Why is shipping so expensive? xD

I'm currently planning out yet another order...*sigh*
At the moment, this is what's in it:
Tennis no Oujisama Zenkoku Taikai Hen (Prince of Tennis National Tournament) vol. 3
Morning Musume - SEXY 8 BEAT (limited edition)
Cap to Bin - Thank You!! (limited release)
I have to get the Nationals DVD. It's uber expensive ($46.25 on Yesasia, $42.51 on CDJapan), but it's Golden Pair angst and it's my favorite episode in the entire OVA series, and maybe even the entire series in general, and it's really cute and amazing, and...I mean, it starts off with lots of Eiji angsting and Golden Pair love, and then it turns into Eiji being uber cute and amazing and more Golden Pair love. <33333 The episode has its own folder in My Pictures for screenshots- seriously, not many episodes do. Only the Golden Pair flashback episode (freshman Eiji = THE CUTEST THING EVER), the chibi episodes, the Prince of Bowling/Billiards/Volleyball episodes, and episode 142 (which happens to be another cute Eiji episode, but it's missing the angst that makes Zenkoku episode 4 so great), and this episode of course. This episode has everything from Eiji crying over Oishi to playing doubles in singles to self-rape...
For the record, every time I watch this episode I'm in tears by the time Eiji confronts Oishi in the flashbacks...yes, I cry over a tennis anime. >____> Shut up.
I wanna make a couple of animated GIFs from that episode, but sadly, VirtualDub doesn't work with .mp4 files. I dunno if I could do it with another program or what...
Lolz I'm gonna shut up about that episode now. I could probably rant on about it for like ever...
Then there's episode 5 of the OVA, which is also on this DVD. Honestly, I couldn't care less about that episode. It's mostly filler anyway. Except for the scene where Kaidou and Yagyuu switch places and play as each other. That scene's great, though it makes no sense whatsoever in the anime...


ANYWAY back on track.
Then there's Cap to Bin's Thank You!!. I didn't think too much of the song when I first heard it, but I love it at the moment~ <33333 Not to mention Eiji's like FRONT AND CENTER on the cover, and I'm planning on collecting all CDs involving Eiji anyway, so...
And then SEXY 8 BEAT. I'm still catching up with Morning Musume; I want their mini-album also but this order is really expensive already, and I have the money to buy it along with this stuff but my mom doesn't like it if I spend more than ~$100 on one order so I'll get it later.


I looked up all the items and added everything to my cart on both Yesasia and CD Japan...
CD Japan has cheaper prices for the items. It's great- the Tenipuri DVD's $46.25 on Yesasia but only $42.51 on CD Japan; SEXY 8 BEAT's $34.75 on Yesasia but only $30.60 on CD Japan, and Thank You!! is $9.25 on Yesasia but only $6.32 on CD Japan.
However...shipping is uber expensive on CD Japan. DDDDD: It ends up being more expensive to buy it on CD Japan...
Maybe I'm just used to Yesasia's free shipping. I dunno.
I apparently have a 500 yen coupon on CD Japan, and 200 frequent shopper points, so maybe if I use those, it'll be a bit less expensive...still though, I feel like I'm being ripped off to pay so much just for shipping. D:
So, I think I'm just gonna use Yesasia for this...I'll save the coupon and the frequent shopper points for stuff I can't get on Yesasia (meaning, more PoT character singles)...


Lolz, and I'm also getting some doujinshi. Doujinstar.com is having a sale where everything's $5, and shipping has a flat rate of $4 for more than 1 doujinshi...so I can't help myself. =P
4 doujinshi for $24...yaaay~

So I decided to take a look through my music in a different way today..., pt 2

Well, not really as much of a "part 2" as it is just a post for the pictures I said I'd take.




Yeah, that's all my music sorted by release date. Took a while. About half of them said the release date on the obi; the other half were overseas releases or something so I had to look up the release dates online. The first shelf is 1997-2005, and the other starts with Ayu's (miss)understood, which was released 2006.01.01, and goes through to Aqua Timez's ALONES, which was released 2007.08.01. =D




Lolz, and this is my music right before packing it up into crates to move into the new house. My mom and stepdad thought it was a waste of bubblewrap, but 1) it's not like they were using it anyway, the only other thing we'd have done with it is have fun popping it, but we can still do that, and 2) it's so not a waste, I'm very protective of my CDs and DVDs and everything. Especially import stuff. So I'd rather be safe than sorry...


