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Cool Bleach Stuff That I’ve Found Working at Vintage Stock

Alright, so I’ve been working at Vintage Stock for about five months now and from time to time we’ll get in some pretty neat stuff, whether it’s from corporate or a customer selling us stuff. Today, I’d like to highlight some of the Bleach stuff that we’ve gotten in. It ranges from really cool to funny to strange. Here we go!

First up:

This sick Hollow Ichigo mask. Bought this in from a customer. Cost $4.99. Immediately bought it for myself. It’s made of plastic so it’s not super high quality but it’s still pretty sick. Of course, like a week or two later, corporate sent us this:

I’m not 100% what material this one was made from but it was much higher quality. Cost $29.99. A customer bought it within a few days. I’m not too upset losing out on this one since I already have the other one for much cheaper. On to other things!

For context, I’m saying “Oh no”, because I know I’m going to buy this later. I actually didn’t though. I bought this one instead.

It was worth it. 😊 Anyway, at Vintage Stock we sell all manner of collectibles, DVDs, video games, and more. This includes figures, of course. So when we got this one in:

I knew I needed her immediately. I actually didn’t have any Bleach figures yet so this was pretty nice. We also had figures of Ichigo when he gets his new Zangetsu and Uryu in his Sternritter uniform but those got bought pretty quickly. We also have a couple of pre-owned figures. And, man. Are they funny.

I don’t know what’s funnier. Renji getting Mike Wazowskied twice or Byakuya costing ten dollars more. Anywho:

Obilgatory Funko photo. I don’t like Funko Pops. The only ones I own are gifts, aside from a Baby Groot one my wife and I bought after the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie came out. However, this one is kinda neat. Especially since it glows in the dark. Is it worth $59.99? Absolutely not. At least for me. Last thing on this list is DVDs. We actually bought in several box sets this evening.

Pretty standard stuff. We also already have Bleach DVDs in stock but they’re a bit… different.

Notice how it says, “Chapter 325-366,” the final episodes of the first anime, but the art is everyone in their season one looks. Also notice the art on the DVD on the right.

That, my friends, is fanart. We have bootleg Bleach boxsets for sale. 😂🤣 This was what inspired me to make this post in the first place but I wanted to wait until we got more stuff in. Here’s hoping I get more neat Bleach stuff in my store.

Will’s Anime Watchlist for Spring 2024

Lots of new and returning shows! Let’s get into it!

Continuing from last season:

Delicious in Dungeon (Netflix)

And that’s it. Not a lot of 2-cour shows last season. On to new stuff.

New shows:

Kaiju No. 8 (Crunchyroll) (Most anticipated show of the season)

Mission: Yozakura Family (Hulu)

Train to the End of the World (Crunchyroll)

Returning shows:

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 3 (Crunchyroll)

The Duke of Death and His Maid Season 3 (Crunchyroll)

Laid-Back Camp Season 3 (Crunchyroll)

Demon Slayer: Hashira Training Arc (Crunchyroll)

Shows from last season that I recently binged:

7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy! (Crunchyroll)

Villainess Level 99: I May Be The Hidden Boss But I’m Not The Demon Lord

Shows from last season that I want to check out;

Bucchigiri?!

Show I really want to check but haven’t had time for:

Summer Time Rendering

Will this be the time that I finally watch the dub for Bleach TYBW part 2? Maybe. But not this week. My wife and I are buying a house and we move this week. Exciting stuff! If we see more stuff we like, I’ll add it to the list.

Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

Planet Comicon 2024 Haul!!

So this year, we didn’t get as much art as we did last year. For two reasons: 1. We still haven’t hing up all of the art we got last year. 2. My wife and I are currently househunting so there’s not much point in hanging up more art. Anyway, I opted to get figures and other stuff instead!

First up we have figures of Mash Burnedead from Mashle: Magic and Muscles, Piccolo from Dragon Ball Z and, of course, Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach. On top of them is a Mudkip Kirby keychain. My wife got one of Oddish Kirby. Those are our favorite Pokémon. We match!

