Wonder Festival Summer 2025

28 Jul, 2025

So once again we've come to the point of this year where we're at Summer's Wonder Festival (Or WonFes as it's usually abbreviated). Now that all the excitement in most servers has died down, I figured I'd talk about it. Because well, why not. I mainly talk about figures on this site and what not. If your response to seeing this on my personal posts rather than the part of the site where I actually talk about figures is confused, I guess that's probably more telling about how I felt about this WonFes.

So, I'm just going to start out by saying that the last few WonFes, especially after GSC & all of it's subsidiaries? Sister companies? Alliance? I have no idea what to call them to be honest. But ever since the weird GSC/Max Factory/Etc conglomerate pulled out to do their own thing and ever since Alter stopped showing as well, I'm just thoroughly underwhelmed by WonFes. Garage Kits are fully out of my price range and picking one up through a proxy buying service sounds like more trouble than it's worth. Ontop of that, they're also out of my skill range as well so they're just straight up usually off the table for me. I don't really like to complain about GKs because that's honestly just a waste of time and a whole other can of worms, but yeah, GKs are just off the table for me. And they're usually the only pieces I tend to like.

"Oh but a ton of prepainteds still got shown" They sure did! And... Not all that much felt interesting. And that kind of doesn't surprise me. Like I'm happy for the people who got what they wanted, I guess, but the last 3 or 4 years of WonFes have been basically "GachaFes" with nothing for someone like me who primarily likes JRPGs and proxy battle series to get excited over. And before you all go "Well, you like to play gachas though so what's the issue." The issue here is that all the gacha I like gets ignored which like, I don't even get tilted over anymore. It's just cold indifference.

Like, I don't even make a WonFes Bingo card anymore I just sit there and think "Why bother? Everything I want is going to get ignored." And that it did! Here, take this pitiful attempt.

Can you even call this bingo anymore?

Yeah uh, if you couldn't tell, not only have I kind of given up on WonFes when it comes to expecting anything I like, but I also could just barely fill out the free spot. It's kind of annoying but it's whatever. But it's strange to say it's gone from "Oh, Miku and Saber are the plague of WonFes might as well just call it MikuFes" to "Wow there were only a small handful of prepainted Mikus showing up at WonFes." And the worst part is? I don't think I'm getting any of them because I just... am indifferent.

Like I can't be upset. I get it, that's how the industry is. But it sucks. It's probably also partially on me because while I don't expect rereleases to really sit there and be announced at WonFes, well, 7 items I put down are just me begging for rereleases. 4 others are me just begging for progress on 2 things that are going to take forever at this rate (Not that it matters, I am well aware that Magi Arts can't exactly bring their YGO stuff to a JP WonFes due to licensing issues. But I will continue to cry anyways.) And the other 2 will get done eventually because Koto has a decent turnaround with most of their stuff and I wouldn't be surprised that come MegaHobby Expo (or whatever it's called) will have the other prototypes. The rest are just random shots in the dark and the usual victims of me begging for something or anything really.

Anyways if there's anything I'm contemplating picking up, aside from Aki who is a definite preorder, then it'll have to be Rabbi and Ame-chan.

Maybe one day I'll get around to finally making that post about my wishlist on the site. But for now, I'm going to head to bed instead of continue to cry about how all the MHY stuff announced was HSR and ZZZ and like no Genshin as usual. The people may have moved on from Genshin but I haven't...

FREEDOM

16 Jul, 2025

I meant to post this yesterday but I am fucking FREE. I have done my civic duty as a scholar and I finished progging this tier on... something other than my main job. I performed horribly but whatever this isn't opti and my ass is probably too dumb for scholar anyways. I also kinda had to be the succor mage because healer synergy was kinda just not there and if I didn't do it, then we were on the floor. Kinda sucks that my numbers aren't better because I at least like to try but that doesn't matter because more importantly I'm free. I'm like that broken chains meme but not really because we're going into UCOB next week and I'll be on Samurai. This is gonna be such a meme, I swear to god, but it's whatever. I can play samurai decently at 70, I think. I need to warm up again tbh. It's gonna be me having to break the habit of using certain skills at certain points and also remembering my engage and disengage buttons to make stuff easier, but it should be pretty fun.