I'm gonna go find the scanner tomorrow and maybe actually scan the music I got recently. It might still be packed away though...

So I decided to take a look through my music in a different way today...

I just moved a few days ago, and my CDs were still sitting in a crate all bubblewrapped and nice and neat and everything, and I finally got around to putting them back on my shelf. Since I was pretty bored, plus I wanted to see what this would turn out like, I sorted my CDs by release date rather than by artist, and the results kinda surprised me. I was expecting most of my CDs to have been released between 2005-2007, considering I first got into j-pop in 2005. Surprisingly, the year that had the most CDs ended up being 2004. Turns out a lot of the Prince of Tennis music I've been buying recently was released in 2004...xD 6 singles and one of the soundtracks. Here's basically how it went down by year:
1 single (hitomi - problem) from 1997
1 single (globe - still growin' up) from 1999
1 album (Puffy - SPIKE) from 2000
3 singles (Aozu - WHITE LINE, Morning Musume - Do it! Now, the brilliant green - Rainy days never stays), 4 albums (Do As Infinity - Do The Best, Puffy - An Illustrated History, Hamasaki Ayumi - I am..., Utada Hikaru - DEEP RIVER), and 1 soundtrack (Kingdom Hearts) from 2002
6 singles (BoA - Rock With You, BoA - Shine We Are! / Earthsong, Every Little Thing - Grip!, Kikumaru Eiji - ONE, Koda Kumi - real Emotion / 1000 no Kotoba, Koda Kumi - COME WITH ME), 1 mini-album (Hamasaki Ayumi - Memorial address), 2 albums (Hello! Project - Pucchi Best 4, Puffy - NICE.), and 3 soundtracks (Final Fantasy X-2, NARUTO OST 1, Prince of Tennis OST 2) from 2003
15 singles (Abe Natsumi - Koi no Telephone GOAL, BoA - Be the one, BoA - Merry-Chri, Goto Maki - Sayonara "Tomodachi ni wa Naritakunai no", Hamasaki Ayumi - Moments, Heartsdales - LOVE & JOY, Kaidou Kaoru - Sekai wa Kawaru, Kawamura Takashi - Asobi ni Ikanai ka?, Kikumaru Eiji - Come Together, Kikumaru Eiji - Kiku-chan no Souran Bushi, m-flo loves BoA - the Love Bug, Ooishi Shuuichirou - Honto no Kimochi, Otsuka Ai - Happy Days, Pull Tab to Kan - Wonderful days, UTADA - DEVIL INSIDE), 5 albums (Hamasaki Ayumi - MY STORY, Morning Musume - Ai no Dai 6 Kan, Shimatani Hitomi - Tsuioku+LOVE LETTER, Tamaki Nami - Greeting, UTADA - EXODUS), and 5 soundtracks (Puffy - HiHi Puffy AmiYumi, Best of Inu Yasha II, NARUTO Best Hit Collection, NARUTO OST 2, Prince of Tennis OST 3) from 2004
5 singles (Hamasaki Ayumi - STEP you / is this LOVE?, Koda Kumi - Birthday Eve, Matsuura Aya - Ki ga Tsukeba Anata, Morning Musume - Chokkan 2 ~Nogashita Sakana wa Ookizo!~, UTADA - EXODUS '04), 7 albums (Amuro Namie - Queen of Hip-Pop, Do As Infinity - NEED YOUR LOVE, BoA - Girls On Top, Otsuka Ai - LOVE COOK, S.H.E - Once Upon A Time, Tamaki Nami - single collection vol. 1, Ishida Yoko - all of me), and 2 soundtracks (NANA movie, NARUTO OST 3) from 2005
10 singles (Hearts Grow - Yura Yura, JUNE - Baby It's You / -other song that I can never remember the romaji for-, Koda Kumi - No Regret, m-flo loves Hinouchi Emi & Ryohei - Summer Time Love, Morning Musume - SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~, Morning Musume - Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii jan, Morning Musume - Aruiteru, Ooishi Shuuichirou & Kikumaru Eiji - Type wa D!, Oshitari Yuushi with Hyoutei Gakuen Chuu - Valentine Kiss, SABOTEN - Scenario), 5 albums (Hamasaki Ayumi - (miss)understood, Koda Kumi - BEST ~second session~, Morning Musume - Rainbow 7, NANA starring NAKASHIMA MIKA - THE END, Puffy - Splurge), and 3 soundtracks (BLEACH THE BEST, Kingdom Hearts II, NARUTO Best Hit Collection 2) from 2006
10 singles (Aozu - Kakaeta Kiseki, Aqua Timez - ALONES, HOME MADE Kazoku - Nagareboshi ~Shooting Star~, Hoshimura Mai - Sakura Biyori, Morning Musume - Egao YES Nude, Morning Musume - Kanashimi Twilight, Morning Musume - Onna ni Sachi Are, nobodyknows+ - Hero's Come Back!!, Ore Ska Band - Tsumasaki, YUI - Rolling star) and 1 soundtrack (BLEACH BEAT COLLECTION THE BEST) from 2007