Next up we have this galaxy cat t-shirt from Tee Turtle. It’s pretty neat. And finally,

This plushie of Porunga from Dragon Ball Z. It’s pretty cool. Hopes for next year (or at least Planet Anime later this year) is to find some Undead Unluck figures. Particularly of Fuuko and Andy. Had a great time.

Americans, today is our one shining day we can reblog this in our colloquial collective language

Today is Football

Will’s Anime Watchlist for Winter 2024

New year, new season, new anime! And some returning/continuing ones. Here we go!

A Sign of Affection (Crunchyroll)

‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess (Crunchyroll)

Fluffy Paradise (Crunchyroll)

Mashle: Magic and Muscles Season 2 (Crunchyroll)

Delicious in Dungeon (Netflix)

Mr. Villain’s Day Off (Crunchyroll)

That’s it for new stuff. Here’s what’s carrying over from last season:

Undead Unluck (Hulu)

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End (Crunchyroll)

Shangri-La Frontier (Crunchyroll)

And now for what I’m catching up on or rewatching:

Dark Gathering (HiDive/Prime Video)

Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 (Crunchyroll and I finally finished it last week)

Bleach: TYBW Part 2 English Dub (Hulu)

Bocchi the Rock (Crunchyroll and rewatching because I’m showing it to my roommate)

Now for shows I might catch up on later, of which there is one:

Hokkaido Gals are Super Adorable (Crunchyroll) I’m caught up with the manga on this one so I know how it goes and that it gets a but frustrating in some of the early parts so I may binge it once the whole season is out.

Anyway, that’s my list! I will update if I watch anything else! Happy New Year!!

My 2023 in Summary

Okay, so this year was weird. Like, it wasn't particularly bad but it wasn't great either. Where do I start? I guess the biggest thing that happened was that my wife got laid off from her job and we've worried about that since May. She just got hired for a new job recently and I'm working now too, but more on that in a sec. We had to seriously consider what we were gonna do next if she didn't get a new job by the end of next month. We probably would've had to move back to our hometown. It wouldn't have been the worst thing but we've made a nice life for ourselves where we are now. Thankfully, we have a great network of supportive people who are willing to help us and I'm so grateful for that.

Anyway, I got my first real job a couple of weeks ago. I'm working as a sales associate at my local Vintage Stock, which works for me because I'm autistic so it's nice to be surrounded by stuff pertaining to my special interests (anime, video games, etc.). I haven't had luck with finding a job before because of said autism and a lack of a college degree. I once bombed an interview to work as a library page that it kinda scared me. So that's fun. It's been a big learning experience. A friend of mine from college is my manager so again, I'm really grateful for people in my life. Ordinarily getting a first job is not a huge deal. But I turned 30 this year so yeah. Speaking of which...

I turned 30 back in August. Big milestone, I guess. I don't feel that different. What has happened since I turned 30, you ask? Welp, I accidently ripped off a toenail on the day of birthday party. It's growing back so no worries, nothing serious. Hurt like hell, though. Then my wife and I went on our first vacation since our honeymoon, five years ago. To be specific, our first vacation ALONE. We've been on plenty with friends and family. Anyway, it was super fun. We went to Denver and had a great time. Two of my favorite manga (Undead Unluck and Mashle) got anime adaptations this year, along with the continuation of Bleach: TYBW. The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom took over my life for most of May and June and it was great. I found out that my favorite game of all time, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, is getting a remake next year. I went into another indefinite hiatus with streaming. And I found out that I might have scalp psoriasis. Cool.

Like I said, it has been a weird year. But, I am kinda curious to see what 2024 has in store. To anyone reading this, I hope you have a happy New Year!

Yup, this tracks. Also, the 1% of golf games is there because I played Gold Story at the beginning of the year. 🤣

Me: Alright. We’re gonna go to Target, pick up what we need and leave. Absolutely no distractions.

Me upon walking by the electronics: BIG MAN!!!!!!!

Will's Anime Watchlist for Fall 2023

Now that we've kinda finalized our list, I can finally put this out.

