I got my lunch box full of cards!

Just...

...look...

...what I...

...got!

Now I'm ready for lunch time! (in a few hours because first I have to eat my breakfast...)

Ah! Megami-Sama! (Kami-Sama was busy...)

I know I've been away from the blog, both posting and reading/commenting.

But you see, I have other hobbies than just card collecting and right now there is one that is pulling me into it like gravity!

Manga and Anime.

I don't read/watch all of them, but I have a few that are like magnets and work like triggers.

Excluding my top favourite series - Sailor Moon and Dragon Ball - I have other series that made me melt.

Ah! Megami-Sama! or Ah/Oh! My Goddess (it depends who's translating it) is one of them.

I watched the original OVA wayyyyyyyy long ago (on the Locomotion TV channel), so long ago that at the time I had a 56K modem to connect to the internet so I could not get to watch fanvids or read the manga...

Well...back then there were none of the video and manga read sites we have now...

That is to say that back then I got to find a couple of images on the internet and got to tape (VHS was the hero back then!) the 5 OVA episodes.

After that I kept Keiichi-san and Belldandy locked in my heart but...

...last Christmas I had this finding!

I went to a store which usually has some Anime DVDs and so I found it.

Ah! Megami-Sama original OVA DVDs!

And only for 5€ (that's around 7/8$).

I felt such a winner that it did it.

I got my trigger to make me launch onto the net and see what could I found!

And I found that back at 2005 they started the TV series and made a couple more OVAs, and the Manga, it seems, is still alive!

So, right now I'm watching the TV series, reading the Manga and reading one of my guilty pleasures...fanfiction!

But sometimes I think, with the series itself that I don't 'quite' need to read that much of fanfiction...




PS: Meanwhile I'm waiting for my cards to arrive and I'm getting impatient...

Slow motion

These cards are like low-end holographic cards.

Low-end because they miss the holographic part.

But everything else is there!

When you jump and has to make a U turn

Everytime I look at my 2004 Upper Deck First Pitch cards I see beauties like these.

You have a huuuuuuuuuuuuge Rafael Furcal jump on a possible double play at 2B.

And you have Rickey Henderson probably starting to run for the base steal but making the abrupt stop and preparing to U turn and get back to the base (1B I think...)

It's a simple set without all those parallels and inserts but has the best of Upper Deck: Great photography in a clean design.

There are knees and knees

Usually you see some players getting so low to bunt a ball that they go down in one knee...

...others think they are playing some kind of volley/baseball mix.

Under your legs

There are cards out there that really makes me go 'Awwwwwww'.

1998 Upper Deck Collector's Choice Series 1 Baseball Retail 25 Pack Lot (In 1999 Retro Tin)

After some good input (from The Dutch Card Guy) about dacardworld I decided to try and order one of the boxes they are selling on ebay.

Since I'm a fan of Collector's Choice I decided to try this box first. And it is a special box. The packs come in a tin!

That's the most fashionable way to keep your cards.

Lets just hope everything works fine and I get it in no time!