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about… WAWAWA 忘れ物

Started this blog to share my love of figures with teh interblags.  Occasionally will post about other akiba-kei stuff – anime, manga, games, or just Japan/Japanese in general.

If you’re looking for the figure reviews…
To see reviews sorted by manufacturer, click on the figures tab above.

To see reviews sorted by date, click the figure review category in the left sidebar.

To see all figure related posts (previews, preorder ramblings, etc), click on the figure category.  In case you’re not familiar with the category hierarchy, this category contains all the figure reviews.

If you’re looking for places to buy figures…
The figure store reviews page might aid you in selecting an online store.

For anime, manga, and (eventually) games…
Click on the corresponding category link in the sidebar.  I haven’t done many anime reviews yet, but the plan is to have two categories… spoiler free intros to help people decide if they should watch a series, and full reviews on the series as a whole.

For manga reviews, same plan.  This all assume I catch up on my figure reviews and get time to actually post that stuff ^^;

If you’re looking to learn to read Japanese with akiba-kei/otaku themed material…
You’re in luck!  Well, kind of.  I have a series of posts in which I’m trying to do teach exactly that.  Here’s lesson 1 which starts at the very beginning, hiragana!  Unfortunately these posts are also behind, and I haven’t even wrapped up hiragana yet.  In the meantime, smart.fm is a very nice, free resource.  Excellent for starting out and vocab, although I’m not aware of any grammar lessons at this time.

What’s in a name?
Previously known as いつも　いつでも　いつまでも (itsumo itsudemo itsumademo, {always, whenever, forever}), I changed over to WAWAWA 忘れ物 (WAWAWA wasuremono, of haruhi fame) on January 25, 2009.  Felt it was high time to get a domain and a (slightly) more recognizeable name.

Wasuremono could be translated as “forgotten things”.  The post announcing the name change is here, and the original “about this blog” page is here.

In the tag line, anime~manga~figures~nado, “nado” is kind of a Japanese word for etc ^^;

about… meronpan

I’m a software engineer manager that never grew up. Been reading manga since around 2000. My first was… I”s? or maybe a Dragonball scanlation… Took some Japanese in college and quickly switched to reading the original Japanese for reading practice. Now I’m sitting on over 250 425 volumes, unfortunately a large part of which I haven’t read yet ^^;;.

Started watching anime again in 2007, been following as much as I can fit into my schedule. Generally I stay away from the ultra-popular series that drag on for over 30 episodes… hopefully some day I’ll get back to those ^^;

Started reading Danny Choo’s site in 2007 and that led me down the dark path of figure collection. My first figure was a nendoroid nagato I picked up in Akihabara… all down hill from there ^^; I try to keep my profile up to date at tsukiboard.

Also play galge, games in general, and read Japanese light novels…  Love ramen, kotatsu, hanami, traveling to Japan, and thanks to my figure reviews, getting more and more interested in photography.  Currently shooting with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, one day I hope to gather enough cash for a DSLR and nice lens ^^ Canon 40D.  Reviews are shot pretty much exclusively with a 100mm f/2.8 macro lens.  Occasionally need to bust out something wider though ^^;

Hopefully will update soon, but here’s a dated look at my room if you’re curious.  Update 8/20/2009: My room as of 7/20.

Contact Info!

On the off chance you need to get a hold of me, post a comment (unless this blog inexplicably grows immensely in popularity, I plan on keeping the new comment e-mail alerts on, so it’s practically the same as e-mailing me :P) or send mail to my gmail account, which is the first two words in the 3rd to last line of the final stanza of the lyrics to Spice & Wolf’s OP.  … eat that spammers!  Errr, it’s madaminu ^^;

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