Joe Cheng has much room for improvement in the singing department, but he's got everything else down pat for the fans. The Taiwan TV idol's debut EP comes in two editions bundled with great preorder gifts that should make any fan happy. Version A comes with a cute photo album that a colleague of mine dubbed the "evil book of evilness" when I showed it to her to justify my purchase. This isn't one of those typical photo booklets that come with CDs, but an actual A5-sized hardcover photo album filled with adorkable pictures of Joe in Ishikawa, Japan. (There are a few fan-service pool photos in there.) Were the book a bit bigger, it could be sold separately. I've also just retired my Won Bin mousepad for the greenish holographic Joe mousepad that comes with Preorder Version A.
Version B comes with a music travelogue DVD containing video of Joe's Japan trip backdropped by his songs and some fabulously cheesy narration. The A4-sized 2010 hanging photo calendar is quite nice, printed on good paper with bright and cheery Joe photos (two months per page); the postcards and stickers are also photos from the Japan trip. You can collect the whole set of Joe in Japan goodies if you get both versions of the EP. Frankly, I'm not all that interested in hearing Joe sing either, but if you're already a fan the album is worth it for the extras.
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