Some more observations (about my music in general, really):
I have too many soundtracks. *sigh* That doesn't even count the Prince of Tennis character singles.
I have a single by globe, a group that I don't even like. wtf.
Everything I have that was released this year is either related to anime or Morning Musume. Hmm.
I still really need to grab Morning Musume's latest album along with their mini-album, then I can start going back through and getting their older stuff. I have yet to decide whether I should work backwards and start with Iroppoi Jirettai or start from the beginning and go on a hunt for those old out-of-print 8cm singles. No, I'm not going to just get the rereleases, even though that'd be easier. I think I saw a few of the 8cm singles on eBay earlier...
I don't think that Tamaki Nami singles collection is official. I got it at PortCon this year...dunno why I grabbed it rather than something like Utada's Ultra Blue or something. I couldn't find a release date for it, so I stuck it in with the 2005 stuff since it had all her singles up through Heroine, which was released in 2005. Now that I take a closer look at it, it doesn't look all that official...great. *sigh* Oh well.
Everything I got at either Anime Boston, PortCon, or Tokyo Kid (the closest anime store) seems to be some sort of overseas version...I can't tell if they're bootlegs or legit overseas releases, like some of the earlier CDs I got off of Yesasia- I always used to go for the overseas versions cause they're cheaper. Hopefully the latter. I mean, that's 21 of my albums/soundtracks right there. o_o
Everything I have that was released in 2007 is some sort of first press/limited edition. Rolling star, Tsumasaki, Sakura Biyori, and ALONES all have a Bleach sticker attached to the obi. Hero's Come Back!! has some sort of Shippuuden Othello board, and I forget what Nagareboshi came with, but it came with some sort of first press bonus. The BLEACH BEAT COLLECTION THE BEST is the first press version, but I dunno if it came with anything special. All 3 Momusu singles were one of the limited editions- Egao YES Nude is the LE A version with a DVD, Onna ni Sachi Are is the LE B version with a photobook, and Kanashimi Twilight is supposed to be the LE B version, and it has the correct cover, but Amazon didn't send me the photobook or something weird like that. It still counts. =P The last CD, Aozu's Kakaeta Kiseki, is just teh uber limited release in general- almost all of the Tenipuri character singles are, the only exceptions being the Best of Seigaku/Rival Players series. I personally think they should at least give the OP/ED theme singles normal releases, but whatever...

Oh, for the record, I only counted the CDs I actually have on hand right now- meaning yes, there are two CDs on my list of CDs that aren't in here- Ao to Bin to Kan's Gather and GIGS' Flower, but those are still on their way to my house~
And I have the American releases of all my Puffy CDs, but I used the original Japanese release dates for this.

I'll post a pic of the finished product when I actually finish. At the moment I just have them sitting in piles sorted by year...

