Hello again, ye ol’ Mythical Readers. Yes, yes, I know you don’t exist, but please allow me my personal peccadilloes. It soothes my old man heart to pretend I’m not talking to myself (or perhaps speaking to possible but wildly improbable future digital archeologists).
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Happy Birthday Ritsu Tainaka
Today, August 21, is the birthday of the most famous drummer in anime, Ritsu Tainaka, from K-On!
Well, most famous as far as I’m concerned. I might be biased.
Poor Ritsu deserves far better an entry than what I’m going to deliver here. Frankly, it’s the middle of the week and I’m exhausted. A couple of quick anigifs is all I can manage right now.
Happy Birthday Tsumugi Kotobuki
Today, July 2, is the birthday of the fictional character Tsumugi Kotobuki, from the world-renowned and universally acclaimed anime (and manga) series, K-On!
Why am I making mention of a fictional birthday of a fictional character?
Why the hell not?
Besides, Mugi (her nickname) is my favorite character, in one of my favorite shows. So I made some animated gifs of her. (after the break, to spare anyone who’s not interested in seeing them)
Bonus
I was lucky enough to get the K-On History’s Music Box poster that was the limited bonus for the box. Behold, more bad photography:
bonus poster
I suppose eventually my entire living space will be covered by anime posters, the majority of which will be K-On. That may or may not be a bad thing, but it probably is a mad thing. At least it’s a quiet madness.
I do have to get a better camera at some point, thought. I’m glad no one is actually reading this.
K-On! Music History’s Box
The K-On! Music History’s Box is my latest feverish addition to my ever-growing K-On collection. It purports to contain pretty much all the music that was ever released from the TV show, movie, character CDs, and game (except the instrumental-only versions of songs that were included on previous releases, I believe). But I might be inaccurate on that, so check other sources for confirmation about that.
What I can give you, though, is pictures of what precisely you get for your 19,800 yen (list price). I always wanted to do an ‘unboxing’ type thing. I’ll skip the plain brown shipping box though; everyone knows what those look like.
Here it is, still in it’s protective outer plastic cover. (if I’ve loaded the pics into this blog correctly, you should be able to click on all the following pics for a much larger version of each pic).
K-On! Music History’s Box outer cover
As you can see, it’s the K-On girls dressed to continue the Alice in Wonderland theme. I thought the stuffed “white rabbit” with the watch (since the white rabbit was always running late), next to the tortoise on the bannister, was a really nice touch.
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