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10 Responses to “Poll Results: Are References in Anime Any Good at All? and new Poll.”  

1. 1 Tsubaki 519 comments Jun 4th, 2006 at 5:17 am

   Egh. I fall somewhere between asthetic and character.
   But since most of the figures i have are characters that i do know of,
   my votes goes for character then.

   and Ignuis figurine is a complete beauty. XD

2. 2 Hopeless 22 comments Jun 4th, 2006 at 5:39 am

   The same for me too - if I love a character, I’d love to own a figure of them, but if a figure looks great and I’m not a fan of that character, I’ll invest in it anyway.

3. 3 Kenny Liu 4 comments Jun 4th, 2006 at 10:55 am

   Character. As long as it’s Lacus lol.

4. 4 tj_han 1442 comments Jun 4th, 2006 at 1:32 pm

   No one’s voting for gimmicks and pose. Weird. I suppose they are important but lesser factors.

   Btw Kenny, I hate Lacus. You will never see a Lacus picture here on this site ever. For that matter, probably no one who has appeared in Seed D will ever appear here.

5. 5 pKjd 14 comments Jun 5th, 2006 at 1:16 am

   For me personally it would be “character”. However, if the figure itself is not aesthically pleasing in any way shape or form, I’ll pass. Another factor I take in is “rarity”. To this day I still have not forgiven myself for not pre-ordering Yujin’s Suiseiseki in time before it became discontinued. But, knowing how I am, I’ll eventually get her, regardless of how much certain sites are auctioning her off :\

6. 6 Randall Fitzgerald 62 comments Jun 5th, 2006 at 4:53 am

   I definitely think about character first, but just using that would be sort of limiting in its own way. I mean, the visual culure is just that, highly visual, so if a character design is ugly we should be less interested in it, because we could be just as well off reading novels and NOT looking at ugly characters. As an example, I’d heard a bit about Eureka 7, but I didn’t really watch any of the show until I saw the MegaHouse figures and now I’m blazing through the series and really enjoying it. One can usually assume that if a character design attracts them, then the show will be decent, and even then, what if a figure isn’t based on a show at all? Like the Epoch animal girl series, or the OS-tans, or Naado-tan (which I missed the production run of, WHY GOD?!).

   I think the ideas I’ve heard from the community, about only getting figures that are of characters that you like, they come from this idea of being politically correct, or trying to justify something about our hobby that doesn’t need justification. We should just buy the things we like and not worry about needing a good underlying reason for it. We like the visual culture because something we see tells our brain that we dig it and that’s good enough for me.

   Also, that Saki figure has a huge forehead, so I got the other one the SIF EX, to match my Ono.

7. 7 tj_han 1442 comments Jun 5th, 2006 at 7:45 am

   NOO!! The other one is so ugly I cancelled my order. And I’m so looking to sell away my Yamato Ono Kanako.

   I hate Yamato.

8. 8 Randall Fitzgerald 62 comments Jun 6th, 2006 at 1:23 pm

   I hate Yamato too, but my love of Genshiken drives me to insanity. INSANITYYYYYT!

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