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about… WAWAWA 忘れ物
Started this blog to share my love of figures with teh interblags. Occasionally will post about other akiba-kei stuff – anime, manga, games, or just Japan/Japanese in general.
If you’re looking for the figure reviews…
To see reviews sorted by manufacturer, click on the figures tab above.
To see reviews sorted by date, click the figure review category in the left sidebar.
To see all figure related posts (previews, preorder ramblings, etc), click on the figure category. In case you’re not familiar with the category hierarchy, this category contains all the figure reviews.
If you’re looking for places to buy figures…
The figure store reviews page might aid you in selecting an online store.
For anime, manga, and (eventually) games…
Click on the corresponding category link in the sidebar. I haven’t done many anime reviews yet, but the plan is to have two categories… spoiler free intros to help people decide if they should watch a series, and full reviews on the series as a whole.
For manga reviews, same plan. This all assume I catch up on my figure reviews and get time to actually post that stuff ^^;
If you’re looking to learn to read Japanese with akiba-kei/otaku themed material…
You’re in luck! Well, kind of. I have a series of posts in which I’m trying to do teach exactly that. Here’s lesson 1 which starts at the very beginning, hiragana! Unfortunately these posts are also behind, and I haven’t even wrapped up hiragana yet. In the meantime, smart.fm is a very nice, free resource. Excellent for starting out and vocab, although I’m not aware of any grammar lessons at this time.
What’s in a name?
Previously known as いつも いつでも いつまでも (itsumo itsudemo itsumademo, {always, whenever, forever}), I changed over to WAWAWA 忘れ物 (WAWAWA wasuremono, of haruhi fame) on January 25, 2009. Felt it was high time to get a domain and a (slightly) more recognizeable name.
Wasuremono could be translated as “forgotten things”. The post announcing the name change is here, and the original “about this blog” page is here.
In the tag line, anime~manga~figures~nado, “nado” is kind of a Japanese word for etc ^^;
about… meronpan
I’m a software engineer manager that never grew up. Been reading manga since around 2000. My first was… I”s? or maybe a Dragonball scanlation… Took some Japanese in college and quickly switched to reading the original Japanese for reading practice. Now I’m sitting on over 250 425 volumes, unfortunately a large part of which I haven’t read yet ^^;;.
Started watching anime again in 2007, been following as much as I can fit into my schedule. Generally I stay away from the ultra-popular series that drag on for over 30 episodes… hopefully some day I’ll get back to those ^^;
Started reading Danny Choo’s site in 2007 and that led me down the dark path of figure collection. My first figure was a nendoroid nagato I picked up in Akihabara… all down hill from there ^^; I try to keep my profile up to date at tsukiboard.
Also play galge, games in general, and read Japanese light novels… Love ramen, kotatsu, hanami, traveling to Japan, and thanks to my figure reviews, getting more and more interested in photography. Currently shooting with a Canon PowerShot S2 IS, one day I hope to gather enough cash for a DSLR and nice lens ^^
Hopefully will update soon, but here’s a dated look at my room if you’re curious.
Contact Info!
On the off chance you need to get a hold of me, post a comment (unless this blog inexplicably grows immensely in popularity, I plan on keeping the new comment e-mail alerts on, so it’s practically the same as e-mailing me 
) or send mail to my gmail account, which is the first two words in the 3rd to last line of the final stanza of the lyrics to Spice & Wolf’s OP. … eat that spammers! Errr, it’s madaminu ^^;
Yo dude, though we hardly converse on DC.com especially since I decided to take a back seat there, I was pretty much interested by the small chat we did make. I will be putting your blog’s link on mine, hope you do not mind. Certainly, I will be keeping updated on yours too. Cheers.
June 23, 2008 at 1:14 am
thanks for the link, have returned the favor ^_^ not sure how often i’ll be updating, but i’m doing my best to have somewhat regular updates… i certainly have a ton of things i’d like to post about ^_^;
June 23, 2008 at 9:17 am
What exactly is a software engineer? I see that title under a lot of people’s names lately on DC, or blogs in general and it’s always bugged me as to what exactly a software engineer does/knows?
August 19, 2008 at 4:20 pm
@karasu-kun just an alternate title for “programmer” or “software developer” or “code monkey” ^_^ I think generally people doing web stuff like php/ajax/ruby or whatever go by “web developer” but technically they’d also fall under the “software engineer” title.
August 19, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I linked your blog in my blogroll, as long as you don’t mind.
September 6, 2008 at 6:59 pm
don’t mind at all, thanks ^_^ Thought I had already added your blog, but guess not. Fixed that just now~
September 7, 2008 at 11:57 am
Can I link you at my blogroll?
December 10, 2008 at 3:57 am
@g2 but of course! ^_^
December 10, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Hi! meronpan I find your site to very enjoyable just like dannychoo and have linked your blog to my blogroll if you dont mind. This is my first time starting a blog so not many things are available for view on my blog site. Come take a look sometime.
January 2, 2009 at 10:43 pm
oops, here is the link to my site
http://rangerroh.wordpress.com/
January 2, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@rangerroh welcome to the club, happy to add ya ^_^
January 4, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Hi Meronpan .. thanks for the correction on my Japanese. It wasn’t intentional ^^” … can’t understand why I make such an elementary mistake. And thanks for linking to my blog!
January 22, 2009 at 5:20 pm
@eltboy no problem ^^ i apologize in advance if it appears i haven’t stopped by your blog in awhile… added you to my rss reader… but i’m subscribed to about 50 figure blogs at the moment ^^;;;;;; will try my darnedest thou, enjoyed your hiyori review~
January 23, 2009 at 12:28 am
Hey meronpan, congrats on the new web domain. Where did you get it, if I may ask? And I got a question regarding how you set up your blog as well (if I may ask that as well).
How did you enable pictures to show up on your RSS feeds? I’ve checked, and there weren’t many posts on the forums so I thought I’d ask you since I can see the pics on your feeds.
January 31, 2009 at 3:20 pm
@theinfernoproject i just decided to do it through wordpress and keep things simple. if you go to your dashboard, under domains, you can purchase a domain there.
i don’t remember doing anything in particular to enable that… under “reading’ in Settings in your dashboard, there are a couple things you can tweak for your feed… the only thing that i saw that might pertain to images in that i enable the full text of the article in the feed. seems that your feed is set to summary only, which might explain why there are no images. hope that helps!
January 31, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Mind exchanging blogroll with me? ^^ I’ll add you right now~
February 11, 2009 at 3:40 pm
@ayu my pleasure! you’ve been added~
February 12, 2009 at 1:08 am