I like this person. Now we just need another Anime geek and we can have our own OFW Anime Club!

Funny. I had a similar thought in my head when Sekto Springs said "action figure".

Sorry. "Inaction figure" is more accurate.

Significantly.

Not that I actually care or anything. haha ha ha ... ha.

I'm a big fan of Todd McFarlane's work, but his toys can hardly be called "action figures".
I call them that anyway though, because "figurine" sounds kind of... gay.

The line itself is called figma, call them highly articulated display figures or something.

Action figures sounds gayer than figurines.

They have plenty of action. I've never seen another toy company who's figures break so nicely.

I normally use either figure or figurine. I don't know why I do this, but it's become a habit for me to refer to the male figures as "figures" and female figures as "figurines", even if both terms technically work with both of them.

No, no, no, no.
Figma is something completely different. Figma is a specific type of figurine. The type with the ball joints and sometimes movable arms or parts and most of the time they are smaller, less detailed, and cheaper.

I only own a KOS-MOS (Xenosaga) and Aigis (Persona 3) figma. Everything else I have is a real $50-80 figurine.

edit: Sorry for the double post. I wasn't thinking.

You're right, actually.
My point exactly. They're meant to be posed once and then left on your shelf to collect dust.

I'd like to say I'd never pay over $50 for a figma, but three of my figma (Miku Hatsune, Kirisame Marisa and Signum Yagami) are all rare and gotten off eBay.

So umm yeah.

Fuck... he catches on quick, usually people need to be told to use the edit button.

And then eventually fall off the shelf for absolutely no reason. I think I still have that Medusa head, with her rubber snake hair. The rest is long gone.

I don't really like figmas. The ball-joints and overall lower quality bug me. But I know a lot of people really like them. But the way I figure it, if I am spending money on a plastic recreation of an anime character, I might as well stop pretending I have better things to do with my money and just go for the good/big stuff.

I tell myself I'm a collector so I can sleep at night.

This isn't my first forum.

I shelled out a pretty penny for that gigantic statue of a Sentinel from The Matrix. The stand broke on the first day, and over the course of several years it lost several of it's tentacles and robotic arms.

I have a nice collection of Spawn toys that are still in mint though.

Well, I bought a PG Gundam kit recently for over $200 but I sleep at night by telling myself that's a once in a lifetime purchase.

I'm a poor student you know!

Fuck... the money you people spend on this shit. Give the money to me instead.

I still have that original Violator figure. The bendy action is all worn out, so he's like a head with noodle limbs.

The most I've ever spent on one is $80, but I'm not against spending more.

I loved the color on that one, or lack thereof. Nostaaaaalgiaaaa.
I remember I also used to have a red one.

I had the gold one, K.B. Toys exclusive, I think. I kept it in the package on the mistaken idea that it would be worth something.

Would it be out of the question to suggest we make a thread for Anime/Manga/Visual Novels and all that. From what I can tell, a lot of people here hate people talking about it everywhere, but the last topic died so they have nowhere proper to talk about it.

If we had a new topic for it, maybe the people who like it wouldn't feel inclined to talk about it elsewhere and those debates wouldn't happen. Assuming, of course, that everyone else doesn't troll the thread and let us have our conversations.

So fucking start one then.

Oh. Okay.

fuck sakes. not another one.

We can raise this one right.

wanna bet?

no, really, do you want to wager on it? with WoF around there's no fucking way we can raise him right. and by 'right' i mean 'not irritating'.

You forgot Strike Witch.

I have no moneys.

we can bet pencils.

This one is far worse than our existing weeaboos. We have a real life lolicon on our hands here.

Oh, come on. Don't judge me based on my hobbies. If you are going to hate me, at least let me earn it or something.

Hobbies is a weird way of putting it...

Entertainment interests? But that makes it sound like it's all I like.

I dunno, once I started buying stuff for it I considered it a hobby.

edit: I mean anime and all that stuff in general, by the way.

We know what you meant. It's just not what we meant.

Don't take it personally if OANST hates you. He's a cantankerous fart who hates everyone.

Not really. And I don't hate him. I just think he's really fucking gross.

He did something to spite me once... this week in fact. I was pretty upset.

The woods for you.

I was talking about Molluck's Assistant assuming I am going to be annoying and he is going to hate me. I mean, if he hates me because of my personality or how I act, that doesn't bother me. But don't assume such things based purely on what I like and who I get along with on here.

You'll never see me deny this. But I'll also never talk about it if it bothers you guys.