Sailor Moon Funko POP Anime Figures Coming in July

Coming in July from Funko: a whole series of Sailor Moon POPs, including Sailor Moon & Luna, Sailor Venus & Artemis, Sailor Mars, Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter and Tuxedo Mask! Add yourself to our email list to stay on top of this one. Saw these in person, they look really superb. The Sailor Moon POPs will be available on our website and in our Amazon shop in July 2016.

Pop! Anime: Sailor Moon

I am the Pretty Guardian who fights for love and for justice. I am Sailor Moon!
In the name of the Moon, I’ll punish you! Sailor Moon and Luna are coming
to Pop! Anime and they’re bringing their friends!
They’re joined by the intelligent Sailor Mercury, the passionate Sailor Mars,
courageous Sailor Jupiter, and beautiful Sailor Venus with her companion, Artemis!

No set is complete without the mysterious Tuxedo Mask!

Dragon Ball Z Funko POP Anime Figures Coming in July

So bad ass! 6 new Funko POP figures coming in July - characters from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z: Gohan, Trunks, Bulma, Goku & his Flying Nimbus, Krillin & Majin Buu. Join our email list to get the updates on this arrival! These will go on our website and into our Amazon shop.

The latest Pop! figures from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z include
some of the franchise's most revered characters! 

The untapped powerhouse Gohan, Trunks the time-traveling human-Saiyan
hybrid, and Krillin the Z Fighter are fan favorites! Collect them all
to bring down the playful supervillain, Majin Buu!

This series also pays homage to the original Dragon Ball story with
Bulma the scientist and Goku on his Flying Nimbus!

Loot Anime Launches Next Week!

via Loot Crate:

Looters asked for it. We are ready to deliver it! Loot Crate is proud to announce our new subscription crate service for anime and manga fans: Loot Anime!

Every month, we’ll deliver a selection of figures, collectibles, manga, apparel, accessories and more, valued at over $60 USD, for just $24.95 + $5 S&H (domestic)!

Loot Anime launches next week with limited inventory. For more information on how to get the first Loot Anime crate when it launches, head to lootcrate.com/anime and enter your email address!

Miya-San - the perfect gift for the anime lover and Miyazaki fan

This cute-as-a-button Miya-San "Mentor" figure is an homage to legendary anime writer/director Hayao Miyazaki. Designed by Martin Hsu and produced in resin by Bigshot Toyworks, this 6-inch-tall figure is limited to just 300, with very few left in stock.

Net proceeds from the sale of the Miya-San figures will be donated to Karakuwa-Maru, a community building organization in the town of Karakuwa, Japan. Karakuwa-Maru is involved with rebuilding after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011.

Buy the Miya-San figure today at the Bigshot Toyshop to ensure that it arrives in time for the holidays!

Emirati Mo Abedin Announces First Middle Eastern Anime and Manga Title Raiiken

Our friend and cohort in the Middle East, Mo Abedin, is incredibly industrious and ambitious. I've been following him, and chatting with him, through the development of his Foo Dog brand, his MEGA DIY figures and the Mercury sculpture pictured below.

Mo Abedin's Mercury sculpture, available on our Super Series Sundays page

But Mo cannot be easily compartmentalized into just the "toy maker" category... he recently made the rounds at the impressively large and well-attended Middle East Film and Comic Con (which I hope to attend one day) promoting his upcoming project Raiiken, which will be a manga and anime export which he intends to release in Japan. Below is a great video interview detailing the Raiiken concept and Mo's long history with imported Japanese anime properties:






I have a great respect for Mo, who seems to be gracefully defying the American perception of Middle Eastern youth culture... if you listen to Mo speak about his childhood, you realize that our perception of the Middle East might be, shall we say, skewed.

I blame the American media, and I feel it's only fitting that Mo is pursuing the development of a new media property which will turn our ill-conceived perceptions upside-down.

He's held huge toy show in malls, produced his own lines of toys and is obviously well-connected. I've seen pictures of him talking art with sheikhs! And here I struggle to get third-tier journalists at our free daily papers to mention my shop...


If you want to follow Mo, his Facebook page is here and his Twitter is here. Big things coming from this guy. Watch him.

 - Benny Kline

SHFigurearts Shocking Sailor Saturn Reveal!

   To the delight of millions of Bishojou Senshi Sailor Moon (Anime/Manga series) fans around the world, the infamous SH Figurarts started releasing deluxe, poseable figures of the main characters from this international hit series last year.

SH Figurarts Shocking Sailor Saturn REVEAL!

  However, SH Figurearts (A branch of Bandai Toys) shocked the world at Wonderland fest 2014, when they showed off a grey prototype of the senshi soldier of death and rebirth, Sailor Saturn. One can only speculate that this means they'll make all 10 of the main characters into deluxe figures!

The Sailor Senshi So Far

Thanks to Tomopop for these lovely photos!

 I hope that in addition to the heros that they also release some of the villains and maybe Tuxedo Kamen AKA (Tuxedo Mask)?

Let's keep our fingers crossed!

Which Sailor moon character is YOUR favorite?

-XOXO Otaku Milf (AKA Shonuff)

Preorders for Miya-san Figure by Bigshot Toyworks and Martin Hsu go live January 21

Miya-san: a Hayao Miyazaki tribute figure

The preorder window for the highly-anticipated Hayao Miyazaki tribute figure (dubbed Miya-san by Martin Hsu) opens at 2PM EST on January 21st and closes at midnight January 31st. The Miya-san tribute figure will be 6 inches tall and made of resin. It will be packed in a gift box and will retail for $95 with a run limited to 300 pieces.

Proceeds from the sales of the Miya-san tribute figures will be donated to an as-yet-undetermined charity chosen by Martin Hsu and Klim Kozinevich.

Martin Hsu provided concept and character design for the Miya-san figure. Figure development and production is being provided by Bigshot Toyworks, with a projected ship date of April 2014. Tenacious Toys will provide the point of sale for preorders, as well as fulfillment. If you're interested in preordering on Jan 21, bookmark this link or join our email list.


Click here to view a turnaround GIF of this sculpt.

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Miyazaki's filmography spans decades and features such iconic films as Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Ponyo among many, many others.

To celebrate the joy that Miyazaki has brought into our lives, Martin Hsu has teamed up with Bigshot Toyworks to create and produce a limited run of Miya-San figures.