Well-de-well. I just got back from Otakon. It was super ball lick garbage and I’ll never be going back to it again. I’ll be sticking to Acen and Anime Expo if I do anything. And I might, because there’s lots of good porn to be had. I will write a big thing about it on dasaku. I’ll link it over here when I do. Anyway, this is going to be one big fucking rollup, with lots of goodies. So get ready. Also, I’m breaking the WanFesu stuff off into a different little section. It’ll be right after figures.

Anime/Manga/Games

• Shin-Ei Douga has announced the latest addition to its series of annual WWII anime movies for children. (They do a yearly anime TV movie.) It’s going to be called Futatsu no Kurumi and it’ll be about a present day girl who gets sent back in time to Tokyo several days before the firebombings. It doesn’t say which bombing is covered, but I’d assume it’s the March 9th bombing which saw 80 to 100 thousand people killed. It’s pretty near the most deadly single raid ever carried out. Well worse than Dresden which gets tons more attention. But don’t mind me. America is great and just. No war criminals over here. No sir. Especially not Curtis LeMay.Sorry, I’m a WWII nerd. And a bit pissed that everyone gets criticized except the people who won. Fuckers.
•  Suteki Tantei Labyrinth is getting an anime. It’s due out this fall.
•  Ohhhh yeah, remember that file sharing thing with Weekly Shounen Magazine? One of the men involved got a year in prison. The judge figured prison is a fitting punishment for SCANNING A FUCKING MAGAZINE because we need to respect the expense and effort of copyright blah blah blah. Totally overkill.
• I swear I’ve known this for a few weeks… I forget if it posted it already, Bamboo Blade, one of my favorite manga, is getting an anime TV show to be produced by AIC.
• Also, D.C. II ~ Da Capo II ~ will be airing this fall.
• On a side note, I want them to make a Teppan Shoujo Akane anime already. Fuckers.
• Looks like there are some screens up for Shin Sangokumusou 5 (Dynasty Warriors if you’re a douche.)
• Cave is apparently looking for cosplayers to help out with advertising for their upcoming horizontal shooter Death Lolita. Those will be good ads.

Figures

• Finally, some fun trading figures. Been a while. Do the faces match up? Not exactly, but there’s some hot Shakugan no Shana trading figures headed our way in November from Toys Works. The full box runs 7,350 yen. Well worth it for 10 super sexies.
• If you’re big into Tales of Symphonia, you might want to have a look-see at these ToS trading figs. Not great, but would make a ToS fan happy, I bet. The 12-piece 1BOX is 6,300 yen in October.
• Wanna take a walk with me to the eroero side of the tracks? Well, this re-release of the “Onna 2″ (a temporary name, I hear) figure is ready to head to a love hotel, slip off her robe, and show you her sexy, sexy arm seam. Nice. Price and date are irrelevant.
• BUT FUCK THAT OLD CRUSTY SHIT! I’m going to take you to a place that I go whenever I’m feeling… like a rapist. And that place is a pair of Manabi Straight ladies, together, forever. It’s Mucchi and Manabi sporting the classic bloomers look, and making me a worse person for the things I think when I look at this figure. Not the best carve ever, but I love the distinctness of the faces. Very good. They’re 120mm tall each and the set runs you 5,800 yen this October. Also in red bloomers.
• There’s some shokai gentei-ban going on with a 200mm Shihou Matsuri sola figure. LIMITED EDITION OMGOMGOMGOMG. Out in October for 5,800 yen.
• How about more Shana? Here’s a reprint of this ceremony version and a wedding version to go with it. Both are 5,229 this October.
• Another shitty SIF EX Hakufu. Alter or MaxFac, I BEG YOU GUYS, MAKE AN IKKITOUSEN LINE!!!
• The Creators’ Labo line is doing pretty fine. Entry number 13 comes along in the form of Simca, the hottest thing on AirTreks… right after that short haired chick from the one arc. She was hot shit. Simca would have been hot with short hair, but it was pink. Not as good. Out in October for 7,140 yen. Face is a little chub and it’ll be made with Yamato’s PVC. So, fair warning.
• OMGOMGOMGOMG SIGNUM!!! WOO! Got some reason, I have the urge to rub her shiny boobs until the paint comes off. Coming from CM Corp in September for 8,190 yen and standing 210mm tall. Yep.
• Box 2 of the Shuraki thing is up for pre-order. Probably you missed it. Sorry kids. Dunno what all the buzz is about there. I mean, they’re nice, sure. Just… yeah. Not THAT special.
• Also, quick older stuff. Shitty FF Tactics trading arts. Poorly sculpted, shiny DOAX2 figure. Annnnd, decent Kamyu from Utawarerumono.

