Accumulated haul ….

I have been at Yahoo Japan again accumulating a nice variety of stuff over the past month, finally requesting all of said loot to be shipped to me as I cleared some room for it.
- Beat Blades Haruka- Volks- Narika Figure
- Blythe- Takara- All Gold in One
- Blythe- Takara- Love Mission
- Blythe- Takara- Rosie Red

- Fate / Stay Night- Alter- Illya Swimsuit Figure
- Fate / Zero- Saber and Illya Wonderfest Figures
- Final Fantasy VII- Squaresoft- Sephiroth Statue
- Gundam 00- Banpresto- Wang Liu Mei Figure
- Moe-tan- Kotobukiya- Ink Nijihara TV. color version
- Rozen Maiden- Animage- Shinku doll

Commentary- Beat Blades Haruka was purchased because I have a friend who owns it and after seeing it in person I had to have it plus it’s freaking huge compared to the Kotobukiya 1/8th (I imagine it will be huge next to the Alter one too.. once it arrives as I neglected to buy the Koto release ^^;).

All three of the blythes were purchased because I wanted a blythe with black hair, I bought Love Mission first but then a Goldie popped up a fantastic price and then I fell in love with Rosie Red so I bought her too. I might end up selling Love Mission as I feel I kind of settled on her and I only really need two blythes with black hair (well I only really need one but I am not willing to give up Rosie Red or Goldie without a fight).

The Fate / Zero two pack was purchased because I love Illya.. that’s basically the only reason why . I also bought the Fate/Stay Night Illya swimsuit figure for this reason. I had previously purchased her along with a few other figures from a shop overseas but the package somehow never arrived ^^; I think the post most of swallowed her whole.

I bought the Sephiroth statue because I am currently playing through Crisis Core and it struck me that I did not have enough figures of him (he being one of the extremely few males I will actually buy multiple figures of).

I bought Wang Liu Mei because I always regretted not preordering her. She is one of my favorite Gundam 00 characters.

I almost have enough Moe-tan figures to fill a small shelf.. almost so I decided to buy this one to kind of justify giving Moe-tan it’s own shelf ^^; plus she was quite cheap despite the fact that she is extremely cute.

I am a huge Rozen Maiden fan, I previously got the Suigintou that matched this Shinku for my birthday. I finally won one at the price I wanted after losing three auctions for her ^^;

I am paying roughly $500 all told for this package which may seem high until you put into context that the All Gold in One blythe has been known to go for over that amount all by herself.

Anime Boston Haul

Normally I buy a lot more but there was not much of a selection this year, plus I own quite a large number already (just surpassed 1,000 on tsuki-board although I have a lot more that I own that I haven’t bothered listing there yet due to sheer amounts of laziness) so finding something I wanted but didn’t have or have preordered or have in the mail was a challenge.

I think the best find this year was the Sister Princess statue (girl in bikini). I paid $45 original MSRP of 16,000 yen. Most of the other figures were stuff that was my to be eventually be acquired list that I found for cheap and bought with the exception of the Gundam (which reminds me I have a strike rouge I need to finish building ^^;). I honestly did not see a lot of interesting stuff this year.

I did manage to find one item off of my other anime wants list- a He Is My Master towel featuring Anna and Mitsuki.

Rider

Eh I was really excited for this figure but it really disappointed me.

Here it doesn’t look so bad, but the black and white covered up the horribly mismatched paint in her hair.

Such a shame because this figure had a lot of potential.

Seeing Red

Alter very rarely disappoints me. This Rin is no exception.

This might just be my favorite Rin figure, either this one or Magical Girl Rin. It’s odd I can’t stand her character but I like her in figure form.

I don’t have any complaints about this figure whatsoever, I just love it so much in fact I ordered the corresponding Saber to go with it.

Anime update

Recent Arrivals- The rest of the Kotobukiya Galaxy Angel figures showed up




I am pretty happy with all of them the quality is really nice.

Recent purchases-

Series- Fate Hollow/ Atraxia
Character- Saber
Maker- Alter

Series- Melancholy of Suzumiya
Characters- Suzumiya, Yuki and Mikuru
Maker- Chara-Ani

Series- Melancholy of Suzumiya
Characters- Suzumiya, Yuki and Mikuru
Maker- Good Smile Company

Series- Gundam Seed Destiny
Character- Lunamarie
Maker- Megahouse

Also ordered-
Evangelion – Tri-Colle Case
Gundam Seed Destiny- Meer Petit Seed Figure
Gundam Seed Destiny- Lunamarie Petit Seed Figure
There’s also a couple of Ikki Tousen figures coming but I haven’t had the time to look up info on them.