A couple anime things...

[UrashimaNick]

Saw these coming out in Japan, but saw over at action-figure.com today that Yamato USA is going to release then here too.

The first one is this:

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Didnt give it a second thought when I first saw it, but its starting to grow on me. Vash is definitely a badass, and the Kaiyodo fig shows that. But that always left me with a weird feeling. While he is a badass in the show, we rarely see that side of him in the anime. The majority of the time, he's fun-loving/goofy Vash. And thats what this statue shows. His other side.

AnimeNation has it up for preorder for $34.99, due 8/30. With that date, I assume it the Japanese release they are selling. And that price isnt helping my resitance to purchase...

And the second thing is this:


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WAIT WAIT! Dont get turned off by the pics. Let me explain: I checked out this anime because the art looked pretty good, but i had no idea the story. It was extremely lame. Well, the two eps i forced myself to watch aanyway. I HATED this anime. I think it was geared towards a MUCH younger audience than the anime I'm used to. But dammit, if these little things arent the most adorable things I've seen! They're almost TOO cute. SO much so that I almost want to vomit over the cuteness of them.

But I cant deny that I'm drawn to them. I spotted them over at HLJ a couple weeks ago, and the price point was ridiculously low. They are "PVC Statuettes", which are usually high priced, but HLJ has them selling for around 14 bucks!

[Mr. Bungle]

...you didn't say what anime the second ones are from. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

I love that Vash, that's the Vash I always think of, so I might get that figure in its US release.

[UrashimaNick]

oops! the anime is called "Bottle Fairy". Those PVC's are about 5 inches, which is probably at 1:1 scale, if not bigger than the actualy characters.

and yeah, those are my exact thoughts on Vash

[Mr. Bungle]

Bottle Fairy seems like a show I'd like... [img]rolleyes.gif[/img]