Import Japanese goods are pretty much everywhere in Hong Kong. Japan's only a 4.5 hour flight away after all unlike UK which can be 14 - 19 hours so it only makes sense for the city to import from there. This includes mainstream Japanese pop culture/otaku Anime store merchandise...

So, let's have a look at a bootleg version of Tony Taka's 18+ Only, Tomoe Nakahara "Invitation" 1/7 Scale Figure originally sold back in 2015 September for 16,000 Yen (£105). Bootleg figures smaller than 1/6 tend to be badly done but that doesn't seem to be the case here. This ac...

So, let's have a look at how well this bootleg version of ARTFX's Sakura Shinguji 1/8 Scale figure sold back in 2016 October for 14904 Yen (£100) is. This bootleg arrived whole... Well, almost. The katana handle had snapped off during transit =/ Otherwise there were no parts to p...

The heroine for this figure is from one of those Anime shows that have a long, long name... Yahari Ore no Seishun Rabukome wa Machigatte'ru AKA OreGairu or Hamachi in Japanese. English localisation is a bit more generic as My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU... Google that and you'll e...

That said, I really liked the way the skirt, weapon and the rest of the gear was sculpted on this figure. Apparently this was originally a limited edition figure that could only be pre-ordered through the March/April issues of Hobby Japan back in 2016. So, let's see what this boo...

If you've never seen Garden of Sinners by Kinoko Nasu then you might know his other works such as the Fate series. I'm quite a fan of the Fate series too so I decided to watch it - interesting how they chose to adapt his short novels into a series of movies instead of a TV series...

Here is Boa Hancock from the "Flag Diamond Ship" series sporting a more stereotype pirate costume you'd probably see ladies wearing during Halloween - made available as an crane game prize back in September 2017. The Flag Diamond Ship series aims to capture the "amazing hourglass...

However, even crane game prizes can have bootleg versions which can go for more than what the genuine prizes sell for... While most sellers admit they are selling a Chinese bootleg version ("China version"), most of them don't use real photos unfortunately and just re-use the ori...