More new stuff

Apparently I had more packages >_<

Presents= Win

So yesterday was my birthday…

Very happy with the birthday haul, I have a couple of other things still making their way through the post as well including my Trigger Heart Exelica Nendoroid/game and a couple of other things. I feel horrible, I stayed home all morning for a specific package from a friend of mine and my mailman never rang the bell, eventually when I checked the mail I seen a sorry we missed you slip and I was pissed.

I was really touched by an unexpected gesture from a friend of mine dark_skada, apparently she and a few of my other doll collecting friends came together and made this. Seeing that really made my day.

Bunny Girls

I decided to photograph my bunny girls today..first time I actually photographed them together.

She was a gigantic pain to get at the time because Kicks hobby canceled my preorder for her.

Still my favorite character, I can’t resist her.

My least favorite character on the show.

My 2nd favorite character

Not a big fan of her in bunny suit.

I have a weakness for green hair.

My favorite pose of the bunny girls.

Why so serious.. about dolls?

Well if it isn’t obvious already I like dolls. I spend ridiculous amounts of money on them and have amassed a fairly expansive collection of them. I like variety so I have a large collection, I like having options as far as who I want to photograph or dress up on a given day. They make me happy, I don’t care how others feel about them frankly as I bought them for myself not for your enjoyment but my own.

After working on it on and off the last week, I finally finished the Jun Planning sub-heading with the exception of the minis and my in pieces custom currently sitting on my desk. Feel free to take a look at my Jun Planning doll collection here
I didn’t realize I had already hit 175 until I actually did the list completely out.

My total doll numbers increased yesterday although there were no new pullips… I actually got four new dolls in the mail yesterday including three blythes and a Hot Toys Bank Robber Joker doll.

Blythe All three blythes including the mysterious gift blythe arrived yesterday, I kind of wish their arrivals were a bit more spread out as it was a bit overwhelming..

First up we have Alma, she is the Sunday Very Best I found for pretty cheap because she had ::gasp:: an opened box. Apparently dolls lose significant portions of their value when deboxed in the Asian market, that phenomenon does not really happen here as they don’t lose much value when you debox them here.

Next is Lela, she was my surprise blythe.. now when I was told she had red hair I was not anticipating fire engine red hair lol. I was pretty pleasantly surprised by her, although I love her and her stock just not together. I stuck her in Hangry’s stock for some photos.

And finally my favorite Daphne. I absolutely adore her, she may just be my favorite blythe of the ones I own she just seems to have a lot of youthful energy.

I am seriously in love with the Bank Robber Joker as well there are endless possibilities for mischief with him.. I mean he was out of the box ten minutes before he took poor Mikuru hostage. I just happened to be on the Hot Toys site earlier today and they are actually coming out with a third Joker doll.. I will definitely be preordering the new one.

I <3 Mikuru

Mikuru is my favorite character in Melancholy of Suzumiya, I just utterly adore her especially in her waitress uniform. I seen this cutie go up for sale on one of the Japanese doll sites I frequent and was utterly perplexed because I had not seen it before, I knew there was an Azone of her but I also knew that one came with the school uniform. I threw caution to the wind and purchased her even though I didn’t really know anything about her. Well she arrived today and I love her.

After some further digging I found out that she is a 2007 Winter Wonder Festival limited release
Link to horrible google translation of product listing on azone site

Updates and recent haul

- I actually cancelled some preorders out of apathy, they were mostly stuff I was on the fence about it plus I can almost always get the stuff for cheaper after release if I do decide I want it later on. I am probably going to cancel more tonight. I even cancelled a few figures I hadn’t been invoiced for yet at HLJ.. I am to the point where I just don’t care. 
                             
- Toyslogic shipped my package :O it should be here on the 19th. I paid for it almost two weeks ago, I emailed them two days ago asking what the hold up was.. apparently in the interim they actually stocked out on two items one being the Kanokan figure regular version Kotobukiya figure which I didn’t really care about (which I have known about for about a week and was replaced with the Odin Sphere Gwendolyn figure) and the other being the Bank Robber Joker which I was very upset about. I called them as soon as I found out about the Joker figure and eventually they were able to acquire me one. Recieved a nice email from the owner or rather the one who pays the bills did, they just forwarded it to me. I have such a love/hate relationship with that store. I preordered about $400 more worth of stuff between last night and tonight so I think it is safe to assume they are back in my good graces.

