9-yukiiro done

Best heroine is best

In my personal record time of only three days to finish reading this.

There’s barely any breaks, tension is high almost all the time, the suspense forced me to just keep reading until the end.

The h-scenes are pretty nice as well although I did disable the animation. I did enable MC’s voice this time (as I didn’t notice I have it disabled last time). There’s noticeable lack of certain type of play though which a bit sad.

Spoilers ahead.

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Yukiiro – Melonbooks tapestry

More from Yukiiro, this is the tapestry from Melonbooks. No nipples or anything for this one. A bit sad but Noa is cute so it’s fine.

Double suede as usual though the print could be a bit sharper. Considering the other tapestry seems to be printed by the same company but doesn’t have this problem, maybe it’s just the source? Or the bloom effect from sunlight? Not sure. It’s still pretty good anyway, and at least better than usual thin tapestries.

Yukiiro – Yuuki Noa dakimakura(s)

Two versions because I can. Or more like I kinda preferred the official store version but buying tapestry and drama CD from Sofmap is impossible without also buying the cover.

Thankfully the illustration seems fine this time. Or is it? I’ll find out whenever I open this… Or maybe just camp someone else’s blog who usually reviews this.

DFC sure is the best.

Back side (of the unopened bag)

9-nine- yukiiro yukihana yukinoato

The long awaited final part of 9-nine- series. Bought off all the bonuses and stuff because it’s Noa.

Started playing already and it’s pretty good so far. Unlike the other routes, this one started completely differently.

As for the drama CDs, I haven’t even listened to the Haruiro ones… πŸ€”

Bonus photos inside.

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Weekly Finance vol. 26

Almost forgot to write this post.

YJA

Sold some more stuff. At more loss. Almost 60%. Kinda sucks but it was mostly thanks to dakimakura. The value drop sure is more obvious in absolute term. Also it’s almost impossible to recover the price once used.

Not sure if I’ll put up more stuff anytime soon. Even though I really should.

Wasting money

It’s eroge day (yesterday)! Spent a lot of money! At least it was budgeted already so it’s mostly fine.

I’ll probably end up preordering pieces/Canary this month instead of next month. Nearby Melonbooks already has no early preorder shikishi anymore so that sucked ;_;

That will kind of mess up my budget. Looking again, it was probably a bad idea anyway waiting until the release month.

Talking about budget, there will be also this Seishun Sparking thing. As mentioned last time, it’ll cost me good money. Dropping Maitetsu LR goods will end up helping here.

Also at current rate, there might be nothing in summer? No Comiket at least. Denkigai… is a bit unknown. I heard some info about they’ll be held in summer. We’ll see.

Stock market

It’s a mystery at this time. The trend is still going down but on some days it goes up quite a lot as well so that helped compensate the drop. Not by much though.

Kakenuke seishun sparking

As I wondered last week, Saga Planets announced their new title today. Titled Kakenuke seishun sparking (they sure can use some HTTPS in 2020).

It looks like a rather normal school club story thingy. Kind of like Hanasaki, maybe? Except the protag this time seems to be workaholic and likes money.

The uniform design this time around is rather lewd. Navels everywhere. And then there’s Nagiko, sleeveless with probably sports bra? And gloves for some reason. And those tall shoes on thighhighs.

Heroines line up seems like the usual one DFC heroine, one DFC sub-heroine, and the rest are relatively big. Arisue Tsukasa is doing main heroine again this time and Toranosuke doing two. I sure am wondering who’s doing Kikka. It almost looks like Hontani Kanae but I’m not sure. Also for the not-blood-related-little sister Ritsu.

As for the stores, I’ll probably get at least Sofmap, Trader, Suruga-Ya, and Amiami. Hmmm RIP 40k. And maybe more if those unannounced γ‚ͺγƒͺγ‚ΈγƒŠγƒ«η‰Ήε…ΈδΌη”»δΈ­ are voice drama. That will kinda hurts. I sure wish that Amiami tapestry is also double suede. But it probably isn’t πŸ˜” We’ll find out next month. Or on release day.

It’s planned for August release. I guess I have a few months to prepare the budget. And maybe finish Kinkoi before this one is released.

Weekly Finance vol. 25

YJA

Sold quite a few stuff this last weekend. At almost 50% loss. Yay 😐

Wasting money

As pictured above, I got a new system for my server! New motherboard (ASRock X570 Pro4) and new CPU (AMD Ryzen 3500), to be precise. I already have too many RAM sticks on my desktop (4x16GiB) so I took a pair off it and use it on the new server, saved me from having to spend more money on this. Details coming soon to the other blog. Maybe.

That said, I still need to eventually upgrade the RAM to ECC. Unfortunately the cheapest I could find costs about 30k for a pair of 16GiB for a total of 32GiB. It will take a while until I save enough for them.

Apart of that, I’m skipping Soraao this time because of the purchase above and just generally trying to spend on thing I really like instead of just stuff I may potentially like. Anime is especially worse in this regard as the second hand market is pretty big and it’s relatively easy getting cheap second hand copies.

Next week is already eroge week. Schedule-wise, I should be posting another finance post before then unless I went lazy mode again and hold off doing it until last minute like this one.

New “C98” stuff are also starting to come out as well. I have some budget for it but I’m not sure how much I’ll end up spending. Hopefully not too much.

That reminded me, I still need to pack stuff for Suruga-Ya.

A.M.R – Choco Valentine 2020 dakimakura

More dakimakura from Ikegami Akane. This one is supposed to be released during an event in February but ended up not happening thanks to the virus thing and then only arrived last week.

That said, the arrival for online order wasn’t actually too far off as I think it’s initially planned for end of March.

