e-girls Mr. Snowman - Single Review (CD Only)

So far on the blog, I have posted one e-girls single review which was Celebration back in August last year. Well I decided it was finally time to chip away at the large amount of singles I own from the group and I took some photos of another one of their CDs. This time we are looking at Mr. Snowman which is one of my favourite singles as it includes the song Move It! -Dream & E-girls TIME-. One of my favourite e-girls songs and I was always disappointed that it was never a single release. At least it later got the special treatment it deserved with being released again with a MV on their album E.G. Time.

Mr. Snowman is the twelfth single released from Japanese girl group e-girls and it was released on November 26th 2014. The single came in four editions: CD+DVD, CD Only, One Coin CD and MUSIC CARD. The One Coin and MUSIC CARD editions were only available through the mu-mo, LDH Mobile store and the E-girls FAMILY fanclub shop. I got my copy second hand through Yahoo Auctions in a bulk lot of e-girls singles and it didn't originally come with the jewel case so I just replaced it. As usual I got the CD Only edition which is the one I always collect from this group. The Mr. Snowman single I received came with the following contents:

• CD - 4 track single
• OBI
• Lyrics booklet
• Promotional flyer

Dream Ami ドレスを脱いだシンデレラ Dress wo Nuida Cinderella - Single Review (CD Only)

It has been forever since I reviewed one of Dream Ami's singles and I forgot how beautiful these releases were. The singles come in these gorgeous cardboard sleeves and have a nice matte feel to them. Makes them look so elegant on the shelf and I've even kept the original plastic sleeves on them. Dream Ami is one of those artists where I always ordered her new singles when they came out and I have all eight physical singles she released in the CD Only editions.

ドレスを脱いだシンデレラ Dress wo Nuida Cinderella is Dream Ami's debut single and it was released on July 29th 2015. Ami was still a member of Dream and E-girls at the time of this release hence the inspiration for Dream in her artist title. The single came in four editions: Limited CD+DVD, CD+DVD, CD Only and One Coin CD. I brought mine from YesAsia as that was where I brought most of my J-Pop years ago. Purchased the CD Only edition as that is the usual one I tend to pick up due to the price point and extra tracks. This edition comes with the following contents:

• CD - 6 track single
• Cardboard sleeve
• Jewel case
• Lyrics booklet
• Promotion flyers

e-girls Celebration! - Single Review (CD Only Edition)

Stepping right back in time today with e-girls very first single Celebration. It's amazing to believe this song was released over 10 years ago and that the group was disbanded before reaching the ten year mark. The other crazy thing is that this CD was still in print when I brought it AND you can still buy it today! There must be a warehouse somewhere in Japan just full of this particular CD.

Celebration is e-girls debut single and was released in December 2011. It was released in three editions, CD+DVD, CD Only and a mu-mo edition. e-girls is a collective group made up of members from Happiness, Flower and Dream and this single featured 21 members. I brought my copy of the CD Only edition brand new from CD Japan as at the time I was struggling to find one second hand. I primarily collect the CD Only editions of e-girls singles so I was looking for this edition for my collection. The single contained the following contents:

• CD - 7 track single
• Jewel Case
• Lyrics Booklet
• OBI
• Rhythmzone and ldhgirlsfamily flyers

The front cover has a group photo of all 21 members in some very 2000's looking J-Pop outfits. The hairstyles are definitely something, like Ami's always catches my eye and reminds me of Saleisha's makeover from cycle 9 of ANTM. The early e-girls releases are unique as there are only a few singles that the members are all photographed together. Later singles had them photoshopped in positions. The back cover is pretty boring with the track listing specifically located on the left side. This has always confused me, so much space yet there is it randomly is on the left margin.

Inside isn't too interesting with the lyrics booklet and the CD in the casing. It has a white background with the letter E patterned over it. Unfortunately it doesn't show on the photographs and this single was difficult to photographed. The lettering shows better in person and looks quite elegant. Because I brought this single brand new, it included the OBI! It contains some information regarding groups within e-Girls and brief production information.

Zenmarket Haul - Goodies Galore!

A few weeks ago, I received an order from Zenmarket that I was excited about. I mean I'm always excited about getting parcels in the post, but this particular order from Zenmarket was special as I managed to track down a number of rare items I had been looking to add to my collection. Let's get straight into it!

