Wolfheinrich's World

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!

Added My Room Page

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!

Fate/stay night Digital Player -Holy ARK- arrived!

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~

Figure Collection Topic – Dust off

The regular dust shield eventually got its own upgrade and became the new and improved dust shield + 1 later!

Figure Collection Topic – Dust shield +1

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.

Adding Eroge Game Category

And my first attempt of doing a figure photo shoot and my model was the newly acquired Ryoko Asakura

First Photo Shoot and Lighting construction

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!

Chu x Chu Idol – Hiyori arc completed

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!

Feena Fam Earthlight

Estel Freesia

Natsuki Takamiazwa

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!

Dollfie Dream Dynamite Escalayer

My first daughter Escalayer joined my collection and suddenly, adopting Dollfie Dream have become the utmost priority over all other otaku hobbies.

Dollfie Dream Completion Project

The Dollfie Dream Completion Project finally hitting high gear!

Dollfie Dream Completion Project arrival and other loots

And the official opening of the Hikari Photo Studio!  Which later become the platform for the popular Dollfie Dream Theater (or so I thought)!

Dollfie Hikari Photo Studio

Dollfie Dream Theater

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~

Miss Dollfie Summer 2009 Contest Entry – Escalayer

Miss Dollfie Summer 2009 Contest Entry – Asuka

My first ever Japan Trip!

Arrived in Japan

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

Japan trip loots

Japan Trip Report

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!

Dollfie Dream Theater X Melancholy of Saber Lily

And after some serious consideration, I have finally decided to invest in a DSLR to improve the quality of the photo I can take for my Dollfie Dream girls, because they are worth it!

Early September loots – DSLR, M.O.E. Fate, Asuka and Saber Lily

And of course, what good does a DSLR do if I don’t take some pictures right?

Dollfie Dream Asuka, Rin and Saber Photo Session

Soon after I acquired the DSLR and have taken some outdoor photos, I realized the indoor lighting condition I had to deal with was just plain horrible, so once again, I decided to invest in the proper equipment to assist my indoor photo appetite!

Nikon D5k + Camera Control Pro and Hikari Photo Studio Upgrade

After some adjustment on the white balance settings, I was finally able to produce the quality of photo I was looking for, I quickly assembled my nine daughters for a pretty pretty family photo!  And you know what?  My room was selected to be one of 108 otaku around the world to be featured in OTACOOL!

Dollfie Dream Family Photo + DD Gathering Update + OTACOOL

Behind this group photo was an event that I had been thinking about for over a month, a first public event I have ever held; offering a second chance for those who wished to adopt Dollfie Dream Sasara but was unable to due to various circumstances!

Adopt a Dollfie Dream Sasara Contest Entries

Adopt a Dollfie Dream Sasara Contest Winner

And since there wasn’t any Dollfie Dream I wanted to adopt during Dolpa 22, I decided to proceed with my first home multimedia server buildout.

Otaku Project: Building of my first multimedia home server

And during the holiday season, I finally have enough time to work on the most ambitious Dollfie Dream Theater I have ever filmed, there were over 50 frames!  So big I had to split it into two topics!

Dollfie Dream Theater – The New Scenario

And with Volks USA beating their own delivery schedule, I was able to accomplish my goal of taking the ten daughters group photo, and combining my Christmas greeting with Natsuki’s arrival.

Merry Christmas from my Dollfie Dream Daughters and Natsuki Arrival

Dollfie Dream Daughters Glorious Gathering Group Photo~

Soon after I decided to put together a White Album Dollfie Dream support message to show them my appreciation for their effort, I submitted my photos to Volks USA, and guess what?  They liked it and posted it in their Sumika Times Blog!

My Dollfie Dream Daughters featured in Volks USA!

Wow, a ton of stuffs has happened in the past year!  What a rewarding experience it has been!  I suppose if you managed to read this post all the way down to here, you deserve a little reward!  Haha, that’s right, to celebrate my blog’s anniversary, I have decided to host a PVC figure giveaway contest!  This particular contest is of course designed to benefit those who find this blog interesting and stick around to read to the end of the post!  I have no plan to announce this contest publicly on figure.fm or dannychoo.com for that matter, it’s for you, my visitor!

So, here is the detail of the contest:

Under the topic Dollfie Dream Completion Project arrival and other loots, there were three dollfie dream, namely Asuka, Feena and Saber that I acquired through Yahoo Japan Auction, your task here is to guess how much US dollars I have spent to acquire them including auction deputy fee and whatever fee that might have been charged!  Easily right haha… there are hints of how much I have spent on them scattered throughout my blog and in my flickr account. You may not give your answer in Japanese Yen, or it would be wayyyy too easy, the answer must be in 2 decimal places, for example 1000.00 would be your answer if your guess is 1000 US dollars~

And here is the other criteria, you must be a figure.fm member, and you must identify yourself here with your figure.fm username and have posting history there ; because that’s the only way for me to identify you to be an unique individual, and not the same user under the disguise of several usernames.  You have 2 chances to guess the actual dollar amount is, so give me two answers!  The closest answer will be declared as winner and will receive this Max Factory Mikuru Adult version!  In the case of multiple answers being correct or closest to the correct answer, the earlier respond will be declared as winner.

You have a week to give me your guesses, the contest will official close at the end of the day February 12th CST!

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• Wolfheinrich’s World First Anniversary Figure Giveaway Result
• OTACOOL Room Photo Submission
• Dollfie Dream Theater
• Dollfie Dream Theater X Melancholy of Saber Lily
• Dollfie Dream Completion Project