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Can I go straight to watching this without having watched Logos?

I only found out about this today and it's ending today JP time, but just in case anyone wants to take the survey:

https://mechasmile.com/moderoidsurvey2023/

There's an option for English. But I don't like to login to Google just to take a survey, so I just looked. If anyone wants to request a series, now's your chance!

15 hours ago, Big s said:

I think they did a dull look to contrast with the bright green parts, but you could always try a gloss coat if you don’t like it. And if you end up hating the gloss, you could easily add a spray of dull coat as long as you mask the clear parts. If you’re not used to masking off parts, try eraser putty. It forms like clay to the parts you want to leave alone and is slightly sticky and totally reusable 

Thanks!

So my Viola Katze is shipping soon. However, I think the matte look is boring. Would it be better to do a gloss top coat? I don't plan on painting it as I don't have the time (and I have never painted a kit before).

I'm drooling at the Nirvash and Raxhephon. Not sure if I'll still want them when they become available though haha.

Thanks for the write-up! I've only been to AFA once and I don't really care for artists I don't know, so I'm not really interested in going again. Good to know what's going on there esp. with our favorite galactic songstress.

Wow, Bandai has great timing with these teasers. I'm expecting a salary increase next year 🤤

While I'm most excited for stuff from the OG series, that VF-0D looks really nice.

On 10/4/2022 at 8:56 AM, Mommar said:

Cancel 'em.

HLJ just silently put you on a wait list for the next batch.

So I cancelled them. I don't want to have open orders and then find the same items for sale in the mall...

Has anybody gotten the HG Aerial already? I saw some pics on Twitter, and it's backordered now at HLJ.

I still haven't gotten my Shenlong and I feel like cancelling both in frustration😩

Oh well, I was hoping to ship it along with the items already in my PW. If it gets delayed that far it would be shipping with the HG Aerial. Hopefully my preorder makes the cut for an earlier arrival than the Shenlong.

On 9/24/2022 at 10:09 PM, PsYcHoDyNaMiX said:

I'm not sure what's going on with hlj, but i have a friend that pre ordered the rg ggg and they haven't been charged for it yet nor is it in their pw.

On 9/25/2022 at 3:45 AM, Mommar said:

 

HLJ are no longer reliable where it pertains to Gundam pre-orders.  If they can't fulfill they'll quietly move your order to their next expected shipment.  They did this to me with the RG Hi-Nu Gundam and the HG Nightingale.  Had to finally contact them for them to admit that's what was going on.  I don't pre-order Gundam kits from them anymore.  ItsAGundam said he stopped pre-ordering from them for the same reason.

Thanks, I haven't been ordering much lately (or since the pandemic hit, actually) so I didn't notice. Who's the most reliable seller nowadays?

Has anybody here already got their HGAC Shenlong from HLJ? There's already reviews but my PW doesn't have it. If it's only me who hasn't gotten one I was thinking of inquiring from them about it...

Glad I got their books from the Humble Bundle sale a while ago. Physical books are better but I don't have the space for them (and they are so low on my priority list). Would have taken me ages to get to them, and would probably go out of print by then.

22 minutes ago, no3Ljm said:

 

 

 

 

Thanks. Now that I've seen (or re-seen?) that, it now reminds me of Ai-kun space form. It's the mecha version haha

On 8/9/2022 at 12:01 PM, sh9000 said:

Macross Pictorial Book

https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4065295009

https://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEOBK-2769914

Isn't this expensive for just 96 pages?

On 8/9/2022 at 2:22 PM, Big s said:

As far as quirky, a lot of the marine suits from the original series are a bit odd. I love the hygog and there’s also the gogg or the acguy and zock are pretty weird. 
there’s also the weird ones from crossbone that turn into hands, but those are a bit tough to get these days since they were exclusives.

 

Yeah those marine type suits have odd designs.

22 hours ago, tekering said:

I think the Big Zam deserves to be part of this conversation. 😊

That looks like a big insect! Was this in UC? I don't remember it.

They may be making more money on limited editions if they have certain number of orders. But I'm not in the gunpla business so I'm not sure if that's true.

Anyway, are there any other quirky suits like the Kapool and Wodom? I got the Build Divers version of those because I thought they were funny. (Basically a lot of Turn A suits are in this category.) I don't really follow the UC timeline after 08th MS Team (have tried to finish Zeta I am still not done lol). For alternate U I watched several episodes of IBO but dropped it.

5 hours ago, PsYcHoDyNaMiX said:

Afaik all bandai injection kits (HG, RG, RE, MG, PG) are made in Japan. With the exception of the Hi Res kits where the inner frames are made in china, shipped to bandai (japan) where they are boxed/paired up with bandai (made) injected runners and then shipped out from there. 

MB, Chogokin DX, gffmc, robot spirits, MS etc. Action figure types are made in china. 

With kits on backorder status on HLJ are sometimes just when they restock (roll of the dice). It may say BO now and if you place an order it may fill the next day or a week (or few). From my understanding they restock often enough. Unless bandai is pulling a cute one with HLJ and punishing them for refusing the bandai cease and desist order for shipping outside of japan... then idk, lol. Maybe send HLJ an email to inquire?

Does that include raw materials? So much stuff is made in China or have raw materials come from there it always comes to mind whenever shortages occur.

As for HLJ, I'll try that BO order once the preorder is in (or maybe a week before it's in?). I've also noticed that private warehouse is now unlimited (is that really true). But I want to ship as soon as possible to avoid the xmas shopping season.

