As I lay me down to sleep....

We are about to go to bed after a full day of wedding stuffers. I just wanted to post a picture of something that is currently lurking outside the front door.

I am not responsible for any nightmares one might receive from this. You has been warned.

And then we were eaten.

After we were done screaming we ran over to take pictures. Then ran away to scream again. According to the internet this is a male who is looking for or has already mated. So as we speak there could be up to 400 spiders in the back yard. Waiting to turn me into a Sci-Fi movie victim. And since I know the rules the chances of me surviving a Sci-Fi movie scenerio are slim to none.

So I am going to bed now. So I can wake up with spiders eating my brains. YAY ARIZONA!

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Nendoroid Petite K-On!! invading my house!

Still here in wedding central. In a few minutes it might be balloon popping central if the little one has her way. Not sure how many more posts I can do before things get really busy and yet I have barely done any posts at all.

Before I left for AZ I took pictures of almost all the petites. As I am lazy and most of those don't have separate parts. Go me. I wish I had a place to store them all. Most are just scattered all over the anime room and my cat looks like she wants to knock them down all the time.

I see some lovelies!

Up now are my lovely K-On!! petites. That word looks funny to me...On to the expensive pieces of plastic!

I thought Yui would be the most popular K-On!! girl but she is not it seems. It was not that hard to find most of the K-On!! petite at the consignment type stores. I could not find any blind boxes at normal retail stores though. It seems that some products are bought up super fast in retail stores so they can be upcharged in the consignment type places.

But I got my Mugi and that is all that matters. Sadly...she seems to be the least popular K-On!! girl. Which is fine because more for me right? So happy she came with a little keyboard.

Mugi came with a weird back? Not sure why because she isn't that top heavy nor is her hair that special.

Poor Mio. No one seemed to like this figurines as she was only 380 yen, about the price of a blind box. XD But I want to collect all the petites so I need the suffering Mio for my collection.

There is a happy Mio! She always seems the happiest when she has her guitar in hand. The only time she is unhappy is when something is scary, gross, embarrassing,....okay she is unhappy all the time. XD

Back to more unhappy! I am sure it has to do with her swimsuit or something. She is probably the one who picked it out so why is she complaining? Or maybe she got her ice cream stolen....

But not by Mugi right? Because she is so lovely. And blurry. Didn't look that blurry when I took the picture. The new camera must hate me or something. But if you can't see Mugi is quite adorable in her swimsuit and wrap.

Azusa! I see you! It wasn't that hard to get the special one in this set. But since you are guaranteed the secret one in one box rares are not that rare. Not like pokemon cards so says my husband. XD Of course I would have wanted the special to be Mugi but sunburnt Azusa is just as cute.

Normal swimming Azusa looks like a elementary school kid. :( Look at me mommy, I did all by myself!

There is a Yui! She looks slightly confused. Like oh was I supposed to bring something? I miss watching K-On!! every week. ;(

Finally a Ritsu! She was the only I could find and she was priced above 1,000 yen! Probably a wee bit expensive for a petite. Actually probably a lot expensive for a normal petite. I had to wanted to buy a box of the whole set but that was a no go for me. But I was happy with the K-On!! petites I did manage to find.

And that is about it! These little babies were hard to transport home with no boxes. Into my personal carry-on bag they went. They currently live all mushed in the anime room. One day I will have money (HAHAHA) and can buy a nice glass cabinet for them all. But for now I will just enjoy their happy faces all squished together in random places. Thanks for stopping by!

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Nendoroid #24 Nao stopping by!

Greetings from Tucson! Things at wedding central are a little busy. But while the bride is printing out some escort cards I am taking some time to chill and blog. But since I don't want to be antisocial and wear headphones I shall do some figurine blogs as I already have the pictures printed.

I still have no idea how we got all these nendoroids home from Japan.

Up next from Japan is the nendoroid Nao from the computer game Mabinogi. Enjoy!!!

