No… really.

I got my Puchi Haruhi nedoroid set #3 late last month and boy was it worth it. They now sit nicely ontop of my TV. One complaint is that some of the parts don’t fit too nicely … especially the arms.. got they just kept falling off! After putting together 6 of them I got frustrated and went to play some GTA4 instead -_-; I had Lucky Star nendoroids before and I never had this problem with them. But for MOST of the figures in the Haruhi set, things just didn’t fit nicely. I wonder if complaining to Danny Choo would help?

Rock band costumes! In realtead news, the 1/8 Scale version will be out next year!

Day of Sagittarius

My Enpatsu Shakugan ver. Shana Nendoroid arrived last week and she’s just so cute! She comes with 3 different faces, 3 pairs of arms, her cape, her sword Nietono no Shana and Alastor. She has found a home ontop of my PS3.

Yes, that is an Aspergillus oryzae plushie sitting in a cup

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[17:48] <@Alkenshel> COKE IS A LAZY ASS!
[17:48] <+Cokematic> true that
[17:48] <@Alkenshel> indeed

#dasaku@irc.rizon.net – where intelligent conversations take place … sometimes.

So I will be away from work for 5 days in a row (although 4 days have already passed)… without taking a vacation! partially thanks to typhoon tropical cyclone Nuri which is a cooler name than Fay, but that’s not really the point of this post. I spent most of the past 4 days doing nothing except chatting on IRC, playing some GTA4, and watching AIRA The Animation.

First off, many thanks to pantherRH for bringing this to my attention in the dasaku IRC channel:

First thought that came to mind was “DO WANT!!!” … I’m particularly interested in the “Day of Saggitarius” getup. The other one is… if-SOS-dan-forms-a-band getup? Its also quite cute, except Kyon and Istuki look totally gay.

Honestly, I’m not too into figures. I’ve never owned a figure that cost more more than $15 USD (it was a red Canti figure .. unfortunately.. his head snapped off a few years back T_T). Also, the last time I bought these Nendoroid petits, I was going for Kagamin. Unfortunately, I got a Konata, Miyuki and even Tsukasa! And when I went back to the store… they were sold out T_T.

Anyways, according to Jop, if I buy a case of 12, I should at least expect getting the set of 10 (and maybe the secret figure if I’m lucky). However, he was refering to the Negima set he bough .. which is not a Nendoroid petit set from Good Smile Company, so it may not apply here. If I can find someone to buy the doubles off me.. then I won’t mind buying two crates of them (amounting to 24 .. which should definately get me the set… unless I’m super unlucky… which might actually happen). If anyone out there has bought a case of Nendoroid petite, please let me know if I can get the whole set (not including the secret figure) in a case of 12!!

Also, Nendoroid Shana and Hatsune Miku are on my watchlist (pre-order of Miku is already closed at HobbySearch, but Play-Asia still has some, albeit slightly more expensive).

And ohbytheway, Nendoroid.org is a great site with all the GSC Nendoroid released so far. I’m still waiting for the day when a Gurren Lagann Nendoroid set comes out.

Secondly, some funny developments fansub dorama (so what’s new?) over at Chihiro subs. The article itself is short and can be summed up in one line “someone deleted out tracker stuff and we lost all our subs… halp plz!”. Now, I don’t watch their stuff:

Chihiro’s current/active projects

1. Penguin Musume <- kinda interhingested, but probably won’t watch.
2. To Love RU <- lol no.
3. Sekirei <- no
4. Ikkitousen <- no
5. World Destruction <-no
6. School Rumble San Gakki <- watching Wannabe’s version

but its kind of hard to imagine that between all their staff, they don’t have a copy of their own work. The only explanation I can think of is: “not even chihiro would archive chihiro’s releases.”

Anyways, there are many nuggets of gold amongst all the flames and blind faith, out there like this one:
“@koda: if u think ur better than Chihiro, try to sub faster than them”
So now speed => better?

and then you get stuff from the freaks of the interweb:

Lucy Says:
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:45 am

Hi, I am Lucy from Elfen Lied. I know why everybody, the leader of GG, Jaka, the sicko that impersonated Kristen , and people from deculture and other fansub groups, and a whole entire moron convention, are ganging up on Chihiro. It’s because, like I said in the end of episode 8 of Elfin Lied, “when you’re miserable, you need something that’s even more miserable than yourself.” And since you can’t find anything more miserable, you decide to make some one else miserable. It’s why and how bullying exists. When people are miserable, they seek to make someone else more miserable to make themselves feel better and superior. I was bullied when I was young, so I know. Those faggots killed my dog. T.T

and oh, btw, I think I might start by ripping off a couple limps… =)

I literally facepalmed.

Moving on then.  Thanks to Hemi, I’ve discovered the greatness of xkcd.

One of my favourite comics
Hey I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this somewhere (4-chan maybe?)

And last, but not least a LOL JAPAN video (someone’s got alot of talent and even more free time)

I figure it was time to brush off the dust on this blog with a post of some sort.

I recently watched a very enjoyable Shana-tan episode (Shakugan no Shana Second – Fumina Konoe Strikes Back!!), and to celebrate, a new wallpaper. Thanks to Jason for the inspiration (and the screencaps that I was too lazy to take).

“That’s it Haess, I’m dumping the Black Lagoon girls– I want that first picture vectored and made into my new desktop in the most adorable way possible.“

I was going to use something else as the background, but I couldn’t think of a better way to incorporate Shana-tan’s “Melonpan Beamu” into it, but anyways. Enjoy.

Melonpan Beamu-!!

1024 x 768 , 1280 x 800 , 1280 x 960 , 1280 x 1024 , 1680 x 1050 , 1900 x 1200

It’s almost time for the Spring 2008 season! Historically, the spring season is one of my favorites, although it’s looking a bit weak this year. Nevertheless, the past month, I’ve finished off most of what I have been watching so its time for a quick review!

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(Sorry for the lack of screen shots, SS-Ayu decided to encode in mp4 so BS player can’t play it. And printscreen + Media Player Classic fails horribly.)

Maybe it’s the fact that Zero no Tsukaima and Shakugan no Shana were both produced by JC Staff, or the fact that Louise and Shana are both voiced by Rei Kugimiya and Saito and Yuuji are voiced by Satoshi Hino, but I found myself comparing ZnT to Shana wayyy too nuch … so much that it had become a huge distraction while watching. I swear, sometimes I half expected Louise to burst out yelling “URUSAI! URUSAI! URUSAI!” ~_~;;

URUCHAI! URUCHAI! URUCHAI! URUCHAI!
BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA! BAKA!

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Instead of write about what I watched this week, I’ll have the top 10 “lol” scenes from this week because lists are cool (And its been like 9 days since  the last “This week in anime” so this week its more like “This week and a third in anime”) :

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This week in anime: Shana burns down a house, Potemayo slays baby kittens, Ef put me to sleep and more!

Yakitatte Japan! Shana style~

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