Log | Rearranged My IKEA Billy Bookcase

 

It's Sunday and I just woke up figured I want to rearrange my bookshelf after putting it off my list of chores after so long and especially when bunch of manga just arrived yesterday.

I've been wanting to get another bookcase but I'm really out of space in my hobby room so for now I'm going to try maximise the little space that I have in my existing shelves. I've already packed all my Funko Pop!s and Gunpla kits into moving boxes as I'm planning to send all of them to my parents house soon. Dad promised to renovate his old office into a mini studio for me but mum wants me to have her home office instead as she already planned to turn dad's old office into her personal storage for cooking utensils. I'll update you guys on that later.

I've cleaned the area and then rearranged the shelves so I can have similar heights for all the tiers on the bookcase.

I've figured I could reuse the protector boxes that I've got from Sheldonet Malaysia to raise the manga placed at the back but I don't really have lots of them so I guess I'm going to use slightly broken plastic protectors as well.

After placing all my Kodansha's Attack on Titan manga, I've noticed that I can raise the manga a little bit higher when I turned the box to its other side instead. 

It's really nice to see the titles popped out like that instead of removing the front volumes back and forth whenever I want to read the ones at back. Plus it's easier to check for the latest volumes of unfinished series whenever I want to preorder the next ones. After removing some of the boxed figures off the shelves, I even gained a whole empty tier at the bottom which is great news as I'm planning to get Gundam the Origin manga which are published in hardbacks and there are 12 volumes so I'd be sure to put them at the bottom shelf as I imagined their quite heavy.

Overall, I'm loving this arrangement for now but I seriously need to back order another of this Billy Bookcase from local IKEA reseller but I'm going to need to rearrange the hobby room again for that. Also, to all fellow toy figure collectors out there, do you guys know that IKEA discontinued their Detolf shelf? I currently have 3 and was hoping to get another but now I don't know where to get a new one or I guess I'll just have to look for a used ones instead.

Log | Kinokuniya KINOKORE Demon Slayer Collection

 

Thanks to my best friend who told me about this set of goodies, I've gotten a slot from Kinokuniya KLCC Bookstore and these arrived like a week after a pleasant transaction with their customer service. If you didn't know about the bookstore's collection called Kinokuniya Collection or KINOKORE! in Japanese that basically includes several items from certain themes set by them and this time, I've gotten one from the Demon Slayer Collection.

The goodies arrived nice and safely in the above KINOKORE box and delivered in a big, sturdy box so all the items were in good condition as expected from an exclusive bookstore. If you're wondering, Kinokuniya KLCC offers free delivery for purchase above RM600 or RM42.50 per shipment for lower amount of purchase and all of my orders by far were delivered by DHL e-commerce so tracking is quick and easy.

As you can see in the first photo above, the collection includes Viz Media's Demon Slayer Volume 19 and 20, authentic Banpresto Q Posket Demon Slayer Figure for Zenitsu Agatsuma by Bandai Spirits Co. Ltd., set of Demon Slayer postcards, Kinokuniya bookmark and a set of Kinokuniya bookstore stickers.

 

The cover case for the postcards have the same design as the Ensky's 300-piece puzzle that I also bought recently. Ahh~ I really want the Demon Slayer figures released in those action poses! Just look at Zenitsu acting scared while holding onto Nezuko!

Of course, the most prized item from the collection is indeed the Banpresto Q Posket figure which is the very first anime figure among my collectibles which could go on up to RM200 on Shopee but also the above Giyu Tomioka postcard! I couldn't find the postcard set anywhere online so I'm going to keep them for awhile; not that I'm writing postcards to anyone out there. 

So I guess that's all of it! Have you watch Demon Slayer anime and the latest Mugen Train movie? Definitely let me know by leaving comments down below. See you next post!

Log | Leisure Reading

It has been years since I last read manga. Granted, I've managed to read a chapter or two; okay, I'll be honest, all of 205 chapters of Demon Slayer online with unofficial translation right after I've watched the whole first season of the anime on Netflix. But really, as I was merely focusing on my 9-5 work, creating content on Instagram and writing articles for brands on their platforms so I have such a little time for leisure reading.

I've just finished reading the first chapter of the first Japanese volume that I've purchased out of guilt from buying the bootleg TR Media's English version though I'm still thankful that I've only purchased 10 out of 20 volumes from them. At this point, I've already ordered 21 volumes of Viz Media (official English version) of the manga from Kinokuniya Malaysia and more than half of them have arrived so I only need to pre-order the upcoming Volume 22 and the final Volume 23 probably in October.

Anyway, I'm glad I've made some progress reading the Japanese manga and took some notes on several kanji characters like 絶望  (ぜつぼう or zetsubou) which means despair or hopelessness. 

For the first volume of the manga, I only have Giyu Tomioka's 7cm-tall Banpresto Q Posket Petit Volume 2 figurine to accompany me while reading. I truly can't wait for the 14cm-tall Special Colour version to be released by Bandai Spirits next month. Praying hard so I can get my hands on it.

Definitely let me know your favourite leisure reading materials down below in the comment section and stay safe!