Wonder Festival 2007 [summer]

• Are we all excited? HERE WE GO! Just gonna be quick links to the industry limited edition pages.
• Good Smile Company/MaxFactory – Sweet Nendoroid and plush from GSC, MaxFac… different Haruhi accessories with the figures? SCANDAL!
• Alter – We all remember these.
• Griffon Enterprises – Big props for Ikkitousen merch. WOO! Most of these are kits, for people who don’t know Griffon.
• Wafuudou Ganguten – Alt. Color Iris from Princess Waltz. Will also be at Comiket.
• WAVE – Black Dress Lucy Maria Misora. Can get it online after the event.
• Orchid Seed – Crappy new color Ryofu. Sucks.
• Volks – Probably it’ll be a bunch of creepy dolls. OH AND A FUCKING 1/4 KENSHIN FROM SENGOKU RANCE (It’s so hard not to type Lance… I still forget sometimes)
• Nitro+ – I’m glued to their page. Them and Leaf. Leaf’s not doing anything, but Nitro+ has some sweet ass puppets. PUPPETS!! And Demonbane figures.

And that’s all folks. I’m going to go home and look at all my stuff I bought. I’ll take pictures probably. WOO! Dinner and a nap!

Last week got pretty hectic. Shame it was during WanFesu weekend. Idiots at Kotaku tried to do coverage… called it Won Fes. Amazing. And don’t try to correct them. They’ll say something stupid. They insisted to me that oneechan has one E. WRONG. WRONG DAMNIT! So anyway, the laptop is back in commission. That makes me happy. Yessir. I am also trying some new blogging software If it sucks and fucks up, I will try to fix it, but don’t blame me. Got some GSC figure announcements. I’ll roll them out into a new post though.

Anime/Manga/Games

• Trailer: To celebrate the release of the sexy new Ikkitousen anime, here is a sexy new Ikkitousen trailer. The show aired earlier and should hit the net soon. YAY NET! It’s been DMed. I won’t be YouTubing anymore. Fuck them. Looks like it’ll be better. YAY BETTER! Still not as good as those delicious manga drawings.
• The website for the Blue Dragon anime is up and the show is due out on April 7th. WOO!
• GA Graphic has a first look at Claymore up. Kinda scary.
• Not sure if this is an overlap. Kite is getting a now anime. It’s called Kite Liberator.
• Trailer: I am not DMing anymore trailers. Too gay. Here’s a trailer for MurderPrincess. It hits the market on March 28th.
• Trailer: A trailer for the new Evangelion movie maybe? MAYBE YES! Does it have any anime footage? NO! Vaporware! YAY!
• In the interest of saving myself some time (this time around) I am going to link my good buddy pKjd’s WanFesu gallery list. Thanks for posting it up, man. I will do my own next time.
• Oh, and Shingo the Heroic went to Futaket. Bless the gods. Nothing about Futaket is worksafe. Just saying.

Figures

• Toys Works is coming out with the Hobby Devil figure to show their sexy support for Chara Hobby. YAY SEXY! She will run you 6,800 yen this May.
• Just when you thought you had heard the last of people calling your figures dolls… Here comes an Aria Playhouse… god damn. Still, it’s cute as hell. Now we just need to make it more sexually explicit. It’ll run 6,090 yen this March.
• SUKUMIZU KOMAKI! Just bust a nut all over this WAVE offering and skip the shit. I know you want to. Just do it. 3,675 yen this June. Yessir.
• Finally… a Mine Blue repaint. Who cares.

And that’s it for this shit. The performancing plugin isn’t very fun to use for huge link-filled posts. Maybe for others? Where is all the good desktop blogging software? The ones that have the shit I want are missing other things. GAH! GAAAAH! As a for instance, Blogjet isn’t a piece of crap, but the new version is too expensive, and ecto is sort of a piece of crap, but also has all the stuff I want, even the shit Blogjet is missing. Whatever. Moving along!

Ah, Hobby Stock. Why must you taunt me so? Why, after Wonder Festival do you post alluring shots of your Tsundere series Otome from Tsuyokiss with the GOOD paint job?! What did I ever do to you, Hobby Stock?! Anyway, so that basically sums up what they’ve posted up. Sure, you can normally get the Otome figure outside of WanFesu, but this version they’ve posted was special for the event only and it has a pink apron and black panties. that’s just cruel. Oh well, she’ll be out never for 4,800 yen. I think the other one is 4,800 yen. It’s on the site… search for it.

