| 6:39pm | Yagyu Jubei | | | | Hello again. Time for plastic and jpegs. This go around it’s Yagyu Jubei from Alter and Hobby Japan, the first in the Hyakka Ryoran series, featuring a quartet of legendary warriors turned girly by Nitro+. Jubei is a standard release figure, but some of the others in the series are Hobby Japan... |
| 11:09pm | What My Top 5 Anime Says | | | | Everyone has a top 5 list, but Stripey tacks a question on it and it’s an easy post, so I bit; what does your top 5 anime list say about you? I’ve not thought about what my favorites are for a while. Thinking about it for a few, today my top 5 are:Cowboy BebopPrincess TutuSchool Rumble5... |
| 12:00pm | More from Baka than a Bunch of Idiots | | | | After watching the Eureka Seven movie and the first quarter of Honey and Clover, the repeated use of the word “idiot” in English translations is starting to feel worn out in emotional scenes. These girls are crying their eyes out and use the word “idiot” over and over again.... |
| 5:14pm | Another RIUVA Bazaar | | | | This time it’s LianYL who needs to unload some gear. Check it out. There’s some OOP print stuff that you can get your hands on. It started a few days ago, but it looks like there’s still a number of things available. Okay, that’s the end of this segment of help a brudda out.... |
| 3:56am | Starting Honey and Clover | | | | Now, I know this series gets a lot of love amongst blogos and after watching the first two episodes I’m into it, but I can’t help but wonder if the only reason I’m enjoying Honey and Clover is because it feels different, like an anime not made for otaku. This makes it refreshing (as... |
| 2:36pm | Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino: Pinocchio Stinks | | | | Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino is an ugly show. Maybe Artland isn’t the worst studio on earth, but compared to what Madhouse built in the first season of Gunslinger Girl, Artland might as well be. But, whatever, the first season supposedly had an insane budget that Artland probably didn’t... |
| 3:23pm | More Cheap Lighting | | | | God bless those folks at IKEA. One of the things I’ve lamented over the years is not having a good spotlight to use on something as small as a 1:8 scale figure. There are a number of overpriced photographic lighting solutions, but that’s not what I want to spend money on. I have been using... |
| 4:46pm | Tomopop Interview | | | | Yesterday, Tomopop posted an interview with me, where I answered a few questions about taking pictures of toys, what I look for when I use backgrounds, etc. Anyway, thanks to Colette for giving me the opportunity to say hello to Tomopop readers. Go on, click the link. HappySoda sponsor: © super rats... |
| 7:33pm | Beat this Blade Narika | | | | Summer is way too slow a time for figure collecting. Given the heat and the low melt point of PVC, there’s probably a good reason why July and August feel like all the figure companies went on vacation. Commerce happens year round, so it probably has nothing to do with that and I’m just... |
| 8:29am | What a Long Skirt, Akiha Shishido | | | | Haven’t done this in a while, even though about three or four figures have come in since the last show and tell time. There was quite a bit of dust on the table where I usually do these things, a lot of dust for two months. Had her out of the box for a while and sitting on my desk. Hopefully,... |
| 8:57pm | Ponyo | | | | Lucky for me, Ponyo was playing at a multiplex nearby. Ghibli animation looks great on a theater screen, so I’m happy Disney still sees it fit to put some promotion behind showing Ghibli in US theaters in spite of some pretty weak box office numbers for their previous efforts. Ponyo is different... | | |
| 1:40pm | Drossel: Hey, You Okay? | | | | Just a quick scene between Drossel and Haruhi. Drossel is such an amazing action figure, so expressive, which is funny since it’s a robot character. HappySoda sponsor: © super rats for HappySoda, 2009. |Permalink |21 comments |Add todel.icio.us Post tags: Drossel, figma, The-Melancholy-of-Haruhi-Suzum... |
| 10:16pm | Otakon 2009: Panels, Loot, Wrap | | | | I enjoy Otakon every year, but I always get the feeling at the end of each one that I’ve had a good run and might skip it from now on. I’ve been saying it for three years now, so I’ll probably be back. This here is my convention report, panels, loot, and jabber at the end. Didn’t... | | |
| 5:52am | Day Zero Can’t Sleep | | | | I can’t usually sleep the night before a trip. My sister and I usually go to Otakon on Friday. The plan is for me to get to her place by 7:30AM so we can get to Baltimore by 10AM, spend a couple hours in line, buy a hot dog from a cranky vendor, and be in around noon. It never actually works... |
| 11:00am | Got Hacked | | | | On Wednesday my blog was hacked. It wasn’t a big deal, more of an annoyance, but it could have been worse (or it is in fact much worse and I just don’t know it yet). To get back online I deleted and then re-uploaded my Wordpress files via ftp. It was faster than trying to hunt down which... |
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