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (Favorite of this list)

Undead Unluck (Other favorite of this list)

Tearmoon Empire

Shangri-La Frontier

My New Boss is Goofy

The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent Season 2

Ron Kamonohashi's Forbidden Deductions

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2: The Shibuya Incident (continuing from the summer season)

Shows I'm gonna catch up on:

Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5 (My wife and I watch the dub so we were waiting for that to wrap so we could binge)

The dub for Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War part 2

Dark Gathering

Insomniacs After School

And that's all for now! This season's looking pretty good! I've been anticpating both Frieren and Undead Unluck for a while now so I'm glad to see them both finally get anime adaptations.

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A Frenchman and some British men go to Egypt

My wife is the coolest. I turn 30 at the end of the month and as an early birthday present she made me a homemade plush of my favorite character from Bug Fables, Kabbu.

Here’s the character:

And here’s the plush she made:

HE’S SO SOFT AND HUGGABLE!!!! I LOVE HIM!!!! AND I LOVE MY WIFE! SHE’S THE BEST!!

i will die on the hill of inoue orihime being a good character actually

Anyone: Hey (asks about a special interest of mine)? Me: Becomes an unskippable cutscene

Anime Watchlist for Summer 2023

Holy shit! I'm posting on Tumblr!

Okay, with that out of the way, watchlist time!

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War: The Seperation

Bungo Stray Dogs Season 5

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead

The Duke of Death and His Maid Season 2

Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

There will probably be more added to this list as I learn about more shows but that's it so far. Although, I also plan to catch up on shows now that I'm getting a HiDive account. Such as:

Kubo Won't Let Me Be Invisible

Insomniacs After School

Otaku Elf

just to name a few. Should be a fun season.

I always see the dog choking info on here, so here’s what to do if a kitty is choking

Save your kitties, we all know they eat everything anyway. 

http://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Choking-Cat

http://www.wikihow.com/Perform-CPR-on-a-Cat

Me earlier today: Hmm, I better find a way to distract myself from the fact that Tears of the Kingdom comes out at midnight so I’m not thinking about it all day. I know! I’ll do some chores!

Proceeds to do every chore available to me including:

Cleaning the litter boxes for the cats.

Taking the recycling to the recycling center.

Three loads of laundry.

Washing the dishes.

Picking up lunch for me, my wife, and our roommate.

Making dinner for me and my wife. (Roommate usually gets home from work late so they usually get their own dinner.)

Man, more big games that I’m heavily anticipating need to come out. I’m way more productive when I need to not think about something.

Oh, also, here’s what we had for dinner. Rice crispy chicken with chicken rice and green beans.

So I know I don’t post here a ton but if no one hears from me on here for the next few weeks, here’s why:

Full disclosure: I don’t have the game yet. It’s just preloaded on my Switch. But come midnight. Hehe.

Y’know, sometimes you log into Facebook and you get the weirdest ads. Like this.

I have so many questions about this ad. Like why is a One Piece quote being used to advertise an article of clothing based on Bleach? I checked their website, they have One Piece merch. Why not use that in the ad? Though that doesn’t really matter as Luffy has never said this. This is not a real quote. I get that it’s just another anime clothing store you can find anywhere on the internet but it’s befuddling. And funny. On another note, Barragan is an interesting pick as the rep for this ad. I would’ve picked Grimmjow or Ulquiorra, personally, but oh well. And yes, they sell mesh shorts for both of those characters too.

Alright, I know April’s almost over but as it is still Autism Acceptance Month, I wanted to talk a little about it. Just wanted to share what being autistic is like for me and some of my special interests.

I was diagnosed with ASD and ADHD when I was 8 years old. Back then, I was technically diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome but that was merged into ASD in 2011 so I’ll just refer to it as ASD. Anyway, I didn’t really know what that meant until I was seventeen and actually did some research. Learning that a bunch of my behaviors and certain feelings I had were actually because I was autistic was…. I don’t know, relieving? Things started to make more sense. Before this point, all I knew was that I didn’t understand social cues and I was very specific about what I liked and disliked. It did not help that I was also on ADHD medication that exacerbated the negative parts of autism. Since that day, I’ve learned so much more about myself and I learn new things about autism everyday. I’m not angry or upset that I’m autistic. I was (and still kinda am) mad at the people who didn’t explain it to me properly when I was younger but that’s beside the point. I’ve learned to accept it and I’m a lot happier because of it. I don’t need people to be aware of me. I just need people to accept me.

