With the holiday season coming up and the figure companies showing off their newest offerings for next year, now is definitely the time to put down money on preorders - but as excited as I am about all the great new releases, a part of me is in a panic! Although I live above the otaku poverty line, getting my hands on the new figures that I just can’t live without will surely demolish my entire savings. I won’t have any regrets, but I’m going to have to learn to live with the consequences. 

Take a look at what I’m ordering this season.
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This week I did a friend’s request and drew Tomo and Yomi from Azumanga Daioh though I didn’t really have time to do any shading. Original down below:

Oh god I need to reinstall Windows on my tablet badly during Thanksgiving Break since it is currently dying of something other than VistAids.

I’ve been waiting forever but today I was finally able to login to Aisp@ce and create my online avatar. I haven’t done too much so far but I think I will grow to like it and actually gives me even more of a reason to memorize kanji.
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After nearly 2 years since its initial inceptions, Four Leaf Studios has finally launched a site for Katawa Shoujo that isn’t a forum for game development and discussion!! It has a nice clean layout and all the usual things you would expect from a professional game site included a short description of the story, character bios, samples, downloads and staff credits.

The front page has links to the forums and dev blog of course but the coolest thing is the rotating quotes that come up which link to all the different characters. For example “Can you see what I see?” links to Lilly’s section of the character page.
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