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And so ends Supanova 2011 day 3 and im dead tired (yet to hyped up on a cocktail of adrenaline and caffeine to sleep).
I won a lot of free stuff this year, including the movie tickets I mentioned yesterday. Today I also won a free copy of the anime 'Welcome to the N.H.K'(is it any good?) for answering an obscure trivia question that nobody else wanted to touch, its times like this that I'm glad that I'm good at storing random information.
I also learned a couple of things, and gained a few stories to tell (though I dont think any could top the one that I mentioned in my last post
).
1) I learned that im really good at predicting peoples thought patterns. As I said in my last post, I won movie tickets by consistently winning at jan-ken-pon. They did a similar thing today for movie posters, and since i wasn't really interested in winning posters (I don't have much wall to put them on) I decided to make an experiment out of it and find out if my win on Friday was a fluke by attempting to tie with the guy leading the game. I tied with him 5 times in a row and ended up the last person standing (which means I was the winner anyways).
2) People are suckers for character merchandise, myself included, but at least I know were to draw the line. I kept seeing people walking around with Kyubey plushies and I wanted to get one to leer down at people from my anime shelf.
So I went to the stall thinking 'ah yeah, $20 - $30 bucks' and inquired about the price. They wanted *75 for this little 1:2 scale Kyubey plush**, and even though I had a voucher for this place I was like 'not for that price'. I mean, I could buy the materials and take a professional sewing class for that price.
I won a lot of free stuff this year, including the movie tickets I mentioned yesterday. Today I also won a free copy of the anime 'Welcome to the N.H.K'(is it any good?) for answering an obscure trivia question that nobody else wanted to touch, its times like this that I'm glad that I'm good at storing random information.
I also learned a couple of things, and gained a few stories to tell (though I dont think any could top the one that I mentioned in my last post
).
1) I learned that im really good at predicting peoples thought patterns. As I said in my last post, I won movie tickets by consistently winning at jan-ken-pon. They did a similar thing today for movie posters, and since i wasn't really interested in winning posters (I don't have much wall to put them on) I decided to make an experiment out of it and find out if my win on Friday was a fluke by attempting to tie with the guy leading the game. I tied with him 5 times in a row and ended up the last person standing (which means I was the winner anyways).
2) People are suckers for character merchandise, myself included, but at least I know were to draw the line. I kept seeing people walking around with Kyubey plushies and I wanted to get one to leer down at people from my anime shelf.
So I went to the stall thinking 'ah yeah, $20 - $30 bucks' and inquired about the price. They wanted *75 for this little 1:2 scale Kyubey plush**, and even though I had a voucher for this place I was like 'not for that price'. I mean, I could buy the materials and take a professional sewing class for that price.
06-Nov-2011 13:01:22 - Last edited on 06-Nov-2011 14:45:03 by Jesse B77
3) For those who buy figures of anime and game characters that they like the look of as opposed to ones that they actually know who they are, a word of advice for when your trying to ID them. The most reliable way to figure out the age rating of the thing they are from is to flip them upside down.
How did I learn this? Well, I only buy one figure each convention since they really are overly expensive and a bit of a waste of money and this year I settled on a Kotobukiya release of Kudryavka from Key games Little Busters (which ive played) and Kud Wafter (the far less family friendly sequel to Little Busters, trust them to pick the girl who looks 10 to be the main character, but anyways.... Ive not bought this game yet since I don't think it would clear customs) because it was to cute for me to pass up (and it even comes with the all important hat
) That's 7 figures I have now, and I only just realized that they are all from Key products...
So when I got home (and finally managed to pull the wrapping off...) I was doing the usual close detail inspection, and although the figure is very nice and well detailed everywhere, I couldnt help but notice that special attention to things like skintone blending and such was paid to the parts of the figure only visible when its upside down if your get what im saying
. This was the Kud Wafter version so...
