Ah Aldra! The former Queen of the  Capital of Gainos! The Girl with with the Meat Rendering Blades! The Girl who totally got ingnored by the Otakusphere for said  Blades! Shes back! This time shes armed with a much more crowdpleasing weapon! The Charm of a caring and loving housewive! Find out who shes married to right after the Jump!

Yup,Aldra is married and what sounds like another awkward move of  HobbyJapan, turns into one on ingenuity when you realize that shes married to you,the player. Aldra should prove to be a real crowd pleaser this time, now that those phallic blades are gone, but HobbyJapan of course delivers a worthy substitute in form of LunaLuna

Her character was designed  by a guy named Kantaka,which I sadly havent heard of before but a quick search on Gelbooru revealed that he designed the Original Aldra.Furthermore he seems to be the guy responsible for the Characters in Koihime Musou and some kinky Idolmaster Art.

I could write up a paragraph about Aldra by myself but since  Fabio of Synergetic Beans already translated her Character Profile Ill just repost it here:

Summoner Aldra

” Ill do my best for you! “

The half-demon that once won two successive Queen’s Blade championships and ruled as the “Bewitched Queen”.
In the last tournament, the Demon Delmore, the source of her super-extraordinary powers was torn-off from her and she was defeated. By losing most of her powers, her body that had stopped growing reverted to its true form.
After that, she embarked on  a journey to find her lost sister but she suffered memory loss.
What saved the physically and mentally exhausted Aldra was the “love” from a certain man. They married and Aldra’s heart was healed.
A short-lived happy live began before the war between the Queen’s Army and the Rebel Army spread through the whole Continent. To protect her loved husband, she was determined to throw herself in the fight. She will use her innate summoning skills again. She summoned and made a contract with the Underworld dwellers Belphe and Dogor. However, those two are a dangerous threat that plots to eat their contractor Aldra when they get the opportunity!!

STATS

Height: 163cm
Bust: 87
Waist: 57
Hip: 85
Occupation: Gondolier
Arms: War paddle (oar)
Protection: None
Likes: Her husband (for some reason, no one has ever seen him)
Dislikes: Carrots
Hobby: Going out with her husband

I most certainly didnt expect this turn of Events for Aldra since the  Anime hinted that she becomes a nun along with Melpha.This could be of course just another inconsistency of the Anime but most likely theyll explain the change in profession in one of the future OVAs.One of the simpler reasons I can think of is that since a Nun cant marry she probably left the church to marry her sweetheart but maybe her Mamoru past plays another role in this.

As long as we dont get any answers by HJ these assumptions will remain unanswered for now.

Lets take a look at Aldras Outfit for a Moment and lets discuss the crass change in Aldras Apperance.There  are two possibilities for the changes made to Aldra:

A: Her new Outfit is supposed to resemble the change of heart that Aldra experienced after getting seperated from the evil Demon Delmore. Her former Outfit was designed to show off her absolute power with spikes,blades and an aggresive colour scheme to impose fear and uncertainty in stark contrast to the cute and loving Aldra of today.

B: Hobby Japan realized that Girls with things resembling certain male bodyparts dont sell and tried to make her as Moe as possible as a counter measure.

Since HJ released another Girl with clearly phallic appendages and even a TRAP I prefer Theory A, unless they are actually aiming for financial loss with those two XD

Check out Persocoms Blog for more thoughts on Aldra

Without much further Ado I finally present you what you came for anyways: the pictures!

As usual you can find the 2P Colour behind the Dustcover

The Character Relation Chart finally gets populated!

One thing I noticed throughout the book is that the Size of her boobs varies quite a bit.I have no Idea if this is intended or just coincidence.

Now arent those two summons  cute eh…stuffed animals?

Nothing beats the good old myserious white liquids somehow ending up on girls

I wonder what role the golden sealing bind (?) will play throughout QB Rebellion.Its located on her former “evil” arm…Maybe it still needs sealing?

Now thats something original!

Aldras Healing Move is on par with Nyx`s!

The Usual Conversations at the end of the book plus the character profiles of  Aldra`s Summons

The Character Card and one of the AmiAmi Preorder Bonuses for ordering the Limited edition that came with a Original Aldra Revoltech!

As you probably noticed my Blog is still on semi-hiatus since my flat still hasnt been fixed and Im still stuck at my mothers place.Its really hard to get somewhat decent shots of anything in this flat and as you can see in this post the quality of these is still somewhat dubious.I do hope youre gonna stick with me some more though!

