Alright, here is a vaguely related late Valentine’s post.

No, no, no Madoka, Kyubey is not the right person(?) to ask for advise about anything.

Ok, this is totally made to pander to all those Kyubey hating folks. I hope you like it.

I love it when Nanoha stomps things. Just like she did when she blasted Quatro away on StrikerS.

Yes, if anyone is an expert about befriending magical girls look no further.

Everyone knows about Nanoha’s interesting way to “befriend” correct?

Sorry Madoka, you are not Madokami yet to go save yourself or something… I guess? I don’t know what I’m saying.

Do you really wanna know what happened there Homura?

Alright, who didn’t see this coming? I mean, Nanoha and befriending, teaching Madoka about it.

Well, finally got to do this, been wanting to do since I knew there was gonna be a Madoka and Homura figma. Somewhere along the line I got this idea into my head, so I am satisfied to finally getting it done.

Until next time, don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed for more posts.

The pre-order list from last time, which was all my stuff.

February

To start off is a figure both exilehero and myself have sought after for some time now.

Annelotte from Queen’s Blade Rebellion. I know nothing about the OVA’s or about Annelotte herself but all those pictures on MFC sure have skewed my idea of her.

One disappointing thing though, I had imagined her voiced by Yukana sounding just like Tessa does. Alas she is voiced by Aya Endo who couldn’t be further from that high pitched cutsy voice… oh well… Aya Endo is still nice though.

I pretty much wanted her because of the pictures in MFC and after seening the OVA I wanted her even more, the Elf instructor included. She has such exploitable expressions, 3 really nice faces to tease her with. I also like that she’s a girl knight, I think I like that sort of thing. You don’t see many girls with functional armor out there. Not that she keeps it on for long, being Queen’s Blade and all.

This figure makes me quite happy, Makoto is another one of my grail figures.

Been wanting her for ages but I never saw it for sale anywhere at all. A helpful soul on figure.fm directed me to a personal sale on ebay, after checking everything out and for a reasonable price no less, I bought Makoto.

Time to look forward to the likely emotional breakdown I will have reliving Kanon when I get to do a photo shoot for this figure.

I really don’t get why you got this one at all. I just can’t understand having not watched Kanon so I can’t relate to the emotional response. Being relativity new to figures I see this one as kinda plain in comparison to today’s. But hell whatever makes you happy. Though now that I see her from the backside in this picture she does have a rather nice fan-service-y skirt. I just don’t understand grail figures.

This is a pair of figures I have been eyeing for over a year.

When they where first released last year I did not see much interest in them, only a few pictures on flickr. I can probably make a guess why people disliked them though.

Still I find them to be charming, after all they remind me of one big reason I like Touhou, everyone has their personal take on the characters. These two figures are the sculptor’s take on Reimu and Marisa. I’m getting both since you can’t have Reimu without Marisa and vice versa.

I don’t really like this Reimu that much, but I like Marisa. Reimu looks kinda scrawny from the photo’s I’ve seen, and her face doesn’t look very Reimuish to me. Marisa fits the skinnier look a little better to me. She has more defined legs form what I’ve seen. But more Touhou stuff is always good. I’m still surprised you just went and ordered both.

March

Ah Mami, the ever so popular puella magi that got a bit ahead of herself.

I still plan on collecting all five girls, already got Madoka and Homura and next up is Mami.

Such a shame she got delayed from January until March though.

They included the angsty face even though it was just like 5 seconds or something from the anime. Poor Mami will never live it down. I like how all the Madoka girls come with a bunch of weapons. And it’s a good thing it got delayed, now my March shipping costs are shared evenly, yay!

Are you all ready for a squidding invasion  ~ de geso!

Ika Musume is a type of character that makes me so happy the figma line exists. While a scaled figure of her would be nice it would not be able to give me as much fulfillment as this figma will. To be able to relieve all those memorable antics of Ika Musume’s invasions would be impossible. Quite frankly, it’s because she is a figma that she can live up to the potential of her character.

I’m also getting her. I really liked the Ika Musume anime, it’s such an emotional rollercoaster, and because of it I can think of a lot of photos I want to take of her. I’m a little woried that her tentacles will get bent out of shape though.