4) Right, time to kill this rumor once and for all. A friend of mine whom I attended the Siren Visual panel with had heard all the rumours about a second season of Angel Beats that we were talking about a few pages ago. Apparently the guys at Siren had also heard the same rumours so they had made an inquiry with Aniplex about it.
Aniplex insisted that they have absolutely no intention of creating a second season of Angel Beats, and that one is not being produced at this time.
How did I learn this? Well, I only buy one figure each convention since they really are overly expensive and a bit of a waste of money and this year I settled on a Kotobukiya release of Kudryavka from Key games Little Busters (which ive played) and Kud Wafter (the far less family friendly sequel to Little Busters, trust them to pick the girl who looks 10 to be the main character, but anyways.... Ive not bought this game yet since I don't think it would clear customs) because it was to cute for me to pass up (and it even comes with the all important hat
) That's 7 figures I have now, and I only just realized that they are all from Key products...
So when I got home (and finally managed to pull the wrapping off...) I was doing the usual close detail inspection, and although the figure is very nice and well detailed everywhere, I couldnt help but notice that special attention to things like skintone blending and such was paid to the parts of the figure only visible when its upside down if your get what im saying
. This was the Kud Wafter version so...
4) Right, time to kill this rumor once and for all. A friend of mine whom I attended the Siren Visual panel with had heard all the rumours about a second season of Angel Beats that we were talking about a few pages ago. Apparently the guys at Siren had also heard the same rumours so they had made an inquiry with Aniplex about it.
Aniplex insisted that they have absolutely no intention of creating a second season of Angel Beats, and that one is not being produced at this time.
06-Nov-2011 13:01:32 - Last edited on 06-Nov-2011 14:48:38 by Jesse B77
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Nice autobiography.
Nice autobiography.
06-Nov-2011 14:36:25
Lol, dont tempt me.
9) Other fun facts.
-Richard Horvits (the guy who plays Billy in The Grim Adventures Of Billy and Mandy) dosent seem to be able to change between having a weird voice and a normal one, his voice is just funny sounding permanently.
-Brina Palencia (Rei Ayanami) has a really great singing voice.
-Billy Boyd (Pippin from Lord of the Rings) isn't actually short in real life, that was just alot of camera trickery to make the hobbits that short. He has a tattoo of the elvish character for 9 on his ankle, which much of the cast got after the movies were finished (Elija wood, the guy who plays Frodo, got his somewhere 'exciting').
-Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) is kinda hot
-Neil Kaplan (Some guy from starcraft + Optimus Prime) has alot of crap in his closet that he's filched from various places over the years, much of which was auctioned off at supanova.
ANNNNNND yeah, thats all I got, time for bed.
9) Other fun facts.
-Richard Horvits (the guy who plays Billy in The Grim Adventures Of Billy and Mandy) dosent seem to be able to change between having a weird voice and a normal one, his voice is just funny sounding permanently.
-Brina Palencia (Rei Ayanami) has a really great singing voice.
-Billy Boyd (Pippin from Lord of the Rings) isn't actually short in real life, that was just alot of camera trickery to make the hobbits that short. He has a tattoo of the elvish character for 9 on his ankle, which much of the cast got after the movies were finished (Elija wood, the guy who plays Frodo, got his somewhere 'exciting').
-Evanna Lynch (Luna Lovegood) is kinda hot
-Neil Kaplan (Some guy from starcraft + Optimus Prime) has alot of crap in his closet that he's filched from various places over the years, much of which was auctioned off at supanova.
ANNNNNND yeah, thats all I got, time for bed.
06-Nov-2011 14:43:50 - Last edited on 06-Nov-2011 14:44:09 by Jesse B77
I soooo wish I was in Brisbane Australia now.
Not anime based at all, but the cast of Merlin is in Australia on the 5-6 November 2011.
Any future animes shown in the future that caught your eye? Typically some previews of shows are shown during films/shows.
Not anime based at all, but the cast of Merlin is in Australia on the 5-6 November 2011.
Any future animes shown in the future that caught your eye? Typically some previews of shows are shown during films/shows.
06-Nov-2011 14:49:40
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