state of the union

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Quick update here, as the last one didn't seem to crosspost.

TIGER & BUNNY EVENT STATUS:
❀  Have sent out invoices to most clients; will contact remaining clients right after I post this. If you haven't heard from me by tonight, Tokyo-time, please let me know.
❀  For those from whom I receive address details and payment in time, I plan to start shipping packages tomorrow or Wednesday. I will contact the clients after shipment.

Movies Paradise STATUS:
❀  Will sort through books today or tomorrow and contact clients with acquisition details at that time. Please bear with me for a few more days.

MISCELLANEOUS fanservices UPDATES:
❀  First and second winners of giveaway contacted. Awaiting more information to contact third
❀  Upcoming deadline: Group Orders, deadline September 29th. 
❀  I am taking Individual/Direct Orders through the end of October.
❀  It's looking likely that I'll be attending COMIC SPARK 6 in October, and taking limited orders. I'm not sure what my winter vacation plans are as of yet; if I am in town for Comiket, I will only be taking very limited orders. Otherwise, I do not have any upcoming events planned until February. If you hear of any I might be interested in, please let me know, but I think I need to pace myself a bit better. ^_^;;
❀ I am trying to be consistent in using the #fanservices hashtag on my Twitter account (@feikoi) to denote community/service-related updates.

Further messages from feikoi:

My apologies for running later than you usually expect from my services -- I've had a very busy (and exhausting!) week. Work, two event pickups, a typhoon, and a friend coming to visit for three days meant I've been relatively incommunicado and unable to reply with my usual haste. On top of that, I started coming down with a cold this weekend, and either that or the meds I was taking pretty much knocked me out on Sunday. >.< 

Just wanted to post an explanation for the delay, and apologize for any inconvenience it may have caused you. The next few weeks are busy as well, but I'll try to keep better communication.

Movies Paradise report!

This event is one of the smaller ones I attend -- only about 300 circles in total, all for non-Japanese fandoms. It's pretty awesome, if that's your cup of tea. (The only downside is there seems to be a greater proportion of novels available than other events, which, if you're like me and can't read much Japanese....)

I brought my friend @KuriLu along -- it's her first Japanese convention, and I'm pretty sure the first thing she remarked on was how it's pretty much all women attending. Which is true -- I had told her before hand about the size, and the potential lines, and the fandoms included, but not the specific demographic. I managed to convince her to get a How to Train Your Dragon doujinshi (her first doujin! I'm so proud! *tear* *such an enabler/corrupter of minds*), as well as a few other items, including some BBC Sherlock pins. AWESOME. I did my usual rounds of the SPN and Holmes booths, but this time picked up a fair amount of XM:FC titles, too. No Inception for me, this time. :(

Another friend of mine, Marixsa, met us at the event. Marixsa is accustomed to massive events like Comiket, and marveled at the small size of this one. :P (It's not even the smallest I've attended by a long shot -- I'm pretty sure the FFVII ONLY event had less than 40 circles, and SuperDiner was less than 100, I believe. The upcoming Duo/Heero one has only 30. But when you're used to circle participation being in the several thousands...) Afterwards, we went to lunch and had TURKEY sandwiches (Japan doesn't do turkey, it was wondrous to eat it after so long), and walked through what must have been a mini-cosplay event -- two sets of Kotetsu and Barnaby, a few One Piece cosplayers, and several others from various series. Then, @KuriLu and I went to the Vampire Cafe! But I think I've overshot what properly belongs in an event report already, so I'll stop there. :P

Comments

[dreamhunter.livejournal.com]

Aaaahh, omg how awesome!! :D i'm so stoked that you had such a good time!!
You're going to a heero/duo event??? *__* so, so jealous, haha

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Not sure yet on the GW event -- depends on whether I've gotten a cosplay done for the next day, and how much it'll cost to get out there. It's a thought, though!

[dreamhunter.livejournal.com]

GW was my very first fandom, it's so great to know that there's still events going on for heero/duo! <33
in case you're going, are you going to be taking orders as well?

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

It was one of my first fandoms as well! (I got dumped headfirst into Buffy and Sailor Moon fandoms first by a friend, but then we discovered Gravitation, which somehow led to Gundam Wing online. IDK how, lol.)

I'm not sure I'm going to make it there, to be honest -- I have an Alice picnic I'm cohosting the next day, and I still haven't finished the costume work for it... Hopefully I won't procrastinate too much this weekend!

[dreamhunter.livejournal.com]

Haha seems like GW is like everyone's first fandom love xD

Alice picnick sounds intriquing as well, you got so many awesome things lines up, it's amazing! :D i hope you'll post pictures whereever you'll end up going!

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Well, I can tell you right now that I'll want in on SPARK (Fad Lab will be attending *flails*) -- but aside from that I think it's a good idea for you to take some downtime. I've felt bad for asking you to pick up so much for me, and you definitely deserve a vacation ♡

Whoa, there's an upcoming Duo/Heero event? The old GW fan in me is happy to hear that the fandom is still going strong over there XDb

If I ever make it to Japan, I want to check out some of those themed cafés! I don't know about a vampire one though, eek!

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

I was really surprised that GW is still going on -- there was a mini event at SCC? about twenty circles or so, for various pairings. Most of the art isn't up my alley anymore, but it was really cool to see. ALL THE NOSTALGIA.

The vampire cafe wasn't scary -- actually, they have a Halloween special thing going on, so the Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack was playing (that is so crazy popular here...), and the food on the course menu was decorated with witches and ghosts and such. I'll have to steal the pix from my friend... Our table was over a coffin, but that's about as intense as it got. It was a pleasant surprise to find that our waiter spoke English (and some of the others did too, at least enough to introduce the food and take orders from the other foreign guests). My friend and I had a tendency to respond in Japanese anyway (habit), but it was nice.

I've also been to the Alice in Wonderland cafe, as well as a maid cafe and a butler cafe. There's a butler cafe I want to check out in Ikebukuro, but apparently they book up in advance...

[arachne13.livejournal.com]

How to Train Your Dragon doujinshi? OMG, was it adorable? So many more I could have requested...

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

It is adorable! I already owned it (same artist that has the really smutty Watchmen-Rorschach djs, though HTTYD is gen. And adorable). I actually have...three? Nope, four HTTYD doujinshi -- a few different circles make/made them.

[arachne13.livejournal.com]

I'll have to add that to the list for next time.

[ruthyuki999.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry to hear you have been feeling under the weather! Thank you for the update... you certainly seem to have had a very busy week, hopefully things will calm down a bit for you :) Glad to hear about SPARK... I'll look out for your post closer to the event.

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Got a little bit of a break this week, but I have six days straight next week...*whimper* I hope to get caught up on sleep this weekend in addition to being productive -- we'll see how that goes. :P

Thank You copybon Bid

[jaurion.livejournal.com]

Phew, good thing I made it in time. I would like to bid on the Thank You copybon book please!

Re: Thank You copybon Bid

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Only bid, you got it. I'll add it to your package (I need to scan it first -- I'll try to get that done this weekend.)