Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Feb 9, 2012, 1:20 am
As some of you may know, or may not, today was the official release of the Pokemon Trading Card Game latest set: Next Destinies. With just over 100 cards in the set, and featuring the return of Mewtwo and EX cards, this set has gotten quite a bit of hype. I know before I mentioned that I occasion...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Feb 4, 2012, 2:57 am
Are you familiar with Bungaku Shoujo? Otherwise known as Literature Girl, or Book Girl, Bungaku Shoujo is a light novel series that has also gotten OVAs and an animated movie. Of course, I watched them and enjoyed them quite a bit, though I never did get around to reviewing. Speaking of not getti...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jan 29, 2012, 12:12 am
In January of 2011, the original anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica (and also known by other names) aired as a joint project between producers SHAFT and Aniplex.  During the airing of the series, the last two episodes were postponed for some time due to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.  It wen...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jan 20, 2012, 9:02 pm
Back on December 4th of 2009, a Vocaloid named Kaai Yuki (歌愛ユキ) was born, or rather, released. I was quick to dismiss her, as an avid Miku Hatsune fan at the time, for many reasons. For the longest time I heard little to nothing but cover songs of other Vocaloids, which tends to happen eac...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jan 15, 2012, 1:59 am
Tonight I’m reviewing something a bit different from the usual, as such I wasn’t sure what to put for the title of the post. We’ll be taking a look at TAKARATOMY MONSTER COLLECTION POKEMON FIGURE – M-041 – Gothiruselle / Gothitelle. Since I’m used to calling her Gothitelle that’s how...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jan 12, 2012, 3:09 pm
Since it recently ended and remains fresh in my mind, I’m going to do a little review of Boku Wa Tomodachi Ga Sukunai. The title basically means I don’t have many friends. It started airing in October of last year and just finished up right before Christmas. While the setting is one of the mo...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jan 10, 2012, 9:02 pm
First of all, it’s been a slow start to the new year, for this blog at least. I’ve been so wrapped up with life and other things that I haven’t had a lot of ambition lately. I guess it doesn’t help that my computer also died on me, so now the three of us are all stuck sharing one laptop. ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jan 1, 2012, 5:08 pm
Happy New Year! Another year has come and gone and it’s time for a new fresh start to a new year. 2011 was a crazy ride, though it had quite a bit of awesome anime. I was going to do some end of the year posts but I’ve felt quite lazy after getting a cold in the last days of December, so I’...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Dec 25, 2011, 4:12 pm
Merry Christmas! Most people celebrate Christmas one way or another so what better time to wish you all a happy holiday season and merry Christmas. We did manage to get some snow this year just before the big day, and it seems like by the end of today most of it will be melted away, and we’re lo...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 31, 2011, 1:59 am
Tonight was the final night of Busou Shinki Battle Rondo and Diorama Studio. I spent the entire day on both of them getting the most I could in screenshots and video. The videos will be a while before they’re uploaded as I have a ton of them to sort through, convert and upload. I felt like part...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 29, 2011, 1:18 am
I’ve always wanted to personalize my belongings to suit my tastes better, but I’m very indecisive about what I want to do with my things. Quite a while back, I learned about GelaSkins. GelaSkins is a site that offers a service for making skins to protect and customize portable devices, ranging...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 27, 2011, 2:44 am
Not the first snow I’ve experienced by far, but the first snow of the season. It’s still Autumn in full effect here, but we had a nice Winter storm roll in and move out in the last 24 hours. Many places in Colorado got a good amount of snow, but the roads were still warm enough that it didn’...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 25, 2011, 7:43 pm
As promised it’s time to review Zelnogrard Berig – MMS Type Firearms. Zelnogrard is another upgraded re-release Busou Shinki that originally was an EX Set. I bought her along with Fort Bragg Dusk (previously reviewed) for 12,400 Yen as a set from Yokatta, one of my preferred proxy services. I...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 23, 2011, 5:58 pm
Here’s a review that’s been a long time coming. I originally got her last March, soon it will be two years that she’s been in my possession. I don’t have any real good excuse for taking this long either, as usual. Since it’s nearing Halloween though, what better time to bring out the Sc...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 22, 2011, 1:28 am
Hello! This is Riiana back to post once again! Tonight I’d like to talk about Chocolate. One of the best, most breath-taking movies I have seen in quite some time. This movie not only touches your heart, but also made me just straight out go “Woah!” The movie is about an autistic girl name...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 19, 2011, 4:24 pm
Getting back on time with things again, today I’m going to review a newly acquired figure fresh out the box, Fort Bragg Dusk – MMS Type Cannon. I bought her from Yokatta along with Zelnogrard Berig, back when they first popped up for pre-order some months ago. Together they cost me 12,400 Yen ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 18, 2011, 2:24 am
About one year ago I bought and received this figure, time sure does fly. Today is the long delayed review of Queen’s Gate Alice, the gatekeeper. Kaiyodo brought her to us in Revoltech form back in 2010 and I had gotten her excitedly and in hopes of reviewing for Halloween last year. However du...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 16, 2011, 4:06 pm
