Shinki Net = GET!! (+ Numerous anime!)

Today in the mail I got Busou Shinki Battle Rondo!!! Or at least the file I needed that I couldn’t download from Shinki Net. (Took too long… kept timing out…)

I’ve installed it, and am just attempting to play it now. (I will need to download proper Japanese characters though… I thought I had them… since I see them fine on webpages… but not on programs… weird… If anyone knows a decent, safe place to download them from, please leave a comment with the link! I will try the non-unicode thing too, like I had to with Summer Days.) With the Shinki Net file, I also got some anime!! Well, more than some lol, quite a lot, I got the complete Gurren Lagann, Rozen Maiden, Zero no Tsukaima 1 & 2, Shakugan no Shana 1 & 2 and Popotan!! A good hawl from Ashper I must say!! (Some/alot of you may recognise the name from DC.com.

Will report back on how Shinki goes! Be gutting if it doesnt work…..

Shirley and Kallen – Alpha X Omega figures

So cute!!! I want them… I want Shirley the most though… that pose… those legs… and the twintails!!! (I know the colour versions have been around to see for a while now… but I totally forgot I’d ever posted on the DC member news post.

She has a lovely shape to her… some thing her legs look weird. But it’s only because she’s leaning a bit on purpose. I’ve never seen an episode of Code Geass, and probably won’t for a while, cos I’m going to watch Kashimashi, followed by Shana or Zero no Tsukaima(finally know what the Tsukaima means lol) and Clannad AfterStory starts VERY soon :woot: along with other things I’ll probably give a try, now I’ve got an unlimited download limit hehe.

If I ever do own her, I’d display her like this. showing off the full glory of her gorgeous figure!!! Theres also a little jacket that she can wear too.(See the HobbySearch page for that pic.)

Backshot.

Bunny-suited-up Kallen. I liked the look of the other Kallen figure by Alpha X Omega, in the uniform with the shimapan. This ones cute too. Nice pose, nice figure. Still prefer Shirley though.

You can also remove her bunny ears if you so wish. Lovely yokopai though. And I love the heart decoration too. So cute!

You can view all the pics available from these two figures, at HobbySearch, direct link to Shirley and Kallen here.

Busou Shinki – Up close and Personal

I have grown more and more attached to my Busou Shinki’s ever since I got them… more so even than my Figma Haruhi I think… which is strange… it might be because I’m not as scared to play with the Shinki’s, because they cost alot less than the Figma’s, and would be much cheaper to replace if broken. Figma’s just seem more delicate…. They’re definately better quality, but it might have to do with the fact I was so enticed by the Angelic Layer story when I first read it, like 5 years go…(wow…long ago….weird…) And stuff like Sky Girls and the slightly more recent Strike Witches might have been an influence too. I’m not really big on the mecha stuff… but I do love the character designs!!

(I don’t know why I didnt take any close ups of Devil Strarfs box… and I can’t now, it’s at home lol)

(More below belt)

Uni Room Update + Shinki’s!!

I found my transferry-device!! And got the pictures off! :woot: This is my apartment, shortly after I’d moved in.

Posters and stuff on the bed, I was ‘decorating’ lol. The room has a slopey window, which is cool. I’m on the 5th floor. *Almost* top, because theres only one room above us…. The room looks messy, still moving stuff about, the box on the right of the desk-space is full of arty stuff, now stored in one of the draws.

The room is in fact bigger than my room at home, and its en-suite!! lol. Livin’ it up here I am. And Who’s that at the end of the corridoor?

Why its Hikari and Yoko of course!!! Two of the better Newtype USA centerfolds I aqquired. Was a bitch removing them with minimal damage. I got a Kanon centerfold above my bed. Not Makoto though…:sulks:

Theres a massive pinboard in the room, but I keep forgetting to pick up some pins in WHSmiths….gah…. the amount of freebies and leaflets you get I can fill a sizable chunk of it already lol.

Up untill last night, the girls were sitting on the table by my bed. But I decided to finally break out the box I had all the accessories in and have a little play. Strarf and Arnval are on the stands now, Arnval’s legs are so Strike Witches-esque. I love them!! I’ve grown more attached to MaoChao and Howling since I got them, I really only bought them because I didnt want to miss my only chance to get them at a decent price…

And good news!! For me at least lol. I’m gonna be able to play the Busou Shinki Battle Rondo MMO!!! I couldn’t download it here, kept timing out because it would take over 24 hours to download… it got to down to 16 hours one time… *sob* But Ashper is sending me the game! Since he could download it in 3 hours… :grump: 10mb speed is what I have now, and it’s been than the 6mb I had at home… but it still didn’t wanna download faster than like 12kb/s…. So unfair… but I’m getting it anyways!! And can’t wait to try it out!! I’ve got a decent guide, so I should be able to figure it out lol.

Sorry for the gap! ((Keep your eyes out for ep 13!!))

As some of you may already know, I’m at uni now, and I’ve been out and about a bit. Not getting drunk….cause thats a big waste-o-money and resourses that I could waste on other things, like figures!! lol.

Just thought I’d post a little something from my Busou Shinki’s to keep you coming back for more. I’ve taken more pics and some of my uni room, before and after shots etc, but I can’t find the little thing I put the memory card in to transfer them… so I’ll find that later…

My 3 newest Shinki posing on my laptop!!!

And btw, if you hadn’t realised, and I’m sure many of you have, there is an episode 13 of Strike Witches by the look of it. Since several sites have it listed with 13 episodes I think it’s fairly safe to say theres a 13th episode. So keeps your eyes out this week!! You wouldn’t wanna miss it now would you?? 😀

Busou Shinki – A kind of mecha Angelic Layer?

One of the first things I thought when I saw Busou Shinki’s quite a while back, was ‘those joints don’t look too great’. But After researching further into it when I was able to buy one, I found they’re meant to be like that. They’re from a series about battle dolls, like Angelic Layer! And better yet, theres an online game which you can play and unlock Busou’s with the codes you get with the figures! The games called Battle Rondo I believe, and gets new characters updated when new Busou are released. Which is a mucho cool feature if I must say so myself!

Like the sucker I am I fell for this franchise and was under its spell, and wanting more!!! I haven’t downloaded the game yet… will when at uni probably… The pic above came from wiki, tis all the Busou’s to date I think… there might be a couple missing… it looks like they’ve got progressively cuter as time went by, which I’m all for personally! Below you’ll find the opening for the first game released.

Love the op music actually, the rest ain’t too bad either, but you can go hunting for that if you’re so inclined too.

This is a sneak peak of my three newest Busou Shinki’s, MaoChao to the left, Arnval in the middle and Howling on the right. I’ll post more pics of them later on! Enjoy for now and go investigate for yourselves!!