Acsta’s Subary Nakjima from action figure form the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha is an great collection item. It’s not as superb as Alter Fate Testarossa or not even nearly the beauty of Gwendolyn. I quickly checked the wings around her feet as I were dulled last time with a Subaru having 2 left feet. Obviously a two left feet Subaru is a kinda rare mistake, so Acsta’s figure has a right and left feet (on the good sites XD). The box comes with three various faces: happy, angry and a determined face. On the end I kept the laughing face as I already have a full-blow-for-your-*ss Subaru from Alter. Read on to learn more about the figure or read the Alter Subaru post for a bit more information about Subaru.

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Hi there readers. Lately I haven’t been posting/ maintaining this blog very well. I hardly find time any longer since I downloaded Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII on my PSP. Later on I bought (yes I’m late) Final Fantasy Crisis Core which I never played before. Crisis Core actually starts a few years before Final Fantasy VII but is a different story. Great to see some heroes from Final Fantasy VII back in Crisis Core . Obviously I went on playing the most recent Final Fantasy, number XIII, which is now almost a month available in Europe. My online store bol.com failed to deliver my pre-ordered limited edition, like they used to and I canceled the normal edition to buy one in local stores myself the very next day. It is a pity I don’t have the limited edition, but I quickly discovered the whereabouts of the soundtrack myself and bought it. The art-book, for now,  is not to be found…

So playing around with my favorite final fantasy games VII and VIII, broaden my FF experiences with Crisis Core and XIII, I yesterday stumbled upon great news. Final Fantasy IX might just be coming to the PSP. Final Fantasy IX has a special place in my heart as I really loved that game very much. I have even bought a silver medallion, I don’t like gold, with the Garnet inside it for almost 10 years now. I’ve played the game over 150 hours and I’m eager to play again when Square Enix re-releases the game on PSP. They will announce more information on Friday.

Source examiner and telegraaf [dutch].
What I actually want to tell you. While I game I don’t blog sorry. That doesn’t mean I will give the blog that easily, expect a new post in the next week. I hope I can bear to post twice a week. For now I’m too happy about the Final Fantasy IX news. You might be suspecting I already assumes the Final Fantasy IX 10th birthday will be reliving on the PSP. At least they start converting … hope it doesn’t take too long.

Oh crap, I still have Garnet, Zidane and Vivi from Final Fantasy IX on my todo photoshoot list. I promise you, I blog about that … ever. Not now (and finds himself resuming being a final fantasy addict).

The Anime Ost District script is updated and serves over 10 times faster than the old script. The performance boost is found in any feature of the new script which are overview, album and search. We have also relocated the url, but we didn’t change the design. Either way you have to update your bookmarks as the old script is no longer accessible. The new script might still be a little buggy! Just contact me whenever an error occurs.

NEW: http://hirvine.com/anime/ost/
OLD:  http://hirvine.com/animeost.php

Read on to find more information about the technical details. Another update is planned for the anime/toon districts which would probably be less painful but requires more administration modifications. Overall the new script seems positive but it has a big disadvantage. I now need to update/insert records in the database instead of dumping files into a directory and clear the cache. So let’s make an administration board, but that board is from 2004… Plenty of work here I guess.

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The beautiful Valkyries descend from the skies supervising the fairies of the forest they dive into the battle. The Valkyries are at the winning hand and among the female warriors an huge dark shadow appears. The demon lord Odin swings his huge Psypher into the air, slamming the queen of the fairies to the ground. But as one victory is made another is lost and Gwendolyn loses her precious “sister” Griselda. Sister, as all Valkyries are one of each other her heart cries out of hatred toward the huge demonic cauldron they fight for. Still whatever the great lord orders, the Valkyries will obey his command, however when Gwendolyn finds out a traitor she has to disobey her father. She wishes to safe her father even if it will strip her of her pride and honor.

Thus the lovely princess Gwendolyn is expelled from her world. Strip of pride an honor she is cast a spell called “Love”. She now must grow old to be a mother and love the man she fought to.  Oswald the Shadow knight bearing the cursed sword and slain the great wise dragon Belial who have chosen to live with the humans. While Gwendolyn drags herself from her bed she still praises her father and never doubts her decision. Cursed with her faith she’s eager to obey the laws of her father. Night after night the shadow knight returns of battle but when he suddenly remains absent, Gwendolyn starts to worry. In disgusts of her thoughts of the curse she has, she goes and find her husband. Soon she will discover a bigger plot.

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Did you wonder what Hirvine do these days? At least I’m not blogging, that’s for sure. I’m still reading anime and figure blogs daily but I have no time to write posts for my blog. I do have a lot of figures I can review about and I even have shoot a number of photos in contradiction of Dancing Queen on HowAGirlFigures who’s taking shots of loaning figures. So instead of blogging I’m working on three separate projects. Obviously I have a job in which I was `promoted` this month, yay. Secondly I’m nearing a deadline for a website about dumping code. I will address the site in the future. At last I still want to update my blog but I can’t find a designer. The new design I made isn’t any good :S.

The site is almost to an end and I have got good tips of a new design. Now I just have to re-read the Wordpress API to get myself into the themes again. This time I make sure I get to read the plugins docs too, so I can get the pages to load a lot faster. Well bear it for now, at least I’m still alive :S.

