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Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 20-Jul-2023 07:59:01 JST 
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Erza Pop Up Parade XL Review:
(Note for anyone who is totally unaware of prices in the current figure market: prize figures go for around $30, pop up parades for around $40, 1/6th scale figures, the normal size, for $150-200, and 1/4th scale figures for $300-400)
Like most figure collectors I was pretty disappointed by the pop up parade figure line. The initial premise was that they would be scale figure quality at close to prize figure prices, and this miracle would be achieved by simply making the figures smaller than normal prizes and scales. The problem was that the quality turned out to be wildly inconsistent. Some of them look pretty good, but some of them look worse than Chinese knockoffs. Still, when pop up parade XLs were announced, functionally a discount alternative to normal 1/4th scales, I was curious enough to pick one of them up to judge it’s quality, and of the initial offerings (Lucy and Erza from Fairy Tail, and Attack Titan Erin) I went with Erza.
First, the positives: the price is nice. Almost $200 even, after shipping, makes it 50% cheaper than most 1/4ths I’ve bought. And the size is impressive, as it always is at 1/4th scale. I’ve photographed her next to a normal pop up parade Lucy, and next to a 1/6th scale Erza, for comparison. Furthermore, it doesn’t have the same cheapo feeling of normal pop up parades, the materials aren’t unusually light and flimsy feeling, the paint work is precise, the face looks great. Her hair could have a little bit more volume and detail (it also doesn’t feel like the right color, too bright) but that’s about the only finer detail that seems worse than the other figures of this size that I own.
The downsides, and conclusion: $200 may be a nice discount relative to other figures of this size, but it’s not exactly cheap. Comparing it to the other erza figure I’ve pictured here, which is only slightly more expensive, the pose is dramatically less interesting, the weapons and armor aren’t as cool or sexy, and there’s no cool base. If I wanted one nice erza figure I’d get the 1/6th scale, if I wanted a big erza I’d spring for the 1/4th bunny from freeing. And while big figures are very cool, their size is inherently limiting, unless you have a massive home you’re going to quickly run out of space for them if you get too many. So I’m asking myself “who is this for?” And it seems to me like it would mainly be for a shonen head who is the kind of person who only buys Nendoroid, prize, pop up parades, plushies, and other sub $50 merchandise but might want one, and only one, big figure to be a centerpiece for their collection. It would work pretty well for that purpose. Maybe good smile is thinking the same thing, since as far as I can tell the only XLs that have been announced since the initial three are Natsu and Gurren Lagann. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 18:43:32 JST
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@YeetLibs Don’t worry boys, I’ve already converted one of the other fourths from USD into anime figures. We have assets. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:37:01 JST
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@Giga_Vril_Breaker @tengumatingpress @WashedOutGundamPilot “Suddenly my best friend is a hot girl so is it still homo?” Is very much not a recent development in manga/anime -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 10-Jun-2023 06:36:41 JST
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I talked a bit about the difference in the problem of localization between manga, anime, and games in the last Weebnats, and I think I have more clarified thoughts now, basically it all comes down to human capital:
-games are the worst because gamergate caused a purge of all non-woke ideologues from the entire industry. Anyone who would put their dedication to the craft above their woke politics simply isn’t employed there anymore.
-official anime subtitles are done by overworked and underpaid wagies so rather than the full on trannylations of games you usually just get poor translations because of sloppiness. Dubs are made by rejects who couldn’t make it in Hollywood so they want to use anime as a canvas for their C tier creative talents. They also are woke retards.
-official manga translatiors mostly still are drawn from the fan translation scene where to stand out from the crowd you actually need to be good at the job of translation. If the pool of talent is lowering in quality (and it seems to be) then that’s a reflection of manga fans decreasing in quality generally, becoming more accepting of bullshit woke translations. It’s probably too late but it might be worth gatekeeping manga even harder to slow the decline (it’s certainly too late for anime and video games) -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 21:45:03 JST
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Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 10:16:09 JST
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@William_The_Dragonborn I’ve not played enough of xenogears to say but my initial impression was that all the Christian imagery in those games were not exactly in service to pro-Christian themes. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 24-May-2023 10:13:12 JST
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The AI here turned the arguably gnostic symbol of the aegis on their chests into Christian crosses, furthering my belief that AI is not destined to be a tool of libtard oppression but rather to be a vessel for the Holy Spirit and a force for good in the world.
RT: https://poa.st/objects/5ffbbaf3-a558-4282-9220-ad2814071226 -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 23-May-2023 03:09:11 JST
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I’m fired up about the upcoming nazi event in AL, now my wife’s waifu is getting a retrofit too. Happy days at the serfstead. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 22-May-2023 04:49:42 JST
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@JSDorn @kaia We need to go back in time and show this to the founding fathers and all the other 18th century libtards who thought that with enough education negroes would become like Anglos -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 21-May-2023 22:45:26 JST
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@MoeBritannica I want an AI that will go around blowing up liberals like a based liberty prime, but you can’t always get what you want. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 12:38:14 JST
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@King_Noticer @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot Jujutsu kaisen? Is it more cynical than a normal shonen? -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 06:57:17 JST
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@basadeskaiser @snailenthusiast @SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot @nierenstein My happiest days started when I began saying “nigger” on a regular basis, and they are actively ongoing -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 03:43:18 JST
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@Shadowman311 The soft pink and baby blue of the trans colors are both appealing to kids and the favorite colors of most girls who like girly things, so it’s the double effect of being part of the grooming operation and it ruins something that should be a nice thing for girls to enjoy. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 03:22:03 JST
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@nierenstein @snailenthusiast @WashedOutGundamPilot @SuperSnekFriend You are LITERALLY autistic -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 03:11:49 JST
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@snailenthusiast @WashedOutGundamPilot @SuperSnekFriend I think it’s worth flipping the observation that japs are overly fond of HS on its head: why aren’t Americans more fond of their time in high school? It’s the time of your life that you are coming into adulthood, learning about yourself, what you like to do and who you like to spend your time with, when you can really form meaningful friendships and relationships with the opposite sex for the first time and really see what your body is capable of athletically and push yourself beyond the limits you thought you had. The answer is obvious, at least around these parts: america is a racial hell, and HS is a glorified daycare where the government tries to propagandize while wrangling, or failing to wrangle, the racial chaos, neglecting most prosocial and communitarian aspects all the while.
TLDR: Americans smugly note that the focus on HS in Japanese media reflects the fact that japs love HS and hate the rest of their lives while ignoring the fact that americans hating their entire lives equally doesn’t really reflect the exceptionalism that they think it does. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 03:03:54 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot That’ll teach you to enjoy your loving marriage manga! :02smug: -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 02:33:53 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot >lived forever, didn’t think japan had a good political system until post ww2
>has access to thousands of years of cultural memory but thinks marvel movies are the best things ever made
I’m sorry to break it to you friend but your waifu is a w*m*n. -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 02:22:31 JST
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@WashedOutGundamPilot @SuperSnekFriend -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 02:16:31 JST
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@SuperSnekFriend @WashedOutGundamPilot Family building? Do mr and mrs nasa Reddit stop going to marvel movies long enough to actually have children? I’m on volume 17 and it hasn’t come close to happening yet -
Serf (serfnusa@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 20-May-2023 01:57:37 JST
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@snailenthusiast ⚠️ Simp ⚠️
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