an otaku fan of all things moé
Another ARIA merchandise item that arrived with the Premium Poster Book and it’s none other than the ARIA The Natural Perfect Guide Book. Having some free time again today and after watching a lot of Hokuto no Ken episodes, I thought I’d take a break and actually read through the Guide Book to see what was what.
With only a few days left to Christmas, on Wednesday I decided to finish off my Christmas shopping. Being payday that day I was set, and thankfully it wasn’t a boiling hot day. Whilst shopping around for the last few presents and seeing that I had plenty of money left over, I thought it would be good if I bought some lighting equipment for some indoor figure photography. So there was only one place to go for some cheap equipment. IKEA.
Now it has been a long time since I went to IKEA. But after strolling through the majority of the store, I remember why I love the place so much. There is so much awesome stuff there to buy from furniture to home decor. To stuff that I need to stuff that I don’t need but would buy anyway just for the heck of it. Honestly when I move out, I’m heading to IKEA for everything. But of course I didn’t leave empty handed. having done the entire walk-thru exhibition I finally reached the lighting section. Basing on super rats tutorial over at HappySoda, I found close to what I needed.
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Well after a hectic day of sorting through photos, uploading and doing a write up for the weekend, I managed to get a chance to go through the merchandise that I bought. So firing up the camera I managed to take some pictures.
After some browsing through various sites I have found some interesting news in regards to the ARIA manga. Firstly Volume 9 of ARIA is going to be released in Japan 10th July, which is only a few days away. Like the previous two releases there will be both a regular and Limited Edition release. Unfortunetly Amazon Japan only have the regular version for sale, available for order here. As for why they don’t have the Limited Edition release I have no idea. They had the previous two before. Anyway I have preordered a copy of Volume 9 as well as Volume 7 (since I’m missing this volume) but if I do see the Limited Edition around I may pick it up. The Limited Edition version contains Mascot hangers of the respective Presidents for each company. More info here.
Also Tokyopop have annouced at Anime Expo 2006 that they have acquired the license to the AQUA manga (the prequel to ARIA) and the ARIA manga itself. Previously held by ADV Manga but they stopped translating it at Volume 3. Probably due to low sales. Tokyopop have decided that they will start from Volume 1 rather than pick up from where ADV Manga left off. Now I am quite happy about this, but knowing the quality of Tokyopop I am doubtful of it. An example would be that in Tokyopop’s release of Pita-Ten, the pages are partially cut off at the edge. Now I have checked other books of the same volume and the same thing occurs. Well lets hope they do better this time. Info from ANN.
