Anyway, I ordered two nice Kancolle figures, one Hatsune Miku and another Love Live! School Idol Festival figure.

Since I ordered a number of rather fanservice centered and expensive figures this year, I planned to focus more on the casual figures that are offered. This post slowly shows that change.

ordered figures

Kantai Collection ~Kan Colle~ – Kashima

Kashima is of course a very pretty character in the Kancolle game, having a training cruiser as her base. I was really impressed by the elaborate look of the prototype, the figure looks amazingly pretty with her sweet face, the especially nice curves and fashionable uniform. The skirt is of ridicoulusly short length, but reveals Kashima’s wonderful legs.

Kashima is a sad example for the exploitation of fictional pop culture characters, a friend once showed me a four panel manga about that featuring Kashima, after realizing the bigger picure behind it, it made me feel quite sad and guilty.
I will talk about this in detail when I will review this  figure. To protect her dignity a little, I ordered this figure.

release date: ~ February 2018

GOOD SMILE Racing – Hatsune Miku – Racing 2016 Version

I’m not really a fan of Miku, but I also don’t dislike her, I liked a few of her figures in the past. The best aspect of the Miku 2016 racing version for me is the cute and colorful concept. Her outfit looks less futuristic compared to other “racing versions” here she is dressed as nearly normal grid girl sitting on a pile of tyres. The addition of red, orange and yelllow colors make this figure look very happy. Also her face looks very adorable and portrays Miku in a happy mood.

release date: ~ December 2017

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Kantai Collection ~Kan Colle~ – Shigure – Casual Ver.

The guns on the Kancolle figures never were of much interest for me, I always was more interested in the character design, I actually thought that it would be nice to have the lovely characters dressed as normal girls. You probably can imagine how happy I was when GSC announced this figure. On top of that Shigure is one of my favorite characters from Kancolle. This is an amazingly pretty figure dressed in an outfit suited for autumm. The red glasses are a nice addition, as well as the vintage camera. The figure is nicely articulated, being placed on a fence with a leaf covered base.

release date: ~ June 2018

release date: ~ March 2018

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Nendoroid – Little Witch Academia: Sucy Manbavaran

Yes, a Nendoroid. Of course I would like to have scale figures from Little Witch Academia, since I really liked this hilariously crazy anime. The unnecesary final arc aside, ït has been a while that I liked an anime that much. I chose the character of Sucy because I like her the most, her sarcastic remarks and Schadenfreude about Akko’s adversities.

release date: ~ April 2018

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Interesting figures

SHOW BY ROCK!! – Cyan – Limited Edition

I recently noticed this nice figure of a charming cat girl playing the guitar. Cyan already was released. Since a few delays occured I have available budget o get another figure this or next month, Cyan would be something I’d like to have.

release date: ~ October 2017

Date A Live – Kurumi Tokisaki

I never watched Date A Live to be honest, but this concept of Kurumi as an attractive girl posing on a big cat tree.

release date: ~ March 2018

Granblue Fantasy – Narmaya

Manufacturer Broccoli decided to make an extremely complex figure adaption of Narmaya, a quite awesome figure with an awesome base. As to be expected it also is a really expensive figure. Could someone please make a figure of Lyria?

release date: ~ May 2018

Eromanga Sensei – Sagiri Izumi

Awww I really like this figure of Izumi with the Super Soaker gun, it might not be state of the art quality, but even with a few cutbacks this figure would be really lively and adorable.

release date: ~ November 2017

Koakuma Kanojo – Akuno Mika

Haha, earlier I’ve mentioned that I planned to buy less ecchi figures and then they show me something like this beautiful purple haired girl in a bikini XD Well, she should be released next month, one more sexy figure in 2017 won’t hurt anymore anyway lol. Mika looks really cute with her short, curvy body and the extremely adorable expression. Furthermore she is scaled 1/5 which is pretty big.

release date: ~ November 2017

THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls – Anastasia Story of Revolving Stars Ver

Seeing ALTER going crazy with their prices for the Cinderella Girls, GSC shows us with this beautiful Anastasia, that they can make a gorgeous figure also for an affordble price. The figures costume looks beautiful and Anastasia is also posed in a dynamic way.

