About

HappySoda is an anime and anime stuff fan blog. Anime DVDs, figurines, and other related things, such as conventions, that’s what I do. Figure pictorial reviews are the most popular articles at HappySoda. Anime reviews are region 1 dvd release centric since I don’t do fansubs.

HappySoda is currently a single author blog written by “super rats”, who is a research analyst by day and usually at night too.

Ten Favorite Anime (I know there’s 11)

  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Princess Tutu
  • Planetes
  • Kamichu!
  • Boogiepop Phantom
  • SuperGALS
  • Gunslinger Girl
  • Fruits Basket
  • Figure 17
  • Magic User’s Club
  • FLCL

Where to Buy these Lovely Angels

There are many places selling these figures, some good, and some real shady. Unless you know how to spot a bad quality fake, I’d avoid using eBay as there are generally just as many fakes for sale as the good stuff. Below are the stores that I personally buy all my figures from and I have been very happy shopping with them:

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All the photos with the HappySoda.com watermark were taken by super rats (unless noted otherwise). You may download them if you like, but only for non-commercial use and don’t pass them off as your own. If you want to post them elsewhere go right ahead. Just save the image and upload it to your own server instead of using my bandwidth — you know courteous net usage and all that.

Other Random Things about super rats

  • I usually do these figure pictorials late at night, so I’m usually listening to Coast to Coast AM with George Noory while processing .JPG files. It’s interesting, though I wonder how George Noory can sit there without laughing sometimes.
  • A pretty big talk radio junkie.
  • Favorite authors include Raymond Carver, J.D. Salinger, Jerzy Kosinski, Harlan Ellison, William Faulkner and Charles Bukowski.
  • Music I’ve liked forever, U2, Saint Etienne, Bjork, Pavement, Jeff Buckley, Sonic Youth, and The Counting Crows.
  • Bacon Cheeseburger > Sushi.
  • Am a big fan of the USA.

Comments


  • Chris
    on November 14th, 2006

    Hi, I have a request. I am pretty new to Wordpress and I am trying to setup my schoolclass blog. It is almost finished, the only thing I want to do is to customize the photoalbum-albums-highlight.html etc etc in the Flickr tool.

    I want to have a layout like yours, but I can never do that because of my lack of skills.

    Can you please mail me your customised photoalbum-albums-*.html files so that I can get a step further and to learn something new?

    ~Chris


  • Melonpan san
    on November 27th, 2006

    Nyoron!

    First sorry for my bad eigo but I ll try my best w. Since I can’t find your contact mail adress I’m posting it here. Gomene. I’m from Switzerland and checking out your great Website every day since I like your posts very much. Keep up the good work!

    If you want a really really good Haruhi Figure buy this one, I can really recommend her:

    http://www.e2046.com/product_info.php?products_id=6369

    She is verywell made especially for this price it’s its just too good to be true.

    I posted some pics here:

    http://www.mangaforum.ch/showthread.php?t=8239&page=12

    The next one I ll buy is this one:

    http://www.e2046.com/product_info.php?products_id=5612

    I think all Kits from the Gathering are really well made.

    Greetings from snowy Switzerland

    Melonpan san


  • super rats
    on November 27th, 2006

    Melonpan san, thank you for your visiting my site and for telling me that I had forgotten to put a contact button (I put one there now). Thanks for the information about the Haruhi figure. It looks like they’ve done a good job based on your pictures. I’ll have to see about getting it.


  • shenball
    on December 29th, 2006

    I found your site very resourceful & inspirational, makes me keep coming back to check your latest entries of Figure Reviews~ah…all these pretty pictures.
    Nice tutorial you have on photographing too!

    Please feel free to drop by my newly built, work-in-progress Figure Gallery, it’s still focusing mainly on pictorials thus far.

    Couldn’t really find your contact email…but still, keep up the quality work of yours!


  • super rats
    on December 29th, 2006

    Thanks a lot! I like the setup you have for the Ichigo Marshmallow and the Burst Angel Amy gallery.

    Every time I change themes, the contact page disappears (since they all do it differently I guess) and I forget to make a new one, so I just have included a link here on this page.


  • Jamaipanese
    on October 9th, 2007

    great site, I just surfed in today ^_^


  • Zeb
    on November 10th, 2007

    Just a hello from a new fan of your blog.
    It’s very inspirational, and your figure reviews are a sore temptation for me (am trying to cut back on my spending!)
    Ah well… I can admire your stuff from afar!


  • Alodia
    on August 29th, 2008

    Hello~ :D I’ve been reading your blog for a few months now, but this would be my 1st/2nd time to leave a comment on your blog. ^_^ I just wanted to say that I am one of your numerous fans~ :D You are one of the people who inspired me to get into figure photography~ Keep up the good work! ^_^


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