Finally after waiting over a month my new camera arrived tuesday. As I work in during the week I have no time to get it until Saturday. Now I have my hands on it I have to read the extensive manual and play around with the camera. It is my very first digital single-lens reflex camera (DSLR) ever and I have no clue about filters. The salesman said I at least need a UV filter and explained to me how the most basic functions work. Well, functions, I now can break and setup the camera . Unfortunately another project is consuming an huge part of my freetime. It’s fun but kinda much with the daily work around… You can find some pictures of the camera if you read on. For now I remains as inactive as I these weeks. Bear with it for a while.

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Hirvine wish you all an happy 2010! Hirvine 2010 will be the year of Anime and Figures. Hirvine started out to be an Anime and Manga blog in 2006. Later on changed into Anime and Toon. In 2008 I discovered the world of figurines. The year 2010 will focus on my new compassion: Figures and Anime. In that contrast I think a change of themes (design) is in order. The new design should be up in February.

Did you notice Gwendolyn, the picture at the top of this article? Gwendolyn is a princess, a Valkyrie. She arrived on the last day of 2009. I was so happy, because work that day was really troublesome due a broken switch at the office. To make things worse, the cursed server gave up and dns routes automatically changed :S. Obviously, at 31th December, there were almost no people to get things fixed. So, to get home and find an huge box in the hallway was truly too sweet. Great, let’s shoot with the new camera I get on the 2nd January…

However, today I heard the order was delayed. That was really a bummer… I really wanted to shoot Gwendolyn with the new camera. For now the older camera had to shoot these previews for now. The same goes for Garnet and Zidane on the right.

Merry christmas 2009 everyone!

Our government has not declared it to be a white christmas, but they didn’t defy it. There is still hope we can have a white christmas at the Netherlands. For me the snow was quite a bother since I had to spend at least two days home. Stuck, since I couldn’t get a bus or car. Well, some spare time is not too bad, though I wish I didn’t wait for 4 days more than hours in the snow, awaiting any bus to get me in the right direction. 17th thursday was really the worse. They bus did come, but it did not stop. Together with more than 30 passengers we watched as the bus just drove off. After an hour I took an other bus, other city, but the right direction. Then I start walking … :/ Well quite an adventure I must say. I’m still alive and I have a nice story to tell. Still, shouldn’t be a common thing around here. I’m not blind, I wish the US citizens strength as the blizzard really covers them up. Good luck to you.

For now Hirvine have encoded new series of the very old, yet great series The Mysterious Cities of Gold. To those we bothers me not updating my blog software Wordpress, I’m testing Wordpess 2.9 now.  I really can’t afford to break up the captcha nor cache plugin since it will both break my server resources. I still have some great news for the site in store, but I think the new year would be a much nicer post to blog on.

While Estaban and Zia remains in the cabin, Mendoza navigates the ship safely through the stormy weathers. Ordering Sancho and Pedro to take over the rudder and take the course Mendoza’ orders.  As scared as Sancho and Pedro are they won’t withdrew to their cabins as the crew did. They remain loyal to Mendoza, but they are scared as hell. As the storm grows stronger the three of them are left alone to roam the ship. Even the higher ups, the captain, Gaspard and the colonel Gomez doesn’t interfere and remain in their cabins, probably praying to survive.

However the cabins aren’t complete safely either. Everyone, the crew and  our stowaways heroes Estaban and Zia bounces from wave to wave, to the floor and ceiling of their small cabin. It is nearly 4 days ago since the storm begun and Mendoza finds a small canal. The narrow stream is their only escape to survive the stormy weather of the open waters. Dancing on the waves Mendoza forces the ship towards the small canal. The chances to survive is still much more than they have in the storm. Poor Estaban and Zia can’t bear the bitter world of the sea. The bad food, locked up and dealing with the stormy weather is just too much for them. They can only seek shelter to each other but they both lack the courage to calm down.

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Original posted at http://moe.imouto.org/post/show/85902/aida_kensuke-ayanami_rei-horaki_hikari-ikari_shinj

Neon Genesis Evangelion, (short Evangelion), is the ultimate anime classic series any anime fan knows (or should). There would be quite rare anime’s of which there is spoken more than they did at Evangelion. Aired in 1995 it surprised the world with it’s awesome mecha combats, music, plot and great characters. Each of the characters have their own personality. Even in 2009, the story, music and characters are truly awesome. That must have been the thoughts of Anno Hideaki when he complete rewrote and published Evangelion 1.0 You Are [Not] Alone in 2007. It was an huge success, 2 billion yen (according to Wikipedia) was earned and the next installment should shatter in dec 2009 (now in cinemas see riuva).

I’m not going to completely review the series, sequels or neither these remakes. There are just too much reviews… I will fulfill the question whether to watch/buy if you have already seen the Evangelion series. Those not watched Evangelion, stop reading and start watching. Though Evangelion is a mech genre fighting of aliens (angels) it’s truly about humans. Shinji, the leading role, might seems to be naive and far too complicated, but that’s the point of the story … you’ll see. So, not watchers checkout first, watchers … read on!

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