release date: ~ August 2018

Is the order a rabbit?? – Cocoa

Manufacturer PLUM is focusing on figures of loli characters and apparently does a good job with it. I recently saw this super cute Cocoa san, she was my favorite character in the fluffy anime “Is the order a rabbit??”. They made her so adorable, I really consider to get her. I would like a to have an extremely cute figure again after a while.

release date: ~ October 2017

Original Character – Kaguya

The Raita proportions are quite a challenge for the idol outfit, the boobs are too big and the skirt is too short. Nevertheless what I like about it, is the nicely designed and creative idol outfit and the characters pretty face.

 release date: ~ May 2018

THE IDOLM@STER – Haruka Amami

In the IDOLM@STER anime (2011) Haruka really was my favorite, unlike this terrible Miki XD Ok first I think that is a great figure, I’ve heard a few people complain about the figures eyes being too far apart, nevertheless the figure is already sold out on AmiAmi. I think she is cute, I only feel a little sad about the fact that every figure of Haruka has a wide open mouth.

release date: ~ April 2018

White Elf – yapo Original Figure

I really like the Elf archetype, pointy ears are pretty. Unfortunately in terms of figures Elves are rarely seen. Magic Bullets recently announced their “White Elf” based on an illustration of yapo. I like the pose and figures design a lot.

release date: ~ February 2018

Hitori no Shita THE OUTCAST – Fu Houhou

This certainly very pretty figure has a quite different look and atmosphere than the happy, colorful or ecchi figures we see all the time. One of the reason could be that it’s adapted from an anime produced by an chinese studio.

release date: May 2018

Kantai Collection ~Kan Colle~ – Ooyodo

I like Ooyodo for being a modest ship girl from Kancolle, she has a cute uniform and just shows a minimum of her apparently nice legs. Amakuni really makes all the beautiful Kancolle figures and Ooyodo is no exception.

release date: August 2018

And so my personal overview about the current preorder situation comes to an end, unfortunately it’s difficult to decide to preorder anything, since many figures are appealing and pretty. Haha and most of all I have limited space and budget. How do you actually cope with the pretty figure avalanche?

Kanzaki Ranko – Dark Princess – iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

“jawdrop” Ranko was one of the biggest eyecatchers

Sagisawa Fumika – Bright Memories ver. – iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

Oh wow! Fumika looks extra beautiful and happy

Koizumi Hanayo – Sangatsu Hen – Love Live! School Idol Festival

It looks like ALTER won’t stop and Hanayo gets another figure adaption, to be honest her first figure had a very childish costume. This one is prettier.

Hoshizora Rin – Sangatsu Hen – Love Live! School Idol Festival

following Hanayo’s outfit Rin also gets a new figure adaption

Lala Satalin Deviluke – Maid ver. – To LOVEru Darkness

the planning team of Alter apparently likes To Love Ru Darkness and Lala. Here she is portrayed as naughty maid ^^

Koshimizu Sachiko – Jishou – Kanpeki ver. –  iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

I like Sachiko’s interpretation of cute, she wears a lovely expression and beautiful dress.

Ichinose Shiki – Perfume Tripper ver. – iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

Another Idol, but in a different context as on stage. The figure looks really interesting and wears an attractive outfit.

Lancer – Fate/Grand Order

Everyone likes pretty women in cozy sweaters.

Sonico – 10th Anniversary Wedding ver.

OMG! a Sonico bride was also present, extremely beautiful and adorable. I could already preorder her last week.

Vira – Granblue Fantasy – Summer ver.

Vira looks quite pretty there. Idols and Kancolle still overshadow Granblue Fantasy, but slowly the number of figures increases.

Miki Sayaka – Gekijouban Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica 

I like my Sayaka Miki figure from GSC a lot, this one seems to be a little more dynamic

Shigure – Kantai Collection  – Casual ver.

Oh my god a casual Kancolle girl! I was always more interestest in the characters than the bulky shipparts. Shigure also is a favorite of mine, she even has a camera.

Sawamura Spencer Eriri – Swimsuit ver. – Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata ♭

Haha that Eriri is cute, I really like swimsuit girls paired with swim rings.

Arisa – Shadowverse

This one appears like a very detailed figure, the female archer is pretty and has pointy elf ears.

Wilhelmina Braunschweig Ingenohl Friedeburg – Swimsuit ver. – High School Fleet

considering the cute style of the anime, I guess this figure might look really sweet after she received some paint.

