You don't have to read this, to be honest. This is mostly just a compilation of all my mistakes I made this year that I can share with no one but you guys. *giggles*

Man, why do I have to consider doing this every year? Maybe I just have too much time for myself but I also have too much money to be able to ship all of this- Excuse me, spend money online on a lot of these things too, just to satisfy my material possessions, if you would say that.

So yeah, here's a summary of what terrible sins I have committed this year lol, and perhaps, I'll talk about how I have been faring in digital purchases. *wink*

Let's just start with listing ALL the mistakes I made, even though this is not even the full list anymore because remember, I don't review digital purchases. *dabs*

(*Includes duplicates, excludes CD reviews)

Dude, we just doubled our bromides count. *laughs* Also, badges count- What did I say about not buying more badges? *giggles*

Of course, this is not the full representation as the above as the rest are placed in other even though they are rather specific I don't know where to put the 1 poster and pamphlet anyways considering I don't really buy those now, and books can span from doujinshi to like uh, newsletters so I don't know if that makes any sense. Hey, welcoming the new acrylic stands type is kinda rad! *pukes* haha

For this, I really think the 2 physical magazines I bought this year blew me away, so let me talk about them again. My Girl vol.43 wasn't just a choice even for Marinka-chan but damn did they make sure they put all of her out there with her own summer-themed digital photobook without any swimsuits by the way, rising up the ranks online I can't even because I bought it later anyways. *dabs* This kind of makes Ani=PASS Plus look sad in comparison, but I prefer the latter since it is not going to be on digital. Ever. Historically have never, so I'm glad I got Inorin and Yui-chan (who are regular cover girls of the series) in the same book. *smiles*

These have no limits unlike buying event pamphlets so damn will I do this again if the condition of "I have to know the girls on both front and back covers" is met again. *dabs*

marupi-chan's birthday bromides are a definite scam as its per item price is high but not as high as whatever Raffle gacha they did years ago, and definitely nothing compared to their limited time polaroids they do from time to time which allow me to buy like, one package's worth of items for the one item. *cringe* And of course the Mercari run this year is a huge burn on my wallet as usual and I'm not going to elaborate here, and we don't talk about my recent love for Chisa-chan and her split photobooks which could've been just the one. *cringe*

I would say Isobe Karin's print bromides as she appeared as a host in that TV show again, but sadly ma bro didn't go to Japan on time to print all of them out so welp on that. *laughs* So I guess this year's boldest attempt is to get into Hasegawa Kasumi, from buying physical photobook which isn't big enough (get it?) to me counted as an actual photobook lol Kasumi-san I am seriously giving you an out here even though I don't think you will care you released a half-sized photobook every year anyways, so I would argue from getting her past digital photobooks as she did gravure in the past few years to the recent one in collaboration with the "Oretachi no Azasu" series... They are definitely a line of purchase I did not expect to do coming in on this year, to be real frank with ya.

Hey, at least I didn't bother to buy the whatever list of trading postcards that have been on sale on every other voice actress event seriously pissing me off, but I still bought Akarin's ones in her artist 5th anniversary event just because we won't be buying from Canime next year anymore so welp. *laughs* Still, I did intentionally miss some of them mainly because it's... I don't know, too much Kyari-san even though they sold their bromide photo sets from the half a dozen fan meeting events? So yeah, just skipped the Taipei event bromides because I'm not that into qipaos. *dabs* Or her. *dabs*

I have slowly but steadily increased my yearly doujinshi footprint, and looks like going into BOOTH is a good choice and I will do that for next year again if the recent Comiket for its 50th anniversary isn't an indicator to up my usual numbers and I can probably do more for the occasion still... Well don't worry, moving forward starting from next year, I will likely be doing at least THREE seasonal doujinshi reviews (so the 2 you know Summer and Winter, plus Spring season featuring the February Comitia event which ONLY focuses on originals, by the way) apart from any other way I can get these thin books elsewhere outside Melonbooks and if Toranoana isn't being a d*ck about it. *laughs*

I would love to review more but putting this hard limit on me is great as I will choose wisely on who and what to talk about every year, which is always a joy despite the amount of effort I have to put on these. *thumbs up*

Oh, this year's list will explicitly include 2 new categories which aren't listed from the above just because: Digital photobooks and digital magazines, whether it's buying new ones or just clearing stock from sales of older ones. Hopefully this will also show how much I have dedicated myself to also buying stuff on digital even if they don't fit the requirement on physical ie. one physical photobook per person, magazines without both girls on the cover I know of.

I JUST CANNOT STOP BUYING THEM ESPECIALLY WITH THE POINT REWARDS ON BULK PURCHASES FROM AMAZON KINDLE- Someone please help me. *laughs* (Edit: Digital items  now with links to Amazon Japan)

Magazines

Photobooks

Digital Magazines

Digital Photobooks

Wow, that is a lot to compile, and it's somehow easier than yesterday's post even though it's not as impactful as last year's. *shrugs* That's not the point, it's the dedication to continue to do this despite all the problems with the system right about now *wink* Canime rejecting international cards *wink* Melonbooks region-locked *wink* smaller photobooks. *laughs* We shall see how it works over the next year then, I already have like a bucket list of items ready to ship already which we are likely starting with the new Comiket order which will uh, hopefully appear next month. *giggles* So tomorrow, finally I'm still thinking about the awards by the way, is the Song Awards!! This is like, year 17 already? Damn. See you tomorrow, and hopefully until then... I don't know, Google don't export fast enough for these to make sense now in terms of publish time, so I'll likely just push this ASAP in the next few days just because, they don't have image links anyways so we should be fine. *sigh*

I should prepare to clear Futon-chan's digital photobooks now that I can buy from her online store. *dabs*

P.S. Thumbnail is Kasumi-san without her glasses which will either blow your mind or blow your load. You can figure out which was my reaction haha *fap*