neko's thinkbox

I didn’t know her, but it was pretty much love at first sight.

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While I’m stalling on the already long ended Spring/Summer season, and while social life is (fortunately) picking up as of lately, I’m kind of glad to have something interesting to report on: A new wave of figures, because I don’t mind dilapidating my tuition money the big way.

…So. The first figure, obviously still fueled by my ongoing Ar Tonelico frenzy, is Luca from AT2! Coincidentally, it arrived in the same week as the first announcement of Ar Tonelico 3, which makes me even more enthusiastic about this beautiful figure!

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Yatta!

Image byアキ (aki).

We couldn’t have dreamt of a better way to celebrate our move to a new host and domain than hearing the great news that neko’s thinkbox has been accepted into 9rules!
The results were out not even a day after the move, but there were still some formalities to take care of. All the better, since it took us a little while to get accustomed to this faster place… ;)

Whether the join requirements and the screening are (less) strict (nowadays), and whether 9rules is overrated or not is up for debate (not on my watch, though) but either way – we’re extremely proud to have made it through the 150 applicants (it was our first try, too!).
This has been the first recognition this blog has ever gotten in almost three years, too.

Hopefully, entering this new realm of blogging will be an even higher motivation to improve the quality (and frequency? ) of our content so we can entertain you, the reader, and hopefully get you thinking as well (without thinking too hard, this ain’t college). We love watching anime and write for fun, but we also love to hear your precious input, so please keep at it! It’s all part of broadening each others’ views, or something like that…. hum. Arr, I am not really a sucker for cheesy lines, so I think I’ll just skip the speech.

Thanks to the 9rules staff for taking their time to appreciate and acknowledge neko’s thinkbox, and, most importantly, a big thank you to all our (faithful) readers for staying with us!
We hope you will all enjoy reading this blog in the future, too. ;)

-nekosasu and Matt and…? (You shall be reminded that we are still looking for writers… :P)

So, I’m just back from my short trip to the UK (to check out the campus, my accommodation, and get a glimpse of the atmosphere overall), and I received some good and bad news upon arrival. Recruiting writers! More info after the jump.

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My Dragon Ball franchise reminiscent revival spree is coming together, as I have now obtained the Dragon Ball Z Manga Box Set. I am yet to read the Dragon Ball Z manga, but I am currently reading volume 7 of Dragon Ball. (expect a review of the first half after volume 8, all I can say is that it is hilarious) All I can say is that I am pretty pumped to get to reading it.

Hopefully from the pictures and video you will get an idea of the product in case you are interesting in purchasing it or maybe it will just peak your interest enough to look into purchasing it.
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Just arrived at home today was a box from Right Stuf containing the complete Dragon Ball Manga Box Set and Dragon Ball Season 1 Box Set. Dragon Ball is one of the series I grew up on as a child, so both of these were something I was/am looking forward to greatly. I personally find that the original Dragon Ball is superior to the sequels. The main reason is for the comedy, both the manga and anime are genuinely funny. The martial arts is interesting and the series seems just like plain fun.
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