Good Smile Company

Looks nice :D

Mmmmmm, figures *drools*
Isn't it a bit to much like DC? That's probably because of the common platform right?
I'm looking forward to the expanding overseas part ^^

Nice work. Looks similar in design to something I can't put my finger on.
I only ever clear cookies when I notice performance is lacking and I do a bit of a tidy up.

Danny, I really like the new Good Smile site. Well done!

Woohoo congratulations! will go add the site to my links page ^O^

Awesome! I've been hoping for this to happen for a while now, instant bookmark! It looks great and runs smooth!

It is a nice theme indeed, very web2.0ish. which reminds me, can't posts have an edit sort of thingie? I know it would be a pain to implement, but it would avoid needless replies to make adendums to something said previously...

I actually never delete any of my cookies...
well yeah, except when I'm debugging ^^
Good Smile Company figures available across the globe is a dream come true for me ;~;
anyways, awesome site danny! love the clean look (and the fact that it's running Mirai Gaia) =D
if I found any bugs or any feedbak I'll report it right away =3

Cool stuff Danny, I been noticing a lot of companies, regardless of what industry they are in, have been starting to focus on the western market. Great news if you ask me.

Yes, runs smoothly. I had hoped to see a note on plans for future international availability - "stay tuned for a list of retailers carrying our products in your area soon!" or something..

Really like the image enlargements.
I'm happy GSc is finding new ways to expand their company internationally.

Makes me feel right at home haha ^^
Great news that GSC is expanding their reach overseas.
Looking forward to what the site brings!

Hmm...I also noticed Alter's not listed on the english gsc site? Do they prefer to work individually? I noticed Alter is listed on gsc's site, but hasn't been updated with new products since 2007, whereas Alter's own site is updated with every new release...

i welcome our new figure overlords ^_^

congrats danny on this awesome project! time to go poke around the new site~

Nice^^ Congrats on the launch. Looking forward to the Japanese version.

I keep thinking I can comment on the GSC site. ^^;

I take it GSC uses its own team of japanese product description writers, thus the need for translators. Maybe future products on the international site can have native english speakers for more natural sounding description, and commerical appeal? Just a thought.

Good stuff Danny. Hope your friendship and partnership with GS continues to grown and prosper.

Very impressive site. For some reason I got a big grin on my face when I first saw it.

I like the high quality images when I click on the individual figures. But when I click the row of thumbnail below the main image it took quite a while to load maybe can preload the thumbnail images in memory when one access the page? The transitions are nice too, very flash-like without being flash itself. SEO reasons again? ^^;

Thats very cool danny now more figure info from the source

The thing I'd like to see most on that website is SHOPPING! I'd like to be able to buy direct from the website. It's hard enough to get stuff here in Australia as it is (even as a wholesaler like me) when you don't read Japanese.

Loving it so far!

Wow Thats a very nice site layout and design, perhaps u should think about making your engine purchasable for other companies or individuals who might want to use it.

Oh btw I personally like the way those little thumbnails pop up, its nicely done although a little slow but I am sure you can work out the kinks.

Yes, an English Good Smile site!
The design is great and looks way nice. :D

Mhmm I like it, but is it me or does the site look VERY similar to ... this one? I think its the color scheme ..

Great design, great job Danny. Will post it up soon ^^

Will we be able to make purchases from the site?

getting figures out into the international market. nice move ^^

woohoo! english site get and bookmarked^_^
looking forward in reading "Danny's Corner"~

おめでとうございます～
The website's looking really good~!

Wow, that is so cool. I will definitely link to the new english site. :D

Site looks great so far! But hopefully I don't have both running too ofter, I would get confused quickly! I remember when I used to wipe cookies and history constantly, but that was because I shared my comp with my parents and... well, you get the picture... well, hopefully not the picture but the idea anyways... I'll shut up now.

So will goodsmile be attending the Anime Festival Asia 2008 in Singapore? they wanna have an international presences right?

Singapore is good... many fans here...

The site looks awesome.. I am going to add the RSS onto my website.. ^^ Now I have a new figure site to browse through..

Very nice Danny, it has a very modern clean feel to it, feels easy to navigate and find what you want.

Deffinatly will add the feed to my site once I get of my lazy ass and start doing some posts again :D

GSC International shop! me wantses T^T

This is great news!