First off is this amazing find of Pungdeng-E's mini albums that are hard to come across. The seller was selling both of these as a set which was amazing! The mini albums are known as 1st Album - 풍뎅이 풍뎅이 Go! Pungeng-E Pungdeng-E Go! and 2nd Album - 액션 풍뎅이 Action Pungdeng-E Go! This group always makes me laugh with their mismatched numbering system with their releases. These are mini albums I'm pretty sure as you only get three songs and the instrumentals. There is actually only four songs between these two releases because two songs from the 1st one get repeated on the second one. I think Pungdeng-E is coming for Crayon Pop's record of making me buy Bar Bar Bar a billion times. I'm over the moon about adding these to my Pungdeng-E collection and it's even more special considering the group might be wrapping up soon with their recently announced hiatus.

2nd Album - 액션 풍뎅이 Action Pungdeng-E Go! and 1st Album - 풍뎅이 풍뎅이 Go! Pungeng-E Pungdeng-E Go!

2nd Album - 액션 풍뎅이 Action Pungdeng-E Go!

Next up is the PCSC Edition A of ラリルレ RaRiRuRe from Crayon Pop which is the accompany edition to Type B which I found last month! It was a miracle to find both PCSC editions so close to each other and I even got a photocard with it! I already had Ellin's photocard from my Limited Edition CD+DVD of ラリルレ RaRiRuRe but this one has her in a different pose. I never knew there was another set of photocards at all. I can never seem to find Geummi when it comes to photocards which sucks because I want one of hers.

ラリルレ RaRiRuRe PCSC Edition A

November Favourites

This month's favourites are going to be incredibly short as not much happened this month for me besides work. Like the month just went by so quick and we are in December all ready! That's the joys of Christmas being the busiest month at work and that will continue for at least a month and half. I didn't really play any games this month besides making some colour collection outfits in Styling Star. Played a little bit of Pocket Camp but I'm really just waiting until next year when New Horizons comes out and I'll get a Switch console.

The last week has been crazy music wise with some big announcements related to my fave groups. My favourite member from KARA passed away sadly the other day and I've just been watching old KARA clips on Youtube for memories. MOMOLAND's company finally got their act together and announced some members would be leaving. I'm just waiting for them to announce Daisy has left because that girl needs to find a better company who treats her better. MOMOLAND just crashed and burned this year for me. I finally listened to their Japanese album Chiri Chiri recently and I wasn't impressed. The songs were a bit blah for me and you can really notice the difference with the missing members not singing on the tracks. Funny how MOMOLAND is totally going the Crayon Pop route which was my big group back in the day. Also I found out today that Pungdeng-E have announced a hiatus of some sort and will be performing a last live for fans. The writing was kinda on the wall for that one as Red hasn't been in the group for ages and there hasn't been much new content. Shame because I really liked Pungdeng-E for their uniqueness and fun sound. E-girls brought out their new song Easy Come, Easy Go in recent weeks and honestly I hate it. I listened to it on Spotify today and had to turn it off. The sound of the song just isn't very E-girls for me and whilst the verse is fine, the chorus is what does it for me. I feel since the reformation years ago, everything for me apart from EG-ENERGY (which is an amazing song I won't lie) has been kinda average. The group is releasing bops like everything on the EG-CRAZY album anymore and I didn't mind Cinderella Fit as it reminded me of Follow Me. I did have this photo to share from earlier this month when my workmate was asking me about what photocards were. I was unboxing a k-pop mini album at work and she was completely new to the concept of collecting k-pop. I attempted to take a photo of all the photocards I had at that time (I've managed to get a few more since) and whilst I don't seriously collect them, I've built up quite a collection over the years!

CDJapan Haul - E-girls & MOMOLAND

Brought another bunch of CD's off CDJapan recently so let's take a quick look at them. I had been planning this order for a little while as a few of these items were ones I'd been after for some time. It seems CDJapan is the best place to get Japanese releases as they have a great selection on older stuff as well as great pre-order bonuses! In total, I got three E-girls releases and one MOMOLAND single.

