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Akasa Ai – Red Queen (Kadokawa, 2022)
The artbook named Red Queen published by Kadokawa is a collection of original illustrations by Akasa Ai. It counts 128 A4-size pages printed in full color on excellent quality paper. Print quality is impressive - especially when viewing the whole thing live. The publication is divided into eight chapters. The penultimate one shows the author's creative process, while the last two pages show thumbnails of all the pages.
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Shine Post (2022)
Nabatame Haru, Seibu Rio and Tamaki Kyouka form an idol unit called TINGS. Unfortunately, despite almost a year of activity, they are unable to gather crowds. The director of the agency they belong to, Hinase Yuuki, gives them an ultimatum - if they can't fill Nakano Sun Plaza in its entirety, their unit will be disbanded.
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Xenoblade 3 Collector’s Edition (Nintendo Switch, 2022)
In this case, Nintendo handled the collector's edition a bit strangely. Its release was three months after the release of the standard version of the game. Fortunately, it was made possible to purchase the version without the game for those who already have it in their collection. I'm talking here strictly about the original Japanese version. In the West, not even a release date has been announced yet. However, for me, as a collector, the original version has much more value. Among other things, this is because the artbook uses the original names instead of the made-up ones from the crappy English dubbing.
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Summertime Render (2022)
Since the death of his parents, Ajiro Shinpei has lived with the Kofune family and their two daughters, Mio and Ushio. Yet at one stage in his life he left his home island to pursue his education in Tokyo. Shinpei returns after Ushio tragically drowns while trying to rescue Shiori, the daughter of the owners of a nearby store. During the funeral, his best friend informs him of bruises found around Ushio's neck, casting doubt on the cause of her death.
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Mizuhara Chizuru – 1/4 B-style / Bunny – Kanojo Okarishimasu (FREEing, 2022)
I can already confidently say that I have become addicted to FREEing's B-Style (Bunny) series figures. Every time I look at the new bunny releases and see my favorite characters, so I just couldn't resist adding to my cart as soon as I saw that Mizuhara Chizuru got her place among other heroines dressed up in these outfits. Here we have additionally a beautiful red and shiny type.
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Trinity Trigger Collector’s Edition (Nintendo Switch, 2022)
A new JRPG game called Trinity Trigger, heavily inspired by 90s classics such as Seiken Densetsu, was recently released. It was developed by Three Rings studio and published by FuRyu. The action takes place in a universe where the God of Order fights the God of Chaos for power. Gameplay can be seen here. The Japanese branch of Amazon and the GAMECITY website have prepared an interesting collector's version, which I will present in this post.
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The Best Fall 2022 Anime Series That I Recommend
The season of heavy rains and cold has arrived, the green is slowly transforming into golden colors - a sign that it is time for a new recommendation. Before you the most interesting in my opinion anime series autumn 2022.
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Misaka Mikoto – B-style 1/4 – To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T (FREEing, 2022)
A few days ago, a DHL courier showed up at my door with the shipment. So I welcomed another 1/4 scale B-Style FREEing's figure in my collection. As with the Shokuhou Misaki (also from To Aru Kagaku no Railgun T) reviewed earlier this year- its size impressed me. It may not have been as surprising as Misaki, however, there was still a "wow" effect.
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GrimGrimoire OnceMore Collector’s Edition (Vanillaware, 2022)
July 28 of this year a remastered version of a fairly little-known RTS game from Vanillaware - GrimGrimoire OnceMore Collector’s Edition was released, in which we play a character stuck in a time loop – Lillet. I had never been exposed to this title, and Vanillaware makes very unique games, so I decided to buy the collector’s version. The game was released exclusively in Japanese. You can check out the gameplay itself here, where the demo version is played.
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Hiro – “Akebi-chan Made no Ashioto” (Shueisha, 2022)
Hiro is an artist you can't pass by indifferently. His drawings have something mesmerizing about them and catch your eye, even when you look at them knowing them perfectly well. When I first saw some manga panels from Akebi-chan no Sailor Fuku a few years ago, I immediately purchased all four volumes that were available at the time.
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Succubus Rurumu – 1/6 – Original Character (Bishop’s Rondo, 2020)
Figurine was designed based on an illustration by Tamano Kedama. Rurumu is an original design by this artist. The manufacturer is Bishop's Rondo, a company mainly engaged in transferring original figures into 3D form in the form of high-quality figurines.
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Xenoblade 3 (2022)
Aionos is a place where the mechanically proficient Keves people and the ether-oriented Agnus nation are in constant war with each other. The wars are waged by modified soldiers with an artificially limited lifespan of ten years spent entirely on fighting and mastering battle skills. Among the two forces there are also soldiers who play a special flute and perform rituals over their friends fallen on the battlefield. One such Keves soldier is Noah, along with his childhood friends Lanz, Eunie and nopon Riku.