I have one major thing going on and a few other figures like Momohime and Siggy also arrived at my doorstep

Until next Time,

Blowfish Over and Out

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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Just a quick heads up that I am working with a new theme and things might look more than funky until eveyrthings settled.Suggestions are more than appreciated. See you soon!

Something went terribly wrong…I hope to get support from my host soon.I do have backups so hopefully nothign will be lost.Until then Ill refrain from posting anything else <.<

I dont know if anybody of you has read the excellent novel High Fidelity by Nick Hornby,but it`s protagonist Rob has a very interesting theory about social dynamics: rather than a person`s character, his/her taste in pop culture is the most important factor that`ll influence your relationship with said person.What has the rambling of a cynic,egoistic music elitist to do with us? Check it out after the Jump!

Rob`s rather radical theory basically says that even if a person is “nice guy/girl” but has horrible taste wont end up on your best buddy list while youll hang out with that dick with similar tastes most of your time and wonder why.Ill leave the deep analysis of this theory to all the wanna be Freuds out there but it is most certainly true that birds of one feather flock together.

Similar interests brings people together and as always with humanity they want to leave the best possible impression to have an advantage over others and thats where it gets shady.Raise your hands if youve ever looked at someones Anime Top Ten and immediately knew that it was a fake list thats supposed to leave an educated good taste impression instead of displaying the users genuine taste.Its a rather common sight with elitists that smuggle in some obscure titles besides the community approved classic to show they havent lost touch with the bro`s aswell as the overlooked gems.These guys are rather easy to spot but then there are those that go with the flow and contruct generic community approved lists.

Simply put: Top Lists are utter bullshit and rarely really represent the user behind the alias XxLolicon4EvarxX but an artifical image contructed by the user to get a positive feedback.

I now wanna get away from the Anime example and shift the focus on the figure scene.I remember reading one of Jem`s articles where she ranted about the sheep mentality of some collectors and their jumpyness when it comes to preordering and canceling orders depending on the consensus of the community.Its once again the Artfical XxLolicon4EvarxX that counts more than the real XxLolicon4Evar who likes to collect perverted figure of little girls in….dubios situations with….dubios things like dogs,lolipops or severed penises.

It all happens to all of us that we sometimes buy a figure because of all the hype going on in the blogosphere even though we dont really care about the figure.The Figure Collecting Hobby is luckily(?) a rather expensive one and people blow more money on stuff they really like instead of status objects.This is the point where Tsukiboard comes into play and aids me to reveal the real you!

Are you already shivering?Am I gonna reveal your skillfully hidden crave for Gigapulse figures?

Tsukiboard has a nifty feature called tags and bonus you can click when youre looking at a users collection.Simply put: it destils youre whole collection into one easy to digest page that reveals your likes.”Faking” a toplist is a fast and easy job but “faking” a whole figure collection isnt worth the effort.

Even if there are some status objects among your collection,your amount of genuinely liked figures should override those in numbers.

Before we have some fun with my own Taste destilled into a delicous serving of tags,I wanna explain my selection: Ive only chosen the tags that are clearly bigger than the “standard font size” and are therefore the most common tags in my collection.The List will be ordered from the most common tags to the not so common ones.

Lets go!

Most Common

• Female
• Blonde Hair
• Weapon

Very Common

• Ahoge
• Thighhighs
• Stockings
• Ribbons
• Armor
• Ponytail

Quite Common

• Belly Button
• Cast Off
• Gun
• Green Eyes
• High Heels
• large breasts
• Long Hair

Common

• blue eyes
• blue hair
• Boots
• brown eyes
• brown hair
• Eyepatch
• Fringe
• maid
• school uniform
• sword
• twintails
• warrior
• Shunya Yamashita

Does anyone care to analyze me?XD

Figure Industry do you hear me? If you wanna cash in on me just incorporate all these things into one figure and youll probably have me lying drooling on the floor unable to move.

Is that still to abstract for you?Well here are the results of my Bonus Page

The Top 5 of Characters I like:

• Rei Ayanami
• Ryomou Shimei
• Sonsaku Hakufu
• Kanu Unchou
• Yoko

Hmmm…4 out of the 5 girls have something in common that the first one lacks….^^;;;;;;

The Top5 Series I like:

• Queens Blade
• Ikki Tousen
• Fate Stay/Night
• Gurren Lagann
• Evangelion

The Top 5 Top 4 Manufacturers I like

• GSC
• Kaiyodo
• Megahouse
• Max Factory

The rest of the competition is pretty even so I wont award a 5th place.

