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The holiday season is upon us, so in keeping with the spirit of this time of year, we want to give away some gifts to our wonderful readers. Thanks to the folks at Vertical, Inc., I've got two copies of Osamu Tezuka's manga Ayako (1972) sitting right next to me, and I need to select two lucky winners to receive this brand-new, hardcover English release from the "god of manga." (Note that one of these is the review copy that I read in order to write my upcoming review of the book. It is still in near-perfect condition.)
How can you win one of these fabulous prizes, you ask? Well, just leave us a comment below this post telling us about the best geek-related gift you've ever received (or given to someone else) for any occasion — not just the holidays. Extra points for anime, manga, or game-related ones, but you can stray outside of that if you want. Make sure to leave some form of contact information, because we'll be picking our two favorite entries from the comments section and sending those people copies of Ayako!
The deadline for this contest is 11:59 PM on December 30, 2010, so you've got time to report back about any gifts you might receive this year. Best of luck! Oh, and before I forget: all of us at Ani-Gamers would like to wish our readers a happy and healthy holiday season. We hope you'll keep reading for the next two weeks as we roll out our Anime Secret Santa reviews and 2010 Staff Picks.
7 comments:
The best geek-related gift I ever received was a Death Note bag from Hot Topic a friend had filled with random items. This included:
-A Yamaka
-Shinmegami Tensei Persona 3
-A Fake Rolex He Purchased from an African in Tokyo
-A Playboy Magazine
-Higashi No Eden Box Set
btw, these were all second-hand *ahem*.
I gave my friend the Viridian Edition of the Baccano DVD set along with the Baccano novels, and he absolutely loved it. He's a big fan of the baccano anime, so he got pretty excited to receive his gift.
filmerror@yahoo.com
I live in Canada and my parents live in Asia. Years ago, when my entire family was living in Canada, my mom used to read the comics section of the newspaper on a daily basis, and her favorite syndicated strip was "For Better or For Worse" by Lynn Johnston. When I visited my parents this year, I brought her an anniversary compilation of the comic. It chronicled the highlights of the parents' lives from being newlyweds to having grown children, a journey she herself can relate to well.
lrh920@gmail.com
My best friend from high school got me into manga through a volume of Yotsuba&! that he lent me. While at a convention with another friend of mine, I somehow managed to avoid splurging on enough crap for myself (it was the first convention I had gone to, so the experience easily went to my head) to get him a Yotsuba Revolvtech. No pretense needed, really, just a gift for a true bro who made school tolerable.
nameslongerthanyourmothers@gmail.com
Convinced to get “Yoshihiro Tatsumi 's A Drifting Life” from seeing it on a USA Today Top 10 list. I bought the book as a gift for my friend for his birthday. To have something we both could talk about, I had to buy a copy for myself. The book was a great story about the early days of a Manga artist. My friend and I were both sad to read, Yoshihiro never hooked up with some of the women in his life. Or maybe he purposely left those parts of his life out of the book.
Oh and I also got my friend a gift certificate for Cold Stone... the ice cream place, not the Wrestler dude.
artchemi @ netscape.net
Wow, I've been procrastinating on this for far too long (something you'll get used to if you're not already an Ani-Gamers reader). Our winners are lrh920@gmail.com and nameslongerthanyourmothers@gmail.com, both of whom will receive copies of Ayako by Osamu Tezuka! I'll send them out as soon as possible.
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