Forgive my ingnorance, but is it possible to order the figurines from the site or is it only like a catalog of what the companies produce and well still have to hunt down our figurines elsewhere? I didnt venture very far into the Japanese site in the past since I dont speak the language and I dont have enough knowledge and experience to know if that is how GoodSmile does things...

Congratz Danyy. It's realy great news. The site looks nice and the color scheme is very good. I will definitigel visit english GSC site more often then in the past ^^.

Congratz Danyy. It's realy great news. The site looks nice and the color scheme is very good. I will definitely visit english GSC site more often then in the past ^^.

Looks fantastic!
I always wonder what the product descriptions were, with this site up gonna help a lot of pp.

Congrats on the website Danny... glad to see your business is growing.

My main comment mostly has to do with the design and color scheme. For my taste it's a little too much like your site if you ask me... don't get me wrong, I like your design and it works well with your content, but for Good Smile its a little too utilitarian for me. Also, the colors are an exact match of your site. I'd like to see some other colors used instead.

To all who mentioned shopping options - stay tuned for more info.

Congratulations. There is certainly an opening there.
Is an affiliate scheme or otherwise planned?

Clearing cookies depends what computer I am using. When I am on some public or work computer, I always clear all files. On my personal laptop I clean cookies once in a week (I use CCleaner) and with exceptions (leave some cookies always intact).

great danny san!!!

Lol the new GSC site looks so Danny-ish.

Very cool. So Goodsmile did ask you for your services ^^. Gonna check the site right now!

The translations on the site are so much better than mine were T__T
Oh wellz i guess its time for more study

that's great danny :D

Congrats, Danny! I just posted this news on my site as you've requested. ^^

The new GSC website looks great. Danny, when are you going to implement this version of Mirai Gaia to your own site? I'm sure DC.com will look great with this version as well.

Danny's corner is a great idea since you can link GSC site to your website and vice-versa.

I'll try to post this in my blog when I get back home from work.

This may be a stupid suggestion, but I too have found that it looks too similar to DC.com. I'm not sure if it is intentional but I think it maybe necessary to leave some sort of distinct difference. I understand GSC wants a similar theme and image to the DC since they liked it.

What do you think of a font change? A simple change to another similar font may give them that slight difference between the sites? Helvetica anyone? Haha

Just my 2cents.

Blogged on http://www.otakus-en-accion.es/2008/09/good-smile-company.html (Spanish).

It's a useful web. But... it doesn't accept orders overseas!! 残念 TT.TT

Wow, such a big news @_@ So would Good Smile selling their figures directly overseas? Nonetheless, great news indeed and Danny will just get busy and busier with more new things going on everyday, keep it up!

Hehe, looks nice.

congrats on the launch. sure feels great to be able to showcase your hard work to the whole world isn't it? ^^;

just a suggestion, the sentence structure of the figure description doesn't sound natural. I also find that some of the sentences are too long with many commas.

I read your "Danny's Corner" LOL
When's the next one coming out?
And also a wow to those guys who translated the products!

It so cool!!!! So much prettiness.... hauuu.... But...theres a revoltech figure....is it meant to be there? Cos its Kaiyodo....is Kaiyodo a branch of GSC or Max Factory too???

Will we ever get to order direct from that site? Or is it just a misguided dream? (lol)

I knew it!!!

Its weird to read your introduction on the website.Reads like the newspaper fropm yesterday for DC users^^ Its useful for newbs tough.
And your always so humble Danny....

I like the Design of the website and its not a bad thing that it looks alot like DC.It helps alot to navigate through the different pages.Its a joy to finally browse GSCs site and to understand everything.Since theyre launching an international portal i guess were able to order international soon...yay!

I hope to find time to blog about this but i dont really think youll need our help to spread the word about these news ^^

I like the general site but the re-posting of your blog posts look horrid. It's just text floating around with images in columns.

Looks a lot like it but it's fine like that ^^

Congrats it's great :)

Congratulations on the launch! Good to hear that you will be helping on increasing the international availability of GSC's products.
I know I've mentioned this elsewhere before, but I had a hard time trying to get figma Fate last month due to the fact that the distributor has decided not to import them officially to Hong Kong, causing huge inflations and the market went crazy. figma Saber suffered the same problem before, and I hope it would be the last of it. I'm sure that you will help solving such problems via the readers' voices. I have great trust in you~

reading now the danny's corner:p

Okay its the last time ill post a comment in here...I swear!^^
Wrote up a quick post at my blog about the launch.I hope it helps to spread the word
Im off to work TADA!

