kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

Spa Day 2 - Client(s): Jade & Anise

Two blind-box/gashapon figures from Tales of the Abyss. Both had a bad case of stickiness - even their hard plastic stands were sticky!

Like with Ed's coat, I went to work with alcohol and cottonballs and the difference was amazing. Even the stands are un-sticky!

These figures are deceptive. Jade is no taller than 5 inches and Anise is smaller, but they're incredibly detailed. I doubt I got all the coating off them, but I can at least touch them and put them back on display.

(I may actually sell Anise; undecided.)

@emmaaum

The line after the suckerpunch ('Not even my father hit me!') is from First Gundam, there was something from Evangelion later on... The actual fictional series - a magical girl series (mildly deconstructed) and a ambiguous mecha series are pretty common tropes. Good fare for their apparent time slots, though.

(The novel makes it sound like it shares the lead role more between the three women and I would have liked more with the animator, so going to put it on the list for the future.)

@emmaaum

There were a lot of little injokes in this, and due to the format didn't have a lot of breathing room for actual explanations of anime production.

The acting was definitely the highlight, the rest was pretty good but I honestly didn't think much of either of the fictional anime series. (The end sting was what I was waiting for, though, and that made me grin.)

It looks like I can borrow the novel this was based on from the library system, so I may do that.

@emmaaum

I'm just getting to it - last week was busy + weekend I actually felt good enough to get a bit of housework done.

Also had to figure out *how* to watch. My internet is pretty slow but I was able to watch one film yesterday on a tablet, so that's good and will work.

Well, hopefully. If I did manage to remove the entire sticky coating, it should stay clean and I'll be happy. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on him, though.

Basically, the coat was so gross that even if I'd wrecked it, it wouldn't be any worse than it already was. I think it had sat by the sink in the 'get to cleaning this random crap' pile for more years than I want to count.

Maybe when I get all this done I can compile some stuff-cleaning-tips-for-nerds.

Next clients, when I can: Jade and Anise gashapon from Tales of the Abyss.

If Ed is not one of the very early Square-Enix Play-Arts figures, he's from whatever became them. At the time he was incredibly affordable, but also well-articulated and, like, those accessories. IIRC he has his spear as well that's still with my FMA stuff.

The line also had Al and Winry, though I'm not sure I still have either. Al was notorious because the front came off his armor except it was nearly impossible to actually remove. I don't think I ever managed to do it.

But seriously, stellar figures. I'm really glad that I was able to fix Ed's coat.

Spa Day 1 - Client: Edward Elric('s Coat)

With a bad case of plastic stickiness (seriously, you could pick the coat up, let go, and it'd stay on your hand), Ed's coat needed help.

Reddit suggested rubbing alcohol and after three gentle-but-thorough applications via cotton-ball the stickiness has gone from, like, 9/10 to 1.5/10.

Apparently the stickiness is from a finish coating that needs to be removed entirely. It didn't harm the color or tampos on the coat but YMMV.

Ed's alternate hands and arms are all fine. Different plastic.

@okilies

Thank you! I'm going to try to keep it fun even though I have a lot of work to do. ^_^;

I've cleaned off a chunk of countertop to be a "dolly spa", though atm it's a doll-pony-gashapon-general-toys spa.

This is arguably to clean up some toys to sell, but also take care of condition issues on stuff I'm keeping.

It's a lot of Monster High. Really fun doll-line, love them but kinda overdid with collecting. Also notorious for condition issues, like, right out of the box. My summer is going to be washing doll hair.

Current customers: MLP G1 Boy Pony, gashapon Jade & Anise from Tales of the Abyss, Ed Elric's red coat.