Oh 舞!

So Wii game of the week is....no game. Didn't get a Wii game this week since I'm not interested in any upcoming Wii games till Smash Bros. I'm going back to my 1000+ DS game backlog and just started FFXII Revenant Wings and DQ IV (JP). And yeah, I already finished Trauma Center 2 and RETUC. However, I did get some anime & manga items this week. Pic shown in the end.

Anyways, this post is a continuation of my orgy some weeks ago. This time, I'll cover the HiME/Otome/Hisayuki stuff. First I'll cover the My-HiME & My-ZHiME My Collection book.

The book is 160 pages and basically, if you own the previous HiME/ZHiME artbooks, guidebooks etc, then this is essentially the same but updated w/ some new info. It's the most complete (so far) of guides since it covers almost all the novels, comics, games, figures and other media formats that the "Mai" franchise has been released. It covers Mai-HiME, My-ZHiME and My-ZHiME Zwei. Production sketches are included but they're all old as they've been featured in the DVD booklets and other books before. Only the Yuna+Mashiro-Child is new as that's not even in DVD 4. Some ppl may find the prototype sketches of My-HiME to be new, but it's very old as those images were floating around before the show aired (and later some were put in the guide mooks), oh yes I got them way back then ^^. The gallery section is small for each franchise is small, and does contain a few artworks that has not been compiled in a book before (ie. Hisayuki figure packaging art, clocks, jewelry etc.). It's only a handful. However, there is ZERO new artwork (aside from the cover) that yours truly has not seen before this book. So, if you're a casual fan of the series, it's a pretty good guide to get you caught up. If you're a mega fan like me and own basically almost every print of the series, then not much is new. the Destiny section contains artwork from chapters published in キャラの, and few from anime mags, for those wondering. All in all a decent book.

The My-HiME Destiny novel...I haven't read it due to having zero time and limited JPN skills. What I can tell you is that it contains a few artwork exclusive to the novel like the other HiME/ZHiME novels. All artwork is done by Sankichi Meguro (artist of the novels and one of my fave artists as I've been following her Teizokurei Daydream art for years). The only Hisayuki work included are the old design sketches of Mayo and Shion.

Now for Queen's Blade Claudette. Well, as I mentioned before, I got this book only cuz she was designed by Hisayuki Hirokazu. So, it's just like the first Queen's Blade book Rena, interior action pic art is done by another artist. Very gratuitous, demeaning and yummy shots are shown. Not bad not bad.

Just wanna show off how I displayed my Zwei figs.

Finally, this is what I got this week, as mix of old and new. Animes are all R1s and include Paprika, Burst Angel OVA and El Hazard The Magnificent World (cheap re-release). Then there's UDON's Sakura Ganbaru mangas 1 & 2. Cover art is done exclusively by Omar Dogan. I would've been happier if they had included the original Sakura Ganbaru covers by Nakahira Masahiko.

BEST NEWS IN AGES!!!!!

What perfect timing, just as I've been practicing 3S again for the past 2-3 months! Despite the cool CG movie, I hope it'll still be 2D w/ AMAZING ANIMATION! After 8 years, there's still no 2D fighting game that has surpassed 3S in terms of graphics and animation (GGX series has 'hi-res' sprites but it contains less animation and not nearly as fluid as 3S).

Summer Treats

Wanted to post this earlier. My fave chick has always been ♥Fujiko♥ undoubtedly, with Hibiki being second. If you don't know who the ladies are, then lemme tell ya: (l to r) Mikiri, Hibiki, Motoko and Fujiko<-♥. Anyways, here's some of the stuff that arrived during the summer while I was gone to Europe. It's all old stuff now. I have a few more items that I got but I'll give 'em a dedicated post. So here's the rundown of stuff. Masahiko Nakahira's Street Fighter Alpha vol.2 manga (released by UDON...hint hint ;)), Lives vol.2 (JPN), Change 123 vol.5 (JPN), Until Death Do Us Part vol.5 (JPN), High School of the Dead vol.2 (JPN), Ukigumo Momojinden vol.4 (JPN), Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Solid State Society Limited Edition (R1), Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man (2-disc HK R3), Blue Dragon Complete Guide (CHN) and Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid vol.2-4 (R1).

