^ I haven't heard from him since he gave up on H!P and went all the way over to the Dark Side, and I'm not enough of an AKB fanatic to hang out at Stage 48.
Be that as it may... I got my copy of the first press
AKB ga Ippai box set in the mail today. I had agonized over where to buy it, since HMV and CDJapan had the clear file (external bonus) but YesAsia was considerably cheaper. I decided that it wasn't worth an extra $10 just to get a stupid plastic folder, so I ordered from YesAsia. I'm glad that I did, because it turned out that they had the clear file, too!