It was a long and hard fight this time…I capitulated infront of her many times and thought Id never be able to make it.Who would have thought that getting a girl to put on some clothes would be this hard?Sure,I enjoy a nice pair of boobs like every healthy young lad but sometimes you want to have her to wear something classy like a maid outfit with a see-through dress.Lets honour the Clockwork Automatons outfit right after the jump!

Lets start with a brief description of Vingt before I start to rant about this figure:

Vingt is the Clockwork Automaton,built by Huits mother, that never leaves Huits side and is bodyguard,friend and assistant to Huit in one person.The key Huit carries close to her heart is used to wind up Vingt from time to time to keep her going full power throughout their adventures.Huit issues orders to Vingt via Runes written on the “remote control” she carries around.

Will she continue to fight for the good cause or might her remote control fall into the wrong hands?

Check out my Visual Combat Book review of Huit and Vingt for more Information about the characters.

Vingt is  a QB Rebellion figure which means that you can strip her down to all her full glory ( speak boobs).Megahouse doesnt provide any cast-off instructions as usual and I doubt they ever will but her cast off progress is rather straightforward.This is partially thank to the fact that Vingt is semi-poseable and her limbs and head are easily detached from her body.After that you simply remove the apron,dress & top-pantsu combination and youre done.The top ,which is made out of rubber-like material, may remind you of Mirims Outfit which was a major pain to remove thanks to her tightly closed  thighs.Luckily her detachable legs  saves us from going through the same soul crushing experience again and you can strip her naked easily

Sounds like a QB figure with an incredible smooth cast-off mechanic and in fact it is unless you want her to get  dressed again.The problem lies in the rubber-like material of her top which is very soft and tends to give in when you want to push the pins into their female counterparts.

The Top wraps very tightly around her chest and allows very little movement making the cast-on process even harder than it already is thanks to the material it is made of.It took me literally several weeks to get that top back on her because of the high temperatures in my room making the already soft material even softer.The top features 7 pins  wheres 3 are located at each side of it and one connects the bottom part with the panty section. I felt like a bomb defusion specialist becasue it takes alot of concetration  and tact to connect all parts without making others slip out again.

I could have screamed when I had all side pins connected and only the panty pin was left only to have several others slip out of it hole during the last one.In the end I decided that gray hair isnt worth the trouble and left her panty piece unconnected. Whos gonna notice anyway?

The Cast-On trouble aside theres very little to be concerned about this figure.Some may have had their doubts when they heard that Vingt will be an” articulated” figure but Megahouse did a fine job not sacrificing the looks for poseability.Furthermore they didnt raise her price into insane heights like GSC does with their Actsta figures.

So how does the Articulation look like? To put it bluntly:  the limbs arent glued to the body and are therefore rotateable.Each limb has a one axis joint in the elbow/knee area and allows some very basic movement but to call it articulated is a bit of a stretch.Furthermore her outfit restrains her movement even more,especially in the leg area, therefore youll get the best results with her wearing her birthday suit.

Megahouse even  threw in an extra hand and poison gas hand adapter to further incorporate the “action figure” feel which is quite cool in my book.Since were already talking extras it should be mentioned that she also comes with a base for Huit and her remote which can be attached to Huits arm.

Vingts base is kind of unique since it isnt your run by the mill peg into foot base but she basically rests on two sockets which are fixed to the base  and only her right foot is fixated via a pin in one of the sockets.This may sound very unstable but from my experience the few limited poses you can do on that base leave her pretty steady.

Whats left to talk about?Paintjob and Sculp are typical Megahouse quality which means very nice craftmaship which should make any figure collector happy aslong as you dont expect Alter Quality.I personally love the freckles on her face but thats just a tiny tidbit which shouldnt influence the overall figures expression ^^

One Thing I DID notice about the sculpt and is that Megahouse seems to try out new waters since they gave her a very,very delicate ,only noticeable upon closeup, mons pubis. This probably doesnt sound like a big deal to most people but I find cast-offable panties pretty senseless if a  barbie crotch is waiting for you.The Only other instance of sculpted female anatomy I know of from the QB line is Melona and she isnt cast-off and therefore safe.

I wonder if  Megahouse will pursue this path further but I am looking forward to their next effort now.

Thats enough talk for now so lets enjoy some of the pictures

A Short Reminder: Theres approximately 3 weeks between the Shoot of Cast-Off and Normal Vingt therefore the differences in lighting etc.

The Front Hair pieces only look this “tacked on” under strong lighting conditions.It looks perfectly fine under normal room conditions

Those kinda remind me of the striker units of the strike witches

Love that translucent dress!

Do you want to be served by a maid?