Irizaki Mei – Swimsuit ver. – High School Fleet

The hyperactive Torpedo Officer is also nicely captured, I like the inflatable torpedo toy she has and the bare shoulder her loose shirt reveals.

Mutsuki – Nendoroid – Kantai Collection

I’m quite happy about a Nendoroid of my ship waifu Mutsuki.

Lala Satalin Deviluke – bride ver. – To LOVEru Darkness

Max Factory also likes Lala, she looks very cute and I think about adding her to my Sairenji bride, so I would be a very happy fan of the first TLR season.

Shuten Douji – Fate/Grand Order

Yes, she is a sexy, little demon. Even without really knowing the origin I would say Max Factory created a stunning figure adaption of the character.

Iowa – Half Damage ver. – Kantai Collection

The pretty Iowa ship girl was a nice addition to Kancolle, she quickly became very popular. In her half damaged look, Iowa looks beautiful, curvy and has a flirty atmosphere, like a pin up girl.

Hatsune Miku – Racing 2016, Team Ukyo Support ver.

Seems to be bicycle racing Miku with all the focus on bicycles in anime recently, this no bad idea ad most of the figure looks very appealing.

Takamaki Anne – Kaitou Fuku Ver. – Persona 5

This looks great, but who is this?

Aty – Summon Night 3

Ii always liked Aty’s character design, this upcoming figure of her is scaled 1/5 which is very nice.

Rem – Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu

Rem is so much more popular than her sister. Still despite all her cuteness a naughty bikini bride might not be the best outfit for her.

Kawakami Mai – Musaigen no Phantom World

Yeah, I want this cute figure of Mai, actually more figures from Musaigen no Phantom World.

Ayanami Rei – Evangelion Shin Gekijouban: Q

Lady Rei looking good

Mizunashi Akari – Aria

Will this finally be a Akira figure that I want to buy I hope so.

Sakuya – Blade Arcus From Shining EX

Sakuya sensei! I’m very interested into such a figure.

Kashima – Kantai Collection 

Amakuni made a lovely Kashima figure, such a nicely painted face and remember, don’t do bad things to Kashima!

Michael – The Seven Heavenly Virtues  

The 7 Deadly Sins receive some counterparts, The Seven Heavenly Virtues I’m not that interested in another lineup, but Charity is very cute.

Izetta – Shuumatsu no Izetta

Awww it’s Izetta! the pose and expression are so good.

Vira – Granblue Fantasy

So this is Vira when she is not going to the beach, I like her playful but also dangerous expression.

Charlotte – Shironeko Project

This one looks also very cool

Sonico – SoniComi – Christmas ver.

Some progress on Santa Sonico, she is nicely detailed so far.

Galko-chan – Nurse style – Oshiete! Galko-chan 

Galko as nurse, sure why not, please continue.

Tenshi – Bunny Style – Angel Beats! 1st Beat

Tenshi looks very cute, but also attractive in her bunny suit.

Alice – Queen’s Gate

Yay, finally there is a figure, since I’ve received my Alice from AlphaXOmega I also wanted another figure of her in a standing.

Tamaki Ako – Netoge no Yome wa Onna no Ko Janai to Omotta? 

Please make her soon, Ako is so sweet.

White elf – Original Character – I.V.E

The elf figure looks so interesting and attractive

Usako – Hoshizora no Babylon -Semarikuru Cosmic Sukebe Onee-sans

A figure based on a VN game ^^ nice curves.

Original Character – I.V.E – Laura Mischief

Another appealing figure from Kalmia Project, I really like their choices of figure adaptions so far.

Original Character – Houtengeki

I know this illustrator from pixiv, I really like it and hope to see a prototype next time.

Original Character – Houtengeki II

A very talented illustrator

Original Character – yapo

One of my friends pointed out that the cute girl is a trap, but as long as it’s cute…

With this borderline illustration we end todays post, I hope you also had fun with the first Wonderfestival of 2017 coverage, the next one will be on 3rd July. The pictures were borrowed from akiba weekend, Akibaphotography,
Cut A News and moeyo. Thank you for the hard work otherwise such a post wouldn’t be possible.

stay tuned for the nex post with the 18+ part of the Wonderfestival 2017 winter.

