Shelf Life

Akina Drift

Shelf Worthy

Kurau Phantom Memory DVD 1

Initial D Boxset 1

Nerima Daikon Brothers DVD 2

Rental

Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles DVD

I Shall Never Return DVD

Perishable

To Heart DVD 1

After 22 years, I have finally had melon bread. Moving to Orange County has finally shown its fruits. Life is now a little more complete.

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The appropriate way to celebrate my discovery of legit melon bread would've been to hunker down with Media Blaster.

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Armed with my new ability to cut the rug, I scoured my review stack for a disc that would now give me the ability to hit on of the opposite/same sex. My eye alighted on the first volume of To Heart, a show that, I think, is supposed to make me root for the characters and hope they get to have sex with each other.

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While I was pretty lukewarm about To Heart, I was pleasantly surprised with one of Le Chevalier D'Eon, I'm going to have fun titles to look forward to for quite some time.

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Now, taking a break from the slick and futuristic to the old and blurry, it's time to talk about Funimation design and release.

Before we do that, though, an anecdote. I love Initial D. I confess, the first time I saw this series, it was on VHS fansub. I sat at home one day during summer break and marathoned the entire series, including the movie and OVAs. Yes, the animation was terrible, the character designs were worse, and the CG was laaaaaaame, but Initial D was easily the coolest show I had ever seen in my entire life. I imported all the models, imported every soundtrack I could lay my hands on, and learned how to drive a stick shift, in the hopes that someday I would take my dad's Sentra down the Loveland and impress all the boys with my sick drifting skills. Initial D is the reason I became interested in cars, the reason I saw The Fast and the Furious: TOKYO DRIFT opening night, and secretly, the reason I keep dating boys with cool cars.

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Really, Initial D was just yet another one of my dork-out phases, of which I went through many of. Yeah, I spent a disgusting amount of time hunkered over plastic model kits of the Trueno, but this pales in comparison to the days I spent painting and sanding Gundams, Valkyries, and Misato's car (I'm the most proud of my cute Mospeada long before I started watching the re-release of Robotech.

Maybe that's why I didn't go as gaga over Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles as I thought I would. Mainly because I'm not a big enough fan of the “original” series.

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It's weird, then, that I would tell people that Shadow Chronicles isn't quite worth their time, but turn around and say, “Hey, you know what's worth your time? A show about radish farmers.”

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And with that, it's time for my grand exit. Thanks as always for reading, and I'll hope to see you again soon!

Alright kids, what's going on? I haven't gotten any submissions in a while, and frankly, I'm getting a little lonely. Why won't anyone send me pictures of their shelves? ;___; Don't feel daunted by everyone else's crazy stacked shelves-- I don't care if you only have 4 DVDs, and three of them are hentai. Be proud of your collection!

This week's collection comes courtesy of Daniel Staab, whose dog enjoys sitting on his anime. He also has GTO and Cromartie, which means that his sense of humor is A++.

Now, if anyone can take a picture of real pets lounging all over their collections (the bigger the pet, the better, really), I will give them mad e-props for the rest of the year. I will give even bigger e-props to picture of anime collections lounging on top of their pets.

Send your pictures to shelflife at animenewsnetwork dot com!