And I didn't mean to give the impression I had taken offense :p

Out of the blue My most relatable yuri girl <3 Just wish I could be as aggressive in love as she is

I love that manga. <3

Devil Nico has arrived. Yes!

Spent 11 of the 11 Scout Scouting Tickets and around 40 green tickets. I got so many Devil Nozomis, Panas, Maki and Honokas before that. Only one Devil Nico, but better than none.

Nez, please stick around the cafe!

Could be worse... could be a sewer level!

Nico Nico time! And the event start tomorrow!

It seems more lile Teru is embarassed about something and is afraid to face Saki because of it. It seems like maybe she thinks Saki blames her for whatever the tragedy was.

I hope we get some Saki and Teru fun times after the finals wrap up in 2027.

AND ANOTHER THING!

Am I the only one who would like to see Yamada and Kase-san go out on a double-date with Chitose and Yae from Hanjuku Joshi?

That would be awesome. Someone please make this.

Gunpla is freedom!

@Anon

Heheh true, unfortunately... Medicom is the worst manufacturer out there. Always breaks so easily. That's why many collectors avoid them. I'm not too fond of them either.

I knew it was a risky buy, but I liked how they looked haha

Really low chance that Obama does anything for Snowden. Manning didn't get a pardon, but just had her sentence commuted. Obama could give a pardon, but he didn't. No chance Snowden gets a pardon if Manning got commuted. Manning served time, and Snowden has not. That is I think their official argument.

@ Anon

(＾∇＾) Reading that I noticed that we are the exact opposite, I guess. Whenever my stuff arrives after 2 weeks, I'm super happy and think: “Wow, it's here already and I just ordered it. YAY!“
It's not just a saying but for me time really does fly ^^

I was super happy when I got it... but I had to wait a day later since the postman didn't knock on the door so they didn't leave the package at the door. I had to go on a Monday (that was a Saturday) to pick it up. I was super pissed.

That was exactly what I always used to think too. Hated it. Made figures look cheaper.
But that totally changed after I played around with a 1/6 body for a while.
Now I find motionless models kinda boring. The possibilities of action figures on the other hand ares limitless. And if you dress them right you don't have to worry about the joints as well.
Here's a Hot Toys Resident Evil Afterlife Alice figure for example:
http://www.figuredetails.com/images/Hot-Toys-Alice/Hot-Toys-Alice-Resident-Evil-Afterlife-p-1.jpg
http://aftimes.com/wp-content/uploads/MMS139_RE4_Alice_PR08.jpg
http://www.figuredetails.com/images/Hot-Toys-Alice/Hot-Toys-Alice-Resident-Evil-Afterlife-p-14.jpg
I have that one here and it looks amazing. You can buy that one as is, But I only have two figures like that. The rest is custom stuff I put together myself.

I have like one western figure. It's my least favorite, haha. Like those are cool, but I find the face kinda uncanny valley looking. That's how most western action figures look like to me. I have some Medicom action figures.
http://www.medicomtoy.co.jp/prod/dt/1/170/8173.html
http://www.medicomtoy.co.jp/prod/dt/1/170/7946.html

They look really nice but they are hard to pose so I just have them standing on one of my shelves in a boring position. Also one of Mari's pig tails or whatever broke the first day I had it so I had to glue it back. I just stick to Nendoroids and figmas now.

Japan is in greater need than the US. ;) Trump would probably disagree with your doing, but not me ^^

Maybe. :P

I play enough dark and drab stuff. :P

Hey, colorful is cute too ;) Last game I played was Patapon ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9ezeqqmlpI
（◕ฺｖ◕ฺ）It was cute ^^

Nope, I haven't. My friend constantly gives me an earful because of that. (^_^“)

IMO Bloodborne is the best game on PS4 and probably will be forever. The Souls games are all good, though I can't say I ever got into Demon's Souls. Loved Dark Souls. Played it on PC, but I have it on 360 also. On sale quite often.

@Anon

If I remember correctly, Play Asia had pretty expensive shipping costs... BiJ is pretty cheap. Starts with 800 yen...

I did the super cheap shipping last time and that took like 2 weeks and I regretted it. I wanted to play the game!

1/4? Wow, that's huge... I've started taking a liking to 1/6. Custom made action figures. A lot more fun. Made me lose interest in everything else, figure wise.

1/4 is wonderful.

I have a few action figures, but posable stuff always has joints showing so I don't really like them too much.

That's what hobbies are for! ^^ To keep the economy going ;)

Yeah, but I'm helping the Japanese economy and not the US economy, lol.

Looks like a very colorful game! But I guess that was to be expected, since it's Love Live we're talking about. ^^ I'm a little more on the darker side when it comes to games. Unless it's mini games...

I play enough dark and drab stuff. :P

You should like Bloodborne a lot then. Have you played any of the Souls games? (Demon's Souls or Dark Souls)

@Anon

Then keep your browser closed ;) Unless you play browser games as well ^^
Luckily I'm really patient. So when a cool game comes out it doesn't bother me much, because it will still be good in a year or two. I can wait.
The only problem are MMOs, I guess. You need to play those while they're hot.

You ask too much of me!

Don't worry, doesn't look like many games this year so I should be good. Only thing I would get day one would be an XCOM 2 expansion.

BiginJapan sells used games too now... Not sure how it currently is but they used to be a lot cheaper then Amiami most of the time.

I usually get my games from Play Asia.

Cute figures! The last one looks gorgeous.

The Love Live figures are all really great from Alter. I am not sure how many Alter figures I have, but now I have a lot after the LL ones. I don't keep track.

Alter really is the best manufacturer out there. Great quality and cool poses. But also not exactly the cheapest on the market ^^

Yeah, some others have figures that hover around $100 or less, but you get to like 1/8 scale for the cheaper ones and I love the larger scale figures. I have a few 1/4 scale ones and they are great!

I have these three beauties:
http://s1.tsuki-board.net/image/yoyan1267032214.jpg
http://s1.tsuki-board.net/image/600/Climbatize1268485058.jpg
http://s1.tsuki-board.net/image/gumonshoe1378305400.jpeg
Love them ;)

And Accelerator, of course!
http://s1.tsuki-board.net/image/600/Stereoman1426071262.jpeg
;)

Cool cool! I would definitely get more if it wasn't such a huge money sink. Everything I like seems to be a huge money sink. :(

Yeah.... moving is annoying enough as is but I imagine that it gets much worse when you don't even wanna leave...
My siblings have had similar ideas before... it does sound nice sometimes... but on the other hand... I'm sure it can get pretty messy as well...

It could. My brother is the one who keeps throwing the idea around. We get along at the moment pretty well so I don't know if there would be problems, but who knows. Would definitely help with money, but that's where it can get messy.

The American way, I imagine? Give people a new title to give them the illusion to be more important when actually nothing has changed...?

I've been doing work outside my position and into the one I got (and the one I really wanted which is a level higher, before it was level 2, now it is level 3) for the last 3 years anyway. A little disheartening.

That's against the rules, I'm sure! ;)

I have 467 gems so it should last me a long time before I have to spend any money. You get a gem a day and like 6 times a month for log ins. Plus events help cancel some out and more songs show up and you can get like a nice steady influx of gems. (Also 5 free gems today in celebration of Hanayo's birthday on the 17th).

Yeah... unfortunately I can relate. Too many of my things here spend their lives stashed away in boxes. Simply because there's no room to really display everything. And if you haven't seen them for many months or maybe even a year or two... you do start to wonder whether or not you really still need all that. That's why I plan to get rid of some of it at least...

Well, I plan on buying another bookcase (or two if I want some smaller ones as I have spots for them) but that's only if my lease gets renewed.

The best way to avoid spending lots of money is to turn of your computer more often and definitely avoid checking release sites and shops for preorders all the time ^^
I had that too. ;) So I stayed away from the computer, when I didn't really need to be online and surrounded myself with things I liked – and god knows I actually have many of those. ^^ So there was always a couple of books lying around, I packed out my consoles again and played some games I wanted to replay for years, or new ones that I always postponed, always kept a few dvds next to the TV with movies or shows I wanted to watch, and started to think more about my stories again.
It doesn't just help you to avoid spending money but after a while you get more relaxed and lose that feeling of wanting to have it all somehow. Felt kinda nice ;)

Oh... savings, yeah... there was a better time when I had lots of those as well... (^_^”)
Like so many things.... you only realize what you had when its gone ^^ Expensive hobbies and savings don't go together so well...

Yeah, I can't turn off my computer. I play games primarily on my computer, though this year may turn into a console year. But the plan is not to buy new things. There are a few games out right now that I want but I will wait for sales. Right now somehow I am doing it. I have no urge to buy the games I really want at the moment, and that feels good. I am going to work on my financial self control this year.

I do still check those sites but like, I cancelled preorders I really, really wanted. Those were more expensive than the ones I kept, which is why I kept a few. I will get the others one next year if they are still in stock or just buy them used on Amiami.

The ones I have left for this month are:
http://hlj.com/product/MLS46636
http://hlj.com/product/MAX04221

These are the ones for the rest of the year:
http://hlj.com/product/ALT20437
http://hlj.com/product/ALT20450
http://hlj.com/product/ALT20449

Unless there is another Love Live! figure this year from Alter, that will be it. They are reissuing the Kotori figure in the middle of the year, but I previously bought that one used. Ugh. I had no idea there would be a reissue, so the used one was like $200. I bought two of those, one as a gift. OH well

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you! Moving is so stressful....

Yes, I had to move back in 2014. My landlord wanted me back a month later so I came back to the same place and have been staying there since (I have been here since Feb 2013 and stayed with a friend for 2 months in 2014).

It was so stressful... and now it will be even worse with all the figures I have. Oh my. I don't want to move until I am ready to. I don't know when that will happen. Maybe a year? Maybe two? Maybe more. Ideally I would like to move to NJ (and my brother wants to buy a house there so we may buy it together) but right now I want to stay here for work.

Sorry to hear that! (๑•́ ₃ •̀๑)

Yeah, the raise doesn't hurt as much as my title. It's a promotion but it doesn't feel like one since they expanded our department from 3 titles to 5 so I moved to a new title and not the one I wanted.

But the raise being what it is could be a blessing in disguise as it motivates me to finally get my financials right.

Plus, if I do good this year, maybe I can get a nice bonus and the bonus could possibly help me. Thing that stinks about a bonus is that it happens in December, so it is 11 months before that extra influx of cash. :P

Fuck, that's expensive... O_o Glad we don't have that here, “yet” I should probably say... Because that will be over soon... All good things must come to an end, I guess ^^

It's worse in some places. I don't mind paying tolls, but it will be a plus to not have to pay them since I will be taking different roads.

Mine too, horribly. I basically didn't do anything I had hoped for... I'm the worst procrastinator ever... щ(ºДºщ)

I ended up not working on much Gunpla last year, I hope to turn that around this year.

I'll pray for you! ^^ It's a lot easier when you start getting annoyed with it. But as long as you still enjoy it so much, it'll be hard, I'm sure.

Yeah, I still enjoy it. I will just avoid spending money on it. I spent too much money on it last year, but now I'm just going to play the game and not care too much about getting new cards. I have capped myself on how much I may spend, but I will probably avoid spending any money on it until July 22nd. (The 22nd is Nico's birthday so that means the Nico only scouting box will be available and I may need to spend some money then. :P) But just gonna play the game without spending money, that's the goal!

And that's why I don't like buying things on credit... It sounds so tempting sometimes but it just drags you down...

I use my credit card normally and just pay the bill when it's due. Just in this case it was to buy a laptop. I could have paid $1000 then and there but I chose to do the bill me later thing. It was pretty cool so I ended up using it for a few other things too. Oops. I've paid off the laptop. I ended up using it for some of my Gunpla and video game imports. I may use it just for importing Super Robot Wars V, but we'll see. Either way, learned my lesson.

If I didn't buy so many figures it wouldn't have been a problem. Which is why this year I am limiting myself only to like the Love Live figures from Alter. Because they are really nice.

Kindred Spirits on the Rooftop is all quality.

No more room in your shelves...? ^^
I've been thinking about getting rid of some stuff that's just lying around here and there. So for me, I hope that this will be the year of clearance! ;)

Well, there is no more room. I have a few figures I am not sure of where to put. There was a NicoRinPana set that I purchased but not sure where to put them. I have 9 Love Live Nendos (this is the training uniform set) and I don't have space for them either.

I'm impressed! Looks like you got it all planned out nicely already. (^_^)b
Just curious, but do you usually manage to accomplish everything you plan like that...? Or are you like me and, well... at the end of the year... you realize that your to-do list still looks fairly untouched and you wonder how that happened... ^^ Like... almost every year (＾∇＾)

Well, this year I am planning on this because I want to avoid buying new things. This is the year I have to save. I had a budget last year but I ignored it like every month because I had my savings to bail me out. Now I don't have that much savings.

