{"id":2658,"date":"2011-06-12T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gscmikatan.wordpress.com\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2011-06-12T07:00:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T07:00:35","slug":"kuroyagi-san%e2%80%99s-letter-corner-number-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/2011\/06\/12\/kuroyagi-san%e2%80%99s-letter-corner-number-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuroyagi-san\u2019s Letter Corner! (Number 52)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p>Can you believe that there are less than two months until WonFes already!!?  Everyone in the office is already busy with preperations&#8230; I&#8217;m also hoping the Milky Holmes will so a performance again!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Anyways, it&#8217;s been awhile, but it&#8217;s time for another&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:14px;\">\n\u3000 \u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000\u3000 \u3000\uff3f\uff3f\uff3f_<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \uff0f \uff3c\u3000\u3000\uff0f\uff3c\u3000 \uff77\uff98\uff6f<br \/>\n.\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff0f\u3000\uff08\u30fc\uff09 \u3000\uff08\u30fc\uff09\uff3c<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff0f\u3000\u3000 \u2312\uff08__\u4eba__\uff09\u2312 \uff3c\u3000\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000|\u3000\u3000 \u3000\u3000\u3000|r\u252c-|\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000|\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \uff3c\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 `\u30fc&#8217;\u00b4\u3000\u3000 \uff0f<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u30ce\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000\uff3c<br \/>\n\u3000 \uff0f\u00b4\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000\u3000\u30fd<br \/>\n\u3000|\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff4c\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff3c<br \/>\n\u3000\u30fd\u3000\u3000\u3000 -\u4e00&#8221;&#8221;&#8221;&#8221;~~\uff40`&#8217;\u30fc&#8211;\uff64\u3000\u3000\u3000-\u4e00&#8221;&#8221;&#8221;&#8217;\u30fc-\uff64.<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u30fd \uff3f\uff3f\uff3f\uff3f(\u2312)(\u2312)\u2312)\u3000)\u3000\u3000(\u2312\uff3f(\u2312)\u2312)\u2312))\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Kuroyagi-san&#8217;s Letter Corner!<br \/>\n<\/span>I&#8217;ll be answering some email from my inbox!<\/p>\n<table width=\"513\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"0\" bgcolor=\"#ffe6e6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"513\" height=\"10\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><span style=\"color:#333333;font-size:x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">(\uff9f\u0434\uff9f)<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Letters asking about changes to products are quite hard for me to reply to&#8230; but I do pass the info onto the design team!<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#333333;font-size:x-small;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color:#333333;font-size:x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">(\uff9f\u0434\uff9f)<\/span><\/strong><strong>If there is a problem with your product, please email the Good Smile Support Team at\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:support@goodsmile.jp\"><span style=\"color:#ee4300;\">support@goodsmile.jp<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color:#333333;font-size:x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">(\uff9f\u0434\uff9f)<\/span> <\/strong><strong>If you want to let me know something without me talking about it on the blog, just let me know in the mail and I&#8217;ll be happy to keep it quiet!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also been getting a load of opinions from twitter recently, but I still think email is a great way to send in your thoughts. I can&#8217;t reply to everyone&#8217;s tweets and mails, but I promise I do read them all!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Let&#8217;s get started! (\uff65\u2200\uff65)\u30ce<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong>I&#8217;m a frequent reader of your blog, and I was wondering if Nendoroid KAITO was going to go on resale again at any stage?<br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t manage to grab him during the last resale, so I really hope I&#8217;ll get another chance.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong>Good Smile&#8217;s figures are always so cute and awesome that I&#8217;m buying too many&#8230; I&#8217;m running out of space on my shelves!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"> I must say that one of the figures that I really want as a female collector is Kaito-nii-san!\u00a0Apparently there is going to be an append version of him, so I hope I can grab him then. I also hope we can see a big scale figure of Kaito one day as well!\u00a0I&#8217;ll be waiting to put my order in!<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Kanagawa<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There was way more mail similar to these two&#8230; it seems KAITO really is popular with the ladies!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:large;\">Nendoroid KAITO is currently being considered for resale!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nothing solid yet, but I think there is a strong chance that there will be a resale soon. As far as a scale figure goes, there are no plans for one at the moment, but Advent Miku has just gone up for preorder &#8211; she is definitely worth the buy!