First off is MOMOLAND's third Japanese single 'I'm So Hot' which I brought in the Type B CD+GOODS version. This single has been out for a while now but I only purchased it recently. I held off getting it as I wasn't too excited by this comeback as if you have been following the group, you'll know that there's something going on the member numbers. Two of the girls (especially one of my faves Daisy) has been MIA for ages and no word on whats going on. I'll talk more about my feelings on that when I post my review, but that was one of the main reasons I didn't pick I'm So Hot up earlier. I'm kinda just over the group which is sad and I'm not even excited for their first Japanese album. Anyway, here is Type B of I'm So Hot which comes with the CD and a calendar!

Next up is the E-girls singles! I finally got the CD Only editions of One Two Three and Follow Me which were the group's early singles I was missing. I brought them brand new as CD Japan is one of the only places I've seen them and haven't come across them for a decent price on Yahoo Auctions. I also picked up the group's latest single シンデレラフィット Cinderella Fit. First time I've actually brought an E-girls single as soon as it was released. 

I did get a poster as a pre-order bonus which is of the following photo of the group. I would've rather one of EG-ENERGY as I prefer that song and concept more. But at least I can thank them for including the song as the B-side because now I get that killer instrumental. Gosh I love this song, it's probably one of my top E-girls songs. I cannot decide on my ultimate fave so I have a few. And can I say how much I love this neon colour on the OBI strip! Ah so amazing! More OBI strips need colour on them like this.

July Favourites

A little late but I'm back with my monthly favourites for the month of July. Had such a hectic week and I've been trying to get onto my computer to post this. So here it finally is!

Gaming
I recently reached over 6000 likes on Shopdo in Styling Star which is an exciting feat! A big thank you to everyone who has visited my Shopdo since the game came out and it feels like I've been doing the Shopdo Updates forever. Definitely been over a year and catalogue likes seem to be the most popular aspect of my Shopdo. I'm still going with the 100 Outfit Challenge in Styling Star and don't forget to check out the challenge page to see all the outfits that have been posted so far.

Music
E-girls brought out their latest single recently titled  シンデレラフィット Cinderella Fit and the song is quite good. It reminds me of the groups older stuff mainly Mr. Snowman which is nice as I quite prefer their older sound (basically anything before the reshuffled of the group). I brought the single from CD Japan so that's on the way. I'm excited to receive it as it has EG-ENERGY on it which is one of top E-girls songs and I really want that instrumental.

This month I've been all over the place favourite song wise. Like my fave song changes nearly everyday! First I was really into We Girls 'On Air' song which I wasn't huge into at first. Then I've been on a Happiness kick recently as I've been listening to their GOLD release. I think FEMM has been my main love this month as I've been playing their albums on repeat. I'm really into Countdown which is funny as I hated it at first, but now I always want it to come on when I shuffle songs in my car.

Zenmarket Haul - Red Velvet, Orange Caramel, E-girls, April & Pungdeng-E

Received an exciting Zenmarket haul recently that contained some releases that I have been after for quite some time. I finally found Type A of Pungdeng-E's first Japanese single 側にいて Stay which I have searching forever for! I randomly checked Yahoo Auctions before work one day and came across a listing for Type A and was so excited about it. Told all my workmates about it all day who probably think I'm crazy haha. Anyway, all the items I got are pictured below and I even got photocards with three of the releases.

First up is April's first Japanese single TinkerBell which was something I was looking at collecting for a little while. They're a cute group with some great Korean releases and have only released two Japanese singles so far. I got a brand new unopened copy of the limited edition CD+DVD of TinkerBell. Originally I wanted to get the fanclub edition but it's rare to find so I picked up this one first. The group comes from the same company as KARA who always had great Japanese releases so I'm happy to see DSP sticking with the quality of single designs. 

TinkerBell Limited Edition CD+DVD

Next up is the limited edition CD+PHOTOBOOK edition of Red Velvet's first Japanese mini album #Cookie Jar. I only heard the song recently and decided to pick up the mini straight away after falling in love with it. I found a listing of the mini album in great condition that came with the special HMV sticker with it. It was a decent price and I love this design and concept. It's so typically Red Velvet and has a book design to it which I don't usually see with Japanese releases.

#Cookie Jar HMV Sticker

CD Japan Review

Finally caved in and tried out CDJapan for the first time and let's just say I was impressed! The turning point for me to finally order something off the site was that you got a external bonus if you brought Dream Ami's new single from there. So that's what I brought along with a E-girls single I was missing from my collection.

