For avid
figure collectors out there, one of the most anticipated (and dreaded) figure
events at the start of 2014 is Winter Wonder Festival or Winter WonFes. For those
not familiar, Winter WonFes is a bi-annual event held in Makuharu Messe in
Chiba, Japan. It is a figure event where “garage kits” are displayed and sold
as artists replicate anime and game characters. This is also an event for
various figure manufacturers to sell and display their future releases. In
other words, this event is sort of “heaven” and “hell” for avid figure
collectors.
Before anything else, I am sorry for not posting.
I’ve been so busy with work and the cold didn’t help because I got sick. I can’t take the cold even when I was small; the
cold here in the Philippines went below 23 degrees and I am fully covered these
past days. While that is normal for most people, it’s not for me and my energy
keeps going down due to the cold. Then I had a slight fever and needed to rest.
Hopefully now, I’ll have more energy and I can update my blogs.
For this post after my mini hiatus, I want to post
the displayed figures I took photos of in Otaku Expo 2014 held last January
11-12 in Megatrade Hall, SM Megamall. I didn’t take pictures of the booths,
stage and activities because I wanted to focus on the figures---which I haven’t
done in a long time.
Sorry for the really late post. I am sick (again) and
was just able to have the condition to post in my blog.
For this last part, I will explain more on my
figurine collecting, like how it started and what type of figures I collect. It
will also cover some advices and terms you should know when you plan to collect.
For
the second part of my Figure Collecting General Information, I will tell where I
buy authentic and original figures for my collection and how to determine fakes
and originals. I will be suggesting online and physical shops locally since I
only tried buying internationally once or twice but not on figures.
articulated figures
About Figures and Their Types: FAQ/General Information on Figure Collecting
5:32 AM
For my next FAQ/General Information series, I will
cover some basic things about figure collecting and will be divided into 3
parts since it is sort of broad. Aside from cosplaying, my other hobby is figure
collecting in which I gave a bit of an introduction about it here. But for
those who still want to know more about this, uh, not-so-inexpensive hobby of
mine, I have prepared a FAQ/General Information on Figure Collecting.
(Warning: This is going to be long and image heavy)
After 6 months of hiatus from blogging (man, that was
long), I am finally back and ready to relaunch my new blog!
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| My blog's new look :) |
As you noticed, I changed the look of my blog, but
not only that. See, in those 6 months, I “studied” a bit on blogging and how I
can make Hainrihi’s Discoveries better and more informative instead of just being
more personal and looking like a diary. I realized it needs to have a niche to
not leave my readers and myself confused. Having a niche will also help me
write blog posts and articles better and know what to write exactly. After a long time thinking and fixing, I
decided to write about the things I love most: cosplay, anime/manga, figure
collecting, beauty/makeup and shopping.
Of course, the theme of Hainrihi’s Discoveries is
still discovery and I believe I will still discover things through the categories
mentioned above. For instance, in my two years of cosplaying, I discovered and
learned things I have never learned before and I want to blog about those. All mentioned
are inter-connected with each other so, for sure, I won’t sidetrack from what I
should really concentrate on. Maybe my
other readers will disappear once they find out what my niche is because it is
not much of their interest, but I don’t mind. As long as I write informative
posts on what I really love, I’m good. With that, I am excited to write more
posts and articles on them and I already have a list of the entries I want to
blog.
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| Cosplay |
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| Figure Collecting |
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| Anime/Manga |
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| Online Shopping/Shopping |
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| Beauty/Makeup |
But aside from Hainrihi’s Discoveries, I realized I also have another love and that is writing my thoughts and opinions on anything that comes to mind. In other words, more on the serious and in-depth writing where I can truly practice my writing skills. At the same time, it will help me write my opinion on issues and events. So, I created a separate blog for that entitled Hainrihi’s Thoughts (I could never leave out the “Hainrihi”, I’m sorry XD)
I placed more about it and and will write an
introduction in the main blog itself, but be sure to check it out. It will be introduced
later this week, so watch out for it. I will
place some articles I have written before in print publications and will
improve them to make it look and sound better.
Also, I changed my comment software to Intense
Debate. Disqus suddenly didn’t work in this layout despite trying to get it
back, and so all the comments before have disappeared L. I think I still have a record of those in my Disqus account. After much research and great reviews, I went
with Intense Debate. I apologize in advance for the inconvenience and the
sudden change.
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| Intense Debate |
With that, I introduce my new blog! Hope you like
it and happy reading! J
~Hainrihi
~Hainrihi
Aside from cosplay, 2012 was the year when my boyfriend and I started collecting figures from various animes, games, and series. We just started by buying small figures from anime and cosplay conventions that were worth between P200 to P500, but we never knew our collection would grow bigger in just a span of one year---especially when we were introduced to bigger scale figures, Figma, Nendroids and the like. I will be telling more about our figures in future posts and how it really started. For now, I just want to introduce our figure collecting in pictures and what we are really into now (aside from cosplay).
