Recently in Japanese Figures Category

Mr. Kallisti and I had already developed an affection for Jonathan Ross after watching his highly affectionate series from the 80's on cult film The Incredibly Strange Film Show that included in depths on John Waters and Russ Meyer among others.

Recently we ran across his Japanorama series. News to us, don't know how familiar non-brits are with this series, we've been spellbound all week with his presentation and enthusiasm for the subject, including eighteen episodes spanning three seasons over six years. Beneath his dapper English exterior, and charming lisp, he is a self proclained Otaku, and his enthusiasm for all things Japanese, especially robots, is contagious.

"JAPANOWAMA! LOOK! I'm widing an electwic panda!!!"

View: Japanorama on YouTube
More info: Japanorama Wikipedia

Super Dollfie (and other kewl toys) make an appearance in Series II, with a full profile excerpted below. Booya!

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Best houseguests EVAR. Junk shopping, Kaiju popping, Okonomiyaki flipping happy goodness. Paul & Melissa.

Sunday was super hot so we had an impromptu Film Fest, with banana shakes and sundry other boozes. Once the sun went down Paul got to work in the kitchen and made a series of Okonomiyaki (Japanese pancake-like griddled dish) of ever increasing complexity and awesomeness. The Grande Finale was Octopus & Hamhock— or, HAMHOCKTOPUS—that bloo my mind. For real, it was superb! Whoddathunkit???

Pose Doll by Melissa! She is so dreamy, I will name her and play dress-up for DAYS. More, better pictures to come!

And last but not least, Mr. Kallisti has spent the last few months dissecting vintage Kappa, analyzing how they were made, and recreating the art of Kappa Kraft!

Film Fest for the Aging Hipsters:

"When I said I didn't want anything for Valentine's Day, I lied." Was a message I left on Mr. Kallisti's VM yesterday.

Har-Har.

He was so awesome, ran down in the midst of a hail storm, returned w/ black pleather + vinyl Hello Kitty dolly & a huge bouquet of roses and daisies. Sigh.

Watch the video--and marvel at the GIMP KITTIES!!!!!!!!

Now, to get some of that lipgloss.

Big THANK YOU to friend of my boss who forwarded the link & video. ♥

*sniff!* I'm so proud! The Blopbus creators made an action figure of Mr. Kalliisti is his Halloween costume. This came as a total surprise! One of the pix showed up on their website after the Volks Halloween party, and apparently they were tickled enough to make a critter of the "Mysterious Human."

Posted to Skullbrain this weekend. And the item page on Kaiju Taro

Famous on the internet!

Swoony! Not sure where this set will be available... Robochris & R&D are the only ones I know who carry Annz dolls. But dang. Kimono + accessories only, it looks like.

And then... while shopping Mr. Kallisti's winter PS2 collection, I saw this on the shelf.

Ok, I don't play many video games. Really... I've gotten like three in the past couple years. Katamari Damacy, Fatal Frame, Katamari Damacy II, and Fatal Frame II. So that's four, but you get the point.

This looks a lot like Fatal Frame, except in 1930's England. With creepy mean girls AND zombies. Awesome. Reviews are full of accolades for atmosphere, music and design, and not so much for killing things and gameplay. Sounds perfect to me. I want to wander around and get creeped out. Oh, and I think you get to touch big creepy spiders.

So, I'm going to try it. At the exhorbitant, just released price too. Because I'm crazy that way, this'll be my game for the year. If anyone has played, let me know what you thought!

Here's the Official Site, but the Japanese version has more movie clips.

Spooky + Christmas = ♥♥♥

See, this is what I'm talking about:

Not our intention to have a big shopping weekend, but it was!

I've stopped myself from ordering fullsets of re-ment the past year. Too many crates of awesome little things. They really add up.

But I preordered these two sets sight unseen. Hey, anything called Dish in Fairyland or Retro Appliances I'm pretty sure I'm gonna need. HLJ.com just posted peektures! The mushroom kitchen set! The green pushbutton phone! The thermos! The alice tea set! Agh!

And check out from the Re-Ment site, they had a contest for storage!

Also, just heard from Helina that this set is shipping:

*bounce!* I'll have to do a diorama with these two using the fairyland sets.

I took an extra day off to dress dollies for the Tea this weekend. Holy cow!

Sure is fun, though. We leave early tomorrow. Vroooooooooooooooooooooooooooom!

Mr. Kallisti just got the biggest box ever from Rinkya o_0 ... it is Kaiju Kristmas at House of Blastmilk! But among the oodles of vinyl there was this (not necessarily work safe):

Just sayin'. *falls over laughing*

K, two more dollies to dress. And some errands to run. If I don't post again... see ya'll in LA!

♥ kallisti