18/365 & 22/365- Comics stuff

I’m attempting to play catch up after taking a little bit of a break from my blogging duties here. I am basically in the process of rearranging my entire apartment at the moment and that is taking up most of my time/energy.   I figured I should combine these two posts in particular as they are both related to comics to save myself time ^^;
18/365 Comics shelf
This was my comics shelf as of last week, it has since been moved. This shelf is just part of a much larger Joker display where I have all my various Joker and Harley Quinn figures.  I have since moved this entire arrangement up to my doll room after much careful debate as I did not wish to leave it where it had been in the hall and it was considered unacceptable for it to be moved into my bedroom (the doll room was the only other place I would have the space for it).

I used to read comics when I was younger, I had a great deal of affection for the Joker then but my grandmother was not so keen on my reading comics that did not feature Barbie so all my old comics got boxed up and I theorize given to my male cousins. I started getting into comics again after seeing Dark Knight in theaters, my primary focus is on Joker-centric comics but I have branched out a little.
22/365 Riddler
I do periodic trade paperback orders through books-a-million and I also have a pull box at my local comic book store, Arkham Asylum. During my last trip to Arkham Asylum they happened to have the Pop!Heroes Riddler figure so I picked him up to go with my Joker. I’m considering getting Batgirl and Batman but those are the only other two I am interested in the first line (although it has occurred to me that an army of the clown prince would be pretty awesome).

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17/365 Vocaloid Miku Figure & More Vocaloid Pullip Release Pictures

With all the hype and excitement about the Vocaloid collaboration with pullip lately, I thought it appropriate to use one of my many Miku figures for the picture of the day for yesterday.
17/365- Vocaloid Miku Figure
The original Good Smile Company Miku figure is still one of my favorite Miku figures, second only to the Volks figure of her.

While we are on the subject of Vocaloid, Groove Inc released some more pictures of the upcoming releases so I thought it appropriate to share them in this post.
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16/365 Littlest Pet Shop Frogs

Saturday night into Sunday was hell, I will spare you all the gory details but yeah horrible time. When I finally got home, I thought I would rearrange all of my Littlest Pet Shop pets and take a group picture of all of them together for the picture of the day, normally rearranging stuff (or making lists) helps me relax when I am stressed but I was shaking so bad it wasn’t helping. I had my three frogs next to each other in the larger formation and something about seeing the three of them together just made me smile so I decided to just take a picture of them for the picture of the day.
16/365- LPS Frogs
I always did kind of like frogs. I had started collecting LPS so my pullips could have them as “pets” originally only the rainbow mafia was supposed to have this particular honor but now I have like 80 or 90 LPS ^^;

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15/365 Daiki Kougyou Kanu Figure

I had a bit of a crazy weekend, while I did keep up with taking the 365 photos uploading them was often late and blogging them was non-existent so I am trying to play catch up now. Saturday’s picture of the day was a Kanu figure by Daiki Kougyou. This figure is based on the cover of the volume 13 of the Ikki Tousen manga.
15/365 Daiki Kougyou Kanu Figure
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Pullip’s Little Brother Isul Trifecta

Groove Inc has unveiled more forthcoming Isul releases. Isul is the latest member to join the pullip family, Isul is pullip’s little brother. We have been hearing rumors of him since Doll Carnival 2007 but his first release, Apollo will not actually be released until next month. Groove announced that there are to be an additional three Isul releases quick on the heels on Apollo in March which frankly is rather surprising as preorders for the April releases are already underway.

