K-ON! Full Band Nendoroid Preview – and Curry

Here is a preview of the upcoming Azunyan (Nakano Azusa) nendoroid that was shown at the C3X Hobby event in Japan! Along with her are the rest of the K-ON nendoroid crew listed below. I don’t see any estimated release dates, but they’re coming pretty far along with finishing up the rest of the cast. Unlike the main characters of Lucky Star, I actually feel like collecting the whole band ^_^

My Miku nendoroid will finally be in a band!

Fall Nendoroid Preview

A scan from a hobby magazine reveals a couple of upcoming nendoroids. With a new line of petit nendoroids and normal nendoroids, there’s more reasons for me to go without food x_x Shown above is a set of petit nendoroids from the Vocaloid series. For those who never got the chance to purchase the many variations of the Miku nendoroid, here’s a good chance to grab your own Miku and more. As I already have two Miku nendoroids (The normal, and Wonderfest version) and a Kagamine Rin nendoroid, this purchase isn’t exactly prioritized highly on my list of stuff to get. But in the long run, adding more to my army of petit nendoroids is heavily tempting me …

Other than that, two Type-Moon nendoroids of Ryougi Shiki (Kara no Kyoukai) and Canaan (Canaan) seem to be ready for a fall release as well. And to milk the franchise even further, we get a petit set of of Death Note nendoroids. Seeing that most of the cast depicted in the set has already been released in a normal sized nendoroid forms, we’re seeing a lot of repeat nendoroids in petit form. Seeing that I do not own even one of the original Death Note nendoroids, this does not affect me at all as this gives me a chance to grab some more variety in my nendoroid collection ^_^ I can’t wait to grab some more petit nendoroids including Churuya-san (Haruhi) above. But with the rate they’re releasing nendoroids, we’ll probably see a nendoroid version of everyone’s favorite anime/game characters.

Nendoroid Akiyama Mio ~ K-ON!

Seems like K-ON! nendoroids are in the works as we are presented with the first images of the Mio nendoroid. Details were released in the official K-ON! blog, but no release date has yet been confirmed on this. Hopefully they’ll work on Azunyan as well since she’s my favorite! I really should have updated this week with Micchi-senpai gone, but I had the stomach flu ^_~ I’m definitely going to need more room for nendoroids though….

Official K-ON! Page Blog

Umineko Anime Episode 1- First Impressions

Nemuiwanko here! (Will be using this color to identify myself with) After a long hiatus from posting, I’m back to post about the newly released Umineko no Naku Koro Ni anime. I was pretty overjoyed to hear that it was getting its own anime adaptation but was pretty worried since a game of that caliber would not translate well into anime form. The game itself just has too much information, backgrounds, and even tea parties* (yes, tea parties) to consider and viewers would probably never fully understand the plot. The anime version of Ryukishi07’s (creator of Higurashi and Umineko) former work Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni managed to cover the major plot points but left out crucial details that would have explained and further contributed to the understanding of the story.

Kagamine Rin goes on a Solo Debut!

Nemuiwanko here! Kagamine Rin recently arrived as a nice delayed shipment. I didn’t order her brother since I wanted other nendoroids more so I won’t be seeing the pair together for awhile. Maybe she can join Keroro-tachi and start a band with them >_>;; My nendoroid shipments are going to lower immensely until I get a nice source of revenue flowing in to support these future purchases.

At the moment I’m trying to work in more posts, but I’m caught by the World of Warcraft expansion: Wrath of the Lich King. It’s too addicting to play as Death Knight, but now that I’m 80 that should allow me more time to watch anime and write more posts hopefully…. and of course finish Umineko now that episode 3 has been fully translated!

Finally I just wanted to say that MMOs are pure evil….

Nendoroids to Celebrate the New Year

Mini-Donkey as usual presenting the new arrivals

Nemuiwanko here! Nendoroids have arrived and wondering how this new year will turn out. I hope everyone is doing well. I’m going to have to post more now but with my recent hard drive problems and WoW, that has kept me occupied o_o;  I don’t have an awesome list of resolutions like Micchi-senpai but I hope to find a job and fix my sleeping habits! And so many games to finish… Umineko ;___________; But that’s it for now.

Miku is presenting the recent nendoroids!

Umineko Episode 2 – Domestic Violence and Crying Men o_O

Beatrice is scary isn't she?

Nemuiwanko here! Merry Christmas! I hope everyone got something nice and are enjoying their time with family and friends. I’m back for more writing as finals had recently ended. I’m not quite done with Umineko Episode 2, but I’m very happy to learn that most of Episode 3 had been released as well! The translation project is going quite well and fast and it’s just amazing at how much they’re pumping out before the next episode at Comiket. Although off-topic but related to visual novels, the Fate Stay Night translation was also completed while I wasn’t paying attention x_x;; They’re releasing games faster than I can play. But now onto Umineko!

