An amazing score
Listening to: Metronome - INFORMATION
Tags: vkei , etc
Yesterday, while I was busy redoing my site (isn't it cute?), I looked back on a certain tweet by Kikaider, the vocalist of Muchi Muchi Anago.
If you've been paying attention to my mental illness and are at the point where you can recognise him, you will notice that artwork of him is prominently featured in the site layout—via the sidebar and centrepiece image—and two of my buttons. That artwork is not my own, of course! It is by Ayame Adachi, who is possibly better known for her design work.
The tweet I was looking at has three photos: an obnoxiously shiny photo of the cover of some doujinshi, and two photos of essays inside of it written by Kikaider himself and his late bandmate Hachiyama Yumi, better known by his real name Amano Tonbimaru. Kikaider was reminiscing.
The artwork was clearly by Adachi-san, and when I saw it for the first time I thought that (considering the image I was already using in my site at the time was also Kikaider, also cute and also drawn by her) it would be a good decoration for the (rather plain-feeling) sidebar. It was, and it's stuck around, but it's a shame to be basing my layout around only two artworks.
Yours truly found himself back at the post for inspiration, sighing to himself thinking, I wish I at least had a better photo of the art...
...so for the first time I actually bothered to Google the name of the doujin. I didn't expect any results, but it was more for fun (to see if the name was stolen from anything else). Ankoku Planetarium! Let's see what comes up!
Oh, the first result is a Surugaya listing...
...oh, that's definitely the cover...
...oh, it's only 300 yen.
How have I been missing out all this time?! I thought I would never even have a chance to get my hands on such a thing! It wasn't listed on Surugaya labelled "Muchi Muchi Anago" of course, or else I'd have found it by now; it was simply under its own title, under the "doujinshi for women" category, with a few authors listed (even Kikaider's name 
).
I'm just shocked more than anything. I bought it, obviously, via my proxy service—I have a few other things I'm waiting on, so assuming Surugaya wasn't lying about still having it my next package will be a bit of a legendary one (for me and me only).
This is all really exciting for me, though. The fact that my silly bands can bring me such happiness...