Why hello Nao! I actually know who Nao is! I know weird right? Usually I am buying nendoroids and saying um I have no idea who this is. But back in the day I did play Mabingoi when Maple Story pissed me off way too much. It was a pretty fun game for about a year. Then some of the people I played with quit and my interests changed to other games. Still I know who the magical Nao is.

Nao and her not so many pieces.

Not sure why her stand is so different as she is not top heavy at all.

Nao was on my silly wish list of probably not going to happen. As you can see her number is rather low and my love of nendoroids is a recent one (even if my house is covered in them now). So I thought yeah this was not going to happen.

On a random trip to otaku central we came out of the train station in a weird way. I guess the WRONG way. We started at the end of the street instead of the middle. This way we passed a few more shops and one of the hole in wall shops had Nao. I quickly snatched her up even though I had no intentions of buying anything that day.

Nao was super hard to find and at a price of 4000 yen I thought that was the best price around. I still think it WAS a good price for a hard to find nendoroid but the price was pretty high considering she does not come with many pieces.

Nao is still a very cute nendoroid. But some people have a problem with their high price verses how small they are deal already. So while I am glad I have Nao she has the least about of pieces of normal sized nendoroids that I have. Granted one of those pieces is a cute little animal...but she doesn't have a variety of poses in her box.

Actually one of the few pieces Nao comes with is an extra wing for the owl. Would you want more poses or does the animal make a nendoroid purchase better?

Love the winking face. XD

WOOT! A different pose. Nao has a staff and is not afraid to use it! Of course it is hard to use a staff with a little owl on top....

I think my favorite thing about Nao is her dress. It is slightly translucent at the bottom but not completely see through. While some might think her dress is simple I think it is really elegant and lovely.

Three nendoroids down....a ton to go! XD Maybe I should worry about where I am going to put them all....Thanks for stopping by!

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Blood-C episode 2

I’m typing in a plane pretending I don’t get airsick. Or motion sickness I should say. Because reading and moving does not work well for me.

But yes. I got half the things I wanted to get done yesterday. Which means No. 6 got blogged and Blood C didn’t. But that is fine since I don’t feel like sleeping on this connecting flight anyway. Gives me something to do.

Proof this is a Blood franchise and not Card Captor Sakura part two.

Don’t know when I will get time to actually post this but at least I can have it ready to go! Spoilers for lots and lots of singing and blood.

The menz have it so hard.

Episode Summary: Saya is fighting another Old One. It kicks her around a little bit and slices her slightly. She manages to cut its head off and life moves on. Well and someone is being creepy talking about time and souls and blood. The next morning she sets out to school singing her silly nonsense song. Only Fumito hears her songs and now Saya is embarrassed forever. After breakfast Fumito gently teases her about her daddy worship. He then serves her a marshmallow type like dessert. Saya finds the dessert tasty but weird. Fumito teases her about what it feels like but he is cryptic on what he thinks it is like. They also talk about how men can’t like sweets because they need to be manly men. Saya is nearly late to school as she had to stop and look at the little dog again. Homeroom teacher arrives with Shinichiro barely making it in time. Saya has to stop and look at him dramatically.

The killer of Itsuki's hopes and dreams.

At lunch Itsuki tries his best to show Saya he is interested in her with the twins providing commentary. But Saya just keeps talking about how Fumito made her bento because he cares about her so much. Saya briefly explains Fumito is her father’s underclassman or something. The twins and Itsuki talk about how the town is so small with just one of this and one of that, almost like it was abandoned. The twins talk about how the candy Fumito made feels like kisses. Shinichiro walks by and Saya literally runs over to him to give him one piece of food so he doesn’t starve. Shinichiro shows slight interest in Saya when he is concerned about the scratch on her face. Saya gets that flash of light vision again as the twins joke that Itsuki better watch out. After school Saya skips home singing a song and her father catches her embarrassing lyrics. He still takes her aside and talks about how he was trying to research more about the Old Ones. He also tells the audience that Saya has to fight them as her mother died during a battle. Later that night a huge plant like Old One is born. Saya is ready to fight. It tears her up pretty good and at one point throws a tree at her. She nearly drowns and loses an arm but she is able to chop up into little tiny pieces. Exhausted Saya is satisfied she has protected the town. THE END!