Anyways, have some pictures of the clear.

Clear image 1 Clear image 2 Clear image 3 Victory gpose 1 Victory gpose 2 Victory gpose 3

Don't ask why I always take pictures of things like the defeat screen, the achievement whenever it pops, or just the fact that it says clear, it's just habit. This clear took a while, and I get it, casual group. It was fun either way, even if I wish it was a bit faster, but no worries, no shame to anyone. I didn't perform my best either lol.

Oh yeah, 2 of the gposes aren't mine, so they're different sizes. I dunno why I put all 3 up but I just saved them all and labeled them. Oops.

Anyways, since I finally posted this, I'm going to get back to crafting all my Mabi stuff for weekly barter.

Also, a few new icons. I'll put those up in a second as well.

Oh yeah: IN MEMORIAM OF THE .001% PULL. MISSED A KILL BY 1486 HP.

Why is a single Brown Sugar Boba 600 calories?

13 Jul, 2025

So I've found myself in a bit of a predicament. And I suppose that predicament is either burnout or lethargy. I figured at some point I was going to hit that with the site, but I didn't think it'd be so soon. I say soon as if it hasn't been 9 months of constant work on this site, but I dunno, brain processes it as "soon" I guess. Either way, I'm beginning to think my goal of reviewing all of my figures before the end of the year is going to get harder, considering the amount of figures I have. Especially when I ended up buying quite a few for my birthday. I'll make a loot blog at some point, I keep telling myself, but I think my June loot was a bit out of hand to a degree. That, and the fact that a friend and I have been going shopping together a bit frequetly due to their depression issues, well... You can see where the problem has begun. I've been able to review their stuff which has been pretty nice because I get to look at it all, but I won't lie and say that I'm not a bit eager to slow down. Once again, this whole ordeal has made me think a lot about my own personal consumerism and what I bring into my house. And while I can't say that I dislike what I'm buying, it's made me wonder if I've done a good job of keeping it in check in relation to my hobby and ponder on how much it's spilled out of said hobby as well.

Like, on one hand I will say that my spending on beauty products has been minimal, and my spending on craft items has been occasional, which is ideal for the fact that I said I wanted to go on a Low Buy this year. I think I've maybe purchased about 4 shirts, 1 piece of jewlery, 3 lip items, which is pretty good considering we are halfway through the year. I've hit pan on several lotions & body sprays now, and I'm well through several other items. Honestly, skincare seems to be the easiest stuff to pan on.

Honestly, I think the only thing I've done pretty bad on (aside from buying the occasional boba & snacks despite claiming to need to cut back on everything) is keeping my stuff organized. On one hand I've gotten better with my displays which is neat. But on the other hand, I feel like some of my drawers just need a deep cleaning. I have a ton of sheets that I don't use and I'm probably never going to use again. And yet they sit in my closet. Which is also unfortunately overtaken by figure boxes. So I suppose at some point, organizing that is a good idea. I probably also need to go through all my fabric scraps as well and do something with those too. And then just the stuff on my desk is a bit much because I have several little drawers that are tucked out of the way and hold a mess of random items.

Oh yeah and I have my bin of IDOLiSH7 stuff that I haven't really cleaned out in a while either. Between that, needing to put away TCG stuff, and generally dusting, I think I probably have a lot on my hands.

Onto stuff about the site real quick, because I figured I'd address this. I won't lie, I've been hella lazy with the reviews like I've said, and I'm going to try to push them all out asap, as well as some of the other stuff I'm doing. But I won't lie, the main issue I'm having is just the fact that I don't want to stay constantly at my desk. I think between eating kinda poorly, working on this site, and raiding (and generally watching stuff with friends), I'm at my desk way too much lately. And I'm beginning to feel it. It's time to start doing exercise again which means that I don't want to be at my desk outside of Tues & Fri which are dedicated to raid, and a portion of the time I've been playing Mabi.

