But then, later on, while bumming through the toy aisles like the college students we are, we came across bigger Domo-kuns. Posable ones. Exactly three of them. And we all got one of those, in addition to the smaller ones we already had. Great.

Between my roommate and I, we had four Domos, and we brought them to our Environments class on Tuesday. A few of our classmates had 1:18 scale diecast model cars with them since we were using them for reference on our assignment, and in the twenty minutes or so before class actually started… this photoshoot commenced.

You only wished your car was this shiny, red Corvette.

I wish we could have used the white projector screen for a background, but it was too high up. :\

Bunny!Domo-kun wants first dibs.

After a few hours of harassing sports cars, the Domo-kuns hit up the Japanese restaurant three blocks down for some lunch.

The best iced tea in town. Domo-kuns approve!

And some delicious beef teriyaki too. いただきます！

On the way home, we found some interesting graffiti. (Okay, so it’s actually been there a while, but I never got around to getting a picture.) Not sure why it’s yellow. Someone pointed out that yellow and black were our school colors, to which I replied, “Oh. … Oh yeah.”

But wait! I got a package from a buddy this weekend. They contained some glasses. Leafeon contends that he’s more gar than Domo-kun. What do you think?

俺を誰だと思ってやがる？？

I was a bit surprised at how small he was; I’m pretty sure initial reports of the release had him labeled as a 12″ plush rather than a 9″. He’s also a lot stiffer than I expected. All of the leaves on his body, including his tail, but not including his ears, are made of hard felt. Since there are so many leaves, this means there’s plenty of semi-pointy things poking out of his body, making him not very huggable. The base of his tail is this weird plastic thing, probably to support the extra felt that’s there, and the leaf on his head is sewn so that it twists, which makes me feel like I’ll inadvertently mess it up somehow even though it seems pretty stable. The fabric of his body itself is pretty hard as well, which means he isn’t very flexible and attempts to pose him generally end in failure.

Still, he stands up pretty well, and his ears are really soft compared to the rest of his body. And his little grin just makes it look like he’s up to no good. Ridiculously adorable.

I tied a ribbon around his neck because I’m a gigantic dork. Or something.

Epic sun! Except not really… the sun wasn’t bright enough to get any awesome lens flares. D;

I really wish Leafeon had a bit more flexibility so I could pose him better; it was really frustrating having to change environments so often because there wasn’t much I could do with him standing in place. Still, I guess it looks like he’s enjoying his trip out into the wilderness?

His camouflage is pretty decent!

What’s this? A randomass one dollar happy flower from Wal-Mart?? Some kind of deformed Sunflora?? I dunno!

Then we found a printer that had been abused and abandoned in a shallow creek. Damn college kids.

Then, because Savannah has a disturbing population of hobos, we found an abandoned hobo house in the woods, sandwiched between the dorms and the freeway. :|

I felt kind of weird taking pictures of it because I kept expecting the residing hobo to pop up out of the rags or to come gallivanting down the hill. But there really couldn’t have been anyone there really recently because there was grass and leaves all over everything, so yeah.

Leafeon approves of this adventure, even though his right ear got attacked by little plant spores.

Ivysaur kid figure and Ivysaur Friends plush demand a cameo appearance! D8

Sora wasn’t my first figure (Axel was). He was the last thing I bought at Ikkikon in 2007 before barring myself from the Dealer’s Room. I was going to get the Final Form version but decided that I liked the keyblades for the Valor Form better. (Valor has Fenrir and Fatal Crest; Final has Sleeping Lion and Fatal Crest.)

His very detailed, but because the figure seems to consider accuracy more important than articulation, and because Nomura’s designs are consisently ridiculous, Sora’s not all that flexible as a result. His arms can’t be raised higher than his shoulders, it’s very hard to bend his knees because of his pants, and it’s generally stupidly difficult to get him to stand in different positions. A lot of the joints are also poorly made — for example, Sora’s shoes are made of three seperate pieces that don’t fit together very well, so parts of it fall apart when you try to pose him. =_=

I guess it’s not that big a deal if his purpose is just to stand and look awesome. Sorry he’s a bit dusty in these photos by the way; he’s been in storage all December, and I forgot to dust him before the shoot… which takes place on my ghetto desk setup consisting of a too-thin white cloth scrap (from a failed cosplay venture) and a few sheets of paper! Can you tell that I love playing with depth of field even though I’m not very skilled at it?

It was ridiculously hard getting him to stand like this. For a few shots I was actually trying to hold him steady with one hand and taking the picture with the other — that didn’t end up working out very well though. ;x

Emo pose is emo.

Stole Axel’s chakram, lol~. It matches his costume so well though! :D The angle here makes me happy too.

Funny thing: Sora can hold Axel’s chakram just as well as Axel can, if not better. The sad part is that Sora has pegs in his hands that are intended to fit into corresponding holes on his keyblades, but it never works out right somehow because of his fingers. Inversely, Axel has holes in his hands intended to fit with pegs on his chakram, but that never quite works out either. 8| I’ll probably dust off Axel sometime this weekend and do a photoshoot of him next.

Sora’s legs in this picture is pretty much all he can do with his legs without a lot of pain and anger.

Annnnd… Spirit Bomb / Kamehameha / Rasengan! 8D

One of my brothers picked up a shitton of bootleg Pikachus from China this summer. …Yup. There are more pictures here.

I’ll be out of town for a few days, but I’m not expecting much of an anime-related haul from the family (er, or anything else, really). I know I have a Leafeon plush and a Lelouch Figma waiting for me back in Savannah though. v_vV