NO MORE SINGING!!!!

MOG THE SINGING! So much singing. I love you CLAMP despite…well everything actually but why is there so much singing? Surely something bad will happen to her father right and there will be no more singing? Because if there are 11 more episodes with ¼ of them being dedicated to singing I might scream.

This means the singing will stop yes?

I mean I guess it shows that Saya is a sweet innocent girl with fluffy clouds for brains. It just takes up too much of the show. We got 13 episodes and we can’t have Saya wasting all of them about laundry, awesome fathers, and puppies. People already are skeptical about this show don’t give them reasons to be right. Have her sing a few lines and move on.

Also the fact that Fumito and her father bring up the songs means even more time and energy is taken away from the show. We gets it now, everyone thinks Saya is cute. And clumsy. And maybe missing part of her brain.

Symbolism yes?

So I was 90 percent certain that Fumito was the one talking in the beginning about souls and being who you are over time. I thought he was comparing the candy to organs or something else squishy and blood like. Him going on about Saya’s father made me think there was some ill will there. And actually I thought the old dude was going to get it in the end since his name was brought up so much.

Does it taste like confusion?

But then the twins bring up the treat tasting like a kiss and the dad wasn’t dead. So maybe I am wrong. He does seem too perfect for his own good. We already got that with the perfect Itsuki. I am changing my vote from Itsuki being the potential baddie to Fumito. There is just something about him smiling and commenting on Saya being cute and the candy and blah. Something is up with that dude and when he does reveal who is I am sure Saya will be crying all over the place.

If this is the only café in town why is Saya the only customer? I mean I am sure Fumito’s side job of nomming people is really want pays the bills but you would think people would accidentally wander in from time to time.

Must resist the cuteness.

The dog is important. That much is obvious. I am going to go with it being Shinichiro’s dog…or Shinichiro himself. And Saya falls for not following the doggie because clearly it was trying to lead her somewhere.

More salt for the wounds please.

Saya is pretty cruel to Itsuki. He doesn’t seem too down about it and promises to keep giving it him all. I am sure the twins play by play of Saya ignoring him and all being special really helps with his spirits. So the fact that Itsuki just keeps on smiling and say it’s all okay makes me think he is really a normal person who likes a special girl. Oh and maybe he will die. But he is not someone I see being a baddie.

Because he loves her duh. Or he blood. Either way you are about 10 feet behind buddy.

Saya and her cruelness goes out of her way to explain that her bento box is from another man. She does not share it with Itsuki. Then she RUNS to give a piece to Shinichiro. Maybe he should be put on suicide watch or something.

Because she is a girl and that is what girls do DUH!

I wish Saya’s attraction to Shinichiro would be explained. She ran over to give him one piece of food (because that is going to keep me from starving….) and she was very concerned about his well-being. He was not as cold as I expected him to be but I thought she was being weird and if I were him I would run away.

We learned a little bit about the town/village/abandoned place of everyone gets nomville. Despite the school being so huge there aren’t a lot of people around. One restaurant, one café, one bread store. The twins mention it being so empty. So I guess the Old Ones are really running around and taking out the population. Which is pretty stupid. Vampire 101 states that you need to take what you need or one day the humans will be no more.

Saya is getting her butt kicked a lot....

There were two battles today. We also learned that Saya’s mom went around and squished the gross ugly ones. And died doing so. Good job dad. I know the gross ones have to be squished and probably a girl has to do it but sending your daughter to fight seems…harsh.

Oh snap you are really dead.

The long battle involved a huge flower type thing. With lots and lots of teeth. Saya got her butt handed to her a lot and she nearly drowned. I was actually expecting someone to come help her during the fight. But besides some deep scratches she came out okay.

Saya senses the sparkles.

So….basically this episode was a lot like the first episode. We didn’t learn all that much, Saya sang, and people like Saya because she is cute. Next episode promises to tell us the secret of Saya’s family. I rather find out who the baddie is. Or at least start the massive body count. Peace out peoples!

