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customs
MY SILLY LITTLE GUYS!!! jack (green) and xavier (purple) are rai's OCs who i adore! i ended up commissioning them as nendoroid dolls about a year and a half ago now, with TopClayArts on Etsy creating the heads from references I drew out and Xavier's body being hand-dyed by me (which was tricky, I ended up having to buy a spare body since the first one turned out a bit TOO bright purple and wasn't a great color match). As for their outfits, Jack's is a standard Nendoroid doll outfit release, with Xavier's being made up almost entirely of custom pieces. Their secondary outfits are also standard Nendoroid doll outfit releases, with them being from the Nurse set. xavier's third outfit is the hatsune miku date outfit bc i feel like that's just something he'd like lol. i also got the vampire outfit for xav (not pictured), which he's in now.
madoka magica
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Akemi Homura - 1/8th Scale (Gift) (May 2013) - my first (and so far only) scale! i used to not like homura much after rebellion but looking back i think i was just being Very Fourteen Years Old about it to a degree. i think she's a very interesting character and i like rebellion as an examination of how devotion can warp into possessiveness if left unchecked (and also the lengths chronic trauma related to losing loved ones can make one go in order to keep the loved ones one doesn't wish to lose within grasp, if that makes sense lol)
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Sakura Kyouko - Nendoroid Petit (Good Smile Company) (Feb. 2012) - honestly despite how much i love homura i still think kyouko is my favorite... homura may have more going for her in terms of character intrigue and themes but Kyouko!!! Is Kyouko!!! she was the first character to really grab me in madomagi and i love that she gets more attention in the TDS manga, even if she did get a good bit of attention in the main series compared to like. mami. i also used to have the nendoroid petit of madoka in her magical girl outfit, but she has unfortunately been lost to time.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Miki Sayaka, Sakura Kyouko - Nendoroid, Uniform, Plain Clothes ver. (#422) (Good Smile Company) (Jul. 2014) - THESE TWOOOOO!!!! ngl back when i thought i was cis these two were like. my queer awakening. these two had me googling 'can girls kiss girls for real' 'can yuri happen for real' in like. 7th grade. you'd think me having literal 'but we're both girls!!!' thoughts about other girls who i totally had crushes on as a kid would have tipped me off but nah. self-sacrifice in the name of accompanying the person you care for into the great beyond got me. they are like the perfect foil to madohomu in that they're very 'i will follow you even into death' and madohomu is very 'i will kill death if it means keeping you alive'. yknow.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Kaname Madoka - Nendoroid, Maiko ver. (#322) (Good Smile Company) (Jul. 2013) - my first con exclusive figure!!! i got her at AX 2013 (back when i was 13... jfc). she's still a favorite of mine to this day, she's just so dang CUTE and comes with so many accessories! plus i'm a sucker for both parasols and sitting poses in figures, and she has BOTH. unbeatable.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Ultimate Madoka - Nendoroid (#285) (Good Smile Company) (Apr. 2013) - she's SO cute but she's SUCH a pain in the ass to set up. her wings never wanna stay in place, i had to modify her stand to get it to work properly, and even if those weren't a problem, she's SUCH a pain to pose. she's very pretty and i'm very glad i have her, i just wish she wasn't such a pain.
Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Akemi Homura - Nendoroid, Uniform ver. (#208) (Good Smile Company) (Feb. 2012) - got her to go with Ultimate Madoka, as I thought it'd be nice to have post-story Homura and Madoka posed together. ...didn't realize that the red ribbon hair piece is only compatible with the back hair piece from her magical girl nendoroid though ;;; so until I find just that piece for sale, i have her posed in her sitting pose. super cute, and she comes with a TON of extra pieces, even if some only make sense when used with her other nendoroid.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Sakura Kyouko - Mega Jumbo Nesoberi Nuigurumi (SEGA)(Jul. 2018) - i am a simple man... i enjoy a nice nesoberi from time to time. i got her at a con for i thiiink $50 a few years back? which i thought was a bit steep at the time, since at the time most nesoberis were going for around $30? though in retrospect, especially considering the aftermarket for the madoka magica nesoberis, i'm very glad to have paid that instead of the $100+ prices i see now. i was also considering homura at that same con, though her price was even higher and i ended up balking.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Kyuubey - Madoka Magica - Kyubey Sleeping Plush (Great Eastern Entertainment) (2020 or before) - kyubey sleepy plush!! spotted this at jungle sometime before the pandemic and he was super cheap, so i snapped him up. he lives in my plushie net with kyouko.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Sakura Kyouko, Miki Sayaka - Toy's Works Collection Dress-up Niitengomu! - Niitengomu - Rubber Strap - Secret, Nakayoshi/ Good Friends ver. (Chara-Ani, Toy's Works) (Dec. 2014) - cute little kyousaya charm! the rest of the line aside from the secret ones (which i think the other is madoka and homura? iirc) have a swappable outfit gimmick, which is cute but imo i'd be worried about it coming apart and losing half the charm lol. the art for this one is super cute, i had to pick it up as soon as i could find it.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica - Miki Sayaka, Sakura Kyouko - Plush Keychain (Aniplex) (2012) - AAAAAA THEYRE SO CUTE...!! i got them when i saw rebellion in theaters, as i saw it the day after the premiere and my venue had a ton of merch on offer! i ended up getting these two along with the trifold film guidebook. i saw it with my bestie, who IIRC got a messenger bag. we also got snacks before the movie and i ended up being so emotionally invested i didn't even touch them. i also cried when we were leaving the theater lol.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Miki Sayaka, Sakura Kyouko - Mini Shikishi (Aniplex) (Oct. 2013) - got this in the theater when i saw rebellion! the theater was buzzing with activity before the movie started, as there were a lot of us that were eager to trade shikishi for another character set we wanted more. i think i started with mami and nagisa and ended up trading for sayaka and kyouko.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Blu Ray, Limited Edition (Aniplex, Shaft) (2012) - wanted this for FOREVER but it was sadly very out of reach for the longest time, as it was still commanding a high price second-hand, even moreso for the english edition. i ended up getting this second-hand from mandarake a few years back for ~$20 in like-new condition and MAN was it worth it! i still really love this movie and this comes with a TON of stuff, including an artbook and a soundtrack.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Movie Pamphlet - Limited Edition (Aniplex, Shaft, Tokyu Recreation) (Oct. 2013) -got this at the theater with the kyouko and sayaka plush keychains! i think it was like $30? since i had $60 to spend and the keychains were about $15 each. very cool little guidebook, includes some interviews with the voice cast and anime staff.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Art Book - Official Guidebook: Only You (Houbunsha) (Apr. 2014) -picked this up at Kino sometime in 2014 or 2015! very nice artbook, like the pamphlet it has voice cast and staff interviews, but also includes tons of promotional and production art.
Gekijouban Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Hangyaku no Monogatari - Production Note (Feb. 2015) -got this for my 15th birthday! i'm not super into collecting artboks compared to how much i used to be, but i still treasure this. it's literally the most complete art collection for a piece of media i've ever seen and it's SO cool.
Volumes of the manga I own: Original Series 1-3 + Omnibus, TDS 1-3, Homura Tamura 1+2, Magia Record 1, Wraith Arc 1+3
splatoon
Splatoon - Inkling Girl, Inkling Boy, Callie, Marie, Octoling Girl, Octoling Boy, Octoling, Pearl, Marina - Amiibo (Nintendo) (May 2012 - Nov. 2018) - not a ton to say about these individually, so i grouped them all into one entry! got the inkling girl and boy on release, though i originally preordered the set of three which included the regular inkling. unfortunately, the store i PO'd from didn't get any stock of them, so they sold me these two and gave me a partial refund as compensation. next addition were the pearl and marina amiibos, as i didn't have money for the other splatoon 2 amiibos when they released and aftermarket was pretty steep for a while. got them on preorder from the same store without incident, thankfully. the octo expansion amiibo i managed to get off of play-asia, which was the first time in years i had used the site. and lastly, i got callie and marie somewhat recently as a graduation gift to myself, as their aftermarket price has fallen significantly in the past year-ish due to them being reprinted when splatoon 3 released. despite being released over the course of years, quality is super consistent across the board and rather impressive, considering both the small scale and the cheap price point (at MSRP, at least).