How about some Kyouka,master?

Poison Gas Attack!

(I also really like the rose patterns on her fists and apron)

Huit and Vingt together!

Re-enactment of one of the illustrated stories scenes

The AmiAmi exclusive Telephonecard that came with my Huit/Visual Combat Book + Vingt Set.Its charged with a whopping 300 yen!

Vingt: Lets go ecchi!

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Thats it for today Girls and Boys!

Wonfes 2P Annelotte Coming soon!

Ive finally made my debut as a more ambitioned Cosplay Photographer last weekend at one of Germany`s biggest Conventions called Animagic which was held in our former capital Bonn.Upon my arrival I was armed only with my trusty camera gear and optimism that Ill finally succeed in doing more than snapshots of people in weird clothes.Did I succeed? Find it out after the Jump!

First off I want to send a huge thank you to Meronpan for the support and guidance he gave me when I told him a few months ago that I want to get into Cosplay/Portrait Photography.He endured alot of silly questions and chatter from my side and was patient all the time.Its thanks to him that I decided for my Sigma 1.4 50mm Prime and not for the photographers standard solution of a Zoom Lens with 70 – Something mm. I simply dont wanna turn back to my Zoom Lenses after laying my hands on my prime even though it involves alot of walking to frame the subject. ^^;;;

One of my biggest drawbacks in taking pictures of cosplayers has been my shyness in regards to asking them for their picture.I always felt kind of awkward taking pictures of girls in scantily clad clothes and had a hard time during the Japanday`s aswell as the Dokomi.Luckily I overcame that shyness pretty fast at the Animagic and throughout the days Ive shot more than 750 pictures.The Organizing I did the last two days was pretty time consuming but I wanted to post only the cream of the crop ( which in my case is still pretty mediocre ^^;)

Another thing that took me some time to get used to was to hand my meishis to the cosplayers since I felt once again awkward advertising for myself like this.I thank JimmPantsu for encouraging me to hand my meishis to Cosplayers.It turned out that most cosplayers were more than happy to take my card and who knows maybe some opportunities arise from these exchanges.

Since were already talking about German Bloggers  I recommend you to take a look at JimmPantsu`s aswell as TMSIDR`s  Cosplay Gallery.We were often prowling together for our prey,thats why quite a few pictures display the same characters but in the end the personal preferences of the bloggers resulted in a nice variety of pictures.

My last big thank you goes to all the cosplayers that did allow me to take pictures of them.You all rock!

Time for some pics otherwise its TL;DR huh?

Who you`re gonna call?

Fuu,Mugen and Jin from Samurai Champloo seem to be obsessed with a dango ^^

One of the many alternative Saber costumes which I think is from Fate/Extra

Wedding Ceremony of the Dead? eh…I mean BRAAAAAAAAAIIIIINSSS!

PinkStoneShooter and what I believe to be Kei Kishimoto of Gantz

EXCAAAAALIBUUUR!!! and Free from Soul Eater

Decided to spice up their poses a bit eh voila…Wonderful!

Stein,Death the Kid and Soul from Soul Eater beeing Asymmetric

Thalassa Gramayre from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

Thalassa,Klavier Gavin and Ema Skye from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

Black Star joined the Gang!

I believe that this guy is an early Version of the Guy in Jin Roh ^^;;;;

Lookie,Lookie I even photographed Miku and Luka for you fine people

Furio Tigre from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Excel and Ha-chan must have been in dire straits since no Menchi is to be seen ^^;;;

Love and Peace!

This is a very coolsome and dedicated Voldo Cosplay including barenaked ass.

Taokaka is more confusing than regular cosplayers since you cant even see the cosplayers face

Ranulf,Lethe and…girl I forgot from Fire Emblem

Zoidberg and Fry

Blair from Soul Eater.One of the few instances where shes running around fully clothed ^^;;;

Looks like Frank West took care of the Zombies

Now hes thrown into a much more fightening nightmare than a city crawling with the undead: an anime convention.

But hes gonna be alright.Why you ask? He`s covered wars ya know?

Our favorite  14 year old readhead with boobs like melons: Yoko

Another Taokaka! I wa sreally pondering if I already took a picture of her or not.Luckily I didnt

I think these are the Silent Hill Nurses without that stuff on their faces?

Oh Yoko how I love your big …Gun

This is the Moment where I went Nuts… A Queens Blade Cosplayer of our favorite non-loli Ymir the Dwarven Steel Princess! And this was only the beginning!!!