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No. 6 episode 2

So much to do and so little time to do it in. I KNOW! Let’s play internet games and get none of these things done at all.

XD I am awesome at keeping to a schedule. But I really am getting on a plane Sunday morning and things need to get done before I enter the wonderful world that is AZ and bridesmaid dresses. At the very least I got to get some anime blogging done so I am not far behind when I return. Oh and maybe do some laundry so I can have clothes to wear next week.

Just back away slowly....maybe nobody saw us....

Up first is No 6 episode 2. This show seems to be moving at a very fast pace. Why perhaps a time jump is in this episode? Spoilers for me mentioning time jump.

Taking a walk through the park, smelling the flowers MOG DEAD BODY!

Episode Summary: The episode starts off with a penguin robot picking up trash. A slightly older Shion is monitoring the trash picking up robot. Very interesting stuff. Only today actually seems interesting as Shion and his co-worker find a super dead and gross body in the park. After work Shion goes to dinner with Safu whom he has not seen in FOUR YEARS! She is talking about how she is going to study overseas and how lucky she is. Then she questions why 4 years ago Shion didn’t go into the gifted program. Obviously she missed the part where he got kicked out of the cushy house. Shion thinks to himself how he got in massive trouble for hiding Nezumi and that is why they lost the life style. So after Safu is done bringing up the painful past she asks Shion for sex. Shion goes UM NO…um maybe…um when I see you again in two years. The exchange is awkward and only ends when Nezumi makes a rat crawl up Shion and whisper in his ear. Later that night Safu calls via bracelet but clearly doesn’t want to admit her real feelings and hangs up. Shion’s mom is adjusting well to life not in the cushy lane. She runs a bakery. Some dude comes in and wants to do a story on her bread. Me thinks he will be more important to the plot lately. She doesn’t seem to be mad at Shion for their current situation and wishes him well at work.

This city is a little too hard core for me.

Work is X__X as one must pledge their loyalty to the city. Shion’s co-worker informs Shion that the really old dude they found in the park was really only 31 and things are being covered up. When Shion merely states well BAD CITY for covering up co-worker freaks out because you can’t talk bad about the city. But then the co-worker starts going crazy, ages 50 years, and dies on the ground like the dude in the park. Oh and a bee crawls out of his neck. Shion freaks out for about two minutes. Later people come to talk to Shion about what has happened. Then Shion thinks he is being arrested. Then Shion realizes OH CRAP they are taking me somewhere top secret and I is probably going to die. He freaks out then seems resolved to his fate. At that exact moment Nezumi comes, kicks all the dudes out, and drives away with the car. Well the car goes by remote so they are forced to jump out of said car but are safe because Nezumi has a magical cloak. Nezumi has a maintenance truck ready to go so off they drive. During the escape Shion is forced to give up his bracelet which means he can no longer contact anyone. Shion is so happy to see Nezumi but then gets all depressed about his situation. Nezumi threatens Shion a little and nearly kills him with some driving moves. Then the two talk about his naked body and whether or not Nezumi has seen Shion naked. They end up going through a sewer to escape and we the viewers see that Shion has a mark on his neck. They finally make it out of the city where Shion sees the real world, a war torn earth, for the first time. Oh snap. THE END!

So. 4 years into the future folks. It takes Kobato the manga an entire year in real time to get to the next manga day and one episode to get Sion 4 years into the future. Yay for pacing.

The future is so bad trash robots are interesting? Oh crap.

But the episode opens up with Shion doing some rather boring work. Almost pointless work. There are little robots (with some cute name like penguin or something) who clean and patrol the entire park. So Shion and his soon to be dead co-workers job is to…watch the robots. Just so amazing this job.

So citizens of No. 6. This is what happens if you give cute boys hot cocoa. You gets your cushy life taken away and you are given a job my cat could probably do. Well he would see the dead person in the park, puke, and go back to bed. But if he wanted to I am sure he could do the job.

