I realize that I had not done one of these for a very long time. Really, I saw no need – I had like one preorder per month or something, sometimes not even any for a certain month. I am trying to put off buying figures now, they really are no longer quite the passion I once saw them as. But then again, there are figures that still make me burn to want to have them, notably Volks’ KOS-MOS Ver. 4 (above), though that is way over my head in the financial area. There are still others though, and since I want to let Ruri’s post get a day or two up there while I set up the fall preview post, I decided to make this a slight filler post for all. All pictures in this post are thanks to HobbySearch unless otherwise stated.

Now why didn’t I pre-order her in the first place?

3D Yoko by Kanzeon…if that was his nickname.

As I write this post, Groups A and B have finished and the results have been surprising, and some, not the least to say, extremely upsetting and disappointing. But whatever, it looks like I might be revising some predictions for the rest of the groups based on what has happened so far. Here goes Group F.

So I just discovered this image over at 4Chan’s /w/ sector, it is a 1920×1200 wallpaper with a lot of anime references in it. Can you name all of them? Click to enlarge, if you have a problem with doing this let me know. The ones I can get from the image are:

Despite my previous revelation about this being a big post, I decided to compress it into just 2 manufacturers, Volks and Orchid Seed, leaving the best manufacturer, Alter, for yet another post, despite it being the first booth to be photographed at the event. Here are the figures that had me interested from both the former manufacturers.