Author Archives: Tier

Year Twelve Retrospective

written on February 23, 2021 by Tier

Tentacle Armada turns twelve years old today! Obviously there’s been the expected spate of non-posting which has unfortunately become the norm here, but aside from that, the past twelve months have obviously been more notable for a global pandemic unprecedented … Continue reading →

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Cammy from Street Fighter Alpha (Bishoujo Alpha Costume Version)

written on February 21, 2021 by Tier

Today we’ll take a look at another leotard-wearing girl with an appearance in a fighting game – Cammy, quite possibly the reigning queen of them all. This figure is not new, having been released in March of 2018, but it’s … Continue reading →

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YoRHa No.2 Type B from Nier: Automata (Flare DX Version)

written on February 14, 2021 by Tier

I’ve had this figure of Nier: Automata’s YoRHa No. 2 Type B – hereafter called 2B – for some time; since I’m not getting many figures in the mail these days due to the current moratorium on EMS shipments from … Continue reading →

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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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