Well, I'm back. As I expected, I didn't find many of the things I wanted... being things related to popular anime/manga, they were sold out long before I got to Lucca. :p Oh well, will look again next year.
Here's a list of what I did buy:
- Expected and planned purchase: Card Captor Sakura manga artbook III
- Expected and planned purchase (even though I can't read a word of Japanese): Nana volumes 1-5 and 7 (couldn't find volume 6 anywhere --;)
- Random impulse purchase: a Kodama plushie (from "Mononoke Hime"). It was just too cute to pass up. :D (I like oddly cute (or cutely odd) things, so sue me.) The photo's not very good, and the thing looks smaller than it is... its head is almost as large as a human head.
- Unplanned purchase: a Death action figure (from Sandman). :D I was unsure whether to buy this or not, but I kept wandering back to the stand and looking at it... ¬¬ and my subconscious kept saying "buyitbuyitbuyitbuyitbuyit". :p It made my brother and his friend go o.O... "Okay, she's the personification of death, that's cool, but wtf is the umbrella for?" Hehe. It's probably going to end up sitting on my monitor... if, of course, we can teach Attila the kitten that stealing things from the top of my monitor and hiding them who knows where is bad. ^^;
- Semi-unplanned purchase: a dragon miniature. I'd been wanting a dragon miniature for a long time, and had been eyeing the ones that were for sale at the comic store in the city I study in, but those cost too much and they didn't have smaller versions. The one I bought is a smaller version of the ones that were available at the comic store (same series), so it didn't cost more than I wanted to spend. :) There also were larger ones, which were beautiful *.* and which I would've bought if they didn't cost too much.
- Random but semi-planned purchase #1: three Inuyasha gashapon (vending machine) figures. One is a small Kagome plushie and two Inuyasha plastic figures. (While I was assembling them, I stepped on the sword of the one on the right and it broke in half. --; Long live glue!)
- Random but semi-planned purchase #2: three Chobits shitajiki (two manga ones, 1 and 2, and an anime one) and two clear Chobits folders (1 and 2).
- Entirely unplanned "woohoo, can't believe I got this for so little" purchase: a Zelgadis cel (from Slayers). (Any shadows or odd colors on the image are due to the plastic envelope the cel is, which I left on for scanning and is not gonna get taken off anytime soon, only when I frame the cel... the cel is in perfect conditions, uncut, no scratches, no stains, etc.) There was a pile of cels at a stand, so I looked through them to see if there was something cool but not too expensive. Eventually, I narrowed my choice down to two... a Card Captor Sakura cel which cost €20 and the Zelgadis cel, which had no price tag that I could see. I asked the woman at the stand how much the Zelgadis cel cost, and she said €10. So I said, "okay I'll buy this one". She took it from me and looked at it, and visibly cringed. "Er... I told you the wrong price. It's €30." "Oh..." I said, and was going to continue that I would buy the other one, then. But she said, "But since I said the price was €10, I'm going to sell it to you at €10, it's the fair thing to do." So w00t.
And my little brother, bless him, bought the DVD of the Kenshin OVAs. :D
All in all, it was a very enjoyable experience. I enjoyed meeting Ro (grazie delle figurine! ^^) and Mary a lot, even if for a short time only. ^^ Hopefully next year I'll have more time to spend there.