Yeah, I got FMP:TSR late only cuz I seen it already and getting these volumes together (so late) cost me only about $15 (CDN) a piece. Watching it English and hearing Allison Keith (Melissa) trying to speak Cantonese is just as funny (and bad) hearing Neya Michiko. The English ADR director didn't even try to get the actors to pronounce it right. They simply copied the horrible (& funny) JPN seiyuus enunciations. So yeah, nothing really out of the blue in my swag as it's the same old items that I've continued to get. My GitS: SAC collecting seems to be done for now. I didn't even know that there's gonna be a R1 Laughing Man. Meh, the R3 costs much cheaper and is exact replica of the R2 w/ added Cantonese track, CHN & ENG subs. I won't be getting the Individual 11 'movie' cuz I didn't like the story as much and there's nothing added (as I saw it and had it on my computer a year ago). I'll have another post soon. An update on my Amazon Japan order: increased once again w/ the addition of My-HiME★DESTINY Prison Cast a couple of days ago ^^;. And yes I can't wait to get my hands on this...soon very soon.

Back From Reality

Hey folks, how've ya been? Hope you enjoyed the holidays as much as I did. New Year's was same old same old but great partying as always. So, w/ the holidays in tow and school going back in session last week, i've totally fell off the anime radar, but then again, my interests in almost all the new anime have dropped anyways :P. I've been catching up on my gaming and movie news radar. Anyways, to make my first post of 2007, i will make it a 'stuff post'. Most of the items were packages when i came back, namely the mangas and dvds. Mangas are JPN tanks, the titles are Change 123 1-3 (be gettin' vol.4 soon), Ukigumo Momojinden 2-3 (got vol.1 not too long ago shown in my 2nd previous post), Kirameki Project vol.2, Fighting Spirit vol.15 and Police Story R1 (cuz I'm a HUGE HK fighting movie fanatic and i only owned this on VCD and uncut/uncensored/extended Beta ^_^). Oh yeah, not gettin' Champion Road yet, even though I saw the TV special over a year ago. As good as it is w/ koichi yamadera and his tsubame gaeishi, it doesn't really have that much replay value for me right now. Though the fight is awesome and parts of Sendo vs. Ippo's fight is re-animated in the beginning. Plus after watching this, it made me want more. Thank goodness for the original mangas. Anyways, other stuff include a PSP and Tekken DR in which my girlfriend got me for Christmas ^^ (i think i'm getting a DS soon too), so on Boxing Day I got me some 2 GIG mem sticks for 50 bucks CDN a piece. Lastly, there's the Street Fighter II issue 6A & B, which ends the first arc of the Street Fighter II comic. Rest of the stuff i got for Christmas is the same old clothes, money and junk. I did get a new bookshelf and a sweet ass stereo for my car. Boxing day was meh, aside from the memory sticks, just some other DVDs and a few PS2 games that were going for 10 bucks.

So yeah, as mentioned in my 2nd previous post, UDON announced the license of the Street Fighter Zero/Alpha manga and Sakura Ganbaru by Masahiko Nakahira (fyi, creator of Evil Ryu and Karin Kanzuki). I said I hope they would get the rare Ryu Final manga and issue 6 of the SF2 comic confirms it BABY!! They're also releasing Masaomi Kanzaki's Street Fighter II manga which was once released by Malibu comics in total raped form. It was also never released fully. Expect Street Fighter Zero/Alpha vol.1 at the end of April/Beginning of May 2007. Each month there will be a new Street Fighter manga to keep your SF fighting fix. Can't wait, meanwhile, drool at the confirmation and my HK version of Street Fighter Zero vol.1 in which i got over 10 years ago!!!!
Hope y'all had a Happy New Year!


Jan 10 7:40 AM edit:
Juss some Famitsu & Dengeiki PS scores as i haven't done it in a while and don't think i got a post planned:
Famitsu
Shining Force Ikusa (PS2, Sega): 9 / 9 / 8 / 9 - (35/40)
Excite Truck (Wii, Nintendo): 8 / 8 / 7 / 8 - (31/40)
Bionicle Heroes (PS2, EA): 6 / 6 / 6 / 5 - (23/40)
.hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Aruku Youna Hayasa de (PS2, Bandai Namco): 8 / 7 / 8 / 8 - (31/40)
Dragon Shadow Spell (PS2, Flight-Plan): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (32/40)
Meitantei Evangelion (PS2, Broccoli): 6 / 6 / 6 / 4 - (22/40)
The Sims 2: Pets (PSP, EA): 6 / 6 / 5 / 5 - (22/40)
FIFA 07 (PSP, EA): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (28/40)
M.A.C.H. Modified Air Combat Heroes (PSP, Vivendi): 8 / 7 / 8 / 7 - (30/40)
Sekaiju no Meikyuu (NDS, Atlus): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (32/40)
Ochaken no Heya DS 2 (NDS, MTO): 8 / 7 / 6 / 7 - (28/40)
Kaitou Wario the Seven (NDS, Nintendo): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)

