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The thing is I'm not that much of a buyer. I don't like the clutter from buying a bunch of animes and manga I'll only watch/read once. The whole buying thing's more along the lines of souveniers than of actually expanding a collection.

I like the boxed figurine idea though. I'll have to keep an eye out for those.

So for the past two years I've been at Fanime, I'd just buy a grab bag or two ($50+ usually) from one of the dealers and that would be it for my purchases. The system always seemed to work for me because although I am a fan of anime and the like, I'm a bit of a minimalist and there has never been any particular series I was fond enough to specifically purchase. The bags usually contain a good assortment, shows I am familiar with as well as things I'd never heard of but turn out to be pretty good, so I'm satisfied with them. My friend though says that I'm getting the bum end of the deal because the dealers can put in a lot of junk that they know no one ever buys and you can't complain as long as the retail value's the same. What's your opinion? Should I keep buying the grab bags or no? Do you have any ideas on what I should be buying?

~ A faithful consumer

My funniest/strangest moment from last year: My friend and I were walking to the game hall late Sunday morning. This hoard of Death Note cosplayers (mostly scruffy looking kids claiming to be L and a couple of hyper-active Misas) was on the prowl for more Death Note fans to add to their group. They spy an L walking with a plainclothes friend a few feet to our right, and let out an all-together terrifying shriek before rushing toward him. We start shouting for him to run for it, and at first it seems to work. He and his friend run ahead for about ten seconds, then they rounded a cement pillar and head straight for us. The friend was a yard or two in front of L, he crouches down and L uses him as a springboard to lauch onto my friend in what had to be the mother-of-all-glomps. Now this friend is a big guy, mine you, so thankfully it didn't hurt much and whatsmore, he managed to continue walking forward. I only partially understand the events leading up to it, but seeing the power of a perfect glomp, even under such stange circumstances, was awe-inspiring if one is allowed to discribe it in such a way.