This is the one “souvenir” thing I brought back from Tokyo. After browsing floor after floor of anime figures in Akibahara, I found Ymir at Mandarake. Seriously - this place is 8 stories of manga books, DVDs, and figurines, and it’s just one shop among many. Crazypants.

Ymir* is a dwarven steel master from Queen’s Blade, a book-based combat game (and anime series and video game and…). Besides being an adorable girl that dual wields massive axes while being dressed as a pirate, she was the only character I found without huge, focal-point breasts. And no, it’s not because she’s a child, it’s because she’s a dwarf, duh.

Now she’s on my shelf, protectin’ my peripherals!

*If you are too lazy to translate the page from Japanese (try Chrome), you should know that “Ymir’s likes include Blast Furnace but dislikes are snakes.”