Both of these figures were scooped here recently, and are now beginning to make their way online. Alter's Kuramoto Ikuma (Millimeter Modeling) sculpted Saber (maid ver.) PVC from Fate / stay night is now available at Rakuten Happinet and Amazon, and two versions of Sofmap's [ERO] Shingyouji Mao kit from Boy Meets Girl are up at, predictably, Sofmap (regular and Sofmap limited editions). Saber is due out in late September and Mao is slated for August; there are currently no details on what sets the Sofmap limited version apart from the regular Mao kit, but we'll keep you posted. In other news, Alter has updated their official website, which now contains listings for both maid Saber and the Yurie-sama diorama from Kamichu! that they're producing in collaboration with Happinet. Looks like they're getting their promotional strategy slowly straightened out... (no more)
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Yesterday Hobby Channel scooped the release of a Hitotsubashi Yurie PVC scheduled to be out this October from Aniplex / Hobbinet / Alter. From the sample images it looks like a quality kit, though some (myself included) will probably cringe at the 7,329 yen price point for an 18 centimeter figure; diehard Kamichu! fans should have no trouble making a decision on this one. (no more)
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Quite a number of stuff sifting through the hobby pipelines today and provided is a break down of items that has garnered great personal interest. Also, be sure to tune in to WonHobby News Watch's coverage of TAF2007 -- which really isn't, but rather some small chat with Good Smile Company execs and a glimpse at their exhibit booth.Happinet Robin summer offerings~ Hitotsubashi Yurie Seifuku Ver. (一ツ橋ゆりえ)180mm in height | PVC | Price TBA | Summer 2007 | Happinet Robin | Kamichu! Azusagawa Tsukino Swimsuit Ver. (梓川月乃)150 mm in height | PVC | Price TBA | Summer 2007 | Happinet Robin | Yakitate!! JapanDEATH NOTE joins the Nendoroid series~ Yagami Light (夜神月)100mm in height | PVC | 3,000 yen | July 2007 | Good Smile Company | DEATH NOTE Ryuk (リューク)100mm in height | PVC | 3,000 yen | July 2007 | Good Smile Company | DEATH NOTEMON-SIEUR BOME COLLECTION NO. 21 Honey Bunny Karen & Rio (ハニーバニー　かれん＆りお)Non-scale | PVC | 7,140 yen | May 2007 | KaiyodoIlya Plush30cm in height | PVC | 3,500 yen | June 2007 | Exhaust Web | Fate/hollow ataraxia[No image available]Figure MEISTER Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu (8 pieces/1 box)70~120mm in height | 5,040 yen | July 2007 | Bandai | Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu
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Believe it or not, I just recently finished watching Kamichu for the very first time. When the show first aired nearly two years ago, I was out of the country and too busy with work to watch anime. I did, however, have the opportunity to catch the first two episodes, and liked what [...]
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A Merry Christmas to everybody out there! Was Santa good to all of y'all? Yesterday, I spent most of the day over at the mobile home park for the Christmas Eve service we did there. We had a whole truckload of presents to give to the kids there thanks to the churches around here, so they had a good Christmas :) Rather worn out since I spent a good 30 minutes before things started chasing around kids that weren't listening to me... seems they think that I'm just the nice onii-chan that comes to play with them, not anybody with authority and whatnot ;)    My presents weren't much of a surprise since I picked them all out by myself at Best Buy last Saturday... but that's probably best since my parents generally don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to computers and such (^^;;) Anyways, after all the unwrapping was over this morning I played some Wii Bowling/Tennis/Baseball with my mom and grandparents (yes, I was finally able to find another Wiimote/nunchuk at Best Buy). My mom was pretty good at baseball... beat me once (^^;;) Grandparents seemed to enjoy bowling, though it took them a bit to realize that all you have to do is pretend like you're really bowling and such. I've been working on my bowling technique so it wasn't really a fair match ;) After that, I played some of Rayman Raving Rabbids. Pretty hilarious and fun game, but it can be tiring, especially the first mini-game in the video below, "Bunnies are addicted to carrot juice" (captured using the new TV tuner I got): Those of y'all that have a Wii should check it out sometime. If any of y'all got a Wii for Christmas or before, please add me to your address book: 1627 8945 2353 9113. Post your Wii console number in the comments or e-mail me and I'll add you and send you my Mii :) Besides the Wii stuff, I also got a few anime DVDs: Midori no Hibi collection, MOON PHASE #2 and Shakugan no Shana #2. They didn't have Kamichu or Ichigo Mashimaro there... Anyways, other than playing Wii a lot, I'm catching up with and finishing all of the fall season shows that wrapped up (except for Asatte no Houkou, which I'm watching on BS-i. Couple of weeks behind). I'll try and post something about each of them... think I can do at least that much to make up for being lazy (^^;;) Y'all must be surprised that I haven't even posted on Futago Hime Gyu the past few weeks. Saturday's Christmas episode was really good, so I've got to write something about it ;)
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Just finished up another session of Zelda: Twilight Princess here. I'm through 7 dungeons now and should be able to finish it up this weekend, hopefully. After that I've got Excite Truck to play, but I don't think it'll occupy as much of my time as Zelda has. Zelda >>>>>>>> most everything else for now (^^;;) If any more of y'all have managed to pick up a Wii please register me in your address book and post your Wii number in the comments ;) Anyways, earlier today I stopped by Best Buy and picked up some stuff. No Wiimotes or nunchuks to be found, though ＿|￣|○ Noein DVD 1 and Moonphase DVD 1, $19.99 each. Not much in the way of extras for Noein, but there's a booklet with some cast/staff interviews and a set of 5 postcards with the illustrations of the end cards of the first five eps included with Moonphase. Neko Mimi Mode desu~! I've got Paniponi Dash! DVD 1 on order, so hopefully it'll be here soon. Other than that... school's about over for this semester, thank goodness. Just one more exam next week and that'll be it. I'll still be working over the holidays, though, so I won't have that much extra time to do things like I should... like maybe blog something (^^;;) For now, some news...2nd Season of Higurashi (via MOON PHASE) As the headline says, a second season of Higurashi was announced. That's all the information for now. I kinda lost interest partway through the first season, so I don't know if I'll watch... Keiji Goto's Next Project Is... A robot show called Gigantic Formura (they probably meant Formula) and is scheduled to air in 2007. Keiji Goto is director, Megumi Kadonosono is original character design, and Hidefumi Kimura is doing script, but gimik isn't credited as original creator. Animation will be done by Brains Base (Kamichu!, Innocent Venus).
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Wow, so they do make non action shows without harem or tsundere. Who would have believed? For some reason I started to think Kamichu after finishing the episode. I don't think those have other similarities than peaceful mood, but I guess that's not really bad thing. As I said the mood was great not to mention art also and I'm interested how they continue the story. Depending on what direction
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Kamichu! On the weekend of August 5-6, 2006, I traveled from Kanagawa prefecture, my summer residence, to Hiroshima prefecture, partly to visit Miyajima, one of the three most beautiful views in Japan, and the acclaimed A-bomb domb. (My timer could not have been better since August 6th was the day the A-bomb [...]
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I spent the last 10 days finally finish Kamichu! up slowly (on purpose). I had watched the first 2 episodes a year ago, but only finished up the series now. First and foremost, I must say that I was VERY impressed with the series and would say it was one of the best series that [...]
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I decided to pick up this series after it was mentioned by Omni but has Matthew has blogged it (there are still four DVD-only eps that weren’t covered though) and I don’t have a real character focus, I’m just going to go fanboy over one of the series’ supporting characters - the gorgeous and foxy [...]
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