Author Archives: Tier

Preorder Outlook LXI

written on January 31, 2021 by Tier

It’s been a while since we’ve taken a look at the figures I’m contemplating ordering so let’s do that now. First though, a few notes: first, I’ve historically done a Five Favorite Figures of the Year at the end of … Continue reading →

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Fairy Elf from Mu Origin 2

written on December 25, 2020 by Tier

Happy Christmas everybody. We’ve seen a few figures from massively-multiplayer online RPGs, primarily from the Lineage series, but today we’ll be looking at a figure from the Mu series. Mu Online was originally released in 2001, making it one of … Continue reading →

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Jibril from No Game No Life (Bunny Version)

written on November 27, 2020 by Tier

Happy Black Friday to everybody. After far too long of a break, we’ll take a look at yet another bunnygirl. Truth be told, I don’t particularly like taking photographs of FREEing’s bunnygirls because they’re too large for me to easily … Continue reading →

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Missing Comments

written on October 6, 2020 by Tier

It’s an indication that I should look at my own website more often being that I did not notice that post comments have disappeared from view until just a moment ago. I think the WordPress 5.5 update broke something with … Continue reading →

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Narika Shihoudou from Beat Blades Haruka (Stand Pose Version)

written on September 29, 2020 by Tier

First, a couple of random thoughts: I recently logged in to my Hobby Search account and saw this, which has caused me to consider whether I want to continue receiving figures while Japan Post is not dispatching parcels to the … Continue reading →

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Magic the Gandhi from Rance 10 (NSFW)

written on July 31, 2020 by Tier

We’ll pick back up with another Native figure, this one considerably smaller than the last one we looked at. This haggard-looking young girl is Magic the Gandhi, an unlikely-named character from Alicesoft’s famous Rance series. In normal times she’s a … Continue reading →

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Erika Kuramoto from Zettai Junpaku Mahou Shoujo (Bunny Version) (NSFW)

written on July 2, 2020 by Tier

Despite being an avid consumer of all manners of news concerning the coronavirus epidemic, somehow it escaped my notice that Japan Post has suspended the delivery of parcels via EMS to the United States and that means I will not … Continue reading →

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Scarlett from G.I. Joe (Bishoujo Version)

written on May 25, 2020 by Tier

Unsurprisingly, virtually all of my preorders from the last two months have been delayed, and so I’ve only received one figure order in that time (a virtual cookie goes to whoever guesses which figure that might be). Therefore, we’ll take … Continue reading →

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Dakimakura Review – Artoria Pendragon from Fate/Grand Order (NSFW)

written on March 31, 2020 by Tier

It’s amazing – and more than a little terrifying – how much life can change in a month. I hope everyone who comes across this post is okay and keeping themselves as safe as possible. I’m personally doing okay; I’m … Continue reading →

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Year Eleven Retrospective

written on February 23, 2020 by Tier

We turn eleven years old today! Suffice to say, there’s been less to celebrate this last year due to a protracted spell of non-posting on my part, for which I feel kind of bad, but not particularly so; ten or … Continue reading →

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