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The December 2008 batch of items brings a close to the year. It’s another small but rather notable grouping this time around. Here is a quick group shot of the DVDs, CD, and Blu-ray for this round.

Leading the charge of course is the latest volume in the Ikki Tousen Great Guardians series. Volume 4 comes with a box (yes, I did get two. It’s me after all) to house the remaining volumes in the series (4-6) plus all the standard goodies such as two more postcards, a new pencil board, reversible cover (same image as the pencil board), booklet and mini poster.

The best thing about this volume in my opinion has to be the bonus CD that comes with the DVD. This CD has a fairly large number of pre-sized wallpapers from all three series (IT, IT: DD & IT: GG) plus several screen saver apps (install is in Japanese, but it’s pretty easy to figure out. Hint: rename the file first before trying to run the install) as well as a bunch of character icons. I have already loaded up one of the screen savers, applied one of the wallpapers and tried out a few of the icons. Not truly that big of a deal, but if you want to jazz up your desktop with a bunch of Ikki Tousen theme items; it’s the way to go.

Next up is the fifth volume for Macross Frontier. This is the Blu-ray edition and comes with a box (no, I only got one) to house the first five volumes (Blu-ray) of the series. I picked up the first volume of this series just to check it out and then picked up volume two because of the first press “pins” that came with it (unfortunately those turned out to be less the stellar). This is as far as I’ll go with this series for now unless they release a later volume with another box. I know the series will not get picked up in R1 land, but since the JP releases do not have any English access I really can’t justify it past a couple of “just to check it out” volumes.

Moving happily along is the CD/DVD combo for the new Ichigo Marshmallow OVA series. The CD is for the OP/ED songs and the DVD has the OP/ED credit less animations. I’ll probably pick up this OVA series when it starts as it is only a short OVA series. And for more Nobue.

Rounding things off, I picked up another Ikki Tousen poster (seen here with the mini-poster for IT: GG volume 4). This is described as a “bathtub poster”. Apparently this is the idea of how it is supposed to be used.  Yeah, as cool as that may be I don’t think I’ll be doing that anytime soon.  And finally here are a couple of shots of the latest in the line of never-to-be-used Ikki Tousen body pillow covers. This one is of Ryofu Housen in (or in this case ‘mostly out of’) school uniform.

Well that’s all for this round. Until next time.

Enjoy!!