art references/inspo pt 2

Busy month but I am successfully getting my Patreon posts in >:) this is to answer all the questions I get about who where what is going on in my collector lifestyle. Next post will be project breakdowns for today's drop~ 

first pic is my Tekkonkinkreet Jun Planning figures! This is one of my most grailed purchases and I've been wanting this since forever. The bodies are sculpted like figures however the clothes feel... like real doll clothes coated in a plastic layer? The jewelry, belt, and fish are removable but the feet are sculpted in. It's an odd mashup of figure + doll and I think it was worth every penny. I actually got them second hand for $100 but they have them here for a little more.

Dom is in his electronic/gadget collecting era with the new Panasonic Minidisc player he just posted but I still favor the Sharp VHS players pictured. The meowth is a piggybank often sold in like Mexico but Dom got it at the San Jose flea market. The figure to the right is Ana Coppola who is from a series called Ichigo Mashimaro. It's honestly just a "cute girls doing cute things" type of anime but bro it's a foot tall chibi vinyl figure with a removable hat. Hello Kitty outlet extender is also a conversation starter but I fried it when I plugged 1 too many gadgets in.

A ton of question about this squadron here but I think I covered his work last year in a post! This is the (almost entire) PSE gachapon collection by Range Murata. I think people thought these were like, standard 1/7 or 1/8 scale figures but they're seriously just 2-3 inches tall each so don't get too hyped. I am a huge fan of his work so naturally I am collecting his figures so you'll see more of these... eventually. Waist bag in the back is another grail of mine, it's from a series called Full Moon wo Sagashite by Arina Tanemura. I have yet to make a lengthy post about her but she's the reason I became an illustrator (yeah, huge influence) and a shoujo manga icon from the 90s-early 2000s. 

I got Ren from DearS at a steal so I'm sharing her here! If you remember this series from when you were a kid, you probably shouldn't have been into it because it was horny. Before you ask, the Nana poster was stolen from a ShoujoBeat magazine in Japantown by my ex who gave it to me in 2015. Left (yellow robot girl) is a mashup of figures from a discontinued line from Konami called Busou Shinki. It was a robot girl anime that came before the current popular series Frame Arms Girls. Unlike Frame Arms Girls, Busou Shinki was not gunpla (model kits) and instead came as a modular interchangeable part system. I have this one here mixed up with another model:

I have this one here mixed up with the body of another model.

On the subject of models, I acquired another garage kit that I've yet to start but I'm super hyped about!!!

This one is pretty exciting, it came from the 2004 Wonderfest in Japan as a showcase package so I believe you had to be there to purchase it. The kit is TINY like the taller character is only about 20cm so I'm going to be struggling with this one. It's called Summoner-Chan & Panda Bulmada! 

Lastly a Monster Hunter Pinky figure to the left, a Shirow Masamune lunchbox, a Hikaru Death Cloth Ver 1/8 figure from Peace@Pieces, and my very old Rei Ayanami 1/12 scale figure.

I get so many questions about the shit in my house I would really do a tour but it's like... a nauseating amount of shit haha anyway I hope this covers most of it!