CDJapan is a online store based in Japan that sells a variety of items from CD's, DVD's, gadgets, figures, etc. There's plenty of things to explore on the site and they even have services called Proxy Pickup where you can purchase concert goods. For example, you can currently place pre-orders for items from TWICE's Japan dome tour and most stuff was sold out so it seems to be popular. I only really collect CD's and DVD's so that's what this review will be about.

From the site, I brought Dream Ami's latest single Good Goodbye in the CD Only edition and E-girls first single Celebration! in the CD Only edition. If you purchase first press or place pre-orders on CDJapan, you will get a little bonus! For the Dream Ami single, I got a poster as an external bonus and another example is MOMOLAND's Japanese single I'm So Hot comes with a special photocard if you purchase it from CDJapan whilst the offer is available. CDJapan seems to be one of the only sites left with brand new copies of the earlier E-girls singles and I rarely see used copies of them on Zenmarket. So that's why I brought the Celebration! one from here and it was reasonably priced.

CDJapan has a great points system where you accumulate points when you purchase items or when certain events occur such as your birthday or coupons. The site offers some good deals during the year as well such as spend a certain amount and get a coupon for 200JPY off. I feel CDJapan has better deals than YesAsia as it encourages you to continue making purchases through the site. For example, I have quite a few points already which I can use to get savings off my next purchase. Or bonuses are always a great incentive! I'd rather spend a little bit more and get a fun item for my collection than buying Japanese releases off YesAsia.

Now for a quick look at the two CD's I brought! First off is E-girls first single Celebration! which is a trip back in time. All the members look so young and different! This single is one of my favourites as I love the songs Celebration! and Dreaming Girls. The later was meant to have a physical release for dream (the group that sings it) but it was cancelled and the song eventually ended up on here.

Next is Dream Ami's latest single Good Goodbye which is my favourite Dream Ami single ever now. Love the single design, love the songs and love the instrumentals. Everything is perfect with it except for one thing. Can you guess it? If you've seen all my other Dream Ami posts, you'll probably know whats missing and it's the one thing I love the most about her releases. It seems this edition comes without the cardboard sleeve!! No!!! I was so disappointed when I saw it and I was rather confused at why it was omitted. After some searching on Instagram, it seems only the CD+DVD edition comes with the cardboard sleeve. I feel rhythm zone has been dropping the ball with the last few of Ami's releases. First we get less versions (i.e. no One Coin anymore) and now the CD Only edition has no cover. It's not the biggest deal in the universe, I just loved the cardboard sleeves and it made all her singles look amazingly aesthetic on my shelf. Now this single looks out of place with the others. Well I'll just have to wait till her next release to see what the next design will be. Anyway, this single is amazing and I love all the songs!! I got a cute poster with the single which is the promo picture Ami was using to promote the single.

My J-Pop Collection 2018

Last year I posted a round-up of my Japanese Pop collection so it was only natural to do another round-up post for 2018. And boy did I get a lot of new additions to my J-Pop collection this year. 2018 was the first year I got into seriously collecting Japanese releases and managed to pick up quite a few items that were on the top of my wishlist. I'll be listing all the titles in my collection at the end of the post as that list is quite long and I want to get straight into the photos rather than text. I'm just posting photos of new additions to my collection and you can check out photos of items that aren't posted in the J-Pop Collection 2017 post. I'll also link all the reviews for J-Pop releases I've posted at the end. So here is my collection all together and my collection has grown quite a lot since last years photo.

The biggest haul for this year would have to be my Afterschool haul from Zenmarket. I picked up this amazing CD set from a seller in Japan of a bunch of Afterschool Japanese and Korean releases. With this set, I was able to complete the set of Bang!, Diva and Lady Luck/Dilly Dally. Plus I was able to get my hands on the Heaven Mu-Mo set which is quite rare. Here are all my Afterschool J-Pop singles and albums, not quite a complete collection yet but hopefully I'll get all their releases in the future.

Next is my favourite solo artist Dream Ami who released two new singles this year, Amaharu and Wonderland. Wonderland has my favourite design by far but I still love all her single and album designs. Considering how bad most E-girls designs were, Ami seems to get beautiful designs for her releases. Ami will be releasing a new single next year so looking forward to a new addition to the collection and I still need to pick up a copy of her album RE: Dream but I'm waiting to find one for a good price.

