back. Therefore, I will not be able to send out any cards for those 3 weeks (since I'm not going to haul all those cards out there). I will still be as active as I can, and will still respond to trade requests/emails. Please be patient for those weeks. Again, trades are on a first come, first serve basis, so please do not wait until I come back because the card(s) may not be available anymore. I will hold whatever cards you're interested in and then mail yours out once I get back. Any questions? Feel free to let me know! ^_^
5-18-06
The 2nd two Black Cat boxes came in recently... the first box was absolutely horrible luck. All 4 specials were doubles, and 3/4 were the SAME doubles I already had : ( That means that I only have 4 unique doubles, but have 7 total. And I'm still missing 9 specials and ALL the signed rares. I'll most probably not try to complete the rares since I didn't even get one out of 4 boxes. Those ratios must be pretty bad to not even get one though.... Havn't sorted through the new regs, so those will hopefully be up tomorrow. Debated about starting a couple of new sets, but realized that BC alone will probably be expensive enough to just finish the specials, so I'm going to wait a bit on those other sets.
5-11-06
So finally get home and open everything that has come in the past month or so, and now basically everything is updated. Did pretty well with my Inuyasha CM1 box... only missing a handful of regs (tho one of my specials was a little bent :( )
2 of my Black Cat boxes came in today... and they ended up very disappointing. Got 3 special doubles (so out of 8 possible specials, only got 5), did NOT get the box promos (both boxes came with a copy of the DVD Promo card), and did NOT get even ONE Signed rare. I think those are actually randomly inserted into boxes, not one per box, but oh well... at least I still have 2 more boxes coming in. Oh, one neat thing about the boxes. For box A, all the specials are in the packs on the right side of the box, and in box B, all the specials are in the packs on the left side of the box. If you ever end up seeing an open box in a store, keep that in mind when you buy the packs ^_^
5-10-06
So finals are finally over!!!!! College is over for the year, and I will be going home tomorrow morning. Will have tons of stuff to update with tomorrow, as stuff has just been piling up at my house for the past month. I believe at least 2 of my 4 Black Cat boxes should already be there, so I'll hopefully have those up tomorrow. Finally found images of the set!!! The specials are really nice, and the rare signed cards aren't bad either. I was shocked to see how much the signed cards go for on YJP though...
10,000 - 15,000 Yen... That's around $100-150!! Absolutely insane considering that boxes are relatively cheap.... Glad I'll only be missing one (or at least have doubles to trade). Anyway, I gotta go start packing and pray that all my stuff fits into that little compact car.....
5-2-06
Yup, so I finally decided to make an Updates page (instead of studying for my finals ^^;)! So here's what's going on. Got my Bleach CM3, but have not listed my extras as of yet. I will do it next week, but if there are specific cards you're looking for, just email me. Have not yet opened the Inuyasha CM1 box since I havn't been home yet, but that will be up and listed in a week as well. Bought a couple of Mai Hime cards, so I added that section as well. Really mostly interested in the specials right now, but if anyone knows where to get a box (not packs, box), please let me know.
Tsubasa Memorial 2 is NOT coming out anymore. We're not sure what fully happened, but this set has been canceled. That's really sad... I was looking forward to this set too.... but I guess that's good for my wallet :)
Now for Black Cat. While going through Movic's official page, I learned some details about this set. There are 2 box types (each with it's own box card), and each box has 8 packs. The set has 18 specials, so you'd think you'd get a special in every pack. YEA RIGHT. Specials are one in every two packs, so you only get 4/18 specials out of one box. To add to the pain, there are 5 Rare Signed cards (the voice actors of the main characters), and those only come ONE per BOX. So to even have the slightest chance of finishing the set, you need 5 boxes. Luckily, these boxes are relatively cheap so buying multiple boxes isn't going to completely kill you. I've upped my order to 4 boxes total (2 of each type) so I'll at least have extra box cards. 2 of the 4 boxes should hopefully be in soon, so when they do, I'll post them as fast as I can. Also, since noone seems to be selling these cards on YJP, I'll probably scan them into my scan's page as well.
When I get back home, I will be scanning a number of sets for ACO. Whenever I do that, I will post those sets up on my scan's page as well. Sets included are: Bleach CM1, CM2 (possibly CM3), FMA CM1-CM5, YYH PC1, PC2.
One last thing. There has been no official word on when the next FY magazine will be coming out. The publisher still says it will be out in 'spring' so most people agree that it will be out by the end of May. Watase-sensei's health seems to be better, so it should be out relatively soon (the chapters for this issue were already completed, so she just had some work on the magazine left to do). If I hear anything else, I will post that information here.