The HLJ conspiracy and more love for HoiHoi –san!
Hobby Link Japan is currently NOT charging your for EMS shipping costs to promoted their upgraded check out system if you pay via PayPal.
Original text from their homepage below:
We’ve just upgraded our checkout system to make it easier than ever to pay with PayPal! In order to showcase the safety and convenience of using their service, HobbyLink Japan is offering free express shipping on all orders placed and paid for with a PayPal Billing Agreement between now and September 28.
Once you set one up, a PayPal Billing Agreement lets you pay for all your HLJ orders without ever having to visit the PayPal website yourself.
For more information head over to their info page.
Unfortunately HLJ does such campaigns always shortly after I spent some moolah elsewhere!
CONSPIRACY! I guess the NHK is involved too but I’ll have to investigate this a little bit further.
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As my bank account is still suffering from purchasing a certain lolicious figure I couldn’t get all those lovely, shipping-cost-free waifus I wanted so bad… (ToT)
But I was quite lucky to come across this figure which I had to get!
A 1:1 HoiHoi-san from KOTOBUKIYA sold for 3000Yen! You might want to get yours ASAP as the are already running out of stock! HLJ product page link: http://www.hlj.com/product/KBYKP-98
She is partially pre-painted and according to comrade Rob only her weapons need some paint.
When I tweeted about my purchase a few hours ago a lot of comrades seemed to have no idea who she is. And so I decided to share some knowledge with you.
Ichigeki Sacchu!! HoiHoi-san (= One-Shot Bug Killer!! Interceptor Doll HoiHoi-san) started out as a manga published in the magazine Dengeki Dai OH.
The setting is in year 20XX at a time when insects are immune to all insecticides, so Japanese pharmaceutical companies have had to come up with the next level in insect extermination: small but heavily armed robots.
Hoihoi-san is the bug killing robot of the title, a 10.5 cm tall doll like robot that comes with a wide range of weapons. There are other robot models called RRX-7.8 Combat-san and PEST-X-san but I don’t want to post some spoilers.
Quite awesome, eh? As if this scenario alone wouldn’t be already enough there are a lot of weird things going on in this story.
Btw: Did the name “RRX-7.8” ring, a bell? Gundam’s aren’t that cute though ^^;
You can get a torrent for the manga over here.
In 2004 a short OVA was produced, feel free to check it out below.
Love her walking sounds xD Would be great if my 1:1 HoiHoi-san would walk around like that too!
There was also a PS2 game which got re-published three times!
The game, released 2003-11-27, is a third person shooter where the main aim is to complete levels defeating hordes of various kinds of insects, while avoiding collateral damage to furniture and other household items.
If you want to download and play this game on your PC check out my blog post over here.
Some game footage below.
Unfortunately the manga wasn’t continued (besides HoiHoi-san Legacy which got never translated.) I would like to see more adventures of HoiHoi-san and her “sisters” but I guess this won’t happen. Hopefully KOTOBUKIYA releases a Combat-san (edit: some sculpt was already seen on the interwebs!) and a PEST-X-san kit in the future.
Isn’t she cute? Can’t wait to receive mine.
I’m wondering if you liked this not so usual post as I tried to cover a topic which wasn’t all over the interwebs. It’s kinda boring to read about something you have already seen several times elsewhere in my opinion, right?
As I’m already talking about random stuff:
How do you like my new blog design? Any suggestions?
And random blubb 2: Happy Birthday, Blowfish-san! Party hard with your waifus!
Crap X_____x
I also wanted to make orders until monday, seems like I can forget that.. I totally forgot about that <<'
But gz for your HoiHoi-san, I knew her already though I haven't watched the OVA (yet). :3
So weird, and so cute, this item is.
I’ve got a bit of a theory too XDXD only mine works in the opposite way, They send me a shipping request and the next day I ask them to cancel it [This was like 2 weeks ago] No reply. A few days later. I ask again. No reply. Then they go on vacation and I FINALLY get a reply to all of the emails apologizing and saying they’ll do it after they get back. I think they just want to taunt me. XDXDXD But I need new figures like a need a bullet in the head.
It’s Saturday you know? Still 2 days left! You need more boxes cause it seems like you got rid of way to many of ‘em lately.
And I command you to watch the OVA! Although the mango is better.
Yah, I know. Especially her emotionless face is kinda creepy sometimes^^ But you can install a few sets of cute different voices, at least in the manga.
Oh shi. that’s strange, and you were nearly going nuts I guess?
HLJ worked always fine for me. But if you take a look at there shopping system I’m not surprised that something can go wrong.
Maybe they just didn’t want you to cancel your order, eh?^^
Well, if I had the money, and something that I want, yes.
But I hate to browse at their store. You have to search for hours to find something.
I only want my Saber Lily’s >.<
Yah, just browsing trough their products takes hours! Your Saber Lily’s are Archonia-ordered, right?
XDXD I don’t know what they want from me except for me to snap and impulse buy like mad when they finally cancel it. [It was only 3 keychains XDXD]
The big one yes. The Nendo is ordered from Hobby Search.
Yeah…
you´re not the only one who want to order but couldn´t^^”