Nabeshin and his afro

Gintoki without his trademark dead fish eyes and Haruko with her trademark Rickenbacker

Okay,okay in this Situation a  WideAngle Lens would have been the better choice.Crappy Framing aswell and  poor Konata is hidden behind  the PomPoms….Im sorry girls ^^;;;;;;;;;;;

Claire and Jill!

I guess Frank West had help clearing this area of Zombies

Lucy/Nyu and Nana

The cast of Jibril: the Devil Angel

My hats of for cosplaying a hentai series.Btw that series had an interesting way to level up your powers … ^^

Fanboymode increased! Second QB Cosplay Get!

Menace and her trusty friend Sethra! Too bad she was so busy.Would have liked to take some more pics because it was a great cosplay.

Harima and Tenma

I think I must have foam on my mouth when I saw QB Rebellion Ymir and QG Alice XD

Those two were really nice and agreed to take a few more pictures later

Gurugu Mawaru! Harima,Tenma,Sou,Eri,Hanai and Yakumo with Iori!

This is where I have to apologize to the awesome Alice Cosplayer…I used the intelligent auto focus function of my camera during this shot and the camera was intelligent enough to focus on the wall instead of you…It didnt show up blurry on my Cameras Screen even when I zoomed in otherwise I would have taken another picture worthy of the pose I asked you to do.

On the other hand these two look great.I especially like the close up of her face below

Heres a short intermission before we continue with the pictures…

When I asked Alice and Ymir for a few more shots with posing all the sneaky photographers jumped out of their corners and started taking pictures aswell.I never knew how annoying it feels as a photographer when other people take advantage of the fact that you asked for pictures.I felt quite pressured  by all the people taking pictures behind me and is probably one of the reasons why I messed up the full body Alice Shot. I used to do the exact same thing on the Japandays and now I realize that it isnt exactly the nicest thing to do since youre disturbing the photographer that had the courage to ask and wants to take some nice pictures.

I dont want to sound snobby or anything but guys please wait until the other ones done and then ask for pictures again.

Awesome QB Rebellion Ymir Cosplay! She should have come with Eirin!

Great Pose!

Love how these Close Ups turned out thanks to bokeh

Elizabeth! I wonder  what happened to Zura?

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Gundam and Transformers united!

Heres a nice Aria Cosplayer!

Was fun to see how much she enjoyed  that pictures were taken.

BRS once again but this time with blue flame…and a Blowfish Reflection in her Shades XD

Shichika and Togame from Katanagatari.

Too bad that no Maniwani Ninjas were around

CHEERIO!

Yes,another QB Cosplayer! This time its the infernal temptress Airi waiting to suck out your life energy!

The funny thing is by the time Airi popped up I thought that its not possible for me QB Cosplayers popping up but I was completley wrong ^^

Asuka and Rei in one of the trillion alternnative costumes

Row,Row fight da Powa!

Yoko,Nia and Simon

Yup,this Ymir also agreed to let me take some more pictures

Thank you!

Meryl Strife must have been in cold sweat when she realized that there were several Vashs running around the area ^^

Black Gold Saw by the former Ymir Cosplayer!

God I love Closeups with a nice bokeh

Nicholas D Wolfwood beeing badass

DRRR! Mikado + Anri beeing harassed by the Ganguro Girls

Poor Shinobu was all alone…Noone else from the Bakemonogatari cast was seen.I do know that she also cosplayed Taokaka.I wonder if shes one of the Taokakas I got infront of my lens.

Milly Thompson infront of a terribly outburnt sky

Yes! More QB <3

Elina beeing sneaky

A girl in Shuffle Uniform! Sadly I forgot the characters name ^^;

Real Life Mario Kart!

Hehe… Okay,this is where it starts to become epic!

Nowa and Tomo from QB

Ru is just hanging around.Lazy Ape!

Young Phoenix Wright and Miles Edgeworth from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Yay! More QB!

This time its Sai Nyan from QB Rebellion!

Remillia and Hong Meiling

Remillia is sporting such a great pose!

Woot! New QB Cosplayer get: Alleyne!

I guess its time to say that I was really,really lucky  and that there was a QB Meeting going on.You can only imagine how happy I was,as the QB Fanboy I am, when they allowed me to come with them to take  some more pictures.

A BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG THANK YOU to you girls. You cant imagine how happy you made me with this.

Heres another Airi thats beeing watched by Beethoven in the background

Thats the cast I was allowed to tag along with: Ymir,Airi,Tomoe,Alleyne,SaiNyan,Nowa

I was really excited that this opportunity showed up and therefore I made quite a few mistakes like forgetting to change the ISO Higher when shooting with a smaller Aperture which resulted in blurred shots.Its quite a bummer because I wanted to give my best for these shots.

