Guyyyyyssssssss I finally have a full Ojiro shelf 🥹

Oooh~ There’s a Lashinbang shop in Hong Kong now! Lashinbang is one of those Japanese 2nd hand shops specializing in Animanga goods. It’s at Aqua Plaza in D2 Place One in Lai Chi Kok.

However, since Aqua Plaza is a department store, it feels like Lashinbang might just be a small corner inside it?? Anyway, I should go check it out!

Let’s go on a trip, Yuuri!

Today I had a great day in a city that has both an Animate and a Lashinbang in one building! Bad for my wallet, great for my collection. At Lashinbang, I saw him sitting in the Kuji Corner: Travel Yuuri! 

I absolutely love Travel Yuuri, with his glasses and his casual warm-weather clothes, so I have the pink and blue towel version. Unfortunately, I joined the YOI train late and missed a lot of stuff like the lottery Travel Yuuri was part of. So, I was amazed that someone had been willing to give up a full-color pillow version of him!

I had the opportunity to create a mural for the new Shibuya branch of Lashinbang in Tokyo.

A couple of weeks ago I found out that the Yuzawaya Building in Kamata, Ota ward, in the southern part of Tokyo, close to Haneda, was closing down in February, and with it the cluster of anime related shops housed within it; Animate, Melonbooks, Lashinbang and C-Labo.

Sure, Akihabara and Ikebukuro have a far wider range of shops and why would it matter if this set of shops closed down? It does matter to local fans who are are at least 30 to 45 minutes away by train from either Akihabara and Ikebukuro. In addition it's far easier to shop locally than to go through the hassle of going to either place.

The last three times I've visited Japan, I've stayed in Kamata or nearby Kojiya. It's a fairly peaceful and relatively quiet area and I really enjoyed heading over in the evening to the Yuzawaya Building just to browse the shelves of Animate, Melonbooks and Lashinbang. I've picked up a number of books there as well as a couple of tickets for various events and even got the entire second season of "Love Live! Sunshine!!" more or less in mint condition, second hand on blu-ray for a single note (¥10,000).

first thing i see after removing the air packaging is shulegs. real unmei moment.

the way the clear file was packed is kinda concerning, as it looks like it's just slightly too big to fit perfectly and one of the corners got bent upward...

but it'll probably be fine after i flatten it under something heavy for a day or two.

so here's everything unplastic'd!

the tcg cards spooked me for a second because i was looking at claude's face through the plastic sleeve and turned him over and saw a weiss schwarz blau card back and i was like !?!??!?!??!??!? until i remembered yuto was in there too lol. claude will be joining my two byleth cipher cards, and i think it'll be cute if i surround yuto with my bandori weiss schwarz cards so it looks like he has an audience 😊

the reiji title pin surprised me with how big it is!!! for some reason i thought it'd be like 3cm wide at most, but it's 6.5cm across and almost 2cm tall!! guess it's to make sure the dense kanji are more legible in itabags and stuff. i only got this title pin since i didn't care as much for the wording of the other one, plus this one is the higher ranked title in dbes so i'm showing the proper amount of oshi-ism 😎

soooo happy to finally have the janus reiji and lrfes shu tickets. when i first decided to start collecting, these were the items i wanted most, as they're my favorite cards for each of them in dbes and the frame design is really beautiful for them!! i love the dots in reiji's romanized name forming an elegant little arc, and the holo elements are really vibrant and gorgeous. i'm going to try my best to make these stand out on my board arrangement since they're so special to me.

confession: i had little idea what the egoistic才Φ shikishi even was when i ordered it. i was just like "song jacket art in some kind of collectible form? add to cart" but i really like it!!! now i want the yume no ato one too lol. there's something really satisfying about nice cardboard (<- predictable words of a collector)

not much to say about desfes sol except that its disc case is identical to the pwy s-sol case, so if i go through with customizing them it's nice that they'll match. not sure if these are original cases or supplied by suruga-ya.

the real prize of this batch is my beloved original reiji acrylic stand, who i never thought i'd be able to obtain for less than 3k... instead i was pointed to a 330 yen listing— unopened!— on some secondhand shop i'd never heard of (lashinbang) and i ordered this thing faster than when i got a stock alert for the tears of the kingdom collector's edition.

interestingly, he appears slightly shorter than suit reiji! it might be the pose though. the art printing quality is also lower, which i'm chalking up to its age in the franchise history, as they probably had a lower budget for merch back then. i won't be looking that close though, so no problem!

his matching kusogaki is on the way, so for now he gets to stand between the suits like a king.

lastly there's the clear file; it has this odd offset effect around the character art and i'm not sure if it's a printing misalignment or intentional or what.

but who cares look at how cool it looks when i put it in front of the window light!!!!