Something a little different this afternoon with some pluggage and review of a recent new addition to the anime/manga online shopping front for Canadians, BigPfeiffer.com.

I originally found out about them through Animaritime, as they were dealers there as well as frequent visitors to the forums. After being impressed with the prices in their site catalog for numerous older Tokyopop books, I sat down the other day to place my order.

At $4 a piece, I purchased volumes 4-10 of Suikoden III and volumes 2-3 of Cardcaptor Sakura (as I’d previously only owned the floppie versions), as well as an adorable little Uryuu Ishida keychain ($2.50) I’d been eyeing on my continuing quest to own any piece of merchandise with his face on it. The shipping is a flat rate of $7.50.

The site accepts PayPal as its sole method of payment and immediately I ran into a problem. PayPal attempted to charge me twice for the purchase. Boo on their part. So I e-mailed BigPfeiffer with my problem. I recieved a quick response and got things sorted out within a day (with the exception of my refund issues with the people over at PP).

Having made my order on a Friday and having the payment problem dealt with promptly on Saturday (I was impressed by the response on a weekend), the package was mailed to me on Monday morning and I recieved it early Tuesday. Prompt shipping = awesome.

The books all showed up in good quality, minus black marker strikes on their page tops, though I suppose a small quip for a $4 back issue. I love my little Ishida keychain (which is really nice quality, btw), and I was also sent two little… somethings… as a gift for the payment issues.

So cheap prices, quick service, polite staff and fast shipping made me a happy BigPfeiffer customer. Only complaint is that there was no warning about the black marks on the graphic novels. Overall though, a good and fast experience so I recommend checking them out!

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Animation World Network posted an article today about an upcoming animated television show titled My Life Me. It’s described as “a fast-paced and visually inventive animated comedy aimed at kids ages 8 to 12.”

What makes this interesting? Well a couple things. First of all is that one of the series pro-creators is none other than Svetlana Chmakova, known for her Tokyopop hit, DramaCon. It also sounds like it’ll be an interesting series visually with the following to say about it:

“Produced entirely in digital animation, this series stays true to manga aesthetics using various comic book manga codes and language such as stylish black and white comic book panels dropping behind the characters to express their suppressed feelings on screen. This novel approach adds an extra layer to the narrative and comedy.”

Certainly sounds interesting, and with backing from Canadian cartoon network, Teletoon, we can definately expect to see it air in Canada for it’s anticipated appearance in Fall 2009. (Above picture belongs to Svetlana but is unrelated to this animated series)

Edit: Did a little searching and found the teaser clip that was submitted to Teletoon during My Life Me’s proposal! You can check it out here.

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