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong>I look forward to your blog every day!<br \/>\nI was really looking forward to my Nendoroid Masamune Date and it was well worth the wait &#8211; I love him!!<br \/>\nThe next one I&#8217;m looking forward to is Sanada Yukimura&#8230; I&#8217;ve been waiting for ages&#8230; I keep seeing new Nendoroid announcements but I never see Yukimura&#8230;. Granted, I still buy all the other Nendoroids as they&#8217;re all cute&#8230; ^^<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sure there are a lot of things that get in the way, but I hope that I&#8217;ll see a Nendoroid Sanada Yukimura soon!!<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Chiyo<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were also a load of mails like this one!<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Phat! Company is currently hard at work on this one!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s definitely making progress, so just wait a little longer!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong>Hi there, I&#8217;m a relatively new reader that just recently got into Nendoroids &#8211; at the moment I only have one &#8211; Kirino Kousaka, but I do have Kuroneko on order and I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be picking up more soon.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong>I live alone in a one-room apartment, so I really don&#8217;t have much space to display figures, but for now I&#8217;m displaying them on the corners of my bed &#8211; Nendoroids really are the perfect size to fit there, where a normal scale figure would just fall off. It&#8217;s really impressive looking at the photography that some people take of their figures&#8230; and yet I&#8217;m having trouble just finding a way to display them. ^^;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong>I hope to see some more Sora no Otoshimono Nendoroids coming soon, like Nymph and Astraea!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Kouichi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Those who were watching last week&#8217;s live broadcast will know, but&#8230;<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>A Nendoroid of Nymph is coming to accompany Ikaros!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s still undergoing some changes but will be up on the GSC site soon &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get a review on the blog soon as well!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Hi there! I&#8217;m a fan of the blog and hope to continue reading it for some time to come!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I actually have a product request&#8230; I really hope to see Nendoroids of Homura Akemi, Mami Tomoe, Kyouko Sakura and Sayaka Miki from Puella Magi Madoka Magica (Yes, I want them all! :P)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Also, what about the other three Milky Holmes girls? I&#8217;m really looking forward to them!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Homuhomu Purin\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Worry not!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Elly is following on from Sharo &#8211; she is coming soon!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Just like Nymph above, there are still a few things to confirm before she debuts on the GSC site. She also apparently has some surprizing optional parts &#8211; which you&#8217;ll just have to look forward to a little bit longer! (I&#8217;m looking forward to it too!)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">A little while ago at Lawson&#8217;s K-ON! Fair, there was a Lawson &amp; TBS Limited Edition Nendoroid Petite set featuring Yui, Mio and Azusa &#8211; and as stated on your blog, it included stands for five characters.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">My question is, are there any plans to create Nendoroid Petites of Mugi and Ritsu to complete this set? Or did I perhaps miss the time they were on sale? I can&#8217;t bear not completing the collection!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately product line-ups are forced to change sometimes&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">There are no plans to make the other two at this stage&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The original intention of including the five stands with the set was so that you could display other Nendoroid Petites with the three girls &#8211; from the other set of K-ON Petite Nendos!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I am really impressed with Good Smile&#8217;s charity products.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I live near Tokyo, so I did feel the earthquake, but there were no long-term effects on my side. (Although I did lose a few figures in the incident.)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">On the other hand, those up North near the coast suffered incredibly. I don&#8217;t think there is any way to experience what those people are going through at the moment. We can look at the destruction on the TV and internet, but at the same time we are all just continuing our normal lives &#8211; which I for one am very glad for. I know there are not many people who will go out and volunteer to help, so it&#8217;s great to be able to give in some donations via Good Smile.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- \u00a0Reader from Ogawamachi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Hi there. I am a Nendoroid newbie &#8211; I started collecting about one and a half years ago.