More new stuff that arrived today… most of these came SAL but still arrived within two weeks so I was kind of pleasantly surprised. Unfortunately my blythe was not among them >_<

Top Row (from left to right):
Ikki Toussen- Ryofu Housen- Yamato Figure – Eh, at the time of ordering I knew I would at least be getting the Kanu Dollfie Dream and wanted more Ikki figures especially of Ryofu as she is my favorite character. Not as nice I had hoped, I remember when this went up for preorder and deciding against it. I kind of wish I had gone with my original instinct on this one but seeing how I only paid 1300yen and not the original msrp of 6800 yen I am not going to bitch too much.

Nanatsuiro Drops- Sumomo Akihime- Jun Planning- I love this show… not nearly enough figures from it. This one kind of threw me off, the prototype picture looked wretched so even though it was Sumomo I decided against preordering. The repaint prototypes looked less wretched so I preordered the green/yellow version off of hlj. After having the repaint a few weeks and actually really liking it, I spotted the original for 1000 yen so I purchased it. 

(Top) Melancholy of Suzumiya - Nendoroid PLUS- These little guys were only available at Animate stores in six different regions of Japan. Each set of three is specific to a region and features stuff that region is famous for. I paid about 6000 yen for the complete first set, hopefully eventually I will be able to track down the second set and the Lucky Star set.

(Bottom) Melancholy of Suzumiya- Petit Nendoroids- Bon Festival Set- I honestly I am not trying to collect all of the petit nendoroids, I do have the 1st Lucky Star Set (I have the 2nd set preordered but yeah), the two that came with my Lucky Star nendoroids, the red haired Shana and a froggy Mikuru that’s it. Petit nendos are cute but I don’t want a whole stack of them as I only have so much room for gashapon. I liked this set because it came with all the girls without their being variants etc. that I didn’t neccesarily care about. 

Bottom Row (from left to right)- 
Vocaloid- Miku- Volks- I <3 Volks. This was one of my most desired figures for a while, finally purchased her (the twins are in the mail). Absolutely gorgeous figure, unfortunately mine came with a weird paint flaw on one of her pigtails but it is not noticeable in photos. The most expensive item in this particular haul.

Fate Stay/Night- Dark Saber by Alter- As usual the tiniest of Saber kind of bothers me a bit, nice figure all around though. Alter rarely disappoints me, details are nice the only thing I am kind of iffy about is the stand not really digging the color so much. Paid 3,000 yen.

Melancholy of Suzumiya- Chara-ani set- Bought for dirt cheap, they are very small and I am not entirely happy with them. The Suzumiya in the chearleader outfit is my favorite of the set.

Ikki Toussen- Sonsaku- Wanted more Ikki figures as stated above, I like Sonsaku’s character design but I only really like her in her school uniform.

Other preludes..

Migraine… going on eight hours now of blinding pain.. since I can’t sleep…

Yesterday.. I bought two really rather interesting things besides the dollfie dream.

Doll-
Honestly I have only ever watched the first three or four episodes of Melancholy of Suzumiya and I watched eons before it got licensed, in raw Japanese. Eventually I know I will get around to actually watching it and I know I will love it so until then I buy figures from it to save myself the eventual pain of having to track them down at a later date for a higher price.

I absolutely adore Mikuru, I am such a sucker for her especially if she in her waitress uniform. I knew there was an Azone of Mikuru but it was the school uniform so I wasn’t that terribly interested but look what I came across yesterday. I immediately purchased it but have since not really been able to find much information about her, all I have been able to is a few blog posts wondering if she was limited as her packaging was different and her price on yahoo japan vs the standard is significantly higher. If anyone knows any additional information, please share.

Figure- I finally caved and bought the Alter Fate Tesstarossa I have been wanting. She was my most wanted figure. I had seen her in Hawaii and wanted her but I only had two empty suitcases to bring back anime purchases and she would have taken up most of one of them so I decided against her even though I loved her. Toyslogic put up a preorder for the reissue for May so I preordered it and then in December I get an email saying sorry we were not able to get her in stock. I was not amused but I digress, regardless of the circumstances I am getting her so I don’t care.

I also paid for my pullip preorders for the month, almost $300 for the pullip, dal and taeyang T_T. Next month it is going to be closer to $400 because of the collaboration at least next month is my birthday so there is a good chance I will not have to pay for all of them myself.

Recent Haul

Stuff that arrived in the mail yesterday, I will post up more individual pictures later.

Nothing came today unfortunately T_T

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.