Splatoon - Inkling Girl 1, Inkling Girl 2, Callie, Marie - Plush (San-ei) (Dec. 2015 - Nov. 2017) - plushes! my ex got my callie and marie, and my parents got me the splatoon 2 plush last year around the holidays. not 100% sure where i got the splatoon 1 plush. maybe b&n?
i also own all the games, but i only have a Switch, so i can't play 1 lol
black rock shooter
Black Rock Shooter - Nendoroid (#106) (Good Smile Company) (Aug. 2010) - my first nendoroid!! well, technically. the first one i bought back shortly before i turned 12 was a bootleg, though it took me a bit until i learned what bootlegs were and that i had overpaid for junk. I ended up re-buying a legit one a few years back, she's still a favorite despite anything beyond the OVA and the game to an extent not really grabbing me with BRS.
Black Rock Shooter - Dead Master - Nendoroid (#128) (Good Smile Company) (Dec. 2010) - far from my first nendoroid, i actually got her as a companion to BRS! i really love her design, i wanted her nendoroid for a long time but just couldn't find it at a price i was happy with. i eventually just bit the bullet and got her anyway a couple of years ago, for a price that, while still higher than msrp, still wasn't too bad. her :P faceplate is my favorite piece of hers!
Puchitto Rock Shooter - Black Rock Shooter - Cheerful Japan! - Nendoroid (#180) - Puchitto Support ver. (Good Smile Company) (Oct. 2011) - PUCHITTOOOO she's so silly. i got her for like $20 on auction ages ago, sometime after i got dead master. total steal, esp considering she was complete in box and in great condition! she, like the cheerful miku nendoroid, was originally sold as part of a relief effort for japan following the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, and the subsequent nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi.
Black Rock Shooter - Dead Master (Great Eastern Entertainment) (Prior to Aug. 2015) - ok one thing DID grab me about the 2012 anime and that's dead master's design. actually, a lot of the designs from that show are really cool. i just felt like the narrative had zero breathing room and the resolution was VERY rushed. kagari had potential that i feel was partially realized, but not entirely? and yu's arc was... a mess. same with saaya's. also god damn i just felt awful for yomi the entire time. could have been good but got stuck with an 8 episode run. at least it looks cool.
Black Rock Shooter - Kuroi Mato - Strap - 1/1 (Good Smile Company) (Jul. 2010) - one of my favorite pieces of my collection honestly, i remember wanting one of these SO bad when i first watched the OVA but couldn't find any anywhere for ages. a very close friend of mine and i each wanted one, with one of us having mato's and the other having yomi's. serendipitously, we were recently able to reconnect for the first time in 8-ish years after a number of missed connections, and i couldn't be happier to be in touch again!
Black Rock Shooter - Blu-Ray - Limited Edition (BRS Project, Ordet) (Dec. 2010) -GOD WHAT A GREAT SPECIAL EDITION... blu ray AND dvd, nendoroid petit figures, illustration book, AND A FULL STORYBOARD BOOK. LIKE, IT'S THE BOARDS FOR THE ENTIRE OVA. JUST! WOW! this really made me wanna get into storyboarding despite being an illustrator lol. i unfortunately don't have the figures, though, as i sold them as part of a lot ages ago. kind of wish i kept them but whatever.