I know very little of Sengoku Rance, one thing is that it contains interpretations of historical figures. Two the protagonist will rape any girl in sight, including a genderbend version of himself. Three it contains really cute looking girls. I remember the bigger scaled version of Kenshin that FREEing did a while back, always caught my attention but since I knew nothing about the character I never bought it. The figma is a nice interpretation, really love that cute blushing face. Good thing exilhero is buying one.

Erm, well Rance doesn’t actually rape himself as a girl, that’s just a Bad End, but the other two are correct. Anyway I did play Sengoku Rance and I got way more than I expected. In the end I was actually playing because it was fun rather than for, you know, ecchi stuff. Kenshin is one of the cuter girls in the game so I natually wanted to have her. That FREEing Kenshin was the first figure I actually considered buying, but I thought it was ridiculously priced at the time. I hope they make more Figmas of this series, maybe Senhime or Sill, hell Rance would be nice for funny comics.

Next up is that idiotic puella magi.

While I still dislike Sayaka a bit, I also still think she is the better looking of the puella magi in terms of her design. I look forward to her addition to my collection of puella magi figmas.

Plus that “unlimited blade works” she has going on with her cutlasses is pretty neat.

Ehh I don’t know why you hate her so much, she was an idiot and all but I don’t see it justifying so much hate. And I also don’t get why you like how she looks, her design looks kinda plain to me. I still wonder what those triggers on her swords are for.

Alter’s Persona 3 figures are some of my more sought after past releases, but god, those second hand market prices.

Luckily enough for me Alter came to the rescue with the release this awesome looking version of Aigis. This version is even more detailed looking than Alter’s past efforts with Aigis, a perfect recreation of the illustration that this figure is based on.

Although it was annoying Aigis was delayed not once but twice, she was supposed to be released in January. I guess my lucky break of figures releasing on time is over now that 2012 has started.

This is my first scaled Aigis, only got the two figmas thank you very much.

Don’t you already have enough Aigis figures already? I rember you had like 4 or something. Well she does look pretty nice I’ll give you that. I really like how detailed she is and how striking her blue eyes are. I always thought that her robot hooves looked kinda gross though.

I have no idea who this girl is other than she comes from a visual novel from Nitro+.

I do remember debating whether I wanted to buy her. I like maids, I like the pose, I love her pouting expression, a nice tanned girl is nice once in a while too.

In the end though, I didn’t have to worry whether to buy or not.

Because I decided to get it. I also don’t know much about her, but when I first saw her it was love at first sight. I mean delicious tsundere brown elf girl in a maid outfit! How can I NOT have it? I was on the fence with her for a bit though. Her face reminded me of this one doujinshi where bad things happen to enslaved brown elf girls. Which reminds me of this other H anime where brown elf girls get abused some more. They just can’t catch a break. But I researched a bit and found out a little more about her and now I see the face as embaressed rather than sad.

April

See this bodacious looking sexy woman?

She is one of the few things that genuinely scared me when I played a game. God this woman, I will never forget her introduction into the battlefield.

Anyways, I don’t really like this figure, I think the body looks too elongated. I’m quite happy with Alter’s other Selvaria which I should really take out of her box one day and snap some pictures of her.

Man, the only comment you make of the figure and it’s a negative one. I think she looks fine really. The designs from Valkyria Chronicles are kinda like this. I think the figure follows the original drawings rather than the game’s design. Raita’s drawings tend to be a little exagerated in expression (and breast size), which makes them appealing to me. I was indecisive on whether to get her for a while because her boobs look a little too big and because that shower head is is just stupid. I took a good look at her face though, and I remembered why I like Selvaria so much in the first place. Anyway I can’t wait to see her when she arrives later in the year.

I arrived too late to the figure collecting business by the time I got into Zero no Tsukaima so I missed out on all the cute Louise figures.

Luckily enough for me, Alter decided to re-release probably the one Louise figure I sough the most. Actually lately I been getting some nice re-releases from figure manufactures.

Anyways, I find this Louise really cute, just look at that expression. I find it quite an interesting figure as it does not depict Louise in her familiar school uniform or that well known maid outfit she wears.