Okay, that was a lot. Hmm. Anyway, SPECIAL INTERESTS, LET’S GO!!!! 😃

My primary special interests are manga, anime, and video games. And within those special interests are even MORE special interests. For example, some of the manga I have a huge interest in include Bleach, One Piece, Fullmetal Alchemist and Jujutsu Kaisen. There’s a lot more but there are too many list. On the flip side, the anime I like differs slightly. I don’t always like anime adaptations of manga I like. For example, I really don’t care for either the Bleach or One Piece adaptations (Bleach TYBW is the exception). There are certain scenes from each that I really enjoy watching and they both have great soundtracks and great voice acting in both the original Japanese and the english dubs, but weird choices that differ from the source material and huge pacing issues make them hard for me to watch. On the other hand, there are certain adaptations that I prefer to the source material, such as Demon Slayer or Mob Psycho 100. These two in particular take the original material and enhance it greatly. What’s more, there are certain series where I really like both the original manga and the anime (Chainsaw Man and Jujutsu Kaisen to name a couple). Also, I love original anime, like Space Dandy, Oddtaxi, Gurren Lagaan, Appare Ranman, and Vivy: Flourite Eyes Song. It’s really cool to see original content in a medium that is primarily adaptations.

Starting a new paragraph for video games. This might be my big special interest. RPGs, Metroidvanias, platformers, action games, puzzle games, party games, etc. I really love video games. Favorite series include but are not limited too: Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Kingdom Hearts, Pokémon, and Xenoblade Chronicles. In case you couldn’t tell, I’m a big Nintendo person. If I had to pick a genre, I’d say RPGs are my favorite, whether they are turned based or action oriented. My top three favorite games of all time are Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Kingdom Hearts II. Favorite Pokémon generation is three though Scarlet is my current favorite game. I could go on about how I love different combat and level up systems in different games, how I love that the sidequests in the Xenoblade games add to the worldbuilding and give them so much depth, how I love watching videos analyzing background lore in games like Hollow Knight or Breath of the Wild or videos going into detail about how dark series like Kirby or Splatoon are, or how even though the story is insanely stupid I adore Kingdom Hearts for how sincere it is. But I feel like this has gone a bit longer than I originally intended.

Anyway, a couple of notes really quick about Autism Acceptance Month and autism in general:

Don’t support Autism Speaks. They are a hate group focused on trying to “cure” autism.

Don’t use the puzzle piece when talking about autism. It is ableist. Use either the gold infinity symbol for autism or the rainbow infinity symbol for neurodiversity.

Vaccinations don’t cause autism. Whoever came up with that can burn in hell.

I think that’s everything. If whoever is reading this is autistic, I hope you had a great Autism Acceptance Month.

Man, between Shadows Over Loathing shadow dropping on Switch last week, Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed dropping yesterday, and Tears of the Kingdom coming out in less than three weeks, I am set on video games for the next couple of months. 🤩

AHHHHHHHHHH!!! THE MUSIC! THE CHARACTERS!! GANONDORF!!!!! I cannot wait for next month!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

Went and saw The Super Mario Bros. Movie tonight. It was very cute and fun. Jack Black as Bowser is incredible. The plot was kinda ehh, but it was still a fun time and I really enjoyed it. Also just wanted an excuse to show off my Mario floral print shirt.

Anime Watchlist for Spring 2023

Forgot to make one of these for winter. Oh well.

Vinland Saga Season 2 (continuing from winter)

Mashle: Magic and Muscles

Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku

Dr. Stone: New World

Skip and Loafer

My Clueless First Friend

My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999

Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village arc

If I had a nickel for everytime Cristina Vee voiced a red head with pigtails with the power to put people and things in a different space,

I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Edit: Oh shit! They’re both tsunderes, too!

Need a bit of help

Hey guys, I’m under a bit of financial stress due to bills and a sudden plumbing emergency that has been striking us (third time now). If anyone has maybe like 3 or 5 dollars to spare, that would really help me out so so much. Ill even draw you a headshot sketch today if you donate and shoot me a message.

donate to my ko-fi if you don’t mind helping my roomie and I out a little– again, it means the world to us. https://ko-fi.com/fluffnflight