Isul- Duke
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Isul- Jimmy X
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Isul- Hamilton
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14/365- Cardcaptor Sakura Bandai Dolls

In the old days, back before I was really into pullip I used to collect anime dolls from various series. Unfortunately due to space constraints the bulk of my anime dolls collection is boxed up these days. The Cardcaptor Sakura dolls by Bandai have somehow managed to escape being boxed up and put away.
14/365- Cardcaptor Sakura- Sakura and Tomoyo dolls
This particular line of doll was released way back in 2000, I own the entire first line of dolls but I think I am missing one doll from the second line plus there are a ton of the fashion packs I still need ^^;  Trendmasters later released a similar line of the dolls here in the states based on the bastardized Cardcaptors anime but the quality suffered greatly (especially the clothes). I happened to find  Sakura on a back shelf in my local comic book shop probably some time in 2003 or 2004, I picked up a few of the other Sakura dolls here and there (mostly at conventions) but I could never find a Tomoyo. I finally ended up having to resort to Yahoo Japan for Tomoyo some time around my birthday in 2007 (the same birthday I actually received my first pullip as a gift). Tomoyo was a hard fought bidding battle and she cost me dearly but I don’t regret it as at that point I had been searching for her, for years.
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13/365- Illya Mini Dollfie Dream

Since I am kind of stuck with the snow at the moment, I thought I should use it for my advantage. I obtained Illya’s coat set earlier this winter and had been waiting for some snow to take pictures of her frolicking in it. I made the conscious decision to leave her hat off frankly I was trouncing all through the snow and the last thing I wanted was to drop her hat in it ^^; .
13/365- Illya MDD
Illya is still my one and only MDD, I am hoping to pick up a second one at some point this year (ideally Louise but something new could catch my eye instead). I actually really like the size of MDD but I do like how much of a pain they are to pose, Illya’s knees are especially weak I have a really hard time getting her to stand up on her own. It’s a shame because Illya is one of my favorite characters and I think the MDD is an excellent interpretation of her but I don’t play with her as much because she is pain to work with.
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12/365- ADG Blythe Snowday!

I spent all of yesterday at my grandparents’ house waiting out the snowstorm, it was the most snow in my area since 1888 so I thought it prudent to not try and drive around in the city. My ADG blythe, Gina stays at my grandparents’ house pretty much all the time. I had brought her over a while ago to show her to my grandmother  to see if she remembered maybe buying kenners for any of my aunts/cousins she did not. My grandmother was however quite fond of Gina and seemed rather dismayed when I was going to take her home so I decided it would be okay to leave her there as I am there pretty often myself. Since she doesn’t live at home with me, I don’t photograph Gina all that often so I decided to dress her up for the snow and get some quick pictures of her. 12/365- Gina (ADG Blythe)
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11/365- WF Limited Vocaloid Miku Nendoroid Snow version!

I’ve been away for a few days so I am going to do my best to catch up here in a timely fashion. Tuesday into Wednesday I got about 26 inches of snow in my area, which meant a city-wide parking ban which basically meant I had to get the hell out of dodge and go stay with my grandparents for a few days.  While I did manage to upload Tuesday’s pic of the day to my flickr I neglected to post it here in my haste to leave before the snow started ^^; The subject for Tuesday’s picture of the day was my Wonder Festival exclusive Vocaloid Miku Wintery version Nendoroid. I figured since I already had some snow on the ground, I may as well utilize it.
11/365 Snowy Miku
I believe I picked her up early last year from Yahoo Japan. She has actually gone on to become one of my favorite nendoroids.
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10/365- Hestia dolls – Isora and Ribon

First off, 9/365 is on flickr it was just a quickee shot so I didn’t really have much to say about it so I am skipping blogging it. Today’s picture of the day is of two of my Hestia dolls. Hestia dolls were made by Jun Planning before they became Groove Inc, the basic premise of the line each release cycle would have a set of twin dolls that would be released simultaneously Ribon and Isora. Ribon is the more girly of the two releases, she would normally end up in lace and ruffles whereas Isora was the punker of the two. The releases were considered to be kind of separate but equal, for example one of the cycles featured a priestess theme so Isora was dressed as a priestess of dark magic while Isora was dressed as a priestess of white magic.
10/365- Hestia Ribon and Isora
My favorite cycle of releases was actually the first two releases, I picked up Mangetunoyoru Ribon last summer from Animadness and I just recently bought Tachimachizukinoyoru Isora secondhand. Tachimachizukinoyoru Isora arrived just today in the mail.
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