It’s been quite some time since I did a food related post, so time for another! Today I’ll be talking about Omurice, which is a very easy to make and fun to eat food. Lately Riiana has been making it and trying different ingredients, and I’ve become quite a fan of it. You can add a variety ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Oct 12, 2011, 1:59 am
Long time no see! Well, I’ve been absent from blogging for a while now, so I figure it’s about time I get back on track a little, if possible. This is a catch up post, in more than one way. I’ve had these clothes for a while now, but after getting the motivation back to take new pictures ag...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Sep 27, 2011, 3:15 pm
I realized that I haven’t done a DS Digest post all month, so since I have plenty of unshared screenshots in waiting, it’s time for another. This time around the theme is sort of military, I suppose. I don’t have a whole lot of military type Busou Shinki, but I’ll be getting a couple new o...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Sep 22, 2011, 1:24 am
Today a drunken oni stumbled into my house. She came from the mountains of Gensokyo, the world of Touhou Project. I had expected her arrival, but she was fashionably late, probably sightseeing at parties along the way. Somehow I had managed to pay Otacute to send her my way, and she cost me $54.5...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Sep 17, 2011, 1:46 am
Recently I bought and received a wonderful little Nendoroid from Touhou Project series, Cirno, the ice fairy. She came just in time with the seasonal transition from Summer to Autumn, and it feels like she brought a cold front in with her. We’ve had rain and luckily temperatures have been droppi...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Sep 7, 2011, 1:05 pm
I’m sure many of you, especially my more regular readers, are quite familiar with Busou Shinki figure line and the games by now. If not, there’s a ton of information on it all over my site here. Quite some time ago, it was announced that Busou Shinki was getting it’s own anime. In fact, las...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 29, 2011, 3:09 am
Having not long ago finally bought, re-watched and reviewed Dance in the Vampire Bund, I soon after hunted down a figure of Mina Tepes, the centuries old queen of vampires, and bought it. There are two official figures of her that I know of, and I wanted the other one but the price was much, much h...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 27, 2011, 2:45 am
A couple days ago a new arrival showed up in my mailbox. It was Cirno, the ice fairy from Touhou Project, in Nendoroid form. I was quite excited to open her up and show her off and start getting pictures of her. I got some box shots to prepare for the review I intended on doing that day, got her ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 26, 2011, 9:31 am
Only a few days left to go before the termination of Busou Shinki Battle Rondo and Diorama Studio was to come into being, and Konami has announced that they are extending the date from August 31st at 13:00 to October 31st at 13:00. No other details have been released at this point, but it looks lik...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 20, 2011, 2:57 pm
Time for another Busou Shinki review. This time around we’ll be looking at Raptias, a Full Set MMS Type Eagle. This is one of the newer Busou Shink girls, which means no code came with her for Battle Rondo/Diorama Studio. However, she is available though the Japanese Playstation Network as buya...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 18, 2011, 2:15 pm
I almost forgot! I’ve been taking a ton of pictures in Diorama Studio, but it’s been more than long enough between DS Digest posts. This week I’ll be showing lots of pictures of multiple Busou Shinki girls. Since school has started for many people, or will soon (at least in this country), I...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 16, 2011, 11:51 pm
This is your host, Persocom, back with another Figma review. Today we’ll be taking a look at Figma Maron Makaron (or Maron=Makaron if you wanna get technical). This review isn’t going to be rated NSFW, because I’m not going to get too extreme here, but I will warn you thanks to her shift bod...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 9, 2011, 4:31 pm
Minecraft has been out for quite some time. I found out about it when it suddenly sprung into popularity but I didn’t know anything about it. More and more people around me started playing it and talking about it and showing pictures and videos on twitter and their blogs, and eventually I caved ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Aug 6, 2011, 7:05 pm
Well, I’ve certainly been gone a bit longer than expected, and I’ll be posting about what’s been eating my time up soon. But, for the first time in a while I’ve got some loot! Yesterday I got a couple packages in the mail, and one of them happened to be the Queen’s Gate Spiral Chaos PSP ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 25, 2011, 10:57 pm
This Summer has been a hot one. Almost every day this Summer has been in the mid to upper 90′s, and sometimes for days in a row over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. I’m not too fond of extremely hot weather, and neither are figures. Older and softer PVC figures really dislike the sunlight and heat of...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 22, 2011, 6:41 pm
Chocolate Gouache is a Choco and Koichi Mugitani art book collection from 1997 – 2010. They are one in the same person, though. Choco is the name used for his doujinshi works, and Koichi Mugitani for his professional works. I bought this limited edition version from AmiAmi by pure luck as they got...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 21, 2011, 1:58 am
