News of the Day
- Eroge: Type-Moon’s next PC game unveiled
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- Eroge: April 4th eroge release roundup
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Other headlines, ero news, Tony dakimakura review below the fold:
Other Headlines
- Figure: Toy’s Planning reissues “best price” versions of [ERO] Nanase Ren, Yagami Yuu, Madenokouji Honoka
- Figure: Picture Studio SEED Club Lunamaria preorder open
- Figure: Excellent Model Portrait of Pirates One Piece Series NEO-5 Niko Robin preorder open
Today I got my hands on a copy of the [ERO] Toranoana reissue of the Taka Tony-designed dakimakura pillowcase originally released at Comiket 73.
This is the Tony pillowcase that went up for limited edition reissue via mail order from Toranoana back in February. Now that it’s finally arrived I must say that for the price, it doesn’t disappoint – it’s made from the less expensive inelastic slick/shiny fabric used for pillows distributed as extras with magazines and games, but the fabric offers a correspondingly higher fidelity as a printing surface and yields a pleasant and highly accurate reproduction of Tony’s art. As the case is 45 cm wide I wouldn’t recommend forcing a 50 cm pillow into it (which I ended up having to do), though it seems it’ll do in a pinch.
The pillowcase is currently available in very limited quantity (there are five left as of posting) at J-List, and a purchase made via that link will help support HD; otherwise Yahoo Auctions is likely the only other source of the item at this point.
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Looks like we made it through the week! A lot of excitement buzzing around HD headquarters these days what with the new anime season starting up, news of the new Fate game and a lot of renewed activity on the site that I’m really psyched to be working on. I’m planning to spend tomorrow catching up with news on the anime and ero fronts, as well as gather a few of the more important bits of figure news mentioned in passing over the week into a post that gives them the attention they deserve. This Sunday is Hobby Complex 03 Tokyo, and my current plan is to hoof it down to the Big Sight to check it out. If all goes well a preliminary review of the event will surface on Sunday night.
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Those have got to be the hottest pictures I have seen for a pillow ever! They set the bar so high with this one, it’a amazing.
I absolutely love the artwork on the pillow but I don’t think I’d have the guts to have it on display. I salut you, sir.
It’d be nice to have the pillow cover, but it’s not cheap for me..
Nice case, but $160US is a little steep for me
wha, that daimakura looks very nice..
well, i’m not ready with that
there will be a lot of “wtf?!” when i put that as a pillow cover
This pillow cover is the most extreme cover I’ve ever seen. Only T2 can do something like this.
I find the “Best Price” figure reissues to be verrrrrry interesting. I’m always happy when an out-of-print games gets a lower-priced reissue, and if something similar would happen with figures I wasn’t able to get ahold of the first time around, I’d be a very satisfied customer.
Only problem is, I’ve really not been too happy with Toy’splanning’s stuff. Do you think this might be something other companies would do, too?
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We all hope so, but generally, I’m be glad if companies like Megahouse will re-issue their old stuff at the old price. (Hear that Megahouse, I need re-issues of your Kiyori. 8))
As for the Toranoana stuff, I will put them in the same category as Volks – on my BANNED LIST. I will buy stuff from other gaijin friendly companies but not from you folks.
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I doubt other companies will climb on the “best price” bandwagon, and I’m a bit surprised by the move from Toy’s Planning. I think future reissues from other brands will be at the same price as the original release for the most part (if not more expensive), as my understanding is that figure makers’ profit structure is based around selling figures at a fixed price, and production costs aren’t getting any cheaper such that they would allow downward flexibility on the retail end.