I hope the girls arent too disappointed by my shots.I hope the other Photographs pictures turned out better

This was a hard decision…I couldnt choose between these two pictures for a few reasons:

Picture one is crisper but has the other photographers arm in it and Tomoe is nearly completley covered by Airi

Picture two is a bit more blurry but everyones visible and hasnt got the photographers arm in it.Sadly Airi isnt looking too good in this shot.Seems like I  pressed the button in the wrong moment ^^;;

If any Cosplayer is reading this: Do you prefer good compositions or good expressions? Both at once would of course be the optimum but what woul you choose if you had to pick one?

Recreation of the Anime!

This Picture is kinda awkward since Ymir is completley covered by Airi ( seems like Airi likes to do that) and it was the only one of the series that didnt turn out blurry.The Bokeh on Airis face on the other hand was on purpose.I wanted to give the picture a feeling of depth. I hope you dont mind Airi ^^;

Celty and Izaya

Celty Cosplay sounds good on paper but looks rather unspectacular in person.Its not that she did a bad cosplay but  Celtys gear is just black and a helmet.Theres not much for the eye to discover

The wise deity Horo

And last but not least Trucy from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney

The last few days have been quite interesting for me since I think that Ive gained alot of great personal experience not only in regards to photography but also in getting in contact and socializing with others out of this weekend.Its great that you get so many chances tomake your shutter click and to ban so many people on your cameras sensor.Ive shot quite a few crappy shots throughout the weekend but I also feel that Ive taken quite a few nice ones.

I learned to always double check your settings before jumping into an exciting shooting the hard way but hey we all started as beginners right?

Im gonna rest now for a bit and gonna post a Convention Impressionn Post in the next few days.

Until then~

Blowfish

PS: None of these Shots were edited in any kind.Just developed them with Lightroom and Watermarked them in PS Elements.

Reviewing figures is still a pain because my flat is still flaiming hot so I decided to do a sweet and short review of Huit and Vingts Visual Combat book from Hobby Japan.Lets take a closer look at the Little Elf and her Clockwork Automaton right after the Jump.

I know your soul is burning to see Huits adoreable sidekick in its semi-poseable 1/8 figure form but I guess its sometimes good to be a tease and to post an interim book review inbetween both figures.

While my copy is the Limited Edition of the Visual Combat book theres no difference between the regular release of the book except for the excellent Huit Figure.I take it for granted that you like Huit & Vingt when youre buying this book so I recommend to get the decently priced Limited Edition

All in all its the regular Queen`s Blade (Rebellion) Visual Combat book deal: hardcover,full colored and comes with the character card you need to play.Only difference I noticed to other releases is that under the dustcover isnt a 2P illustration but a single one of Huit.I wonder why they decided to stray from the norm in that regard but it isnt a dealbreaker in any kind since most people treat these books as artbooks anyways…

Huit and Vingt were created by Koume Keito and were,if im not mistaken,the second release from Hobby Japans Queen`s Blade follow up series.Like all other QB Characters both of them have a detailed background history which I want to write about before advancing to the pictures:

HUIT

Vingt is from the tribe of the little elves who are specialized into alchemy and live in a secluded area far away from wood elves like Alleyne & co.Shes the daughter of  Great Alchemist Cyan,who happens to be a close friend of the weaponsmith Cattleya,and mastered the exceptional skills of her father already at a young age.The Neighbouring Kingdom of the Margrave-Kreuz family has close bonds with the little elves and their children Annelotte and Huit grew up playing with each other becoming childhood friends.Annelotte had to play the role of the crown prince, despite her gender, to keep order in her kingdom.Annelotte saw herself as the kind,big brother of Huit and spoiled her quite a bit throughout the years and even until today Annelotte remains the nii-san in Huit`s heart.

While Huit has a gentle heart and is kind to the ones close to her shes still a prodigy tactician and resorts to cold hearted tactics when the cause justifies the means.While she is able to defend herself she mostly resorts to her Alchemy powered Clockwork Automaton Vingt who she has a close bond with despite her robotic nature.

Who would have thought that Annelotte and Huit meet each other again in  a twist of fate thats so much different from their childhood days?

VINGT

Vingt is the Clockwork Automaton,built by Huits mother, that never leaves Huits side and is bodyguard,friend and assistant to Huit in one person.The key Huit carries close to her heart is used to wind up Vingt from time to time to keep her going full power throughout their adventures.Huit issues orders to Vingt via Runes written on the “remote control” she carries around.

Will she continue to fight for the good cause or might her remote control fall into the wrong hands?

