A bunch of figures to order!

One of the whole bunch of bad things of an otaku not being in Japan is missing out Akihabara, Comiket, Figures, WF, WHF, maid cafes, more maid cafes, and more more maid cafes and their maids going “ お帰りなさい、ご主人さま~!<insert name of maidーちゃん> はご主人さま会いたかったです。ね~キスして。” (Of course the kissing part only exists in the minds of old man and ero-games ^^;

One good thing though, is being able to limit yourself from buying all those stuff. Imagine this, ¥10,000 for each game. ¥3000 ~ ¥30,000 for a figure (with the exception of Haruhi BUBBA kit which was ¥160,000 over at Yahoo Auctions Japan), Candy girls going at ¥500,000+++ which you tell your parents it was used for reference books :p Staying in the core of the otaku world requires sacrifices.

However, with the increase in auction and hobby sites, you can now easily purchase figures easily online. Or visit your local hobby (preferably anime stores) and ask them to help ship it over (includes shipping cost as well).


 ^ Tokyo Big Sight, where otaku dreams come true (Source: Heisei Demo)  

With WHF just over (Event reports over at Heisei Democracy’s post by Shingo and DannyChoo’s post ), I began to look through some of the online hobby sites such as 1999.co.jp and amiami for figures.

<Picture Intensive Post! Might include nosebleeding as well>

Pictures below are shamelessly taken from 1999 and amiami ^___^;

 

This one speaks of moe that touches and captures the hearts of otakus at a rate of 192 otakus/sec. She’s no other than Hayami Kohinata from the ero-game H2O – Footprints in the sand. One of the game’s Heroine.

Pictures of her in her very cute pose. I want to reach out and squeeze her >_< 

 

Hayami goes on sale somewhere in May 2007 though the actual date is still unfixed yet. Those long elegant hair, nice curves, soft tender face and yummy eyes makes us all want to grab her now and go 萌え~!.

The maker for this figure’s GoodSmile Company and she costs around ¥3,459 (23% off from the selling price) if you order her.


^ I really hope they will release another figure of her in this pose 


 ^ And this pose ^___^

If you can’t wait to grab this figure, you can do a 予約 (よやく “Yoyaku”) which means a reservation or advance order.

What are you waiting for? Reserve her now!  

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Yuki Kusakabe: ”Tada~! Onii-chan, How do I look in this 2-piece you got for me?”
Me: “….”
Yuki: “Onii-chan?”
Me: *faints from nosebleeding*

Yuki Kusakabe (優季 草壁) from the ero-game To Heart 2. She’s the game’s ‘secret’ character who you meets in school at night and for some reason isn’t usually seen. Probably dressing up in this hawt 2-piece just for us ^___^

 
   ^ Very sexually suggestive pose

You can also take away her towel and replace it with poles, swords and *ahem* cellphones.  Oh, and very nice eyes indeed.

The maker of this figure is Kotobukiya and the sculptor’s HIDE.
 

And again, like Hayami, you can reserve (予約 ) her over at amiami for ¥5,704 (20% off)

Reserve her now before all the others do it!

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Who says swords, armor and girls don’t mix? Especially not when we have this very pretty lady in her metal!

Character’s name クレインクレイン (Crane Crane?!) from the PSP RPG game Generation of Chaos  (ジェネレーションオブカオス). I can’t tell you much about this figure as I don’t know much about it and barely played the game as well.

What I do know is that the maker’s ATELIER-SAI and it is to be released somewhat in July 2007.

She also packs a nice looking sword and Zettai Ryoukai :) And again, you can 予約 her over at amiami again for ¥4,844 (23% off).

Grab her now and add her to your collection!

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And the last one on the list.

So what happens when a baker takes a break from all that bread baking? Does she shops for clothes? Nope! Instead, she dresses up in very nice bikini and heads off to the beach!

Why the beach? It is most probably to show off those curves from all the hard work of making bread ^___^

Tsukino Azusagawa (月乃梓川) swimsuit version from Yakitate! Japan. She has been given a very good body sculpt with all that subtle curves on her body. The bikini design is taken straight from the manga as well.

And also, there seems to be a blue bikini version for her as well.

Fans of Tsukino should order 3 sets of her figure! One for preservation, one to take out to look occasionally and one as an extra :p

The maker for this consists of 3 makers – Aniplex / Happinet / Alter and is of PVC material. ¥4020 (23% off) over at amiami and ¥4706 for the blue ver at 1999.

It will be released in August so you can do your reservations now!

Tsukino Red Ver over at 1999 <Link
Tsukino Blule Ver over at amiami <Link>

Real sorry for taking such a long time for this post. Lots of searching over the internet and translation required ^^; Someone buy me those figures!

