First of all: my feet hurt. Second: my eyes hurt. Third: I am ubercontent. Fourth: because I bought a Haruhi Suzumiya nendoroid. I am happy, I am excited, and I want to show you some of my photos and impressions I made at the Leipzig Bookfair 2009.
The class met at school at 8am, and after a crazy mess left in the wrong bus. Angry elder classes threw us out of it, from what we finally found ours. Two-storeyed! At 10am we arrived at the east entrance of the bookfair building complex and divided into smaller groups. I’ve gone with a friend who tolerated the anime hall.
I met cosplayers. I was surprised. Really. It’s rare in Germany, at least in my region. Most of them showed One Peace and Naruto costumes, but there were many Death Note’ers and no-idea-what-anime-it-is’ers. (I’m not that in in the German animu trends).
There were quite damn many little shops, with plushes, figures, posters and small stuff. In one of such shops my Haruhi-chan had grown up (and gathered dust) before I found her. Such a cute nendoroid for such a not-that-cute 22€. Good that my parents gave me present money for the trip…
I could have also bought a desu note, a real fan Death Note! But I’m just too kind… But would be quite a fun, huh?
The visiting and the running-through-the-halls-with-wide-eyes was very hectic, so most of my photos became blurred. There weren’t many anyway, somehow I feel “guilty” when using my camera. At 13:45 our class met again, after me beeing actually lost (although I prefer “beeing alone”) found some other classmates, and left with the same bus at 2pm. There were no traffic jams, so at around 4pm I was already on my way home.
By the way, regarding my Haruhi-chan: it’s my first nendoroid, so where should the stand hold the figure? Currently it holds her at the belt, but her feet doesn’t pass under her so… Any tips please? By the way #2, what you see behind the figurine at the above picture is my new widescreen 22″ monitor with guess what page opened.
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One of my favorite things is to pour over the small stuff junk items like notepads, pins, pens, glasses, etc., the kinds of things you’d never buy online since the shipping would kill you. Other than pins, I actually never use anything I get. I just like getting them.
I was thinking on buying a Totoro keychain, but then I thought: the volume of the 6€ coins is bigger than the thing itself! Isn’t it money waste?
By the way, I can’t use shipping anyway… so I’m fated to travel 4h by train to the nearest Japan shop… :’(
P.S. I suppose you noticed our blog footers have same widgets: I looked up the idea from the Mukyaa site, and after later reading discovered that it was originally your idea. I want to inform you that a one-comment-link and a 59-comments-link almost doesn’t differ in your community cloud. I recommend defining a smaller min-size and a bigger max-size.
LOL, I love looking at all the small stuff, they had a anime hall at a book fair? We would never have that here in a million years,lol. I hope you enjoying your Haruhi Suzumia doll!! It looks cute, I’m currently trying to survive in a new house without internet. I’ve been going to all local places that have internet,lol, me addicted to it.
Didnt expect that many Anime Goods Stores at the book fair! Didnt expect Cosplayers either
Did they sell genuine or fake stuff?
Sounds like a fun trip^^
Yeah it was fun!
They sold genuine stuff of course, it’s a public event after all. Some of the cosplayers looked very funny, sadly I felt “shy” and didn’t take a photo.
Maybe in 1 mio and one years then?
I don’t like calling her a “doll”, because dolls are something for girls, but yeah, Haruhi-chan stands in front of my monitor and smiles at me. It’s quite enjoyable.
Oh, I hate times without Internet! What did I do before my broadband connection? Uh, I don’t wanna even think about that! I hope you get the WWW installed soon.