I really like Louise. She’s probably my favorite Kugimiya Rie tsundere. Violent temper aside, when she’s dere she’s really DERE, it just melts my heart each time she’s embarassed by whatever Saito is trying to do to her. And because I like Louise so much it was hard to pass on this figure but in the end I did. I can’t seem to find a Louise figure that I absolutely love.

Here we go, the last of the puella magi.

I don’t know what to say, Kyouko is probably the girl I like the least. I don’t hate her, I just don’t like her either. I think I ended up finding her boring or something.

Well, whatever, I look forward to get her to reenact some delicious yuri with her and Sayaka. Oh man, when I get her it’s gonna be so cool to finally have all five girls together, gonna make me feel quite satisfied for sure.

Kyouko is probably my favorite Madoka girl. I like her kinda rough personality, her long red hair tied up in a pony tail, and her character design. Not that many people like her for some reason. As much as I liker her I’m not really getting her. I can’t do much with just one Madoka girl, and Miette is getting her so I’ll get to see her anyway.

May

Much like last year the figure I look forward to the most is a rendition of Yukari. Reimu might be my favorite Touhou girl but Yukari is the one who gets the nicer figures. She comes with some nice options to display her.

Although I’m quite weary of this figure. It has a quite higher price than a similar figure her size normally goes for, plus she is by QuesQ a manufacturer that I have yet to see up close. Reviews of their figures have turned out fine so I have high hopes for their work.

First thing I said when when I saw her was “Ok I’m buying this”, then I saw the price, and said, “Ok I’m buying this”, then Miette said he was getting it too and I said, “order two”. I might have been joking but she looks really damn detailed. The more I see of her the more I want her. I really really like how she looks in the photos so far so I have high hopes for her. The price tag doesn’t looks so unreasonable now. Did I mention I like Yukari?

One day, I was noticing a severe lack of swim suit figures in my collection. I only have two of them. I also noticed that I was being a bad Nanoha fan and skipping on her figure releases. Finally I noticed my ratio of loli Nanoha to adult Nanoha was not equal.

Then Alter came to the rescue, not only do I get an adult sexy Nanoha to balance things out, she is also wearing a swim suit. No wonder Alter is my favorite manufacturer.

This figure is based on a poster featuring Nanoha, Fate and Vivio leaning against a wall. The inclusion of a chunk of that wall makes me hope Alter will release a Fate and Vivio to match this Nanoha.

This one looks really nice. Ever since I got summer dress Fate I’ve become somewhat of a Fate fan, so the first thing I thought when I saw Nanoha was, “Is there a Fate like this?”. Sadly not (yet). I’ve been meaning to get another Fate figure but I can’t quite pick one I like. I kinda wanted to get the enormous 1/4th swimsuit Fate but I’d rather wait and see if they make one to acompany this Nanoha… which was supposed to be the main focus of my comment here. Oh well.

To make sure we do not have a lack of swimsuit clad girls during the summer exilehero is buying this Cecilia. Cecilia is my favorite IS girl, I think she is a fun gal, she is also voiced by Yukana.

I been curious about the Beach Queens line for a while, never got interested in any of the figures to actually buy one. The one exception was Biri Biri but alas, I missed out on that release and re-release. Only one thing I dislike already is their size, 1/10 makes them kinda tiny.

I’ve been wanting a Cecillia figure for a while and this one was the one I liked the most from what I’ve seen. Miette’s been telling me about swimsuit figures in the summer for a while so she takes care of a couple things at a time. Hmm I didn’t even realize she was 1/10th scale. I love her drill hair!

This figure I find quite charming. I’m sure only Touhou fans, by that I mean actual fans who play the games, will enjoy this figure.

ZUN, creator of Touhou has a rather unique art style. This figure is based on his art rather than some artistic interpretation of it. In fact this is pretty much the menu screen for the twelfth Touhou game, Undefined Fantastic Object.

The figure itself is really cheap, more along a prize figure, it’s also from a manufacturer that I never hear of before. Still as a Touhou fan I can’t pass this up, it’s just too amusing.

This one is just silly.

June

Alright, raise your hand if you didn’t see this coming?

After Robocop I suppose the figma line is branching more besides cute girls and Kamen Riders.

