supposed to be studying

i'm at the library in kind of a bad location (if someone walks behind me they can totally see what i'm doing, not that that's ever stopped me before) and i have two tests on wednesday... my laptop's almost dead and i forgot to bring my charger, so i figured why not write a lil something before it dies!! (mia logic ^___^)

anyways, to my surprise, someone updated kuroneko's mfc entry with a release date!! apparently she's being released on the 18th (that's just a little over a week from today!!) which i'm so so happy about. i've been trying for the last couple of minutes while to figure out where her release date was posted (i've tried navigating koto's website but i'm so confused… i wish it was like gsc's main page wah) but i'm seriously so lost and i can't find a release calendar or anything… i guess i'll try again later when my brain isn't (completely) fried.

akibahobby did a review gallery with wave's new madoka beach queen figure, and now i feel kind of bad for saying she looked super derpy in a previous post. her face actually looks pretty decent! (it's definitely an improvement over the first madoka BQ figure…)

i guess this is just the prototype though, and i've always been a little wary of beach queens because the photos of the prototypes don't really match up to photos of the actual product taken by other collectors. i've always wanted to give them a try though because some of them are soooo frickin adorable, and their prices are pretty decent. (i suppose it's due to their 1/10th scale, but still.) i'll probably consider buying a cheaper used one in the future maybe, just to see what their faces are like in real life. (i actually had a lot of BQs on my wishlist, but after seeing user photos i made myself reconsider most of them...)

source: akibahobby

i guess it isn't really that special, but i mean i love love LOVE white, frilly bikinis…!! also not to mention it happens to be MADOKA sporting it... (please refer to the koto 4-leaves misaka mikoto figure!! that figure is actually kind of perfect, and i guess i shouldn't be comparing it to a beach queen.) i kind of wish she didn't have that flower thing stuck on her bikini strap (i don't know why, but it kind of throws things off for me) and i wish she had another hair piece where her hair was tied up in a ponytail…!! and like, i guess her face doesn't look super dumb but it definitely could have been a lot more expressive. hell, it's a BQ figure though so what can we expect?

more photos of bandai's figuarts zero sailor mercury figure were released, and i'm actually so excited for her!! i was considering preordering usagi, but i wasn't completely in love with her for some reason so i held off on that. (i prefer her s.h. figuarts a hundred times more honestly.) ami's figure looks SO gorgeous though! as a kid, she was my favorite sailor scout for various reasons (my favorite color was blue, i loved how she was the smartest of the inner senshi, water was my favorite element, etc.) and this figure just brings back so many nice feelings of nostalgia. not to mention that it gets me all riled up for whatever's going on with the sailor moon reboot next season!!

source: natalie.mu

i REALLY hope that her painted prototype turns out well, because i think this has a lot of potential!! i love how simple the figure actually is, but her pose and the use of water just bring everything together so perfectly.  it's elegant but playful, and i hope her expression ends up mirroring that. i'll be keeping an eye on this one for sure, and i really hope that bandai doesn't disappoint...

one of the biggest cuties in the UNIVERSE!! ^__^

lastly, racing miku 2013 will be up for preorder starting tomorrow! kahotan did a review on her blog today, and it looks like gsc did a good job with her (as always). i don't really know how i feel about all these versions of the same miku (i mean o.k. the illustrations are all different, but they're all the same miku... plus she is literally everywhere anyways!!) but nonetheless, they are all gorgeous and assured to be extremely popular. (i don't even see why i had to state that since it's pretty much a universal law by now.)

source: kahotan's blog

i mean i am a fan of miku (i'm actually pretty sad that i don't own any miku merch yet) but honestly i'd rather have max factory's luka!! pink hair (don't care), tony taka, and the fact that she has a cast-offable dress (!!! important !!!) just make her sooo perfect to me. i'm considering getting even more because the lady whose voice sample became luka is a guest at otafest this year, and i could get her to sign the base for me if i had it!!

there are a few miku figures that have caught my eye (especially the deep sea miku that's going to be released soon... she's too perfect and gorgeous) but i'll hold off on those until later i suppose. i'm done complaining for today!! ^___^