Dengeki PlayStation
NBA 07 (PS3, Sony): 75 /80 / 75 / 70
Shining Force Ikusa (PS2, Sega): 85 / 90 / 90 / 85
.hack//G.U. Vol. 3: Aruku Youna Hayasa de (PS2, Bandai Namco): 75 / 85 / 90 / 75
Dragon Shadow Spell (PS2, Flight-Plan): 75 / 75 / 70 / 75
The Sims 2: Pets (PSP, EA): 70 / 70 / 65 / 65

Jeux France has also posted some shots of FFXIII and FFXIII VS.

Sister Sister

Finally, the order that i had made over a year ago has finally arrived!! Sux though cuz i got charged shiipping on the spot :-(. One who's been following my blog knows that i had preordered the queen's blade book Reina/Leina for ages. So yeah, that's how far back this order went. Throughout the year, i made many changes to it by adding and canceling a bunch of items. So as you can see, i had preordered the late great Horibe's Yours artbook almost half a year ago (which i've mentioned about) and added the ZHiME Zwei LE OVA a couple months ago to the order. On the topic of Zwei LE, sorta disappointed about the artwork in the illustration book. was hoping for at least 1 or 2 new artworks or some promo art for Zwei. Sadly, all are old artworks that I have either already seen; already own on print; or downloaded ages ago. Nothing new for me here :(, though it's good to have the ones i've downloaded on print albeit small. Anyways, the pic below contains stuff i got recently in November. Since I got a Wii now, i decided go for some semi-rare (and very awesome) gamecube games i've been wanting to own for years. These are the Silicon Knights games w/ Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes (cuz i'm a pretty big MGS fan and MGS1 has always been my fave). Got Street Fighter II #5 last week and Street Fighter Legends #3 some weeks ago. I just realized i forgot to take a pic of Victorious Boxers 2 US version...oh well whatev (not like ppl care i guess). Enjoy.

"Reunited and it feels so good"

Nov. 29 9:00 AM edit: just want to add famitsu scores this week due to certain games i've been interested ;)
Latest Famitsu Scores
Blue Dragon (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 9 / 9 / 9 / 10 - (37/40) - OH YEAH BABY!! That's what i'm saying! I luv you Toriyama...and you too Zola ^^!
Yakuza 2 [Ryu ga Gotoku 2] (PS2, Sega): 9 / 10 / 9 / 10 - (38/40) - SICK GUY SICK
Wii Sports (Wii, Nintendo): 7 / 7 / 8 / 8 - (30/40)
Hajimete no Wii (Wii, Nintendo): 7 / 7 / 6 / 8 - (28/40) - aww man, whatev since it's a 'demo' game like WS, but I SO WANTED this for NA launch!
Madden NFL 07 (PS2, EA): 6 / 8 / 6 / 7 - (27/40)
Momotarou Dentetsu 16 (PS2, Hudson): 9 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (31/40)
Yoake Yori Ruriiro na: Brighter than Dawning Blue (PS2, Aria): 6 / 7 / 6 / 5 - (24/40)
Kidou Senshi Gundam SEED Destiny: Rengou vs. Z.A.F.T. II Plus (PS2, Bandai Namco): 8 / 9 / 9 / 9 - (35/40) - That's surprisingly good for a gundam game
Zegapain NOT (Xbox 360, Bandai Namco): 6 / 6 / 7 / 7 - (26/40)
Jump Ultimate Stars (NDS, Nintendo): 7 / 7 / 8 / 8 - (30/40) - hmmm, slightly inferior to JSS, probably not much new...meh, whatev
Otogi Juushi Akazukin (NDS, Nintendo): 7 / 8 / 6 / 5 - (26/40) Saru Get You: Pipo Saru Racer (PSP, Sony): 7 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (28/40)
Power Pro Kun Pocket 9 (PSP, Konami): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (32/40)
Simple DS Series Vol. 12: The Party Right Brain Quiz (NDS, D3): 7 / 5 / 7 / 6 - (25/40)
Chao Dream Touch! Happy Anniversary (NDS, Marvelous): 7 / 6 / 5 / 6 - (24/40)