Ongaku Gatas - Nari Hajimeta Koi no Bell

So I finally sat down and watched the PV of the song featuring Momusu graduates Yoshizawa Hitomi, Konno Asami, and Ishikawa Rika along with six girls I've never seen before in my life and one I vaguely recognize but I had to look up who she was (turns out it's Satoda Mai from Country Musume).
My first thought was, the PV's nice and everything, but there are barely any colors. At first I thought it was black and white, but not quite considering the girls themselves are still in color.
Then they started singing...and I'm so glad Yossi's already singing again. I love Yossi, and I was afraid she'd pull a Yasuda Kei/Yaguchi Mari and disappear from singing for a couple of years. (by the way, Mari needs to sing more. She's my favorite member of H!P, and it saddens me that she hasn't done anything in more than two years...)
And then there's Konno. Oh god. She's back. She never was my favorite Momusu member, but I was still really sad when she left Hello! Project. I mean, someone graduating Morning Musume, ok, at least she's still singing, but when you graduate from H!P in general...it's kinda the end, isn't it? At least, that's what I thought. Now that I look back at my blog, I never posted about Konno's comeback when it was first announced. Maybe I was really busy at that time or something...but whatever. It's great to see Konno back in action. She wasn't really a main member of Momusu, but I still kinda missed seeing her.
I'm not a review person when it comes to music/PVs, so all I'll say is this: I really like this song, and the music video's pretty nice. I really want this single now...I'll try to grab it next order I make, whenever that happens to be.
And maybe at some point I'll learn the names of the other six girls in this group. Are they Eggs? I honestly have no idea, I'll have to look them up later...

I get this feeling I own like virtually no H!P stuff...

I dunno, lately I've been really annoyed...I look at everyone else on the H!P blogosphere, and they're like preordering the limited edition of everything H!P coming out anytime soon and buying all this merchandise off eBay...and in comparison, I feel like I own basically nothing. And it's really annoying, considering I really love Morning Musume and H!P and I feel like I should be supporting them more and buying their stuff, but...
I mean, this is my H!P collection:
(I would have an accompanying picture, but I just moved yesterday and I don't really know where everything is (except for my CDs, I bubblewrapped those and put them all in a crate that's now at the foot of my bed)
* Abe Natsumi - Koi no Telephone GOAL (limited edition)
* Goto Maki - Sayonara "Tomodachi ni wa Naritakunai no" (limited edition)
* Hello! Project - Pucchi Best 4
* Matsuura Aya - Ki ga Tsukeba Anata (limited edition)
* Morning Musume - Do it! Now
* Morning Musume - Ai no Dai 6 Kan
* Morning Musume - Chokkan 2 ~Nogashita Sakana wa Ookiizo!~ (limited edition)
* Morning Musume - Rainbow 7 (limited edition)
* Morning Musume - SEXY BOY ~Soyokaze ni Yorisotte~ (limited edition)
* Morning Musume - Ambitious! Yashinteki de Ii Jan (limited edition)
* Morning Musume - Aruiteru (limited edition B)
* Morning Musume - Egao YES Nude (limited edition A)
* Morning Musume - Kanashimi Twilight (limited edition B...well, kinda. don't ask.)
* Morning Musume - Onna ni Sachi Are (limited edition B)
And then I also have the Morning Musume 2006 Calendar and a mini figure of Ishikawa Rika that I got at Anime Boston in 2006...
and that's it.
There's so much more stuff that I want, merchandise on eBay I've had my eye on for a while (one of my goals is to get a MM/H!P tour t-shirt), but I just don't have the money...*sigh* And I keep planning on buying a ton more stuff, but then I get distracted by something else (like at the moment, the Prince of Tennis CDs)...I know my next order will definitely include Morning Musume's SEXY 8 BEAT and the 7.5 mini-album, because I feel like I should at least do what I can and keep up with the Momusu releases.
But at the same time I really really wanna get the limited edition of the Ongaku Gatas single, and I want to get Berryz's new album, and I wanna get v-u-den's Koisuru Angel Heart, and then there's countless old singles and albums that I'd really really love to have. T___T And that's just H!P stuff! I still need to order Eiji's character album (too bad I missed the limited edition by a couple years) along with his Best of Seigaku release 'Tsubasa ni Natte' so I can complete my collection of Eiji songs, and I really want Arashi's album Time, and then of course there's the latest Bleach and Naruto endings...and I really have to grab a copy of Cap to Bin's Thank You!!, and Megane's Manatsu no Megane's, and...seriously, I could go on forever. Maybe I should make a wishlist or something. Hmm.
Damn, I wish I had friends who liked j-pop and stuff so I could actually get what I really really want for my birthday. I've figured out that j-pop is totally out of the question in general, unless it's like Puffy (I have their entire US discography through birthday/Christmas presents from relatives...and I don't even really like them all that much...*sigh*)...so then I tried just kinda asking for money last year, but people don't give money for presents all that much and so I ended up getting a bunch of crap from my aunts/uncles/cousins. Except for Puffy's album Splurge. Even though I'd totally rather have something Momusu or Ayu or something, at least it's close?
Sigh. At least there's one relative that understands that she knows nothing about what I want. THANK YOU GRANDMA FOR THE $100 (plus my age, so like last year I got $114) EVERY YEAR SO I CAN BUY WHAT I REALLY WANT! 8DDD
Now to sit and wait until December 16th...