Well what does this List reveal about me?

Looks like I like big boobed,blonde,ponytailed girls in armour with thighhigh stockings and ribbons wielding weapons.

I guess this doesnt come as a suprise so far XD

What really suprised me though is that I am such a mainstream figure collector without even knowing it.Just take a look at the most prominent characters in my collection and their origins.Reads pretty much like the wet dream of an 8 year old exposed to anime the first time.Its not much suprising that GSC has the Lead as manufacturer considering that they are basically THE mainstream market supplier.

The Mainstream aside I mainly collect figures whose Character I am familiar with and rather buy figures for the character love instead of it beeing cute…sexy…slutty

I gotta say this came quite as a suprise but the facts dont lie do they?

As a matter of fact I felt the sudden urge to check the Collection of the Blogger with the most hardcore figures I know andwas suprised when I saw his Top 3 Origins and Characters:

Characters: Rei Ayanami,Kanu Unchou,Saber

Origin: Ikki Tousen,Evangelion and uh some other I cant decide on….

I kinda expected ecchier stuff but I guess even a figure with a realistically sculpted anus cant beat the charm of the classic girls…

What freaked me out the most is the fact that his bolded Tags are nearly identical to mine.Looks like I have a long lost perverted twin brother in Virginia XD

So what does your figure collection reveal about you?

Seems like Ive just written 1026 words in this senseless blogpost ^_^

My 2 week long hiatus is finally over and believe me I havent been lazy over the holidays! In fact I am proud to announce that this blog finally provides something useful to its readers! Ive posted before about ESGLabs Guide and translation of the QB Books but Ive never really been happy with their guide.Its quite confusing and complicated and it took me quite some time to understand the mechanics of this game. Hit the Jump for more Information and the Guide in handy PDF format!

This is my very first attempt at such a guide and it looks less than spectacular or even fancy.Its just a basic guide to the Lost Worlds Battle system the QB books are based on.I tried my best to explain the rules as easy as possible by merging my knowledge with the official QB guide from their official Homepage.Ive added direct links to the character cards from ESGLabs for your comfort and hope that this guide will aid those who want to try out their Queens Blade books instead of simply looking at them.

If you find any faults despite Persocom`s awesome proofreading be sure to drop a comment and ill update the script.If you are having any questions feel free to drop them off aswell and ill include them in the next version of the script.

The following characters have been translated and are therefore playable:

• Leina
• Risty
• Irma
• Nowa
• Echidna
• Tomoe
• Elina
• Menace
• Airi
• Cattleya
• Nanael
• Nyx
• Melpha
• Claudette
• Melona
• Alice
• Moetan

I wish I could provide further help with Translations of the Characters not translated by ESGLabs but my lack of japanese makes this impossible.If you do know by any chance of other translations or feel like your up to the task yourself be sure to comment as well and maybe we can make this work somehow!

Long Story Short: Here`s the guide by yours truly

Dang I totally forgot about this: HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

UPDATE: Thanks to Feldis Investigation Ive got ahold of some Translations for Ymir,Alleyne and Aldra.Ill have to take some time to make some Character Cards for them though.This should make the regular QB Cast complete.

All thats left now are some Queens Gate and QB Rebellion Characters

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First off I gotta thank all the people that wished me a happy birthday yesterday.I really appreciate that!Sadly my birthday wasnt a good day for me since I got fired from my job.It looks like my boss didnt like my 1 week off time due to sickness.I do know that Ive got the law on my side and could fight against that decision but that would result in a bad atmosphere and would only push the inevitable a few weeks aback.Ill continue working there until the end of october and have to look for a new job until then.

In Short: The Blogs gonna be deserted for a bit since I gotta sort out some things right now.I wont disappear from the scene but dont expect any regular scheduled posts.I gotta look through all my Preorders now and look who ill be able to keep and who not

A young and dynamic figure afficiando like me wont have any problems finding a new job aye?

Uh oh! Filler Time! I know that every single one of you deep down below wondered what kind of asskicking Super Robot youd be.After years of research and countless Cup Noodles One guy cracked the code to bring humanity to a whole new level of awesomeness.Hit the Jump and see the Future Today!