MOMOLAND was a group I got into this year and have quite a few releases from them both Korean and Japanese. So far the group has released two Japanese singles BBoom BBoom and BAAM and both have been amazing. For their Japanese releases, I have the First Press Limited Edition B CD+Photobook edition of BBoom BBoom and the First Press regular CD edition of BAAM. Hoping the group brings out more Japanese releases in 2019 and hopefully a full album.

Found a copy of Pungdeng-E's 1st Japanese single 側にいて Stay in Type B a few months back and it was a lucky find. I am yet to find the Type A edition yet which is understandable considering how long it took to find the Type B edition. Here are my two Japanese releases from the group and even though the group performs a lot in Japan, they haven't brought out any new releases for a long time. Which is a shame, I'd love to see some new content from the girls.

November Favourites

Didn't November just start? I feel like it went super quick and can't believe it's December this weekend. And soon it will be 2019! How on earth did that happen? Anyway here are this months favourites!

Gaming
As I posted about last week, I found a copy of New Style Boutique at EB Games recently and have been playing a bit of it lately. It's quite fun and exciting to go back to older features in the series. Plus I can finally use glam/flirty fashion when it's actually in the game. I need to work out how to get pictures of my console to post on here.

In Styling Star news, I reached 3000 likes on my Shopdo! Hooray! I'm so excited to reach this milestone and went crazy giving every one on the recent tab of Shopdo lots of likes to celebrate. I'd like to thank everyone who visited my Shopdo who reads my blog or just stumbled across it online. I shall continue with the weekly updates, still on Monday currently just late in the day as my work schedule changed.

Music
Earlier this week I posted about my recent haul from YesAsia which I was excited about receiving. The Dream Ami one has the most gorgeous design and apperantly she is recording a new song so that will be another one for the collection hopefully. E-girls also brought out a new song this week which is pretty awesome as I love 80's sounding songs. I prefer this release over Perfect World mainly because I'm all about their dance pop songs rather than slower stuff. I do wish however the song was just a standard physical release instead of these MUSIC CARD ones. They are always a pain to track down and find. Hopefully we'll see some Happiness, Flower and SYY releases next year instead of just straight E-girls releases all year.

Other than that, I've just been listening to bits and pieces K-Pop wise. I've been super into Pristin recently which is kinda sad since the group is currently in limbo with whats going on with them. Looking at picking up their physical albums next year as I only have them digitally currently.

Toys
After like a billion years of searching, I finally found the Barbie Fashionista doll I had been after. When the doll was released, I could not find her at any toy or department stores in my state so I thought she just wasn't available. Months later I came across her randomly in Big W and was rather surprised to see her and some other dolls from the same release on the shelf. And added bonus as she was on sale!

E-girls E.G. Crazy - Album Review (Limited Edition 2CD+3DVD+Photobook Edition)

Most people may have to think about what their favourite album of all time is. For me, it's an easy answer: E-girls 2015 double-album E.G. Crazy. It's by far the best album of all time for myself and all the tracks are perfect. A few months ago I got my hands on the 2CD+3DVD edition from Japan so I thought it was time for a review of the album and it's contents.

2CD+3DVD+Photobook Edition of E.G. Crazy

E.G. Crazy is the fourth album released by the Japanese girl group E-girls. It was released in 2015 and comes in five editions: 2CD+3Bluray, 2CD+3DVD, 2CD+Bluray, 2CD+DVD and 2CD. The 2CD+3Bluray &  2CD+3DVD editions come in a special package with a photobook containing photos from the E-girls LIVE TOUR 2016 ~E.G. SMILE~. I originally only owned the album via iTunes but purchased a used copy of the 2CD+3DVD edition from Zenmarket. This edition comes with the following contents:

• 2CD - 24 Track Album
• 3DVD - 9 MV's, E-girls LIVE TOUR 2016 ~E.G. SMILE~ & Documentary Movie
• 120-paged Photobook
• Special Box Packaging
• OBI
• Lyrics Booklet
• Information Leaflets

Special packaging for E.G. Crazy

The CD's and DVD's are split into two DVD cases with both having the same cover as the box packaging. The CD one contains the two discs of the album. The tracks are split into two discs by music style: E.G. POP and E.G. Cool. The POP disc contains fun tracks such as Anniversary, Merry x Merry Xmas and Party In The Sun whilst the COOL disc contains more dance style tracks such as  Bad Girls, Dance Dance Dance and Pink Champagne. You get a lyrics booklet containing all the lyrics and information about the disc contents. There was also some information leaflets in my copy of the album. The discs are held in place with your usual dual DVD case insert and they are held in place quite well. Sometimes this type of insert can be hit or miss, I often get broken ones in my DVD cases.