As earlier mentioned the Character designs were done by Koume Keito which most people probably know from the Spice and Wolf and Kujibiki Unbalance Manga.He did a terrific job in adapting the QB Style while still keeping a mainstream appeal which some of the Visual Combat Books cant achieve.You could of course argue if its good to keep a general Anime style or the distinct style of some Artists but I think Hobby Japan does a good job to keep this in balance with its different artists.

All in all its another great Visual Combat Book that should find its way into your bookshelv if you even remotely liek the characters

No 2P behind the Dustcover this times

A Picture instead of Conversations this time.I guess this is due to the fact that no other characters were established at the time these went into print.

I find Vingt adorable despite her Elf ears :3

EAT LEAD!

VINGT KIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!!!

My,my look where Vingts finger is “touching”…

Left Picture is one of my favorites throughout the whole book XD

This is her doing her Ultra Sonic Sound Attack.Not what you think you pervert

This was actually supposed to be a double review of Huit and Vingt from Queen`s Blade Rebellion but thanks to the heat I could only finish my Huit review and had to stop Vingt`s review in the middle.Thats why we focus today on the little elf tactician of the Rebellion Army right after the Jump!

Before I continue this review I wanna clear some things up before this gets too confusing.If youve come across Huit or Vingt before youve probably seen them written as Yuit and Vante.Their names are based on the french words for the numbers 8 ( Huit ) and 9 ( Vingt ) and the japanese adopted them in their typical phonetic way making them Yuit and Vante.Since their names are based on the french numbers I am keeping the correct french writing instead of the japanese spelling.I do know that this is actually “wrong” but I cant stand the thought of writing huit as yuit.

Youd feel weird spelling Computer in the correct japanese way as konpyuutaa too,right?

Vingt and Huit

(Source)

Vingt is from the tribe of the little elves who are specialized into alchemy and live in a secluded area far away from wood elves like Alleyne & co.Shes the daughter of  Great Alchemist Cyan,who happens to be a close friend of the weaponsmith Cattleya,and mastered the exceptional skills of her father already at a young age.The Neighbouring Kingdom of the Margrave-Kreuz family has close bonds with the little elves and their children Annelotte and Huit grew up playing with each other becoming childhood friends.Annelotte had to play the role of the crown prince, despite her gender, to keep order in her kingdom.Annelotte saw herself as the kind,big brother of Huit and spoiled her quite a bit throughout the years and even until today Annelotte remains the nii-san in Huit`s heart.

While Huit has a gentle heart and is kind to the ones close to her shes still a prodigy tactician and resorts to cold hearted tactics when the cause justifies the means.While she is able to defend herself she mostly resorts to her Alchemy powered clockwork Automaton Vingt who she has a close bond with despite her robotic nature.

Who would have thought that Annelotte and Huit meet each other again in  a twist of fate thats so much different from their childhood days?

Thats the short rundown of Huits background story and I highly recommend you to read the illustrated QB Rebellion Stories translated by Fabio for more insight into the characters which can be found here.

Huit is a special case when it comes to Megahouse`s Excellent Model Core QB lineup since she came bundled with the limited Version of the Huit/Vingt Visual Combat book.Upon closer look it only makes sense  to release her bundled though since a little elve is indeed little and probably wouldnt have sold well as a stand alone figure.

Megahouse recently released the accompanying Vingt figure that comes with an extra stand for Huit and Vingt`s remote control so keep in mind that the remote control you see in these pictures isnt included with Huit per default.As already mentioned earlier I intended to make this a double review but the weather made the cast-on process for Vingt impossible and I can only present you Huit for today.

Huit is the usual Megahouse deal meaning that the figure can be stripped of those annoying clothes and displayed in all her naked glory.Unlike a certain Half-Elf who likes to go out butt naked,shes clothed down there in the newest elven leave fashion leaving no room for barbie crotch perverts

Considering her small size the paintwork on this figure is remarkable and doesnt need to hide behind her big sisters.Sure she doesnt hold a thing against master pieces like Risty but its still a great paintjob for a size of about 14 cm.You have four options of displaying her: naked,clothed, clothed with cape or the all new popular naked with cape.

The only other optional part that comes with her at default is the key thats needed to rewind Vingt.

I was especially impressed with the attention that went into the golden design on her dress aswell as the little translucent wings on her head

Her pose is a bit boring all by herself but honestly she meant to be displayed with Vingt anyways and it changes from boring to cool when shes commanding the poseable  Vingt to attack the enemy but thats prolly just me

Theres just one real drawback to this figure and thats the fact that shes prone to falling when shes  not wearing her cape.She seems to be leaning in some of my pictures but that isnt the fact.Shes just hard to balance without cape and seems to be a bit tilted witout it.

