happy birthday to the most beautiful human being we were blessed with, viktor nikiforov
If you can please preorder the goods. That’s why i got my YOI set badge cheap. I know it time consuming, but that’s the only thing we can do. T^T and regarding the goods at Nakano. Aren’t they planning to open an online shop for that? I think i read it somewhere about that. I cant remember what day did they publish that though T^T
Hi! I don’t remember the name of the store, it’s the one that was right in front of the exhibition room (I’ll upload pics under a Read More so you can see what it looked like). I just know it was expensive af and, as you say, I did enter and saw some doujinshi which I then found elsewhere much cheaper. Also I did not buy the badges bc as much as I could have wanted one of Viktor’s, the price was enough to keep me sensible.
Thank you for the advice! I’ll definitely keep those names in mind and my wallet and I will avoid them at all costs ;;; I haven’t bought anything online yet in here or preordered anything, but I’ll try to do so from now on if I actually really want something and I don’t wanna end up poor and sleep-deprived trying to get it :’^(
Regarding the goods at Nakano I have no idea, my japanese friend was the one who knew all about it; I’d be happy if they opened and online shop for them but at the same time I’d be hella mad after having spent that time waiting for the merch lmao, which actually the towel and some clear files (not my desired onsen one tho) are already in the Animate Store…
i am extremely happy i get to be in japan while yuri!!! on ice is airing so i can experience the going to the store and having its music playing, seeing the stairs, the posters, actual kubo-sensei’s drawings and signature on them, but i hate, idk how to phrase this, how the industry works here??
the other day to go to the yoi exhibition and take those pics i had to wake up at 5 am to get to nakano by 7 am (which fun fact, i went to nakanoBU instead of nakano bc my friend sent me there instead by mistake), and apparently there were people queuing since 6 am. freaking 6 am. and we had to wait til, minimum 12, in our case it was 14:30 to see the exhibition (for which they gave you 15 minutes) and then if you wanted to buy merch, which we did, we had to wait til 18:30, and guess what!!! by the time our turn finally came (20:30) the items we wanted (and even the ones we didn’t) were all sold out. so basically i waited 10 hours with the previous hours of commuting for a 15 min exhibition and no merch.
even in spain if you want to go to El Prado, you may have to queue for a million hours (not really tho, it’d never reach this level) if you show up just like that, but you will actually get inside and get what you waited for, or you can just buy the tickets online with no lottery beforehand for you to have the chance to purchase the tickets.
now regarding the actual merch, there were stores around with badges and shit and, just have a look yourselves
27 bucks (which is still 3200 yen for me bc that’s the currency i use so it doesn’t get any cheaper for me) for a tiny lil badge. and that’s viktor bc they know viktor’s everyone’s fave so they make his stuff way more expensive. meanwhile you have otabek’s for 800 yen, for instance, but still 7 bucks for a shitty badge, it makes me so mad, and the thing is people will buy this, that’s why kubo-sensei warned fans about being careful with their money, bc those making money out of this know they can just sell a fucking bag of popcorn with viktor’s face on it, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A THING SOLD IN THE ANIMATE STORE
and we’ll stil buy it. i saw this girl this morning with a yuuri bag full of viktor’s badges, including all the ones above, so that girl’s bag costed at least 100 bucks, just taking into account its decoration, not even the bag itself. and tbh it makes me mad but also sad, bc when i buy merch i usually feel so chipper, i remember having the shittiest week and finding a mp100 folder (350 yen, still crazy expensive for other places but cheap af in here) and feeling so much happier, seeing ojamajo doremi keychains (700 yen) on the shelves and feeling super excited, but with yoi there’s no spontaneous fortunate discoverings, it’s a very thought trough way of emptying our wallets and, in my case, draining the joy out of these things
that’s the yoi animate café they got going on rn, and i thought i could just line up and get some food/merch, but as my friend informed me you have to go to the webpage first, apply for a lottery, then maybe if you’re lucky get a ticket, and then if you do, you’ll have to queue there for a fuckton of time to eat/drink whatever you purchased standing on the street with a tray on your hands in front of the animate store. and the actual café inside a building was no better given that, again you had to apply for a ticket with the same process and wait, and the actual café was just a normal room with some posters on the walls and 1300 yen katsudon which costs 370 yen in my uni’s cafeteria
idk, it’s just being aware of how they’re taking advantage of people’s passion like this to charge those prices, bc charging 3200 for a badge like that is nothing but taking advantage, and just the whole system bring me tf down
i think these could be useful for fics/backgrounds and whatnot, especially the house plans, so there you go!! last pics i took in the Yuri!! on Ice exhibition
beautiful art in the Yuri!!! on Ice exhibition!! (i think the picture looks p neat given the circumstances so open a new tab for better quality)
pictures that i managed to take in the Yuri!!! on Ice exhibition!! (i think they look p neat given the circumstances so click/open new tab for better quality)
(viktor, yurio and yurio) (minami, phichit, guang hong, leo)
pictures that i managed to take in the Yuri!!! on Ice exhibition!! (i think they look p neat given the circumstances so click/open new tab for better quality)
(viktor, yurio and yurio) (otabek, chris, JJ, michele, seung, emil)
pictures that i managed to take in the Yuri!!! on Ice exhibition!! (i think they look p neat given the circumstances so click/open new tab for better quality)
(minami, phichit, guang hong, leo) (otabek, chris, JJ, michele, seung, emil)
first time i felt a bit awkward when spending a fuckton of cash on filth bc i went to a serious second hand store instead of my usual animate full of smiling ppl who could be selling you literally anything and still smile at you and wish for you to be careful on your way home :’^)