The Hind End of Space

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As you could tell from my blog, I am a huge fan of Tsuyoshi Nonaka and I’ve always been grateful that I get to see him so often at local events and conventions.  His art is amazing, his dedication in coordinating Bandai America’s Legacy toyline and other toys is admirable, and his “side hobby” in kitbashing various figures and models is just out of this world.  We even ran into him at a Godzilla movie screening in Little Tokyo!

Because he will be moving back to Japan soon, Power Morphicon will be the last time I will see him in a long time.  My friends and I gave him a little gift as a token of our appreciation and got pictures with him and his wife (who is not often seen in photos but is just as much a pleasure to meet and talk to as Nonaka-san himself).  We will miss him dearly, but will hope to see him at the next Power Morphicon in 2016.

Pictured here also are the commissions I have gotten from Nonaka-san over the course of these 2 years, excluding prints that I had also purchased.

LEMME TELL YOU HOW AWESOME TSUYOSHI NONAKA IS, and Char here was there for one of these. Char and I were picking up one of his commissions at AX2K13, and I was cosplaying Roux Louka. He saw me in costume, an ecstatically shouted “Roux Louka!!”. It made me pretty happy.

The next day I went by his booth again with @silencedrowns in her Haman costume, and he asked us for a photo (I think) and was like, “Very famous Japanese animation character!” to both of our cosplays. It was awesome.

His art is fantastic, too. That same con I saw him drawing a picture of Gypsy Danger as an old chogokin toy.