Figure Collection

It's small. It has to be. Or well. That probably depends on what you compare it to. I still have another 6 months here, and I'll have to pack it down with all my other stuff once I get to go back to Denmark. Not that I think packing is going to be much of a problem. I didn't pack much when I went here and still don't have a lot of extra stuff to take back home, even though I had to buy a few more clothes to get through the Taiwanese winter (which is short, not really cold, yet terrible because of the sheer lack of insulation in houses here.)
I'd just like to be on the safe side. Also because these little things might just take damage if I don't pack them really carefully. Besides, I might actually decide on wanting to take some rice cooker with me later on and than one is going to be expensive in space.

Took this photo on Monday. The day before, I had been adding 3 more pieces to the collection. At that time, there had been a very long period in which I didn't visit the Japanese entertainment shops I like to casually drop by. (That's only likely to be caused by my winter vacation and me therefore not going to the area near Taipei Main Station as much.)

I bet you're tired of me whining about getting better cameras. These two girls from the ToHeart2 series are a rare sight in the secondhand stores. Only a few times before did I see the red uniforms from this series, and I didn't really feel the figures were true to the drawing style of the Anime that I watched a few episodes of. This time I thought the two figures here as aesthetically pleasing and coped with their low price.
Actually, I liked the original series of ToHeart more. That's why I only saw a few of the episodes for the second one. It's kind of a different story and even the drawing style seems slightly different, but the young girls from ToHeart2 all make for pretty nice merchandise.

And then they also provide some extra fanservice that you usually don't get so much of from other figures.
This makes me think of the ToHeart franchise actually having started out being love simulators (hentai games), but then developed into the more innocent stories in the visual novels that spawned the manga and anime. Never saw any of those games though.

This one is somewhat more special. First of all, it's the biggest and most expensive of the figures I collected so far. It's also the first figure I buy without knowing what character it's a depiction of. Found her in two places that Sunday. At one shop selling a bunch of different stuff, I could buy it in it's original package for 1800 NT$. The package probably showed her identity, but I could only make out the sounds of a few of the japanese characters and read she was some kind of princess.
At one of my favorite stores - those stores where people can rent a box to sell their used stuff - one could buy her secondhand for 700 NT$. I think it's a just recently released model, and the secondhand figure was at least very new. I can buy secondhand figures here without fearing much for their quality, as people preserve these things pretty well. This one seemed unused. It even still has some plastic remaining between the upper body and the legs. Usually you'll remove that, as it's only to protect it against shocks during shipping.

Finally, as promised yesterday, my as of now latest addition to the collection: Len Kagamine. That'd be the first male character in my collection. What a lucky boy he is.