Furu Anime Panikku

There’s nothing named First Summer of Love, only the Summer of Love and the Second Summer of love, but what the heck, it’s the first even if it doesn’t have First in its name, since it definitely isn’t the third.

Anyway, for those curious as to why I chose this as the title, it’s First because this will be the first year I’m documenting my room for future archive usage, ever since I plunged into the never-ending spiral of anime merchandise purchasing, Summer because it’s so darn hot here in freaking Singapore, and Love because moe… Whatever. Anime references with numbers in them sure aren’t easy to find. And what’s up with this cheesiness?!

Disclaimer : The author is no music buff, but only some geek who can reference to anime that references to the real Summer of Love.

As usual, I shall begin with the typical shot from the door. Click on the pictures for a larger image.

Bah, I’m too lazy to pack my bed

The most colourful wall in my room, plastered with shitajikis, posters and wallscrolls

A look at the wall by the side. Look, it’s Rei!

This is where I spend 95% of my time at home. There’s an ass-flasher figurine for some fanservice

Shitaijiki collage. My goal is an entire wall plastered with these slices of plastic

A dump pile for my studying materials. Look closely to see what you can find.

As you can see, my desk isn’t very neat. Similarly with my bed, I can’t really be arsed to pack it. Since I’m going to spend majority of my time at home seated here, there’s no point in packing. It’ll revert back to it’s original state after a couple of days anyway. Time is better spent doing more productive things such as watching anime, surfing the net, or even updating this website.

Here comes the interesting part, the shelves

The wooden shelf with the 2 doors is where majority of my collection goes in. The Ikea Detolf on the right’s the Evangelion tower, which contains Rei, a little bit of Asuka that comes together with the Rei purchases, Rei and more Rei. Maybe I should just name it Nerv.

Top level of the Evangelion Tower

Level 2 from the top

Level 3 from the top

The base level. Stuff that can’t be displayed gets chucked here

With so many Reis here, the Detolf has the highest concentration of A.T. field. As much as I hate to display Asuka with Rei, it must be understood that Asuka is only there to enhance Rei’s beauty. The tower’s going to be overpopulated soon, so I am considering expanding Nerv with a second Detolf. But first, I’ll have to find a spot in my room for the new branch.

Top shelves of the cabinet

The top layer can last me for quite some time, but I might have to get an expansion base for the CD shelf soon. It’s more than half filled, and I still have a whole lot of CDs purchases planned. Level 3 is a mini Evangelion corner. At long last, I’ve finally managed to complete my Apostle collection by Wave, with all the normal figurines and the 2 limited releases. The Evangelion trading figures are crap, and I only bought them in sets so that I could get all the Rei ones.

Mid-level shelves

A few more figurines, and some reading materials. I have a whole lot of Chinese manga which are currently stored in my sister’s room. The One Piece mangas will go over next door soon too, once I require more space.

Bottom shelves

DVDs, artbooks and some random stuff here. Can you spot the dirty treasures?

My clothes closet with nothing interesting within. Just a couple of Cospa shirts, that’s all

The other side of my room

More Evangelion wallscrolls. Sorry that I’m such a fanboy. My wall has sucky paint, so the FMP poster has fallen countless of times and sustained damage. One thing I’ve noticed is that my posters have a tendency to drop off at night. Strange.

More figurines here too, so let’s take a closer look at that shelf.

Revy’s freaking hawt

The Saber plushie is freaking cute

Manly drills and everyday otakus

This shelf’s position has been fixed here every since I began collecting anime merchandise. The other shelf had to come to down to make way for the bed. That means less storage space for me, which is bad.

I know that many fellow otakus often face the problem of storing figurine boxes. Hence, I shall share with you a method of box storage. It’s simple, blends in and acts as decent decoration.

I play tetris,

and everytime a new figurine arrives,

I add the box to the stack

Now that you’ve learnt this method, try it out too. It’s awesome in places where you have some space but can’t do anything with that space.

Anyway, that was my swim wear figurine collection. And my Battle Royale collection which has been at that size for ages.

As you can see, a couple of things have been swapped. The fugly grey thing which I used to store all my loot in has been passed on to my sister, and in its place is the new white cabinet. I no longer sleep on that retarded mattress, but on a proper bed. The secondary screen has been upgraded from a 17″ to a 26″ HD-ready TV. There are a couple of minor changes to, but I can’t seem to remember them since they’re overly insignificant.

That’s all for my room. Nothing impressive compared to what some animebloggers have in their crazy rooms. Those guys are insane, I tell you. Still, it has the cozy feel with a tinge of Moe and I like it for that. My only complaint is space. It seems like I may need to invade the living room soon.

Check back next year for the Second Summer of Love. In the meantime, you can check out some pathetic pictures in long before the Summer of Love began.