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">When I think about the people who live near the epicentre of the recent earthquake, I can&#8217;t help but think about how much trouble they must be going through now. <\/span><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I think that figure collectors really suffered during this disaster &#8211; I do wonder how many Nendoroids were lost during the quake.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">The region I live in was struck my the tsunami, almost washing my house away with it, along with my favorite place to take photos with Hachune Miku.<\/span><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Fortunately my family was able to escape the tsunami, and the house was left, albeit not in a very good state &#8211; there were power outages for a few days and a gas shortage, but thinks have started calming down now, so I decided to send a mail through to you.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Taking a look at my Nendoroid collection broken up and covered in scratches&#8230; I almost burst out crying.<\/span><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I had been collecting Nendoroids even before I was married &#8211; they were like special memories to me, and I don&#8217;t have the will to buy them all again &#8211; I am simply going to keep the scratched up versions and love them as I always have. It&#8217;s amazing how much happiness can come from playing with Nendoroids for a little bit.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I&#8217;m certain there are many just like me who have been struck by disaster and are suffering a lot more, so I will be happy to purchase Good Smile&#8217;s charity products. I&#8217;m also really glad that I can read Miktan blog again now &#8211; it really brings my spirits up!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Eastern Japan is just fine, it&#8217;ll get though this stronger than ever. People over here are patient and strong &#8211; they&#8217;ll make a come back. I&#8217;ll be back with more beach-side photos eventually, and I&#8217;ll send them through to you once more!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Mokosuta\u2606<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For those unaware, Good Smile Company has started a collaboration project between figure makers to release charity products to help raise funds for relief efforts in Eastern Japan &#8211; the title of this project is &#8216;Cheerful JAPAN!&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:#0000ff;\"><strong>&#8211; Cheerful JAPAN! &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheerfuljapan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cheerfuljapan.com\/<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\nI have recived lots of mail relating to the disaster, and I&#8217;ve carefully read each and every one of them. As a fellow figure lover, I really feel sorry for those who lost their beloved figures in the disaster, such as Mokosuta.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we can make some new figures that you like in order to build up a collection once more!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I have a KAITO Nendoroid that I absolutely adore, and when I woke up this morning, I noticed his neck was broken off&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Luckily I also had a spare version I picked up at the same time, but it&#8217;s a tad sad to just throw away a figure I&#8217;ve spent so much time with&#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">That&#8217;s when I remembered the D.I.Y figure repair tutorials you put up on the blog, grabbed some tools and started the surgery! It really was such a simple task &#8211; even a girl like me could do it &#8211; KAITO is just fine and back to normal! Now I can keep my beloved original KAITO by my side a little bit longer!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Thanks so much for the tutorials!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I am writing to thank you for the figure repair tutorials that you put up a while ago!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I was thinking of just fixing it using glue at first, but then I saw the joint repair tutorial you put up on the 25th March using a brass wire to strengthen the joint, and decided to give it a try. I was really scared when I was creating the hole with the pin vice, but it ended up a lot easier than I expected!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Next up I hope we can get a tutorial on some way of stopping them falling down in the first place! I want to protect my cute daughters!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000- Nonta<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">I&#8217;m glad they were at least useful to somebody!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nHaving to do surgery on your favorite figures is indeed a sad time, but for those willing to try it, be sure to read the following articles:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"DIY Figure Repairs Part 1: Broken\u00a0Joints\" href=\"http:\/\/gscmikatan.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/25\/diy-figure-repairs-part-1-broken-joints\/\">\u25a0 DIY Figure Repairs Part 1: Broken Joints<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"DIY Figure Repairs Part 2: Reinforcing\u00a0Joints\" href=\"http:\/\/gscmikatan.