Wolfhinrich’s World First Anniversary
Like a blink of an eye really, one whole year has gone by and I have finally achieved one of the major milestone of any bloggers – hitting the first anniversary! I must thank you for all of your support, visits, clicks, comments and encouragement! Looking back when I first started blogging, my original goal was to introduce myself to the worldwide of Otaku that I – Wolfheinich exists here! I think I have mentioned in the past, I was very much like a closet otaku, I have little real life friends that share my interest, I have no way to share my joy of unpacking my new figures or do I have anyone to converse with how cute this 2D girl is or what not. What I desire most, is to seek out to like minded otaku who can share my interest, making new friends.
Stumbling onto Dannychoo.com was a major turning point for me, I never knew there is an online community like that before! After spending a few days on Danny’s site, I decided I too want to become a blogger so I can really introduce myself to the community. After one whole year, I am confident to say that I have achieved way more than what I had in mind. I have made a bunch of new friends, gotten into Dollfie Dream (which is like the greatest thing since sliced bread), and even traveled to Japan to see Odaiba Gundam, Kamen Rider Decade and Evangelion 2.0 movie with fellow Dannychoo member Fumoffu.
Let’s take a quick look at the transformation that Wolfheinrich’s World has gone thru in the past year! I really had no idea what to blog about at the beginning, so I started off with a my room post soon after I began!
My room was a super messy place back then, and one could argue that it still is today because of the way I like to arrange my collection, I like being able to see as many things as possible, my motto is out of sight – out of mind, it’s very easy to forget what you have if you don’t see it often!
My first attempt in writing a product review, and my pick? One of the most expensive otaku good I have ever bought at the time! The Fate Stay Night Ipod!
Later on, I hear a lot of people talk about having dust on the figures… I was like ehhh why don’t you cover it with something like I do? lol So, I decided to open the figure collection topic designed specifically to talk about the various issues that a figure collecting otaku might run into~
The regular dust shield eventually got its own upgrade and became the new and improved dust shield + 1 later!
Officially adding Eroge game into the board range of topics that I intend to cover in my blog~ obviously regular visitors probably know how big of a project this eroge game category has transformed into.
And my first attempt of doing a figure photo shoot and my model was the newly acquired Ryoko Asakura
The result didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped… there was much to learn about digital photography for me.
My first attempt of writing an Eroge game heroine summary, which later expanded into much much much bigger than I ever thought I would ever attempt to do!
My desire to introduce these visual novel heroines with the proper story and background has me began to write longer and longer summaries. Many of these visual novels have better story than most of your popular anime!
And of course, last but definitely not least, totally close to 15000 words; the adorable Sasara Kusugawa from ToHeart 2, the most comprehensive story summary I have ever written.
And getting into Dollfie Dream, which is like the beginning of a new era for me!
My first daughter Escalayer joined my collection and suddenly, adopting Dollfie Dream have become the utmost priority over all other otaku hobbies.
The Dollfie Dream Completion Project finally hitting high gear!
And the official opening of the Hikari Photo Studio! Which later become the platform for the popular Dollfie Dream Theater (or so I thought)!
Participated in the Dannychoo X Kotobukiya project OTACOOL! Kotobukiya loves the otaku room photos that were submitted to the 20090326 giveaway so much that they are planning to publish a book based on otaku room photos named – OTACOOL. In response to Danny’s call to submit new photos, I once again took out my digital camera and started snapping photos of my command center
OTACOOL Room Photo Submission
And the Miss Dollfie Summer 2009 contest, another collaboration event between Dannychoo and HobbyLinkJapan. The Miss Dollfie Summer event was another major turning point for me. For the very first time I took my girls outside of the house and practice taking photos for them, gradually, I got better at it~
My first ever Japan Trip!
And of course, the most compact oversea vacation I have ever taken, Fumoffu and I were like Otaku Marines, in and out of Japan with our loots!
There were six major objectives!
1. See the Odaiba Gundam
2. Watch the Kamen Rider movie
3. Watch the Evangelion 2.0 movie You can (not) advance
4. Shopping in Akihabara
5. Shopping for Dollfie Clothes and appropriate size Rider belts
6. Go to a maid cafe
And during my trip in Japan, a project that has been going on for a month or so finally materialized! A collaboration between Dollfie Dream Theater and The Melancholy of Saber Lily from blogging friend Lightningsabre!