The site looks good - clean, uncluttered and bright! Have to agree with another poster that the formatting of your blog reposts needs improvement, but other than that everything looks great. Looking forward to international shopping options ^^

Wow! Nice work Danny! I'll be sure to put up a post about the new site! I really need to get a wriggle on with plushing it up and making more posts! Inspiration stations ^_~!!!

congrats! ^^ kind of feeling deja vu when I go to the site

about the figure specs, wont it be better to make it in table form like the ones on the gsc main site? I find it kinda hard to read in sentences (maybe just me) ^^;
and some of the description sounds a little weird (im not being picky!)

Im glad i am able to see the Good Smile figures first from English website before i hoot it from the store.

One thing that I noticed on the site especially on each figure section. The price on the figure includes tax, we overseas buyers don't pay that kind of tax when we purchase our figures there, so what I recommend is putting both prices like Alter has with tax and without tax.

By the way the site looks interesting enough

I'll definitely be posting something today regarding the launch of this site (Just gotta hope my job does not block this site at work too). Gonna try to add the RSS as well since I'm already working on a massive overhaul of my blog anyway.

BTW, will there be any kind of english contact info for customer service?

Yeaha, finally we get figure news/info from the source!
I couldn't resist to write a blog entry: http://austrianotakulife.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/good-smile-company-english-website-launched/ (Bilingual lol)

Great job and congrats! ^_^! The site is very clear.

I don't mind the thematic similarity. Functionally, the interface reminds of a file manager, which I've noticed more and more in your site's evolution. It's been established in visual display and navigation. My thoughts are, "the apple does not fall far from the tree," and "you do not patent the obvious" :>

jQuery looks promising, if you do add in preloading, like others have said. I imagine you haven't looked into using Highslide JS because of its licensing. I've seen a few sites pick it up to avoid lightbox, but not very many.

Nice news. Looking foward to the shopping options too. I would also love to see a poll where we could vote for the figures we would like to be reissued. Don´t know what is GSC politic for reissues but I think they could benefit from it. I still wish to get their long sold out Natsuki figure =D

congratulations Danny the new goodsmile english site looks great. btw was wondering are there banners available for goodsmile fans and supporters to display links at their blogs or webpage?

has a dannychooish feel to it...at home

just have a request at the glance if you will hear me out.
i noticed in grid mode, some of the longer figure names are shorten with ...
e.g Nendoroid Suzumiya...
It would be great if when the mouse hovers over the image, it gives a longer name of it

thanks

has a dannychooish feel to it...at home

just have a request at the glance if you will hear me out.
i noticed in grid mode, some of the longer figure names are shorten with ...
e.g Nendoroid Suzumiya...
It would be great if when the mouse hovers over the image, it gives a longer name of it

thanks

Incredible stuff Danny... and congrats on working with such a great company! :D
Great page for a figure company, filled with tasty pocket emptying pics. :P

wow! it's seriously impressive.

funny, yesterday was the first time i ever visited gsc's website - and it was for a completely unrelated reason. i bought an awesome figure a while ago and tried to find out who made it. got to goodsmile.jp via some online fig shop that had pictures.

heading to the all new and refurbished eng.goodsmile.info now to compare. :)

Congratz! and nice work there Danny..xD Clean design and nice formats but i do feel a little slow when enlarging images, i guess it's my connection that is slow or the quality of the images requires time to load xD.. anyway Nicely done.. :D

Looking sweet and this is great that GSC will now go global with Danny in the frontlines ^___^

Definitely what im looking for. A site that reviews an properly.
Im going to spread the word about this also linking on my blogs.
Keep up the awesome work dude!

Makes me really want to work in Good Smile now ^_^. Either that or Max Factory, do you think Max Factory wants to expand to the Western side as well. I see a lot of retail store owners who sell figurines have a bit of Revoltech, but its severely over priced. May be this expansion can help lower the price (I've seen prices at $30CAN)

Looks great, even if it's somewhat identical to DC.com's Figure portal, but I guess if it ain't broke don't fix it. And as someone who enjoys posting large images, I applaud the decision to include huge preview pictures!

so we were right yesterday. Well done danny and good luck in your new role. Now all we need is an international presence for companies who really need it, like volks.

Not sure if I would want a job in the figure business. I like to keep work and pleasure separate.

