Ringo BoOK

[papilionidae]

^ It weights 1370g, very heavy.

I got mine a few days ago, and it's -- 101 pages! if you don't count blank pages. (I might be wrong, I don't have Ringo BoOK at hand right now)

Ringohan members get serial number, and an extra pin:



my friend took a loooooooot of pictures XD
you may visit his flickr here.

[miffunevii]

Thanks Papi,i need Ringo BookSo that I have not been born in Japan?

[ShinjiPG]

Cuteness.

[Glathannus]

I own a couple of those cardboard double-sleeves, and have seen auctions for a dozen others. I think it's unauthentic to be showing that solely with first-press discs, because those aren't the kind of discs you get with it. What I like to call "zero-press", has its own completely different-looking discs than the first or second pressings.

I am anxious to get a closer look at this. Looks like potentially epic avatar material.

I have several of the things they are showing on this page, including the black & white fan.

I am having a difficult time finding a Ringo picture in the book that can beat this.

I think there are more DOMESTIC Virgin Line stickers than this if you were buying them at the venue at the time.

And what's up with the photobooks within a photobook? I don't know if they have the full Hatsuiku Status book, but I've seen separate books of it before. Then there's the Spa & Treatment flipbook - probably the whole thing. There's still some advantage to owning most of the photobooks because a lot of their material got almost completely excluded from the Ringo BoOK.

I have roughly 75% of the magazines shown on this page. That's a handy collecting reference, though I think there might be more out there than what they're thumbnailing in the book (magazines with interviews but not photoshoots).

I think this book is going to make late collectors die of anxiety attacks over a lot of the physically-existing merchandise they don't own, and it's going to make old collectors respond with "mmhmmm". I have to say it does show a lot of things the public could never have seen before, but there is also a little more "mmhmmm" going on for me than I would have wanted for 8800 yen.

The Ringo BoOK looks like it would be a nightmare to scan.

[a_grumble_cake]

whoa now I want this book!
It's funny there are so many pictures of her as a child but then it skips to her around debut. I wanted to see more teen/pre debut pictures...
papi tell your friend he's awesome.

[Glathannus]

They have a good photoshoot of the Ringo BoX too.

[mizer_unmei]

Originally Posted by a_grumble_cake

It's funny there are so many pictures of her as a child but then it skips to her around debut. I wanted to see more teen/pre debut pictures...

That's exactly what I was thinking. I wanna see her with her old bands and traveling in Britain and such. Unless she completely
But this book seems awesome. I've got an Audrey Hepburn book and a Jane Austen book that has the same replications of the originals and extra booklets inside the book, and they're fantastically fun to explore. It's a shame I didn't have the money at the time to buy it.


Oh, and is this a pregnant Ringo?

[Orenji]

Originally Posted by mizer_unmei

Oh, and is this a pregnant Ringo?

Hmmm, I do't think so. It's the SS era, so the pic was supposedly taken after or before Gekokujyo Xstasy and Gokiritsu Japon. She got pregnant during Mayonaka~Utaite Myouri I think.

[Ringo~Bingo]

The pics took from a curved angled page, so it's probably a combination of that and the poor cut of the outfit that gives that impression.

[mizer_unmei]

Ahhhh yeah., I didn't look at the focus of award she was given and thought it was related to the 2,500,000 copy certification bit so I thought it to have been post-SS.

But, does anyone know what that award is anyway?