BARAPALOOZA THE THIRD

 

That time of the year is back, the Barapalooza in its third edition took place last weekend and it amaze me how fast time flys since my wallet is still hurt by the damage the second Barapalooza did it. This time tough there was activitys days before the event, like a Mario Kart tournament and a Drink and Draw and Fuck thingy where....asistants could drink alcohol, draw nude models and also have sex with other people around?? I dunno.....for me a bara convention has been always a dream but this kind of activitys were pretty outlandish for me.

I dont know how god turned out this activitys but the main event itself took place in a more fancy and expensive hotel and this time it has international guest artists as well as voice actors soo this convention is deffinetly expanding in pretty odd ways while the artists alley this time was the same size as last year.

My complaing from last time remains, there wasnt too much bara in the end since there was a mix with a lot of furry and bishounen/pretty boys and even yaoi, but they also mixed around clothing and photography. I wasnt the only one to notice since a friend of mine pointed it to me the bara content was too limited. Sadly, theres not much of a bara comunity in Mexico soo the event needs furry to be strong enough and mix all other kind of male erotica on it.

I still want a full bara event but i dont know if thats going to be ever posible given bara art is keept as a minority, tough variety helps to make the event more fun i guess and theres a lot of no-bara artists that have amazing skills and products to sell, soo i could not wish the event to took place without them.

Its a difficult idea to limit the artists to the name of the event or open it up to other styles, but still i am kinda sad some artists didnt sell too well while others (like the furrys) sould out theyr items and had a big production machinery behind. There was some artists i wish i had the chance to support but my budget was very limited thanks to Pawercon.

PRINCIPE CONEJO always have pretty cool stuff to sell, from collections of bara men cards to cereal boxes and surprise combos with keychains and other stuff soo this time i ony got a small Endeavor 2 sides Dakimakura in the size of a keychain. A normal Dakimakura take too much space soo this was perfect to me and i got an Endeavor card as well but i wish at some point i can buy his standees.

One of my main objectives was also the collection of keychains from EDD LAYER EX , his place was my first stop because i HAD to have this keychains of Solid Snake, Chris, Ryu and Endeavo. They are big and they are perfect and this man have really good taste in men and also he draws incredible and i regret not getting some prints of his art.

DON BARA BARA is one of the very first artists i meet at Barapalooza and the one that started my keychain collection soo this time i got his Chris and Lucas Lee keychains (Lucas Lee have a nude side) and one of his Oni charms that make wish comes true of you rub on his pecs. A pretty cool design and concept and he had other very amazing keychains and comics but y budget didnt let me got them.

One of the 3 international guest artists was BOWSERINA (and also the very first female) and she was also my main goal in this event because.....GOLIATH!!! Hey Goliath keychain is the coolest thing i ever seen and i wasnt expecting to find Gargoyles here. I even got two of this and also a Kaiman one. Her art style is soo amazing and she had soo much stuff i wanted, like plushies, and standees and a Beast keychain and really regret not getting more from her.

In Pawercon the only bara material i got was from LANCER and this time the only furry material i got was from him: a metalic Ben Biggers print from ZZZ.

One of my favorite artists in last years is PUMPKING WOLF , his artsyle is incrediblly stylish, sexy and cartoonis enough to be very fluid but extremellycool at the same time. He draws mostly furry but here i find some of his bara human art and i just love soo much the way he draws, and the way he paints, and his subjects and pretty much everything....i only got two prints but damn, i want every single art he does printed like this.

In this convention i actually meet in person someone very special called KARULOX . We meet long loong loong time ago at Y!Gallery (at my time when i used to draw the most) and i finally had the chance to meet him and see how wonderfull he is in person. One of the original bara artists, i got postcard prints of his art Archie, James, Geralt, Snow and Jecht as well as a keychain, four pins and a lanyard based on his game WET DREAMS SPA he build all by himself. PLEASE GO PLAY HIS GAME!!

And laslty i got lots of stuff from ABSOLUM : two pretty cool and stylish Ryu and Chris keychains (the Chris one includes RE5 and RE8 versions of him in each side), his amazing artbook Grimorio, art prints from Smael, Metal Gear Solid, Devilman and Street Fighter and a poster of the cover of Blazing Strike. I love his art and really admire him!!

He also signed my Blazing Strike artbook!! I know he has no bloogspot but if he evers comes around here: THANK YOU SOO MUCH!! YOUR ART IS AN ENDLESS FOUNTIAN OF JOY!!

There was soo amazing stuff i wasnt able to buy but i just hope next year i can support this amazing artists and meet again long time firends i lost contact with them because, while the bara isnt as present as i wished for, this event is still unique and an amazing way to keep in contact with the besta rtists out there.

VON LYCAON

 As some of you may know (i doubt it....but i am hopefull someone read my past entrys) i have a blog dedicated to my action figures collection that is somehow more active than this place (i am sorry) and i use to have both sides of my life independent but just recently a friend of mine got a figure that arrived to my home since he wasnt able to recive it thanks to his job and given how rare this figure is i ended taking pictures and review it like some kind of "guest review" but given the nature of the figure, i cant review it on my other blog...

