Cardcaptor Sakura 20th Anniversary Memorial Box
It was released 2 days ago and I did pre-order it, nonetheless, it was pre-ordered with other items which will be released later this year (to save on shipping cost, I try to group together my items as often as possible...) so you will not be getting scans of photos from me anytime soon, sorry ;__
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and now the calendar being "Card" like makes sense! they're printed on thick cardstock separately! OOOOHHHH!! ha
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They feel pretty much like the postcards that were included in the special Edition of volume 09, which makes me think that they might actually form a set put all together :)
I order as much as possible from amazon japan, and this is no exception: with amazon, you can cancel or modify an order anytime you want and as many times as you wish as long as your item is not prepared to be shipped yet, so I combined this Memorial box with other items which will be released late this year, and chose for the items to be sent in as little shipments as possible = they will be shipped with the items which release date is the furthest.
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Ah more photos! I actually just received mine the other day and it is GORGEOUS! all the illustrations ^0^ I didnt understand how to prop up the cards but i did eventually xD
(sorry late reply. i never got a notif of your reply like i usually do from LiveJournal Dx)
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As far as my personal experience goes (I've been purchasing online since 2002), amazon is definitely one of the best: having the freedom to just login in my account and cancel/change my orders without asking permission, emailing anybody or giving any justifications (and do it as many times as I want) is priceless!
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"Safe-to-detach" pictures
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"Not-safe-to-detach" pictures - in this case, cutting the calendar portion of the girls' group picture will cut off a part of Syaoran's head on the other side.
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I am still confused on how to set up this calendar, though. It comes with a plastic case with cardboard stands, and there aren't instructions anywhere in this box. XD;;;
Okay, scratch that - I finally figured it out. Lmao.
Portrait
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Landscape
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In the end, not all the illustrations are 'new', we still have some from the 90's, but it still all look quite wonderful ^_^
It's a shame they didn't follow up to cutting idea to the end and made sure that it would be safe to the take the parts off without 'damaging' any illustration though...
So! How do you feel about the memorial box? Happy to have gotten it? How is the box itself? The Kero plushy is cute?
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The Kero plushie IS cute, but now I am very afraid of using it e.g. letting it hang from my backpack or getting it dirty. XD
It's a lovely piece of merchandise overall, and it's pretty neat as a collectible. I'm glad to have gotten one of the honey milk tales as well (since they aren't in any of the volumes - where were they originally printed btw?), but they should have included the one for Syaoran's tooooooooo.
The box is sturdy and is durable enough on its own, but if one is going to use the calendar, they would have to take it out of the plastic sleeve, leaving a small gap inside... but still okay, I guess?
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Oh don't bother!
I said in the entry that I would have shares scans if I could, but when looking objectively at this memorial box right not, the only new thing is really the cover illustration, everything else was shared online in one way or another ^^; The interesting would have been to post photos, and this is exactly what you did, so we are all good! ^__^
It's a lovely piece of merchandise overall, and it's pretty neat as a collectible. I'm glad to have gotten one of the honey milk tales as well (since they aren't in any of the volumes - where were they originally printed btw?), but they should have included the one for Syaoran's tooooooooo.
The two oneshots were released in the 2 manga artbooks of CCS which were released in the 90's (the 1st and 2d artbook).
And indeed, I am 100% with you on this: they definitely should have included the one which Syaoran!!! Just putting the one with Touya feels pretty random actually ^^;
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I also found these pics on facebook:
+ All the illustrations used for the calendar 1 2
+ The booklet cover
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Or more like: it's the same cost as buying it from amazon japan:
Item ￥ 3,600
Estimated Shipping & Handling(DHL express) ￥ 1,200
Import Fees Deposit ￥ 1,008
Estimated Order Total ￥ 5,808 = 55.7 usd
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Nonetheless, they clearly can't put a calendar this time, so either 1-they won't release it until Fall 2017 with another calendar, else 2-they will find something else to put in there and push us again into buying ^^;
I do not know if you own the limited special edition of volume 09 of the 2015 edition of CCS, but if you look at the illustrations cards in there, you will realize that this Memorial Box's cards actually complement them: they really calculated everything > even if in the back of our minds we think "why should I care, there is definitely going to be an artbook with everything in it", but the end of the line is that we don't know when this is going to happen, and we just go and collect those artworks however we can, and I am not only talking about ( ... )
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