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I’m trying to get a little ahead of myself now that A-Kon is over with for the year. Anime Expo and SDCC are rapidly approaching so July updates will probably lag somewhat. That brings us to Mays group of goodness.

Here is a group shot of the DVDs for this month. Not too much quantity wise, but some cool stuff none the less. Of note here is the preview DVD for “Ikki Tousen: Great Guardians” which is scheduled to start this month in Japan. I’ll be asking Media Blasters/Anime Works at Anime Expo if and when they plan on licensing this series. But given that their release of Dragon Destiny won’t be out until late September/early October of this year (I asked at A-Kon) I suspect that even if they do pick up Great Guardians it won’t be until late 2009 for a US release. Oh well, more R2 DVDs to buy.

Moving on we have two limited edition/first press DVDs with boxes and other goodies. First is “Shana II” volume 5. This one comes with some really cool items including a mini full color book and what appear to be alternative covers for the remaining DVD volumes.  Next up we have volume 5 of “You’re Under Arrest: Full Throttle” featuring another cool postcard and of course the second box for the remaining volumes.

In print this month there are a couple of items I picked up on a whim while at the local Kinokuniya in Costa Mesa. The first is Animedia DVD magazine volume 10. This comes with a preview DVD with loads of anime and game previews plus staff interview/Q&A/bonus features. It also came with a couple of mini stick-type posters as well. Next up is a rather cool magazine of Type-Moon titles. This is really more like a softbound art book and manga combined. Coming in at about 200 pages it is about half manga (second half) and half color artwork for various series from Type-Moon. It comes with a cool 2008-2009 calendar and a “Fate/Zero” CD wallet. Then of course we have the May and June issues of Megami. May comes with a poster and cool double-sided pencil board while June comes with a double-sided poster.

Lastly we have a quick couple of shots of the last two figures I had on pre-order, both from Ikki Tousen. Here they are in box and again out of box. The Ryomou actually came in sometime in April but I wanted to do them both at the same time to save space. I have no other figures pre-ordered as of now which is for the best as I am pretty much out of available display space. I’ve said it before, but while I could build more display cases I really just don’t want to go over-board. With that in mind I picked up a total of zero figures while at A-Kon (this in large part due to the whole having to take them on the plane thing and such) and while I will most likely pick up a few at Anime Expo, that will probably be it for figures this year.

Enjoy!!