For over two years now, I’ve been ordering figures and other miscellaneous goods through HobbyLink Japan. They’re usually reasonably priced, they package their goods really well, and the shipping is usually quite reasonable too. There’s one problem though: they are so fucking slow. I’m getting pretty sick of it. Pre tl;dr summary: The rest of this entry is composed of a rant about how slow HLJ are and a request for suggestions for other retailers to order through instead.
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Kagura, everyone’s favourite taciturn miko / archer / closet lesbian from Prism Ark. I took my time on this, and I really, really like how it turned out. Technically it’s a request fill for several people, though my terrible secret is that I intended to do it anyway. Prism Ark really has great character art. Shame about the show itself. I’m at the point that I’m basically watching each week to hunt through the eyecatches for tracing material. After a lot of deliberation I decided to add the Momiji leaves that are present in the original eyecatch. Spent maybe ten minutes on them, just a quick stroke outline and a random gradient mesh to add some random colour, but they ended up looking really good.
I was pointed towards MyAnimeLIst.net earlier today. I watch far too much anime and keeping track of what I’ve seen and haven’t becomes a chore. Especially since I’m a compulsive hoarder. I used to maintain a text file, but that started to be too much effort. Tried a few anime listing programs but they never really fit my needs. ANN’s listing system sucks shit to actually add stuff to (plus ANN itself is an utter cesspit and if it wasn’t for the encyclopedia I’d never visit it) and generally nothing’s ever worked for me. Until now.
So yeah, got my Anime List up there now. Pretty much complete, though I’m sure some stuff has fallen through the cracks. Nagi’s upped his list too, and Marmot’s had one longer than either of us. Feel free to add us so we can all be nakayoshi dangofriends.
God damn you Wave. As if it wasn’t enough that you make awesome Tama-nee figures, not to mention all those Evangelion Angel Girls you made me buy… you had to go and make SD versions. And now you’ve gone and announced three new ones. Bastards. You’ve made my wallet cry.
And indeed it was pretty unlucky. Sort of. Okay, so it’s been a little over a week since Anime Weekend Atlanta 13 came to a close, and in my typical slowness, I’m only now getting around to blogging about it. Apologies. But I’m getting to it now, and allow me to open by saying that in terms of the convention itself, this was one of the worst AWAs yet. But in terms of the time I had there, it was one of the best.