C-Shells...for Ariel

Well, the above mermaid chick goes accordingly to my recent purchases this week which include the obvious, The Little Mermaid SE Platinum Edition (oh, Ariel, how you made me think the wrong things back then XD); Street Fighter Legends Issue #2B (i'm going only for the Alvin Lee covers now) which came out today; Warriors Two (a classic that i've been holding back on featuring Casanova Wong and Sammo Hung); Dragon Ball Z Movie 13 and GitS SAC 2nd GIG vol.7 SE (i'm actually not done collecting GitS 2nd GIG cuz i don't have vol. 6, as i combined w/ Kirameki Project 1&2 at the time, which has been delayed from Summer to October & November :P)


since i already started w/ the great Takada-san's artwork, mind as well add some more as well as a mizugi one (though the mermaid one is sort of mizugi). Anbody else love her artwork?


Famitsu Scores from this morning,
Final Fantasy V Advance (GBA, Square Enix): 8 / 8 / 8 / 8 - (32/40)
Driver: Parallel Lines (PS2, AQ Interactive): 7 / 8 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)
Bleach: Blade Battles (PS2, Sega): 7 / 7 / 7 / 6 - (27/40) - i totally expected that
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 109: The Taxi 2 (PS2, D3): 7 / 6 / 6 / 6 - (25/40)
Simple 2000 Series Vol. 110: The Toubou Prisoner (PS2, D3): 6 / 4 / 3 / 4 - (17/40)
MotoGP (Xbox 360, THQ): 8 / 8 / 7 / 6 - (29/40)
Rockstar Games presents Table Tennis (Xbox 360, Microsoft): 8 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (30/40)


On another note...the NHL season has started!! OH YEEAAAHHH!!!!

Rei/Rey to Go

The bottom shot is basically stuff I received in the mail before and during my trip as well as Rival Schools #1B that i got today. As you can see the stuff includes: Karas vol.1 R1, My~HiME Senretsu PSP game, Rival Schools and Rei Hiroe's Shook Up and Hisui-kyo Kitan vol.1.

Impressions on Rey's Rival Schools #1: Being an Alvin Lee fan, I had to get this cover and decided to skip Rei's full wrap around cover since I'm not a big fan of his art. However, he did do a very good job for issue 1. To my surprise, this comic is in black & white, which one would think "WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG?" since they didn't really need any one for coloring. Anyways, despite me not digging Rey's art style, he DID do a very good job w/ the comic IMO. The fight w/ Batsu & Hayato was long and awesome. Rey draws some very sweet action scenes, better than some manga artists IMO. Dug the Ken Masters 'cameo' as well as 'Naruto'. Akira showing up at the end was sweet, thus, i look forward to issue 2 (whenever UDON releases it :P). What's also of interest is that in August, UDON will release a comic called Street Figther Legends: Sakura w/ Ken Siu-Chong and Omar Dogan at helm. While this is exciting, i just wish UDON would stop all these new projects (for now) and focus getting back on track and schedule w/ Street Fighter II and Darkstalkers. Speaking of SF2, the tradepaperback vol.3 will be coming out sometime in the Summer i believe. I saw the cover of it in Diamond Comics Preview. The paperback contains issues 0-6 (though the book is only up to 3 currently) and the gamepro sagat exclusive released a while back. The cover is done by Jo Chen (no Shinkiro this time :() who usually does the Powerfoil. On the cover is Rose, Bison (hat) and Evil Ryu.

