Dolly Happiness!

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Someone on DoA wanted to trade a Kasumi head for and Anne/Piccolo head. *__________* I've wanted a little boy Kasumi since he came out. He's one of my favorite Yos. In a way, I feel guilty because Akiyo helped me to get my Anne,but Kasumi.. He'll be such a cute little Asuran and will look even better with Kira and Lux. Now, all I need is a reasonably priced Yuki head and I can have a Shinn. lol

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Yes! It's the cutest thing - clear plastic with blue and yellow stars. :D I love it, and I figure it's a great souvenier! (Plus I'm sure I'll need it all week, boo! Hopefully Osaka and Kyoto will be better...) I haven't seen Fuji yet, but I will! If I have to part the clouds myself!

I'm just glad I have a backup for my jacket, now I have to figure out what size I wear! I think they actually go down to SS, but I have no idea how the sizing is. :O I may just go with a S if they have that. :D;

We're going to Kyoto on Tuesday and then spending the night in Osaka, and meeting my friend who is an exchange student from Canada staying in Osaka on Wednesday, then heading back to Tokyo that night. She wants to hit up the Mandarakes and go karaoke-ing and such. She knows where some of the stores are, I believe, and I'm going to do a quick online search for them too so I think we should do all right. She knows the area pretty well. ^_^

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Well, the general are for one k-books, animate and mandarake in Osaka is DenDen Town on the main shopping street. So as long as you can get to DenDen Town's main shopping street you are set. I usually work from Namba station through a few shopping complexes but there is a actual subway stop even closer. I just use the Midousouji line a lot since I generally am coming from Tnnoji.

the Umeda one is right near Umeda/Osaka station. I think you walk out on the same side as a Hankyu depato (can't remember which type of depato and there re a few there, but i remember the overpass) and walk several blocks towards an overpass, go under the over pass and go up like two blocks and then go left and then right i think? it's not so far. The Umeda one is pretty big, the DenDen one is smaller but the K-books there is nice. I think you're less likely to see a jacket there but lots of fun stuff. I go to Volks, Gundam and figure shops in the same area. if you want to see the scary $$$ dolls like mine just go to the top floor in the Osaka Volks.

The Gundam store is fun, you might want to check it out. ^_^

When I tried on a jacket several years ago, there was only one size. >>;; they were all too small on me cause I'm plump ^o^ though i can semi squeeze into the m size shirts.

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Ahh, okay~ Thanks! ^_^ Hopefully we'll have time to hit that all up! XD I've got to get myself a map of the Osaka and Kyoto subway routes right after this~ :D;

Ahaha, I could spend so much money in a Gundam store~ >D;

Ahh, that's sad! I do think they make more sizes now, at least. I'm just really short, so I always need small sizes, but the Japanese are all small so I have no idea how that translates over. XD;

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Kyoto's subway just makes a cross, so unless you get lucky in terms of location, the subway is useless. For kyoto you need a good bus map. ~.~ i got an english one at kyoto city tourist i think? (which is in the station)

osaka subways are really good, but more complicated. i think you can get a free map at a tourist authority.

hehehe yes the gundam only store is evil. i generally try to be careful there. >>;; i love the pinky st style gundam characters. i have kira, asuran, and lux. i sort of want meer and shinn.

I'm not so tall but I am plump lol You're much smaller and thinner from what i remember. I tried on a m, and i could get on the shirt, but by butt was too big and i couldn't zip the jacket over my chest lol it's good i didn't get it since i've gained weight since then >>;;

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We ended up just taking a taxi (care of my mother ^^;) through Kyoto, so all was well~ And then we ended up just staying around Osaka station on Wednesday, so that was nice and easy. :D I didn't make it to the gundam store, but we found the Jump Shop and I found a jacket, yay~! I ended up with a small, which is a little on the big side but hey, so's Ryoma's. XD; And we spent an hour and a half in Mandarake looking at allllll the PoT doujin~ Maan, I can't believe it's so expensive in the States! I think I spent about $25 for 13 books, out of which 10 were worth keeping, so that's totally not bad! (Except the one that said Novels Only that I totally didn't see, but it's got a cute MomoRyo cover and maybe I'll be able to sell it to someone along the line. ^^;;) And YES, I have to say the Pinky St. gundam charas are soooooo adorable~ I need to get some someday!

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Sellers charge more cause they have to cover: the cost of their current stock and of course want to make a profit. lol (and as my husband likes to remind me I personally need to put some towards the cost of going to Japan XD; ) Also, PoT doujinshi use to be a little more used and new a lot of them cost more. A new Blue Crest book is 600-1000 yen, while used, if you get lucky, they can be a lot less. Mandarake buys them back for 10% of what they're charging you.

I forgot to tell you the secret to telling novels from non-novels when sealed lol Kim and I are quite the experts. It involves looking at the squiggles and using your nail to peak between the pages. I still sometimes get text only, but not anywhere near as often.

It's scary how long you can spend looking >>;; So you went to the Mandarake near Umeda/Osaka station?

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Yeah, I can definitely understand charging like that, it's just painful to realize how much I've paid. :D; I don't buy doujinshi much anymore, though, since I like to know what I'm getting ahead of time and unless I'm buying it from someone I know (like you!) it's usually hit or miss. But for 210 yen a pop it's easier to take a few misses! XD; I still wish I'd been able to find some Blue Crest though!

