Weekly Finance vol. 9

Auction

Surprisingly sold some stuff with only 15% loss. That was nice. I considered taking two weeks off but I figured might as well keep going so I’ll be begrudgingly going outside instead of staying home all day.

Pre-orders

I thought 9-yukiiro pre-order starts last Friday but it’s this Friday. So, yay.

Nothing else new announced recently as far as I remember so last week’s plan is still a thing.

Budgeting

As mentioned in last week’s digest, I toyed around with idea of getting a new Ryzen system. And that happened. So I blew the extra budget I had.

The end result shouldn’t be too much different compared to last year but I spent way more on new apartment rent last year so it’s not quite the same comparison. I also had way more stuff to be sold. And next year would be even worse so I need to adjust accordingly.

That said I still need to sell quite a bit more stuff remaining and maybe trim even further to get my tapestries collection to some sensible amount instead of way over 200 at the moment.

Oh and of course to trim my doujinshi collection though that one is mostly just space clean up as I don’t think I can recover much value from them.

Doujinshi – A.M.R 2019-12

In nice turn of events, this book is released today. I saw release date of today in Melonbooks store page but I thought it’s just a placeholder or something dumb but it’s not. It’s the actual release date.

Another great book from Ikegami Akane. A lot of Okita, including an almost R-18 one with back view of her only wearing striped panties. Some not-Okita illustrations as well including Astolfo. Nice.

Now I think about it, I wonder if we’ll get another dakimakura of her. Summer version maybe? Uniform Okita is welcome, too.

Tapestry (A1) – Cafe Stella (Trader)

And here’s the last one, from Trader. Smile, check. Nipples, check. Wet panties, check. Bare foot, well, it’s not really my thing. Also missing kneesocks.

I noticed that despite all tapestries are with maid uniform, they all have different socks. I wonder if it’s like that in-game as well. Probably not.

Unlike the other two, this one is A1-sized. The rarer size in my collection. At least I think I have space for it without needing sacrifice anything.

Surprisingly this is another double suede, making the tapestries I got are all double suede. That’s new, I think. I sure wish stores do this for all titles. That said, I think all other non-Natsume tapestries are using normal thin material. Yay Natsume fans?

The print is good though too bad this uses thin pipe which most likely means bent pipe after hung for a while.

Tapestry – Cafe Stella (Sofmap)

And here’s the second one, from Sofmap. B2 sized. Kneesocks yay. Panty pull yay. Nipples yay. Smiling yay.

All the yays. This is a pretty good tapestry.

I thought the dress underneath her is some kind of Kara no Kyoukai-style school uniform (which doesn’t really make sense) but it’s just her maid uniform without the apron, lol.

Using double suede as well and pretty good print. I don’t think it’s visibly worse than A&J. Too bad it uses thin pipe which is prone to bending. At least it’s only B2 so it shouldn’t be too bad.

Also needed assembly and thus ironing.

Tapestry – Cafe Stella (amiami)

And finally the interesting bonus! Starting off with B2 tapestry from amiami. Too bad no nipples. Not sure why she spilled tea to her crotch. Hopefully it’s not hot tea otherwise it’d hurt.

It’s double suede. And the print is pretty good. Very good in fact, especially because of this:

It’s printed by A&J. I haven’t seen any tapestries from them for a long while now. Especially since Moeoh switched from them to a cheaper printer. Last tapestry I can remember from A&J is doujin tapestry from Kimishima Ao, I think?

This is the only bonus tapestry using larger pipe.

Oh, and assembly was required. Not big deal but as a result there are a bunch of crease marks.

Misc Goods – Cafe Stella

Here’s the misc stuff from either pre-order bonus (draft book, tin badges), Sofmap bonus (more tin badges, shitajiki, shopping bag, stickers, bookmarks), Trader (keychain of some sort), and Amiami (covered keyholder thingy?).

The sticker is nice, as I can use it for stuff like portable drives. I can also probably use the acrylic keyholder The rest of them? I’m not sure. Maybe collect dust or something.

Drama CDs – Cafe Stella

And then here’s the drama CDs. Left one is official store bonus which is the main reason I bought one from there. These official drama CD can usually be found for relatively cheap so if I’m being sane I should’ve just bought it off YJA or second hand store.

The right side one is just pre-order bonus and so I have four copies of it at the moment.

Haven’t listened to them yet but if it’s anything like previous ones they should be mildly or barely lewd.

Shikishi – Cafe Stella

And then the shikishis. One of them already made appearance here when I pre-ordered it from Sofmap few weeks ago. While three of them are pretty easy to obtain, the bottom left one (Mei) is only available from their official store. That’s pretty annoying.

Looks pretty analog drawing just like every other bonus shikishis from Yuzusoft.

I wonder if they’ll ever make R-18 shikishi…

Digest vol. 236: Stuff

News

New stuff

Some new stuff. I’m not sure if there will be anything else coming anytime soon apart of Cafe Stellas.

Eroge playthrough

I think I’m halfway through Moeri route now. And of course I failed completing it before Cafe Stella release day =]

Non-eroge stuff

Bad luck streak continues. Oh and I have one fewer weekly series now. Maybe I should start catching up my backlogs.

Daily life

Seems fine but now I kind of want a new Ryzen. That won’t go well with my budget.

Weekly Finance vol. 8

Auction

Sold even more items. For total loss of about 20%.

On top of that I made mistake when creating auction for the random USB3 card and entered amount of two instead of one. Thankfully the bidder didn’t make big deal about it. It being a deal of 200yen worth of item.

And then another fail where one of the tapestries is damaged and I didn’t notice it until yesterday. No response for this one yet ‘_’)a

Oh well.

On next week though, there are some bids already.

