So if you take a look to the sidebar, you should see some pretty awesome Toshokan Sensou banners have been added in support of my favourite show this season! (I might as well make that official, since that’ll most certainly be the case unless, god forbid, some major suckage occurs in the final few episodes *sobs, it’s ending!* – yea, and I’ll suddenly love S.A. till the day I die *dies of sarcasm*) Or more specifically, in support of the official DVDs being released this August! Woo-hoo! (I love the badass Iku cover -?- btw)

Thanks to the Queen of Toshokan Sensou Fangurling, usagijen for the news =P

Unfortunately, I too face the same dillema about whether or not to purchase the DVDs myself, since if I do, that’ll be a series of many firsts – the first time I’ll “experienced falling in love with an anime so much to the point of wanting to buy the DVDs and rewatch it to no end” to quote usagijen and well, the first time I’ve ever ought a DVD in my life… ORZ

So yes, I’m opening that “I’ve never actually supported the industry via direct purchase and have in fact been contributing to its ruin by relying on fansubs” can of worms/BS. And my hesitation on whether or not to purchase said DVDs now can certainly be viewed as blasphemous hypocrisy on my part.

But to be honest, it has never occurred to me to own anime in any sort of solid form before, after becoming so accustomed to watching off the same screen I devote hours of my day to. Plus I’m not much of a rewatcher of shows (hence my almost empty hard drive), preferring to take the sweet moments of my first time watching my favourite shows with me for the rest of my life (hence my skewed perception on many shows and what I like about them, I suppose) – add that to the fact that I’m so unpicky that I’ll always have something new to watch whenever I have the time -_-” And unless I want to rewatch sub-less scenes with my moonspeak tutor for the rest of my life, I may just have to pass on these official Japanese DVDs (until perhaps, my own listening skills reach the required level to fully enjoy them).

But that’s the ‘practical’ aspect of the matter (when it comes to myself, mind. To each viewer, his or her own, no?). Of course I could just fork out the cash just for the sake of supporting the industry (and as material proof of being a true fan! That stuff about being a true fan at heart needing no proof is BS after all!) which many will say is the right thing to do… But for now, my wallet says NO… not YET anyways… So even with all those tempting extra goodies, I’manot pre-ordering anything atm… *sighs at the thought of them goodies*

Ah well, what’s a stingy panda to do… Guess I’ll just limit myself to joining that Banner Campaign for the DVD release since I happen to be one of those “lucky bastards in Japan” jen mentions (Don’t hate me, the moonrunes are killing me enough!) Now unless my own Japanese reading skills are shittier than I thought (or Rikaichan failed me), I think I’ve registered properly for the campaign and set up the banners correctly… (you can see the rest of them here. I just chose my 3 favourite characters from the show =P) Hopefully, the banners may induce readers into buying the DVDs even if I’m not leading by example currently? For now, I’m more interested in following the source material (books/manga for me, need to be held in hand to fully enjoy, hence why I’m willing to buy them – second hand at least), speaking of which, a new one is being announced!

Now there goes my monies…