So finally my Review of Momohime is done, well Better late than never!

Momohime or in other words – A figure which marched out to outclass most of your figures.

She is a 1/8 scaled figure manufactured by ALTER, I first saw her at Wonfes and I know that I had to order her as soon as possible. I had to wait for Momohime’s released until late july 2010.

Momohime’s origin is the popular Wii 2D Game Muramasa, the story centers around the princess Momohime, who was accidently posessed by a warrior spirit, whose target was another person. But the possession can’t be undone until the warrior spirit fullfilled it’s mission. A pretty sad destiny for our cute princess Momohime, but at least you can give her figure a good home ^^. You should visit the Muramasa site, it has nice Infos about all characters and the game itself.

ALTER did a great job with turning this character from an 2D Game into a 3D figure, what I really like about her, is that she looks a lot different than figures which are based on anime or visual novels. Thanks to her detailed and vivid characterdesign ALTER could go all out on Momohime, she has a detailed mouth and her eyes have an oval shape which give her face a more realistic look. Her ears are also very well sculpted, lately I paid more attention to the ears of figures ;D

What I also like about her is the fancy twintail like hairstyle, with these very detailed strands.
Furthermore she has blossoms at the left and right side of her head and a red comb on top.

Another great element of her is the outfit it has detailed armor plates,which have a metallic look.
Even though she wields a huge sword and has armor plates, her appearance is petite, she is wearing a short yukata (I have not much knowledge about traditional japanese clothes,but it looks like one).

Nevermind her clothes look nice and have nicely sculpted wrinkles.The waving sleeve-extensions have some nice flower ornaments and a gradient effect. In the first preview shots of her it looked like she would wear no panties and on a few figure related boards I did bets with some people,if she would wear them, but we’re talking about ALTER, so in the end she has underwear. Ok, her panties are more string tanga like therefore her sweet little butt is visible from a lower angle. Momohime has very nice stockings with awesome shading effects, I really like the purple color with the black on top. Her footwear looks also quite good the shoe sole looks pretty interesting.

What I also like about Momohime is, that she has really nice and detailed sculpted hands, the single finger has three phalanges and the fingernails are painted.

Momohime is designed for having more options for being displayed, she comes with a additional right hand and a second left sleeve,you can decide between three poses, drawn sword with scabbard in the hand, drawn sword without scabbard in the hand and with unsheathed sword. The interchangeable parts are fitting firmly in their place, and there are no loose parts which tend to fall off every second.

At the part where you can change the sleeve is a small visible gap, which got some critique from several people. For me its just a minor flaw which didn’t has much influence on my impression.

You can see that the pose is very dynamic and Momohime looks good from almost every angle. ALTER put a lot of effort into the base, which resembles a riverbed. The base is small but able to support the one legged pose very well.

Final words

Even though my expectations of ALTER’s Momohime were high.I was very impressed that this level of detail with such a perfect sculpting quality is possible. Momhime is a beautiful figure, her outfit combines the warrior look and traditonal japanese female fashion very good. Im very happy that I ordered Momohime she instantly became one of my favorites among my collection.

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