Whoo, scans. Pardon my lack of enthusiasm, but the week leading up to Wonder Festival always has me dreading scans. It means extra features (garage kit roundup and wishlist) on top of, well, the event coverage and we have three reviews to work on this week! So when I remembered scans were tonight I nearly cried. For real, ask Stephen.
So, let’s just dive right in. Wow, such figures! So PVC! Wowwwww! Maybe I’ll just do every post in Shibe…
Melty | Max Factory
Oh my god she’s PERFECT! Even better than I imagined!
Amazon & Elf | MegaHouse | 1/8
HAHA NOPE NOPE NOPE
Lynette Bishop | Alter | 1/8
I was sure Lynette would be the last Witch they would work on, but here she is and looking adorable!
Satan | Orchid Seed | 1/8 | 2013
Looks like they refined her sculpt even more from the last time we saw her, loving the details on her boots.
Lucifer | Amakuni | 1/7 | Exclusive
Amakuni, NOOOOOOOOOOO ;~; I was so praying it would be Orchid.
Tomoe | MegaHouse
Wow, how… not tasteful.
Liliana | Penguin Parade
Liliana is cute and one of the better QB designs, so I don’t mind her getting another figure.
Morgiana | MegaHouse | 1/8 | 2013
I didn’t think I’d be picking up any of the Magi figures, but this cutie is DEFINITELY coming into my life.
Tai & Matt | MegaHouse | P! GEM
Whoooo, more Digimon! Between this, the Sailor Moon Figuarts and Koto’s Yu-Gi-Oh line, my childhood is almost complete… now we just need some scaled Pokemon figures. Maybe from…. Alter?
Sayaka Miku | Kotobukiya | Cu-Poche | 2014
D’aww, I think I like this more than the Nendo!
Sailor Mars | Bandai | S.H.Figuarts
No flames, boooooooo.
Sailor Venus & Sailor Jupiter | Bandai | S.H.Figuarts
Holy crap slow down Bandai, you are sculpting these WAY too fast, let our wallets breathe a little!
Makoto Hirada | MegaHouse | 1/8
Hmm… plain right now, but the sculpt has potential.
Soniko | Amakuni | 1/8 | ¥9,280 | March | Exclusive
Hmm, she looks a lot better than what I had imagined.
Reimu | MegaHouse | Non-scale | ¥5,800 | January | Exclusive
This is such a unique, adorable figure. I have to have it!
Original Character | Arcadia | 1/6 | ¥14,490 | December
Usually I am a fan of Masamune Shirow’s art. Like, a HUGE fan. But this just looks… dated.
Eucliwood Hellscythe | FREEing | 1/4 | ¥18,800
Dammit FREEing, I swore not to buy any more bunny figures!
Kasumi Yashiro | Kotobukiya | 1/6 | 2014
OKAY WHAT SO CUTE MUST OWN
Mary | Ascii Media Works | 1/8 | ¥8,800 | December | Exclusive
Haha what is up with all these exclusives is it like “national drain figure collectors’ wallet month” or something
Colossal Titan | Good Smile Company | Nendoroid
Haha a wall I think I’m going insane from lack of sleep
Okay well that’s like… the scans and stuff. Horaaaay. You know, usually I read for an hour before bed. I’m reading The Unconsoled right now, and I was so looking forward to diving into it tonight–especially after competing a review and a feature but then life was like HAHA NO LEAH DO THESE SCANS LOOK FIGURES WRITE ABOUT THEM. Lol life, you got me good.
[via 2chan]
I am happy to see the Dragon’s Crown Amazon and Satan is looking pretty good too.
Awwww. No figma >______<
The Elf turned out good! The Amazon… WHY IS HER WAIST SO FUCKING TINY?? WITH A TRUNK LIKE THAT YOU’D THINK SHE’D HAVE SOME FUCKING MEAT ON HER SOMEWHERE BUT NO SHE’S NOT AN HOURGLASS SHAPE SHE’S JUST A LITERAL HOURGLASS AND
ugh okay
nope to that. nope.
