SWEET! Last of the Tax Refund Swag showed up today and it's awesome. I was kind of worried about the message but it turned out right. In any case the most awesome FAKKU! T-shirt is here and it rocks. Even better are the couple of free gifts that came with it as well. While I got a lot of things with my tax refund the free gift that came with this has to be the best part of the entire haul.

If you are not familiar with FAKKU! you mustn't be a big anime/manga fan as FAKKU! is the place to go for all your naughty doujinshi needs. Recently they have begun selling some cool T-shirts including the famous Hen-tie (for Hentai duh) and when they released their name brand shirt I had to get one (also getting a hen-tie one as well later). When I saw that it was up for pre-order I snapped one up but didn't really read the description.

When I got the e-mail about my order they told me I forgot the message that I wanted on the picture and I had no idea what they were talking about. I had to go back and re-read the description and sure enough with the pre-order you also received one of two Cosplay Deviants prints of Ms Panda with a personalized message. I picked the one that went with my shirt and after a little bit of thinking I had them write something for the blog which I thought would be cool.

It was well worth the wait (took longer because of the personalized print) the shirt is well made, fits well (considering I got a bigger size than normal) and looks awesome. The print is awesome as well and the message turned out how I hoped it would so that is great, now I just need to find a good home for it. Here is a close up of the message... I (heart) the Hillbilly Otaku! The package even had a second gift included as well. I now have a cosplaydeviants.com lanyard too.

Thank you FAKKU!, Ms Panda and cosplaydeviants.com for the awesome swag.

Ah another week that just flew by without making much of a stir in the cosmos. It is officially the New Year now (Chinese New Year was today/yesterday) and I'm almost tempted to post another anime fanservice goody new year image but I have something more interesting (well sort of) to post for this week.

Even though I was still sick (well still had the horrid cough) last week it wasn't all cough sleep cough cough work cough and no fun. There was actually quit a bit of fun and goodies this week as two of my four eBay purchases showed up this week. The best one was of course the new to me 50mm Sigma Macro lens that I got from Costa Rica for a sweet deal thanks to my kind housemate letting me borrow some money before my refund was deposited this next week. More on the lens later. Also arrived are the two new Masu cups for the traditional drinking of the Sake that is Still in the frig from the Seattle trip. I do have to seal up one of the cups as it leaks but the other one was fine. The other two items should be showing up at the beginning of the week and at the end of the week.

In addition to those items I was able to make it to the 10th anniversary of the anime club on Saturday and I got as a door prize a moe moe sticker and a Stratos 4 anime pencil board which I haven't seen yet but might add it to the Netflix queue later. In addition to that I also won as a door prize the DVD for Azumi a girl samurai movie that I've been waiting forever for Netflix to get but now I don't have to (well other than waiting for Azumi 2 now) there was some other stuff as well to chose from but that's what I wanted. It was fun but very crowded though.

Which of course brings us to the end of the week and one of the coolest things of the month and that is Spike's airing of Afro Samurai: Resurrection which was pretty damn awesome and of course I'll talking about that later as well. I'll definitely be picking this up on DVD when it hits shelves on February 3rd. It did kind of suck though as they started playing the original series afterwards and I missed that as I was on my way work at that point. So if you don't mind me I'm going to go cough some more and look forward to next week when hopefully I won't be coughing so much.

Normally I'm never one to win anything, not the mega millions or anything more than a couple bucks on some scratch tickets or any send off sweapstakes but I guess that just changed as a package arrived from Yen Plus from there latest contest containing a Soul Eater button and no less than 3 (identical, poo) Soul Eater mini posters. I'll keep one of the posters and take the other two to the local anime group to be given away to others. How nice of me right. I didn't feel like taking pictures of the button or the poster (still sick, poo) so you'll just have to enjoy this image of Blair from Soul Eater instead.

Thanks Yen Plus for the free swag it rocks.