I woke up this morning to find the first snow of the season falling outside. Snow is my favourite type of precipitation so I was happy to see that it has finally arrived. Most people think of my home as a frozen wasteland, but I like to think of it as a winter wonderland. Where else would you get to have snowball fights for 6 months of the year and still have all the benefits of a big city?
In case you haven’t already heard, voting for the first ever Aniblog Tourney begins today. The tourney pits 96 anime blogs against each other and lets blog readers vote for their favourite blogs in one-on-one matches.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like yours truly made it onto the list of 96, but you should still check it out. There’s a lot of interesting blogs there and I’m sure any anime fan/otaku will find at least one that they like.
Over the past few years, I’ve read a lot of blogs about anime figures and figure collecting. One thing that I’ve noticed over this period is that a lot of the people who collect figures seem to enjoy collecting other stuff too (myself included). So today I thought I’d share with everyone all the stuff that I collect and maybe find some more people that collect the same things. First I’ll start with the obvious stuff:
Figures
Unless this is your first time here, you’ll know that I’ve been collecting figures for a while. I bought my first figure back in August of 2007 – a 1/8 scale PVC figure of Haruhi by Max Factory. I later found it it was a bootleg, but managed to get a hold of an authentic one a couple months later. The detail that was put into the sculpt and painting really impressed me and that was what got me started on buying more figures. I got my first nendoroid soon after that, Light Yagami from Death Note, and once again I was really impressed with the detail. Currently, over a third of my figures are nendoroids. Pictures of my figure collection are below. Some of my newer figures aren’t displayed because I haven’t opened them yet.
Some of you may remember a certain Youtube girl by the name of Magibon which swept otaku communities by storm with her big eyes and love of Japan two years ago. Sadly, her less than attractive looks in real life were revealed on Japanese tv sometime later and her time in the limelight was up. The shock from seeing Magibon’s true form may have stopped some people from watching Youtube girls, but apparently not for long.
With Magibon out of the picture, otaku needed a new white girl to idolize; that’s where Beckii Cruel comes in. Beckii is a teen from the UK who also loves Japan, but instead of uploading videos of her looking into the camera, she came to fame by dancing. You can see her Youtube videos here if you’re interested. Being relatively cute and liked by otaku from all over the interwebs, it was only a matter of time before she made her way to Japan like Magibon did. Beckii has even managed to ink a deal to have a DVD made (titled “This is Beckii Cruel”), and I got some screenshots below.
Well, after nearly 4 months working out of town, I finally finished my work and returned home last week. Of course, not being able to open anything that was delivered during those 4 months, it started building up and became a nice Christmas gift from me to me :)
Have you ever had a song stuck in your head for along period of time because it was so catchy? Well, for the past week the opening song for Bakemonogatari episode 10 has been running through my head nonstop. If you watch Bakemonogatari, you’ll know how cute and adorable this song is, but if you don’t, here’s the video from youtube:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvjZ6VkLuCM
I originally saw this video on the member news section of Dannychoo and it just blew me away.
It’s only 3 minutes long so if you haven’t seen it it, I suggest taking a look, it’s definitely worth it. The story was so touching and the animation was impressive. Kudos to Mike Inel on an amazing piece of work.
Wishing a happy birthday to my favourite Clannad character: Kotomi Ichinose. Intelligence is hot ^.^
So I’m not really sure why I got the nendoroid school life playsets by Phat company. I guess it was because I have so many nendoroids and thought some of them might look better with some nendo-sized things around.
Wow, it’s been over a week since I’ve posted anything. Time really flies when you have projects due every day >:[
On the bright side, I managed to get everything done that was due in the last week with only an average of 2 hours of sleep lost per night. That means there’s only 1 more week of constant deadlines before I finally get a break (yay!).
So on friday after I finished my last assignment for the week, I decided to head over to the bookstore to pick up a copy of School Rumble vol. 11. While I was browsing through the manga section, a title caught my eye, “Chibi Vampire.” When I saw that I thought to myself “hrm, that sounds like it involves a cute girl and lots of fanservice,” so I picked it up off the shelf.
