Weird? Yes. Sign me up? Double yes. Double yes gum. I wonder if it makes your breath smell like a summer ham. Really what I think is weird about this is that they didn’t turn into full body pillows featuring anime girls sporting maid outfits, such a bizarre oversight.

So, we are going to daily fig it up this evening. Mostly because Brooks didn’t want to look at the last article on the front page anymore. Fortunately we have an outdoor exploring Nanoha Takamachi fig that makes me remember that in the “outside world” it might be Spring. Well at least for us northern hemisphere folk. The rest of you will have to find some depressing figs to symbolize Fall. Like anything from Fate/Stay Night, which I have continued to curse ever since finishing. DAMN YOU FATE/STAY NIGHT.

source: figure.fm

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kirsten Dunst recently visited Akihabara. I don’t actually know how recently. I don’t really intend on finding out either. What I do know is that the video is pretty cool and potentially not terribly safe for work. Unless panties and boobies are not explicitly covered in your offices policies, in which case I highly encourage you to push the envelope! Maybe they will name the rule after you, who knows?

I thought she may be going for a cosplay of a character I wasn’t familiar with. She kind of looked like several. Brooks, being a man of the world(as it can be accessed via the internet) informed me that “it’s just generic mahou shoujo.” Whatever that means.

The music is meh, but the video itself makes up for it so check it out. Mute it if you need to.

Image from figure.fm

Kirsten Dunst & McG’s ‘Akihabara Majokko