News by Matt S. Wonder Festival happens twice per year in Japan, and it’s an opportunity for the various hobby companies that produce figures for anime characters and the like to come along and share with the public what they’re working on. The E3 of plastic collectibles, if you will.…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Over the weekend, another Wonder Festival came and went, the bi-annual event that Japanese figure manufacturers use to show off their upcoming new releases. As usual, it’s an event that I pay very close attention to, because it tells me what Hatsune Miku figures I’ll be…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. People who know me know I have a rather impressive collection of anime/ video game girl figures. Most of them (50 or so) are Hatsune Miku, but I’ve also got a few Atelier characters, Risette from Persona 4, and one or two Love Live (Honoka), Danganronpa,…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Over the weekend Japan played host to Wonder Festival. Right up there with things I desperately want to do in Japan at some stage before I depart this dear Earth, Wonder Festival is like Tokyo Game Show, but for the figures industry. It’s when the likes…
Read MoreList by Matt S. It’s Hatsune Miku’s birthday in six days! The world’s greatest virtual idol and superstar was first unleashed on the world by Crypton on August 31 ten years ago now, and she hasn’t looked back. As everyone that follows DDNet knows, I’m more than a little enamoured…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. After Tokyo Game Show, the most awesome event on the calendar each year has got to be Japan’s Summer Wonder Festival, where all the figure and collectibles manufacturers come together to show off everything that is going to inflict pain on our wallets in the coming…
Read MoreGadget review by Matt S. Most anime fans – or fans of Japanese games – have at least a few figures lying around. It might be that they got them from limited edition sets of their favourite games. Or they might actively go out and buy the things, as I…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Good Smile Company (celebrating 15 years in business this year; happy birthday, chaps!) has unveiled its new 1/7 scale Hatsune Miku figure. This one is of Snow Miku, and she is impossibly beautiful. For those that aren’t aware of the story; Crypton, the folks that invented…
Read MoreJapan is a bit of a consumer’s paradise, selling a whole load of stuff that is difficult to find elsewhere (if not completely impossible in Australia). So naturally each time I’m in Japan I go shopping. The last couple of trips I’ve found myself largely investing in figurines to bring…
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