13 hours ago, Big s said:

There does seem to be a shortage currently. Not just at hlj, but all around. There have been restocks going on, but those haven’t been the big restocks of a few years back

So I wasn't imagining it then. I wonder if it's the recent lockdowns in China, and they couldn't get kits out faster? If there's less stuff to go around now I pity those who do lots of Xmas shopping, to deal with low supply and inflation. (Inflation has also been high here in the Philippines.)  The gunpla selection in the local stores has also been dwindling (at least the dept. stores). Online, it depends.

Is there a shortage of kits right now? A lot of items in HLJ seem to be backordered. I was looking for something to go with a planned preorder but the lack of choices is discouraging. I also checked on Amazon but I had a recent stressful experience where they mislabeled a shipment. Thankfully it was sorted out but I kind of don't want to order from them for a while.

It seems to load faster now. Layout seems to be designed with mobile in mind. As a desktop user I miss the old menus.

On 5/24/2022 at 3:47 AM, Sanity is Optional said:

assume it's supposed to be her from the newer Netflix GITS show.

Which definitely loses out in the aesthetic sense, but at least it's got a decent story towards the end.

If it was decent maybe I should give it a watch then. but that new design looks generic.

On 5/12/2022 at 3:35 AM, Shawn said:

Its the stupid email system

We have some older posts (like the 1/48 super post) and it has lots of members who subscribed to notifactions on it, but their email address was invalid

The server is still trying to ping those old bad addresses for members who haven't checked in recently during our profile changes

So the emails are just churning and churning...looking to time them out and prune

I'm temporarily disabling email notificaitons on followed posts until we figure this out once and for all-I thought I had fixed it before.

S

Is this the reason I can't see the latest posts from my followed topics anymore?

EDIT: Looks like I have to re-follow then.

Those are really fun poses. The photographer must have been a fan.

On 2/3/2022 at 4:44 PM, Seto Kaiba said:

Eh... it goes a lot deeper than that, to be frank.  

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Overlord's Momonga/Ainz and Leadale's Cayna both start their respective stories as deeply miserable people who all but literally live in their VR-MMOs of choice to avoid their terrible real lives.  Momonga does it because his life outside the game is that of a literal wage slave in a dystopian cyberpunk future.  Cayna does it because she's terminally ill and living in a hospital on life support.

Momonga is implied to have died mid-session when the Yggdrasil's service ended and he was transferred to the New World in the body of his character.  Cayna explicitly died mid-session due to a power outage and was transferred to a world resembling Leadale in the body of her character.

Both Momonga and Cayna were notorious Player Killers with bad in-game reputations because of it, who are determined to avoid association with their past bad behavior after getting isekai'd.  (Cayna dodges all association with her reputation as the Silver Ring Witch, and Momonga sets out to clean up Ainz Ooal Gown's public image through acts of insincere public heroism.)

Both Momonga and Cayna established massive and heavily defended dungeons for themselves on the world map in their VR-MMO days, to weed out potential challengers so they can be left alone, both of which were given to them by the admins of their respective games out of respect for their in-game skills and unofficial status as player-run boss characters.  (Momonga's Great Tomb of Nazarick and Cayna's Guardian Tower respectively.)

Both Momonga and Cayna are the only player characters in the new worlds they arrive in, and both wield impossible godlike power from the perspective of the inhabitants of those worlds because of their high in-game levels and top-tier custom equipment before being isekai'd.  Both accidentally demonstrate incredible power without realizing the actual base level of the world's inhabitants.

Both Momonga and Cayna decide to go undercover as adventurers to gather more information about the new worlds they've arrived in shortly after arriving.  (Momonga adopts the alias of Dark Warrior Momon, and Cayna simply refuses to admit to being the Silver Ring Witch.)

Both Momonga and Cayna accidentally out themselves as possessing lost/impossible knowledge when they unwittingly hand over potions that are Lost/Divine Technology to the inhabitants of the world and find themselves pursued for investigation by the top potion-making expert in the kingdom they're visiting.

Both Momonga and Cayna slip into depression when it becomes clear to them that they are the only players in the world, any others having either never arrived or died of old age due to their choice of race/species in the intervening centuries.

Both Momonga and Cayna created NPCs that they regard as their children, though Cayna's are decent upright folk who've been keeping the world's sh*t together for 200 years while Momonga's are all driven by the "Then Let Me Be Evil" philosophy of the edgelords in Ainz Ooal Gown.

Both Momonga and Cayna are the first players to arrive in their respective new worlds in precisely 200 years... though in Momonga's case, he was preceded by three other groups (the Eight Kings of Avarice, the Six Great Gods, and the two players of the Thirteen Heroes) while Cayna is the only player left in Leadale.

The more you look at it, the more it becomes obvious Leadale was copying Overlord's homework... just with Leadale opting for lighter and softer comedy focus without any of the genre deconstruction that drives Overlord, and ending up kind of aimless and generic feeling as a result.  IMO, it's just a less compelling series as a whole because it doesn't seem to really have anything to show for itself.

 

Gave Police in a Pod a whirl... not sure what to think of it thus far, but the premise is interesting enough that I'm going to keep at it.  Not a fan of the art style, which reminds me oddly of Ghost in the Shell: Arise's character designs.

Indeed Overlord's writing is way better, but it has way darker themes than Leadale that to me it looks like 2 different things. Most stories are formulaic anyway, it's just how it's executed that matters. Or maybe I just don't feel strongly about it? For example I get 'agitated' when I see something trying to copy the Macross formula (mecha + music). (That is why I don't like Macross II.)