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/28\/diy-figure-repairs-part-2-reinforcing-joints\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u25a0 DIY Figure Repairs Part 2: Reinforcing Joints<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"DIY Figure Repairs Part 3: Scuffed\u00a0Paint\" href=\"http:\/\/gscmikatan.wordpress.com\/2011\/04\/04\/diy-figure-repairs-part-3-scuffed-paint\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u25a0DIY Figure Repairs Part 3: Scuffed Paint<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Hello! I&#8217;m a second year female high school as of this April!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I&#8217;ve become addicted to Nendoroids from about two months ago, and I never knew until now that you had a letter corner!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I was reading through all the old entires and found them to really interesting &#8211; but I thought the corner had already ended!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">At first I always used to collect figma and big figures, but I always thought that Nendoroids seemed expensive for their size &#8211; but when I found the Love Plus Manaka Nendoroid I just had to get her. That&#8217;s when I found out how cute they are! In just a short time I&#8217;ve quickly amassed a small collection of 18 Nendor- I mean wives. I also have Totori, and three Snow Mikus on order! Plus I will get Nendoroid Cirno no matter what!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">It hasn&#8217;t ended! :O<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A second year high shcool student? Are you enjoying your school life? They&#8217;re some of the best years! Make sure you have lots of fun!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I am a fifteen year old girl who has been collecting figures for one year now.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">This is my first mail, so I&#8217;m a bit nervous, but I really look forward to Mikatan blog&#8217;s update every weekday!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I was just admiring how awesome the White Rock Shooter figma that will be included with the limited edition of the BRS game looks. I kind of hope we can see a scale figure of it produced as well. On that note I&#8217;d also love to see more scale figures of the Touhou characters. (With cast-off please! :P)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I hope you&#8217;ll at least take it into consideration.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I also have a question &#8211; what is your favorite figure, Mikatan? I&#8217;ve always wondered&#8230; <\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">My favorite figure&#8230; well there are just too many&#8230;. but if I absolutely had to pick one, it would be the BRS scale figure: Original ver, I think. The details are simply outstanding. I wish I could make figures like that.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It seems we had a lot of mail from girls this time around!<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not picking them just cause they&#8217;re girls, I promise!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">My favorite figure is this one!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"\/en\/imgs\/b\/5\/b5ec3487.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/en\/imgs\/b\/5\/b5ec3487-s.jpg\" alt=\"006\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Chii from Chobits!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s actually a gachapon figure from Kaiyodou, but the details are really nice! Ever since I started working at Good Smile, it&#8217;s been sitting on top of my monitor.<\/p>\n<p>This photo was tkaen by Jii-chan from the web team! Thank you!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Hello! I&#8217;m an everyday reader of your blog!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I&#8217;m also always somehow losing money everytime I read a review on your blog! :P<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I noticed some of the most recent figures are made using 3DCG which is incredible, but I was just wondering &#8211; are the prototype figures generally made by hand?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I&#8217;d love to see what kind of tools the pros use when sculpting figures!!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Rurumenmen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">Understood!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A lot of the sculpting starts off digitally now, but the final touches always require some manual work by the sculptors!<br \/>\nI must say you&#8217;ve intrigued me to take a look at what tools the sculptors use to do their amazing work &#8211; I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be doing a blog entry that takes a look at the tools soon &#8211; look forward to it!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">There hasn&#8217;t been any 1\/8th scale figures of Luka-nee-san, have there?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I would absolutely love to see a figure of redjuice&#8217;s Luka-nee-san illustration! That beautiful costume and legs&#8230; they&#8217;re incredible&#8230; (*\u00b4\u2207\uff40*)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Speaking of legs, Nadeko&#8217;s were also incredible&#8230; as well as the details on the stand!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I really do respect the production team over at Good Smile, you guys are great! m(__)m<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">You must be tierd out every day witht the amount of great work you put out! :P<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I hope we&#8217;ll see more great figures soon, and take care of yourselves! (Make sure they get the message please, Mikatan!) (^-^\u309e<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Hachiyomodoki\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">I respect them just as much as you do!