For the other Rei news: Due to the black lagoon anime being so awesome, it has rejuvenated my interest in Hiroe's other works. Thus, i ordered some of his mangas. There's no Black Lagoon there cuz I've already been collecting the manga for about a year now, plus i took shots of them previously when i was at AoD IIRC. I still haven't gotten volume 5 cuz I'm waiting for the HK version which comes out 3-4 months after the JPN release. Anyways, Shook Up is a pretty intersting one shot manga, i haven't read it yet but there's quite a bit of nudity and violent action. Seems a bit like AMG but not. the art is good and up to Hiroe's Black Lagoon style (Revy makes sort of a cameo at the end :P). Hisui takes place in the past and deals w/ some more 'neo-nazis' ala BL. It's also got a mix Shook Up as it sorta starts off w/ the main character meeting a naked mystery woman w/ powers. This one will be more difficult for me to understand as it's in JPN and i'll be needing a dictionary. I just want to note that Hiroe uses a very old school and simple style of drawing. I was like, "is this hiroe?!" It does turn me off a bit as i don't really enjoy the art as much but there's only one more manga after this, so i ordered it anyways for completion's sake. Vol.2 should be coming in a couple of weeks. While i'm on Hiroe, i just want to mention that the Black Lagoon anime seems to have taken a different route from the manga now. They skipped the Roberta arc from vol.1 and jumped to vol.2 continuing w/ the neo-nazis (which makes sense and makes the show flow better). While this is also no surprise, there was no Revy nudity fanservice in ep.6 which the manga happily offered. Ep.7 will have my fave moment from the manga where Rock and Revy share a very cool ass "Smoke". Anyways, w/ Roberta given a voice actress, it'll be a couple of episodes before we jump back to vol.1 again.

above news & shots added as of 6:50 PM EST

currently just a game update of interests. i'll post my real update later w/ an edit (photos of stuff & RS comic). yeah, i know i can do 2 posts but i don't really want to. i like to make "one" post a day sorta thing. So yeah, as you can see from the above image, i got the ffxiii lady because ruliweb has got some big famitsu scans of the game/e3 trailer. Gametrailers also has an HD version of the trailer up now (as well as vids of FF Crystal Bearers and DQ Swords for the Wii). Very awesome everytime i watch it. HOWEVER, i must say that in the camp that find the designs 'meh'. Nomura really has no talent in creative character designs IMO. His designs of FF characters are all too familiar (w/ the exception of FFVII facial art where he uses a more traditional anime style). There just isn't anything special to his art IMO after FFVIII. They all look similar and lack the special FF feel that i felt Amano did so well. This could be due to the fact that basically most of Nomura's work have been on the futuristic side (save for FFX...sorta) whereas Amano has been mostly medieval-fantasy. Most of his characters all possess the androgynous look, they're all frickin' Gackt where i just can't decide the gender. I swear, before i saw the trailer, i saw that screenshot first and couldn't decide if it was a guy or a girl (also reminded me of Gackt), it wasn't until i saw the body that i was able to figure it out. His characters also possess (the traditional anime) spiky hair or hair w/ MANY layers. Also, wha't up with the gunblade from 1999? Seriously, come up w/ something new and give the main character a new hybrid of a weapon! Yeah, so those are my qualms i feel about Nomura and FF series currently. They're only using him to cater to the massive FFVII fans, anime fans and they're using him as a tradition/superstition ("every first new FF on every new Playstation must have Nomura, thus, success", is what they think). While I like his designs on the KH series and PE series, I don't think he fits in the FF series anymore. I was happy to see Yoshida on FFXII (though i can't say i dug his designs for Vaan...gay). So I really hope SE finds a new talent or a more respective artist for the rest of the main FFs. /end FF rant.

