Mikatan’s English Blog Has Moved

About page on Mikatan's English blog

It seems that GSC staff Mikatan started the new year with a new home for her English blog. Yep, previously her English blog is located at http://ameblo.jp/gsc-mikatan-e, and now it has moved to WordPress.com or to be precise: http://gscmikatan.wordpress.com. I guess this move is really effective to gain more international readers, considering how big WordPress.com as a globally popular blogging platform, not to mention that hosting a normal blog at WordPress.com is free of charge. ^^

Black Rock Shooter: Nendonesia’s Best Nendoroid for 2010

Jan5 by animaster

Nendoroid Black Rock Shooter is kinda nervous in front of the camera

We have closed the poll for Nendonesia’s best Nendoroid of 2010 which had been running for a week and participated by 165 Nendonesians. Yep, I think you can already guess the winner: Nendoroid Black Rock Shooter. The cannon-wielder swordwoman win by quite some margin – the runner up only got less then 50% of her votes. ^^;

Anyway, here is complete listing of the ten nominee:

Nendoroid Black Rock Shooter – 49 votes (30%)
Nendoroid Nakano Azusa – 21 votes (13%)
Nendoroid Amano Tooko – 20 votes (12%)
Nendoroid Snow Miku – 20 votes (12%)
Nendoroid Saber: Super Movable Edition – 19 votes (12%)
Nendoroid Remilia Scarlet – 9 votes (5%)
Nendoroid Sherlock Shellinford (Sharo) – 8 votes (5%)
Nendoroid Minami Chiaki – 5 votes (3%)
Nendoroid Kochiya Sanae – 4 votes (2%)
Nendoroid Izayoi Sakuya – 3 votes (2%)

Well, 2010 is really the year of Black Rock Shooter, so it is not a shocking result. Nendoroid BRS looks like a complete bargain – 3500 Yen (or less, if you get the discounted one) for a bunch of body parts, accessories, and bundled DVD of the OVA. So … congratulations, BRS-chan! You deserved the Nendonesia’s Best Nendoroid 2010 award. (≧∇≦)/

Anyway, there are 7 of you who opted for “Others”, and I wonder what your fave Nendoroid are. Care to share it in the comments? What do you think about the polling result, Nendonesian? ^^

Solution for Nendoroid Hinagiku’s Face Plate Issue?

Jan4 by animaster

Face-plate-attaching problem on Nendoroid Katsura Hinagiku

It seems that many customers who purchased Nendoroid Katsura Hinagiku are complaining about difficulty on attaching/detaching the face plate off Hinagiku’s head. Yukiwo Ageta has just proposed a solution which might be able to solve that issue. Here is the translated tweet of Ageta-san:

If you buy from daisy Nendoroid, many voices will be asked to do difficult and tight face recombination. Because I like a harder material itself. Please try and hand-painted cream and toothpick grooves to receive portions of the ribs of the face. Much easier.

Yeah, I know that the translation is kinda messy, but I think I can get the general idea. Basically we simply need to smear some kind of hand lotion to a toothpick and put it on the plug holes at Hinagiku’s head, so that the face plate could slide into the head easily.

I have not received my ordered Nendoroid Katsura Hinagiku yet, so I cannot confirm that Ageta-san’s solution would work. For you who have played with Hinagiku and got this problem, well, now you know how to fix it. ^^

Nendonesia’s Top 10 Posts of 2010

Jan2 by animaster

Nendoroid Petit Hatsune Miku?

Yep, we are still in New Year euforia and that’s why there are no Nendoroid news recently. That is why I decided to take a look at some of Nendonesia’s site stats for 2010 and write a summary of it.

There is something interesting in our Top Posts (most popular articles) stats of 2010: Insight-categorized articles were read by quite a lot of visitors there. Should we write more Insight articles, Nendonesian? ^^

In any case, here are Nendonesia’s Top 10 Posts for 2010:

So which Nendonesia posts are your most favorite one, Nendonesian? Kindly share your thoughts. ^^

Happy New Year 2011!

Jan1 by animaster

Kagamine Rin celebrates the New Year drinking red wine

An inspirational New Year quotes:

Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!

