Hi comrades! I am glad to announce the featured feeds on mukyaa.com are back! After the complete change of UI, they totally disappeared in the abysses of the web, taking away at the same time all my gratitude for fellow friends of the anime figure blogosphere.
But this has been fixed now, and links to the latest articles from comrades’ burogu appear on post pages everywhere, as you can see on the picture below or further down of this current page or any other.

To stick to my initial design, there are four feeds which appear at the same time, randomly selected each time a page is loaded. For now, I only registered few rss feeds that crossed my mind and globally generate the most traffic to this place – big thanks. I am also testing a feed parser which displays the first picture of the article, pretty common nowadays. But since my hosting services provider does allow many things, I cannot manipulate pictures as I would like to. So it may slowdown the whole things – would love to have some feedbacks on that ^^

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It may takes few time to have your feed accepted, since the bot does not launch automatically ^^;

Also added a “more or less related posts” area, to improve navigation. Depending on the tags set for current article, it will try to propose other articles from the same tag’s family, randomly, or any other random article if it cannot find related stuff.
I know there is a ton of wordpress plugins that do such things, certainly in a better or more accurate way, but like for the whole UI and template, I want to control the most pieces of code – and it was fun to do, somehow, which also allows me to look after my skills ^^;;

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Two days ago, thanks to people from my circle who are also into photography, I was lent a super huge secret weapon to shot some figures. This weapon is the multiblitz profilux 400 – love the name ^^;;
It was like taking out some heavy artillery, but had a load of fun playing with this lighting system. The only regret is that I wish I had some nice backgrounds or props. But this opportunity came all of a sudden I could not have prepare myself. It was fun to try this equipment anyway.

As you ca see, targets of the day were the SOS団 girls, Haruhi, Mikuru and Yuki, in their Gekisou (Extravaganza) outfits from the live concert event. Had those figures awaiting in their boxes for a while ^^;
Yup, this time I decided to share more than one single snap. Since I had those pictures stored on my HD, I couldn’t help it ^^;

I also used some photoshop alchemy once again, the same as for Yoko oppai photos. I kindda like how it ends up but I am not sure it is wise. Feel free to criticize.

A little reminder : those figures were sculpted by Kuroda Masanori-sensei – love his works – distributed by Max Factory, released in spring 2009, are 1:8 scale, have a good smell of pvc blablabla. Less talk, more pics.

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More and more Haruhi at :-

• foo-bar-baz
• happy soda
• lylibellule
• OMGwebsite
• shadonia
• exelica meteor
• chappypyon
• dancing queen
• shin-otaku
• koi aichaku

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More Mikuru-chan at :-

• foo-bar-baz
• exelica meteor
• shadonia
• koi aichaku

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More Nagato-hime at :-

• foo-bar-baz
• shadonia
• koi aichaku

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ID#61705 | Flickr

ID#61706 | Flickr

ID#61707 | Flickr

I think this last one is my favorite. *love Nagato Yuki* ^^

A suddent mishap came from nowhere – almost. So, I might get a little busy until this important work is over. Hope you will not hold a grudge against me for that ^^;;;

Well, normally Final Fantasy XIII is going to be released next week, for Westerners. But. I am tired of those horrible “western voice only” versions, especially when technologies like blu-ray allows to give gamers the choice. Square Enix should draw their’s inspiration from games they publish from other developers like tri-Ace with Star Ocean: The Last Hope International, or Nippon Ichi with Disagea 3. Or from Sega with Valkyria Chronicles and Resonance of Fate – my next video game purchase without any doubts. Now most of games have audio dialogs, they are like movies, series, animes or doramas : that is to say original version is required! Fortunately, some editors already give their customers the choice, but it seems there is still a long way to go with Final Fantasy games… this sucks.
Another reason I got a Japanese copy is, ahem, the price. It was hard to resist a 50% discount on AmiAmi when you know you would have to pay more than twice this price for the local copy – with no original voices, complete bullshit if you ask me.
This may sounds a bit exaggerated, but it really piss me off when original voices are not available. Not only Japanese. This goes for American’s, Argentine’s or anywhere’s productions.
So, I am going to enjoy this one, and I am getting too lost with Japanese I will wait to find a secondhand buy.

I know there have been a load of things said about the game’s quality and linearity, but I know I will still love it. Was a big fan of the tenth episode, so… ^^;;

Anyone is planning to go through FFXIII ? which version ?

