Figma Mirai – Culture Japan

I spy with my little eye something that is….Orange & white, has a “d” logo, and with a name that means future. Who could that be? Danny choo’s mascot – Mirai! I’ve obtained my Figma Mirai from J-List. Why not? Everybody else seemed to have went with AmiAmi but eh…let’s create our own unique path!

(Link – MySite) – Mirai with a J-list supplied tissue packet.

(All images taken with a Lumix GF-1 – Pancake lens.)

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Ottawa – Algonquin Figure&Dollfie meet

Hello again! This time I got a re-cap of a sudden figure.fm meet-up from April 30th that Kodama suddenly requested. We both met up at the beautiful Algonquin College’s Garden area. I brought over my beloved Busou Shinkis and props while he brought his newly adopted Dollfie and Figmas. The weather was very nice during that day as well.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1- Pancake lens.)

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Nendoroid – 104 – Azusa Nakano

Nya!~ Obtained my first Nendroid today being the all too popular Azusa Nakano, or Azunyan. She comes from the overly popular K-On! Anime which features five girls attempting to save the music club – Keion/K-On!. Azunyan being the newest addition to the main casts that gets treated as the cute cat character with the cat ears – Nekomimi. I guess this could be considered a “belated” review as most collectors online have her within their collection.

(Link – MySite) – Nyan~

(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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O-Chan and Saber’s snowy fun

What a weathery rough weekend that was! Ice and rain with clouds reaching to the ground, foggy, and then a snow pile dumped on the city overnight on Sunday. Well, being Canadians I guess we should be used to these messy weather haha! Well, somewhat….O-Chan and Saber wanted to have fun. Also added a few Renge comics as bonus content.

(Link – MySite) – Snow on trees, my favorite!

(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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The Hidden Life of Figures

Hello! I thought I’d offer up a tutorial article for those new to the figure photoshoot scene, or those simply struggling to brainstorm ideas. Article also doubles as explanation to those those unfamiliar with Anime and figures. I’m basically going to mention ways you can guess or form a personality for figures for your comics, photoshoots, stop motion, or whatever else you might be planning to do and what you might be able to use them for. This also comes from studying other people’s comics and articles.

(Link – MySite) – Renge’s source of supernatural energy returned.

Note: If you see some obvious points being made, or explained, then it’s because of me explaining what this is about to those unfamiliar with bringing figures to life.

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Happy New Year! – Renge & Tsugu comfrontation

Well, Happy New Year everybody! Hope you had a great 2010 and looking to a Rabbit filled 2011. Also, this shall be my last figure photoshoot of the year so I tried to make it count. Also, didn’t get fireworks for Ottawa. In return, I shall recap with the ones I took on Canada Day and on Dow’s Lake Illuminations to fill in the gap.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Shinki Tsugaru – Santa Claus

Ho ho ho! Merry (belated) Christmas!~

Our tsundere (I was told she was) of a Tsugaru played a few tricks even before she finally made it under my command. She purposely wanted to tease me by coming earlier than stated on the delivery tracking log, and then later after the holidays Christmas. I missed her when she first came and got her on the second coming. Apparently she adopted Renge’s traits of a trickster and wanted to merge that with her tsundere-ness. It doesn’t stop there though…

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Figma Aya Kagura: School Uniform ver.

Whoa? Back onto the Figma line? Been hanging around Shinki’s since Summer. Well, I obtained her and O-Chan around the same time but decided to split them up for review and photoshoot reasons. I also thought I might be needing her accessories sooner or later. And If you must know, I acquired her at my local Anime Stop.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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O-Chan – It’s one of those days….

Ah yes, something us Ottawaians tend to dread, winter! It’s just one of those lethargic days were you don’t want to do anything at all. Seeing the constant rain and snow mix up. Well, who would be highly enthusiastic? Well, I’m all uppity, however…….someone I know isn’t. Since I now have a proper purpose for snow I no longer curse back at it…though, my photo-shooting subjects tend to disagree.

(Link – MySite) – Renge:  “zzzzzzZZZZZzzzzzzz….”

(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Awakening of a Fox Spirit – Busou Shinki

Similar to Benio’s and Kohiru’s “outdoor adventure”, I thought I’d do something slightly more “story-like”. I rarely added dialogue to my Figma/Grail War or other types of articles so I hope you would pardon any newbie like errors in this one. Also, treat this article as a “prologue” to the review (previous article).

Enjoy!

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Happy white (not so) Halloween night!

Autumn is quickly shifting into it’s final messy period. Plants are dieing, going into winter-mode, or simply letting go of their leaves. The winds are also picking up causing quite a bunch of leaves to be blown about. Anybody have a kite? It also decided to snow 5 cm the night before Halloween.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Trick or Treat! – Halloween – Figma & Shinki special

A few more days till Halloween! With the days quickly counting down to Halloween, my Figmas and Shinkis were quite estatic that they kept holding various meetings and mini-parties every few days. They ate snacks, fought one another, pigged out, and gained new gifts to use! Costumes? Sadly, none for all.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Tenko Kuugen – PVC

Acquired Tenkp Kuugen PVC on Monday and reviewing it today (Wednesday).  Even though I’m aware of it’s bad reputation of leaning, I just needed something to remember my favorite fox Anime with – Wagaya no Oinari-sama. She happened to be the only one left in stock so I swiftly grabbed her. Since this has probably been reviewed on other blogs I guess we can say “better late then ever” heh.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – Pancake lens.)

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Vocaloid’s seasonal fall

Ah, what a nice warm fall day! Not a single cloud sky, or signs of chilliness in sight. It was absolutely gorgeous, along with the trees. The weather even influenced a R/C boat enthusiast to play around with his little boat. And of course, I can’t leave without figures since I need them for photography purposes.

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(All images taken with a Lumix GF1 – pancake lens.)

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