The Neo and Strong World versions of the SH crew in around 2007/2008 were pretty cheap. I recall even Sailing Again being pretty affordable. But yeah they're expensive now but the quality is arguably better. Considering the likes of HLJ or Amiami never get stock makes me feel that they're just being treat as limited items.

You can actually go on Amiami and see listings for a lot of the releases. Neo Luffy, Nami, Zoro and Sanji were around 3400 yen each. Neo Chopper was 1550 yen.

Interestingly some of the older releases aren't worth a ton. Strong World Ace and Shanks are cheaper than they were on release. As is Law, Lucci and Benn Beckman.

I recently paid 6200 yen for a nendoroid of Fubuki from Hololive. Excluding shipping…

How times have changed.

I'm not a fan of Funko Pops but tbh they're still better those god awful expensive action figures of OP, MHA, Naruto etc that seem to be everywhere. I genuinely thought those were bootlegs

I think Yamato POP got announced? Possibly a Big Mom figuarts too.

Tbh with how OP collecting has been I kinda fell off it further.

Turn Based. Hmmm. Well the last turn based One Piece JRPG was Romance Dawn on the 3DS so that's an incredibly low bar it needs to beat.

I wonder if because they're using the word memories they're gonna use some weird mechanic to introduce all of the past villains etc to fight much like the Unlimited games.

Legends Arceus is probably the game I've been addicted to the most in quite some time. Maybe the first one since BOTW. So I'm enjoying it a lot.

It does have quite a few issues. Especially visually. I kinda wish there were more Pokemon species tbh. I know it was going off Diamond and Pearl but I really felt like some pokemon are just everywhere, some of which really offset the thrill of exploration. There were a number of times I went off the beaten path to explore only to come across Paras, Mothim, Shinx and Geodude lines yet again. Meanwhile Munchlax spawns in a specific spot with a very small chance of doing so and Cherrim appears in a very small select amount of trees that are littered with basically just Combee and Burmy. Actually I really disliked the whole shaking tree thing all together tbh. One mission had me trying to catch a Combee on a specific island and guess what. You can only find it on a tree. But no trees would shake no matter how many times I reset the area. Just feels needlessly grindy (see also Cherrim also spawning in select trees that rarely shake)

Although some areas were really nice out of the way treats. I was sure I explored the map fully but still missed that I could have had Lickitongue very early in second map, and Gamefreak sure knew what they were doing having that Hot Springs with Machoke and Lopbunny chilling in.

Some types felt very underrepresented too. I remembered about the lack of Fire pokemon from Diamond and Pearl but even water types feel very minimal.

Considering the game introduces a heap of new regionals and evolutions that presumably died out over time it's a shame we couldn't have just that little more. Only needed another 15-20 lines to balance some of the areas out to make them more enjoyable. I know Girafarig and Meditite and Wailmer were in Diamond off the top of my head so feels weird just not having them.

I really do hope we see more from this line of the games because it's been a lot of fun just with a small amount of issues.

I did love the slow build of the town and you eventually using pokemon to encourage the townsfolk, even if it's just little things like giving someone a geodude or having an old lady gain a Chimecho friend. It was all little things that made it feel quite nice (and gave us some Pokedex origins)

I liked some of the characters in Three Houses. Like Bernadette. So I'm gonna wait and see the roster for this one. I do like Fire Emblem and I do like Warriors but a bad roster will kill this one for me.

That's really nice!

I was really disappointed with the tabletop calendar this year. Previously there were two seperated sets, one with the guys on and one with the girls so you got a nice range of characters. This year they combined them. But there's also only 10 pages, hardly any character range (We don't even get the 10 SHs as Hancock, Law, Ace and Sabo have their own months of course) and just uses stock images.

Considering what we had not so long ago it was a huge shame.

I'd call this a weird choice but forget Sabo is insanely popular. I'm surprised there hasn't been a push to get Yamato out while the iron is hot

I use twitter tbh. @keruri often posts the new Banpresto stuff. And the Megahouse etc folk post the new P.O.Ps

Incidentally I got the new Boy and Girl Calendars today. Of which they combined them into one and then there's only 10 pages for 12 months. It's heartbreaking to see how it went from Boys and Girls seperate in unique designs and clothing, to general clothing, to combined as one to 6 boys and 4 girls.

We don't even get the full crew either. Of course Usopp, Chopper, Jinbe, Franky and Brook got the shaft. But Sabo gets two months. So yay for him haha

Saw World Heroes Mission and man. That was not a fun time

! I think a lot of my issues are the same as Nobodyman's. As soon as I saw that 90% of the cast were gonna be basically cameos I just lost interest. Although I think if I liked Bakugo, Deku and Todoroki I'd have ate this one up like Ice Cream. But they're not and I was pretty annoyed that the movie poster promised the likes of FatGum and the Dragon Hero only to not even do anything with them. Considering the first movie focused on about 10 kids while the second movie focused on everyone, I was expecting this to be reigned in and focus on a select amount of characters. Especially when some of these sorely need some screentime.
! I was bored through a lot of the movie, especially the first hour or so which actually I felt dragged on. I went for the toilet what I thought was mid-way through the movie but still dragged on for a good half hour before starting to wrap things up. Although I did get to see the musical piece which IMO was the highlight of the movie.
! Arrow Girl was probably the highlight. Although I was kinda amused that Deku said she looked like a villain when she dressed pretty much like the heroes did. Reminds me of the whole Piccolo thing. I think I would have had more investment in the villains if they went more into the whole 'We don't have quirks' thing. I mean. They had scientists developing anti-quirk stuff. We know there's anti-quirk stuff in the manga. So why did all of the fights include people who have quirks?
! Also the Stealth Suit thing really felt like it was just there to sell merch. I was expecting there to be a whole big thing as to why they're using it and how they need this to take on the villains but nope. You get 10 minutes at the start and that's it.