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本日、キミは何色?

PINK!!!!! Of course! XDc Finally a decent action figure of Katsura Hinagiku of Hayate no Gotoku! fame. ^_^


It seems my prayers have been answered, as the Nendoroid Hinagiku, a coloured prototype revealed during Summer WonFes just last week, finally upped for PO just today!


It seems the Nendo version of the ever Tsundere Seitokaichou Hina-chan will sport a semi movable elbow for her arms! 0_0

Lookin’ berry lovely with her normal face plate… <3


It seems she comes with only a few accessories… Here we see a couple of wooden swords – Masamune and Kendo training stick…

Pointy finger is pointy… XDc


She also got her tsun tsun face plate + nekomimi x shippo!!! wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww <3 <3 <3 <3

Looks like her tail will be able to support her body… She also comes with a new type of stand it seems…


She’ll be retailed for 3,619 yen and will be available in November…


Sisterly Love… Duality

Half a moon have passed in an instant, the girls of Nenpuchi Bake Nonogatari So no Ni have yet to escape their plastic prison… They actually arrived alongside Horo’s green beret, but was neglected for quite some time now… ^^;

Anyways, finally free up my Sunday to allow me to indulge myself with a flood of Summer WonFes 2010 news on Figma and Nendo, as well as unleashing the Bakemono girls… XDc…


It’s been a while, so let’s have our guest today to do the opening ceremony… XDc




A Stray Blade Technique~~~

Rou— Bu— Mek— Kyaku—

Kaitou— Ranmaaaa~~~~!!!!!

The whole process took only a few seconds tho, never mind the details… :P Anyways, the plastic prison has been broken…


I believe I’ve yet to introduce the guys in So no Ichi, so here they are along with the girls of So no Ni… Spoilers alert for those who haven’t followed the anime series… >,<

Arararararagi-kun, the pseudo immortal vampire and the MC of the anime Bake Monogatari…


Senjougahara Hitagi, the crabby tsundere with yandere tendency… XD

Currently dating our MC…


Hachikuji Mayoi, the loli with a map and a big bag… ^_^

Araragi’s groping target… :P


Kanbaru Suruga, the furry-armed self-proclaimed Fujo, M, Yuri and Lolikon…

Often offering her body to Araragi, despite his protests… ^^;


Sengoku Nadekoooo~! wwwwwwwwww

Araragi’s sukumizu secret admirer!!!


Hanekawa Tsubasa, the purrrfect nekomimi meganekko…

Nenpuchi army, the subsidiary of Nendo Coalition, is growing strong and has become a serious threat to the Figma Alliance! :3c





On side note: I kinda “accidentally” come by an unexpected acquisition while placing my PO for Hot Toys Movie Masterpiece Iron Mark VI at my trusted hobby store yesternoon… ^^;

The Force is strong in this one! Been meaning to find myself a small scaled Darth Vader ever since my childhood, but never did I managed to find any with superb articulations AND great sculpt such as this… It’s a Hasbro-made Star Wars Saga figure I found at Toys ‘R’ Us while strolling around the mall after my Iron Man PO…


As you may notice, the details on this action figure are quite astounding…

Yes, you can actually unmask this Vader!


Fabric material for cape and clothing! Total pwnage in terms of quality, eventho Hasbro has been notorious for their bad manufacturing qualities (Psst! Transformers… >///<)…

A pity the one I got has some torn off edges on the fabric material… >,<

The signature weapon of the Dark Lord of the Sith!

If only the blade glows… XDc

The detached mask and helmet…

Just look at the details! 0_0

Beyond the Dark Lord and his Lightsabre, you also get a certain battle card, an Imperial blue die, a stand that double up as a card holder and an assortment of weaponries…

The weapons are slightly in scale with your average Figma, so they can probably use them…

As for the card and dice, you’re supposed to insert the card into the stand, and roll the die for some board game styled battle against other people’s Star Wars figures… No challengers tho… Sigh…

Just look at Darth Vader’s attributes on the card… 0_0

Like I said, just slightly in scale with your average Figma… ^^;


There is a reason this post is called Duality… Here’s sort of a continuation to the previous 4koma… XDc


Beware of Darth Vader’s choking Force Grip! XDc

Don’t worry, I am not your father… ^^;


The Man in the Iron Mask

Ever since the viewing of the first movie adaptation of Marvel superhero Iron Man years ago, the awesome mechanical design that is Iron Man caught my visual eyes almost instantaneously…

Imagine my surprise when Hot Toys unveiled their 1/6 Movie Masterpiece of Iron Man Mark III back then!

However, due to my priority on Gunpla and 1/12 action figures (FigNendo), I’ve been fighting the temptation to get one of these fine but ultimately expensive figures (Especially the silver bling-bling-ness that is the Mark II…)… But no longer…


It’s over now… >,< My wallet that is… Hot Toys finally announced their Iron Mark VI, incidentally my most favourite of the bunch! I must get me a piece!

