The Welfare Package March 2023: Valentine's Day Returns
Wednesday, 08 March 2023
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Okay which smart aleck thought shipping this quickly and not as expected from me ie. a month later after the previous package, was a good idea? My perfection, all ruined!! Haha who cares we might as well do this now!
Oh yeah, the title. *laughs* Hey I am technically correct, okay? It's as much as they give me as I've given back to them but do they accept my feelings back is another thing lol also accepting them is an opt-in system haha idolism in a nutshell
We got a lot to talk about actually so let's see how much I've padded this order!! Haha no really, the book is the only thing planned lmao that's how you know it's Valentine's my birthday 2023 oh well it's all the same
[Edit: Oh dammit I forgot it's International Women's Day but seriously, I am literally buying so many female idol items in the face of taxation so you tell me if I respect and love women *dabs*]
But first we gotta do the UNBOXING!!! People make unboxing videos but I make unboxing... slideshows haha don't worry I'm not setting a new trend here
Smaller box than the previous one but I promise you, I PROMISE YOU, this has the good stuff |
Oh yeah I saw this romance Anime before, not interested though |
Oh haha yeah I got more of the unintentional excitement incoming |
Wow new bubble packaging? To be honest this has quite the shape tbh |
Okay ladies we will talk about you in a bit hehe |
Rikachimalu my dear you will get a dedicated post where I will stare you down all the way- |
Haha very blue you know what that means (Also, that black spot on the corner is a capsule FYI) |
AAAAHHHH NAN-CHAN!!! lol |
Okay let's get the boring stuff out of the day lmao okay, and this is actually legit the birthday present I'm waiting for, this is a birthday card from Minase Inori's fanclub!! We did this 2 years ago if you would recall, this definitely is a nostalgia trip just seeing it first back then, but don't expect this to be done specially for you because all fans get them when it's their turn, so I got it earlier or later or I don't know when they print these things every year. And this time, I'm wise enough to not take photos of the actual content so you can go f**k yourself go sign up for the fanclub to get yours for the year! Well, if your birthday is in the first three months then I can't help you now *laughs*
Oh this has more than two pages, nice (lol) |
Yeah that's all you get to see, by the way. *giggles* (Her birthday message is along the lines of "accumulating memories" again haha LAME) |
Yup, this is just the one, not two, not more |
Hell yeah first padding of the package we have!! *laughs* No this was not padding the order, this was going to be a real long story, because we have Tomita Miyu live tour bromides!! I'm not buying anything else from this current line-up from ASMART mainly because we will be talking about how Miyu-chan managed to have a Raffle gacha thing similar to marupi-chan which you have seen over the whole of last year so we will definitely talk more about her then, and I thought of just getting these might not be enough to be worth the trip. So while I was searching the site, I saw Ueda Reina's solo artist gallery goods also in there and sadly most of the stuff sold out, but not for (not region locked) (yes looking at you MusicRay'n Capsule Toy lol you need a Japanese phone verification on that) her own random capsule as a store item and I took the liberty to just buy one since none of the prizes are like, Ueshama bromides or something. *dabs* There aren't any of those, so I was hoping that this will be one of the two keychains as I see from the prizes list so I can replace the one on my work bag, and I got it! So yay, she is now part of my life, sort of. For these two though where I started listening to their solo artist songs the past few years, we are definitely just beginning... *giggles*
This is a cat...? Yeah someone's gotta see my bag and think I'm a cat lover now lol (When I place my bag under the desk all day? Probably never) |
Oh and should I remind you that they have a ring over the keychain clip because what if I told you that you can have a clip on your side and/or may not be able to fit the flip they have so this is that workaround?? Japan as usual, thinking too much haha
Hey TrySail keychain it has been a great time... *laughs* |
Nice! Nice. Neko da haha |
Random bromide time!! We have 10 + 3 rare ones so 1 out of 1, good start haha I like this already |
Oh wait wait I gotta prep a little for this bit haha oh hey Ten-chan shorts *giggles* |
Wow the colour difference is a little... |
