Grav’s Complete Otaku Collection – 2019 Edition

It’s been exactly two years since I had last revealed my collection and a lot had happened since. The reason it had taken this long was that there was a big decrease in hauls across multiple months which made the idea of having a new collection update in 2018, didn’t make sense. And since this year I had been able to increase the hauls bit by bit, I figured now was the right time for a new update.

Funny enough, this is the seventh update and it’s been seven years since I had started buying anime. For those who don’t know how I explain my collection and whatnot, basically, I split the photos up to make the anime sets shown more readable for the viewer and also I make mention of any new additions that have shown up (because otherwise how else would you be able to differentiate?).

So there are three major changes for this update in comparison to the previous back in 2017. The first is that I am now living in a new location (the place where I technically live for University which is where all of the nice unboxings from this blog are, is a separate situation) so I now have a much larger room which as a result means more space for more shelving.

The second is that I have two new shelving for the room. A third new shelving is planned since I realised that I had under-estimated how much space that I really needed (there is plenty of space on my new shelves, but that space is designed to future-proof specific distributors), but for now I have the two shelves.

The third is that video games (outside of a small few) will not be part of this collection update. The reason is that my PlayStation collection is still in the other location and only the films, shows and books could get brought over to this location at the moment.

#01 | Funimation (LEs)

Since the last update, Funimation has been up and down on which title receives the limited edition treatment. I have toned down the amount of LEs for this distributor but at the same time, they have been choosing more and more of the titles that I want to own.

The new additions are:

And You Thought There is Never a Girl Online?
Assassination Classroom Season 2
Attack on Titan Season 2
Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody
Goblin Slayer
High School DxD HERO
How Not to Summon a Demon Lord
In Another World With My Smartphone
Keijo!!!!!!!!
My First Girlfriend is a Gal
OVERLORD II
OVERLORD III
Wanna Be the Strongest in the World
Yuri!!! on ICE

#02 | Viz Media (LEs), Universal Pictures (LEs) and MVM Entertainment (LEs)

Viz Media doesn’t really focus that much on limited editions like they used to, but I did pick up one for the collection. Sailor Moon is still up in the air but if the opportunity is there I may get the remainder of the Viz sets despite the video quality. Universal Pictures has finished distributing anime because they over-estimated the UK market but there’s one new addition for the collection. MVM, on the other hand, has a couple more titles for the collection, and I plan to add more titles from them in the future.

The new MVM Entertainment additions are:

Armed Girl’s Machiavellism
Made in Abyss
Princess Principal

The new Universal Pictures addition is:

Drifters

The new Viz Media addition is:

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Set 1

#03 | Aniplex of America & Japan (LEs), Bandai Visual USA & Japan (LEs), & Misc. Anime

Aniplex of America and Aniplex of Japan remains to be one of the most expensive distributors for the collection. Surprisingly I have decided to tone down on getting titles from them in order to catch up, but I will still continue to keep consistency for some of the franchises.

Positioned next to the Aniplex sets are a couple of anime sets from various distributors. Bandai Visual in both the US (Honneamise) releases and for the first time in my collection, a Japanese release. Carrying over from the previous updates are the Pied Piper Time of Eve set and the Nozomi Nadesico DVD set.

The new Aniplex of America additions are:

Fate/Stay Night [Unlimited Blade Works] Box Set 1
Fate/Stay Night [Unlimited Blade Works] Box Set 2
Kizumonogatari III: Reiketsu
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend Volume 1
Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend Volume 2
Tsukimonogatari: Yotsugi Doll
Valvrave the Liberator Season 1
Valvrave the Liberator Season 2

The new Aniplex of Japan additions are:

Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] I. Presage Flower
Fate/Stay Night [Heaven’s Feel] II. Lost Butterfly

The new Bandai Visual Japan addition is:

Love Live! the School Idol Movie

#04 | Anime Limited (LEs)

The Anime Limited collection continues to grow strong with around 90% of its titles acquired already. Not going to go for every collector’s sets for various reasons but the ones that I have picked up are the ones that I had wanted for the shelf.