You probably remember my Post that revealed the shocking truth about the blogosphere.The mastermind behind the totally accurate Correlation Diagram and Floor Plan Generator brought us another mind dazzling generator that reveals what our Life would be like if all of us would be hot blooded,tears shedding Super Robot Pilots!

In fact Aliens are invading our Earth with their filthy tentacles right now and my highly advanced Brain has put together a task force of highly suited individuals( wich by chance are all bloggers) called the “Superior Earth Defense Alliance of Awesomeness”.

I declare the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny as our Theme Song

Fear not Earth!Cause here are the heroes who are carrying the fate of earth on their back!

Blowfish

The Defender of Justice

Snark

He is beautiful `nuff said

Q

Annoying Sidekick

Optic

Pervert

Phossil

Hot Blooded Suicidal Maniac

JimmPantsu

The Guttermouth

Aprilius20

Master of *#!%4″-<

Zenical

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All mentioned Bloggers are soon to be deported to an Ultra Secret Base thats using an mixed Onsen as its front.The Sonnenkind Officers will train the members of the Superior Earth Defence Alliance of Awesomeness with an ridiculous amount of unhuman tests until they are able to stand up and save the human race from extinction through slippery wet Alien Tentacles from outer Space.

PS: Due to an awaited high fatality rate among the pilots we are still taking applications for the Superior Earth Defense Alliance of Awesomeness.A small comment with the Application Sheet is enough.

Remember! Those Slippery Wet Tentacles harrasing your sexy neighbour could be harrasing your imouto aswell! Apply Today!

Blowfishs back! You may wonder where Ive been but I can assure you that I wasnt trapped in a timeloop for 8 Episodes.I merely enjoyed my first week of my 2 week vacation.Lets start my second week with a bang!I proudly present you my biggest and so far most expensive PVC figure: good ol` Morrigan of Darkstalkers fame! Hit the Jump and lose some hitpoints!

Ive gotta admit that my Morrigan experiences so far have been limited to the ” Capcom vs.” series and its infinitely recycled Morrigan sprite.Im glad that she finally got a makeover for Tatsunoko vs. Capcom and I cant wait for the Euro release.Anyways…Morrigan is a Succubus and shes dressed as any Succubus should: sexy as hell (and probably uncomfortable as hell aswell).The Artwork shes based on is one of the Artworks Nishimura did for either Marvel vs.Capcom 2 or Capcom vs. SNK 2.Its not like you guys care anyways…:D

Picture taken from SF Galleries

Her Design isnt really what todays moe-moe market is looking for and I see alot people beeing turned down by her rather muscular appearance and prominent hips.Lets face it doing a succubus`job requires strong,muscular hips(and big boobs) ^^

I on the other hand totally love her design from the slightly tilted twist,up to her hands playing with her hair.The conversion from 2D to 3D was flawless as expected of Max Factory and a 12800 Yen figure.While the figure is spot on and huge for a 1/6 figure (35cm!!!) theres a downside to the whole package: the base.Max Factory was penny-pinching when they created the base and it isnt strong enough to withstand the poor girls weight.It isnt anything serious at the moment( just a lil shifting back and forth) but who knows how the whole thing looks in half a year.I hope that she wont lean due to Max Factory stingyness.

The shoot for this figure proved rather difficult this time due to her height.Its nearly impossible to get good lighting with my current equipment and that reminds me again that I should save up some money for better gear.I wonder when that days will come XD

I tried to some pictures with heavy shadows this time to underline her seductive pose and they are eve harder to pull off than imagined.Out of the whole bunch I shot only a few turned out useable.I really like the effect I got with it but youll be the judge.

Enough talk!Lets get the pictures rolling!

One of my favorite shots

Ive taken a nifty little size-comparism picture just in case you cant imagine how tall 35 cm is:

From left to right: Puchi Kyouka,Nendo Kyouka,QB Revoltech,1/8 Clare,1/7 Seena,Gift Yoko,1/6 Sakura and 1/6 Morrigan

Now lets talk a bit about recent arrivals…Ive got a package from HLJ containing some sweet figures:

Cellphone camera is crappy <.<

And a another mystery item from a mystery person:

If you are a female droid and guess the mystery person correctly youll win a date with that mystery person and youre allowed to touch his/her blaster all night long.*

*Youll have my permission to do so,Permission of mystery Person not included

Ill try to answer all the comments that accumulated over my absence as soon as possible.Its time for bed now though

Yep, this is going to be another one of those “Thank You” and Stat-Porn Posts that popped up quite often over the lasst few weeks.Many Blogs saw the light around a year ago and the FlyingPussyfoot is no exception! Go grab a piece of cake some sparkly water and lets head down memory lane!

