Asuka Langley Shikinami 1/8th scale pvc figure from Alter

Asuka Langley Shikinami (formerly Soryu) a character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. In the four-film re-imagining of the TV series, Asuka makes her first appearance in the second of four films, (Evangelion: 2.0 "You Can (Not) Advance")  released in the Rebuild of Evangelion series, based on the original anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

From renowned figure manufacture Alter, and standing around 23.5 cm tall, Asuka is sculpted by Yagyu Toshiyuki and depicted wearing her experimental plugsuit.

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3D Demo Reel Julianna Kolakis

The "Goddess Savanna" and "Captured beast"

Julianna Kolakis Official Website

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Game Character Claire Farron "Lightning"

21 year old Lighting's real name is Claire Farron, also known as Éclair Farron (エクレール・ファロン Ekurēru Faron?) in the original Japanese version. She began using her code name "Lightning" after losing her parents in an effort to deal with the insecurities inherited from her earlier life.

A former Guardian Corps soldier, Lightning wields a gunblade called the Blazefire Saber, which is also known as the Blaze Edge, a combination of a gun and a sword, one collapsing into the other.

Lightning was ranked as the 34th most popular video game character in a poll run by Japanese games magazine Famitsu and second place in Afterellen's "25 Hottest Video Game Characters.

First released Dec 17th 2009 in Japan Final Fantasy xiii is a console role-playing video game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360. The fastest-selling title in the history of the series a sequel Final Fantasy Xiii-2 is set for release in Japan this December.

First image, fan art from Caucasian-eagle on deviantart

Lightning Cosplay
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Appleseed Xiii

Not a sequel, but a retelling, Appleseed xiii is a CGI anime adaptation of Masamune Shirow's science fiction manga series Appleseed.

Composed of 13 (22minute) episodes and claiming to follow the original material more closely. Appleseed Xiii is being released as a combination of online streaming episodes, a two film remix, and optical disc sets.  The story follows the exploits of the ES.W.A.T. special forces member Deunan Knute and her combat cyborg colleague Briareos at the city of Olympus after World War V

The films:
Appleseed Xiii Yuigon - Tartoros (In Japanese theatres now)
Appleseed Xiii Yogen - Ouranos (due for release Oct 24th)

The clip above a trailer for the first film

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Digital Artist Rafael Grassetti

Currently working as Senior Character artist on Mass effect 3, full size images and high res portfolio on cgsociety

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Apologies

Yep it's me.. and for all those that waited and waited and kept posting comments, my sincere apologies and a massive big thank you, especially to one significant gnome and an as yet missing priest.

It will take me sometime to clean up around here, I noticed I've got a sitting room full of generic Viagra (looks at Gnome), which I can probably upload on ebay. Dust, final notices, spiders that wouldn't look out of place in a Greek Cellar and one or two...... gulp!!... okay hundreds of broken links to fix.

Since I was last here, facebook and twitter have been invented, anonymity on the web has lost it's appeal, and peoples penchant for pointy ears pron seems to have hit an all time low.

.....Sigh!

I'm getting that warm fuzzy feeling coming on me now (...no not the viagra) so I must bid you adieu, but it's good to be back and a bit scary. Now gotta find web storage for my piccies and figure out where all my bookmarks went, learn how to tag my posts again....etc. etc..

Age and 8 year old computers, what cruel tricks you play......

Again my sincere apologies :(

Wallpaper of the Week

1920x1080 mammoth "The Conductor" by Skan Srisuwan

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Pic of the Week

From Comic book Artist Chris De Lara

Lineage II Elven Cosplay

Based on Lineage II Wedding costume, From Poco.cn

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Tsubasa Chronicles Anime Wallpaper

Adapted from the long running manga series by clamp, Tsubasa Chronicle consists of 52 episodes over two seasons. A series of OVAs are scheduled to be released in late 2007 and early 2008.

Official Funimation Website
Episode list from Wikipedia

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