A Weekend of Dolls ~ BJD Meetup

The Sunday following Anime Day, we had a BJD Meetup at the Borders in downtown Burlington. Shiro had fun seeing his old friends again from the Bakuretsucon meetup, and Lia finally got to meet everyone for the first time!

A Weekend of Dolls ~ Anime Day

Last Saturday was “Anime Day” at FYE in our local mall. Basically, it was an excuse for me and my friend Shion to dress up and show off our dolls! Actually, it was my first time meeting her brand-new DoC Kirill, Kai, so I gave my camera a much-needed workout.

Germany Part 3 ~ Berlin and Bayreuth

First week of school: check!

Now back to the blog! Today I’m going to sum up my visit to Germany with a few last pics. Not too much to write about today, so just sit back and enjoy~

Germany Part 2 ~ Miku takes on the Nuremberg Castle

Some 1,000 years ago, this small castle was built for the use of the Emperor when he stopped by to visit. It was partially destroyed in WWII but was reconstructed, as well as much of the surrounding city. As a result, Nuremberg retains many features of its medieval history, and the landmarks to stories that I grew up with.

Since Miku is a true tourist, I decided to bring her up to the castle and introduced her to one of my favorite landmarks.

Germany Part 1 ~ Snowy Holidays with the Figures

I have returned! And I am armed with pictures, as promised. I will be breaking my Germany update into several posts because I don’t want to make posts too big ^^;

Packing to Travel

Tomorrow at 4am (><) I’m leaving to go to Germany for 3 weeks. Why? I was born in Germany and lived there for 6 years and my entire family excluding my parents and my brother and I still live there, so we try to visit about once a year. This year it just happened to be for the holidays.

My nendos and dolls are coming along for the ride, of course!!

Growlanser Trading Figures Mini-Review

In addition to my beloved Banpresto Cafe Maids, I got two other little figures at Bakuretsucon, nearly two months ago now but because of school I didn’t get a chance to review them earlier. Since they’re not scaled figures I won’t give them my usual full review but these are nice little figures that deserve a post to themselves.

The figures are from Growlanser IV and made by Vice. I know nothing about the characters but the artstyle on the box attracted me. The characters that I ended up with are Frane and Tippi.

Everyone’s Gay for…

Bridget, of course!

Before Black Rock Shooter came along and dragged me down the inescapable rabbit hole of figure collecting, there was Bridget. I saw a review of this figure about two years ago and loved it so much that I bookmarked the page, going back to it every now or then to look at it. This was before I knew anything at all about figures… in fact, I had no idea that there was even a slim chance that I would ever own such a pretty figure. For some reason, figures were in that void of “things in Japan that will never find their way to the remote tundra of Vermont.”

BOOM. So along comes Shooter and puts everything in perspective. Of course, when I started collecting, I knew there was one figure (aside from Shooter herself) that I ABSOLUTELY MUST have in my shelf. And that was Bridget.

ZD Returns

This image has kicked around on my computer for a little while and I thought I might as well share it. aka let’s procrastinate

ZD’s final character design. (click for bigger/clearer image!)

This is only one (cropped) version of this image. I have lots of versions as I intend to animate this for a vocaloid PV. Miku’s version is here. Used this for my new banner as well, as the other one was a bit rough ><

Okay, now back to studying… ;.;

Kaito

I’ve been keeping fish since I was very young. I think I owned my first betta (fighting fish or Betta splendens to be technical) when I was about 7 and it was one of the first pets that I could have in my room. The hobby grew quickly– to the dismay of my parents– and when I was in my early teens I often had as many as five aquariums set up in my room alone. In high school I was bred and raised bettas and convict cichlids. That’s not counting the pond ^^;

In any case, when college came along things changed a bit. No longer being in my parents’ nest allowed me to start pursuing more allergy-causing pets, like my chinchilla, hamster, and quail. Fish still have a very special place in my heart, but as my freshwater aquarium was standing nearly empty for awhile I decided to reduce it down to a smaller container and placed the big 20-gallon into retirement.

To add a little color to the otherwise (nearly) uninhabited bowl, I returned once again to my beloved bettas. Unfortunately for him, there appears to be a cat in the house…