More Reviews can be found at Lylibellules Blog and Animatic Figmatation

And before anyone makes any Loli Comments:

This isnt an Loli but an Little Elf.

Stop discriminating poor things like Ymir or  Huit just because their small in size !

Before I continue with the pictures Ive gotta say that I had quite a few problems framing Huit since shes so small in size.In the end I decided to use my 55mm Prime to shoot her because it takes sharper pictures despite the fact that I cant get as close as with my 18-55mm.What do you guys prefer? Sharp Pictures or bigger closeups? I could of course try switching between glasses to get the best of both worlds ^^;;;

Ahhhh….before I forget it….I do know that these pictures arent very interesting with its 360 Degree Rotation but her small size and pose didnt allow too many interesting angles.I already had to go very lowangle to make her fill out the frame enough.I guess this is where a Macro Glass is highly desireable.

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Done with ogling over Little Elf Boobs? Good!

Ive totally sweat it but this blog had its second year anniversary on July the first!

I cant believe that its been two years ago that I started to blog and man Ive had some hardships the last few weeks.Ill do a proper anniversary post in a few days since Ive got some questions for my readers.

See you soon!

-Blowfish

Its been quite some time since my Blog has seen any new content hasnt it?I still need to tweak a few things here and there but I thought its a good idea to give people a reason for coming back to my blog.Megahouse`s Risty has been waiting to be reviewed  for about half a year and shes the right caliber to celebrate the Rebuild of Flying Pussyfoot.

Are you ready to get your ass kicked?

Risty has always been one of the wilder characters in  the Queen`s Blade Line Up representing a mischievous thief that steals from the rich and shares part of her loot with the poor.

Risty became a War orphan at a young age and was taken in by the head of a gang of bandits.After years passed and she became a formidable woman her new father figure was killed during an internal power struggle among the bandits.This made her open her eyes and part with those backstabbers to found her own group of chivalrous bandits to bring peace back to the people that they dont have to experience the same fate as she does.

The Anime prefers to add a tear jerker story about some poor Orphanage that needs some serious funding but her motivation stays the same throughout the anime.

Risty is one of the few Characters of Queen`s Blade that relies on brute strength and has a physical build that represents the force of nature that she is.Theres a thin line that you walk with girls like these but Eiwa did a good job with his original design.She may be older than the usual pedobait and can crush you inbetween her thighs but shes still cute and you would probably enjoy it.

Jun Tsukasa on the other hand took Eiwa`s Design and turned Risty into a scarred,battle experienced warrior that emits a very heavy aura of superiority. I still wouldnt mind beeing crsuhed between her thighs but I fear that I am in the minority ^^;;

Megahouse deserves some praise to not go the easy route and use the widely popular Risty designed by Eiwa but Jun Tsukasa`s Artwork for their as of now last figure of their Queen`s Blade Excellent Model Core Lineup.I still hope theyll release a Claudette and Irma inbetween the Queen`s Blade Rebellion Lineup someday but until then shell be their final Queens Blade figure.

Even though I hope that she wont be the final Queen`s Blade Figure from Megahouse shes is more than worthy of the title since shes incorporates all of Megahouse`s strengths and makes her their finest QB release.The Sculpt is absolutely spot on and I have to praise Mohio`s  first work as sculptor for Megahouse.Mohio seems to be pretty new to the game but I assure him a bright future as their Sculptor.I cant wait to see his work on the upcoming Siggy while normal people might be more interested in his upcoming Klan Klang.The Paintjob doesnt disappoint either with an excellent application and great colour choices: her gear looks rugged,her hair fierce and her body is well tanned.Some may be bothered about the progredient colour shift  from red to greyish of her hair but to me its a pretty cool effect.

There arent many things id improve but If I could choose one thing id change it would probably be her scars.I absolutely love scars and I wish theyd be a  bit more prominent like in Tsukasa`s artwork but thats just nitpicking on my side.

The Cast-Off Function is rather painless and you dont need to have a master of Cast-Offology to stare at her bare chest.Ive seen alot worse cast-offs by Megahouse and the only thing that was a bit tiresome were the pegs of her top that required quite some pulling.

As usual my QB Figures sit butt-naked in my Detolf until their reviewed because I find the cast-off such a hassle.It speaks Volumes that I managed to get her clothed again after half a year without having to think too much about it.

Whats my Verdict? Risty is a excellent figure thats among the best of the last few months and shouldnt be ignored because of her impressive physique.Grab her when you have the opportunity,you wont regret it.