Three pictures after the jump.

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I hope you’re starting to see a pattern in my titles for posts like this. Although, I am going to try to promise you that the WanFesu blowout will be more blowouty and I won’t be dipping so lightly into the news bin. And there should be a fuck ton more pictures. I will do my best to keep proper descriptions by things and to mark the NSFW as such, but somethings might slide by me, so as always, please remember to browse with caution as there tend to be a lot of the nudie statues. That being said, ON WITH THE NEWS! I’ve changed the format a bit since WordPress’s nesting stuff was being all faggy.

Heisei Democracy

• General Event Report
• HD WanFesu Image Gallery [NSFW]
• WanFesu Alter Announcements
• WanFesu Max Factory Announcements
• WanFesu GSC Announcements

Moeyo

• WanFesu Coverage Category [Censored NSFW Figures]
• C3 x Hobby Coverage [Censored NSFW Figures]
• Alter Announcments
• GSC/MaxFac Announcements

MoeFigure (I will list roughly what is on each page. Pages not in order.)

• Page 1, Mostly Alter/GSC/Max
• Page 2, Tsukuyomi, Akazukin, Witchblade
• Page 3, Otome, Tama-nee, Haruhi, Nanoha, Mai from KOF
• Page 4, Rozen Maiden, DOA, Nanoha, Aria, Shuffle
• Page 5, Otome, Rei, Ikkitousen, Aria [Censored NSFW]
• Page 6, PPD!, Shana, Black Lagoon, Keroro, Rozen Maiden

HobbyDog

• Page 1, Nanoha, Tama-nee, Carmen 99, Witchblade, Typemoon
• Page 2, More Nanoha, Rozen Maiden, Asuka, KOF Mai, Ikkitousen
• Page 3, Amaenaideyo, Mecha Musume, Nanoha, BakuTen, Lucy Misora
• Page 4, Otome, Tama-nee, Da Capo, Nanoha, XP-tan, Rozen Maiden
• Page 5, Tama-nee, Keroro, and other stuff I don’t recognize

GA Graphics

• C3 x Hobby Main Page
• WanFesu Main Page

Danny Choo

• C3 x Hobby Pre-Coverage
• C3 x Hobby Repot [Mildly NSFW]
• WanFesu 2006 Report
• C3 x Hobby Gallery [Mildly NSFW, Mostly Gundam]

Others

• Akiba Blog [Censored NSFW Figures]
• GungHu Games
• Kigyo
• Otaku Goten
• moe.hm [NSFW]
• Figureren
• earl.box [NSFW]

Ok, that’s about it. A few of the “Others” links were grabbed from moetron. thanks to pKjd for saving me a bit of work. I wish I had seen it sooner so I could have lifted more before I started. Haha. He has a few that I didn’t feature for one reason or another, but they may be of interest to you. Other than that, I think this was a pretty good WanFesu, although the February event always seems to instill a bit more excitement for me. Don’t know why. Still! It’s not to see some good resin kits being turned out, and it looks like the Max/Alter/GSC group have a nice set coming up. surely it will be an exciting time for figure collectors. Yahoo! Auctions will be abuzz for weeks. Ah well, I’m tired now. Enjoy the content!

I’ve been picking on Konami a lot lately for their blatant consumer whoing, but I mean it all in good fun. I mean, how can you be mad at someone who offers up such plentiful crap? While their main WanFesu page could use some sprucing up, its useful links are many, and also pretty typical of what you should expect to see from them there. Among them are links to the typical set of Negima Figumate crap, set of Negima Figumate crap (which will surely be out in full force what with both SkyGirls and Strike Witches around the corner), and their latest and greatest, Busou customizable figures,the creepy Negima posables, the 60cm Asuna from Negima(Be sure to click next a few times to spin her around) for only 24,800 yen, and everything marks “? ? ? ? ?” because that is the best thing in the world. Especially the one that has a series heading of “? ? ?” and then the item listing is “? ? ?” WHAT COULD IT BE?!?!?!