Ahaha, that's a good tip! I'll keep that in mind in the future~ Like I said, hopefully someone somewhere will buy it, and if not, I guess I paid 200 yen for a pretty cover. XD; Could be worse. :D;

Yep, that's the one! Sting Oakley opened up shop and Kaidoh was running all over the store helping customers. We were so amused. XD And had to literally drag each other out, hehe.

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heheheh I don't think I've ever seen a Sting, though Seed/Destiny characters are always popular. I once got helped by Kira ^o^

I have seen Blue Crest used, it's a matter of luck. And yes, it is much easier to get experimental for 210 yen. lol I am pretty sure that is how we discovered Blue Crest. Kim got one in 2003 for 210 and then we bought some full price at SCC. I'm glad you found some keepers though ^o^

you could always try to sell them as buybacks before you leave lol

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Aww, that's awesome! Yeah, we asked Kaidoh for help because hey, if you have to ask someone, why not Mamushii? XD Aww, Kira, though! :D

Yeah, I'd imagine so. You're my souce for Blue Crest nowadays. XD; I've been keeping an eye out for them, but no luck so far.

Haha, that's true! I may not get the chance, though - I don't want to go home in two days!

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I need a Kira LJ icon XD;;

If you let me know which ones you have now I can try to remember all the different ones they made. They still do some MomoRyo, but also do Other people x Ryoma, like I know they did a RyogaxRyoma one lol

I'll see if I see them in March though ^_^

Awwww, I feel that way during some of my trips, but then I tell myself I have no more room in my bags XD;;;

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I do too. XD; I HAVE one, I just have no SPACE for one. :D; ::kicks her free account:: Oh! But speaking of SEED, I found Shinn!! I went to the Akibahara Animate and they had him. Apparently I just never noticed the one in Ikebukuro was missing a month. XD; So I got him for you too~

Ooh~ Yes, I'll make a (small!) list of the ones I'd like - there are one or two MomoRyo ones of theirs I'm still on the lookout for, and if they ever do anything else with NiouRyo I'd die. o_o And I'd so squee over a Blue Crest RyogaRyo~ :O I practically bought the Mandarake in Osaka out of RyogaRyo. :D;;

Hehe, yes, that is quickly becoming the case. That and the wad of money I told myself was all I could spend is quickly dwindling. XD; So maybe it's a good thing I have only one more day to shop!

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SHINN!!!!!!!!!!!! Ia dmit, I love Kira more, but was so so so so sad by the thought of Shinn not getting a Destiny charm. It seemed tragic since ostensibly he was supposed to be the main character lol I have a paid account, but I want to use more of my own images or ones that are free vs. copyrighted ones for new LJ icons. >>;

I don't own and never did so I can't tell you about the inside in terms of who actually has sex with Ryoma but.. I thought you knew there is a Yagyuu/Niou do Ryoma Blue Crest book. It was part of their 3-some series. ^^ They did OshiAto do Ryoma together, though Oshitari just gets the blow job, whle Keigo gets the sex, and there is a ToriShihi do Ryoma, and a Yagyuu and Niou. Niou also gets a chance to molest him in the Rikkai molests Ryoma one, though I think he doesn't get in as much molestation as Sanada and Kirihara. The Ryoga x Ryoma is thick, I bought a copy once for someone, and I am pretty sure it is quite porny. lol

Ah, the dwindling money prob.. I remember with Kim we had 1000 yen left other than credit cards, so we bought some more doujinshi and pocky for dinner XD;

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Hee~ Yeah, well, I love Shinn and couldn't believe he didn't have a charm, so apparently I just can't count. XD; I'm so glad he does have a charm, though~! :D And yeah, I can understand the copyrighted vs. not case for icons. ^_^ I wish I had pictures to do that with! XD;

asfklsjfus no I didn't know there was a Niou/Yagyuu x Ryoma threesome one! Maaan~ That sounds awesome. XD Though the Rikkai molests Ryoma one is nearly my favorite doujinshi ever, though~ <3 There's actually quite a bit of Niou x Ryoma in it, though I think Sanada wins out in the end (WTF? XD;). But yesss~ Blue Crest RyogaRyo sounds awesome. I'll remember they have one!

Ahaha, yes, for once I may be glad to have my mother along to buy me dinner tonight! XD

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I'm just weird and feel guilty. ^^;; I feel particularly bad about all the doujinshi ones I own, since while I do own the doujinshi, doujinshika can be weird about things. ^^;

I am trying to remember the details, it came out a long time ago, cause it had been out for a while when I bought the RyogaxRyoma one for someone, and I bought that one for 800 or 900 yen in May '05. I think it might have originally been a short copyhon, like the HyouteixRyoma book, but then got combined with the ToriShishi copyhon to get a full book where the doubles compete for him. I think... I never actually owned it because by then I was starting to mostly want to find Yagyuu with Yuuta more XD;

Hope you had a safe flight back!!!

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Yeah, I definitely understand. I try to give credit in the icon comment, but that's not always quite the same. ^^;

Ahhhh~ I see. Huh! Well, now I know it exists and I can keep an eye out for it! XD

Thanks! We did, and just got home~ Now the trick will be staying up 'till a decent hour tonight! :D;