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nBut there are a lot of people at GSC who are tierd out every day. xD Thanks for the read!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">The special included with the BRS game, &#8216;WRS&#8217; &#8211; how is it pronounced?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Wamuu\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">WRS is for White Rock Shooter!<\/span><br \/>\nIt&#8217;s quite a nice change, isn&#8217;t it :P<\/p>\n<p>(The original Japanese poster actually wanted to know how exactly the letters W-R-S were pronoucned- but since you&#8217;re reading the Enlgish version, I&#8217;m sure you know! :P)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Hello there Mikatan-san! I&#8217;m a girl reader, A~ya!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I was most surpirsed when you announced Nendoroid Prince on your blog the other day. I never expected Togashi-san&#8217;s works to become Nendoroids!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I&#8217;ve actually never seen Level E myself, but as a fan of Hunter x Hunter, I can only hope that this is a sign of future figures! He is also releasing a new book some time in July or August! I hope the day will come when I can see some more of his works as figures! (*\u00b4\u25bd\uff40*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- A~ya<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\">I was also quite surpized when I heard about the Nendoroid!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nI hope he sells well, then we can see about whats in store for the future! I really do!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">A long time ago you did a series of blogs involving creating the creation of molds for figure reproduction. I made up my own vacuum air removal machine and decided to give it a go myself. (I had a lot of spare time as I recently lost my job). I decided to mail you the results of my homework.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Gourai<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:xx-large;\">Wow!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to link directly so I made up an image!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stat001.ameba.jp\/user_images\/20110609\/15\/gsc-mikatan\/e8\/de\/j\/o0800735411279964287.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/stat001.ameba.jp\/user_images\/20110609\/15\/gsc-mikatan\/e8\/de\/j\/o0800735411279964287.jpg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stat001.ameba.jp\/user_images\/20110609\/15\/gsc-mikatan\/fb\/f5\/j\/o0751666211279964286.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/stat001.ameba.jp\/user_images\/20110609\/15\/gsc-mikatan\/fb\/f5\/j\/o0751666211279964286.jpg<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">The thing that is most bizarre is that homemade vacuum air removal machine!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:x-large;\">That&#8217;s a bucket! No matter what you say!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is really incredible though!!<br \/>\nTo use Lego blocks like that&#8230; really incredible!<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Anyone else interested in figure production, you should try too!!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By the way, the articles where I gave this challenge a try can be found here, but unfortunately they were before the English version started, so they are only in Japanese:<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/gsc-mikatan\/entry-10615574085.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mikatan&#8217;s Summer Vacation Research Project: Figure Reproduction &#8211; Day 1<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/gsc-mikatan\/entry-10616827655.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mikatan&#8217;s Summer Vacation Research Project: Figure Reproduction &#8211; Day 2<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/gsc-mikatan\/entry-10617433220.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mikatan&#8217;s Summer Vacation Research Project: Figure Reproduction &#8211; \u00a0Day 3<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/gsc-mikatan\/entry-10617444280.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mikatan&#8217;s Summer Vacation Research Project: Figure Reproduction &#8211; \u00a0Last Day<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Congradulations on your 10th anniversary, Good Smile Company!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I was watching the live broadcast on Nico Live, there was so much happening, I was surpised and happy at the same time!<\/span><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I really wish I could have been there myself! \u30fb\u309c\u30fb(\u30ce\u0414`)\u30fb\u309c\u30fb\u3002<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">It&#8217;s so hard to get a nice look at the figure displays at places like WonFes and there are so many people wanting to look!<\/span><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I&#8217;ll never stop cheering for GSC &#8211; you guys always bring a smile to my face with your figures! I send my applause and thanks to you all!<\/span><span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight:normal;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I look forward to the next Wonfes!