Right Stuf is currently having a huge sale on Geneon, f/k/a Pioneer anime DVDs. You can buy 10 for $50.00 or 25 for $100.00. So you can get 10 DVDs at 5 bucks a piece or 25 at 4 bucks a piece. I've never participated in these huge sales that a lot of online DVD retailers have until this one. I guess mainly because I never knew about them. Thanks to animeworldorder, weeklyanimereview and other podcasts/websites, I now know to look out for huge sales like these and I signed up for newsletters at all the online retailer websites I could find. Anyway, I got an email the other day about this sale and I decided to check it out. I figured there wouldn't be anything I wanted or the stuff they had would be out of stock, but I was completely wrong. I ended up buying 25 dvds for $100 and I could have easily got another 25. I was able to finish off 3 series that were incomplete and I got two other complete series. Here is what I picked up:
Chobits volumes 1 - 7
R.O.D. the TV volumes 2 - 7
Vandread the Second Stage volumes 2 - 3
New Getter Robo volumes 1 - 4
Captain Herlock (aka Harlock) volumes 1 - 4
Tenchi Muyo: Mihoshi/Pretty Sammy Special
and a Hand Maid May soundtrack
I had the first volume of Chobits that came with the artbox but I sold it when I needed money several years ago. I still have the artbox and extra stuff that came with that though. I still have the first volume of R.O.D. and I got the special edition that came with the really cool pleatherbound case that looks like a book and holds all 7 volumes of the series. For Vandread I have the complete Vandread series and the first volume of the Second Stage that came with the artbox, so I was able to complete that series as well. For the new stuff I got the complete New Getter Robo (with artbox) mainly cause I'd seen a few episodes that interested me enough to buy the whole series. Of course Daryl's constant praise of the show on animeworldorder helped too. I love anything by Leiji Matsumoto, so I had to get Captain Herlock. I recently got Galaxy Railways and Arcadia of My Youth, so I've got plenty of Matsumoto stuff to watch for awhile. So after all that stuff I had to find 2 additional things since the terms and conditions of the sale require you to purchase the exact number of DVDs in the sale (either 10 or 25). I wanted to get the first 13 episodes of Magical Project S but it was sold out. I thought about a 6 episode OVA called Moldiver or the Sakura Wars movie but I found the Mihoshi/Pretty Sammy Special which I needed and I like the music in Hand Maid May so I decided to pick that up.
If I do decide to get another 25 I will go with Gungrave, Mahoromatic, Heat Guy J, Cybuster, Lain and/or Star Ocean EX. I've seen all of Gungrave and it's one of my favorite series, well until Beyond the Grave shows up anyway. I've seen a couple episodes of Mahoromatic and I liked what I saw, it's your typical fanservice show, nothing too special, but hey I'm a pervert so I like it. I've seen the first couple episodes of Heat Guy J and I liked that a lot. Never seen Cybuster but it looks cool and I guess the mecha is the same Cybuster as in Super Robot Wars so that's freaking cool. I've never seen Lain but I've heard a lot of good things about it. As for Star Ocean EX, I love the game it's based on, Star Ocean the Second Story, and I love the music but I've seen some pretty average reviews for it.
As I said before, I just got the Galaxy Railways boxset, which I purchased from animeonestop.com. I also got the first two collections of Tekkaman Blade, I pre-ordered the Godannar box set and I purchased the Genshiken boxset (one of my new favorite anime of all time).
Besides all of these purchases, I've been on a Gundam kick recently. I finished off Gundam Seed Destiny, but I haven't been able to find any torrents of Final Plus anywhere, if anyone knows where I can get a torrent with a working tracker and seeds you will be my new best friend:D! I decided to go back and watch the original Gundam series, in the form of the 3 two-hour plus movies. I'm now watching 08th MS Team and I'm enjoying that more then the original Gundam so far. Next will be 0080: War in the Pocket, 0083: Stardust Memory and then Zeta Gundam. I never used to like Gundam until I saw G Gundam. I remember when Gundam Wing was on TV several years ago and I absolutely hated it (I still do BTW). I guess I assumed all the Gundam series would be similar to Wing so decided I hated all things Gundam because of Gundam Wing. I was a teenager back then so I didn't know any better right? I saw G Gundam a few years later and I thought, "man this is awesome!" Then Gundam Seed came a long and it became one of my fav anime and my favorite Gundam series so far. Now I want to see ALL the Gundam series and I want all the cool model kits. Only problem is I don't know where to buy them cheap and what kind of paint to use. I actually have a few Gundam Wing model kits. I bought them at Toys R Us when Gundam first came out in the USA, and I bought them just because they were cool lookin. After all, the mech designs are what attracted me to Gundam in the first place. I assembled them but never painted them or had any idea what kind of paint and what colors to get. I think I have a small Epyeon, Heavy Arms Custom and then a large Serpent Custom kit. I wish Gundam was more popular over here so big chains like Toys R Us would carry the model kits again.
Well that's enough of my rambling, hope I didn't bore you too much. Later!
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Well, I'm pretty sure you don't suck, man. I never could get into Gundam, although I always found the mech designs intriguing as well. The content itself just never made its way into my threshold of interest
Well I FINALLY got all these DVDs yesterday. After waiting over a month for them. I can honestly say I'm never going to purchase anything from this company ever again. My order was being held up by several R.O.D. dvds.
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