Hasegawa Kobato Beach Queens Ver.

It's not very often that a figure from the Beach Queens line is to my liking, but this figure of Hasegawa Kobato from Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai wearing only pink bikini and holding her guro usagi (rabbit plush) is quite well-done and appealing to me. It's not exactly the best quality you can get, but the price of 3,800 yen makes up for that more than enough. The scale is 1/10, so it's a bit smaller than regular 1/8 scale figures.

Those who are interested can place their preorders on CDJapan, and Hobby Search. She is due to August release.

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DFC Saturday #75

Hinanawi Tenshi by zazazazazazawa

Greetings! Another DFC Saturday is here. After last time, I've decided that DFC Saturdays won't be weekly posts, but a fortnightly post. One reason is that I will be able to make also some different posts this way. The other one is that it will be easier for me to find 10 nice flat illustrations every two weeks rather than every week. Okay, without any further ado, enjoy the flatness!

Hinanawi Tenshi by mamo

picture by peko

Houraisan Kaguya by geppewi

Gokou Ruri by kuzu kow

Kagamine Rin by shun47

picture by meito

Oshino Shinobu by umeno

picture by Kishida Mel

picture by karory

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Mizuki Nana's Synchrogazer ranks #2

Mizuki Nana's new single Synchrogazer, whose title song has been used as the opening theme for anime Senki Zesshou Symphogear, has ranked #2 on the Oricon Weekly Single Chart, having sold 51,017 copies according to the sales statistics. The first rank has been claimed by Kinki Kids and their single called Kawatta Katachi no Ishi with 123,475 sold copies. Nana's previous single, Junketsu Paradox, sold a bit less than 51,000 during the first week.

If you're interested, you can get the single on CDJapan. They still have a few first press editions available.

Here is the CM for Synchrogazer.

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K-On! Movie nominated for Japan Academy Award

K-ON! The Movie has been nominated for the Japan Academy Award, which is a huge accomplishment for a late-night anime. K-ON! Movie has been nominated for the award for Excellence in Animation, the award usually given to accomplished anime series with long history, such as Detective Conan, or anime produced by distinguished directors, such as Miyazaki Hayao. Even if K-ON! doesn't receive the award in the end, it will have taken another step to settle itself among the highly esteemed anime titles and hopefully also being praised by people who don't watch anime very often.

EDIT: The information in the post has been corrected.

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Happy Birthday, Mio!

It's Mio's birthday today! Happy birthday, Mio! She was the first character I really liked in K-ON before eventually growing to like all of the characters. I really can't wait to see the movie.

On another note, my exam period is over, so you might expect some more posts from now on. The first half of January was really devoid of new posts and that should change now.

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