R2 JPEG Orgy: Sweeter Than a Sack of Candy.

[ultimatemegax]

Yeah, I think by now people know I'm a KyoAni fanboy. Back in April, I ordered the Chuunibyou LNs to translate them prior to the anime airing and so I've finally gotten around to getting the other three. The collection...is up-to-date! Also all are first editions, which pleases me as well.

Covers/spines

May 2011 titles:
Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai!
Yuuyake Toudai no Himitsu

December 2011 titles:
Chuunibyou Demo Koi ga Shitai! 2
Oyashiki to Coppelia

June 2012 title:
Kyoukai no Kanata

[Damius]

Originally Posted by ultimatemegax

Covers

The covers certainly look really nice. Thanks for sharing.

[Nico87]

ultimatemegax: I love you. I need to know where I can order those Chu LN's. No stock at Amazon.jp.

[MelancholicMariya]

Originally Posted by Nico87

ultimatemegax: I love you. I need to know where I can order those Chu LN's. No stock at Amazon.jp.

Kyoto Animation's store is the best place to buy it from if you're importing it, you'll need to use a service like Yokatta to buy them as the KyoAni Shop doesn't take cards from overseas.

Though if you have friends in Japan ultimatemegax has a list of stores which stock Kyoto Animation's books, which I imagine will be way cheaper for you if anyone lives near one of the several hundred stores.

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by Nico87

ultimatemegax: I love you. I need to know where I can order those Chu LN's. No stock at Amazon.jp.

Jbook is where I got the others (and they give postcards with each book now). I ordered Chuunibyou from KyoAni's own web store twice (had to trash a copy of each for image scans) and their shipping is more expensive. Novel 1/Novel 2

I would go with Tenso since two novels aren't going to push it over the 1 kg mark and so your fee would be 490 yen+EMS shipping. The 3 I got today were right on that edge and, after seeing Yuuyake, it would've doubled my fee to make it more expensive than Yokatta.

Of course, since you have friends in Japan, they could try to pick it up at one of the retailers.

[Nico87]

I'll ask the guy to get them from JBOOK for me. KyoAni has some cool Chu items though, the calendar and the poster looks awesome, but they don't have any first print copies of the LNs left. Does JBOOK and is there any difference from first print to say, second print editions?

EDIT: Looks like no stock at JBOOK either

[ultimatemegax]

Originally Posted by Nico87

I'll ask the guy to get them from JBOOK for me. KyoAni has some cool Chu items though, the calendar and the poster looks awesome, but they don't have any first print copies of the LNs left. Does JBOOK and is there any difference from first print to say, second print editions?

EDIT: Looks like no stock at JBOOK either

Nah, the first printing has been sold out since August. There shouldn't be any differences that I'm aware of. Sorry for missing JBOOK was out of stock. They've been selling quite well (and the end of the anime should boost sales since it was anime original).

[Nico87]

After a little bit of research it looks like the only difference are the book jackets.

http://auctions.c.yimg.jp/img329.auc...e97gx96779.jpg is how the second print jackets looks like. Meh, both jackets should have been transparent in the first place to be honest, but only the jacket for the first print edition of the first book is.

Ended up buying the second editions from some random store and I also managed to snag the OP and ED singles with the Animate box.

[Nico87]

Pre-Christmas package from Japan!

Hanasaku Iroha vol. 8 w/ booklet
Kokoro Connect vol. 2 w/ box to hold first two volumes
Tari Tari vol. 3
PapaKiki! vols. 1-5
PapaKiki! box
PapaKiki! box v2
Nichijou DVD-BOX
Inu x Boku SS vols. 1-4
Inu x Boku SS vols. 5-7
Inu x Boku SS Gamers box (slightly NSFW)
Inu x Boku SS Gamers box v2 (slightly NSFW)
Inu x Boku SS Gamers box spine
Bokatsuku Tenshi Dokuro-chan box (baaaad light)
Bokatsuku Tenshi Dokuro-chan DVD vols. 1-4 + bonus disc
Bokatsuku Tenshi Dokuro-chan 2 box
Bokatsuku Tenshi Dokuro-chan 2 box v2
Bokatsuku Tenshi Dokuro-chan 2 DVD vols. 1-2

[Nikopol]

New arrivals, means it's picture flooding time XD

Natsuiro Kiseki vol. 05a
Natsuiro Kiseki vol. 05b
Natsuiro Kiseki vol. 06
Koi Choco vol. 03
Koi Choco vol. 04
Shin Sekai Yori vol. 01
Horizon II vol. 01a
Horizon II vol. 01b
OniAi vol. 01
Chu-2 vol.01
Chu-2 vol.01 - the tray (omgomgomg)
Mädchen und Panzer vol. 01
Mädchen und Panzer vol. 01 box

And to close off 2012:
my 2012 imports A
my 2012 imports B