Merry Christmas Everyone!

With Best Wishes.  Enjoy your Christmas!

Collection expanded: Calvin, One Piece, Valkyrie Profile, and *vomits*

Christmas this year took nerd to a whole new level. Feeling in need of a hobby, I decided to collect some figures. Nothing expensive. Just enough to keep me sane while learning to draw. I even bought some friends and family presents. It’s not something I usually do since I had a girl in my mind the previous years. Hahahah! I’m hopeless.

Calvin and Hobbes Complete Collection is probably the greatest gift ever. It was on the wishlist so long, I just had to have it. So many pages. So many awesome. So many laughs. Calvin and Susie are cute too. I’m still on book one, about halfway through. There’s just so much to see.

I also ordered 3 One Piece Strong World SDs made by the awesome Banpresto. I ordered Luffy, Ussop and Gold Loin Shiki. Ussop and Luffy arrived first. They looked so well made, I could not wait until Gold Loin arrived. He was pretty much all I was looking forward for, until the day finally arrived… I got two boxes. One contianting Shiki, and one containing a couple of other figures I got off this good vendor on Ebay. Guess what they are? You can’t?

Heck yeah!! Valkyire Profile Trading arts. Two of the icons in the series. I saw this set about 2 years ago in a Game Informer and wanted to have atleast Lenneth and Freya. Now I do. The firgures themselves are pretty small, but the price makes the detail alone is worth it. Lenneth is a strong female lead, and Freya is a pretty cool female antagonist. I really do love what just females have in Valkyrie Profile games. Even the weaker ones have extreamly strong will, and determination… Now, enough of that..There’s one more box to open to wrap up my story.

Now it’s time the for great finale. The main villian for the latest One Piece Movie. GOLD LION SHIKI!! In this box, had the figure I was waiting for. This was it!! The Grand Finale or all finales. I opened the box… Then something inside of me went from manly to extremely pink…

Yeah, PlayAsia! What the hell? I asked for Gold Lion Shiki. I asked for it while there were 2 more left. I asked for it while it was still limited. After paying for it, I felt accomplished. There was no more in stock afterwards. I was freaking happy. Now this… THIS happens. You know what this is? This is freakin Vocaloid. The bane of my manly existence. Thank you PlayAsia! You ruined Christmas.

The End

Going to collect One Piece GLM

I never thought I would  OP figures… Ever.  Maybe it’s because I find POPs lame and too big, but this set is really nice with its colors.  I just don’t want Ace because he’s bare-chested.

Here’s some pictures of the start of my collection.

Sending some fanarts to Viz media + Stuff

Well, the ones I initially planned to send anyway. Viz deserves my thanks for giving my favorite series some great treatment. Gotta show that there are fans like myself out there that actually care. With the fanarts, I’m going to write a letter to the staff to express my thanks and also some concerns considering their editorial department. While that may accomplish nothing, it’s worth a dime trying.

30 Volumes in 6 months… Damn… I feel like crying now, but there’s no time to act like a half-man. I gotta lift my head up and support them all the way. I want to show my gratitude to Funimation as well, so I may make a card for them. Whenever I get a job, I gotta buy their DVDs too(atleast until they start on Skypea as I think the US has been stuck in Baroque Works for far too long).

With that, I’m back at school… Not much to talk about other than one of my classes teaching me to use the Pen Tool. Hopefully I could use this knowledge to better use. Illustrator rocks.