For the love of smoked cheese, Nyoro will do anything. This, I knew; what I didn’t realize was that it extended to cake as well. This fantastically composed shot comes courtesy of S1 Prod of figure.fm.
Daily Fig: Itadaki-masu!
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Mar
21
Mar
15
Daily Fig: MikuMikuRacing!
We’ve featured Hatsune Miku quite a few times. So by now you should be in the know regarding her identity. This time around our little Vocaloid Idol is tearing up the streets in a racer! Huzzah! This picture and those below come from tomopop.com, so be sure to check out what all they got goin on.
Mar
13
Daily Fig Update of Awesome: Professor Layton
We’ve featured the Professor Layton Revoltech figure before, but his bad-assery knows no bounds.
If you’ve played Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
Mar
10
We’re slacking off this morning…
Sorry we are slacking off this morning, but we we’ll have some things up later today, including a full review of Bush Hunt. Until then just look at Mio and listen to some jams from Kaleidoscope, Toki Tori, and VVVVVV.
01 Home (Main Theme of Kaleidoscope)
04 Malevolent Mysteries (Murkwood Creep)
07 Looking Glass (End Credits)
Mar
8
Daily Fig: Miku Monopoly
Miku has been featured before as a daily fig and as a music video idol, but never before has she been featured as the leek waving tycoon of Monopoly. As mentioned elsewhere Hatsuna Miku is a Vocaloid character used for the marketing of the popular singing synthesizer software developed by Yamaha. This shot and lots more can be found over at figure.fm.
Mar
6
Daily Fig: Saber & bonus ‘Fate/Stay Night’ rant.
This is really a self serving post because I recently watched the series this character is from and I just felt like ranting about it. When I saw this fig pop up on figure.fm I thought to myself “hey here is my chance to bitch about Fate/Stay Night.” So that is exactly what I am going to do, but first lets go ahead and do the introduction.
This sword wielding figure is that of the character Saber from anime series Fate/Stay Night. Saber is a knight summoned to this world by main character Shiro Emiya to participate in the war for the Holy Grail, save the world, and of course fall in love.
I have a rule in anime that I have spent years cultivating. The rule is principally similar to that of the rule Leela suggests Fry use when telling stories. In Fry’s case, the rule is to always end his stories a sentence early. In my case, the rule is to never watch the last episode of an anime you like because invariably the creators of the series will have either found the most depressing possible ending or the dumbest possible ending. I have no idea how I failed so badly at following my own rule, but Fate/Stay Night manages to end up squarely in both the depressing and dumb categories.
My enjoyment of the series fits amazingly into an inverted U-shape curve, with zero enjoyment on either end. All bitching aside, that middle part is pretty awesome, just do yourself a favor and skip the first episode and half the last episode and substitute your own beginning and end.
Mar
1
Daily Fig: Scrooge McDuck and bonus Epic Mickey ramblings.
Okay, you know who this one is. It’s Scrooge McDuck or, as his grandnephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie refer to him, Uncle Scrooge. This was one of my favorite characters growing up from the show DuckTales, but he has a whole lot more history than that.
While Uncle Scrooge is unlikely to be a character in Epic Mickey, since they are aiming for more obscure long forgotten characters from the depths of Disney’s vault, but I really can’t help but think about the game when I see old characters like this. To be honest I am somewhat concerned about that project. Don’t get me wrong, I really think they have the opportunity to create something so brilliant with those assets, but with it currently relegated to Wii exclusivity and the difficulties 3rd parties face on that system, my concerns are more than likely warranted. Here’s hoping we see it shed that exclusivity before it’s show time.
Late night ramblings aside, this fig was featured in a pre-order roundup on Tomopop and they have a few more items that you may fancy. So go give it a look over.
Feb
25
Akiyama Mio(秋山 澪): Moe Moe Kyun!
Moe moe kyun, indeed. Mio is for sure looking cute and seksi, and our hearts would be going *kyun kyun* if ours weren’t made of brass gears and cogs. The shot is of a new 1/8th scale fig being distributed by Good Smile Company
Feb
23
Daily Fig: Lupin III and Fujiko Mine
So it’s been a few days since we posted a Daily Fig, mostly because over the weekend we had something in the neighborhood of three on the front page and it really started to creep us out and we had ourselves a little self imposed intervention. So it’s sort of the not so daily fig at this point but having partially fallen off the wagon we are letting loose on you this fig of Lupin III. Lupin is the lead character in the anime of the same name who leads a small gang of criminals on various heists, sort of like Leverage and Hustle. I don’t remember where I saw these shots so I apologize to the source. To make it up to the rest of you I’ll also include a completely unsourced shot of Fujiko Mine.
Feb
22
Bayonetta Chapter Dolls: I opted not to go with a butt joke.
Guided by a mysterious hand to the world maps of our hearts, these Bayonetta chapter dolls showed up on flickr recently showing off the fine craftsmanship of flickr user “n‑moto”. He describes their construction as follows:
Anyone familiar with the game Bayonetta (by Platinum Games) will recognize these “chapter dolls”.
I sculpted these figures using Super Sculpey and finished them with acrylic paint, gold leaf, and assorted craft store finds.
The figures themselves derive from the actual game, in which they were used to mark world map locations. Below is some of the concept art n‑moto used to create these real world equivalents followed by some high res shots. Be sure to check out a ton more shots on the flickr page. Oh and play Bayonetta, it’s good.