So let's start with the MusicRay'n Valentine's Day Special!!! Mainly the focus of this post apart from the photobook and because this talent company is a scheming bastard who thought it'll be a great idea to get me to buy more stuff AFTER I did it once to start the year, they started a Valentine's Day campaign last month where every 3000yen spent will entitle you to choose one of the FOURTEEN MusicRay'n talents including 2 singers which I'm glad I didn't end up getting them because unlike their usual approach of giving us these in random, we get to indicate in our order WHICH ONES WE WANT!!! *screams* BUT!! In a cruel effort to make myself happier or sadder turning 30 because this campaign ends literally when I end my birthday, as you will see much later below I let my bro choose which ones I would want, or randomize them and leave it to fate. Interestingly, he did NOT do that, and considering we talk about them quite often especially the newer 3rd gen members he liked Moka-chan haha should have intentionally purchased more and get one for him but I didn't, he chose the TrySail members just because he knew I liked them... but replaced Ten-chan with 3rd gen's Koharu-chan. *smiles* See, he knows me, dude. *giggles* His reasoning is also on point; Ten-chan's photo on the card didn't look as good haha
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11 bromides for 1600yen? What a deal!! (Can I have refund for a third of them, please? lol) |
*sigh* I just HATE these types of peel offs I can't even |
Wow they are going eco friendly with these paper bags, eh? Wait, does that mean I have to cut the ribbon tying these up off? Oh well |
So this is how they keep the bromides in! Nice! Hey other stores take note haha |
Gotta place the family photo up front and centre haha (Also no duplicates here I just want to show these off) |
Nan-chan~!! Haha imouto just telling her brother to eat chocolates dude *points at self multiple times* |
So there you go, Valentine's Day postcards that came with purchase! Balloons be the theme even though none of them have- |
Oh? I like this "appreciation chocolate" theme here neither obligatory or sentiment (Yeah thanking me for clearing the store haha) |
Mocho asking me if I ate chocolates lmao that's it huh *laughs* |
Okay I need life-life balance which are the Everyday Life tag in this blog and my weak a** 30-year-old real life of necessity including to sleep on time so I will not rush this package and focus on the photobook review tomorrow. Night. Yeah, after the new DOAXVV update. Don't think I'll take urgent leave just for this. *laughs* Will update if I get any event SSRs. *laughs* Hey, this one came in a week early, ok? I planned for this to be a White Day special and it disappointed me. *giggles* It's fine though, I'll just finish this up before Touyama Nao's birthday this weekend before she reminds me of how I bought TWO BOOKS from her with photos lesser than the upcoming one I'm going to review because those are nothing close to a photobook. *silence* See you then haha
P.S. Since we are at it and I've recently (sort of) listened to them talk for half an hour each because their Twitter short audio log series aptly named "Together (in the) Morning" where they talk for 140 seconds (read as "i-shi-o", quickly said as "issho") reached their 333th... episode(?) so I guess they doing a special where they do a Twitter Space live each talking about basically anything that evening for the past 5 weekdays. Yeah, like how Mirai-chan's birthday was on last Saturday lol. So yeah, maybe I shall rank them based on this since apart from just from the photos above lmao since we now have a bigger picture of what I think of the MusicRay'n 3rd gen, 3 years later! lol
To help you and me out, their names will be colour coded so this won't be that subtle compared to when I ranked the TrySail girls. From left to right in decreasing... uh, like lol. So let's, and don't dosh me if you think otherwise I would say I will (likely) change my mind in the future:
Name | Koharu | Moka | Kokona | Kanata | Mirai |
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Looks |
Name | Mirai | Koharu | Kokona | Kanata | Moka |
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Voice/ Character |
Please, I started with Koharu-chan you can't do this to me, me. *laughs* For looks I won't bother it's subjective (hehe I'm safe now), but in terms of character from what I hear of them Kokona sounds like a Kotobuki Minako which will be above average appeal which is fine by me, didn't expect Mirai-chan to sound adorable especially when laughing that one got me good I swear, and Moka-chan sounds like a less cute Natsukawa Shiina who talks a lot and we can't have two imouto here so no thanks. *laughs*
No, no overall assessment you can leave now- Koharu-chan. *laughs*