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One night I was out playing my accordian for money.... (#1)
When I looked into my change box and saw a rose!
Who? Where? I asked myself. Then I looked up and it was... MANA! (#2)
Mana: "I wanna go look at garage kits."
Me: "Ok. But why the rose....?" (#3)
And the two turned to Shimokita Station...
And fiddled around in the entrance...
Dada: Don't go in before me! (#4)
Mana: But my heart is set...
There, there were....AMAZING THINGS!
Dada: ...*heart* (#5)
Mana: ...*heart* (#6)
And we two were soon enfolded within our own world.
It seemed that Mana had reunited with a love from a previous life, Alpha
Romeo Montreal (car model). (#7)
Dada: So, today's nomination is...bon-da-ge (hugs Guillo Tinna corset)
(#8)
Mana: Maybe I can stick this in my waterfall too
*giggle*
We forgot everyone else and frollicked happily, but as for whether or
not there will be a moving reunion for Mana, nobody yet knows...
Dada: Hohoho...this is becoming all garage kit pictures. (#9)
*I HAVE A PAIN* (#10)
THE MOVING REUNION
Mana: Ah! This is my favorite vampire, Nospharatu.
Dada: *I wonder if he's gonna haggle here too... *
And we bought things.
The interview:
Dada: Since when did you start making garage kits?
Mana: Ummmm~the first one I made was Devilman so…
Dada: The future Shop one?
Mana: Yeah. When was it…but it was after I came to Tokyo.
Dada: How’d you get into them?
Mana: From the beginning I did plasic models and stuff, like now? (laughs)
I was making wall dioramas after all.
Dada: Aah, the one in you house. The pool and waterfall (laughs) And at
the bottom, Gan.
Mana: (laughs) And even before that, I made them during the Gundam Boom.
Since then I’ve liked toys and things related to anime. But hmm…since
I started the band I’ve kept away from them. Then when I came to Tokyo
and was loitering around I found devilman, and saw that shapliness and
thought, “Wow, this’s so cool!” So I wanted it for the design. I’d known
there were garage kits before that, but I saw the design and went one
track and ended up buying it. Gosh…not right away though.
Dada: And that was first?
Mana: That was first. Since then I thought about making it once but…
Dada: Oh (laughs)
Mana: I guess you can say it blossomed from there. After I went to garage
kit festivals and stuff.
Dada: Ah, you did (laughs)
Mana: Yup. I go to things like that, but I still haven’t made the Devilman
from last year (laughs)
Dada: You’re not making it, huh (laughs). And today you bought some stuff
you’d haggled for and not bought that time (laughs)?
Mana: It is so. It’s like an encounter of the third kind. A reunion from
one year ago.
Dada: With the garage kit you haggled for but didn’t buy (laughs).
Mana: Yes.
Dada: So this time you brought the auspicious but stupid devilman garage
kit back to its homeland then, the Fewture Shop.
Mana: Yeah.
Dada: You have anything you’re looking for now?
Mana: Something? Board games (laughs).
Dada: Horror Games (laughs)?
Mana: Yeah. Ones where you become unusual characters like Dracula and
Frankenstein and the board’s kinda gothy, and there’s a lot of pressure.
I wanna look of those board games. They were there when I went to the
festival last year, but, you know, I didn’t go out for them.
Dada: They were expensive then…
Mana: Yah. I got other stuff and couldn’t afford them. So this time I’ll
be so happy if they’re there (laughs).
Dada: But when I go shopping with $6 in mind I always end up buying $400
worth (laughs). I bargain and end up losing $400 for it.
Mana: Shockingly enough, today I bought a Dracula plastic model I found
at the store though.
Dada: Yeah.
Mana: A foreign one. At the festival a year ago they were selling one
in the worn out, crunchy figure box. But because it was Dracula I somehow
wanted it and got it anyway, but then we go to the Fewture Shop and there’s
a clean one and… (laughs).
Dada: *snicker*
Mana: I thought, “It’s kinda gross but if I don’t buy it now I’ll probably
never see it again,” and ended up with it despite everything. And today
it got left behind by accident.
Dada: *snicker*
Mana: It was a lonely meeting…
Dada: Even though you buy them, you probably don’t have time to make
them.
Mana: Yeah, that’s true…
Dada: But it’s really quick to make them (laughs)
Mana: Well, I dunno (laughs)
Dada: Even though you say you’ll stop, you finish the whole thing in a
day. More politely it’ll be dried up and covered with dust and you’ll
say you won’t do it, but then the next day go and do it anyway (laughs).
If only I was that attractive.
Mana: And you do it all with brushes besides.
Dada: Right. So if you do it well, then in the end you have something
good. You have mad skill
Mana: It’s impatience after all. Can’t wait. So like rollplaying, if you
stop once you can’t do it anymore. It’s bad not to end it somewhere. If
you don’t do these all at one time it’s bad too~
Dada: Like, if you have a video you’ve taken a fancy to you can’t calm
down unless you’ve watched it all that day.
Mana: Yeah. And then, when I go to buy something, if I hear it’s out I
somehow really want it (laughs).
Dada: That’s the philosophy of an otaku (laughs).
Mana: Wanting something without reason and going all over looking for
it (laughs).
Dada: If you did make a garage kit, what would you want to make?
Mana: Hmmm…
Dada: Malice Mizer (laughs)?
Mana: (laughs) I’d like that.
- Dimented Kiss versions?
Mana: Yuck. Really realistic ones. Not deformed ones.
Dada: Like ones wrapped around the vocalist?
Mana: God~ (pained laugh) just one’s okay.
Dada: And then you’ve gotta make a castle.
Mana: huh? Tye-dye?
Dada: No, castle.
Mana: Oh~ (laughs) that’d be nice~.
Dada: Like get one at an auction.
