It’s finally here.

A few months ago, I spent 13 hours in an oversized aluminium alloy tube to get to Japan and back so that I could attend Maaya Sakamoto’s 15th anniversary concert at Budokan. A few days ago, the DVD and Blu-ray recordings arrived at my door step. A few hours ago, I finished encoding them into H264 MKV files and went out for ramen.

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Maaya Sakamoto, the greatest singer/seiyuu in the history of the universe, held a live tour at the start of this year (2009) called “We Are Kazeyomi!” This was her first proper concert in the five years since she released her album Shounen Alice and her third since her debut as Hitomi in Visions of Escaflowne.

This is a story of what may be the greatest regret of my life. And oh yeah, the official concert DVD is out too.

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Haruhi season 2 is coming!

The latest issue of Newtype has the exclusive… It’s supposed to go onsale on the 10th but apparently the scans have been leaked… Not much details, though. Thanks to Kyon for informing me.

Oh great, another S$400 worth of DVDs coming my way soon. Hail Haruhi!

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Luckily, a DHL delivery guy came with a package from Amazon and brightened up my miserable day!

Read on for more pictures taken in poor lighting.

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The story takes place one year after the end of the TV series and Arika is now Mashiro’s full-fledged Meister Otome. The new OP song is “Believe ～eien no kizuna～” performed by Mika Kikuchi (Arika Yumemiya).

All I can say is: WTF happened to Minami!?

P.S. You can preorder the limited edition on Amazon JP for ￥2,000 cheaper than the official retail.

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However, because Media Factory is once again releasing the DVDs in sets of twos, the new 12-episode Kujian will come in only 3 DVD box sets, which means a total of just 3 episodes of Genshiken. (i.e. a complete reversal of the Genshiken DVD box sets)

This may or may not be a good thing. Here’s why…

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The limited edition is waaaay overpriced but I bought it anyway because I am a tool of the system. It comes with a DVD that contains promotional material for the new Negima! OVA.

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• Gedo Senki Insert Song – Teruu no Uta
• Da Capo II Vocal Album – Songs From D.C. II
• The Adventure Over Yui Horie (First Press)
• Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu DVD Vol.1 (Limited Edition)

Total cost: 18,062 yen

The sad thing is, the two DVDs are not mine. ＿|￣|O I don’t have enough money to collect R2 DVDs…

Gedo Senki has been receiving bad reviews from Japanese fans who have seen it in theatres, but the insert song is so good that I bought the single anyway. Just listen to it:

[See post to listen to audio]

This version comes from the movie OST. The version in the single is 4:49 long and has some bgm.

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Anyway, Video Ezy has set up an online DVD retail service in Singapore. (About time…) Basically, just like Netflix, you sign up for an account with a flat monthly fee. Then you get to have any DVD in their catalogue mailed to you in a return-paid envelope. You can only have a certain number of DVDs on-hand at any time and each time you mail back one DVD, the next DVD on your list is delivered to your mailbox.

I signed up for one month to test the service. The movie library seems quite acceptable, although it lacks a lot of Japanese movie. The anime stuff also seems quite haphazardly chosen, but all the big-title movies are there (Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Appleseed and a lot of Ghibli stuff). However, it does have all but one of the twenty or so IMDb Top 250 titles I tried searching for. The one that it didn’t have was Pulp Fiction.

Since I watch most DVDs only once anyway, this could save me a lot of money and keep me occupied during the school holidays. The downside is that I don’t end up with a nice row of DVD casings to display on my bookshelf at the end of the day… XD

The website is somewhat buggy though, especially on Firefox but also on IE for certain things. Hopefully they do something about those bugs after receiving my complaint suggestion e-mail.

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