It’s been forever since I posted anything here, but now I have a TON to say. And it sounds ridiculous. Today I shall tell you a tale of desperation, betrayal, and a little online store known as AllAnimeDVD.com.

Though I’ve become quite the ebayer, I’ve generally been quite leery of ordering things from overseas. A few months ago I broke through that barrier by ordering from this online store in search of the fabled Shakugan no Shana II season, because I don’t download episodes. Well, I ended up doing so in this case but I’ll get there eventually. Anyways, I don’t have a region 2 dvd player and I don’t speak Japanese anyways, so I had to find a boxset with English subtitles because Geneon/Pioneer is run by a bunch of jerks. After scouring the internet and finding nothing but Taiwanese dvds and a sold out boxset for Shana II episodes 1-13 I eventually found said site as having Part 1 in stock. I was so excited I decided to buy the entire season from that one store. I waited patiently for it to arrive from an overseas location and a month later I was delighted to receive my package- well, half of it. The SECOND half. So I go back and email them as to what the hay happened, and THEN they tell me that the first half of the series is on back-order and that I have to wait for it to ship separately (2 months later, and it’s still not here by the way). And since I have to watch the episodes on Part 2 now to see if they work correctly before the return time is up, I resorted to downloading the first 13 episodes, which I hungrily watched all in the same day. Next day I pop in one of the actual disks that I ordered to check it out and low and behold, as part one ended in a cliffhanger and part 2 picks up in the middle, all of the characters names are in CHINESE. The grammar looked fine, but I had no idea who was who aside from Shana (Xiana), Pheles (Feleis), and a few other people who I figured out by context clues. I never figured out who one person was, though. Since I didn’t want to spoil the tense episode but I couldn’t stand to wait any longer, I downloaded the rest of the series to finish what I had started. A few days later I found a different boxset that was only one set for the entire series (none of this part 1 hooey), and it had great subtitles. If only I’d found it sooner. Now, part 2 sits upon my dvd shelf as a reminder never to buy from AllAnimeDVD.com ever again.

Still waiting on Part 1 to arrive, by the way.

I seriously need to keep up with LJ a lot more. Anyways, I've posted another wallpaper at Minitokyo and Animepaper. The Minitokyo link is here:

I'm going to attempt make mention of posts that I make on other websites here, so hopefully that will help. I don't have much to say for the time being, but I plan to post a review for Silent Hill: Homecoming after I've finished writing it. I do plan on comparing playing it on the XBox360 versus the PS3 (since I've had the luxury of beating it on both systems :3 )so I hope it will be of some use to people out there that may stumble across me here. And it will be nice for me to get it out of my brain for a bit.