E.G. Crazy lyrics booklet

Track listing in the lyrics booklet

30 Day Cosplay Challenge Day 18 - OH BOY by スダンナユズユリー SudannaYuzuYully

Time for a crazy outfit as today's cosplay is of OH BOY by スダンナユズユリー SudannaYuzuYully. The inspiration for this outfit was my recent purchase of the CD Only version of the single from the group last month. I thought it would be a bit of a challenge trying to recreate one of the outfits from the single cover. I decided to go with Takebe Yuzuna who is standing in the centre of the picture below. I would've gone with my girl Yurino's outfit (the one on the right) but I didn't recognise any pieces that would match perfectly to her outfit.

Now this is a look I've never really done before and it actually turned out quite well. I was able to match all the pieces in Takebe's outfit to ones in the game. The new rainbow jackets in Styling Star were a good replica of the one she has one. When trying to find an inner for the outfit, I thought how I'd like to see the style of top Takebe has on in a future game. So like tops that have the high collar with the zipper and often have sporty prints on them I used to have tops like this years ago in real life and they always look so cool.

YesAsia Haul - KARA, Pungdeng-E & スダンナユズユリー SudannaYuzuYully

Another order arrived from YesAsia this week and this order was kinda unexpected. I wasn't planning on making another order on YesAsia for a little while, but two items I was after were massively reduced in price so I snapped them up! So in this order I got a KARA concert DVD, Pungdeng-E's album from last year that I hadn't got yet and two スダンナユズユリー SudannaYuzuYully singles.

First off is Pungdeng-E's 4th Album Stay which was the main reason I placed this order. Now originally when this album came out last year, I wasn't planning on getting it as I already owned most of the tracks and the normal price for the album was $19.99USD. However I noticed recently that the price has been reduced to $4.99USD which confused me at first when I saw it on my wishlist. Turns out it was a great deals item like the Crayon Pop DVD I brought in my recent YesAsia Haul. Decided to grab a copy of the album since $4.99 USD was a great deal and just like the Crayon Pop item, the price went back up after I brought it. The album is quite nice and contains a photobook. The CD push part in my album was broken though but still holds the CD in place. No major issue though, this used to always happen with my jewel cases years and year ago, so I'm used to it. This album makes me laugh though as it's called '4nd Album', shouldn't that be 4th album grammar wise?

Brought my first KARA concert DVD. Wasn't something I was expecting to buy, but I'll pick anything up KARA related if it's cheap as they were my first group I got into for k-pop and j-pop. The DVD is the 3rd Japan Tour 2014 KARASIA and is the first Japanese tour of the group since the formation of the new four member line-up. The copy I purchased is the Limited Edition First Press Normal Version which was a steal for $9.99USD. Another great deals item and the price hasn't jumped up yet, so they still be trying to clear them for the sale. Haven't had a chance to watch it yet, but it contains two discs and a little leaflet inside about the girls and concert.

Lastly I finally got my hands on some スダンナユズユリー SudannaYuzuYully singles. They're a sub-unit of E-girls and my readers might know how much of a big E-girls fan I am. I brought the CD Only versions of OH BOY and CALL ME NOW. The latter is my favourite out of the two and contains three solid tracks. Planning on collecting the CD+DVD and One Coin versions of the single in the future. I wish the group would bring out a new single as I quite like their music as it's different from the usual E-girls and Happiness stuff. 

Packaging was your usual YesAsia quality with a box and the items wrapped in some bubble wrap. Shipping was great as the items arrived within a week which is new for YesAsia. I've never had one that quick from them and I didn't even get a notification that it had arrived in my city.

