I think I’m slowly getting back into blogging again. My new Black★Rock Shooter figure arrived yesterday, exactly two weeks after it was shipped from Hobby Search in Japan. I pre-ordered the figma version, as it’s less expensive than the other figures (seeing as I’m a student and all, I’m mostly poor), and it’s more customisable than the other more expensive firgures. This one is 14cm in height and cost me ¥2946 (about $40 AUD) including shipping (with my 15% discount from Hobby Search), as opposed to the 29cm figures that cost upwards from $170 AUD. :O

Anyway, Black Rock Shooter is an original character and song developed using the Hatsune Miku voice synthesiser. What gets annoying is how many people think that BRS and Hatsune Miku are related or are from the same series, as they look similar in appearance. Other than sharing the same voice in the song, they have absolutely no relation to each other!  I’ll add the music video here, which was developed as a pilot for the upcoming (at the time) release of the OVA. If you’re not a fan of J-pop, you may like to ignore the song.

Finally, here is the new figure that I bought, Black Rock Shooter Figma version. I haven’t placed it in a particularly amazing pose, or customised it much, but this will do for now. The figure came with several options, including the Black Rock Cannon, Black Blade, five pairs of hands, three faces, two hairstyles (one with glowing eye), and two metal chains that are most likely for display only. I was also really surprised to see that it also came with a copy of the OVA on DVD.

Well that’s it for now, I might update this entry soon to include an image with the her black katana if anyone’s interested. Let’s hope I can get back into writing blogs again.

Also,  I really need to find another theme for this blog now that I’m including videos and pictures more often, as there’s not enough space for anything. I don’t wnat to have to resize everything again… Let me know if you find a few decent ones. This blog will look weird until I change it, so help me out.

-Lachy.

Hooray, my new anime figures arrived today, that I bought from Ebay about a week ago. They’re a little smaller than I expected, the description said they were 10-12cm in height, but they’re actualy 9-10cm in reality. They’re still awesome though, so it’s all ok.

Sakura Kinomoto from Cardcaptor Sakura now lives in my house. Jealous?  Sakura is the greatest, definitely my favourite female anime character. She has rollerblades, and clow cards, and Keroberos! The fact that it’s a shoujo anime means nothing to otaku such as myself, because she is full of win. If any of you haven’t seen Cardcaptor Sakura before, you definitely need to see it! But, keep a few things in mind:

First of all,  it is NOT Cardcaptors, it is infinitely better than the butchered English dub. The US version has no Japanese names, places or cultural references; the characters and their relationships aren’t nearly as deep; and they reduced the number of episodes. I could rant about it all day. The US version “Cardcaptors” is nowhere near as hilarious or interesting as the original Japanese anime.

Also, the show is actually really entertaining, it isn’t incredibly girly, as many fan images would have you believe… It isn’t completely covered in pink or anything, you just need to get past the pink phone, pink staff, and occasional pink battle outfits. It’s just an awesome magical girl series that has everything that is awesome. I’m thinking about getting a Cardcaptor Sakura wallscroll when I go to brisbane as well.

While I’m talking about anime figures, I think it’s time I updated some of you about my others. One of the following figures was actually acquired fairly recently as well. I’m sure Brent will like it. It’s Clare, from the anime Claymore. It also comes with Irene’s right arm (currently attached).

Clare from Claymore

And this next image contains the rest of the figures I haven’t included in previous entries. 

In case you haven’t seen my other two figuresalready, they’re pretty awesome. They should be somewhere under the anime tag. You can expect to see Spike Spiegel and a silver Astro Boy.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for right now.  I uploaded these images tonight using WinSCP, a freeware FTP client. It seems alright so far, I might keep using it for a while, so I don’t need to keep relying on the FlashFXP trial. I didn’t really like Filezilla much…

Ciao friends.

The HSC is almost over, finally. 13 years of school, almost gone. Wooooo! I just have one more exam on Friday, IT. Should be easy.

So, after the exam I’ll be going up to Lennox with friends to stay in a rented house for the weekend. Should be good. I plan on commandeering Sam’s PS3 to finally watch Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within on Blu-ray, as I don’t have a BD player myself… ^_^;

So anyway, I’ll be back soon, with no more school and hopefully I will not have developed Motorphobia (fear of cars) in the event that Sam’s car turns out to be… The Yukari Mobile…

Wish me luck…

As promised, here is the Astro Boy entry. In case you didn’t read my last entry in which I made said promise, here’s the explantion.

For the last three years, the Coffs Harbour Anime Society (a club I go to) have been selling raffle tickets for a large, silver Astro Boy statue, a collector’s item that was originally purchased for $200 AUD, and now out of production. A few weeks ago, they finally had enough money to balance the cost of the prize, so the raffle finally took place.

The point is, I won! I don’t know how, but I did! So, here is a picture of the prize, as promised. It has made itself at home with Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop.

Silver Astro Boy - My prize.

It was the Year 11 Presentation Day at my school today. I’m pretty happy with it. This year I’ve come 1st in IT, IPT and SDD, 4th in Physics (completely unexpected, I came 2nd in the final exam, but that’s about all. ), 5th in 2u Maths and… 30th in Advanced English.

I ended up getting achievement awards for maths and physics, and two major prizes: an academic award (no subject specified ) and the University of Newcastle Science/IT award. Now I’ve got $100 to spend at a couple of bookshops, so I might put one of the voucers toward another programming book, though I have no idea which language. There’s no AJAX at the Newcastle shop.

Have a look, tell me what you think would be good. I’m thinking maybe Java, Javascript, VB, ASP.NET or C++ [Link]

Not sure what else I could say really… Two years with Enya since October… No ideas about what else. Why don’t you ask me ? That’s a pretty good plan, interactive blog.

Oh I know, I recently obtained all of the anime ‘X’ by Clamp. I’d already seen a few episodes before at the anime club when I first joined, but this time I watched all of it. It was quite good, I’d recommend to everyone. It’s about the destiny of the Earth, to be determined by the FInal Battle between the Dragons of Heaven, wishing for the present state of the Earth, and the Dragons of Earth, wishing for a revolution. I felt the movie wasn’t that good though (from the first 45mins anyway). It just seemed like a condensed, altered version of the story in the series, following the same plot, just with altered events. If you haven’t seen the series,  see it!

That’s about all I’ve got. I’m going to install Vista Ultimate x64 very soon, when my RAM comes in. I guess it won’t be that bad… It’ll just take some getting used to.

Well that’s it. Until next time, ciao.