Thursday, October 29, 2009

The Month that was..10-2009


Aaah.. October is coming to a close. My, how time flies. A good number of figure and gunpla announcements and orders this month. A couple of loot arrivals and some arriving soon. Finished off a couple of model kits on my build queue. And a few funerals on the side.

Ok, on the figures and hobbies front, let's see what we got. Nendoroids; Megurine Luka which I mentioned in a previous post, I've pre-ordered 2 of them, Moe-blob K-on's Mio, Yui and Ritsu are also up for pre-order. Getting those from the local distributor. And Nendo Drossel should be arriving December or so. Ordered those online along with Nendoroid Chiaki from Minami-ke. In the Gunpla front, My eagerly awaited Master Grade version of the Victory Gundam was announced though no release date yet. Master Grade version of the Astray Blue frame 2nd L was released, I plan on getting that when it hits local shelves. Ah.. Volks recently held their Akiba after school event which saw the release of their newest Original characters (OC), Moe-chan and Natsuki. I was intending to procure Moe-chan to complete my collection of Dollfie daughters as she had the new S-bust. Unfortunately, she was sold out faster than I could guzzle down a 20 oz mug of coffee. A blessing in disguise I suppose. Ah.. and of course my recent obssesion: Figmas, lots of them coming out by the end of the month and the next. All of which I've pre-ordered from the local distributor, Wasabi toysWasabi toys. Suffice to say, I could be single handedly paying for their rent for this coming month.

Lootage! A shirt I ordered for my latest daughter, who I still haven't made a formal profile page yet, Now has proper casual clothing courtesy of HLJ. And it arrived with some fashion apparel for myself as well as a body guard; Megahouse' 1/8scale Aisaka Taiga from the popular series, Toradora. The moment she went up for pre-orders, I swore I wouldn't miss it not like how I missed her Max Factory and Chara-ani versions.

Danny Choo has an ongoing competition for building Gundam Model kits. Now while I'm not really in it for the competition, I prompted myself to settling down on building one for an entry. I figured it would be a good reason to stop procrastinating on my ever increasing build queue. And bild I did, while I have seen entries going all out and modding, I thought I'd go with a clean and simple repaint. Though I had intended on throwing in some resin mods, it wouldn't have made it in time. And as to best represent our entries, none of those half-assed pock shot photographs will do. So I thought I'd also brush up on my figure photography, and I've armed myself with an interesting tool I borrowed from winterheim|HDD.



Speaking of Danny Choo, I spotted this shirt on his site and it'll be available for pre-order in the next few days. Another shirt I'm really hankering for would be this, Zettai Ryouiki shirt from J-list. he he he..


Alas it it hasn't been all fun and games. The Japanese Music industry saw the demise of the talented Kazuhiko Katoh, composer and song writer who pretty much brought Japanese Anime music in to the mainstream. Also on a more personal note, my dear Godmother passed away due to complications and old age. May she rest in peace.
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Nendroid Megurine Luka Spotted!!


My favorite vocaloid synth just got the Nendroid treatment! sweetoh!

Mikatan of Good Smile company, manufacturers of the popular Nendoroid Figure line just put up pictures of what appears to be the Production model of Nendoroid Megurine Luka.

As always, it'll come loaded with accessories and there's no short fall on this one.  She's got 2 extra faces as well as spare limbs. It looks like she's also coming with her Alter ego "Tako-Luka"!! I iz excited.!!

I see this being slated for a possible January to February release.

Meanwhile, also on figure news, I've managed to pre-order Nendoroids Reimu and Marisa from the Touhou Doujin games. And Just as well, Figma Reimu!! These 3 are store exclusives and was lucky enough to have been notified by fellow blogger winterheim|hdd who spotted them turning up in one of the online stores. I'm expecting them to be on the slightly more pricey side compared to regular nendoroids. Read more

Sunday, October 18, 2009

Composer of "Do You Remember Love" found dead in a hotel room.

Kazuhiko Katoh, the co-founder of two musical bands and the composer of the main theme songs for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Windaria, was found hanged in his hotel room in Nagano Prefecture on Saturday. He was 62. The local authorities believe he had committed suicide, due to two copies of a last will that he reportedly had left in his room.

Katoh made his musical debut with his college band The Folk Crusaders, which performed the hit songs "Kaette Kita Yopparai" and "Imujingawa." After The Folk Crusaders disbanded, he co-established The Sadistic Mika Band, a group that would break up and reunite several times over the years. The band became the first Japanese group to tour Great Britain when it opened for Roxy Music in 1975.

On his own, he composed music for several projects, including Mari Iijima's "Do You Remember Love?" ("Ai , Oboeteimasu ka?") theme song for The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? and Akino Arai's "Yakusoku" for Windaria. "Do You Remember Love?" proved to be mainstream hit when it landed at #7 on Oricon's weekly singles chart and #38 on the yearly chart for 1984. As part of The Sadistic Mika Band, he also wrote and performed the theme songs for Maruboshi Mabo-chan.

The NHK public broadcaster broke the news of Katoh's passing on Saturday afternoon, just hours before the first of two Macross Crossover Live concerts with Iijima and four other Macross singers.




Source:  Anime News Network

Images from Photo bucket and Moe.Imouto


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As a fan of the Macross series, this is quite tragic news considering how amazingly well written the song was. This would not only be a tragic loss to the anime industry but to the Japanese music industry as whole for having such a talented composer take his life. Details about why he committed suicide still remain unknown. Read more

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Master Grade Victory Gundam

Just spotted this over at fellow Dannychoo.com member Yunamon's Blog.

Long time coming.. FINALLY!! A Master Grade kit of Victory Gundam; and a Version Ka at that! I still remember When I had the 1/100 HG's of this thing. I had every single variant of it.


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Stand Up To The Victory!
Kitaaa~!


The Master Grade we've been waiting for! Seen in the recent Japan Plamodel Radicon, not much info has been released on this 1/100 MG Victory Gundam Version KA yet...
I know a lot of us are crying out loud for a MG V2 instead, but I do pretty much prefer the modest design of Victory than V2's extravagant design...





From the looks of it... This baby will be small similar to that of 1/100 MG F91 and 1/100 MG Crossbone, and comes with its signature Beam Fan and Beam Shield armaments... X3 Full transformation gimmick included... ^_^


edit: Ngeekhiong posted up more pics of this fabulous unit.

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For those interested, the line starts here.

Now, when is this coming out.. I want it NAO!!! Could this be the prelude to the next line up of Master Grade kits for Bandai. I sure hope so.

I think I just wet myself...

top image from Gelbooru.com

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