This is a NSFW figure, an erotic male nude, a kind of figure i always wanted to collect but now that this figures are real, reality show me i cant afford them, soo i take a chance to have one of them in my hands for a few days and given the info about this figures is extremelly rare - for some reason people buy them an hide them rigth away in shame - i think it was worth the trouble put in here as much information about this particular figure for people who may be interested on it.

The subject here is Von Lycaon, a character from the game Zenless Zone Zero - ZZZ - an urban RPG mixed with gatcha, hack and slash and visual novel that has build a pretty awesome world around it that manages to be very futuristic and retro at the same time. The battle system is fun and the writing and characters very amusing and easy to care and Von Lycaon is probablly the most popular from the male cast.

A buttler and gentleman from Victoria Housekeeping, this werewolf have a deep and sexy voice as well as perfect maners, big muscles and a manly aura that makes you feel safe al the time soo given how easy is to crush on him, is no wonder the NSFW studios started working on him pretty fast and Lingze Studio is the first one to release him.

This Lycaon is huge...like half a head taller than my Tunshi Haohmaru and IconiQ Ryu...a head bigger than Sideshow or Hot Toys figures but given the nature of the figure, the bigger the better. He cant stand on his own of course but comes with a wide and pretty heavy base tough i think its shafe standing on it, nly one of his feet have a peg to fit on a single hole on the base soo he is basically stansing on asingle leg.

The material is strong and the metalic peg runs very deep on his leg but still, i would feel much better if they give him a peg to his other leg too. But once standing he stays that way perfectly. 

This guy is made of resin, soo he is very very heavy and is not articulated, tough his head, tail and arms can be removed for storage porpuse. They have a magnet inside soo not only they fit perfectly to the torso, but its pretty tough and tricky remove them given the power of the magnet, specially with such spiky sculpt.

The sculpt is fantastic, with the spiky hair in the back and the hair coming out from his cute ears, the ruffled heair on the front and the straps around his gace, his snout its a little bit small maybe but thisis extremelly accurate to the game design and given this is anime based, he have no texture at all to give him a clean look.

The musculature in both the front and the back is very impresive, with round and perfect pecs, abs and a sexy structure on his wide back, theres strands of spiky hair arpund the abs and around his biceps and his legs are impresive but not as much as his amazing round bubble but.

The tail gets in the way to enjot the butt of course, but its a really big and heavy piece mized with hair and leather straps that have a long peg that fits on a hole on top of his butt. The tail feels kind aunestable tough since its such a heavy section and is a little wobbly but it stays in place perfectly. Tough is much better to remove it before moving the figure around.

The mechanical legs have a magnifiscent sculpt in both the front and back, with a design similar of that of Metal Gear Rising´s Raiden and is very easy to keep looking at theyr cool machinery design but is a little difficult to focus on it with Lycaon´s nude and muscly body on top.

Lingze Studio gives him a pretty cute, elegant and sexy bush of hair in front that almost looks like a leaf. I am guessing this is accurate for a creature like him and helps to display him in a very erotic way without being pornographic. Remove this piece is pretty tricky since the magnet is strong and the bush of hair is not that big.

This peice can be swaped for a flacid male organ with testicles and pubid hair on top. The penis is thick and extremelly cute and sexy and the pubic hair helps a lot. While the whole piece is painted in plain white (just like the bush of hair), the glans is soft pink with a wash of dark and a weet look. Very realistic and inviting.

The third piece consist on an erect organ, much bigger and exciting that the last one. This time is easyer to look at his testicles and the realistic wrinkled texture on them and the glans have the pink color with a dark wash and a wet effect that looks really delicious.

The last option to display is a canin organ. I am not an expert in this particular anatomy but this is deffinetly not my favorite either. The shape is....inhuman and is much bigger and the paint is red this time. It have more vains but that mixed with the red color makes it looks a little painfull, tough it looks strangelly natural despite being surrounded by only white.

I was soo excited about the penis part i skip the paint of the figure itself. While Lycaon is completelly white he have a soft brush of grey around every muscles soo he looks nicelly shaded and every muscle shape stands out perfectly (nipples included). The leather straps around his face, chest and arms as well as tail have a dark grey wash to gives them the look of real leather and the tip of his ears and hair have a black gradient as well.

The mouth have a black line and the eye have a beautifully painted and detailed red pupil. The work on his eye is really amazing. And of course, the paint on his mechanical legs is pretty neat too, with gun metal black, a wash of grey to make them looks realistic and some golden and blue details, they looks metalic and elegant, just like Lycaon.

Aside of the extra penises options, he also comes with a golden watch. The watch fits perfectly on his claws and the cord flows nicelly around his hand but the best part is how the numbers and other details can be seen at the other side.