Which leads me into my next section: Maybe deciding to play Mabi for this commerce season was not a good idea. I already have 2 commerce top 100 titles which means I don't really have to try, and I'm already in Diamond last I checked. So it's really just getting to challenger at this point for the box. And maybe... staying in the top 100 for the reforges because I'm greedy, but I'm just here like "Wow I am really doing 2 mmos again." Which is probably a bad thing. Because I need to exercise. And not spend more time at my desk. I'm like shooting myself in the foot here but when the Mabi bug bites it tends to bite hard.

And yet I want to prog UCOB too lmao

Anyways I'm debating about trying to go for scheduled updates on this site, but I think I might have to figure out how to go about that. Because a lot of what I'm doing is just yapping, so I'm unsure how to make something more "scheduled." I suppose I can have a day where I sit down and work on stuff, but that doesn't guarantee it's going to be done. And working late into the night makes my day schedule all messed up and considering we're mid July, I feel like time will just start flying by and before you know it, it'll be winter. So, the night working doesn't work for me.

This is all so frustrating. Maybe I'll just start uploading everything I've done over the week, complete or not.

Which reminds me, I should do that Makima figure review sooner than later. I won't lie, I've taken more pictures than I have written stuff as of late... But after I do this last batch of pictures of figures that aren't even mine, I'm going to stop reviewing my friend's stuff and just start shipping it to them becaue I just want to focus on my stuff and well... I'm well over 100 figures and I'm here like "Do I even commit to reviewing Nendos? What about Trading figures? Or random shit I have? What about Noodle Stoppers? IDK the questions are endless. Not gonna lie, it has also been added motivation for me to wrap up my collecting, or at least slow it down significantly. I'm at that point where I'm committing to not buying nearly as much Nendoroids, acrylic stands, trading figures, or noodle stoppers. I'm just like "Okay, well I have so many, that it better be something I super want if I'm going to buy it." Now, if only I felt that way about CDs. Maybe I do have a shopping addiction.

Pain.

IDK I'm just babbling at this point. I guess that's what blogs are for but I suppose I'll end this by posting them:

Excited to see how the other two turn out. Honestly I feel like DM is going to be the thing that keeps me remotely invested in collecting but like, IDK, eager to get my brain out of that "I need to reacquire all that I've lost" mentality which is probably why 2024-2025 has been so jam packed with figure purchases. Makes me kind of glad I really only decided on repurchasing my Tales series stuff and a small handful of others rather than going with my entire collection. Either way, I think I need to jigsaw more of my items properly into my space because right now my collection is honestly a mess. Maybe I'll do that before dinner...

I LOVE MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE

01 Jul, 2025

I finally did enough crying within the vicinity of KMR & KMR JR it's finally my turn to win. The guy who suffered through a true certified "Granblue Struggle Moment" over accidentally putting too much in to get Fire Drang on a scamcha gets to win Drang Content. Finally. I win. It's me. I'm the guy this is made for. Nobody can take this from me. I'm so glad we get this I thought this god forsaken game was closing without my little meowmeow getting his 5* uncap but we're finally here. I'm counting down every day in July until I have 5* Drang in my hands. Thank you KMR Jr for this amazing meal I trust that whatever they'll give us for his fate episode will be good. I hope. We already won by him being featured in the latest MSQ chapters (which was barely a win tbh considering how those went.) But like finally. We are fed. He is here. Soon.

Have you seen him? Now you have.

Anyways I finally have a reason to play this awful game again thank god. Sorry this is the only thing you're getting from me because I was supposed to finish my reviews but I didn't. Brain is empty aside from him. There's nothing more to say. I have a lot of conflicting feelings about Granblue Fantasy lately and I don't really feel like going on a whole ass rant about that because I finally got my silly little thing I wanted most. This is all I've got for you. Just incoherent babbling at 2 am.

Drang

Please behold my beautiful wife Drang Granblue and the unit I technically accidentally paid 300 dollars for and had a financial crisis over. I love Drangblue Fantasy.

"Are you okay?" No.

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