Melon Kinenbi - Onegai Miwaku no Target PV

I absolutely love this song. Really, I'm not into Melon Kinenbi that much, but when I first heard this song a while back, I fell in love~~ Probably the first Melon Kinenbi song I really like~ (EDIT: wait wait wait that's not true, I really like This is Unmei...totally forgot that was a Melon Kinenbi song)
So when I heard this song was finally getting a major release, I was like "zomgg uber great now I can get it"
We~ll...
The PV came out recently (today? I dunno), and I sat down and watched it- and within the first 10 seconds I was on the floor laughing.
Dohhh UP! link (I'll add a Youtube video for it once I find it uploaded there)

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*deeeeaadddd*

It's absolutely hilarious~
except for the parts where it's like the cover of the single, but with only the lips moving, cause that's somewhat creepy~

I mean, wtffffff...but really, this is really funny...xDDDDD
I'm seriously like at a loss for words at the moment, though I find myself going back to rewatch it...

A bit more info on the Prince of Tennis Chinese TV drama

YAY

This is gonna be great~
Kinda a short post over on IKIMASSHOI, but it gives one thing left out of the original post I found out about this from- some general dates. In case you're too lazy to read, they're planning to begin shooting in October, and it'll start airing next June. I can wait that long~

I'm still really excited about this, I've never really watched a TV drama (in any language, really) so this is kinda new to me...
I hope even more info comes out soon, and maybe more pics? xDD



Oh, and I know I said I'd scan my new CDs after Cape Cod. However, I'm moving in two days. It shouldn't affect my internet or anything, but I don't exactly know what's going to happen with the scanner and stuff. >_< As soon as possible, I swear~

I am sufficiently surprised (PoT CHAPTER 354 SPOILERS)

Well, I came back from Cape Cod today, and I immediately grabbed Prince of Tennis chapter 354 from MangaHelpers. Instead of a download link, it linked to the scanlator's website, which said that there was a huge surprise in the chapter...
...and after reading the chapter, I am sufficiently surprised. By both the main surprise of the chapter, and Rikkai's choice for Doubles 2...


Lolz, remember the rant I made a week and a half ago or so? This one?
Well, in it, I was speculating about the doubles pairs for Rikkaidai...

"so maybe they'll switch the pairs around and we'll get Yagyuu/Niou vs Inui/Kaidou and Jackal/Marui vs Ooishi/Eiji, or maybe Konomi will come up with a totally new doubles pair like Yanagi/Kirihara and totally surprise us, that'd actually be pretty fun"

Well guess what?
lol manga panel

Bwahahaha, yayyyyyy I totally called the Yanagi/Kirihara thing~
Well, that leaves Niou, Yagyuu, Marui, Jackal, and Yukimura for the rest of the matches. Yukimura's obviously singles one. I bet Marui and Jackal are doubles 1, it really doesn't seem to me like either would play singles, though then again, Konomi could surprise us...
I dunno who'll play singles 2. Yagyuu? I think he played singles in Rikkai's semifinal match, but I don't quite remember...well, we'll see now, won't we?


And then the main surprise of the chapter.
Ryoma's uber random amnesia. I think I speak for many of us when I say this:
wtffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
Uber random plot twist? Well, at least it kinda explains why Ryoma was missing? xD
I really don't know how to react to that...just wtf, really
oh, and on that page where he's smiling, his smile looks like Fuji. xD

Well, guess we just have to hope that his memory returns by singles 1 so he can sufficiently pwn Yukimura, because there's no way the Nationals is ending before Ryoma even plays~

Prince of Tennis Chinese TV drama?!?

