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miércoles, 16 de mayo de 2012

Con haul

Last weekend was the Expomanga in Madrid. Between having to substitute for a sick teacher the whole week (I worked enough for two people--since I had my own classes as well) and putting the finishing touches on my cosplays (an in one case, not-so-finishing), I barely felt like doing anything but sleeping.

Sorry, blog!! You weren´t my highest priority.

I´m pretty satisfied with the haul of what I bought at the con: a figure and some manga.

The figure is from the Detective Conan series. I´m a bit of a mystery geek (I´ve only recently realized this); I love mystery series, whether dramas, books, TV series or manga. Detective Conan is one of my favorites. So, I was really happy when I found this figure at the con.


I saw other figures of Conan as well--dressed in a tux, and as a pirate--but I liked this one best. I´d also give my left eye for a Magic Kaito figure....


I think it´s a very cute detail to have the box "decorated" on the side with Conan´s trademark phrase: "There is always only one truth". That said, I need to find a spot for my figures....they´re all in their boxes at the moment....


I also found some manga, like I said, from the series Majin Tantei Nogami Neuro--yes, another detective series. It´s particularly great; I love the wierd relationship between the two main characters, Neuro and Yako. It´s a bit sadomasochistic.....

This manga apparently wasn´t too popular here in Spain, or was published several years go, because it´s quite hard to find. 


It was great, because I got them at a discount--only 3 euros, which is half-price!! I´ve only ever found them at the Expo, so I´m keeping my fingers crossed that I can complete it all, eventually. I´ve got 9 out of 23 already.....


The covers always confuse me, though. They´re all upside-down (on purpose, of course--Neuro spends half his time on the cieling, after all), and I always somehow end up opening the book wrong-side-up.

Buying this manga marks the one-year anniversary since I last bought any manga (coincidentally, it was numbers 4 and 5 of this same series). Recently, I´ve been much more interested in figures. My passion for artbooks continues; it´s just hard to find ones that I don´t have/that I like lately at cons.

I´ll make a more detailed Con-post tomorrow or the day after; depending on when I update my cosplay blog with pictures and such.

Ciao!