Other Reviews can be found at:

Tentacle Armada

Lylibellule

FinallyAnime

Lets talk now about one thing I noticed when I unpacked my Risty: Megahouse seems to test assemble their figures with their weapons.When I tried to insert the Buckler Shield into her left hand I noticed that something was stuck in her hand and it proved to be the knob of her Bucklers handle.My Shield came with the knob thats why I am guessing that they test fit the weapons before packing the figure.I hope that they use prototype weaponry for test fitting otherwise some poor sob may have a copy without a knob ^^;;;;;

The following pictures were taken with my new Sigma 1,4 50mm lens and even though I didnt buy it for figure photography I am more than happy with the results.As usual I am grateful for constructive criticism and hints.

While her pose is rather static, which usually doesnt make great figure poses,her aura of superiority makes this an very intriguing pose.

There are very few occasions where I prefer the cast-offed figure over the scantily clad figure but Risty`s physique is sculpted so excellent that its a shame to hide those behind those dreaded clothes.Even if youre no fan of naked figures I highly recommend checking out these pictures to truly grasp the astounding work of Mohio.

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Thats it with todays Review!I still have a few QB figures that need to be reviewed so that I can finally get them clothed again.I guess Ill do those next.If youre bored with QB though theres also the Alter Ikki Tousen Girls among others waiting to be reviewed.Lemme know what you want to see.

Quite a few things happened to my blog in the last few weeks and Ive finally got everything patched up again.All about my blogs disapperance and reappearing right after the Jump!

It all started with Guy not beeing able to comment on my blog a few weeks ago.At first I thought that this might be a problem on Guys side since other Users were able to post comments without problems.Over the time more and more Users couldnt comment and it resulted that by the time I posted my Japanday 2010 post nobody was able to comment anymore.I backed up all my data (or atleast I thought so) and installed a spanking new wordpress because I expected this to be a database fault.

Much to my consternation the virgin wordpress still had the same issues as its predecessor and a few other installtions couldnt change this state.Thats where I contacted my Webhost Strato and asked them for advice.This proved to be a waste of my time since  after a few E-Mail exchanges they blamed the fault entirely on the Commenters and washed their hands in innocence.By a lucky turn of events Sephix opened up his Bloggers Corner which is a Forum for German Bloggers and I asked for advice there.It turned out that my whole dilemma is entirely Stratos fault because one of their Guest Book Spam protectors (which is turned on by default) is overloading the Server which is resulting in an Connection Error for the Users.

This is a well known compatibility problem between my host and wordpress and yet they blamed my users for their fault.

This is where I would have changed my host but unluckily my contract got prolonged for another 12 months shortly before everything went down the drain >.<

After turning off said Spam Protector the commenting worked  again and I started to upload my WordPress backup only to realize that the backup itself got corrupted because of the server overload and that it only saved posts until january 09.I guess you can imagine how you feel when so much of your work went down the drain….I was utterly depressed that evening but luckily Guy came to my aid and showed me how to recover those posts that were lost via Google Time Machine.I cant thank Guy enough for helping me out there.

This is for you Guy!

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Since I had to start from scrap again I decided that its the time for a theme change since my old theme, as much as I like it, was horribly incompatible with many plugins and would have probabyl blown up in half a year or so.I already knew which theme I was going to use since I was eyeing it for months but Ive been hestitant before because its a paid theme.Installing the theme was as smooth as a babys butt but still I encountered one problem: the Thumbnail System the Theme uses doesnt allow external image hosting and I would have to play around with the themes and plugins code.I am a complete klutz when it comes to the technical side of blogging but luckily meronpan came to my aid and helped me out big time.The Automatic Thumbnail Grabbing seems to work now in all instances except in the Gallery Section of the mainpage.I hope that this will be fixed soon as well.I cant thank you enough for helping me out either meronpan!

This is for you Meronpan! Cirno…sort of…in a way…

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After most issues were sorted out I added a few plugins to hopefully better the experience of my users.Theres now a smoother Spoiler button for my readers that are allergic to boobs,some social bookmarking crap and the chance to rate my blog posts.I know that that the latter one sounds very selfish but I want to actually know which posts are liked by my readers and which arent.I hope to get some feedback from readers that cant be othered to comment that way.Ill discard this feature if it proves to be food for trolls though.

The way the blog looks right now is going to be the final one except for a few things like a banner or Navigation/Categories.I am more than open to ideas and improvements that might have gone under my radar though.

I really hope that some of my readers are still among me and that we can venture into my blogs third year in July without any other mishaps.

I really appreciate the help I got from all the other bloggers that I didnt mention.Thank you Guys!

Ill try to restore my archives as soon as possible but this is manual labor and itll take some time until everythings back up.If there are any requests for special posts let me know and ill try to bring those back as soon as possible.

Thanks for sticking with me and helping out during hard times!