That’s right, another year of blogging has come and gone in the blink of an eye. Finally I made it in time, and just in time to get the post done on the actual day. This time around I’m going to make it short and simple. It feels as though I’ve been blogging for longer, yet the time has gon...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 14, 2011, 8:03 pm
Having just finished watching the anime series for the second time around I thought it best to do a review with it fresh in my mind. Having followed the manga version of Dance in the Vampire Bund since it’s English translation release by Seven Seas Entertainment, I’ve become quite a fan of it. ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 12, 2011, 4:40 pm
Everyone knows that Japan is famous for Kimono and yukata and the accessories that come with that wardrobe. I for one am a big fan of them. I have yet to own one myself, but hopefully somewhere in the near future I will. For now, I can drool over the gallery of 2D girls wearing them ahead. If you a...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 11, 2011, 7:52 pm
Remember Shakugan no Shana? Quite some time ago (I can’t even recall how long it’s been), I bought this figure from someone selling off their collection. I think I paid somewhere around $25 for her, if memory serves me right. That’s quite the deal compared to her 6,800 Yen original price. ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 10, 2011, 2:22 am
It’s back again, Diorama Studio Digest! Just when you thought I might never do another one of these, I got my motivation back to do what I can before it’s too late. Since Diorama Studio is going down with Battle Rondo at the end of August, it’s time for me to get busy! I’m going to try an...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 4, 2011, 7:24 pm
You probably remember the whole Miku x Toyota collaboration that happened recently with the new Corolla here in the US. The original commercial was simply advertising the new car. Now there’s three more commercials featuring Miku from Toyota, that don’t really advertise the Corolla but more-so...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jul 1, 2011, 7:27 pm
July is here, and so am I! This review is going to be of the Busou Shinki girl Grapprap, an EX Set MMS Type Builder. Being an EX Set, she is only a set of weapons, parts and a head, featured on a bust. In order to get the full enjoyment from this set, you need to either use a currently owned Buso...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jun 14, 2011, 10:10 pm
Hello again from Riiana, I know it has been quite a while since my last post, and I really hate to come back on a negative note, but I am going to warn you ahead of time, that this post deals with something that recently happened in our family. This post will most likely not be for those who are fai...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Jun 3, 2011, 1:30 am
Two days ago I loaded up Busou Shinki Battle Rondo, the online game that most of my readers should know by now one way or another, only to read a rather unfortunate announcement. On August 31st of this year, Konami will terminate the online services of Battle Rondo and Diorama Studio. It looks as ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - May 17, 2011, 12:27 pm
Hey hey! I’m still here, just been caught in the hustle and bustle of life. That aside, I’m here with something that’s entirely new to me and my blog. I’ve never done a model kit review but alas, I found one I wanted and built it in the same day it arrived. You may have known, thanks to ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - May 8, 2011, 1:42 am
Time for another Busou Shinki figure review. Though, due to the high volume of backlogged Busou Shinki figure reviews, I’ve decided that this time I’d double up and do two in one! It works especially well with these girls, since they’re not loaded with tons of parts. They are MaoChao and Ho...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - May 6, 2011, 11:17 pm
Hello, Persocom again with news you probably already heard. Last night I came across this collaboration video/commercial between Toyota and Miku Hatsune. This caught me off-guard but to be honest I think it’s pretty awesome. I know many people are against this for various reasons, and that’s ...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - May 2, 2011, 12:35 am
Happy May! To start off the month I’m going to do a short post with good news. On the 28th of April, the last four previously unreleased in-game Busou Shinki girls were brought into the game. This finishes the Battle Rondo line up at this current point in time, meaning every girl that had a fig...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Apr 25, 2011, 12:07 pm
Now that Easter has come and gone, it’s time to return to reviews that I had planned. First off, Jigen Daisuke from one of the longest running anime/manga/movie franchises in Japan, Lupin the 3rd (since the 70s). Just as with Lupin himself, I am ecstatic to present Jigen to you. I’m so glad K...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Apr 24, 2011, 8:10 pm
Happy Easter! To be honest I had planned to do a different review first, but some things happened that night which prevented me from doing so. Now that it’s Easter Sunday I thought it was proper time to introduce Waffebunny. Waffebunny is a MMS Type Rabbit EX Set. This means that she comes wit...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Apr 19, 2011, 9:28 am
Benio is an older Busou Shinki, having been released back in December of 2006. She is a Full Set MMS Type Samurai, released as part of wave 3 which included an EX Set as well as Benio’s western counterpart Xiphos, the Knight. I bought her ages ago from AmiAmi and used her for a long time as that...
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Persocom posted an article on Animatic Figmation - Apr 10, 2011, 8:07 pm
Something aside from the usual today. I wanted to do a short little post about Ramune. Ramune is a carbonated soft drink that originates in Japan and has a unique bottle style which holds a marble inside. The bottle holds a marble in the opening of the bottle and comes with a plastic device used ...
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