Pre-orders

Pre-orders for 9-Yukiiro will start this Friday. I don’t know yet when I’ll actually pre-order it. Or them as I’m buying multiple copies.

There’s also Onigyu H-anime which I haven’t decided where to buy yet as I’m waiting for the tapestry image to come out first.

And lastly – at least as far as my list goes – Cuffs winter goods is here as well. I actually completely forgot about it but there are some stuff I may end up buying. That will also cost quite a lot.

Budgeting

Thanks to the auction last week, it covered the Cuffs stuff I forgot about. And maybe even 9-Yukiiro if counting on next week’s as well.

Update 2019-12-24: I got Yukiiro pre-order date wrong whoops.

9-yukiiro website open

It’s finally open! With store bonus information and all.

I’ll keep most of the stuff this time around because it’s Noa. Though that means it’ll be expensive. If I counted correctly, the total would be a bit over 52k $_$

I’m not sure about the daki yet though. Both seem fine but I think I like the official store version better.

Tapestry – A.M.R 2019-11 Apollo

Another Apollo tapestry. The first one in the recent drawing style.

Striped kneesocks! SD Choco plush! Thighs! Also interesting bump around her butts area.

Too bad no panties or anything explicit.

Thankfully double suede though the material seems a bit softer and thinner than usual. It’s still thick enough to be hung on top of non-uniform surface which is the main important point of this material after higher color reproduction. The details are pretty good as well though I noticed a slight defect of semi-transparent black dot around bottom area.

Ikegami Akane has been releasing two tapestries in a row now. It sure would be nice if this continues…

And R-18 tapestries as well please thanks ๐Ÿ™‚

Dakimakura cover – A.M.R – Arisukuni Taruto

Yay the latest addition to my increasingly Ikegami Akane-dominated dakimakura cover collection. I wasn’t sure if I actually want it before but I guess it’s fine. I haven’t opened it yet so no comment on the quality but it’s probably the usual Shiromoufu quality.

And nice bonus:

The line seems disconnected but there’s an interesting Y. I think it’s the first from her that’s quite a bit more than just simple line?

Bonus!

Here’s how the other side looks like.

Very explicit and wet. Good job.

And then some nice bonus.

Zipper stop part is made of plastic! Thanks to it, putting this on doesn’t hurt my hands, making it way easier.

And that the other side is way rounded also helps.

For once I don’t need to wear gloves to put this on.

Oh yeah I give up using “pillow cover” term ๐Ÿ‘€

Update 2019-12-15: Added photo on back side and zipper niceties.

Digest vol. 235: RIP usb3

This post is supposed to be posted yesterday but some crashes caused by (apparently) PCI-e USB3 expansion card took quite some time to track down. The card also went straight to auction because it’s not the first time I have problem caused by this card. Though I also kind of suspect it’s combination of USB3 and (very cheap) USB audio thingy.

News

More and more C97 related news. And some other unrelated news as well. Not sure what to do with Type-Moon Museum yet.

New stuff

There’s supposed to be some new soundtrack CDs but not happening yet thanks to people in my apartment still monopolizing the delivery boxes.

Eroge playthrough

Just entered Moeri’s route. Now I think about it, I don’t remember what I did last weekend ?_?

Non-eroge stuff

Somehow still keeping up with stuff. Maybe I should add more anime stuff and drop some YouTubes.

Daily life

Getting more questionable compared to last week but maybe still kind of safe.

Type-Moon Museum Goods

The museum is a thing. A bunch of Type-Moon related materials will be there. Not sure what’s the deal with the different themes.

And the goods is also a thing. It says 21 types of tapestries total but not much other info apart of the five images they’ve published so far. I don’t know if I’ll even go to the event. Maybe if I feel like wasting 4k-ish for the round trip and the ticket.

And looking closer, Arcueid’s eyes in the first image are kind of scary o_o

Weekly Finance vol. 7

Auction

Surprisingly sold quite a few things. The total loss was about 15%. Not too bad considering (unfortunately) no particularly highly-bid item. Just minor loss overall.

I hope this week will be at least as good as last week…

Pre-orders

Ended up pre-ordering that Yometan K-Ko pillow cover.

Maybe will also buy the pieces’ Tsumugi pillow cover.

Budgeting

Thanks to last week’s YJA, it recovered a bit. Overall though I still have quite a bit wastable budget remaining for this year.

Not sure how next year will fare considering I won’t have as many stuff to be sold anymore.

Tapestry (B1) – Melonbooks C97 rurudo

The only additional stuff I bought from Melonbooks C97 goods this time. Not sure if actual bandage or just “accessory”. Poor girl if actual bandages ;_;

The print is fine and thankfully there’s no stupid fold marks as sometimes happen with Melonbooks tapestries. It’s double suede as well. I almost thought this is my first rurudo tapestry but it’s not.

The drawing seems a bit rough though. Or maybe that’s just their style. At least it doesn’t seem upscaled.

Goods – C97 catalog + Melonbooks swags

Usual C97 catalog stuff though I think there are more stuff compared to last one. Especially I don’t remember if there’s paper bag before. I didn’t get the additional books because the lineup didn’t seem interesting enough and doesn’t warrant the 1500yen (x2) price for me.

The included bonus is fine. There are some nice surprise with Tateha and Takano Yuki illustrations as well.

I’ll probably start making my list sometime next weekend.

Tora no ana C97 Goods

Tapestries and blankets and other stuff. Not sure if there’s any kind of pattern or anything. Now I look closer that page isn’t even complete. Here’s some more listing.

I’m really lacking in news network for Tora no ana. I used to follow their twitter but the signal to noise ratio was more than what I can handle. There used to be blog post but since they disabled RSS feed, I never check it anymore. Maybe I should try following the twitter again…