Manga Snapshot 09
Posted by max on 21 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Max Mashing
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From Hiroyuki Nishimori’s Cheeky Angel |
24: Awing Moments, Day 6
Posted by max on 19 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Editorials on TV Shows
Love it, hate it. Season 6 feels more experimental than season 1 as we see some attempts to jump out of a comfortable format settled in the series. The specific dramatic revelation works either way…but overall this season does have a heavier soap opera atmosphere, which at times seriously diluted the tension in the counter-terrorism theme. Still, this is the Jack Bauer show and scenes involving Jack are still fun as hell.
Continue if you are a fan, have seen the series, or you are ready for humongous spoilers.
November Art Contest
Posted by max on 17 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Contests
Congratulations to NinjaSquirrel. The November Art contest is now in session (thanks, MJ).
This month’s theme:
Draw your representation of a ninja (it doesn’t have to be the typical masked ninja if you don’t want to draw those) and it has to have a animal sidekick and it can be as creative as you want the animal to be, doing awesome ninja stunts together!
And since this month is November, famous for the Thanksgiving Holiday and food!, the drawing has to include any of your favorite thanksgiving dish.
Have fun you guys!
As always the winner gets to set next month’s theme.
Enter the contest or checkout entries in progress by
clicking here.
Figurine Talk: Futari wa Pretty Cure
Posted by max on 14 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Max Mashing
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| School girls yessss |
Premise:
Just for a change this is the only series I had to research on after getting the figure set for cheap. This set was sitting on my shelf for half a year before I finally nailed the name of the series being Futari wa Pretty Cure.
As a matter of fact, I still don’t know much about the series and I watched none of its episodes (and probably won’t). This set was released by Bandai with 4 pieces. The tall ones are around 4″ height.
This set is around $10 on Asian auction sites. I purchased this for about $7.
Product
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Verone cheerleaders 
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The 3 standing figures are Nagisa and Honoka in cheerleader uniform (yes) and Hikari in her waitress uniform. Oddly enough, instead of making it 4 standing figures Bandai decided to throw in of Nagisa and Honoka’s half body figure with a nicely built background. The composition feels that it belongs more to a imagination/scenery themed series rather than straight up figures, thus making the set less unified. You have 3 figures with pretty much no backgrounds (even the supports and stand are given a whatever color gray) and one with super rich background. For a bitchy man this just seems too unbalanced.
As it turns out I don’t even know how to arrange those 4 figures. It’s probably the best to have the two cheerleaders by the sides and insert either the half-body figure or Hikari in the middle. But then the last figure finds nowhere to fit in.
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| Great details and background. |
One reason I got this is because it was cheap. And it felt cheap because the quality looked great. The texture is silky smooth, the poses I have no complain of (cheerleader figures can serve multiple purposes), the colors are intact and clean. Stuffs like clothes folds and clock tower are also done well.
The girls’ uniforms actually spell Verone on it. For some personal reason, I think I have good reasons to bring this product home.
Recommendable Value
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| The waitress feels singled out. |
This product seems a bit tough to find even though its price seems reasonable. I am guessing it’s not as popular as the other figurine sets of the same animation. Even though the figures are nicely made but the lack of unity kind of devalues it.
For guys who are interested just ebay “Bandai Pretty Cure Gashapon Capsule”.
Images jacked from 01.
24: Awing Moments, Day 5
Posted by max on 12 Nov 2008 | Tagged as: Editorials on TV Shows
If you are a fan of shockers, season 5 won’t disappoint. Unfortunately the awes won’t be as high if you decided to skip the previous seasons. Three of the previous four discussions focused on Jack Bauer Power, and it’s very tempting to do another one here. Equally tempting are shockers that are widely discussed. Too much in store can really be a problem. That’s why I should do a more gentle approach this time around.
Continue if you are a fan, have seen the series, or you are ready for humongous spoilers.
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