There is also apparently a Link figma now so I wonder what other Nintendo characters will come out. Some people were being idiots on 4chan one time because this Samus is based on her Other M incarnation. I liked the game, a nice Metroid game, a nice action game, a nice gamey game.

My biggest complain is that Samus was not voiced by Jenifer Hale like she was in the Prime games.

I mean, just imagine, Samus sounding as cool as FemShep!

Oh don’t remind me of the Prime fanboys, oh the humanity! Anyway I’m also getting her. I’m kinda glad that recently I’ve been seeing more video game characters getting figures. I already have a million ideas for Samus. It’s easy for me to come up with stories for game characters it seems.

Here is Rita from Tales of Vesperia the game I bought an Xbox 360 for. For some reason I really, really liked the party characters a lot in Tales of Vesperia. That single handedly made Vesperia my favorite Tales game.

I did find it odd that Alter went and release a figure of Yuri, the protagonist, and Flynn, his friend and rival, before any of the girls.

Now here we are and Alter is releasing Rita, here I hope Alter does the other girls too. Give me Judy, Judy! Man I love that woman!

I’ve yet to play Vesperia. I was gonna play it and then literaly that day the PS3 version with extra content was anounced. So I decided to wait for the PS3 version to get localized to play it… AND I’M STILL WAITING! haha.. I’ll play it some day.. *sigh*, on the 360. Oh yeah, only Miette is getting this one.

Another Ques Q figure, this time of the the titular Neptune in her goddess form as Purple Heart from Hyperdimension Neptuna.

My one disappointment from this figure is the lack of the armor that goes along with this form in the game.

That game was sure a mixed bag. A game where you play as the anthropomorphization of the current console war and their fight against piracy. If you are a person who has been gaming for years and watching anime for years the reference fest that is this game is a rather amusing experience.

Too bad playing the game itself was a pain in the ass.

I think she looks very nice. For some reason I really like her face and hair and eyes and body and suit. Though I’ve never really played Neptunia, so that really keeps me from buying it.

Alright, people keep arriving to the blog by searching for loli so here you go.

Today we’ll take a look at one of my grail figures, Good Smile Company’s Henrietta from Gunslingir Girl.

This Henrietta is a re-release that GSC graciously did last year in late September. The figure originally was released all the way back in 2006.

Henrietta comes from the anime and manga Gunslinger Girl.

You can catch a bit of it on YouTube courtesy of Funimation. The show is readily available on streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix and ridicolously cheap to obtain on Blu Ray and DVD. At the very least this applies to the US, can’t speak for other countries.

Gunslinger Girl was one the shows that I watched after I started to actively seek out Anime when I entered college. As such it made a big impact with it’s rather serious portrayal of  lolis, the relationships with their handlers, each other and their emotional development.

A far cry from the usual anime and manga nowadays isn’t it?

I mentioned Henrietta was one of my grail figures.

She is part of a group made up of GSC’s Instructor Nanoha, Max Factory’s Flame Haze Shana and Sawatori Makoto and Alter’s Kos-Mos V4. Kos-Mos is rather easy to acquire if I’m willing to drop the money but Makoto is another story, any one willing to part with theirs?

It is for that reason though that GSC simply doing a re-release of Henrietta makes me so happy, so much easier than dealing with second hand markets.

As an older figure Henrietta is rather simple nothing like the marvels we see today. Even then she is filled with nice details here and there such as her handgun or the violin case she carries containing the popular P90.

Henrietta has rather stubby proportions making her appear very child like. I think that this only makes her look really adorable.

It’s been so long since I wanted this figure that I do not particularly remember why I wanted it in the first place. I end up thinking the same of my other grail figures for that matter.

I can say though, every time I look at her I get this feeling telling me: yes, I really like her.

I totally neglected to take more pictures of the base so this is all you get. Rather simple with three pegs, although worrisome I had to forcibly bend her right leg so it could go into the peg.

I think the face the looks the part, so I’m happy with the looks, although the style of the figure is a bit different from the anime.

Quite saddened I got some paint chipping going on with Henrietta’s head on her fringe and hair band. Not entirely sure if it came like that or it was me who caused it, can’t remember.