Anyway, it’s even more cover of Choco. This time being Valentine Choco (ha ha ha). Front side with exposed breasts and slid open panties, back side being naked with ribbons. She wears knee-socks on both sides which is great. Although the other side is only one side but still better than nothing.

Explicit drawing as usual and as visible from the photo, it’s Shiromoufu’s Hakuou. I have no complaints so far with it. If anything, they have the best zipper part as I mentioned last time.

It’s still available for purchase as well. There are still about 10 left in stock as I write this post.

Bonus photo, snippet of the middle part:

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Weekly Finance vol. 24

Unrelated apart of that I’m watching this while writing this post

YJA

0% loss this time yay. Except it was because I sold nothing.

Readjusted prices for stuff. Hopefully can sell something but with current economy it’ll probably be rather difficult regardless.

I suspect it’s better for me to start packing up stuff to be sent to Suruga-Ya.

Wasting money

Pre-ordered some stuff and although there are still some extras, there’s no telling how this month will go with all the new doujin stuff which are initially targeted for C98.

And then I still need to figure out what to do with Maitetsu LR. I’m actually now considering only buying single thing. Probably either Sofmap or Suruga-Ya and skip the rest of them. It’s just too expensive and considering I’m so far backlogged on that, I probably really should just get the minimum.

pieces/Canary for May (5 copies?), Torikago for June (4 copies), and lastly Maitetsu LR (1 copy?) for July. And that’s it? There’s nothing for August or later yet. Saga Planets may announce their new title soon-ish though.

I really need to read faster. And be less distracted.

Stock market

These last two days have been closed at positive which is actually a bit annoying because I was too late buying some index fund which ended up costing quite a lot more than the price when I placed the order. I probably should’ve bought ETF instead.

Kin-iro loveriche VFB Melonbooks tapestry

Last one from Kinkoi. Melonbooks tapestry for the VFB. I initially wrote bonus but I had to pay extra for this.

Pretty much the usual thin tapestry quality, print and material.

This is probably my first Sylvi tapestry.

I usually prefer smiling faces but for this one I prefer this version compared to the cover version. Embarrassed face is sometimes good, I guess. Skirt lifting is of course always welcome.

Suzuya C97 Shirina-chan tapestry

This thing arrived last week. It was up for pre-order at Suzuya’s Booth few months ago and I ended up buying it.

Double suede material with pretty good print.

I generally like Ryohka’s lolis. This one isn’t exception. Thankfully the background this time is a proper one unlike the one from few years ago. I just noticed they both have their privates bandaid’d, lol.

Digest vol. 250: RIP

Not sure if a lot or few things happened this week. Also as I mentioned last week, this will be the last weekly digest post. Until I decide to revive it…?

At 250 weekly posts it means I’ve done this for almost 5 years. Time sure flies…

News

New stuff

Eroge playthrough

I… still haven’t finished that Cafe Stella post ,_,

Non-eroge stuff

Daily life

Weekly Finance vol. 23

YJA

Quite a few items were sold this week. With a rather big loss as well unfortunately at 40%. Oh well, better than nothing.

With this, I have less than 40 items remaining to be sold. The lowest since a while, I believe.

And I still have not decided on what else to sell yet.

Wasting money

Thanks to the YJA, I got some spares left for this month. Although considering it’s almost May anyway I’ll probably end up doing pre-orders next month if the budget permits.

With C98 out of window, I’m not sure how to budget April/May for the doujinshi. It’ll probably end up a bit more expensive than usual. And then of course there’s still pieces/Canary on May. And Maitetsu LR on July.

Oh and on Maitetsu LR, I’m skipping Tech Gian’s drama CDs. I’ll probably regret it? Maybe? But it’s Lose – they tend to re-release previous drama CDs somehow in one form or another. Not that I’m currently lacking in drama CDs anyway.

And then with Cabbit’s Kagitori delayed to June, my eroge purchases for April is now down to 9-yukiiro and Denshi otome. Shouldn’t be too bad.

Now I think about it, I can probably cancel my current Getchu order for that Kagitori and reorder it together with Onigyu anime for cheaper shipping.

There’s Melonbooks C98 (RIP) tapestries as well but I’ll probably skip them completely. Getting that Tomose Shunsaku tapestry or some other ones is rather tempting but I think I’ll pass. There isn’t really anything outstanding and with the book itself delayed it’ll be slightly more expensive getting the extra stuff.

And lastly, I almost completely forgot about it but I also need to slip in some budget for more dual ports 10GbE cards and new Ryzen setup for my server.

Hmm, looking again, this will be a bit difficult.

Stock market

Somehow the indexes went up these last two (work) days. It’ll probably go down again this week. I’m not holding my breath.

Cafe Stella calendar

I forgot to post this. It arrived sometime last week.

It’s the usual calendar bonus from buying all the character songs. Due to timing etc, this one starts from April. Sometimes called “school calendar” as that’s when new academic year starts.

Unlike the previous ones, this one doesn’t have plastic case/stand. Probably due to a lot of them were broken during shipment for Riddle Joker. It’s also twice larger.

As before, it’s two-monthly calendar per page, six pages total. Four of them are newly drawn and the other two are generic all-characters images.

And now I have a bit too many calendars.

Kin-iro loveriche VFB – Getchu tapestry

I noticed the photo quality is worse than usual. Especially the shooting angle being not quite straight.

So, uh, I ended up getting this anyway.

If only it’s double suede. It’s not. It’s the usual thin suede material instead. Oh well. The print quality is fine.

I actually prefer this one instead of the even-more-naked version. And the background is still unfortunately rather boring.