May Favourites & Blog Update

The last day of May brings the end of Autumn and soon the beginning of winter. However it's been freezing cold here recently so it could've been winter already. Nicer weather the past few days, so hopefully it stays that way for a little while. Anyway, time for my monthly favourites! I've also written a little update on the blog at the end of this post about my plans for future posts.

Gaming
Goes without saying, been playing New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star of course! Managed to get a few new customers in my boutique recently and I've seen the chased the story line girls off for a while thankfully. Besides Style Boutique, I'm still grinding away at Disney Magical World trying to craft all the items. I'm stuck at the moment trying to obtain rare items like the Rainbow Clover and Fairy Diamond Bubbles to make some items. Other than that, I collected all the Easter set and just waiting for other holidays later this year to get more items for the 100% collection. I took this funny photo from the game that I thought was amusing as it wasn't Easter in the game anymore. Easter started in-game after Easter had occurred in the real world. Excuse the camera photo as you cannot move photos from the game off the 3DS as they aren't stored on the SD Card.

It's not Easter anymore!

Besides 3DS games, I'm looking forward to a game on Steam called House Flipper. It was released recently, but I'm waiting till it comes on sale during one of the many Steam sales to pick it up. I find it quite fascinating and interesting as the game lets you basically remodelled a house and decorate the interior. Sounds right up my alley!

Music
Got a bunch of new singles and albums this month which I've posted about before so I've been listening to them. Besides those, I've really been into E-girls latest release Showtime. Haven't got the new album just yet as I'm saving up to get the top version, but I've been streaming the album on Spotify. No stand out faves just yet, but Showtime is definitely on that list. 

Another song I've been into this month was (G)Idle's debut song Latata. Loved it from the first listen! Looking forward to seeing what their future releases are like and I need to make time to listen to their debut album as I've seen people raving about it.

There's a few more new tracks that came out this month that I haven't had a chance to listen to yet like AOA's new release Bingle Bangle. Really need to work on getting some new music on my MP3 so I can listen to them at the gym and in the car.

Television
This month I've been super invested in watching Produce 101 China. I'm so obsessed with this show and personally I prefer this version over the Korean one (season 1). I find the China one is a bit more positive and less drama. My fave girl so far is Gao Qiuzi because of her upbeat personality and hilarious antics. Plus she's actually quite talented in singing and dancing. I'm actually quite fond of all the girls on a show so it's hard to narrow down my top faves. Yamy and Sunhee are pretty cool and I've become more interested in Meiqi who is from WJSN. I'll definitely need to look her past performances up! I've linked the theme song MV below and be sure to look up the episodes (they are subbed too) if you are interested in watching this amazing show.

Zenmarket Haul - E-girls Albums

My recent order from Zenmarket has officially taken the crown of being my favourite thing ordered online. I recently won an auction on Zenmarket for a set that contained three E-girls albums but not just any albums. The albums were the 2CD+3DVD+Photobook versions of some albums I had been wanting for years. So firstly, here are the three albums I received in the set: E.G Time, E.G. Smile- E-girls Best- and E.G. Crazy.

E.G. Crazy, E.G. Smile E-girls Best & E.G. Time

Now I had been after these versions of the albums for years but never brought them as they are quite expensive brand new. The E.G. Crazy version is 6980JPY which is about $100AUD for me. The albums I received are about around the 6000JPY mark so quite pricey as well. So how I ended up with this set was that I was scrolling through Zenmarket one day and came across a listing for all three of these albums for a starting price of 2000JPY. I was the first bidder and the auction ended up having 8 bids. It was the first time I had bidded against other people so that was nerve wracking. And to make it more difficult, I was also in the outback at the time and luckily near somewhere that I could connect to mobile data to bid. So it was an adventure to get these but I'm over the moon to finally have them and the final auction price was 3350JPY (without fees and shipping). I had recently won some credit from Zenmarket so it was exciting to spend the credit on something that was the whole reason I started using Zenmarket for in the first place.

Back covers of the albums

Side view of the albums

I'll quickly go through the albums I received and will be posting more detailed reviews of the albums in the future. First off, here is the E.G. Crazy 2CD+3DVD+Photobook version. I already owned this album digitally but wanted this version for my collection. It comes with the 2CD's which are the album and 3DVD's. The first DVD is the music videos and the other two are concert DVD's. This album was the largest of the three and came with the original plastic wrapping.