Battler can sign up for the next Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) game!

Gotta love Battler’s enthusiasm in the beginning! Click more for more of my random babble on this! Beware of  SPOILERS.

Urusai x 3 – Nendoroid Shana Arrives!

Nemuiwanko here! Still playing through Mother 3 and Umineko, but my brain is fizzling out from people’s birthday parties this week. But an early shipment arrived, and I got my newest nendoroid from the Shakugan no Shana series. As for the figma, I kinda errr.. got my friend into figma collecting, so that’s the result there. Collecting stuff is addicting >_< Anyway, I hope to make a post about Umineko once I clear the first part with George and Shannon. They make a cute couple but he looks so Tomitake-ish in his casual clothes x_x;;

Mother 3 – Fan Translation Finished!

Ok this isn't how the game looks... but it should be how it looks!

Here's how it really looks!

Nemuiwanko here! I’m going to try to post a bit more since Micchi-senpai is on vacation. I don’t want Micchi-senpai’s page to dry up without updates o_o Recently I’ve been playing Mother 3 during my public transportation rides to school. It’s the sequel of Mother 2 (or to those who played the North American localization, Earthbound!) Earthbound itself is a fan favorite as it was one of those rare SNES RPGs that had a modern setting.

Tsukasa will win! And the World of Figmas begins!

Ok ignore the Gundam and the fact that Konata is sitting on a plush version of my dog. But this week sure had some nice items!

Nemuiwanko here! I covered Nendoroids but now I’ll go briefly into another figure line. From Max Factory, these Figmas are highly articulated figures from popular series. Similar to the Revoltech line which deals with articulation, these Figmas so far are pretty detailed and I think looks way more similar to the character they’re based on. With the ability to put them in almost any pose you wish, they come with very few accessories but a lot hand parts for more hand motion expressions. I’ll go into more detail later, but I just wanted to support Tsukasa! Her figma and Konata’s came the other day just in time for this ^_^

【手書き】うみねこのなく頃に – (Spoilers!)

A hand drawn Umineko video that is animated to show portions of the first and second games. It’s full of spoilers, so unless you’re up to date with what’s going on with the first two games or just curious enough to spoil yourself, feel free to watch o_o This pumps me up even more for the anime xD

Hatsune Miku Arrives x 3!

Okay I owned the nendoroid for a long while now, so it's really 2 that arrived.

Nemuiwanko here! The popularity of Miku is still increasing as shown by the arrival of a figma and 1/8 figure to accompany my nendoroid. They designed them pretty well, especially the 1/8th one. Her clothes are shiny and feels different from the PVC material they normally use though. But as my second 1/8 figure, I am glad that I pre-ordered it. This figure is probably too hard to get now xD;

Hit the jump for a bigger picture of the 1/8th figure!

World of Nendoroids: Nendoroid Explosion

They have all gathered! Click on picture for full view

Nemuiwanko here! I’ve done it, I have collected 14 nendoroids, and have around 20 petit nendoroids! Sure there’s like 50 total larger nendoroids out there.. but this is a start. Although I’ll have to do it at a slower pace for now ^_^;; But looking at the selection of characters up there, Good Smile really knows how to please their customers! It’ll be awhile until I do another nendoroid segment, so more vocaloid stuff and visual novel game posts coming up! Tsukihime, here I come o_o

Nendoroid Madness

What happens when you start buying one nendoroid.. you just can't stop!

Nemuiwanko here! My nendoroids for this month. These nendoroids always look more happier than me when they get here O_O I’m going to take better photos this weekend, and gather all of my nendoroids, small and big for a huge picture. The collection grows once again ^_^;;

Oh and yes, that is Rika in the corner! Go Higurashi ^-^/

Game Log: Umineko no naku koro ni session end Episode 1

Maria from Umineko

Nemuiwanko here! Not much of a game log if I finished the game and don’t publish any of the journey. However, I’ll save that for the next episode. I got too caught up in trying to find out what happened in the story xD; So the following will just be my concluding thoughts and mini-review. The game is full of questions that I’m more confused than I ever was in Higurashi >___<

Umineko however exceeded my expectations as it weaved a nice tale of mystery that has been lacking recently in my anime and shows. It’s not a complete game as there will be more story arcs and episodes to show different scenarios in order to reveal the truth behind the events. Therefore this is more of an introductory episode, which will more or less acquaint you well enough for the next game. However, what interested me most was the following questions that developed in the story. Was everything that occurred in this story supernatural? Or did it have a basis in reality? Does the golden witch exist? Will Micchi-sempai take Maria home?

Hit the jump for more! Which is full of spoilers and thoughts about the game o_o;;