Nendonesia wishes you a Happy New Year 2011, Nendonesian! May your Nendoroid be in good health as always through out the year and hopefully they get more friend in the new year. ^^

Note: Nendonesian PhotoCon submission is officially started about 50 minutes ago. You may submit your entry now, Nendonesian! ^^

Nendoroid Sharo Arrived – Ready to be Reviewed

Dec31 by animaster

Nendoroid Sherlock Shellingford (Sharo) boxset

Nendoroid Sherlock Shellingford (Sharo) with the PSP game of Tantei Opera Milky Holmes boxset has finally arrived on my desk. I have not opened the boxset yet because I am still busy with some stuff, i.e the New Year celebration party. ^^

Anyway, I will try to write up an in-depth review on this cute Nendoroid as soon as I have some spare time – probably next week. So how about yours, Nendonesian? Have you received your Sharo-chan and played with her yet?

This is Nendoroid Hatsune Miku HMO Edition’s Box

Dec30 by animaster

Box of Nendoroid Hatsune Miku: Absolute HMO Edition

I know you have been waiting for this one, especially when GSC decided to delay its release from December 2010 to January 2011. Yep, now you know how Nendoroid Hatsune Miku: Absolute HMO Edition‘s box looks like. Apparently, the box is not using a black background color like the other Nendoroid from Vocaloid, although it sure keeps the white grids. ^^

What do you think, Nendonesian? Do you like the box design?

Via Station Yamada’s tweet

Nendoroid Sharo: PSP Bundle vs Animation Version

Dec30 by animaster

Nendoroid Sherlock Shellingford

A closer pic of the uncolored Nendoroid Sherlock Shellingford (Sharo/Syaro) TV Animation version from Tantei Opera Milky Holmes brings us to compare it against its PSP bundle counterpart. Well, according to my own perspective, here are some differences that I noticed on the animation version:

New face/expression drawing style
Shorter hair
Larger attached ribbon on the hat
Chubbier body
No magnifier – probably included as accessories
Shoes/boots design is slightly different
The pricing (obviously! ^^)

So how do you compare both of them, Nendonesian? Any other things that I missed?

Wonder Festival 2011 Winter Photo Contest

Dec30 by animaster

WonFes 13 Winter PhotoCon

Note: This post has been laying there as a draft for a while, but somehow I forgot to publish it.

Just in sync with Nendonesia’s first photo contest, GSC and MF is also holding a photo contest to celebrate the upcoming Wonder Festival 2011 Winter. ^^

Here are the prizes:

Grand winner: Special MacBook Air
Gold winner: PlayStation 3 Slim and Black Rock Shooter Blu-ray + DVD set
Silver winner: NERF (some kind of toy weaponry that shoots foam balls)
Special jury prize: TBA
Best 200 entries prize: Special Photo Book
Participation prize: Special WonFes base (di:stage skin?)

… and here are some of the contest rules: (more info about the rules at cumie’s blog)

Applicable figurine entries: Nendoroid, Nendoroid Petit, figma, and scaled figure made by Good Smile Company or Max Factory
Entry submission is limited to one per person
Image file size should not exceed 3MB
All entries will be published via TwitPic

Photo submission starts on December 27, 2010 (that’s 3 days ago)until January 14, 2011. More information is available in the GSC and MF’s official WonFes 13 site (the site is entirely in Japanese though ^^;).

Entry submission form translation after the break.

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Nendonesia’s Best Nendoroid for 2010

Dec29 by animaster

Nendonesia's best Nendoroid nominee for 2010

We will leave 2010 and begin a new year 2011 in a few days. Let’s take a look back for a moment and kindly help us choose a Nendoroid to be awarded Nendonesia’s Best Nendoroid of 2010. Yep, we have chosen ten Nendoroid nominees for you to choose. Kindly cast your vote in the poll below and if he/she is not included in the nominee list, then choose “Others” and post it in the comment section. ^^

So the nominees are … *drum rolls*

Note: The poll has been closed. Thank you for your votes, Nendonesian! ^^