Review: Kikkai rare anime goods

I have now purchased twice from a very pleasant seller on facebook known as 'Kikkai'.

You can see the page and browse items for sale here

They sell a range of rare and unusual anime & game related goods from Japan. I've seen quite a diverse range of items for sale that you'd really struggle to find on your own (if you're as clueless as me anyway hah). The items are always at very fair prices and postage is always fair too.

The first item I purchased was this lovely K-On! ceramic plate. The price was a very reasonable £10! I really liked this as I've never personally seen anything quite like it before. It's different and as a fan of K-On! it spoke to me as a nice piece to have on display in my room ^__^/

It was carefully packaged and arrived in good time after being shipped out. Kikkai is very good at keeping you up to date on your order too. I put a deposit on this as it was originally a Coming Soon item. Then once it had arrived to Kikkai I paid the remaining plus postage and it was quickly sent off to me. 

The girls look so cute!

The second order I made was at the end of last week and arrived today. I bought four soft Madoka Magica cloths and a Persona 4: The Animation eye mask! All of these are really cute and the eyemask is really something else. Again, great communication and careful packaging of the items.

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Rise Kujikawa eye mask plus SFX badge! Rise is my favourite Persona 4 character so I was pleased to see this. I had seen them online before but this was the first time I was able to purchase one. It was £8.

Puella Magi Madoka Magica soft cloths, £3 each. These are so cute, at first I only saw two and wanted them. But then Kikkai pointed out they had two more so I caved in and got all four. The bottom left one is my favourite; Valentines Mado x Homu <3


I can certainly say this won't be the last time I'll be purchasing from Kikkai. Plus I'll be looking forward to their stall at CamCon this summer!

Mini iPhone figure photo dump

Here's a few pics I've taken on my new iPhone of some of my figures in the time that I was away from my blog. There isn't many so it's not worth categorising them into different future posts. (or maybe I'm just lazy...)

D-Arts Konohana Sakuya

Tachikoma nendoroid, Tachikoma discovers christmas!

Tachikomatic Christmas

Homura

Little Primark shop & co-ord

At the weekend I went into town to get some new books and thought I'd have a quick look in Primark (despite it being a busy Saturday) in case they had any blouses suitable for my upcoming first ever lolita co-ord. ended up getting a few totally different but lovely finds. I try not to buy too much clothing as I'm at work full time (40 hours minimum) so I don't get much time to wear non uniform or cycling clothes.. But these really stood out to me, especially price wise :3 

£8

This dress is a bit more green than pictured here which I think will go well with my bright red hair. I'll be wearing this to a big birthday party next weekend most likely.

The material is a bit thin and builds up static easily but I should be alright if I wear a slip underneath.
There is a little tightness around the chest area but I'm putting that down mainly to me being big busted, I can't help it!

Otherwise this dress is a beautiful fit and hangs nicely on my frame. The pattern is very pretty and gives off that typical vintage feel that is so popular now.

 

Some close up detail of the dress pattern.

£5

Next up is this cute 'tattoo' print shirt. It's slightly cropped which is a bit frustrating for me with my large bust and long back but it looks good with a tube or skater skirt or maybe high waisted shorts.

My favourite part is the swallow print, I have a bit of a fixation with swallow & bird prints and accessories so my attention was grabbed by this shirt straight away!

£5

 




















Here's another 'tattoo' (what it said on the receipt lol) print shirt. In gorgeous pastel pink & lilac. This top is comfortable and flatter on my fluffy figure. I think it's my favourite of all the tops I got and I have plenty of stuff I can style this with.

Material is nice and soft and there weren't any mishaps with the stitching. (something I often discover on Primark clothing, have to be really careful to check everything I want before I buy it)

    

Next is another top I found sitting on it's lonesome and it happened to be in my size. When I took it to the till it turned out to be reduced too! From £5 -£2 which is even better. It's like I was fated to get this top haha!

I really like starry and galaxy prints and this just fits the bill for me. What makes it a little more special is the cityscape at the bottom of the shirt. I think this stops it from just looking like a bog standard starry print shirt. Gives it a bit more detail. I've already had a few compliments over this one as I've worn it already.

Again it's a good fitting shirt and doesn't make me feel like a fat sack of potatoes!

£5

This is the last top I bought (I'm such a sucker for cute t-shirts)

Delicious pastel colours and delicious ice cream! This will be a perfect top whenever we eventually get warmer weather.

