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January has a number of interesting items in the group. I posted previously about the Macross game LD I picked up at the beginning of the month. Adding to that is this round of items.

First up we have Ikki Tousen Great Guardians Volume 5. This volume comes with the usual round of extras including mini-poster, pencil board and two more postcards. Also included is a booklet and reversible cover (same image as the pencil board).

Next up to bat is one I have been looking forward to for a while. This is volume 1 of a two-volume OVA series for Ichigo Mashimaro. The only bad thing about this is that it is only two episodes. Hopefully it will sell well enough to encourage them to produce more anime for this series. More Nobue is always a good thing.  This volume comes with a box for both volumes, a booklet, a notepad with five different recurring images watermarked onto the pages (but who would ever actually USE this? No true fan that’s for sure!), and a mini-poster (first press item) of Anna and Matsuri.

The last couple of items are both from Ikki Tousen. The first is the Great Guardians fan book. If the fan book for Dragon Destiny was considered to be nothing but extreme fan service, this can be considered one step away from porn. Pretty much nothing is left to the imagination. I’m trying to figure out a way to scan the pages without damaging the book its self. If I can I’ll update the page accordingly. The second is one I saw on the pre-order list and to be honest wasn’t that sure what is was but since it was pretty cheap I figured I’d give it a shot. It is a collection of covers (presumably for the Japanese version) for the Ikki Tousen manga volumes. There are eight different designs total. They are on two types of paper. The first is just standard poster paper and the second is a more plastic type. On the second type the folds have been pre-pressed. I assume to make it easier to put them on the manga volumes. Each image comes in both paper and plastic versions with a total of 16 covers in the box. Here are some shots to give an example of what they look like. Here, here, here, and here. There are 8 more covers in the set, but they are the same images as these, just on a different type of paper. That was certainly hard to convey.

Enjoy!!