Cute neko Yume-chan escaped from her new home. It need some time for her to get used to the place I guess. I went to look for her, and after a while found this lovely face hidden in the bushes.

Gyaa I really love this cute neko-mode of Yume. Got a bunch of super kawaii nendoroids like Chiaki, Pastel Ink, Miku or Kokonoe, but somehow this one has become my favorite… until next cutie ^^;

Recognize this silhouette? Of course, this is the most awesome super robot ever : GRENDIZER!
I renounced somehow the Revoltech series from Kaiyodo, being more into Max Factory’s figmas. But I could not resist the super cool Grendizer I was brought up on.

In French he is called Goldorak. Should remind Italian comrades of something too. I don’t get why most of original names are systematically changed when getting French translation treatment. Why do they have to translate or change names?? that makes no sense to me. And even now, we have some deviations regarding characters’ names in popular mangas like One Piece or Fairy Tail. I really hate that.

I felt like going outside and take some snaps of this popular figure that has been seen many many times, but deserves once again our attention.
Indeed, she has just been elected figure of the year on Best Figure Awards 2010, during the 3rd edition of this event organized by French comrades from FigureManiax. Saber was facing Black Rock Shooter, both from GoodSmile. And the vote ended to be very close.

I love this Saber figure, and she now has pride of place in my showcase, between Kureha and Yami-chan ^^
BRS is undeniably a big hit too. Though I prefer the future anime version figure of this mysterious black twintail girl. I don’t really like this first figure of her actually. I guess it is the pose or something ^^;;

Let’s celebrate this victory, with gorgeous pictures and reviews of THE best figure of the year!

• foo-bar-baz – who gave her 5 stars!
• radiant dreamer – with a gorgeous art work
• kodomut – with lovely white feathers
• Dancing Queen
• shadonia
• jintoo – provides great additional explanations (in French)
• meronpan
• Polyvinyl Crush
• Hunting the Elusive

And I am sure I have forgotten once again some comrades, so forgive my clumsiness and do not hesitate to ping me about your work.

Lately I have found two cute kittens – mmh pleonasm? – who seemed to be lost, so I decided to house them. One seems really quiet, but somehow I have a bad feeling about the other one…

When I think about it, I have now about five nekomimi nendoroids on display, and a sixth will arrive someday. Not that I am particularly into this cat ear fetishism, but it is so damn cute! Children and girls seem to love them too ^^;
I don’t really get why Yume received this moe treatment, but as I didn’t watch nor play Da Capo II – only first one, with Nemu *love* – I can assume the answer is somewhere there. Is this some fancy of her onii-chan?

New stuff added to my gear – a Joby’s Gorillapod. Love its style! It looks like a giant robot about to burn you with a sort of laser beam.
Kyouka does think that too ^^;;
I got tired of my old tripod, even if its height can be quite useful time to time. But now I am playing with the canon 100mm macro lens, using a bulky tripod is such a pain in the neck with a fixed focal length. So, since I saw it in action few times, I went to get a gorillapod for mylself.
Really handy, rather small compared to a classical telescopic tripod, and it seems it can support the EOS easily. Perfect for a lot of situations, especially when shooting figures ^^; Love it!

Following of previous photo entry, here is the rest of the body – almost. Easy to find out, those lovely oppai belong to miss Littner and got the figure treatment from ALTER last summer. Just gorgeous. One of the best figure of the year if you ask me. I would have give her my vote if there wasn’t another one blinding my mind ^^;

Also did some color balance tries, changing shadows and highlights toning, and kindda liked the quite surreal result.
Couldn’t help taking another shot. Mmmmmmh.

We never get enough of those lovely eyes, so I remind you of some great places to go back and enjoy once more this gorgeous shitapai figure :

• foo-bar-baz
• shadonia
• valiantho
• Polyvinyl Crush
• wasuremono
• Tentacle Armada

And I am sure I have forgotten some comrades, so please forgive my carelessness orz

“Oppai 『おっぱい』 is a Japanese word which refers to woman’s breasts, and, generally, to the larger variety”. I think most of readers know this very useful word which can be used in everyday speech, so if you are already familiar with Japanese pop culture don’t pay attention to the text but just focus on those big eyes (if it is not already the case). Though it is always good to go over the basics. Mmmmmmh.

Anyway, just playing with my canon 100mm macro lens and had to find something to zoom on ^^;;;