{"id":37345,"date":"2019-10-05T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=37345"},"modified":"2019-10-05T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T16:10:17","slug":"otaku-show-tell-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/otaku-show-tell-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Otaku Show &#038; Tell Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a large purchase of anime collectables in a lengthy span. Moreover, since I&#8217;ll be attending the small Tampa area <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stonehill.org\/necro.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Necronomicon convention<\/a> as a dealer two weeks from now, I wanted to place a large order with Japanese second-hand anime merchandise vendor <a href=\"https:\/\/order.mandarake.co.jp\/order\/?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mandarake<\/a>. Part of the fun of being a fan is sharing one&#8217;s enthusiasm, so here&#8217;s a recording of the first unboxing of the six boxes that my large order shipped in.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-aBJVTV-hs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As an addendum, I thought that Mandarake has switched to shipping in smaller boxes.  I was wrong.  The shipping boxes are still the same size.  So I just misjudged the amount of space that my order would consume, thus I wildly misjudged the express delivery shipping cost.<\/p>\n<p>Second addendum: the oddly placed Urusei Yatsura poster behind me is there to block incoming light from glaring on the camera lens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t made a large purchase of anime collectables in a lengthy span. Moreover, since I&#8217;ll be attending the small Tampa area Necronomicon convention as a dealer two weeks from now, I wanted to place a large order with Japanese second-hand anime merchandise vendor Mandarake. Part of the fun of being a fan is sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-thoughts","category-video-trailer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/John.DP_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37348,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37345\/revisions\/37348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}