It finally arrived! I had pre-ordered this Aria-shachou (aka President Aria) plush from ToysLogic way back in early December and it just kept getting delayed and delayed. But it's finally here and I'm extremely happy with it:

He's just under a foot tall and balanced so that he can sit up on a flat surface without support. (Heck, a slope might be fine too since you can tilt the head forward and back a bit to get the balance right.) Right now I have him sitting on my PC case, next to the Pokémon plushies lined up across my two monitors.

This is the first piece of anime merchandise I've cared to spend money on since the aforementioned Pokémon plushies that I got back when I was eleven. It kind of gives me the feeling that I've started down an irreversible path that will some day see my room filled with all manner of plushies and figures. But right now I'm finding it impossible to be anything but happy about my Aria-shachou.