Black Rock Shooter - The Game - PlayStation Portable Game (Imageepoch) (Aug. 2011) - the brs game! it's like... fine. nothing super standout but nothing awful, which i feel was kind of a curse Imageepoch games tended to have before they shut down. I really liked the Seventh Dragon games of theirs, but they didn't sell well, and once they actually started releasing stateside, the writing was kind of on the wall regarding their imminent closure... i got the first-press edition, which came with a charm of WRS.
other shows/games
figures
figures
Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb - Yuno - Nendoroid (#297) (May 2013) - YUNOCCHIIII i swear this show kept me going during my few year stint as an anxiety-ridden shut-in. literally 'ok if i just survive long enough i'll be able to move out and live with friends like in hidamari sketch' level shit. it's a very cute, feel-good show! aside from the stuff with yoshinoya, which i know is all meant in good fun but it just comes off weird most of the time.
Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb - Miyako - Nendoroid (#308) (Jun. 2013) - miyako is EASILY my favorite character in this show lol. she's just so funny. also; same voice actor as navi from zelda which i always thought was funny. and mami from madoka, actually! i found out about this show bc of that.
Hetalia World Stars - France - Nendoroid (#1638) (Orange Rouge) (Jan. 2022) - listen. fuck hetalia it is cringe and i do not endorse it. i just like blonde pretty anime dudes.
Castlevania - Alucard - Nendoroid (#1899) (Good Smile Company) (May 2023) - i WHOLEHEARTEDLY endorse the castlevania show tho (aside from it being a netflix show but like. it's whatever). chad alucard vs virgin france or whatever. look at content warnings before viewing tho stay safe lol. his nendoroid is nice but it does have some QC issues w the sword and it's lacking in accessories. still like him tho
goods
Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight - Kagura Hikari - Hair Accessory (Cospa) (Apr. 2019) - cospa shit expensive as HELL for what it is (at least imported) but whatever i love revstar! i still have not seen the movies. daiba nana! hinahina is in it!
Bulbasaur (Korean Gaming Association) (who the fuck knows) - ok so i had to REALLY dig for info on this one bc i couldn't find it on mfc and the non-standard branding on the tush tag really threw me for a loop bc? it isn't the normal branding BUT it has all the copyright info which bootlegs almost never do bc Lawsuit. so i looked and looked until i found someone selling it on eBay (where i got the photo bc there are no official pictures i can find) in the philippines and?? apparently it's some super obscure Korean Gaming Association Release? and mine doesn't seem to be bootleg, like i said there's the stuff w the tush tag, all the embroidery and sewing are top notch (bootlegs of this aren't common anyway, and the few i can find almost always fuck up the mouth embroidery or attaching the head to the body somehow, and the fur-like fabric they use is visibly cheap as hell) and i got it from a store that from what i can tell doesn't sell any bootlegs (esp considering it's location and the prices they charge... if anyone were buying bootlegs for some of the prices they have, they'd be being robbed blind), so like? i think i just bagged a weirdly rare and practically entirely undocumented (on the english web, at least) bulbie. neat.
Pokemon - Sylveon - Eevee Collection 2017 - Sleeping ver. (Pokemon Center) (Aug. 2017) - sylveon. what else do i need to say. i love them.
Sonic the Hedgehog - Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower - Jazwares (2011) - idk i got these when i was like 11 at a barnes and noble when i was hyped for generations and then the 3ds game kinda sucked and i played the pc version years later and didn't really like it after a certain point (aka planet wisp can Fuck Off for real. also the last boss was lame and was just a rehash of the colors one to some degree. and also biolizard 2 from what i rember). what do you want me to say.
Final Fantasy XIV - Kuplu Kopo (Square Enix) (Apr. 2016) - kupo!!! i played through ffxiv: a realm reborn a while ago and really enjoyed it, so i got this plush bc moogles are cute and soft. i still have yet to play through heavensward or stormblood but i'll get back to it eventually.
