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jrnemanich
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I also have Revolutionary Girl Utena under "U", Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya under "H", and Banner of the Stars I/II under "C"  (Damn, I just noticed that my UC Gundam timeline is out of order. 08th MS Team takes place in October of 0079 while War in the Pocket takes place after that  )
My rule is I order my DVDs the way I talk about them and think about them. This is so I don't feel like an idoit while searching for a Gundam title in "G" while it's in "M" and then remember the full title and have a stupid "A-ha!" moment (as I'm typing this I realize I'm going to have to move my Eva stuff to "E" and I might have to move my Armored Trooper Votoms to "V", but I've haven't decided on that one yet). Also, if there is a sequal, but the squeal has a different name, like Adieu Galaxy Express or Banner of the Stars, I place those after the original series it was based on. Oh, if you want personality from my cat, just give her a ribbon and she will drag it all around the house and moan like she is in pain. |
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PetrifiedJello
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Addendum: the price of the series is no different than any other new series released here in the US. If one doesn't like the SRP, one can easily wait for the sale price, which is precisely what I intend to do for Arakawa. After all, and this comes from an employee from a distribution company named Lance: "Who pays full retail?" As for the other two titles, I'm passing on ownership. Neither one of them gives me the confidence it's money well spent. In a slightly off-topic but related observation, I find myself dismissing many of the series offered me on CR and Netflix because the descriptions lend them no credibility. It's rather striking the approach I apply to a purchase (cover art does the selling) doesn't apply in the online world, where the cost is zero. 
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Hardgear
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I know you have seen Durarara 
Yeah they were side characters, but still there. Can't have a show about Ikebukuro without em. |
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doctordoom85
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I mainly go alphabetical, but I'm not super-strict about it. If two works are connected, they'll be next to each other (for example, Casino Royale is followed by Quantum of Solace in my movie collection). Also, I have to be far more lenient in my manga collection, as I barely have enough room as it is, so I have everything vertical in ABC order and whatever series get placed above them horizontally goes by whatever fits best as opposed to ABC order.
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asimpson2006
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The other option is to wait for a cheaper release and do that, but then again it will be what ever floats your boat. Never seen Arakawa when it came out so I am not sure if I would be interested in it or not. Nyan Koi has guilty pleasure written all over it so I will probably buy it when I can find it for a cheap price. I can always use more guilty pleasure shows in my collection. |
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Crisha
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KIIIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTYYYYYYY!!!!
 So adorable! I want to huggle her! (I already have my own lovely kitty to huggle, but my love for cats is as wide and deep as the ocean... if I had the monetary means to actually support all of them, I'd become a cat lady)
Anyways, not only do I organize alphabetically, but I organize by packaging. For example, looking at James' shelves (which are quite nice btw), I would keep nice, thick boxes of approximately the same height (i.e. Emma, Le Chevalier d'Eon, Utena, Paranoia Agent) grouped together, flimsy boxes (i.e. Noein, Haruhi) grouped together, and regular DVD-sized releases (i.e. Anime Legends, individual DVDs, etc.) grouped together. For releases that are strangly shaped (i.e. tin boxes, NISA's releases), I'm still uncertain. For now, I have them grouped with the nice, thick boxes (since they're all basically LEs), but they may be getting their own shelves eventually. And as for alphabetical order, my reasoning is more along the lines of jrnemanich's. I go by how I associate the series in my head. Like Revolutionary Girl Utena is put in the "U" section instead of "R", because I refer to the series as Utena (it also helps that the lettering for Revolutionary Girl is way smaller than the lettering for Utena). And Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is just Gurren Lagann. Also, sequels get put next to one another if names don't co-align (Crest/Banner of the Stars). |
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erinfinnegan
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My husband brought this up, too, but in Nyan Koi the girl in question is more extreme, she's manba (maybe even yamanba) and not just ganguro like the girls in Durarara. I provided that link in the article with examples. |
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Hardgear
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Ah, good point! You are exactly right then, I haven't really seen them either. Maybe because they are not a big part of Otaku culture and/or a common Otaku fetish? |
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CaptainAvatar
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Still waiting on more to come in at Right Stuf for my order of the 999 movies. Being the Matsumoto fan I am, I can't wait!
Am I the only one getting real tired of the clueless character - be it male or female - when it come to someone showing interest in them. I have lost count of the shows these days where someone expresses interest in another and the person just gives them a dumb look, absolutely clueless. It is positively infuriating. |
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enurtsol
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It would also help when that interested character would just ask the other character out point blank. No beating around the bush! 
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darcerin
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My manga and anime are all alphabetically organized. It would drive me CRAZY if they weren't. It's just the way I'm wired.
As for Angel Beats! I don't want to give too much away, but a lot of those scenes do have to do with the characters themselves vs it just being the afterlife. I can personally attest to loving the show, having seen the fansubs. I'll be picking up the dvds as soon as I can. Go watch a couple of episodes. For a Key show, it was different. |
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tsunayakuin
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Nuku Nuku Dash is the reason I bought a Newtype magazine for the first time. It had Yuna from Maburaho on the cover. I thought I was getting 4 eps on the disc but it was only one and it wasn't Dash it was the tv series (Nuku Nuku with pink hair).
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Xelgaex
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That disappointed me as well. I remember thinking during that episode that it was refreshing to see a character from an alternative subculture shown in a sympathetic light. And then she shows up without her makeup. It's like they were saying she could only join the harem if she was more conventional looking. Like some others here, I still preferred her, even post-transformation, to the naive girl who, like always, is the one receiving all of the milquetoast protagonist's attention. (True, they weren't as bad as some official couples have been and overall the show did differentiate itself, but I really wish that more protagonists would just realize that they could really do better than the person they had a crush on at the beginning of the story.)
That definitely annoys me as well. I can sort of understand it from a wish fulfillment perspective. Depending on which side of the couple we're sympathizing with, we either get the message that persistence pays off or that people interested in us won't give up even if we don't notice right away and are rather socially inept. And of course from a story telling perspective you can't have things resolve too quickly. But still it seems like a rather lazy convention that gets dragged out a bit too often. |
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