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melody. – Be as one

 

皆さん、こんにちわ!
今週とらいしゅうはいろいろ仕事から、最近ブログはアップデートしませんでした。
本とにごめなさいでした! ^^

Hello there everyone!
Due to lots of work/assignments that has to be completed, I haven’t had much time to update this blog.
Really sorry about that!

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I have been listening to melody.’s for a few days now, with it looping in my player’s playlist and also in the MD.

Who is this melody. then? A short quote from wikipedia reveals more

melody. is a Japanese American born in Hawaii. Her full name is Melody Miyuki Ishikawa. She has three younger sisters, one of whom, Christine, is also involved with the music industry in Japan. She became most popular in Japan when her song “Over the Rainbow” from The Wizard of Oz was used in a commercial for Mitsubishi. Melody is currently a vegan. She is not to be confused with “MELODY”, who sang the theme song for the CBC drama “Kids War” in Japan.

Mostly recently, melody.’s latest single “Lovin’ U” debuted on the Oricon Weekly Charts at #16. The single includes the B-side “Our Journey.” Which, was the theme song for the 2006 movie Gen Yu Den starring Rena Tanaka, who also co-wrote the lyrics to the song.

Participation in Need for Speed Carbon game.

Does it ring a bell? I have heard one of her songs (‘realize’) once, back when it was in the 2005 Weekly Best 30 Oricon chart. 

This album ‘Be as one’ has a very balanced mix of tunes. Sad, happy, and yet an upbeat and catchy album I would say. It is probably not too pop-ish as well.

Tracklisting

1. Be as one
2. see you. . .
3. De ja Vu
4. realize
5. Close Your Eyes – English Version
6. Promises
7. Dear Love
8. Take a chance
9. Nest to You
10. Stay with Me
11. Gift of Love
12. miss you (nagareboshi REMIX)

I particularly like ‘realize’ , ‘Close your eyes’ , ‘Take a chance’ and ‘Next to you’. I could probably describe them as very powerful songs, one to motivate you :) ‘Take a chance’ would be at top if I had to choose from these 4 selected.

You can find this album on the internets, though I urge you to support this artist by buying this album. You might also have realized that Yumi, one of your crew member for NFS:Carbon is actually casted by melody. as well. 

P.S. I think I’ll take about 100 out of my paycheck to grab all YUI’s singles, albums and the  タイヨウのうた movie DVD ^^

New Direction

I have been thinking alot about the future direction of this site. A lot has happened (Not really) since the start (May 2006).

Started off with something personal, moved to anime stuff, then over to Japanese related posts and a small dash of photography in between.

 

For the past one month or so, keeping this site ‘updated’ has been almost a chore, where the spirit of blogging has died off in vanished into the mystic ruins.

The whole site is in a haphazard manner, which depicts extreme shoddy work. I am now running in circles, to continue this site as it is, or to revamp the entire blog section, and also the direction this site will be heading towards. Will it be Anime-Japan related posts, and some ‘personal’ (Not too personal) entries like what I have been doing <With super improved (I promise) entries>, or totally start afresh. Maintanence and Updates will be of top priority.

To sum up on the paragraph above, I am at a crossroad of 2 decisions/choices 

Go a whole new direction for this site

OR

Remain as it is and improve from there

I need your feedback on this. Very much so needed ><

6 Responses to “A bunch of figures to order!”

  1. - Hijiko

    Hmm.. all delicious looking (especially the second last and last one). Another one that looked nice in Danny’s post was this one:

    http://www.dannychoo.com/slide/eng/whf162/6189/photo/WHF 16/

    and of course, irresistable Hayate:

    http://www.dannychoo.com/slide/eng/whf162/6195/photo/WHF 16/

    Soooo many figures to buy. Space running out fast ^^;

  2. - JKL

    I am really wanting 月乃!

  3. - ron~

    Yuki is so cute~ must buy!
    Hayami is also nice, but not in the MUST buy, eventho maybe I’ll buy here hehe

    not really interested with kurein.. (maybe because it is atelier sai’s)

  4. - windbell

    @Hijiko: Yes, they are all very delicious looking ^^

    @Danny Choo: Rent a apartment and showcase them in display cabinets!

    @JKL: Yes, Tsukino is very cute indeed

    @ron~: Yuki is a must buy. I like Hayami as it’s gives a very moe feeling looking at it

  5. - icie

    Konata talks about not being able to control her spending at Comiket…well I’ve got news. It’s even harder online, when it’s not cash you’re spending, but digital yens. :(

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