The new additions are:

009 Re:Cyborg 3D
Aldnoah Zero Season 2
Amanchu!
Charlotte Part 1
Charlotte Part 2
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion I: Initiation
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion II: Transgression
ERASED Part 2
Expelled from Paradise
Eureka Seven Hi-Evolution 1: Renton
Fireworks
Grimgar: Ashes & Illusions
Hyouka Part 2 (housed inside Part 1’s box)
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
Kiznaiver
A Letter to Momo
Lord Marksman and Vanadis
Love Live! Sunshine!!
Lu Over the Wall
Lupin the Third Part IV: The Italian Adventure (Japanese Version)
March comes in like a Lion Season 1 Part 1
March comes in like a Lion Season 1 Part 2
Martian Successor Nadesico
Mirai
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 1
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 Season 2 (housed inside Season 1’s box)
Mobile Suit Gundam the Origin I-IV: Chronicle of Char and Sayla
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower
Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: December Sky
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Part 1
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing Part 2 (housed inside Part 1’s box)
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Part 2 (housed inside Part 1’s box)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack
Momotaro Sacred Sailors
Napping Princess
The Night is Short Walk on Girl
Pigtails and Other Short Stories from Production I.G.
Princess Arete
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Part 1 (housed inside Part 2’s box)
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Part 2
Rokka -Braves of the Six Flowers-
Snow White With the Red Hair
Sound! Euphonium
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online Part 1
Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online Part 2 (housed inside Part 1’s box)
Sword Art Online the Movie -Ordinal Scale-
The Testament of Sister New Devil
The Testament of Sister New Devil Burst
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust

#05 | Sentai Filmworks (LEs), NIS America (PEs) & Anime Limited (UEs)

Much like Aniplex, I also eventually decided to tone down on Sentai’s limited edition front. Fortunately, I now have pretty much every special release they have so far, outside of maybe one or two but they aren’t a priority at this point. For NIS America, as the distributor has stopped focusing on anime I haven’t bought anything new from them. As for Anime Limited’s ultimate edition range, only one new addition has been added.

The new Anime Limited addition is:

Perfect Blue

The new Sentai Filmworks additions are:

Chivalry of a Failed Knight
GATE
Infinite Stratos 2
Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-kun
No Game, No Life: Zero
Sword Oratoria: Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? On the Side

#06 | Light Novels & Visual Novels

Moving onto the original shelf, I have changed the positioning around now that I have more space. However, this shelf is going to need a bit of a change-around in the future since I want it to focus solely on books and visual novels, so in the meantime, there are regular Blu-ray titles across the various rows.

The first row covers the light novels which I have been aiming to expand over the recent years. The visual novels are primarily unchanged as I decided to switch focus towards console versions and digital releases, if the original version is the only way to get it in that form.

The new J-Novel Club light novel additions are:

How Not to Summon a Demon Lord – Vol. 1
In Another World With My Smartphone – Vol. 1
The Magic In This Other World Is Too Far Behind! – Vol. 1

The new Seven Seas light novel additions are:

ARIFURETA: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest – Vols. 1-4
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash – Vol. 1
How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom – Vol. 1

The new Yen Press (Yen On) light novel additions are:

Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody – Vol. 1
Defeating the Demon Lord’s a Cinch (If You’ve Got a Ringer) – Vol. 1
The Hero is Overpowered But Overly Cautious – Vol. 1
Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? – Vol. 1
KonoSuba: God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! – Vol. 1
Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- – Vol. 1
The Saga of Tanya the Evil – Vol. 1

#07 | Standard Edition Anime Releases

As I mentioned earlier there are a few PlayStation games here in this row, but I’ll save that for the actual game collection update later.

Funimation and Sentai Filmworks regular releases don’t exactly get that much for me personally. It’s primarily due to the fact that they last so long to the point where there’s no rush to buy them, and there are also other factors to take note of, such as the pricing and how the re-releases tend to be better in both disc authoring and/or for the shelf. The Studio Canal Ghibli collection is also another problem of not bothering much with the distributor because there’s plenty of time to get their releases.

Meanwhile on the UK side, a lot more focus has been placed on the Manga Entertainment collection as they have been improving their releases in recent years. MVM standards are also included but will be expanded upon soon. Funimation UK has a few more additions but their distribution in the UK has technically stopped for now but a final batch will be here in January.