The conversations...they flow so naturally...

Safu shows up to give us viewers some awesome details about Shion’s life. This will go down as the best segue in history. So Shion, since I have obviously not talked to you in 4 years I am going to ask specific questions NOW as to give the audience information on what the hell happened. Because in the past 4 years I have never thought to ask you these questions or keep in contact with you or to bother to investigate the truth up until this moment, the day before my departure from the series. Writers need to get a little more creative in giving us viewers information because now I doubt the closeness between Safu and Shion.

Actually we are arresting you because you were dumb enough to tell the truth.

But yes. The Ministry of We Have Guns came to interrogates Shion and it appears someone was born without the part of their brain that is capable of telling lies. Like….just pretend to lie. Pretend to care about the cushy life. Lying was going to be futile but the fact that Shion made no effort to protect himself makes me think he cares very little about his own life.

Yay for cupcakes!

But at least his momma isn’t down in life. I would probably be all depressed that my meal ticket messed up so bad I was force to WORK for the rest of my life but she is all happy making her cupcakes and bread. She will probably be less happy when she finds out Shion has been taken away forever but at least she has her cakes okay.

Shion also seems to be happy with his life too. He pretends to be jealous of Safu and her studying abroad but she detects he is lying. He seems to be happy because his actions made it possible for Nezumi to escape. So Shion will continue on with his tv monitoring life and living in absolute squalor!

Squalor folks. Horrible. Probably the size of a normal house/apartment in Japan right now. If Shion was really guilty of such a horrible crime I would expect him to be suffering more. But maybe the real people suffering at those in charge of the City as they lost a great talent in Shion.

Best pick-up line ever.

Safu’s suggestion for sex was….horrible. At first I was like OH she wants to perform tests on his sperm. But no. No folks. After keeping in such close contact with Shion all this time Safu has decided to bring them closer together with sex. And instead of becoming all X__X about the situation Shion is like…no…maybe next time. Just…just no. Safu really must not know much about human relationships if she thinks she can demand such an act after no effort on her part.

Didn't Nezumi already tell you the city was creepy and up to no good?

So after the train wreck that was the not sex Shion goes back to work. The previous day he witnessed some dude in the part acting all dead like. How rude. There was a some weird mark on his neck but Shion is more concerned about the apparent cover-up by THE CITY. Shion must have lost some of his smarts when he got kicked out of the house as he was like HMM the City might be bad. Unimportant co-worker (who you know…raises the suspicions to begin with) is like SHHHH…and dies in the same way the old dude in the park died. Only neither man was old. Instead a fly like insect sucked the life out of them before exiting their bodies.

And then we all lost our minds.

After Shion and his big eyes were done going @_@ Shion is taken away. Not because he has seen too much but because he said bad things about the City. I am sensing priorities here.

Taller?!?! When then all shall be well since Nezumi is TALLER than Shion.

But never fear! Nezumi and his new haircut are here!!! Because homeslice has been…”watching out” for Shion ever since that fateful hot cocoa day. I prefer to call it stalking but you know. The boys, despite not talking for the past 4 years, picked up right where they left off. Someone getting saved, a little bit of “rough” conversations, some smiles, and TADA a brand new worlds. Only the house Shion left behind is a lot better than the “real world”.

Always so much happy with these two.

I wonder how long Nezumi had been watching Shion. Perhaps he felt guilty that Shion lost his privileged life and made sure he was never too bad off. Or maybe since Nezumi knows the truth about the City he knew he needed to watch the boy in case he got in trouble again. OR since Nezumi broke into Shion’s house on purpose 4 years ago maybe there is something more we don’t know.

Shion being so happy to see Nezumi means that Safu is not getting her sex in 2 years. Sorry. The force is strong with this couple.

Can we go back to the city now?

The episode ends with Shion getting his first glimpse of the rest of Japan. And it is looking Resident Evil: After Life on us. Except there are no zombies. Just shriveled up dead people. What new mysteries await Shion now? Well besides nearly dying and getting a new hair color. We must stay tuned to find out!

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