December Designs + Mixed Feelings
Hi all,
It is with much apprehension that I write this post because on one hand I’m really happy we got Lun@, N3h3l3n!A, Ikuk0 Mama and the Dragons delivered today….but it would seem the manu’s painting team screwed up the background colors on Lun!. The quality, as always, is excellent, but this is a major mistake on their end. I wanted just 50 “manga” variants of lun! which feature a light blue background and white beads and softer hair color. But it seems whoever was tasked with painting her decided the “manga” variant would be the full run variant, and the original design would be the design they made only 50 pieces of. 😤 see pics below to see comparison.
Now, I don’t necessarily dislike the mistakes the painters made as I do think the lighter background pairs rather nicely with Artemis and Kakeru’s poppier background colors. See pics below to compare Luna variants next two her main men:
So at this time I am planning to send out a google form via email to all people waiting on Lun!. There you’ll need to choose if you’re happy with one of these two variants currently in hand and we’ll get those out to you as soon as we wrap up ECCC this weekend, or if you’d like to wait (most likely 3-6 mo with how slow they are with remakes). I’d appreciate if I could get a response by the end of the weekend so I can determine how many of correct variant I need to demand my manu remake.
December Designs
November really flew by and between getting a big shipment of pins with Usagi, Gachanimals, and other new designs, having to grade and pack and ship, plus doing prep for Black Friday and then pack those orders as well, I’m just shocked how quick the month went by. Taka has had a lot of new tattoo designs he’s been working on too, so he was slow to finish the sketches for December which means I’m stuck at the end of November with unfinished vectors to show you. I’ll be working hard to finish those up each night after convention time this week, so please be patient as I do those. That said, I am so thrilled with December’s designs:
Taka has been struggling quite a bit with V3s V3s’ face between making her look snide, but also childish. The first face above we both agreed was close but not quite right, so below is his third or fourth sketch and final sketch before he does the clean lines again.
Next up is my best girl, Mars! She was really sassy in the original Fire Miko design so I’m really happy with her more sweet look in this version!
And finally for the last yokai of the year, we have Yuki Onna, which might be one of the prettiest yokai designs this year so far!
Like Kiyohime, she’s very detailed and will be a bit larger. She’ll pair really nice with Kiyohime too as they’re facing opposite of each other!
Please forgive us for not having the vectors finished for these (we’ve also been finalizing the Princess S3r3nity and Yokai fillers but we wanna keep those a surprise for you all when they are in hand).
Production Updates
And for the final segment of this episode, we have our latest manu pics!
And as a reminder since tomorrow is December, if you plan on staying in the club and haven’t switched over to our website subscription platform, please make a point to quit today so you’re not charged here for December. Then starting tomorrow you can re-subscribe via our website! If you have questions about that feel free to email us!
Thank you all, and be looking forward to an email regarding Lun@ soon!
Mandy + Taka
Where do we make our decision for the selection?
Both versions of Luna are so cute! I picked sticking with the original variant just for consistency in collecting, but I snuck a comment in the name area of the survey to say if your spots do fill up for her, I don’t mind getting the light background at all! :)
Hey Aarika!
I’m glad you like how she turned out even if the manus mixed it up! >_< And no, all the pins are just regular gold! I think it’s just the way the light hit it at an angle. I took a pic as the sun was already starting to go down, so could be reflecting the lighting, or could even very well be reflecting my own skin as I took a pic above it since my skin tone is naturally tan! haha
P.s. are the manga variants of Nehelenia and Luna rose gold?? The metal plating in their hair looks sort of rose goldy.
Man……i want both variants of Luna now 🥺 she came out so cute!