Mana: Yeah~
Dada: Though it’d be good if we could make one.
Mana: Yeah (sigh).
Dada: (laughs)
- I’d like to hear about your meeting…
Dada: The meeting was a garage kit.
- and that means…(laughs).
Dada: From the beginning I was a vocalist in a band, and back then this
person had no interest in my whatsoever.
Mana: (laughs)
Dada: But once he found out I was a garage kit maker he
changed his colors (laughs)
Mana: Hm? If I’m just interested I won’t show it (laughs).
Dada: “I want you to teach me all about garage kits~!” (imitating Mana)
- eh? That was pretty good (laughs).
Mana: Really? You’re so right~! (changes voice)
Dada: Your voice is changing! (laughs)
- (laughs) And so you taught him, right?
Dada: I lent him a lot of stuff too…though he never used any of it.
Mana: ah…yeah, I’m really not.
Dada: Yeah. *laughs*
- I heard he broke them (laughs).
Dada: The airbrush got caught and broke (laughs)
Mana: No~it’s just that everything was scattered around the room (laughs).
I guess something hard hit it maybe.
Dada: When I went with you I was really surprised! He was walking ballerina
style all the way there!
Mana: Yeah, yeah, like that~but it’s cause you never know what’s gonna
be on the floor.
- I bet that’s because you take all those little things home with you
(laughs).
Mana: I wonder if that’s it…
Dada: I wanted to know what was under the table cover, so I pulled something
out and it was a mask!
Mana: huh? A quail?!? (laughs)
Dada: No, a mask. You wouldn’t have a quail under your table (laughs)
Mana: (laughs) No, but now everything’s increased threefold.
Dada: But it’s still really early…
Mana: Even so, there’s still not enough space.
Dada: Already overflowing one room...
Mana: Basically, the things keep increasing~. I like old things after
all. Usually people threw away old things as they go along. Because I’m
like that they just keep multiplying.
Dada: Surihatsujou ni natte kuru (laughs)
Mana: Yeah. Cause I don’t throw them out.
- You don’t throw out or give away your games either,
right (laughs).
Mana: That’s cause I collect games. Basically.
- And they’re not all you collect either (laughs).
Mana: And cause of that, you know, when I moved, I tearfully threw away
box after box of games!
Dada: *guffaw*
Mana: I decided to try cutting down on everything and only keeping those
I really liked. And I threw them all out!...to an extent.
Dada: With the boxes you threw out, was it like you were burying their
bones with the house? Like “I’m never letting them go to a secondhand
shop!”
Mana: I’ll never sell my games. Never!
Dada: But you treat garage kits like they’re collector items too, and
then really end up making them.
Mana: Seems like that…
Dada: But collectors won’t make them in one day (laughs). They’ll treat
them a little more specially (laughs).
Mana: Well, that’s just the way I do it (laughs). In this world time pushes
forward quickly after all (laughs).
Dada: But to paint it all in one shot is kinda...
Mana: But it’s no good putting it aside right in the middle! I really,
really wanna see the completed version.
Dada: But completing it bit by bit, day by day, feels really good...
Mana: But I wanna see it sooner! Just a minute, or a second sooner.
Dada: He asked what kind of coating method to use, and I recommended some
basic stuff because he’s just a beginner. He was like, “Okay, okay, I
got it,” but then when we went to buy the stuff he was like, “So, what
method do you use?”
- What in the world have you been talking about
(laughs)?
Dada: Well, I said I was a pro, and so I use this kind of stuff, and he
was like, “Okay, I’ll try that too~.”
- And did you end up using the same stuff?
Mana: Yup.
Dada: Yeah, somehow it ended up like that (laughs). This person...(laughs)
Mana: Hey, leave everything to me. I can’t pass my unique coloring style
off as pro anyway (laughs).
Dada: I tried to fix the color on the one you did this time, didn’t I?
Mana: Uh-huh.
Dada: But it wasn’t in my range.
Mana: Oh, really…? (laughs)
Dada: You used an excessively vanguard technique after all (laughs). I
figured if I fixed it poorly it would be no good.
- Is it the same with color too? Like making the
red part on the gundam blue and the like?
Mana: In that kind of way I paint it properly. But with Gundams and stuff
I prefer using a kind of dirty tint instead of making them prettily and
putting them aside.
Dada: A silver rimmed tint? (laughs)
Mana: Uh-huh (laughs).
Dada: So they’re roasted by a raita-.
Mana: Not really, rather than making them perfect, I like giving them
an atmosphere.
Dada: The one at the bottom of the waterfall was silverish too, wasn't
it (laughs).
Mana: Yeah (laughs).
Dada: IThe waterfall's not there anymore, hm?
Mana: Yeah. Now it’s in pieces but…at the bottom, Gan…it’s still there
(laughs).
Dada: Gan’s a really cultish Gundam suit model, by the way.
Dada: Oh, and how was the Evangelion finale?
Mana: I wanted to watch it a bunch of times, but I ended up only watching
it once. The middle was good, but after they went overboard. The enormous
change…I didn’t get it.
Dada: I wondered if the huge cloth wasn't done by Ochazukenori...
*This is Aron Alpha Krazy Glue. I use it for my fake ears, horns, double
eyelids and the like. Sometimes it smokes, and when you take it off your
skins comes off too, but I recommend it.*
To everybody at the future shop and my beloved Mana-chan, thank you
*heart* I'm awaiting your requests and feedback for "My life is painful."
And with that, later.
[The Fewture Shop is...
A place where Dark Psyche Fetish Gothic Punkish and just a little bit
perverted original model garage kits, "Fewture Model," are sold, a foreign
cultish garage kits and maniac goods store with a unique atmosphere, and
a one and only necessary check for gathered mania stuff SHOP.]
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