Shelf Life

Boys will be...girls?

Shelf Worthy

Peach Girl DVD 1

Le Chevalier D'Eon DVD 2

Rental

Bleach DVD 3, 4

Air Gear DVD 2

Perishable

Princess Princess DVD 1

There is something I feel as though I have to get off my chest lest I die. that column where I mentioned Jordy Lemoine, the kid who made his French recording debut at age 4 with hits like “C'est Dur Dur D'etre Un Bebe” and “Alison”? It had never occurred to me until now to look for his old music videos on YouTube until now. Only now he's a strapping young lad that looks oddly like a French Jonathan Taylor Thomas, back when people still cared that he existed. Somehow, I feel as though my life is a bit more complete than it was before.

Oh, and one quick tangent before I start. ANN has started offering video content, and while right now it's just convention footage, we'll be offering some really awesome exclusive content soon. But, in case y'all haven't seen it yet, you should check out Anime Boston. Not only can you get the skinny on what some of the industry reps had to say about new releases, but you can also watch me ham it up on camera, and finally stop assuming that I'm a male. Because I'm not. Yeesh.

Welcome to Shelf Life.

Recently, I was sitting around my apartment with nothing to do. Yes, I had plenty of work I could do, but everyone knows that it's times like those when, the larger your To Do list, the easier it is to be bored by procrastination. In that dark, desperate moment, I reached blindly towards my DVD shelf where my hand alighted on the first season of The OC. I'm not ashamed to it that I watched the show, because even though it had its (many) terrible moments, it was also loaded with hours of kitschy melodrama.

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Even as dramariffic and LJ-able high school life can get, it doesn't compare to what Japan would lead you to believe happens in their all-male schools. Maybe I've been misled with my public school upbringing, or the stories I heard in college from all my friends and their fancy-pants East Coast private schools, but I've never known single sex schools to hold practices akin to single sex rat cages.

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To be fair, it's not the boys dres as girls part that bothers me. When they do it as an extracurricular job to inspire the students at an all-male school, rather than working in the dining hall, then yes, it's a bit suspect. Sometimes, though, boys dres as girls can be part of something a lot cooler (like a fencing match in full drag?).

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Speaking of getting rid of spirits and other moving things that were either once dead, or could soon be dead, it's worth taking a look-see at what Bleach.

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Oh, and the discs also come with stickers of the title cards. I mean, who doesn't want rad stickers that say BLEACH 13 or BLEACH 14 on them? I know I do. They're so cool, I'd even put them on my guitar, or maybe even on the bottom of my shoe.

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Unfortunately, that's it for this week. Thanks for reading, and come on back in two weeks for more shelves and more life!

Thanks again for sending in your awesome entries! I'm having a blast looking at your collections, and hopefully, you guys will get that same excitement. There's two more Shelf Obsessed entries this week, because I just couldn't resist.

First up is from Ember Harper, who claims to have the coolest sister ever. Why? Because when the bookstore that the sister works at was getting rid of their promo bookstand, they gave it to her, who then ed it on down to Ember as what could possibly be one of the neatest birthday gifts ever. Are you guys ready for this? Because it's pretty awesome:

Not to be outshone by the awesome FMA bookshelf, our second entry is from Abdullah Al-Ghanim, who hails from the State of Qatar. His two anime shelves currently hold 695 DVDs and 300 manga volumes, amongst which include a Ghibli Shorts DVD that he picked up in Japan.

What do you think about both their shelves? Cool, really cool, or hella cool?

Wanna show off your anime/manga/figure/plushie/etc collection? Think you have a neat shelving system? Send your jpgs to shelflife at animenewsnetwork dot com!