Mark VI will retail at a hefty 26,667 yen and will only be available during end of this year or early the next…

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Pink Aria

After half a decade of loyally serving her master, my (Cube) companion will finally stripped of her duty, accepting her well-earned retirement… ^^;


Bought during my first job after graduated from college, my Sony Ericsson 510i has faithfully follows me everywhere, attending to my needs and such… But now it’s time to obtain a newer model as she’s been outclassed many times by now in technological standards…

Incidentally, comrade ZamsJournal put up his for adoption, at a huge fraction of her original price, which I immediately obtained after seeing her superiority compared to mine… That was half a moon ago… ^_^

Being used—achem—second-handed, my newly adopted personal assistant is slightly damaged, so I’ve decided to get her a new chassis, which arrived just yesternite… ^_^

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A Certain Not Ghastly Festival

Bon Odori (Obon for short), or THE Japanese Ghost Festival as called by the locals, is held on my island annually. This is the time when almost all Japanese inhabitants or those with Japanese heritage will come together to celebrate this cultural event…

Yesternite was that time of the year again! Once again I paid a visit to this wonderful event packed with people of various ethnics and tourists, all come together to enjoy the dances and foods of most Japanese origin…


Arrived just a bit after the supposed starting time. There are light drizzles when I reached there, but there are literally hundreds of visitors already on site!



Yukata musume everywhere! A feast to the eyes!




Dance performances have already began when I close into the main stage on the field…




Off stage, many people joined in the fun as well, dancing in parallel to those on stage… ^_^



Loli-tachi on stage… :P




More loli-tachi off stage… XD


 


What Summer Festival can go without game stalls? :Dc This loli is helping around the balloon-fishing game stall…



So… many… balls…




There’s also an Obakeya (Ghost House), a staple to the summer nite appetite! Genuine shoujo (And shouta… ^^;) screams can be heard time and again as I zipped thru the area many, many times on later hours along the nite… ^^;




As the sky turns darker, the dance performances continue on stage, introducing more loli-tachi into the centre of attraction… ^_~




Lovely ladies in Yukata…




Some sort of traditional dance performance I guess, failed to listen to the intro LOL…


 


Bumped into a fellow Judgment… No, actually I was supposed to meet comrade Evangel when I reached the target destination but was too busy ninja-ing around that I missed him… Heard he’s going loli-hunting tho…


Uncensored piccie here… :P




Next stop is the food stalls located just along the side road of the event field… To get something, you’ll need to produce cash coupons priced at RM 20 (About USD 6.25) each…

I got one just for the sake of the festival… ^_^ This
coupon books also double up as lucky draw slips!

First purchase: Ramune! You cannot enjoy a Summer Festival without one of these! XD




The stalls are packed with hungry mob craving for some flesh and liquids…




Too crowded at the front side of the stalls so had to slip by behind the scene…



More dances… Actually, it’s the same dance programmes in a loop… ^^;



Lovely ladies trying to imitate the moves of those on stage…




Summer horror story material? 0_0




As the event closing to an end, the crowd starts to reserve spaces around the field for the final showdown…




Here comes the big bang!!! Tamayaa~~!




Caught the whole thing on video! Kagiyaa~~!

     

Aching feet forced me to withdraw as soon as the fireworks end… What an eventful nite! Will sure to come again next year! ^_^

More piccies can be accessed here


風紀員(ジャッジメント)ですの

Another danbooru has arrived…!


The content: Nenpuchi Bake Monogatari So no Ni and Judgment armband!

Been meaning to get the armband ever since its announcement last year, but was put off several times… Eventually I caved when Amiami had it restocked… ^^;

Promoting Horo Plushie into the Den’s first official member of newly formed disciplinary board…


Judgment desu no! XDc

Daughters taking good care of the new symbol…



Meido Lacus is still hhhnnnggghhh in her outfit…

Perfectly suitable for Nendo napping material…



Maa~ maa~ Azunyan is dazed… 0_0

Will be joining a fellow Judgment patrolling the Bon Odori event which will be held tonite on my island… XD

What the Holy Left 4 Undead?

Am delightfully surprised when I scrolled through the list of WonFes Photo Contest to find my entry being one of the selected 100 finalists! :Dc

BTW, WHL4U stands for Wonderful Hobby Life 4 You, not as suggested by the title of this post… ^^;


In conjunction with the upcoming WonFes 2010, GSC held their 4th Photo Contest half a moon ago… Close to a thousand entries were sent, my entry was one of them… ^_^

 

My entry was actually taken several moons back by the retired Fey-chan, but was one of my best shots thus my decision to enter it into the contest… Just imagine me skip-hopping-around-crying-out-loud-in-joy (unfortunately, it happened only in my mind…) when I realised my entry is amongst the finalists, eventho there’re lotsa superior entries… XD

And so enters the third phase of the PhotoCon, which comrades can cast their votes (Click on the picture to highlight it, press the orange button to vote… You can see the larger version of the thumbnails at Twitpic too…) on their favourite piece… Do vote for me as well, yoroshikune! ^_~

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Sisterly Love… Vuvuzela

The four-years-ly battle for the ball  is coming to an end in a couple of days! With fan favourites getting their asses kicked in every way ever since the start of the tournament, the surviving teams now desperately vie for the ever tempting Holy Grail-I-mean-golden World Cup…


Based upon the buzz (No pun intended… ^^;) generated around the ever accurate predictions by Paul the psychic World Cup predicting calamari…

The verdict is out! But who will win? The Dutch or the Spaniards??

Daki-jacked!!!

Back to base only to find my den has been compromised and conquered!

It seems my Haha no Otouto no Musuko had set his eyes upon my lovely Horo daki and decided to take her for himself…


I am not amused… =_=