Author: ArcticuKitsu

A 31 year old Canadian currently living within Ottawa who enjoys expressing his interests. My interests are those to do with Anime, Games, Ferrari, VR games (Vrchat), and photography. I attempt to create music using Fruityloops 8. I have traveled to Europe - Mostly Eastern half - and plan to visit Japan sometimes within the future.

A 31 year old Canadian currently living within Ottawa who enjoys expressing his interests. My interests are those to do with Anime, Games, Ferrari, VR games (Vrchat), and photography. I attempt to create music using Fruityloops 8. I have traveled to Europe - Mostly Eastern half - and plan to visit Japan sometimes within the future.

Figma Ryomou Shimei – First glance

Anybody called for a maid? Went to check out my anime store recently and they didn’t have much, just her and Shana. Ah well, at least I put myself in line for Figma Signum. I didn’t have her and didn’t want to leave the shop empty hande so I grabbed her, paid for her and biked back home. I got her last week on wednesday, but I kind of waited for the “right moment” to review her. Meh, I should of just took pictures of her like I normally would.

I don’t recall ever seeing Ryomou in a maid outfit. Its not like its a bad thing, right? The below images were taken with my Sony W170 Camera, excuse the quality. I should of taken the pictures during the nice warm weather when I had the proper lighting……..

(Link – MySite)

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Ottawa – Spring Time#4 w/figma Rin (Vocaloid)

Another great day meaning another great time to take pictures of the local wildlife, as with figmas. This time I decided to bring Figma Rin to see what kind of images I could end up taking by bringing her along.

Well, I missed out on the Ottawa Tulip festival since I forgot when it was going to take place with me currently cursing that I have missed it. So much for looking at the Japanese tent this year :(. Ah well, there is always next year and more events to go to, right?

Before I go on about it, I thought I’d point out some kick ass Pockies that I found interesting again. The Almond type biscuit sticks that I found yesterday in the local Asian store on the other side of Ottawa. Also a teaser image to the next Figma I got that I will eventually do a photoshoot of, Figma #024 if your curious.

(Link – MySite)

A review of the next Figma will come soon 🙂

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Ottawa – Spring Time#3 w/figma Haruhi

Excuse the lack of a better post title, heh.

(Link – MySite or Deviantart)

Another beautiful day means another set of great images from the vast open great white green northern nation of Canada. Each week passes meaning a better and greener scenery around the city as well as the nation, woo! This time I brought Haruhi around for the bike ride but wasn’t too sure were to take images so excuse the lack of Figma images.

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Ottawa – Spring time#2

I see I haven’t blogged in awhile. Lets create a new entry then with my bike ride along the Ottawa river, with my new bike.  Sadly I didn’t bring any Anime figures this time around since I just wanted to get used to my new bike and finally check out the Spring scenery around. Though since this is a gaming and anime oriented blog for Ottawa, I’ll get some in the next article.

Lets start off with some ducks, shall we?

(All images are full sized, click the link under images to view them. Images are captured with a Sony Digital Camera W170. )

Warning: Below image comments may contain inside jokes or quick humor that may not be humourous to an average person.

(Link – MySite)

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Ottawa – April 16, 2009

Sorry, no Anime on this one until I can get a new bike, or tune my old bike (*hears a cheer from the non-Japanese minded lurkers*).  I’m still waiting for the spring bloom before I also try to Figure photoshoot as to make the images look nicer,  but the plants are lagging behind for some odd reason. I see the animals are coming back, the grass is going green, and the insects coming out gradually.

I haven’t yet shown the Ottawa River rapids have I? Here is one of them that I tried taking pictures of. Its just cool to look at, and theres a cooler one closer to downtown that I’ll take a picture of later.

(Note: I didn’t shrink the full sized images so they’re going to appear large when to full screen them.)

(Link – MySite)

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Fraulein Revoltech – Bunny Haruhi

Went to my local Anime Store again and tried to find new Figmas to get. My choices for today were

1) Figma Ryomou Shimei.
2) Figma Mikuru Asahina School Uniform Version.

Either those two or the $100 CAD Deformed Saber figure (Link)…….. I can hear my wallet crying already :(. I also saw bunny ear’d Nagi-san (Link). Nice choices but damn, I’ll try getting them online for cheaper (slim chance).

Well I checked out the Haruhi Bunny revoltech and saw one that seemed to be opened and twisted around. I made sure that what I was checking out was as best of a quality before I took one.� She looks cool and in perfect condition, so I picked her up and bought her. She also had a guitar which made me get her over the other two Figmas.

