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Received another package earlier this week:

“Special edition” Volume 4 of the Unicorn Gundam novel, that came with the add-on double laser minigun parts for the MG Unicorn kit. The novel was supposed to sell for 1200 yen (about USD$11.5), with the normal versions going for 400 yen, but this was released some months ago (early April, I believe), and it’s hard to find any online stores still having it. Bought it for almost twice the original pricing, from a guy at lowyat ｡･ﾟ･(ﾉД`)11･ﾟ･｡

one-piece assembly instruction

Yes, it’s a novel, full of words, and maybe one or two monochrome artwork from time to time. Will get around to read it once I have some time. But anyway, that’s not the interesting part.

eh, what’s this?

There were two sheets of tiny folded leaflets in the novel, one advertising Gainax’s Evangelion franchise (Gainax, milking the fuck out of the cow since 10 years ago), another one advertising some weekly anthology manga compilation, and anime DVDs.

And here’s the leaflet for the blatant Evangelion whoring:

Notice the last page:

yes, you can now cosplay as Rei or Asuka, at a low low price of only USD$5270! Isn’t that wonderful?

Flipping through the book when I first received it, I was really surprised to find this (not safe for work, seriously):

lol naked child events are approved in Unicorn universe!

It’s amusing how I bought the add-on part, when I don’t even have the MG Unicorn. I really love the design of the Unicorn, mainly for the sexy, long, blocky legs it has, just like Banpreios (from Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 for the PS2). Now if only local shops don’t charge $65 for a product that originally retails for only $50…