Spreadin the word...just wrote up a little blurb about the site opening on me blog ^^

I like it and it makes me look forward to snooping around figure companies' webbies~

and the cookies. I usually clear them after I stumble upon a very unknown website :c

i guess the common consensus is the similarity to dc.com, which is fine by me, since to the international crowd, good smile is kinda synonymous with danny, or mikuru figma ^_^.

to be honest, i have always thought english versions of japanese sites suffer from being outdated and bland when compared to their japanese counterparts. Anime series dvd sites come to mind.
while the new site makes an effort to provide the same experience as that of the japanese site, i find myself to be leaning towards the japanese version, in terms of content as well as layout.
However, if the intention of the international version differs from that of the japanese one, then i can understand the practicality of the layout.

oh and i was half expecting a mirai mark to show up on those mature figurines! bring mirai back!

Congrats! Danny.

Been to the site earlier on at work and after a couple off randomness I found that the only thing that been on my mind is the image popup plugin. Personally I would go for no animation at all then the slow zoom animation and closing each popup to view the next one is slow. ^^ gasp.. got to say it LOL.

Too bad there isn't that many jQuery image gallery (yet!) compare to the other JS libraries like prototype. I found some jQuery plugins that are rather interesting:

GALLERIA (Image gallery)
http://devkick.com/lab/galleria/

SHADOWBOX (very flexible lightbox, complex, animations, gallery, large photo, fast)
http://mjijackson.com/shadowbox/

PRETTYPHOTO (light, gallery, animation, fast)
http://leandrovieira.com/projects/jquery/lightbox/

FACEBOX (simple barebone lightbox)
http://famspam.com/facebox

But so far, the best lightbox clone I have seen is from Lightview (http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/lightview/). But you need to pay for it and it is only on prototype.

Hope the best for you and your new venture! ^^

One word - Bookmarked! :D

Nice DC feel and the image enlargement's really impressive!

nice work! its the first time i seed a figure japanese company making a english site, to make more people informed in other countries. maybe goodsmile can put some english information in the events too

very nice indeed, just like another dannychoo.com --> specifically for figures... anyway, I'm sure that this strategy will definitely boost the sales of figures marketed by good smile (although I doubt that the sales aren't big...) ^^

oo.. guess i was right...

Website looks great

Looks really good. Anyway, I managed to guess you were working on something like this once I saw you advertising for folks to do translations. =P

The green dates under the thumbnails are very confusing. This is the date you added the item to the catalog online? that seems to be irrelevant material. putting the release date there would be better since most of the 'added' dates are not in order of when the figure was released, they seem to jump around. but if that is a restriction of how the forum is designed, oh well.

also, an out of production sticker would be nice. sure, everyone likes looking at older figures but if there is no chance in *** of being able to purchase one other than an auction site, that just frustrates people.

Sweet, now it looks like I won't have to guess about some of these figure names anymore. Been waiting for this for a while.

I shall blog this awesome news ^^
The site looks very nice, reminds me of DC.com as well.

"Danny's Corner" sounds good already. Unless you want my penny:
- Danny's Base
- Danny's Brog
- Danny's

(BTW, good work)

thanks guys! been waiting for this for a long time!

am visiting the site now....maybe a short description of wat MAX, FIGMA, BOSHOJO is at the top of the page for newbies? looks great but maybe not so friendly for newcomers to figure collecting?

Wow, so people can finally order direct from the site?

This is good. This is very good. To finally have a figure manufacturer reaching out like this, and to think if it wasn't for the Gaia platform and your influence, it wouldn't be happening. I can't even count the amount of times I visited sites like good smile, alter etc and wished I could read what was going on - this is kind of a small dream come true.

Mechanics wise, the layout is very nice - then again I like the general layout of dannychoo.com to begin with so the throwback to it gives it a since of warm familiarity. Colors are nice, translations seem a tad wonky (as Gordon already pointed out) and could probably use a sort of editor/proofreader polish to it to give it a less engrish-y zest at times, but damn nice work overall.

Awesome. Seriously awesome.

Amazing is the only word I can think right now. And I'll be sure to tell people about the English version of GSC.

Looks very impressive, that will be wonderful if we can buy direct from GSC website.

Will we be able to order from/through that site in english and international?

First of all, this is an awesome and good job , Danny. This is like a dream comes true to be able know what's going on a figure manufacture site ^^.

I like the similarity with your own website and the colour scheme fits perfectly with GSC logo so the website totally represents their corporate image.

