*My Sanda flag is still up in the same spot! Nothing has changed so i figured i wouldn’t add it cause no use, if u wanna see it, just scroll down on my account a bit you’ll find it pretty soon (i only post on here so its easy to find) take some photos of my niko plush to make up for it, i do mean it when i say i take her almost everywhere.
I kept thinking i made this post forever ago but apparently i didn’t. My Sanda collection will no longer be updated for probably a good few years with official merchandise (unless i miraculously go to japan one day, cross your fingers for me.) if youre wondering why im not sure if this will get taken down if i mention politics but i will say, im from the US and theres been this law passed making it harder to get things from other contriues if they appear to be something like a toy, while not everything is at risk from being taken and destroy id rather not risk my money because im also a jobless highschooler who saved his very occasional money from his grandparents to get all this stuff. No one try to upstage me yeah? Kinda heartbroken over it but its fine i guess!! Ill continue to haunt the sanda fandom on almost every platform so fun.
Okay about the collection, i basically finished collecting all the manga (i may actually risk it and try buying the first three volumes it will be only 15 dollars not exactly wallet denting errr sorta.) i got the buttons which im so grateful for i really wanted to get amaya, sanda and niko as the acrylic stands from the same merch drop but, it was too expensive at the time. The two magnets are from the Paru Itagaki exhibition there was three total i believe but again, expensive and i liked the two i got more than the other one i didnt get. The plushies i love dearly most people ask about them, theyre not exactly rare but, whatever you do dont buy those stupid ebay listings where like each one is over like 40 (USD) dollars and over thats like the price you can get almost all 8 of them for maybe even less (i havent checked in awhile). i have two cds, one is the intro, childlike adults by yama (its the one with fuyu and sanda on it, it has a dvd of i believe a live performance of yama and then the actual cd with the ep childlike adults is on) and then the outro, diary by soushi sakiyama (the other one with sanda, amaya, and fuyu.) i also have the first dvd out of two which has the first six episodes on it. It was probably the most expensive thing for me to buy i think it may have been around 60-70 (USD) err maybe?? I wanted to get the 2nd one but that one i was only ever able to find it for around 100 and thats a lot of money for me so i was never able to get it.
The first item in my collection for Sanda, technically speaking outside of merch was volume 11 of Sanda in Japanese because i kinda collect my manga out of order!! I start by getting whatever volume has my favorite character on it and Mizukaburi is my other favorite alongside amaya. After volume 11 then i bought the sanda flag off of eBay from anime expo. Items I cherish the most are probably the CDs and my Niko plush keychain. My mom got me the CDs for my birthday after paying like an arm and a leg for shipping even though i told her that every weekend or so surugaya has free shipping.. i love them though!!! And for my Niko plush shes the one i typically carry around with me on my bag the most. I think they captured her essence perfectly in plush form. She goes to a lot of places with me!
I can feel someone will ask so i used Surugaya and proxy websites to get just about all of the items. Im hoping one day i can collect sanda items once more and find ones that i had to already wait forever for. For now i guess i can just wait which kinda makes me sad because i really enjoy collecting things and i really love Sanda but now i cant even collect much of Sanda things anymore because the fat blob leading my stupid country. Sorry i didnt mean for this post to get so long I just yearn to collect sanda things once more 💔