GSC also recently released a figure of Triela from Gunslinger Girl, I wonder if that had anything to do with the re-release of Henrietta. If it does makes me quite happy it let to this release.

Nothing much to say other than, I’m so happy to have Henrietta in my possession.

Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention.

Taking pictures outside is tiring, concrete is hard, and you can scare family members by randomly sprawling in front of your house to take said pictures.

One last thing, follow me on twitter if you are so kind, subscribe to RSS and remember you can always find more pictures of any given photo shoot over at flickr.

Lately I’ve been thinking about why people, including myself, post things on the Internet. Sometimes it’s very obvious to me, and I intuitively know why I do it without resorting to explanations. Other time I have a hard time coming up with an answer to that question. In this post I will tell you a little more about why I blog, and hope that you share your own opinions and motivations. Also, if you found the title offensive, it was on purpose. I want to get an emotional response on this subject to encourage you to post a thought or comment.

Screaming for attention is a bad thing

Attention whores are bad right? I don’t want to be such a shallow person that I need to scream for the acknowledgment from random people on the Internet. People who are really eager to get my attention don’t sit very well with me for many reasons. I was more than a little unsettled when I came upon the possibility that I have become the very thing I dislike!

Is blogging nothing more than attention-whoring?

In a blog you create content of your choice and then you publish it on the Internet for everyone to see. Now we could clearly produce the content and be done with it. Maybe share it with friends and family,  hope to hear their opinion but we go up to the Internet and show it to the entire world! This leaves me with the feeling that we are seeking attention from as many people as possible. So I came to the conclusion that as bloggers, we want some sort of acknowledgement that we exist! We want people to look at our content, for them to comment, for them to praise us. As a my dear friend Chag put it when I went to him with concerns that I was being nothing more than an attention-whore:

Let me tell you something:
blogging
IS
attention-whoring

Blogging is MORE than attention-whoring

But of course, there’s more to it than that! At least I want to believe so if I want to keep a bit of my dignity. After I calmed down a bit I started thinking about all the reasons why I blog and after a lot of deliberation I came up with a simple awnser:

We blog because we love what we’re blogging about! I love anime, I love games, I love photography, I love making silly comics.  There’s so much love that that is swells up within my chest and I want to scream it with the world! And I want the world to scream back. “I love that too!”.

A more concrete answer

I’m satisfied with my answer. However there’s even more to it than such a fluffy and vague reason. There’s also concrete and tangible reasons that back up that idealistic vision. Here are mine:

Take photos

I like photography. I’ve liked it for a long time now. I started to blog because I wanted to get better at taking photos and I wanted to do something with the photos I shot. I really wasn’t thinking of any other reasons to blog. I just wanted to take more photos and figures made the perfect subjects since I like the origins of them to begin with.

Share your opinions and hear other’s

I want to hear what people say about something I like or something or dislike. I want to find people that agree and disagree with what I have to say. I don’t know why I want this, it’s probably some sort of human nature thing I don’t really get. I know that when I go to the Internet I seek this sort of thing, and with a blog I get to meet a lot of people that have something to say about the things I’m interested in. Which leads directly to…

Meet new people with similar interests

When I fist started blogging I wanted to force myself to talk to people. It’s not that I’m not good at making friends but I tend to just not bother. I wanted to remedy this but I found it hard to find people that I could relate to. Even among those people who watch anime I find it hard to relate. Maybe it’s the differences in opinions, tastes or age that make it hard. Whatever the reason, I found it hard to meet people who I could talk to about the things I like. While blogging I found people that I tend to like more often than not. Even now I keep meeting new people that are interesting. In a way, blogging opened the doors to social media for me. I find myself using twitter a lot more nowadays because I want to know more about what’s happening with these people I met.

To spread the word of stuff I like

I like unpopular stuff. No wait let me rephrase that. I like stuff that is really popular in Japan but not so much in the west. Why Precure and Touhou are kinda scarce over here is beyond me. I also like Milky Holmes, which is not as popular in Japan but in comparison the fandom here is nonexistant. I like all sorts of stuff that people don’t watch or read.  I want to let people know just how awesome Precure can be. How stupid and entretaining Milky Holmes is. I want to spread the word of all this stuff I like to hopefully make more people love the stuff I love.

