Have a great Mothers day today! Remember even you soulless jerks had to have been born somehow so go give your dear kinda mother who pushed a 9 pound baby through her birth canal a hug and say thanks! “Thanks for birthing me momma!” Here i leave you with some Akiko fanservice! Don’t fap too much remember she’s a mother

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Max Factory 1/8 Shirakawa Kotori

I had technically paid for her in December but i didn’t receive her till January of this year, for my first figure of the year i have to say that it was an amazing figure. I had finally set out to watch Da Capo and when i did i, (like most people) loved Kotori. She was such a sweet character and while Junichi may have chosen Nemu, we all chose Kotori. As for the actual PVC version of Kotori, she’s a good quality figure, my only thought is she is super tall for a 1/8 scale figure. Standing next to a few of my other 1/8 scale ladies she seems tall, she’s as tall as a few 1/7 scale figures I own but then her proportions don’t match the 1/7 scale figures. Overall any fan of Da Capo must own this figure, get your own here.

Max Factory 1/8 Fauna

I had been dying to own this figure since her release back in December. I have a strict rule of only buying figures from series i have seen/liked. It’s my best way to avoid getting too many figures on impulse. I have to honestly say i wanted her solely for the castoff feature. But she is an absolutely beautiful figure, and i’m glad i was able to add her to my collection. Technically she was an impulse buy as well, but a well thought out impulse buy. I was about to buy her online from HLJ when we drove up to LA to visit a friend, we then went to a local mall and walked into an anime store and they had Fauna. I just had to have her, plus the fact that if i got her from HLJ shipping would have made it so much more expensive and this way i avoided the shipping costs…

Sega Moon Rabbit Weapon Meena B

A super impulse buy, Meena only cost me a grand total of $10. I hadn’t even seen Densha Otoko yet but i loved the character design and since she was a cheap i got her. Lucky me i later saw Densha Otoko so i have a reason to own this lovely lady… My only complaint is that the paint on her neck is is totally messed up, but then for $10 i have no complaints. If she cost me a penny more I’d be pissed but hey you get what you pay for right?

Good Smile Company 1/8 Teresa Testarossa

I’ve had in my collection Good Smile’s Kaname Chidori since last year and never had her partner in crime Tessa. Honestly the Good Smile versions of these FMP ladies are the only good figures ever made from this awesome series. If anyone dares to try and say the Atelier Sai figures are better I’ll track them down and stab them myself, with their own Atelier Sai figures… I love this tessa and i was honestly really lucky to find her. I’ve heard people who own this figure complain about how she falls off her base but i haven’t had any issues with that.

Max Factory 1/8 Sawatari Makoto

I love this figure, she just captures Makoto’s personality so well. While most people didn’t like Makoto in Kanon, she was my favorite character in Kanon. Her sculpt is beautiful and her paint is juts exquisite. Makoto was one of my most anticipated figure of ’08, when i saw she was being released i just knew i had to have her. I was willing to cancel every other figure order just to own her if i had to. Get your own here.

Kaiyodo Buster Machine #7 Nono

While I’ll be the first to mention I’m not a fan of Kaiyodo’s Bome series, I did however like this figure. I have a few personal issues with paint, eyes, pose, and shading. The Bome figures tend to go on their own tangent and don’t follow character designs. The eyes never look the way the original character’s eyes look, the paint is usually really matte like and blotchy, the poses tend to be boring and safe, and the shading of the figure is never done well. On my Bome FMP figures and my Bome Kiddy grade figures they have almost no shading done on their bodies and the “shading” on their hair is ridiculous. For a bome figure this Nono is pretty good but i wouldn’t recommend it honestly.

Good Smile Company 1/8 Alicia Florence

Saved the best for last! Honestly while i was super excited about Fauna and Makoto, Alicia tops the cake. Her pose is excellent and Aria Sacho looks so cute, I have just recently fallen in love with Aria and this figure was just the thing to get. Something about this figure just captures Alicia’s personality, beauty and grace. hands down any and all Aria fans need to own this figure, i just hope that Good Smile Company

Got my Max Factory 1/8 Sawatari Makoto yesterday! She’s everything i hoped for honestly, Max Factory you never fail to amaze me!

Ever since I was little, when I walk through a field of flowers or I see a pretty flower I’ll pick it and put it in my hair. I just had to do the same for Makoto, and she looked so cute.

So I mentioned that I was going to do a photo shoot with Makoto and some orange flowers. Well my luck they all died out yesterday, It’s been hot down here in Southern California, so wild flowers don’t last. But I had even better luck, where all the white flowers had been in Fauna’s shoot, they had been overtaken by yellow flowers. So I went out and did another shoot, as you can see it’s the same backdrop. I would have gone higher, but the higher up the mountain I went, the taller the flowers and weeds became. Did I ever mention i’m deathly afraid of snakes? Cause I am! So going up higher was not going to happen! So I went out with my army grade rain boots and a machete! Why a machete? I don’t really know but it made me feel badass.

Now with Makoto, she’s astounding. I know people keep mentioning that she’ll most likely lean, but i seriously doubt it. She’s got a three pegged base, two in the main supporting foot and one in the other foot. Plus she practically weighs nothing. the figures that i have that lean tend to weigh a lot, her weight looks to be evenly distributed so i honestly don’t foresee any leaning in Makoto’s future. But then again i could be wrong…

badass and you know it

Snakes can’t bite through really really tough rubber! or can they? :’( WAHH!

Here are some scenery shots I took as well, and you can see my house as well, it’s the middle one that has shades over all the windows that look like eyelids…

Some more Makoto can be found at Happy Soda, Mukyaa, and foo-bar-baz.

Get your own Makoto at
HLJ, Kid Nemo and J-list.

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Thanks HLJ, you know just the right time to ship my orders. With the last 5 orders from HLJ, they get pushed back or backordered so i don’t expect them for a few weeks, and then BOOM! They ship my item, and leave me flat broke. Once again HLJ strikes again! Not their fault honestly, it’s my own since I had the money for Makoto but I spent it. Not needlessly at least, on important things, like scrubs for work, gas, food, cheap manga, ect. (okay so maybe cheap manga isn’t a necessity but it was cheap!)

So as i’m sitting here at my computer wondering how i’m going to live on $12 for two weeks I get the e-mail, that HLJ has shipped my order! How? I don’t have money on that card!! But it’s on my bank card so they can charge as much as they want, my lovely bank will accept it and then just give me overcharge fees >_< . So it was a race against time, I ran and checked the balance on all my credit cards, and put what I could on my paypal, then ran to the bank, withdrew the money and put it into my bank. So now I actually have more money since all my credit cards are maxed out . But at least now I get my Makoto and gas until I get paid!

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But then i saw this was linked along with it and i was laughing my ass off!!
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Now this latest figure from Max Factory is calling my name. She’s a definite yes at this time, but thankfully she’s being released February ’08 so in case I change my mind I’ve got plenty of time.