The FlyingPussyfoot was born on the 1st of July and this is actually a belated anniverary post ^^;;

Anyways…There was actually a Blog before the FlyingPussyfoot but it was just my playground for installing wordpress and trying everything out.When I was about to post there,I came across a pretty damn good offer of my host and went directly for a selfhosted blog with my own domain instead of the free one I messed around with before.

I know that these posts are pretty boring to most readers but Im doing this post for me and to reminiscence about my first year.Ill insert some bishoujo pictures for all the visitors that were able to sit through this ^^

I started this Blog after having a good time over at DC and reading a few blogs like HappySoda and Riuva.Back in the Day I was writing in German and my first post about importing figures was published on the second of July.A few more posts in german followed about stuff like my Shuraki Loot,JapanDay and Tsuki-Board.Then the magical thing happened: Ive got my first comment from a person I didnt know personally! It was a comment by Canadian Figure Afficiando and Live Feed Master Len-Vesper!(Sadly his Sites down at the moment and I cant link to him) Thanks alot! You really helped me alot when my blog was still in its children shoes.This wasnt only the first real comment on my Blog but an English comment aswell.I soon realized that Im getting more traffic from the rest of the world than from Germany and decided to switch from german to engrish on the 10th of July.I am violating the rules of the english language since then and hope you can overlook my crappy grammar in the future aswell ^^

My first English post is kinda special for me for another reason though: Superrats,the demi-god of figure photography,posted a comment.You have to know that I didnt know anything about the dynamics of the blogosphere back then and it was for me like a miracle that someone like superrats would comment on my blog.

Mhhhh…Whipped Cream

It took me some sweet time but I finally posted my first figure review of the lovely Nida Schuettlich on the 24th July.The comments finally started to flow in and im really grateful for all the people that gave me some advice on how to improve my pictures.Lets take a look at one of the old ones:

Makes me wanna Hide in shame ^^

And heres one of the latest:

Its nice to see that I improved a bit over the last year and I hope ill keep on improving.One of my biggest driving forces to keep improving is comrade meronpan since he started his blog around the same time as me.Whenever I notice an improvement in his reviews my hot-blooded fighting spirit starts burning and I feel the urge to surpass him.This will prove to be a difficult challenge though since he just levelled up his camera and lighting ^^;;;

Well…if my Eternal Rival levels up I just need to train more! Time to put on some ankle weights and practise photography!

Lets get to the statpr0n:

One Year Flying Pussyfoot is:

• 105 Posts
• 1671 Comments ( 266 by Blowfish)
• 2 Pages
• 12 Categories
• 198 Tags

Id like to share some traffic stats with you aswell but my hosts statistics seem to be a bit funked up.I missed the chance to install a proper stat-tracker until late November but I believe the Pageview data gathered by Statpress are more realistic than my hosts.

Too Good to be true

Sounds more like it

So what does this mean?No Idea! Atleast Im having some readers ^_^

I recently installed the WordPress.com Stat Plugin aswell and now lets get to the fun stuff:

Top Search Engine Terms for the last 1 or 2 Months (cant remember when I installed it ^^;; )

Im amazed at all those loli related hits considering the fact that I am clearly anti loli.I guess I can be proud of all those NSFW Blog hits though huh?

People that visited my Site especially like to check out Exelica-Meteor,AutrianOtakuLive and the Dis-jointed Zone

My Top Posts are the Big HLJ Sale,Reina Review,Soniko Review,Horo Review and my big 15 pound of awesome box

Still awake?Great!

I once again want to thank all my visitors and commenters for dropping by on this blog and giving me a reason to continue what I like.Lets have another fantastic second year!

I hope to get rid of the lack of Updates soon but I picked up Super Smash Brothers Brawl a few days ago for 19 Euro (what was MediaMarkt thinking? lol) and I am kinda busy now…Played 11 hours against my brother yesterday ^^;;;;

I never expected blogging to be this fun and its absolutely fantastic to have contact to people all over the world that share the same love for Japan,Anime and figures as me.I hope you enjoy this as much as I do

Kampai!