Acknowledgement

Perhaps I DO want people’s attention and want to be Internet famous and have a lot of people worship me. Hell maybe make a million bucks while I’m at it. I think I’ve come to accept that I really do want some sort of attention from people as everyone does. Hell just look at my title, I intentionally made it so that it would get people’s attention. Attention is not a bad thing in itself. I just seem to have had a bad image of it. And can you blame me? There’s some really messed up crap out there on the Internet.

I’m sure there’s a lot of reasons I haven’t touched, but for now I’m happy with what I’ve shared. There’s also a lot of reasons that I don’t have that you might have for blogging and I would love to hear so. And finnaly I hope the tittle didn’t piss you off too much, since I essentially called all bloggers attention-whores hahha.

And you? Why do you blog? I would really like to hear so. Therefore I would like to extend an invitation to all willing bloggers to write an entry sharing a little about why you blog. If an actual post is asking too much a comment will do too! I’m just curious to see what motivates other people to blog.

Since I still want to meet new people and make friends with them. Here’s my twitter. I’m also on My Figure Collection, Deviantart, and Flickr.

While you’re at it, subscribe to the RSS so you can get the new posts easily.

One last thing I’ll ask of you, pop in a comment right bellow here. Even if you’’re new to this site or new commenting, It’s fine I want to meet you!

I bet no one sees what lesson Kirino learns coming at all.

So recently I received my Kuroko figma.  Waited pretty much all of last year since the game she comes bundled with kept getting delayed.

The game itself is a visual novel with some quick time events here and there using some rather nice 3D models. While I’m not fluent in Japanese I can vaguely understand what’s going on… except Kuroko, I can’t for the life of me understand anything she says other than her sentence ending “desu no”.

Now that the setting is… er… set… we turn to Kirino.

I found these figma sized cola cans a while back, been wanting to use them forever now. Glad to see that I finally get to use them.

Hopefully this sequence of events is not too obtuse.

Also, hmm, what a familiar arm band, what a familiar gun too.

“Nice shooting there, son.”

Yes, I know what you are thinking, the can in the air part was magic… or if you are exilehero, why is the can still in one piece?

I bet if you watched the movies as a kid, I betyou tried to do this. I tried, it’s really hard actually.

Hopefully the gif played for you and loops, if not, make sure to open it in another window to see it.

Alright, who actually guessed anywhere close as to what lesson Kirino learned?

Also, this was pretty much just a shout out to this scene from Robocop 2.

To end it off, a nice PSA from Robocop!

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WAHAHA Ze~ Today we’ll be looking at an ordinary magician – Marisa Kirisame, by Griffon. Marisa is form Touhou which is some anime or something.

Here’s some music for you to listen to while reading the post! It’s an arangement of Magus Night, Marisa’s latest boss theme.

She’s a pretty old figure but I got the December re-release. She’s from Griffon, of which I haven’t heard many good things. I wanted to see for myself how they were though, since they do a lot of other Touhou figures that I might be interested in getting.

I really like how her face came out. She has a really cute expression with her beautiful eyes and cheerful smile. She also has a bit of blush on her but it’s a little hard to distinguish. Very very cute, I started to fall in love as I reviewed the photos ahaha. You could say she stole my heart.

She comes with a broom which is essential for a magician.

The hat is removable. But you shouldn’t do that, if you take away the hat from a Touhou she will die. She’s also hard to recognize without her hat. The hair is literally a little rough around the edges but nothing major for me. Also, the braid is on the wrong side!

Her hair has many strands which is pretty. There there’s a seam line on the  left in the middle of the hair, nothing too bad.

Bow and left arm detail.

There’s something off about the white parts of the whole figure It’s like it’s a little dirty, it has like a light shade on it or something. That’s probably my main complaint. Maybe they were trying to go for a more textured look but it just looks dirty to me. You can see it here in the braid’s bow. But it’s fine since the rest of the figure looks great to me. Especially her face.

Shoes! Miette was disappointed that she wasn’t wearing “Mary Janes”, whatever that is. Some sort of pot shoe?

The base has a little plaque which is a bitch to photograph without it being glary.

