Happy Black Friday! About five years ago I waited in line for an hour at my local Micro Center to do some holiday shopping, and I don’t need to tell you that technology advances have made everything I bought—and the time I spent—useless now. Today I don’t do any Black Friday shopping outside the house! Since I figure you’re shopping too, I wanted to share a few of the deals I’ve spotted today, with an emphasis on anime fandom, of course:
- Yatta-Tachi now does gift guides, and (like everything Katy does) they’re beautifully designed. This list of 2016 must-haves looks straight out of a magazine.
- Chic Pixel put together a list of can’t-miss Black Friday deals for anime fans. Check out her holiday gift guide, too. Since author Apricot Sushi lives in Australia, these deals are fairly international.
- Organization Anti-Social Geniuses’ Black Friday guide is heavy on video games and clothes. They picked through the general deals at places like Walmart to find the stuff anime fans will find most interesting.
- Anime News Network does about six holiday gift guides every year based on specific shopping categories. The Art & Books and Fashion guides are up now.
- Crunchyroll is selling Christmas sweaters this year with Hime-chan’s face on them! I miss the days of Crunchyroll’s deeply discounted membership offers every Black Friday, but at least their selection of deals is pretty wide.
- Looking at the slashed box set prices on Funimation and Right Stuf right now, I feel sort of ripped off for buying anime any other day of the year.
- My hosting provider, Bluehost, is offering a special deal this year: new Shared Basic, Plus, or Pro account starting as low as $2.65 a month for 36 months. For the last seven years I’ve used a Shared Plus account to host Otaku Journalist, Gunpla 101, Gunpla DB, and a dozen other sites with unlimited space, and I like it so much I became an affiliate, so if you click that link I may make a small commission. Thanks in advance!
- And of course, there’s Gunpla 101’s new 2016 holiday guide. This year I tried to make it user friendly to the point that if you’re just getting into Gunpla, it should help you narrow down which grade of kit is best for you.
Ball Gundam ornament photographed and customized by Ashe Blitzen.