More pictures to follow.

Nanaka Shirakawa teacup from COSPA!

I have a confession to make: I am a huge Nanaka fanboy. *gasp* I know, I know, it’s a shocking revelation. But it’s really a nice teacup… orz. I mean, come on, Nanaka in her hatsumode kimono and Chibi Nanaka on the reverse side, that’s a sure-fire recipe for fanboy overloading.

Thanks to Kieth Keith from KKnM for helping me secure it. I love that store. Everyone should buy from them. (Do I get discounts for this?)

If you don’t live in Singapore, you can always get Nanaka online from HLJ for ï¿¥800.

Moving on…

It’s Lacus Clyne! Lacus-sama! Lacus-sama! Lacus-sama!

Confession No.2: I am a huge Lacus fanboy. *more gasps* This 1/8 PVC figure from Megahouse’s RAH DX series returns Lacus to her somewhat lolilicious younger appearance from the original SEED.

As is mandated by Japanese industrial laws, she comes with removable skirts. Haruhi bless Japan.

Or you can leave only the top part of her skirt on to get a pseudo miniskirt. Mmmm… Human ingenuity reaches new heights.

One last look at her purplish-pink pantsu. Mmmmmm… And a pink Haro. Don’t forget the pink Haro.

You can get Lacus from HLJ for ï¿¥4,000.

Kasumi was an impulse buy. I don’t even like Dead Or Alive. This 1/6 figure of her from Max Factory originally came in blue, followed by white. Black is the top secret colour variation obtainable only by cool people like me. Yup.

Unfortunately, she’s probably sold out online, except maybe on some way overpriced websites. It’s quite an old release after all.

Just look at those nice-looking… strands of hair. Uh. Yeah. Those.

If you live in Singapore, you can get her from Urban Attic located on the 5th floor of Funan. Unlike tj han and tsubaki, you probably won’t get any discounts for mentioning my blog. :3

And of course, Mahoro. You can see the nice pictures here and buy her from HLJ for ï¿¥10,000.

Some pictures of the bike without Mahoro.

And on a final note: ALL YOUR FIGURES ARE BELONG TO CHINA!

Best. Figure. Ever.

View the rest of the photos here.

The figure retails for ï¿¥10,000 but online stores like Ami-Ami are selling it for around ï¿¥8000. (HobbyLink Japan has it at retail price.) I got mine for 108 SGD, which is about ï¿¥8100 or 70 USD.

Yet another one of my life goals has been achieved. :)

Anyway, I have a story to tell today. It’s a story of love, passion and courage. Okay, so there isn’t really any courage involved and the love is somewhat superficial, but screw it! The title is cool. ねぇ？

Long before the current incarnation of this blog, when I was still a young and impressionable (lol) otakuling, I woke up one day and suddenly felt the urge to splurge all my money on little plastic anime figurines. It was a sudden enlightenment not unlike achieving nirvana or playing eroge for the first time.

Okay, so that didn’t happen. The real version of the story goes like this: I was just surfing the net as usual when a few unfortunate series of clicks brought me to HobbyLink Japan, a blood-sucking store built on the soulless corpses of gullible foreign otaku that exports cool and useless stuff out of Japan because no one in Japan is actually stupid enough to pay for those crap any more.

One of the first things I saw on HLJ was this 1/12 Mahoro & Sports Motorcycle resin kit from Mahoromatic, a show by the lunatics geniuses at Gainax about a flat-chested combat robot maid. Now the combat robot maid part would have been totally cool by itself, but she’s also riding on a cool-looking bike! And holding a huge gun to boot! It boggles the mind as to why she’s doing that in her maid costume, but dammit, I think words cannot describe how awesome this figurine looks.

I knew I wanted it bad. But reality rose its nine ugly heads (wait, maybe I’m thinking about something else here) and my short-lived dream was shattered. It’s 19,800 god-damn yen and I had (and still have) no fucking idea how to assemble and paint a resin kit. There was a completed PVC version of it selling for less, but that was sold out. Shit. I swore to myself that I would one day buy the kit and build it. One day.

The next time I saw the figurine was at a local store that had a completed version on display. To this day, I remind myself of the promise every time I walk pass that store. But alas, “one day” has yet to arrive.

Recently however, Kotobukiya suddenly decided to re-release the PVC version of this totally awesome figurine for a retail price of about 10,000 yen (86 USD) with a pre-order special price of ~8000 yen (~70 USD). You can imagine how delighted I was. I placed an order for it today from my usual source for an estimated price of 138 SGD (88 USD), which is not bad taking into account shipping. Hell, the store hadn’t even added it to their pre-order catalogue until I pestered them about it.

So in another three months or so, I’ll finally have my very own 1/12 Mahoro to admire. No doubt I will hug it to sleep every night and cherish every moment of my life with it, at least until the times come when I grow bored of it (which takes about TWO whole days) and leave it to collect dust like every other figurine before it.

*sniff* Wasn’t that a nice story? I love happy endings.

Okay, so I technically still have yet to fulfil my promise to one day build and colour the resin kit myself, so it’s really just a cheap substitute for the true happy ending. But you know those gal game like AIR where you have to beat all the “normal” happy endings before you get to the “true” happy ending? It’s the same thing.

Now I just need someone to teach me how to assemble and paint resin models so that I can unlock the true end to this story. Any suggestions?

P.S. The title had nothing to do with the story after all… but hey, it still sounds cool.