More juicy details are available in my blog~ please feel free to visit. There might just be a pot of something waiting at the end of the rainbow~
very interesting AND nice photos - you have a very good life . . . :D
The notion of good life is relative, it's about what you set out to do and achieving it.
Happy 1st year anniversary to you comrade ^o^
You have come a long way into your otaku quest, keep it up ;-)
^^; How is CEO Trooper doing these days?
Congrats, keep up the good work! I had most fun watch your dollfie collection grow at lightning speed this past year ^^
I came to the party late and am still scrambling to catch up ^^; Though I am almost there... almost! Been a great fun conversing about DD and Anime in the blurbs and flickr with you all :D
One Year and counting,
You mentioned making friends, I'm happy to think that I count among that group.
Your a class guy Wolf, and I am happy to call you my friend.
May the new year bring more blogging, and more dollfies ^_^
And of course brother, it's been great fun! It's very enjoyable to conversing with the Dollfie Squad and luring innocent onlookers to the dark side!
Lets keep up the good work then shall we ^_^
congrats! i always love seeing your daughters!
Thanks, how about yours~
That statue of Rei dressed as 01. Just wow.
That Rei is not a regular figure, it's a painted resin; but it has not be in production again for quite a few years.
Congrats on your blog's one year anniversary! Hope you continue to enjoy blogging so we can read your writings, especially love the Dollfie coverage. ^^
I am thinking about writing to Volks to get them start working on a Rider Dollfie :D So you can join us in the dark side~
Happy first blogday! It's almost like a dollfie a month since you started your blog ;)
Haha, I have been rather busy lately and had little time to follow up on the blogroll, gomen gomen~
No worries, no worries. I still haven't read your 15,000 words epic yet, so you're not that far behind compared to me ^^;
Congrats ! Your blog inspires me to start my own and meet fellow otaku with similar interests.
O Really? I have no idea! Care to send me your blog link so I can stop by?
Will do once I get started on it :]
Congrats Wolf! Hope to see more of your blogging and new daughters in the coming future! ^^
Haha of course, besides Rina and Yuki, I have one more daughter in mind, so let see if I can manage to adopt her soon~
Wow, all that in a year? Hope your following years are as prosperous as this one. You're going to need second room at the rate you're growing your family.
It's been a lot of activities for sure! Yeah, some of the older figure collections are probably going to get phased out to be given away or get sold.
Congrats!! KR Sensei,more happy lucky day or months to come to your blogs,your daughters & some new & nice Info's on Eroge society ^Y^
of course
congratulations! always enjoy your posts and your beautiful daughters ^^ keep up the great work :D
Thank you, thank you :D
Wow, that's one eventful year! Congrats on a year of awesome. How are you and/or your girls going to celebrate?
Going out to an awesome Chinese buffet!
While not a figure collector yet(!), I've appreciated both your, and others input and helpful suggestions and ideas. Keep it up for many more years to come! Soon, I will come to The Dark Side of actually collecting figures and the Empty Wallet Feeling that oh, so many of you seem to cherish!... o.O
The sooner you join us, the less damage you will receive, cause acquiring back date DD is the most painful thing ever known to men/women!
Happy first anniversary,although I feel very apologetic since I hardly knew of your blog until now
Haha, better late than never right >.o, I hope you enjoy the posts that I wrote~
Happy anniversersary!
I always make sure to read your posts and blogs when I can. :)
Btw I'm SO jealous of that Ipod where'd you get that?!
Hobbysearch~
Happy anniversary!
My favorite posts of this year were your Sasara story and Dollfie Dream shoots. Here's to another year of Dollfie Dreams, loot, and eroge articles. ^_^
Oh, also I completely agree about this community. Figure.fm and DC are the best online community I have ever been a part of. There are just so many like minded folks here and the absence of trolls and drama (a rarity really) that you find in most communities is a plus. Just a nice place to relax and partake in the anime and Japan culture. Thank you for contributing to this great community (and everyone else as well).
Hehehe, thanks. To be honest here, I believe I have told you about this before, I was looking up to you and your Dollfie Dream coverage and that gave me some much needed confidence boost to begin my dollfie dream family :)
congrats on your milestone! :D
love your sailor saturn figure you have there (the one with the gold trim on the skirt)
definitely keep up the good work.
That's an extremely rare painted resin I acquired in 2003.
Simply amazing; A thousand congrats, Wolfhinrich.
Thanks~