An otaku was sharing imagery of their formidable stack of “Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon” text volumes – a collection which seemingly ascends into the skies, and consists of many ridiculously thick books.
Without getting too in-depth, the sight is certainly impressive – among other things for that matter. The total count of the books is one detail to be baffled over – although another is how most of these tomes appear to be, at the minimum, an inch across, with a few even being several, to the point that they nearly look like colossal bricks of paper. Apparently, this series has a lot more oddity to it than merely the animation.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 7:42 CDT
I hope they localize Horizon someday. . . . .
Aug 26, 2012 @ 8:20 CDT
^ We can hope, but I think learning japanese would be the better choice in this case.
Not to mention, you could read/watch all their stuff without any problems.
Aug 26, 2012 @ 13:13 CDT
I guess those are the books Liam was telling me about, damn they are huge.
Aug 27, 2012 @ 7:21 CDT
George R.R. Martin, eat your heart out.
Aug 27, 2012 @ 15:32 CDT
The wild Gospel of Judas can be found in its nature habitat between works of recreational Japanese literature?
I must ask how Japanese otakus afford these large collections. From what I see, each game/figure/etc costs hundreds of dollars each. This here is an example of several purchases of what I can only assume to be the same items. There must be magicks here at work…
Aug 27, 2012 @ 15:58 CDT
Either they have high-paying tech jobs, or their parents have high-paying tech jobs and pay for them.
Sep 2, 2012 @ 20:34 CDT
You should mention that not all of the books are from the Horizon/Genesis series. The bottom 14 books make up the Owari no Chronicle/Ahead series (completed), while the 15 following that are from Horizon (11 are from the main story; the top 4 slimmer books are compilations of the Kimi and Asama side stories). Both are written by Kawakami, who, obviously, puts out some pretty thick novels.