(Link – MySite)

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Petroglyph Madness! Part 2

The chaos continues and they’re still being bold via comics. For those who missed out then here is the previous link.  Also got impulsive and started a Moddb entry for the PF Mod Comics where you “might” be able to experience the crazyness of Petroglyph forums.

PF Comics Mod – Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption joke mod
http://www.moddb.com/mods/pf-comic-mod

For the comics then venture in and read more!

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Early Spring photoshoot

Hyello again, enjoying the spring like weather? Oh, you don’t get winter? For those of us that do have to experience 4 seasons instead of two; Spring, summer, fall, winter. Spring is nice since you see things become light green, cool light brown, Cherry Blossom pink, Apple tree bright red and etc. Now I’m just being a smart-ass and stating the obvious so we shall move on.

I haven’t seen any greens yet, but I have noticed the bike path becoming nice and clear for distant biking. I’ve noticed tons of birds coming back and a few bugs popping about (shudders at the thought of centipedes running through his room).

While trying to take pictures of a bird, it started flying at the last moment when the camera was focusing and getting ready for the high quality image part. It mocked me and my camera!

(Link – MySite)

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Sub’s 22nd Birthday

Wow, where have the months, weeks and days gone? Last time I checked it was March 9ths, then 15th, 20th, and now 28th. Twenty two already, wow.

Thanks to Valdez for this “Post-card” lol.

(Link – MySite and Petroglyph Gallery)

Youtube – Caramelldansen

I’ll edit in any new events into this blog entry (if any) and shall get a banner made tonight or tomorrow for those who asked for it :). If you don’t see anything past this mark then nothing interesting worth blogging about happened.

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Petroglyph’s 5th anniversary

Since I helped keep Petroglyph’s forum clean and trying to keep the community creative, as well as active, I got access to a nice new shirt.

For those who don’t know who or what Petroglyph is then check, here. They created the games

1) Star Wars: Empire at War (PC)
2) Star Wars: Forces of Corruption Expansion (PC)
3) Universe at War: Earth Assault (PC and 360)
4) Mytheon MMO (PC) – Still in the making and free to play (with the option to buy cosmetic typed material online).

(Link – MySite)

(Link – MySite)

If you want to know what Mytheon is, then check out this site: Game Sector Network. Not much to say except let your creativity loose and see how you could support other companies, friends, buddies, co-workers, or other solo/groups of people I’m unaware/forgetful of when typing this entry in.

January’s Christmas Decoration & new comp

Ya, I know its late for this and early to show it for next Christmas, but I thought I’d post it since its wet snowing here.  Should make for a nice wrapping up collection of winter images and start up with some nice light green spring scenery.

(Click the link under the image for fullsized view, will open in a new window/tab.

New computer woot! Acquired it last Satrday (March 14) and showing it off today.  Better access to things and I can finally make better quality “music” with the help of FL-Chan (Fruity loops 8). My previous computer had fried USB ports so I couldn’t post things as swiftly, reason why your seeing this late.

(Link – MySite)

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Spring walk – Figma Shana

Nice day for a walk I must say, though a bit windy, it was warm with spring coming around. I should remind you to watch your step as it can get pretty icy around here. It always ends up getting swampy like and turns to ice (not everywhere of course). Oh and if your lurking, Shana makes a quick appearance. My camera ended up running out of juice so I had to head back.

So without further ado, here are some pictures from Canada, Ottawa with a nice lovely sky.

(Link – MySite)

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Blog changes – Theme and “mascot”

Well, the previous theme was giving me issues so I decided to switch it to a more simple theme. Also, you may have noticed I changed the blog name from “Eurosubstance” to “Arctic Kitsune” to a little internet persona that was formed on another site (Explained here, and at the bottom).

My previous theme was an eye-sore and this one I got now fits my persona/mascot well. Please welcome our little Kitsune Fox, GS.

(Link – MySite) – Created by Valdez.

And the weapon that spawned the little guy above.

(Link – MySite) – My concept, redrawn by Valdez

And to quote the origin of this Arctic Fox.

I know this should of been in another blog entry but I thought I could make it into a quick wrapping up explanation.
Reason why I was drawn as a (male) Kitsune was because I ended up liking the Anime’s Spice and Wolf, Wagaya no Oinari-sama, Kanoko, and other various fan arts of these kitsunes. I ended up ranting about it on the boards (as with drawing a Fox sword) and have been drawn into an Arctic Fox. My Fox persona is based on Anime and my liking of Kitsune girls.

If you know the Japanese mythology of Kitsunes, then you should know what this one is. The Anime Wagaya no Oinari-sama should be a good example. Now here is to hoping I can give him a proper name, besides Ghostly Substance or GS, and see a shape shifting side to him in the (near) future.