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Here's the info

Hooly crap this is gonna be great~
Live-action CANON, as opposed to the movie which just failed in general. (Which I still haven't watched fully, but the lack of character development and stuff that doesn't revolve around Ryoma made me turn it off right around Ryoma vs Shinji. It's too far away from canon for me...I'll probably watch it if I get bored later this week.) And the musicals don't count.
Even if it is in Chinese, I can handle that. As long as it follows canon material I'll know what's going on. Hopefully some subbing group will pick it up, which would be even better.
I wonder how far it's going to go? Since they have actors for Atobe, Oshitari, and Gakuto, I bet it'll go through to the Hyoutei arc, at least. I wish it'd go through the Rikkaidai arc, though that looks pretty unlikely at the moment. I REALLY REALLY REALLY wanna see Rikkaidai canon material. The lack of canon in the Rikkaidai arc in the anime made me UBER SAD. T_______T Seriously, the only match that was the same was Inui vs Renji...I wanna see Eiji have a concussion and Niou stealing his line ("Zannen, munen, mata raishuu~") and then I wanna see Fuji go blind and fail until he can randomly feel the presence of the ball and then I wanna see Sanada's FuuRinKaZan because for no real reason, they CUT all that stuff when they turned it into the anime and replaced it with things such as Yagyuu playing golf and Niou reading Eiji's random "habit" and then Fuji hurting Kirihara and then Ryoma's "Cyclone Smash" and Sanada's "Invisible Swing" (which brings me to another point, Sanada vs Tezuka in the Nationals Final is going to be fucked up so badly considering Sanada doesn't have the FuuRinKa(In)Zan(Rai) in the anime)
*dies*
If only they'd pull something like Bleach and have a special OVA that animates the canon material...
BUT ANYWAY

I don't know anything about Chinese dramas or music or anything, and I'm not even going to pretend I do. But I like most of the actors that they chose. =) I'd like to see larger pictures, but...well, I don't mind waiting until this airs. I can't waaaaiiit until it does~ wonder when it's gonna be? Hopefully soon~ and hopefully it'll get put onto the internet and subbed quickly. This looks amazing~
to be honest, I've been wondering what the Chinese version was like for a while. They write the character names in the same kanji, but they're not pronounced the same in Chinese, right? And do they keep the English move names in English, or do they translate them? Lolz, I guess I'll find out the answers to these questions once this thing airs~

So I know I said I wouldn't order through Amazon again after what happened last time, but...

...they had Oshitari's Valentine Kiss single, and I just couldn't resist. xD Considering the only version still available on Yesasia is Sanada's, and none are still available on CD Japan...I basically jumped at the chance to get Oshitari's. xD
I'm not technically ordering from Amazon anyway, just through it...for every item in my cart, I'm using the "buy used & new" option so it's not actually coming from Amazon. It's way cheaper this way too. xD
So this is exactly what I'm getting:
Aozu (Echizen Ryoma, Fuji Shuusuke, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Ooishi Shuuichirou) - Kakaeta Kiseki (Prince of Tennis National Tournament OVA 2nd opening)
Ao to Bin to Kan (Atobe Keigo, Sanada Genichirou, Oshitari Yuushi, Kikumaru Eiji, Sengoku Kiyosumi, Fuji Shuusuke, Kirihara Akaya, Echizen Ryoma) - Gather
GIGS (Echizen Ryoma, Tezuka Kunimitsu, Atobe Keigo, Sanada Genichirou) - Flower -Saki Midareshi Hana- (Prince of Tennis National Tournament OVA 1st opening)
Kikumaru Eiji - ONE
Oshitari Yuushi - Valentine Kiss
Prince of Tennis Box Set 2