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Oh, and Aki-san&#8230; please sleep more often. :P<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-size:small;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Nekogusa<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><strong>Congradulations on your 10th anniversary, Good Smile Company!<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\nMiku sends her love!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Iguna<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:small;\"><a href=\"\/en\/imgs\/0\/f\/0fe919a9.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/en\/imgs\/0\/f\/0fe919a9-s.jpg\" alt=\"003\" width=\"480\" height=\"304\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I was lucky enough to win a spot to the Good Smile Anniversary party! ^^<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">As soon as I entered, I was greeted with all the Nendoroids from the past, a tower of macroons and Aki-shachou and Mikatan in person! It was an absolute treat for me!!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">On top of all that I also got some lovely goodies! It was like a dream!<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">I will continue to support GSC from now and forever! (\uff40\u30fb\u03c9\u30fb\u00b4)b<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\">Thanks for thinking of the fans when you decided to have the 10th Anniversary party!! And thanks for all your hard work over the years!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#333333;\"><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- \u2606Saorin\u2606<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"\/en\/imgs\/9\/6\/961e4e0e.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/en\/imgs\/9\/6\/961e4e0e-s.jpg\" alt=\"004\" width=\"480\" height=\"398\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><span style=\"font-size:large;\">happy 10th anniversary goodsmile company ! !<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u3000\u3000\u3000- Anonymous<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><a href=\"\/en\/imgs\/8\/8\/8806828c.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/en\/imgs\/8\/8\/8806828c-s.jpg\" alt=\"005\" width=\"480\" height=\"348\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who sent in images and comments reguarding the 10th anniversary! Plus the last illustration seems like it came from overseas! Yay!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably not really my place to say &#8211; but the reason we made it to 10 years is without a doubt thanks to everyone who supports us, and I hope we will be able to continue to meet everyones expectations!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">And thus&#8230;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"line-height:14px;\">\n<p>\u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff0f \u2312\uff40&#8221;\u2312\uff40\u30fd\u3001\u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000<br \/>\n\u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000\uff0f,,\u3000\uff0f\uffe3\uffe3\uffe3\uffe3\uff3c\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \/,\uff0f\/::\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000\uff3c\u3000\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000\u3000\u3000;\/\u2312'&#8221;:::..\u3000\u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000\u3000 |\u2312\u30fd\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\/\u3000\u3000\/\uff64:::::&#8230; \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \u3000 \/\u30fd_\u3000\uff3c\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 _\uff3f\uff08\u3000\u2312\u30fc-\uff68\u2312\u30fd\u3001 \u3000 \/\u2312`\u30fc&#8217;\u2312\u3000 \uff09\u3000\u3000<br \/>\n\u2501\u2501\u2501\u2501\u2501`\u30fc\u2500\u2500\u309d\u30a3\uff7f\uff89\u30fc\u2010\u30fey\uff3f\uff89\u30fc\u2500&#8221;\u2501\u2501\u2501\u2501\u3000\u3000\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">I hope you&#8217;ll continue to support us forever more!!\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Anyway, that brings the 52nd Kuroyagi-san&#8217;s letter corner to an end!<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Thanks to everyone who sent in mail!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As always, I&#8217;m always looking for more mail from readers! I promise to read it, and swear I won&#8217;t eat it! :P<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, photos, product requests, want to talk about what you ate today, your goals for the summer&#8230; no matter what you want to talk about, send it through to me! Girls and boys both welcome!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#ff3300;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>(\uff9f\u2200\uff9f) Mikatan Mail!<br \/>\nmikatan-b@goodsmile.jp<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s all for today!<br \/>\nI hope to see you all again tomorrow!! (\u30fb\u2200\u30fb)\u30ce\u309b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! Can you believe that there are less than two months until WonFes already!!? Everyone in the office is already busy with preperations&#8230; I&#8217;m also hoping the Milky Holmes will so a performance again! Anyways, it&#8217;s been awhile, but it&#8217;s time for another&#8230; \u3000 \u3000\u3000\u3000 \u3000\u3000 \u3000\uff3f\uff3f\uff3f_ \u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000 \uff0f \uff3c\u3000\u3000\uff0f\uff3c\u3000 \uff77\uff98\uff6f .\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff0f\u3000\uff08\u30fc\uff09 \u3000\uff08\u30fc\uff09\uff3c \u3000\u3000\u3000\u3000\uff0f\u3000\u3000&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikatan.goodsmile.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}