{"id":2167,"date":"2025-05-28T13:34:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/?p=2167"},"modified":"2025-05-28T13:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T04:34:05","slug":"weird-nadia-merchandise-found-on-mercari-and-yahoo-auctions-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevethefish.net\/stuff\/index.php\/2025\/05\/28\/weird-nadia-merchandise-found-on-mercari-and-yahoo-auctions-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Weird Nadia merchandise found on Mercari and Yahoo Auctions Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since Nadia is one of my favorite anime series, I like looking for random Nadia-related merchandise on Mercari and Yahoo Auctions Japan. Some of the stuff is pretty cool, like Nadia pencil boards, a Nadia ruler, and a booklet of Nadia postcards. Some of the stuff, however, is rather weird. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh look, it’s a gun… just like Nadia used in the show. Right? Not. So this is a “fire gun” that is made to resemble the Nautilus. I’m guessing that it creates sparks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ha! So this bottle of water came out for the 30th anniversary of the Nadia anime. At least the water isn’t blue due to food coloring. So it’s not really the “Secret of Blue Water” but rather just the “Secret of Water” in this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So this is a 1:6 scale Nadia garage kit by T’s System. The proportions look weird. She looks like Gumby who got pulled in both directions. I mean, look at her abdomen! She just wasn’t sculpted right because she is too skinny. The rest isn’t too bad, but dang! Look at her belly! She has the proportions of an alien who’s being starved to death. Eat a sandwich, girl! Plus whoever painted this really got her skintone all wrong. She’s supposed to have dark brown skin. Why do they keep whitewashing her in recent years? They didn’t do this to her 30 years ago. All the merch back then showed her with a proper skin tone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Nadia is one of my favorite anime series, I like looking for random Nadia-related merchandise on Mercari and Yahoo Auctions Japan. Some of the stuff is pretty cool, like Nadia pencil boards, a Nadia ruler, and a booklet of Nadia postcards. Some of the stuff, however, is rather weird. Oh look, it’s a gun… … <\/p>\n

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