The new Anime Limited addition is:

Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo

The new Funimation additions are:

Ghost in the Shell ARISE borders 1 & 2
Ghost in the Shell ARISE borders 3 & 4

The new Funimation UK additions are:

Daimidaler: Prince vs Penguin Empire
Shimoneta: A Boring World Where the Concept of Dirty Jokes Doesn’t Exist

The new KAZE UK additions are:

Nisekoi: False Love 2 Part 1
Nisekoi: False Love 2 Part 2

The new Manga Entertainment additions are:

5 Centimeters per Second
Assassination Classroom the Movie: 365 Days
Dragon Ball Super: Broly
Evangelion: 3.33 You Can (Not) Redo
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Solid State Society
Hellsing Ultimate
Mob Psycho 100

The new MVM Entertainment additions are:

The Asterisk War Part 1
The Asterisk War Part 2
GOD EATER Part 1
GOD EATER Part 2

The new Sentai Filmworks additions are:

Is It Wrong to Expect a Hot Spring in a Dungeon?
MAOYU
When They Cry Seasons 1-3

The new Third Window Films addition is:

Animerama: A Thousand and One Nights & Cleopatra

#08 | Hardcover Manga

This row mainly focuses on hardcover manga volumes, but I also placed my DVDs for Death Note and R.O.D. the TV as there wasn’t anywhere else they could go.

The new Viz Media additions are:

Tomie
Uzumaki

#09 | Asian Cinema Collection, NIS America (PEs) & Manga

One major change to the collection is the vast focus on building the Asian Cinema collection throughout late 2018 and most of 2019. One of the titles, Shadow, isn’t shown in the collection as I’ve placed it with the 4K Ultra HD group off-screen.

I’ve also placed the NIS America Premium Edition Longbox sets since there wasn’t anywhere else for them to go, as well as the Darker Than Black Premium Edition Funimation Blu-ray set which is still a bad packaged release.

Because there’s so many, I’ll group the new Asian Cinema additions down by distributor.

The new Arrow Academy additions are:

After the Storm
Departures
The Human Condition Trilogy
The Third Murder
Woman is the Future of Man & Tale of Cinema

The new Arrow Video additions are:

Audition
Before We Vanish
Black Society Trilogy
Blade of the Immortal
Dark Water
Dead or Alive Trilogy
The Happiness of the Katakuris
Lady Snowblood
Orgies of Edo
Pulse
Retaliation
The Ring
Street Mobster
Terra Formars
The Villainess
Wolf Guy
Yakuza Law

The new BFI additions are:

An Actor’s Revenge
Late Autumn
Rashomon
Tokyo Story

The new Criterion addition is:

Dreams

The new Eureka Entertainment additions are:

House
Police Story 1 & 2
Project A Parts I & II

The new Palisades Tartan additions are:

Lady Vengeance
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
A Tale of Two Sisters
Thirst

The new Sony Pictures addition is:

The Mermaid

The new Studio Canal additions are:

I Saw The Devil
Ran

The new Third Window Films additions are:

Blue Spring
Dangan Runner
Lesson of Evil
Love Exposure
One Cut of the Dead
The Story of Yonosuke
Tetsuo: The Iron Man & Tetsuo II: Body Hammer
The Woodsman and the Rain

The new Thunderbird Releasing additions are:

Burning
Shoplifters

Lastly we have more manga. I have a row focused on the larger volumes that are generally tied to bigger titles than the usual, and a bunch of manga box sets on its own outside of the shelves. While nothing new has been added to this part, I hope that Viz will eventually put out a fourth box set for One Piece.

The new Dark Horse addition is:

Gantz – Omnibus Vol. 1

The new Ghost Ship additions are:

Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs – Vols. 1-3

The new Seven Seas additions are:

Monster Musume – Vols. 1-3

The new Yen Press additions are:

Sekirei – Omnibus Vols. 1-2

The new Viz Media additions are:

Black Clover – Vols. 1-3
Neon Genesis Evangelion – Omnibus Vol. 5
The Promised Neverland – Vols. 1-3

And that concludes the seventh otaku collection update, also known as the 2019 otaku collection update! A lot of surprises considering what I had said last time, but to be fair things did happen such as earning my first job and eventually returning to University for a post-graduate degree.

Here’s an overall shot of most of the collection: