July loot post (Wait, why so late?) :p

Okay, let's get this over with. Loot photos are fun when you have time to do it but it can be a pain to arrange and post up so I lost track and they got lost in the backburner. This is from back in July 2014.


So we have a box from HLJ.

Happy Holidays!

Happy New Year! Hope everyone had a good holiday season. I had Xmas eve dinner at my bro's and there was a good family get together. Plenty of noms for everyone. :)



It's been so long since the last update! I thought work would slow down after the summer season but things picked right back up and before I knew it, holiday season was in full swing. Thanks to holiday sales at HLJ, Amazon, and other places, I racked up a lot of toys but due to work, I hardly have any time to open and play with them! On top of that, there was simply too many unopened toys in my room and so on Xmas, I went and packed away maybe half of them and put them in the garage attic to open at a later time. So my current goal is to open up all of my boxed Nendoroids and figmas before spring season rolls around because I want them to be indoors before they get subjected to summer heat. Same with the Shinkis and other toys although they get to stay in my room for now.


My unopened Shinkis. Quite a stack to go through...

Since I have so many unopened toys and left my blog to rust for much of 2012, my focus for 2013 is to get those toys opened and post more content. That's going to be tricky since I have so much to do but I'm sure I'll work it in somehow.


A hint of my next post, driving with Shinkis! Laters!

Work & anime

Been a while since my last post so just a quick update to say I'm alive. :P I took a 2nd job about a couple of months ago but I think I'm going to quit that as it makes certain parts of my schedule inconvenient. But that wasn't the only reason for lack of update. When I did have free time, I was watching anime and reading manga as well as just generally being lazy. orz As for stuff I've been watching, it's been old stuff: Gokusen and Utena. Finished both of them. With Utena, I've watched the first half initially and then that was it for a very long time. After picking it up, I decided to skip most of the middle episodes and start towards the last third of the show which for me was a good decision because the plot moves too slow and most of it is ultimately filler anyways. I have to say I have mixed feelings with how it ended but it's good they followed up with the movie which was ultimately a much better experience IMO. With Gokusen, I watched through the anime series, read through the manga, and now following the live drama as time permits. Yankumi has skyrocketed to the top as my favorite anime/manga/game character. I've also been reading through The World God Only Knows manga this past week so that took much of my time. Being a former eroge player, this naturally piqued my interest. That reminds me, I still have some games that's been on the backburner... orz



I just received the Wagnaria Nendoroid Playset A & B so I'm looking forward to opening them. I also have the Popura Nendoroid as well as many other stuff that's sitting in their boxes. I really need to clean out my place so hopefully I'll be spending the next week doing some late spring cleaning so that I have a place to finally open up my toys.

2D-Ism is now "officially" 2DToybox

I've come up with the title "2DToybox" a while back but I had kept the name of 2D-ism because I liked that name (don't you?). However, it just doesn't fit the main theme of my blog so I finally got around to changing the blogspot domain name. Another thing is that I've moved some of the blatant mature content posts over to http://ecchi-ism.blogspot.com/ which will be dedicated to the rare ecchi merchandise that I get or watch. If any reader still finds a post in this blog that may need to go to that other blog, please let me know in the comment section below or in the comment section of the offending blog, thanks. Other changes I've made include the fact that I'll be making pretty much all my blog posts here as opposed to before where I've tried to split it between a toy-themed blog and a somewhat personal blog. Ultimately, it didn't make sense to keep it separate as there wasn't enough content plus they eventually wind up crossing over anyways. :P So now everything will be posted here...not that there was much posted on that other blog to begin with... orz


On to other news, the past month has been huge on import purchases. I haven't even started unboxing stuff from my last shipment and I'm already getting a ton of new stuff... orz Anyways contents listed below...


Nendoroid Mio
Nendoroid Homura
Busou Shinki Lirbiete
Busou Shinki Ianeria, Dengeki ver.
Ultra-Act Mirror Knight
Ultra-Act Jan-Bot
BLK Huke artbook w/ BRSB figma
figma Append Miku
figma Homura
figma Index
figma Tsuruya
figma Mirai
BRS curry BRS ver
BRS curry DM ver

BTW, I've tried the BRS curry...and it tastes like crap, LOL. It's really black too, scary... At least the charms are cute.

I've also started work on my long-dead photocomics, yaaaay! \^o^/ Expect a strip in about a week. It's funny because I've been out of work the past year and you'd think I'd get on it then but no, I get on it after I found work. Go figure. :P Anyways, that's all I have to say for now, cheers!

New Year, New Toys, New Problems

First post of the New Year! I got a package from Mandarake which compose of following items: Busou Shinki Lacamento (resealed), Arnval Mk 2 swimsuit body, Strarf Mk 2 swimsuit body, Plastica Primary 001 Alefnim, figma KOS-MOS, and Kotobukiya RAcaseal Elenor Ver.APSY. However, there is one problem: the last item is wrong! I was supposed to get the clear version of Elenor so I've sent an email to them. Hopefully, this will get resolved somehow.




On to a different subject. Last year hasn't been the most productive year for me, blog-wise, and a definite disaster when it came to my photocomic. The comic came to a screeching halt early last year and never quite restarted so I'm currently reviewing what I need to do to ensure I get the comic going again since it would be a waste if I never do any more. I seem to be in somewhat of a "brick" phase as I made a lot of Lego-related purchase last year on on top of Kre-o and Mega Bloks purchases. It seems I may be finally running out of steam so I may put this phase of my toy collecting behind me. I do have some upcoming import purchases so that's unlikely to end anytime soon.

Those who look at my Flickr have likely figured what my next review would be. I'll be writing it next and hopefully have it up by the end of the week along with some other posts I've been wanting to make. Here's to a hopefully productive year!


Update 1/16/12: Mandarake says that the product was updated as a clear version by mistake and will give me a store credit for the purchase price. IOW, I kinda get it for free. Kinda sucks since I didn't have any interest in the normal version and wouldn't have bought it in the first place otherwise. Oh well, I'll take what I can get. :P

Nice loot

I've realized I've put off updating a few items as off late. Nico Robin mousepad being one of them. Ah well; later I guess.

Got a box of loot yesterday. I am really buying too much stuff this year. Anyways, on with the pictures.


From Amazon, acsta Subaru, figma movie Nanoha, and Shikotama Slave 1st ltd ver (new!). Shikotama Slave is actually from Comroad but bought through Amazon.


From Sofmap, ex:ride vintage bike 001 metallic yellow, 7 Online Gamers Offline (used), Honey Coming 1st ltd ver (used), and Kosaka Tamaki Summer Floating Ring ver by Kaitendo.

Big post!

New package from the middle of the week. Contains Nanoha A's Battle of Aces PSP Lyrical Box w/ pre-order card, Doki Majo Plus for DS, The White Lion Extra Black, Figma Sakurahime w/ winter campaign set, and Busou Shinki Merienda w/ bonus parts container.

Item specific pics after the cutoff.

New figures from Amazon Jp

I had forgotten to post about a package I got a little over a week ago. I'm lazy to rewrite this so a quick copy&paste...



Excellent Model Queen's Blade Alein
1/4 scale swimsuit Fate
Fireball DVD Winter package
Bought from Amazon.jp and shipped through Tenso.

This was a "spur of the moment" purchase when I happened upon an article saying Fate's at 6783 yen. My mind got hit by a virtual frying pan and before I knew it, I placed one in the cart already even though I wasn't sure I really want one. In the end I went ahead with the purchase while adding a couple more stuff just for the heck of it. I think this might be my last figure purchase for a while. I spent more money during the last few months than in the last few years with a big chunk of that coming from figures & toys so I need to reign in the spending. I didn't take Fate out since I don't have a place to put her but damn she looks gorgeous. Looks a lot better in person than in the pics. I'm glad I got her after all.

Cost breakdown:
Queen's Blade Alein 3968 yen
1/4 scale Fate 6783 yen
Fireball Winter pkg 4351 yen
Amazon total: 15,102 yen = $162.95 + $8.14 tax (they charge tax on anything shipped to local address)(yen to $ conversion made by Amazon)
EMS shipping fee: 5400 yen
Tenso service fee: 980 yen
Tenso total: 6380 yen = $70.26 (yen to $ conversion by Paypal)
Final total: $241.35

That total really ballooned real quick due to me adding a couple stuff there. Fireball I've been on the fence for a while now and Alein was also kinda spur of the moment. I probably could have done without Alein but I wanted to get at least something else other than just 2 items.