The base is really heavy and have a wood painted that looks very realistic and a pretty interesting and elegant carving on it but the biggest item here is the couch....that coush is EXTREMELLY HEAVY, thick resin, and it rest on the base with no protection at all. The design is full of luxury and while its completelly white it also have golden legs and other golden details, pretty elegant but pretty simple if you ask me.

This piece is pretty much half of the weigth fo the entire figure and mades me wonder if it was necesary to add this couch. They could added a pile of books or something more ligth weigth but i guess they could not find something fancy enough to give an air of elegance to the display.

Lastly, the figures comes with a metalic foul card with an image of the figure and the number in the production. This is figure 50 but i have no idea how big was the production but i doubt is big.

This figure is very high quality and while i do love Von Lycaon on the game, the figure itself makes justice of the character and is really sexy and tempting. While i dislike the animal parts, the erected and flacid penis are just beyond perfect and the hair covering is also a great idea for display in a very tastefull way.

While this figure was in my hands for only a week, it made me wish i was able to collect this kind of sculotures: Chris, Ryu, Iskander, Archer, Lancer, Guts, soo many men i didnt get and i will probablly never get...

The figure also comes with an extra dressed body with arms for completelly safe display, but that side of the review is in [fight and fear] PLASTIC for a complete view of this figure.

PAWERCON

 Last year i made entrys about the Barapalooza convention in my country, an event that was a dream for soo long and i kinda complaigned it had too much furry on it. Well, i fianlly went to a totally furry event called Pawercon in mi city. I think this is the second time this event take place and it deffinetly was much more expensive than Barapalooza and also had a lot visitors and unlike other events, here you had those visitors shape shifting with fursuits as one of the biggest atraction of the event.

Furrys are such interesting creatures....they are soo dual, like two extremes crashing together. They are cute and adorable and very friendly but they do have a dark side (tough i didnt see it here), they are like Batman and Bruce Wayne or Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde but much more horny. But that bad reputation they have and the way people see them somehow makes them closer, like a cluster, a pretty tight fandom that is as close as familly.

Honestly i dont know how i feel myself about furry but i always liked to see them at a certain distance because some of them looks trully happy with themselves and i kind of envy them. And given how close they are, each time they got an event like Pawercon it feels like a big deal. I still like bara more than furry but latelly i been looking furry more closely and for now it seems i even started a furry merch collection.

The very first thing i see was this cute hand made Godzilla pixeled art pieces made by DHAR RAPTOR that i first was planing be a gift for someone but i will keep them for myself.

The i got an artowkr of Wendell as well as a couple of stickers as gift from BENNY CARTOONIST i really love his lineart and the vibracy of his color, his style is just livelly and cool.

This was the thrid time i saw BESTIA PURPURA and i got a Hellboy sketch from him as well as some stickers. I almost collected all his stickers tough i really want to commision him at some point.

A couple of steamy poscards, a keychain and stickers from EL AFTON mostly focused on Gohin. His art style is soo cool and fluid, the traditional art looks really suits his gallery.

LIGONI EXE art style is soo perfectly furry and soo refined! And he had soo much awesome stuff from dakumakuras to pins and awesome standees, i had to control myself and keep my wallte in check soo gt stickers and a William keycahin as well as Swat Katz pins. I love those pins!!! I didnt expect to find Swat Katz merch!!!

I was also in love of the keychains DAKOTA YAGAMI had. Her art is really amazing, but she also had plush accesorys and she gives me stickers of the keychains art i got. I had to buy extra keychains soo i can use them safelly.

AMON SYD is one of the artists i admire soo much rescently ebcause his art skills are beyond most artists around and he also have great taste soo i got two prints of his art, tough i really should buy more because the quality is his prints is hard to belive.

I also got OREN JUICE doujin as well as a Day of the Dead keychain. I actually got a pillow from Oren last year soo i am very interested on start collecting his stuff.

Tough not furry, the only bara product i got was LAANCER artbook that included postcards, stickers and also is own signature and a message from him.

One of my favorite items i got was this Gohin shirt made by SILLY BUG !!! Tough it was a gift from a friend, i used it the second day of the con and everyone loved it!

One of my main interest in this convention was to make a standee collection. I love standees and ALVARODOG had a Ben Bigger moving standee that fits perfectly for the ZZZ collection and is a lot of fun to play with and i also got a Canuto pin.

KIBA also helped me with my standee collection witha sexy tiger one tough he also had a giant WIlliam mouse pad that tempted me but my budget was too tigth.

Last time at Barapalooza i saw a stande of LOWENMOND character Tiago i really wanted but my budget didnt let me get it, but now its finally in my hands!!!

One of the artists i also meet at Batapalooza lasy tear was PUMPKING WOLF and while i was only able to buy small prints from him, this time i got an standee of his character.

I also meet, after many years since Deviant Art days, MAGOLOBO and i got s standee of his wrestler lion character tough i also wish i got the posters he made about him.

Next event will be Barapalooza but given how muhc money i spent in here i dont think my loot will be as big as before.