austrian otaku

It has been a while since my latest figure review because most figures released lately weren’t falling in my DO WANT category. Unlike this figure here which was pretty much love at first sight. After several months of waiting (including  2 months delay) Kiriko finally arrived here last week.

The original character was obviously designed by Shunya Yamashita for an anime/manga/figure/ novel/drama-CD project called “Enka Ōdō Dai Shōgun” from Studio Anima. Studio Anima did the animations for Metal Gear Solid 4, Valkyria Chronicles and Ninja Blade so this could turn out quite well.

More details can be found on the official homepage which is unfortunately only available in Japanese. http://www.studioanima.co.jp/dai-shogun/

The didn’t go with the original, purple colour scheme and used a light-purple-ish one instead. I guess this works far better for such a large figure after all.

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Already got Mio yesterday from Hobbysearch thanks to EMS shipping. She is nearly sold out everywhere unless you are willing to spend 8000 Yen. O_O

Didn’t come up with a Nendo-Story this time cause I was busy fraging random folks @ Modern Warfare 2 ährm… studying Kanji.

(Sorry for the bad image quality but if you are willing to donate 500-600€ for a new camera feel free to do so. ^^;)

Mio on stage!

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Just another really short update.

First: I could NOT resist and ordered a quite pricy but awesome figure:

Enka Oudo Dai Shogun Hattori Kiriko Ninja Version

Preordered for 11.400Yen / 83€ / 123USD from Hobbysearch.

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As some folks keep asking me what happened to HoiHoi-san, I decided to post a quick update on the building progress.

Started to build her after checking out the manual for a few minutes. Maybe an old habit, cause I came across some quite weird manuals when I was building tanks, planes and such many moons ago. But as it is a manual from a Japanese company you don’t have to worry. Just start right away!

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Believe it or not but sometimes a Monday is fine too!

Got a bunch of boxes today. Not all of them filled with otaku-ish merchandise though.

From left to right: HP ink, Kokonoe Rin 1/6, the Otaku Encyclopedia, and some rori vampire mango. ^^;

Unfortunately my HoiHoi-san didn’t arrive yet. According to the Japan Post EMS tracking service she is already on the road somewhere between Vienna and me.

Oct 4, 8:07 Awaiting presentation to customs commissioner
Oct 5, 6:48 Departure from inward office of exchange

But let’s take a quick look on the items:

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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.

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)

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