anime figures
Yagyu Jubei
Hello again. Time for plastic and jpegs. This go around it’s Yagyu Jubei from Alter and Hobby Japan, the first in the Hyakka Ryoran series, featuring a quartet of legendary warriors turned girly by Nitro+. Jubei is a standard release figure, but some of the others in the series are Hobby Japan exclusives. Nitro+ designs [...]
Wait For It, Yoko
It was three, dark, quiet, and still. Yoko sighted a manimal climbing over the outer stone wall. She could have popped him off at any time, but she waited. The manimal landed on the ground and rolled into an area covered in shadow. The dust he kicked up hung in the moonlight for a long [...]
Nanjou Ran
I’m the forgotten one. The one lost in the forest. The one who goes to what everyone else wants to do, but always winds up going alone to something that I care about. Maybe I don’t ask well enough, or what interests me nobody else cares about, or I just gave up asking. I’m insulating [...]
Shana-chan Cafe Mode
As I have for the past twenty-seven days, I took a seat today in Shana’s station and ordered a chocolate milk shake. Everyone else in the cafe glances over and gives me a look. Ice clinks in glasses. Flatware gently clangs. A dull thrum of people talking. The walls are reddish-brown. I pretend not to [...]
Unity May
A review of the awesome Unity May figure from the GoodSmile Company. Definitely one of my favorites of the year.