Like any good Touhou girl Marisa comes with bloomers for underwear. Bloomer-shots are a bit less appealing than panty-shots I’m afraid, just the tiniest bit though.

You can take off the broom.

Which leaves a hole in her right hand.

Marisa has a rather large hat.

“You feeling lucky, Ze~?”

I dub this one “Unlimited Stellar Works”. Shrine maiden, do you have enough spell cards?! Ze~

“Argh, too many stars now!” It’s not nice to boast.

I wanted to experiment a little with “Bokeh” so I bought some Christmas lights.

Made a little start shaped filter. It covers most of the image but I like how the lights get morphed.

Marisa is very cute. The end Ze~!

Who is up for a one off cross over picture?

I really like Touhou crossover with other series.

A long time ago, I tried doing this one picture. That picture was a far cry from what I was trying to attempt.

I always wanted to try and revisit the idea in the future, I originally thought of making a remake so to speak of that picture. Plus I been wanting to do something with Homura and Sakuya.

A while ago I though, wouldn’t it be interesting if Homura and Sakuya ever fought. Two time manipulating combatants who use their powers and conventional weapons in a similar manner.

Thus, this picture was born. After hours trail and tribulations of both me and exilehero this was one of the many pictures I took.

I finally got to do my original idea with a shout out to Embodiment of Scarlet Devil with a red moon as a backdrop.

So, who do you think would win?

The final chapter in the trilogy! This time it’s a lot of photos so I’ll let them do most of the talking. Some day I’ll do paneling for the comics… It just takes a lot of work! Anyways here’s Part 1 and here’s Part 2 if you’re interested.

Tony Stark ladies and gentlemen!

There’s nothing special about it though. It’s just a normal suplex.

This is what money looks like where I live, Eagleland. I get a “Game Over – Insert coins to continue” feeling. I miss arcades.

Please excuse my rough attempt on recreating DBZ battle aura. And Yotsuba was sent flying due to the power explosion BTW.

Love this shot so much. Came out exactly how I imagined it.

A certain German wanted explosions in this comic. So here’s a German Suplex with some explosions.

It’s been said that a candle burns the brightest just before it goes out..

The end!

Hope you guys enjoyed it because that took way too much work. Those SFX are a killer. I want to avoid making such complicated comics for a while now hahaha..

Anyway since it’s new years here, HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Dang it, a white Christmas was off by one day. Silly snow, you are supposed to fall on the 24th and 25th not on the 23rd.

So, it snowed and the snow actually accumulated, that makes a grand total of two times this year. Which is something that hasn’t happened since I was a child.

So I did the one thing everyone should do when it snows.

Go out and play.

In my case, going out to play means taking pictures. These are a few snaps that I braved the harsh snowy winter for.

Anyways…

Enough beating around the bush, both exilehero and me wish every one a merry Christmas and happy holidays. We hope all our readers, visitors and regulars have a great time this weekend.

Noisy picture unrelated.

So, there have been some changes made to blog.

First change, bigger pictures. Yay! As you probably seen in exilehero’s beautiful Fate pictures.

Alright, lets go over the important changes that have been made.

1. There has been some slight re-branding, the title of the blog has changed to Otagamers since there are two of us.

2. A new item has been added to the menu called Blog clicking of this item will take you to the usual list of posts as before or as you normally see on most blogs.

3. The other new item is the Blogroll, the blogroll has been removed from the side bar and instead become it’s own item.

4. The home page now displays only a slider with the five most recent posts, it automatically scrolls but you can click on the arrows to advance through the items.

5. The pagination on the bottom shows your current position on the list, clicking on any of them will take you to the appropriate post.

As mentioned before clicking on the Blog menu item will take you to a list of posts which you can navigate, or go to the next page of posts. The blog page shows ten blog posts per page.

The Blogroll menu item is a drop down list with all the different blogs we either exchanged links explicitly, visit on a regular basis, or simply give a nod to as an act of thanks.

If you want to be added just let us know, we would be more than happy to do so. The more the merrier as they say.

I hope the changes we have made have been for the better, I hope you will enjoy the bigger pictures as much as we will. If you find anything out of place let us know, we did mess with the template quite a bit after all.

Until next time, don’t forget to make use of the RSS, Twitter, and flickr links on the bottom.