So much content O.O
I’m was all kinds of wrong on these – I thought Melty would be my fave but not so much, instead I’m for Satan and … Digimon? WTH?
That police girl is cute but I’ll pass. AND, having no interest in Bunny girls, OMG Eucliwood, swoon! I hated their Nymph (the body looked like they just copied a classical bust and put on a loli head) but Yuu’s sculpt I can abide by. (I can’t imagine what my non-collector friends would think of a ¼ scale Bunny, loli or not.)
And are the nendo Titan’s elbows jointed? Unusual.
Lynette looks so cute my god.
I didn’t want to buy more Strike Witches figures but I think I may need to grab all the upcoming releases…
I’m pleasantly surprised by the Morgiana too! And I’m not fond of Chibi figures but that Sayaka is too cute!
On the other hand, have you seen the new nendoroid Naegi Makoto from Dangan Ronpa, Leah? I would love to hear what you would have to say about him!
FWIW, like most previous Vanillaware figures, Amazon (and Elf) are based directly on source artwork so issues w/ the proportions aren’t really the fault of the sculpt (http://myfigurecollection.net/picture/755408&ref=item%3A165799).
While I love the Amazon’s design, this isn’t the pose I was hoping for. I was hoping she’d get some sort of valiant standing-upright pose with her giant axe slung over her shoulder, not too dissimilar from the pose Megahouse’s Risty has. While I think the extreme proportions of her waste and legs work well in an illustration (and in context of the rest of the Dragon’s Crown world), it comes off awkward in sculpted form. I’m going to have to wait to see how she turns out painted.
As far as Elf, I think she looks good in that jump shot action pose. What’s the problem you have with her?
Satan, looking good, but I wish she had more covering bottoms. I’d also have preferred they kept her boobs smaller in line with the original illustration, but it seems like they’re just taking all of the 7 Sins girls and bumping them up a couple anime sizes. I guess it can’t be helped. Still, what they did to poor Mammon…
Lucifer…I like the pose, I like the swimsuit IDEA, and I love the goggles/sunglasses on her. But the extremely tiny nipple-cover-only bikini top is a dealbreaker.
Elf: broken spine, weird calves, right hand looks like it’s possessed by a demon. It baffles me that the same person illustrated Velvet and Gwen.
Don’t forget Mercedes and Momohime too!
I thought that Elf’s right hand was a cool bow string release pose. Torso twist is a little extreme, but I think the overall jump and fire back pose looks nice and dynamic. I don’t see the problem with her calves. The look like calves to me.
I’d say compared to the source art, the biggest problem to me is that her legs are a bit on the short side compared to the length of her torso. I wish they’d given her mouth that “oooh” shape from the art too. It makes it look like she’s exhaling from exertion.
I love Eucilwood, she looks really good for a Freeing figure. I would love to see more figures from, “Is This a Zombie”. I also can’t wait for Melty. I just not to thrilled with the Sonico figure it looks blah too me.
Nothing again, this month. Oh by the way, have you seen Haruka Amami Anime Edition from MH? Oh my freaking god, that is like a total disaster. I rather buy the original one.
Now I realized how good Koto’s were…really hope in WF, Koto will announce a new one 😀
I can’t be the only one who thinks that Max Factory completely blew that Melty, right? Her eyes are entirely too large, her hair entirely too purple, and the white trim on her bathing suit entirely too wide. Not exactly looking forward to the rest of the line if this is how MF is going to treat these…
I was also disappointed AMAKUNI will produce the Lucifer swimsuit figure. I don’t have anything against them but I honestly think Orchid Seed would have done a better job.
Regarding the Masamune Shirow figure:
Not really my taste. I have the artbook and there are some that I would buy instantly if they would be avaible in figure form, like that one general – fully clothed.