At A Glance – Strike Witches

GONZO’s at it again. I should just end it here, but that would be passing up an opportunity to examine an anime which tries to play on every known otaku fetish. I’ve got this tagged with mecha musume, lolicon, fanservice, girls with guns, magical girls, and furries. And the rather redundant “waste of space.” I should also state right now that I’ve only streamed the second trailer online.

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Revoltech ARX-8 Laevatein

The Revoltech ARX-8 Laevatein is here! Well, almost here. August 15th seems to be the Japanese release date (Kaiyodo Online Store), and I will assume that September 30th is date most North American distributors get their hands on this (ToysLogic). As for costs, it’s ¥2590 (~$24.73 CAD) compared to $25.99 USD (~$26.31 CAD). Supposedly, the original price of the item from ToysLogic is $32.99 USD (it’s currently on sale, although how $26 for a 12cm toy which I can’t even build can be considered a sale is beyond me). Shipping from the States back to Canada is also quite expensive, but luckily purchases under $200 CAD do not require duties to be paid. Probably, buying directly from Japan will be the cheaper way. Plus, you get to have it earlier.

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