Everything I am planning this year is to save money. My lease expires in May, and I hope to renew. If I am able to, then I will save the second half of the year very well. Otherwise, I will have to find another place and probably will not be able to save.

Basically I didn't get the raise I expected at work, but I did get a promotion, so this year is going to end up similar to last year because last year I had overtime and this year I will not. Everything is planned around this. Next year, the office will be in a new location so there will be more savings as tolls will fall off of my monthly payments. It's $60 a month in tolls, and the only tolls that I will have once we move to the new location are the ones I have to pay to visit my family in NJ and then come back to Virginia.

My to do list for last year kinda flopped. I had meant to beat SRWZ3.1 the last 2 times last year but that didn't happen. :p But the big goal is the budgeting. If I don't play games but stick to my budget, then that's all good.

Honestly, I need to get out of idol hell and stop playing Love Live! School Idol Festival, but I really enjoy it. However, it eats up so much time when there are events. First world problems.

Yeah... waiting a little is the best way to save some money. After a year a lot of new consoles experience a nice price drop... Patience is the way to go!

I bought the PS4 Pro last year, probably should have bought the regular one for $250 instead of getting the Pro for $350 (I had a $50 deal for opening the Amazon Prime Card which I used to finance two big orders last year so I will be paying those off through like June). The Pro has been kinda a disappointment, though it does the in home streaming a bit better than the other one. Sucks that half the games I have do not work with remote play option because Bandai Namco wants you to buy the Vita versions to or something.

It isn't until June that I will have like an extra $300 to save a month. That's when my Paypal Credit purchased things finally are paid off.

Nice to see you active too! ^^

How have you been...?

Been playing too much Bloodborne. That's where all my time is going (when it's not going to Love Live! SIF).

Otherwise been pretty good. Had to cancel lots of preorders of figures, only have 5 planned this year (3 of them are Love Live and they are like April, June and Sept releases) with 2 this month that I just couldn't cancel.

This is the year of savings! Thankfully it seems there isn't a lot of games this year that will interest me, so I plan on running though some older stuff. When I finish Bloodborne, I'll play Dark Souls again and then play Dark Souls 2 from scratch. Maybe 3 will go on sale at some point this year and I will get it too. But I have a huge backlog and this seems to be the year to do it. Probably will try to finish Super Robot Wars Z3.1 2 times this year and then finally play Z3.2. I might even get Super Robot Wars V at a later date instead of getting it when it comes out. I am not sure... but it may be a good financial idea.

I do want the Nintendo Switch, but I will pass on it on launch because Zelda isn't enough for me to do that. Maybe get it in June for my birthday or maybe Black Friday. Depends of course, might be next year, but I really want Splatoon 2.

I'm still here lurking this thread. Nice to see if active again. :P

Oh, good to see the full thing. I have seen some of the pictures from that thing on Pixiv and Danbooru.

So Yen Press is releasing this as digital and paperback. Ugh, I already have 8 volumes in Japanese, so I'm not sure which version I will settle on.

C-Can you read Japanese tho? If so, it's all good. If not, well shit, cus I think it's been dropped, since the licensing.

Well, I mean should I go physical English even though I have Japanese physical, or just go Digital English because of that.

I have gone double before, but I don't know if this is one of those series I would give double shelf space to.

Series has been dropped by CXC due to the license. One more chapter that's already finished will be released, after that they won't release any more. https://cxcblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/07/2017-project-status/

Does that mean it will get an official English translation? I never understand what "licensing" means in manga context.

Yes, from Yen Press.

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Yeah, I kept doing that because no time for taking the long way around. LIFT OFF!

The Mako is a pain in the ass if you are trying to rush because of how it starts to then handle. I only hated the Mako the first time I played ME, but after that it was like well, at least it gives you that exploration vibe that none of the other ME games later had.

Mako FTW

I have been busy playing Bloodborne lol

Been playing a lot since I came back from my parent's place.

I beat Dragon Age Origins + Awakening + (the shitty Golems DLC and Witch Hunt) 4 times I think. The game opened me up to those style of RPGs and I finally could get into Icewind Dale afterwards. DAO is one of my favorite games of all time and it is one of the few games I get sad when I am getting close to the end. (The original Mass Effect is another).

Dragon Age 2 only once, and that was after playing Inquisition (which I have not finished and as far as I see, I will never finish). DAI made me enjoy DA2, as 2 has the same gameplay as 1 pretty much with some changes. But it controls the same way, unlike DAI.