Service!Service! (If youre into a certain glutton)

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Sega Prize figures are always a game of hit and and miss.Sega sometimes delivers astounding quality for its low price and sometimes utter crap where you wonder why they released the figure in the first place.My first experience with Sega figures were the DOA EX figures and they were a pretty mediocre outing.Pretty visible seamlines and an overall glossy skin didnt make them as favorable as they could have been.They were still pretty nice for their low,low price .This time ive ordered another Sega Prize Figure set depicting the girls of Evangelion as cats and their quality is on a different level.

I am really happy how these kittens turned out.The weak points of the DOA EX Summer beach figures (seamlines,glossy skin) are nearly nonexistent and the PVC Material feels alot better.Rei and Asuka are alot heavier than their DOA counterparts even though of smaller scale and the touch of the figures feels alot better.They wont come close to the big guys in the buisness but they are fabulous for their pricerange (paid 8€ a piece).

I have absolutely no idea what those wings on the back of the girls are supposed to be but what i know is that i like the sculpt of the girls.The sculpter managed to catch the personalities of the girls and recreate them in neko-mode.Ill start off with Rei today and the cottonbed i prepared for her.Sadly things didnt turn out the way I wanted ^^;;

I like those small cat symbols on her shoulder

Her left bloodred eye is freaking me out a bit ^^;;

I request an EROcat version of Rei as next Sega Prize figure

Ive had another batch of figures in todays mail! There are 2 packages left for this month and i fear that customs picked up my Gathering order.Seems like ill lose around 50 Bucks once again before Rei and Asuka are mine!Im not going write about them but todays boxes that came with some suprises.

Ill start with the unpleasant one: I really had high hopes in Art Storms Lilics series and their first figure Canal.I love Shunya Yamashita Designs and the Promotional pics looked great.Sadly Canal turns out to be worlds apart from those pictures.They really,really messed up her shading:what was supposed to look like shaded skin looks more like bruises or a sunburn.Come on! Who chooses pigpink as shadingcolour for a  pale girl?

It doesnt look nearly as bad in the picture as it is in reallife!My camera wasnt able to catch the disaster.I really,really,really hope they dont mess up my other ArtStorms Preorder (LimitGunz) aswell and that this Paintjob isnt the norm.Their other Shunya Yamashita Figure (Nasca) looked amazing in the promotional pictures and Im really looking forward to her reviews.Im quite sceptical that shell turn out as gorgeous in the end.Another problem I have  encountered with Canal is that her feet dont really fit on the pegs of the base.Its usually not a big deal with PVC figures bendy legs but it seems like her legs are made out of ABS(thats probably the reason why they are so glossy aswell).

Does the usual hairdryer/warm water trick work with ABS after all?The legs wont move an inch without for sure!

Now to the other NSFW suprise:

WHAT?No Pantsu?

I was really suprised to see that Nyx is wearing no pantsu.I was  baffled when i casted her off for the plastic removal.Atleast i know now why that tentacle/Eye-thingy is staring up her legs ^^ I wonder if the same goes for Airi?

The last thing ive got today was the Dengeki G Festival and it was the only thing without suprises

Gonna put up a review of the dengeki soon!

My first package of the year arrived two days ago and it contained some Sega figure goodness.I know alot of you guys dont like Sega figurines but i really like them for their low,low price.Whats better than the Evangelion Girls? Evangelion Catgirls!I simply couldnt resist when i saw them on HLJ.Come on who doesnt like cats?I also have a weakness for airheads and I ordered Tenma Tsukamoto with her little diorama aswell.The postman rang my bell this morning and my spare parts for my broken Yoko Revoltech arrived!

More After the Jump!

These two will be reviewed later!

Operation in Progress

HLJ has sent me not only a spare arm but a spare torso aswell.I cant wait to give my Rei or Asuka a smoking hot new body^^

Okay and this is the part where i started to play around with my repaired Yoko,Tenma and other Actionfigures!

Kanu had a secret crush on Tenma all the time and thinks about how to confess

Tenma cant decide if she should eat Curry Bread or extra spicy Curry Bread

Yoko has the Hots for Tenma aswell and tries to snatch her

How can she touch Tenma-chan?

Tenma is still wondering about what to eat while the to girls fight it out!

Yoko knew that she doesnt stand a chance against a Toshi and ordered help from the baddest mother *cough* s  in the asian seas.

Tenma cant be bothered by all the commotion after all she has to deicide!

Twohands stays cool and suprises Kanu

“Detention for you”

Tenma gets snatched while deep in thought

Kanu is sulking over her defeat.I guess she has o go back to Ryuubi Gentoko

The End!