Others probably already mentioned this, the item description(translation) seems little bit weird. There are unnecessary commas here and there in my opinion. I might be wrong though since English is not my mother tongue.

Danny's Corner is a good name because I use similar one (Saku's afk corner) XD. Or how about Danny's Box ?

Lastly, I already blogged about the launch: http://www.sakuafk.com/2008/09/04/good-smile-company-new-website/ to spread the joy all over the world lol

As always, great work, Danny.
Apart from suggestions already mention from fellow members, navigating the GSC english site is a breeze.
Danny, I usually clear my cache and cookies everytime before and after I check my email. I don't surf the web and check mail at the same time in the same web brower. I also restart my computer too. So far it have reduce my spam mails by quite a large number.

The Bishojo section should be broken up into months like the other categories. I also noticed that the figures listed in the Bishojo section are not in chronological order...
For Example:
Kasumi Yashiro is dated 2008/09/03 but she falls between Nasca dated 2008/08/26 and Shiki Ryougi Garannodou dated 2008/08/11 found on URL: http://eng.goodsmile.info/page/all/eng/product/category/bishojo/all/all/all/1.html

Overall, I am really loving the English release of the Good Smile Company web site! It runs very smoothly except for the additional photos in the gallery for each figure which has already been commented on ^_^

When these figures are available for overseas shipping, it would be nice to have the price of the figure listed in USD as well as Japanese Yen ;-)

I only clear my cookies after each browsing session when I'm at work since several different people use the same machine I'd rather not let people see what I'm up to while I should be working. But than again when I'm at home I never clear my cookies unless I'm cleaning up the system.

The site looks nice and clean. Didn't have any issues while I was surfing about on it.

To show my support, I've post the news regarding the beta launch for the English Good Smile Company website on my blog. Here is the link: http://twflee.blogspot.com/2008/09/good-smile-company-new-english-site.html

I like it, nice clean website, easy to navigate. And its in English ^^

It's pretty cool how you've become GoodSmile's ambassador to the English speaking world.

Blogged it too, but in portuguese = http://otakugakuen.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/site-internacional-da-good-smile-lancado/

And i'm looking forward to the "GSC Store" or whatever it's going to be named.

Oh, sweet! Glad to see that at least one figure manufacturer has realized how much of their sales come from a global market. :) So is this part of how you got to be so buddy-buddy with GSC?

Congrats Danny!!! I feel Deja Vu I don't know why ^^!!!

I want to suggest something else, Danny's Corner..., that title is not very original, what about something like Danny's Nendoroid Headquarters or so?.

Blogged about it as well: http://blog.jpopdb.org/index.php/blog/figurines/goodsmile-launches-english-website ^^

The new website looks great and I think it's a very good idea to do a decent english website. It would be nice indeed to be able to buy figures from the figure making companies themselves, more direct than from a 3rd party. And prices in Euro might be nice too ^^

As for my cookies, I never clear them. I don't really have a need for clearing them. Even during debugging ;p

wow, user power...

Oh wow. This is AMAZING. Great job Danny ^_^
The english GSC site is like DC.com but all dedicated to GSC xD. It's like... I'm already familiar with the page despite it being new!

*bookmarks*

That's how I like it: nice a clean, lots of pictures.

Not after every session, though I do it every other day when I can. This work looks brilliant, Danny. And this:

"I'm also on Good Smile's International Strategy team with a mission to make their figures more widely available across the globe - keep your mince pies peeled for more info on this."

I love you in a non-sexual way, Mr. Choo.

You're doing a great thing here, Danny.

My appreciation knows no bounds.

/Borat

Jak sie masz. I like.

Very nice design Danny! I like how it's easy to navigate and very clear, straight to the point.
Much easier to browse compared to the Japanese incarnation.

I do miss a link to the Japanese website? (Not that I can read that one.)

Where's Max factory's Alicia Florence figure they released this year? I don't see it listed?

You've done great work on all of that! Everything's where I expect it, and it's easy to navigate and nice to look at. I'm also glad to hear about the expanding market for Good Smile figures.

it looks a bit too much like dannychoo.com but it's still good to see that GSC finally think about people outside Japan.
I don't know it someone already asked but, will the GSC online shop will also be available for everyone?

It's like I'm really browsing dannychoo.com!

But seriously, if I had to make suggestions, I would suggest a dropdown menu somewhere (when you mouseover the Makers button?) and a "Related Figures" section at the bottom.

Looks very nice. Bookmarked immediately.