It doesn't look like a great fit just sitting on the hanger but I can say it fits nicely on me without being frumpy :)

£5!!!!

Final item in my shop and my most favourite thing: short dungarees!! I'm a big girl and dungarees always tend to make me look worse or just pregnant >_>;; but these short ones I feel look a lot nicer and they were reduced to a bargain £5! Sweet.


























Below are some pics I took wearing the dungarees, not a super fashion concious co-ord but it's about what I think looks good on me right? Please bear with me as I learn how to take self portraits with me new camera!

Features a kitty ear bowler I purchased from ebay, necklace and hand made lucite earrings by http://pieces-of-the-past.myshopify.com/ Please check the shop out, it has so many lovely hand made pieces of lucite jewellery, vintage and rockabilly jewellery, accessories and STUNNING affordable rockabilly fashion <3

Earrings by Pieces of the Past

shirt detail

   

Necklace by Pieces of the Past

Bracelet from Hart 'n' Crosses




Thank you for reading and let me know what you think x

Massive Update Time

I have been away from my blog for so long now. It wasn't intentional or through (total) laziness. My laptop broke whilst I was away at October London MCM Expo. So for about a month and a bit (I was so busy with other things in life) I had no laptop until it was fixed back in time for Christmas.

I'm only just coming back to it now though because I've still been really busy and had a little lack of inspiration really too... I have lots of new figures to photograph which is good and I'm starting to feel really creative again.
This is partly due to me getting a new camera! I'd been thinking over it for a long while and finally made a decision on the one I wanted and ordered it. I got a Nikon D3200 which seems to be a great entry level SLR. Perfect for me, I can't believe how heavy it is but after experimenting a little I've gotten used to handling it easily. Below I'll just give you a bunch of pics of my October MCM figure haul plus a few other new ones. Obviously I'll be doing proper shoots and such with these soon so please forgive these rushed snapshots!

Thanks <3

October London MCM Expo figure haul  

Persona 4 Ultimate Rise Kujikawa!
This is my first Rise figure and I was really happy to grab her as Rise is my favourite Persona 4 character. The figure is a very good quality and I paid £22 for her I believe. I had to blu tack her bottom to the tvs though. I guess it would have been a bit controversial for her to have a little knob in her crotch/butt! :P

Next up, my most hyped figure I knew I wanted before I even went to the event. GSC nendoroid event exclusive Maiko ver Madoka Magica! She is so pretty and dainty I can't express it enough. I nearly cried when I picked her up because I was so excited. (I'm silly I know) I believe you can now order her off the GSC website but stock is limited. (Might be sold out now I don't know!) She was £35 if I recall correctly.

Now I had now idea I would get my hands on this charming lady at MCM. Persona 4 Ultimate Elizabeth! Arguably one of the best sculpts of her ever done really. Her pose is so fluid and every detail flawless from any angle. I paid about £22 for her too which is an incredibly fair price. I wouldn't recommend paying more than £30 (and that's a rip off) for any figure from this series though. £20-25 is the fairest price, anyone charging more for it brand new is taking advantage (which is common at events).

Final one from MCM is Homura Akemi. She was £20 from a seller who I recognise from previous events. I cannot remember his stall name though... I saw this on the Friday and held back from buying it. Then in the evening I kept thinking about her and ended really wanting it...(I guess that logic applies to shopping for anything really LOL) So on the Saturday I trailed through the heavy crowds (dragging my boyfriend and friend with me, sorry guys!) looking for the stall and thankfully they had two left as well as a Sayaka version too. The seller said she had been disappearing really fast so I'm glad I made the effort to go get her.









Right now onto the rest, here are the other new figs I've picked up between November and now. I have so many ideas for pics plus a lot of pics of one or two on my phone already. Will have to post them later.

GSC Nendoroid Mayoi Hachikuji

Petanko! Mini Puella Magi Madoka Magica blind box figs. I got School Madoka, Mami and Sayaka. Plus Magical Girl Sayaka.

Petanko! Rise Kujikawa and Yu Narukami

Prize fig Rise Kujikawa

(second hand on ebay for £7, bargain)

My most special and one of the oldest, original nendoroids; Tachokoma from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. This was £50 brand new and sealed from a very pleasant seller on Amazon.







Right that's everything 'updated' I guess for now figure wise. There is other stuff I should write about but I'm too hungry right now for that ;)