Edit: WordPress has been acting up lately. >.>

Well, the Atelier-sai page certainly has a fuck ton of words on it. I didn’t read to many of them, suffice the ones with pictures around them that were related to Wonder Festival Summer. The first one… it’s from that game. Damnit, What’s it called… Spectral Force 3. That’s it. They’ve got a DAMN, and I mean DAMN DAMN nice Hiro figure from Spectral Force 3. The 1/8 scale resin kit will be there for 8,000 yen and it looks nice, so GO FOR IT! There’s a big long text list of the other stuff they’ll have there. And there’ll be a Full Metal Panic figure, but I got distracted by their list for C3 x Hobby which is apparently going on during the same weekend. Who knew. Anyway, all that stuff is over on their event page, so go check it out. All their pictures are low quality though, so none of them will be posted here.

Well, I figure this will round out the Alter/GSC/Max trio and it looks like GSC isn’t coming with too much especially if you’re not a fan of Fate/stay night. Their two offerings consist of some Fate tradings figures. Most notably Iliya (or Ilya, whatever makes you happy) riding in Heracles’s headand the other tare-Fate people standing around. I think I saw this one else where, but my memory is foggy. It’s nothing to impressive, but I put the pictures up after the jump. No limit number was given, and the set will go for 4,000 yen.

The other offering is Nendoroid tare-Saber in her armor with a couple of different faces. I’m fairly certain this one is a limited edition, as the one coming out this September is different, but who knows, it will likely end up on the market at some point. Nothing too terribly exciting here, though I do prefer it to the model that will be out in September. You can grab this one at WanFesu only, for 3,000 yen. Again, no limit number was given.

Shots of the two exclusives after the jump.

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Alter is going the way of Max Factory, but in an even less interesting way. Well, I guess it’s still a pretty affordable way. They’re offering some 12cm tall Saber and Rin plushies. The both of them together will run you 2,500 yen and they’re limited to a set of 500, but that’s all they are going to have at the convention. I’m a bit sad actually. Ok, wait, I just downloaded the video they’re offering up on the site of the things, and they’re more than just plushies. They’re pull string dancing dolls. Ok, they’re redeemed. I forgive them. While I would like to see something else, a Saber and Rin pair of spinning pull string dollars is pretty awesome. Especially to sit in front of their larger counter parts and have battles. Be sure to grab the video, it’s the link under the image on their page.

Ok, now, I normally don’t do weekend posts, but I got an e-mail that inspired me to get off my ass, stop easting greasy American crap, and make a post. What in the world could stop an American from wallowing in a bed of its own filth, you ask? Well, the answer, of course, is a Mikuru PVC! That’s right I said PVC. Something us unartful idiots can buy and just stick on a shelf. It might be a resin kit, but the single picture I have makes it a bit hard to tell. So it might be a resin kit. Nuke, the awesome pimp who sent this in, says he thinks it might be 1/6. I’m having trouble finding a good reference in the picture for that, but I’m sure he’s using complex math and physics based on the minor reflection and the size of the letters. It’s fine, you wouldn’t understand. Anyway, more details for this as I get them via e-mail. I’m not going to dig arround right now. The figure itself looks good, except for the stockings which just aren’t a good color. Ah well, it captures Mikuru pretty accurately.

There’s a picture for you homos after the jump. I’m posting this under the Wonder Festival category even though it was likely at Comiket. I’m sure we’ll see more of it though. Yay WanFesu! Thanks a ton to Nuke. He always sends the best stuff.

UPDATE: Via BlckKnght in the comments, and further via AoMM, there is a page with info on the figure. It does come in three colors. White looks the best. All three colors come out at the same time this November for 7,140 yen. There are more pictures on the site linked, but I’m not going to post them here in the interests of waiting until I get some good quality shots of the figure. You all understand, I’m sure.

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Well, the product Max Factory is offering up for WanFesu 2006 summer is pretty depressing. It looks like all we’re talking about is some Higurashi trading figures than “no fan should be without.” Yeah, I guess they’re kind of cute, but i think I will be without them. But I’m not really a fan, so there you go. Oh and one of those big red Robot things that I seriously don’t care about in the first place. I can fill my shelf with cool looking things, or bland red robots. I never got that whole gig. Even the Gundams. Let’s see… Robots with no character or interesting points about them aside from their arbitrary specs, or pretty girls and cool looking guys. Hard choice, I tell you. Ah well, the Higurashi figures will be up for 1,500 yen and the robot guy thing is 3,500 yen. I think it’s Red Baron from the 1973 thing Kansatoshi 1. Not sure. I don’t know about that though. Maybe it’s the other way around. Kansatoshi 1 from Red Baron. I don’t know. Don’t care.

You’ve made me sad, Max Factory. So very sad. So no pictures after the jump for you! Not worth the energy. I will post two more companies tomorrow, if I can find them. Haha.