Category Archives: General Updates

Happy Holidays all! I’m a little late with that, but I was busy over my holiday weekend. BUSY SLEEPING.

One of the gifts I received was a tablet! So I installed the Viz manga app, and Jmanga’s app to see how they’d look on a bigger screen. I have them both on my android phone, and I like the Viz app, but the jmanga app just didn’t work on that little screen. Happily they both work like a charm on the tablet! Woowoo!

I took the chance to read the Earl and the Fairy, from Viz, and was immediately engaged in the story and wanting more. It’s got so many things I like all in one manga. Talking cats! Fairies! A feisty heroine! So far I’ve read the first two volumes, and have the third and fourth lined up for later.

I submitted a panel for Naka-kon. We’ll have to see if it gets accepted! I both want and don’t want it to be submitted, because I am super shy and don’t really like public speaking. On the other hand, talking about stuff I like is usually fun, and maybe I’ll meet some new friends.

I recently took advantage of anime and manga sales, so I have plenty of stuff to read lined up. I already had plenty to watch, and even more when you factor in crunchyroll, hulu, and netflix. Where am I going to find the time for all this stuff? I have a busy year ahead!

I hope you all had a lovely time over the holidays, and enjoy the end of the year. I’ll be seeing you next year.

I forgot about this site. Sorry about that.

I don’t really have any kind of review ready right at the moment. I do have some updates.

I have a library card! Which means I will never be out of books to read. I didn’t actually fear that. Now I can read books I don’t necessarily want to buy or swap though. This includes manga. So far I have read To Terra volume 1.

I’m baffled though. The library has volumes 1 and 3 of To Terra, but no copies of volume 2. It looks like I’ll just have to purchase it online, if it’s available. I really liked volume 1, so I have no real problem purchasing all 3 volumes, when I can afford them.

I might do a book review here and there since I read so much. Currently a great deal of what I read is young adult fiction, because to me books are books regardless of what age they’re intended for. I’ve just purchased City of Lost Souls, which is by a favorite author of mine, Cassandra Clare. I’m really looking forward to reading it along with the books by Diana Wynne Jones, Monica Furlong, and Jacqueline Carey that I borrowed from the library.

I’d also bought volumes 7 and 8 of From Far Away online, since I can’t find the series in stores anymore, and 8 finishes on a cliffhanger! I’ll have to get another volume or two next payday.

Nendoroids Date Masamune and Yukimura Sanada have arrived! To make a long story short, I’m not all that impressed with the Date, but I love Yukimura! I will likely do a more in-depth review later.

I might try to review some of the manga I’ve purchased from jmanga also. It’s a good site.

I don’t know that I’ve shared the fact that I’m on tumblr. If you follow my twitter, you’ll have seen some posts. I like it for posting just one or two pictures, and a snippet about whatever.

I’m stealing an idea yet again, but I started a tumblr for my nendos to answer questions! The link is: http://asknendos.tumblr.com/ If you want to ask a question, go ahead! I’ll take a photo (or two) of their response and post it as soon as I can. It’s just another fun little side project.

For anyone who’s interested, my main tumblr is http://graphicnostalgia.tumblr.com/ I post mostly pictures of figures, plus I’ve been doing a 30 day Marvel challenge. Sometimes I go on about books and such too. If you have a tumblr, drop me the url in the comments, and I’ll follow you.

I don’t think I kept any of my resolutions from last year, which is why I usually don’t bother with them. I do believe one resolution was to read Bokurano, which I haven’t done (but still plan to do!), and revamp my blog design (meaning I do some of the coding myself, instead of just changing the theme).

So those are still in effect. Another resolution would be to blog more. In my year end report from WordPress, I learned that I added 28 new posts last year, which is an embarassingly low number. Also my most-read posts were from previous years, which is pretty interesting. It tells me that maybe those topics aren’t written about enough.

With my entry into ball-jointed doll fandom, you can expect more of those sorts of posts, for better or worse, heh! Also, there’ll be plenty more figure, manga, and anime reviews, plus whatever else I think of to write about. I’m thinking of doing some sort of weekly vocaloid feature sharing some of my favorite videos, and why I like them.  I have plenty of ideas. I never really set out for this to be a very focused blog, which may or may not be a good thing.  I have some ideas. We’ll see if they pan out. I also want to do more figure comics and/or just captioned pictures. That’ll be a random thing, I don’t really plan on trying to keep to a story this time.

Happy new year to everybody reading this blog! Let’s make it a great one.

I’d meant for this to be a post about Peepo Choo, which I finished reading a week or two ago and want to discuss via blog post/review. At the moment, I’m afraid it’s either going to be long and rambling or super short, but I plan to try and tackle that this weekend. I feel that I need to get back to reviewing some manga, at least, cause I haven’t been watching too much anime lately. Of course, I could fix that too. I own plenty of anime I haven’t watched.

Today though, I thought I’d post about figures a little bit (maybe). I’ve been collecting figures for around 7 years now, I think. I’ve only been collecting figmas and nendoroids for the past year, but before that, I was all about trading figures. I still buy quite a few of those, but not nearly as many as I used to. In fact, I think I may go through my collection again and get rid of a few – or attempt to get rid of them. Keep an eye on this blog! I have a history of sending people stuff!

I’ve been toying with the idea of doing a figure comic, especially after stumbling on to collecting communities and blogs like Tomopop and myfigurecollection.net. (I’m sailorsamus on myfigurecollection – friend me!)  Also reading A Day in the Life of a Nendoroid over at mangacafeblog has me wanting to do the same thing, in a way. I dislike straight copying another person’s idea although I am aware that this is exactly what all artists do.

So I think I will. I finally came up with an idea, now I just need to clear a space for pictures, take the pictures and get rolling.  As you can see in the picture above, my handwriting with my tablet is awful, so I will probably stick to text boxes, but I might draw effects now and again. Hopefully they’ll look smoother eventually, as I get the hang of things.

What do you think? If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to share them! At the very least, I’ll probably do a few strips worth of comics while I hammer out the format, and see how I feel about it then.