Can't wait for a Good Smile online shop so I can get my figures directly from the source instead of having to go to another site and try my damndest to calculate costs. >_<

awesome! tho the theme looks very similar to DC...lol ..could be a good thing for DC's image

so will GSC figures be directly available to other countries now? XD

Why not also in italian? ^^ XD XD

Must... resist... the... addiction...

I can't wait for the online shop, I will be it's first customer!

Congratulations Good Smile and Danny! :p The site looks awesome, can't wait to see your progress with it. As usual, I wish I were involved in something like this xD, but maybe in the future.

Looks really nice. My only annoyance was on the all items pages, the background disappears after a while .

Very nice. Though, it doesn't look like there's an order command. I found a little Tachikoma that I want....

Most excellent. Further access to the honorable Good Smile for the masses is sorely welcome.

As for clearing my cookies, I would prefer to, but some cookies like the one that contains the authorization signature for my web banking lead to a PITA if deleted. If I lose that one I have to request email of an authorization number that I need to type in so my computer can be loaded with a secret cookie. And, the authorization number doesn't always work the first time especially since I use a dual WAN router on two different ISP's which makes some security programs suspicious of my connection. Don't even ask about the headache I get from message groups like this.

Congrats! I am excited for the English version. Everything looks amazing! Now it'll be a way easier to navigate around the site and read through it as well.

This is just too awesome...now I can read the descriptions...and it has the Danny look to it...makes you really feel at home...ah...

Congrats Danny ! I like this english version which is useful and nice. Now I can read Good Smile website without using google translation :)

I am liking the RSS feed. However, if I do have a suggestion for the feed, maybe add JST at the end of times of their posting. JST, or Japan Standard Time, could help those out that are starting to learn about Japan and about figures. I also like the fact the type of figuring, like figma or nendoroid, is mentioned in the title.

My suggestion for the website is having an FAQ about the figurine types could help out. Plus, I think your section name could be "Danny's Desk," since every time we see a new figure, it is always on your desk. But I sometimes think Danny's Corner is alluding to your initials of DC. I have not faced any bugs so far, but eventually, if we do face a bug, who do we report it to?

Grats on this venture, Danny.

Thanks for the feedback so far - its been great.

cool! i oways use the google translator to read the articles..
and sumtimes.. i still dun understand after translating.. XD

ah danny we knew it... :D but the site looks amazing! soo much better than haveing to trudge thru the old japanese site :

srry double post... not really sure if anyone else said it already, but when you're viewing "All Items" after clicking more at the bottom of the Latest Releases column, in grid format, any item on the bottom row with more than 2 rows of text gets overlapped by the page numbers

yeah !!!!!!!!

this is big,men

I like to read in japanese but i understad better in english

This is great. Although the color scheme and all is a little similar to DC, its not really much that can be done since those are the GSC's colors. One thing though, does GSC sell replacement Nendoroid stands? My stand for Nendoroid Haruhi broke and any place I looked doesn't have replacements. Are there such things?

I just went through the whole website...
I'll just add to what other commenters already said: It'd be nice to have some reading content to the website, though the pictures are already great the way they are.

By "reading content" I mean.. FAQs, explanation on each series (stuff like Why "nendoroid"?), interviews, the tour videos, and some other stuff.

I'll make a big nendoroid post to my blog very soon and publish info about the Goodsmile Copany website too.
Figures are still too small in Brazil, mainly because it's too expensive to have them around these parts. But I'm shure that with more exposition and more websites like this new one from GoodSmile, it won't take long for it to become a new trend. :D

Figures!!!!!! Stare~~~~~~
GoodSmile owns!!!!!!!

I noticed for some reason if i have the browser window smaller there isn't a horizontal scroll bar? I'm using firefox and there's certainly a horizontal scroll bar for Dannychoo.com, anyone else getting this?

So I'm browsing through the site some more and I find that I like how you can sort it out by release dates and series ^.^ I got to see ALL the nendoroids!!! woO! WOO!!

Some people already mentioned to maybe add a faq? oh and I noticed you have a link to the japanese site on the top right, but the japanese site doesn't have one to the english yet :O

It looks so much like this site. The color scheme is much of the same. The font. The bar at the top. The first impression was bad just because it felt 'recycled' but then after thinking about it a bit it seemed more like your personality as a designer, rather than laziness or something. It looks extremely user-friendly and the layout makes alot of sense to me, in sequence. Congrats !~ No, I hardly ever clear cookies. Generally I don't really care.

