Category For Fun

Oct 31 2011

Happy Birthday Barnaby Brooks Jr.!

Photos and birthday cake by Emmi & Anni.

 Happy Birthday, and Again Happy Birthday Barnaby Brooks Jr.!

And thank you, everyone who baked and cooked or made crafts or cards for our favourite Bunny! The main thing was to have fun together with Barnaby’s birthday, so we went easy with the rules of the event. Halloween crept also into the pictures. (I guess it couldn’t be helped. Besides, the few pumpkin carvings that we got look awesome!)

Check out the gallery here!

This time everything was less hectic than with Friend Rice, so we were able to reply to everyone in person. We’re really happy to hear that you all had fun with the event and that so many people (over 60!) participated!

We’d love to arrange more events in the future, and we are open for suggestions. Fanart? Cosplay? Something else? If you got an idea, toss it at us on Twitter or send an email to mail[at]thisissternbild.com.

Privacy notice: All emails sent for the event will be kept until November 6th incase of errors with adding comments or crediting – if there’s an issue with a picture you submitted, please email us and note the number your picture has in the gallery (the number is in the filename, last two digits). After November 6th the emails will be deleted. No names or email addresses will be shared with a 3rd party.

Oct 14 2011

Poll Results

I’ve been running some polls for fun, but I remembered I never posted the results of them all. I have to admit the results weren’t always hard to figure out, but it was still interesting.

Poll #1

This one I ran in July, after 2nd cour had started. It seemed pretty obvious at the time that we’d get some continuation, but we still don’t know what. I’m kinda tempted to run it again and see if the result would be different. I think I voted for a movie myself, but now I’d vote for S2…

Poll #2

This one was in the sidebar of the main page in August, when I was feeling particularly spendy. I still want that Fire Emblem Figuarts like burning but I’m not sure if I’ll survive the battle for it. It gives me a bit more confidence that Wild Tiger’s already gotten a reprint but even that has sold out in minutes at the places it’s been available so I have a really bad feeling about my chances.

Poll #3

This was also in the main page sidebar for the past week, and the result pretty much reflects my own preference when it comes to the character songs. The Duet (yes I type it with caps, it deserves it) totally steamrolled all the other songs. It’s the one song that always makes me drop what I’m doing and just sing along like a dork when it comes up on shuffle. And hey, the soundtrack is coming out next week so we’ll get the full version of Natsu no Koi wa Otsukare Summer!

Oct 9 2011

For Fun: Barnaby’s Surprise Birthday Party 2011!

Hey, everyone loves surprises, right? Right?! We’re a bit more classier than getting the Birthday Boy mugged in a back alley while being all alone, though. So we decided to do something else to celebrate the birthday of one Barnaby Brooks, Jr. on October 31st.

How to take part:

Make something that falls under the following categories and take a photo of it!

  • Arts & crafts: handmade items such as plushies, birthday cards, traditional art, or other handicrafts. (Note: You can make part of the present digitally and print it, the photo must be of an actual item!)
  • Food: birthday cakes or other birthday themed food.

Let your creativity flow! Remember that all presents must indicate somehow that they are for Barnaby. You can include him in the photo in same fashion as in Friend Rice Event, but it’s not required as long as it’s clear from your photo that the present is for him. Since these are presents for Barnaby, they must be actual items. Please don’t send in cosplay photos or digital fanart. We’ll make a gallery of all the presents to celebrate his birthday together with everyone! You can freely promote the event to your friends, the more the merrier!

You can send your photos to mail[at]thisissternbild.com at any time before 12:00 (noon) CET on October 31st.

P.S. There’s also a Halloween themed event to celebrate Bunny’s birthday!

Oct 6 2011

For Fun: When T&B invades other series…

Tiger & Bunny is getting so popular that the characters started making cameos in other series even before the series finished airing. Barnaby seems to pop up most often, though Kotetsu has been moonlighting on the side, too. There are probably more examples, and I am not sure which series some of these pictures are from. Feels kinda like “Spot Origami Cyclone” -game but instead of just T&B you’re playing it with all the current anime and manga.

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