Famitsu Scores:
New Super Mario Bros. (NDS, Nintendo): 9 / 9 / 9 / 9 - (36/40)
Magna Carta Portable (PSP, Banpresto): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (29/40)
Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street Portable (PSP, Square Enix): 8 / 8 / 7 / 9 - (32/40)
Samurai 7 (PS2, Idea Factory): 7 / 7 / 6 / 7 - (27/40)
Shin Gouketsuji Ichizoku: Bonnou Kaihou (PS2, Noise Factory): 6 / 6 / 6 / 7 - (25/40)
Mystereet (PS2, Yeti): 7 / 8 / 7 / 8 - (30/40)
KimiKiss (PS2, Enterbrain): 8 / 8 / 7 / 8 - (31/40)
TT SuperBikes (PS2, Taito): 7 / 6 / 7 / 7 - (27/40)
Soshite Kono Uchuu ni Kirameku Kimi no Shi (PS2, Datam Polystar): 6 / 6 / 7 / 7 - (26/40)
Uchuu Keiji Tamashii (PS2, Bandai Namco): 5 / 5 / 5 / 6 - (21/40) Ouka (PS2, Pione Soft): 5 / 7 / 6 / 6 - (24/40)
Tsuyo Kiss: Mighty Heart (PS2, Princess Soft): 8 / 9 / 7 / 8 - (32/40)
Simple DS Series Vol.8: The Kanshikikan - Kinkyuu Shutsudou!! Jiken Genba wo Touch Seyo (NDS, D3): 7 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (29/40)
Daisenryaku DS (NDS, Genki): 7 / 7 / 8 / 7 - (29/40)
Ultimate Spider-Man (NDS, Taito): 7 / 6 / 6 / 8 - (27/40)
Mawashite Tsunageru Touch Panic (NDS, Nintendo): 7 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (29/40) Sugar Sugar Rune: Queen Shiken wa Dai Panic (NDS, Bandai Namco): 6 / 6 / 5 / 7 - (24/40)
Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie (NDS, Ubisoft): 5 / 5 / 4 / 6 - (20/40)

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Interview
Guilty Gear Judgment will be released in August in JPN.
7 mins of Dead Rising
Suda 51 Heroes Interview

so yeah, that's the news as of 10:30 AM EST.

other game news i want to add as of 6:50 PM EST:
Super Mario GC preview
"Wii to cost $200" says Analysts
Keiji Inafune Megaman interview
Wii to be packed w/ Opera Web browser
Immersion Corp to comment on lack of rumble on PS3 controller
DMC4 on X360?
Sega Sammy profits jump 31%
Sony caught faking Blu-Ray demo

MAXimum Damage

title is loosely based on Maximum Carnage, one of the more enjoyable storylines (IMO) of Spider Man back in the early 90's when I was still collecting Marvel comics. I mainly collected Spider Man for the Ron Lim art (who mostly did the huge Spider Man Unlimiteds back then). Anyways, here's pics of my three Max Factory figs i got this month as promised. My last (of 3) HLJ packages actually came on Wed. but I was too lazy to make this post (and cuz i had a final on Thurs.). Sorry for my excuse of a display since i don't have a lightcube like some ^^ and just too much crap in my room (need to start packin'). So yeah, today's a huge post. Hope ppl had a Happy Easter (for those who celebrate it...i do) and here are the pics:



Max Factory Chun Li - I absolutely love this figure. Those who know me, know I'm a huge SF fan and that my fave Capcom artist is Kinu Nishimura (having dedicated a post to her). Thus, it was a no brainer for me to get. The fig is very awesome (pose, sculpt etc.), not sure about the base, she's friggin' huge and might fall over some time. however, she's currently well balanced. There's only two other Chun Li figs/kits I would have really wanted before stopping. One is based off of Akiman's drawing (the bun one, also my absolute FAVE) and the other is similar to her CvS 2 art, both are done by Cobra-Kai. Here's the Akiman-based one i was talking about and here's the other one. The Yamato Resin is really nice but too steep for me. Anyways, my fig days are over and i really don't plan on finding these or getting them if i have the chance (unless they're dirt cheap :P).


Compare in size


The fanservice shots (yeah i suck w/ my camera at taking up-close shots, all the FS shots are like that unfortunately)


The Chun Lis


Max Factory Cammy - Most would be turned off by her the look on her face but i think it's awesome. The pose is hawt too. That, and cuz Hamasaki captured Nishimura's art almost perfectly (as well as the CL and Sakura one).


the FS shots


Cammys


Shot of both w/ no Sakura to complete it. Reason I didn't get Sakura was cuz I'm not really a fan of hers, design-wise. I'm also not really a fan of the under-developed :P. Hence why I don't really like lolis :D. However, I do play as her in some of the games occasionally cuz she's fun.


Max Factory Tokiha Mai - Yeah, most ppl already got this. This one was the last package i was waiting for. I consider this Mai figure to be the best on out so far behind the Orchid Seed one (OBVIOUSLY ;)). Good sculpt, proportion and pose.



FS shots


Where Mai is currently placed in my room ^^. I seriously gotta get more room.


Chun Li and Cammy have been placed back in their boxes cuz of space reasons. I'm thinking about doing the same for Mai. I'll probably put them back in my room whenever I go back home. Anyways, enjoy another Ignis pic!