This one's quite a bit long, but finally, after waiting for quite some time, my copy of Rainbow Road has finally arrived - and here is my unboxing of the fanclub version of Rainbow Road.
Before this happened, at first my initial copy of Rainbow Road was thought to be lost after I found out last Monday I written the address incorrectly during pre-order process! I had to contact Tenso, and at the same time, I 're-ordered' that same copy of Rainbow Road (through my financial aid money!) just in case it was declared permanently lost.
But after contacting Tenso, they found my package - and all of a sudden, I am getting two copies of it! Now I'll be selling one of the two albums through eBay (both are identical).
Now at first, I thought that the package with the Rainbow Road albums would come on Wednesday. But when I came back home on Tuesday, apparently the box (mysteriously) appeared! I was surprised it arrived on Tuesday instead of Wednesday! My brother, who was at home since he had shorter school days, signed the package after he was done with school (since I bought it through mu-mo/Ayaka shop as a Room Ayaka member) and he was at home at the time of delivery.
Here's a picture of the album, along with a ticket holder as a limited bonus for ordering through mu-mo.
And here are some more pics, from the front, to the back, and even the CDs - and a picture of the booklet, which is essentially the CD-only cover (except the text inside is modified for specific contents of this version, particularly the Utattemita bonus DVD that you won't find anywhere else but mu-mo and Ayaka shop).
But wait...what's this? How in the world a mailing from the Room Ayaka fanclub show up in my package?!
Oh wait...it's the Room Ayaka magazine volume 3! What a way to complement my Rainbow Road delivery!
(The Room Ayaka booklet arrived prior to the delivery date of the Rainbow Road album.)
And, there it is, all together.
By the way, I guess this is the first press, so my copy of Rainbow Road (as well as the one that I'll be selling on eBay) is packaged in a neat (glossy) slipcase.
And, just for goodness, here's my copy of Rainbow Road right alongside 'The beginning' from 2012, Ayaka's first release since getting out of hiatus (pre-ordered it through HMV in 2011, before pre-ordering most of new CD releases for other artists, such as Yanawaraba and Sayuri Sugawara/The SxPlay, and sometimes Ayaka if the Room Ayaka fanclub version doesn't impress me in some way, through CDJapan, as well as buying older releases through Amazon Japan).
In addition to all that Ayaka material, I also bought a used copy of Ai Otsuka's 'LOVE JAM' album from 2004, since I wanted to get the DVD with 'Kingyo Hanabi' short film that may have been deleted from JPopsuki, and no one is willing to upload one (I did upload it). I didn't take picture of that album, which makes sense for me since it's a bit embarrassing to take picture of an older Ai Otsuka album when a new one is coming out this week... I bought it before all the Ayaka material came to my Tenso address since I felt this was an opportunity for me to combine my deliveries rather than delivering it separately (at the expense of rushing, I had to be patient); I bought it for $3 (351 yen; the seller was selling it for 1 yen, but the other 350 yen is for shipping it to my Tenso address).
EDIT 4/23: It's taken off eBay. I'm right now under negotiations with a user on JPopsuki wanting that extra copy of Rainbow Road...but if it falls, I may open for any potential offers here on AHS and/or JPopsuki.