Looks great so far. The RSS button doesnt work in my version of Opera, but the one displayed in the address bar does so its not much of a big deal.

A real english GSC website ! -> bookmarked. Thanks Danny ! :)

Good stuff Danny, really happy for you :D! I'm starting my figure collection with 2 good smile figures... wish they would release them a bit faster haha ^^.

Have you though about using thickbox for the images? I use it on my site, works much better than lightbox, and it's built using jQuery. Also it doesn't need to wait for the page to load completely before executing (an annoyance that lightbox has).

Congratulations to Danyn and everyone at GSC! I am overjoyed at this event! Running over to my blog to spread the news, also letting everyone in a local community know of it!
Will let you know of any bugs, if I find any.
I love the design, its clean and user-friendly. The colours work well together as well.

I am loving the new Good Smile website!

I don't see anything wrong with the website. I'll let you know if I encounter some problems x_x

It's nice that the other companies' products are shown as well. More exposure for all means more customers! And more customers means more products!

very nice

This may be too much effort to do, but it would be great to see the production status of the figures. For example, if the figure was retired, limited edition, etc., it would be noted in the description. Perhaps a small graphic icon would display the production status...

I have to say that it is a wonderful site.

Wow. Very clean site. I apologize for being nit-picky but I noticed that Van and 5MAX AT-COLLECTION SERIES 07 are under the Bishojo category.

awesome! the site looks great!

All I have to say is...YAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!! :3 :3 :3

Hurray! I expect to visit there often. ^^;

Very Nice! ^_^ Although i must admit that I am curios on what shipping services they are going to offer (please gods allow FEdEX)

Awesome job on the new design for Good Smile. Hopefully we can see that new version implemented here. ^_^

This is wonderful, thanks for the advice, Danny!! Hope other companys do the same!!

Thanks to all for the feedback. Next week you should expect many changes which include your input.
The things I'm looking forward to most is product search.

I think this post is a bit late, but oh well... Congratulations!!! It's a very good work. ^^ I feet at DC home when visiting the site. Your works sure are inspiring for me. ^^

Is the highlight for the dates really short to contain the text size of the date, or it because of chrome?

the orange and gray color scheme does look alot like your site here. ^^.

maybe this wasn't in the plan, but will readers be able to interact with the goodsmile site? like is there a way for us to add figure reviews etc. to the site? maybe through comments or something like that.

Really awesome job Danny and everyone who worked on the translations. Well done!

Danny - this news is quite exciting! I'm very happy for you, Good Smile, and the rest of the figure-loving world!

I don't blog myself, but I do post on a blog for a group. I think that's a way I can help out and spread the word about this! :)

Can't wait to see more!

I think "Danny's Corner" should be changed to "Choo's News".

I like the sound of it.

E^D

I hope this comment isn't missed, but I wanted to let you know that the bootleg/imitation section of GSC's website is being well received in the hobby community. It is very useful and we hope that it will be updated, as there are still many nendoroids that need to be added.

Loving the US version of the site Danny, keep up the fantastic work.

I read this only today, but nonetheless is a very good news. Look at those pics, so big *_*
Oh, and that Lala Satalin figure is really something...

*wants it*

To bad you cant buy directly from that site :P

Are there any plans to buy directly from them? I buy from the sites you recommend, but more often than not I stumble with a "discontinued" or "out of stock" item, and I don't wanna risk my money buying from dubious sites or people.

There are at least 10 figurines from Good Smile that are a bit old (either years or months) that I want to get my hands on, but can't because of the stated above issue.

Looks awesome. Never really got into figures - I intend to buy a few soon though, but will be sure to check out your column now and then anyway. Do you do the front-end design work, as well as the back-end coding for the Gaia platform, or do you outsource this aspect?

It's a nice site but I thought it needed a search bar. I just got into Goodsmile items with the purchase of a petite Konata.

O.o wow nice work goodsmile!

The site looks great! I guess I will have to spread my time between 2 sites now!

I hope that there'll be an online shop section in the site ^_^

ahaha i dun have a blog so i put the webbie on my msn nick. wad reward will i get? anything will do since i dun own any figures

so weird.

I went through the site using that link and it's in Japanese again O_o

but when I went there the first time it was in English

weird

looks very good
hope it wont be long for the limited/exclussive nendoroid/figma section

wow. i tried to opened the ws, but the japanese keeps appears

5/5 GSC!