Item Label - Purple Fuzzpy (Purple Fuzzy Peepy) - i love my little freak. he stole $13 worth of peanuts from the dollar store last week. i may be harboring a fugitive but he's just so cute. he is extremely weak to homework, we just had parent-teacher night and he has done none of it this entire semester. he only has one strength and it is style. i love my son.
Item Label - Dinkle (Original) - he keeps asking if i can promote his soundcloud on here but i am not doing that. he blares his new single outside of the train station every day and i keep getting letters from disgruntled commuters telling me to make him stop. what do i look like, his keeper? i have no dominion over him. don't tell him his stuff isn't chiptune, he'll get you.
dvd, blu ray
The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010) - please PLEASE watch this if you haven't already. it isn't perfect (and has it's own share of unfortunate... anime-isms, for lack of a better term, especially during the opening few minutes, but it's legit one of my fave films. imagine one girl runs the world. what happens when she up and vanishes without a trace, and you're the only one who even knows she existed at all? what would you do?
Hidamari Sketch: Picture Perfect Collection (Aired Jan. 2007 - Nov. 2013, compilation released Nov. 2019) - literal comfort food show. it's almost entirely good. i have some caveats with it but they're caveats that are (unfortunately) common in most CGDCT shows honestly. plus 5 seasons and a season's worth of OVAs for like $60 is a pretty fucking killer deal honestly!
K-ON! The Movie (2011) - honestly probably not as good if you haven't watched the rest of the show beforehand, as it basically serves as the series finale, but it's just a good fun time! doesn't have the main gripe i had with the rest of the show as well which is nice (see: Sawako. i'd be into her but why is she so weird to the girls... at least her role in the movie amounts to 'hey i'm also here')
The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013) - peak fucking cinema. my favorite ghibli film. please watch it if you haven't.
Lucky Star: The Complete Series (2007) - a classic, and one of the first anime i watched that i knew was anime (in three parts in 240p on youtube, of course). it, like other shows of it's kind, have it's own share of problems and Animeisms so it doesn't always hit but it hits good when it does.
Mob Psycho 100 II (2019) - ONE OF MY FAVE SHOWS EVER... I feel like season 2 doesn't start Quite as strong as season 1 did but overall I think it's a really strong season, especially with the world domination arc and the introduction of serizawa and the way it sets up for everything we see in season 3. watch mob psycho 100
games
The iDOLM@STER SP Perfect Sun (PSP) (Namco) (Feb. 2009) - baby's first raising sim, played originally sometime in 2015 or 2016? i only finished haruka's route, as i actually preferred the cast choices from missing moon (chihaya, ritsuko, azusa), but 2/3 of the routes from it are still yet to be translated. it's like? fine? though honestly these days ur probably better off starting w a later game in the series.
K-ON! Houkago Live (PSP) (SEGA) (Sep. 2010) - baby's first rhythm game, which apparently uses the same engine as the psp diva games and was developed by the same team which is neat. i don't remember being particularly good with any one character, though i do remember not being able to clear anything on higher difficulties, let alone using the item that unlocks super hard mode on songs. graphics are really nice for PSP as well, it mimicks the art style of the show super closely. it ended up getting a ps3 port shortly before i got it, though i didn't have a ps3 so i just got it for psp.
art books and manga
The Art of Fire Emblem Awakening (Dark Horse) (Aug. 2016)
Bocchi the Rock #1 - Hamaji Aki (Yen Press) (Nov. 2023)
The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi-Chan, #1, 4, 5 - Nagaru Tanigawa, Noizi Ito, Puyo (Yen Press) (Oct. 2010 - Mar. 2012)
K-ON! #1-5, College, High School - Kakifly (Yen Press) (Nov. 2010 - Oct. 2013)
Manga Classics Dracula - Bram Stoker, Virginia Nitouhei (Manga Classics) (May 2021)
Nagata Kabi - (Seven Seas) (Jun. 2017 - Nov. 2023)
Nichijou #1, 2 - Arawi Keiichi (Vertical Comics) (Mar. 2016 - May 2016)