After I get Kakaeta Kiseki and Flower, the only seiyuu OP/ED songs left to get are Fujori (by Hyoutei Eternity; the second OVA ending) and Thank You!! (by Cap to Bin; the third OVA ending)...
ONE is by Eiji, which means I HAVE to get it, which means that all that's left for my Eiji solo collection is his album Hello! and his Best of Seigaku single, Tsubasa ni Natte. But neither of those are limited releases, so I think I'm gonna put those off for now while I go through and get some limited stuff.
As for why I bought Gather...well, it's the JUNIOR SENBATSU TEAM of course. xD Fuck the fact that that was all filler, it has EIJI in it (which made me UBER UBER HAPPY when they added Eiji to the team because I didn't think Eiji would make it on the team in a million years) and it has KIRIHARA in it (well, it's not Kirihara I care about, it's his seiyuu Morikubo Shoutaro who is AMAZING) and having both of them in the SAME SONG is uber uber amazing. WHICH IS WHY I NEED TO FIND DOWNLOADS OF EVERYTHING RELEASED BY THE DUO HEART-BEAT BECAUSE IT'S BOTH OF THEIR SEIYUU. *dies* (even though Eiji's seiyuu sounds nothing like Eiji when he's not actually trying to sing as Eiji.) I really like the song anyway. xD
And last but not least, Valentine Kiss. Hmm, I wonder if anyone out there in the j-pop blogosphere knows about the '80's song Valentine Kiss by some member of Onyanko Club? I hadn't heard of it until recently, when I was looking at the Lucky Star Wikipedia page to see the list of endings and on the talk page someone mentioned something about Valentine Kiss (one of the endings) being used as a Prince of Tennis song. That immediately got me interested, so I looked it up. Turns out, the song has been covered by 5 different Prince of Tennis seiyuu on 7 different releases. On Valentine's Day 2004, Atobe released a single containing a cover of Valentine Kiss. In 2005, it was Oshitari who released the Valentine Kiss single. In 2006, they both released Valentine Kiss singles...I haven't listened to them all yet, I don't know if they were re-releases or actually sung differently or whatever. In 2007, it was Sanada from Rikkaidai who released a Valentine Kiss single. Also, Shishido sung a cover of it as a bonus track on his album, and Ooishi did the same for his album.
The version on Amazon is Oshitari's 2006 version...the only other version I found was Sanada's, which I can still get on Yesasia so I'll grab it later.
Oh, and then I guess there's the 2nd PoT box set. I need to watch the dub. I haven't watched it since they took it off the air back in June...I wanna start from the beginning and I don't think you can do that on Toonami Jetstream. To be honest, from what I remember of the dub, it absolutely sucked, but whatever. Really, if I can handle Dub Piece I can handle this. I think.

I noticed the lack of non-PoT stuff in this, and I swear I'll make it up next order, which at the moment I think will consist of...Arashi's latest album Time, Morning Musume's SEXY 8 BEAT (limited edition of course), and Morning Musume's 7.5 Fuyu Fuyu Morning Musume Mini or w/e it's called (limited edition for that too). Probably Manatsu no Megane's, by Megane's (I don't even know how to make "Megane's" possessive, I seriously doubt it'd be "Megane's's") and Cap to Bin's Thank You!! too (I would actually get those in this order, but there aren't any "buy used & new" options for either single and I don't quite trust Amazon with import CDs anymore), and if I have the money maybe the Ongaku Gatas single. The limited edition probably, because I like the cover a lot better. xD
But that'll have to wait until later.
(or I might buy the 3rd PoT OVA DVD. I just got waaaaayyy too tempted to get it when I found it on CD Japan while looking for the Tenimyu DVDs...I mean, it's Eiji, and Golden Pair angst, not to mention it's the OVA series so the animation quality is great and everything...)



Anyway, I'm heading off to Cape Cod tomorrow morning (against my will) for a week with no TV and no internet, but I'm bringing the PS2 down along with a couple of *coughcoughillegallydownloadedcoughcough* Tenipuri games (I have Doki Doki Survival Secret, Doki Doki Survival Mystic, Gakuensai no Oujisama, and Smash Hit! 2- the first three being dating sims and the last being just a tennis game) and Narutimate Accel to hopefully keep me busy. (lolz, for the record I just recently found out you can download PS2 games and burn them onto DVDs, and I've kinda been abusing that power I guess...) That in addition to summer reading and a couple of episodes of Shippuuden plus about 8 episodes of Bleach plus all of Gintama plus all of Lucky Star...well, I don't think I'll be too bored while hanging out in the cottage. xD

I really was expecting to scan and upload the CDs from my most recent order, but my mom's computer wasn't hooked up to the scanner and every time I remember to ask her, she's not in the house. >____< And now I don't have enough time...sorry, I'll get those up as soon as I get back~


On a total side note, there's no Jump this week. Which makes me UBER UBER SAD because I wanted to at the very least find out who's playing doubles 2 before I get sent off to Cape Cod and cut off from the world for a week. T________T