After just one month in between, it is already time for a new preorder post, in the last few weeks several manufactures announced their latest  and upcoming figures that were shown at the last Wonder Festival. It was hard to choose, this time I added some longer awaited figures to my list.

Recently announced figures I find partially interesting (not ordered)

Estellise Sidos Heurassein – ALTER

Hehe look at this adorable strawberry milk drops, isn’t she jjust adorable with her charming smile. I don’t know her game, but Im quite enchanted by this figure, her face is already quite nice, but also her outfit is simply beautiful. The figure comes with landscape like base and a chibi figure of Estellise. I should actually consider to get this charming beauty.

Saten Ruiko – Chara Ani / Toy’s Works

This figure of Saten is enchanting … and here my manufacturer prejudices sense kicks in.

 Nyaruko – Max Factory

I love Haiyore! Nyaruko-san and I like Nyaruko as character, but my natural “naked apron” aversion prevents me from iordering this figure. Even though the frills are very cute.

Ishikki Akane – GSC

I was sure to get her, after I’ve seen her unpainted at Wonfes, despite her silly origin XD Now that I look at it something is missing, I can’t say what, can you say whats wrong with Akane?

Mamiya Marie – FREEing / Dragon Toys

Milf anyone? What are you saying Wieselhead don’t use such lewd words here that might scare the audience X<. Well, forgetting about her fetish origin Starless, Marie is a very attractive figure, portraying an adult woman. She has great curves, obviously, but the part I like the most is her beautiful face. Marie is scaled 1/6 but on the downside she costs 13.400 Yen, literally too much.

Hasegawa Kobato – Kotobukiya

This one isn’t up for preorders at the moment, but definetely something I consider to get. Kobato is the archetype of a cute goth loli and I like what Koto did with her, the face is cute and the dress looks lovely. I also think that the chair is a cool accessory/base. Kobato get.

Kashiwazaki Sena – Aoshima

Ah GK adaptions my secret love, GK always feel much more inspired than popular PVC figures. Aoshima got the rights for one of Sena’s best GK, Aoshima who also makes diecast kits of cool Japanes cars, recently found their love for girls. I want to give them a chance when this Sena is up for preorders soon. On the pictures so far she seems to be promising.

The False Songstress – Sheryl Nome – Max Factory

Thats a pretty much elaborate sculpt of Sheryl Nome, with an artistic diorama base and a very detailed sculpting of the character. Im sure that Max Factory will deliver a fantastic figure, but I don’t like Sheryl enough to spend around 16000 Yen for this figure.

Oda Yae – Daiki Kougyou

She’s pretty nude *huh* ? I can’t help myself, but I like her healthy proportions and her wide face with this cute expression. Displaying her like that would be rather troublesome, I actually could try to give her some clothes, but Im not if it’s worth the trouble to begin with.

What I actually ordered instead.

Maeda Keiji – ALTER / Hobby Japan

Lets start this post with a BANG! This is the figure of Maeda Keiji from the action – comedy anime Hyakka Ryouran. Maeda is a Hobby Japan Exclusive, the order period  is  from 2013/4 till 2013/6/.  She was sculpted by Tanaka Sen’u who already made a number of nice figures.
The figure grabbed my attention as I’ve seen her illustration in the Wonfes Wishlist Winter 2013 post at Plastic Parfait.  I thought it would be something worth to keep an eye on.

A few days ago her painted prototype was revealed and I totally love how the figure turned out, her colorful outfit is great and the upbeat looking face is lovely, the Nitro+ style is very well recreated on this figure. I also like the amount of revealed, sexy skin and the huge umbrella.

Maeda Keiji is scaled 1/8 (280mm) and her release is planned for September this year.

Super Sonico PKG ver. – Orchid Seed

It got a bit silent in terms of announced Super Sonico figures that I want to have, but Orchid Seed came to my rescue and announced the imo best Sonico figure ever! Yeah Im pretty much excited about this one. Since she was a grey prototype, I waited impatiently to order her.
Im happy about nice and new figures of this cute and curvy, pink haired girl, called Sonico.

PKG is no nameplay on a popular manufacturer of headphones, it stands for Sonicomi Package version. The figure is based on the illustration of the Sonicomi game manual the swimsuit with stockings and heavy boots is an unusual yet nice creation. I like that Sonico is standing up.

This figure shows her in a rather chilled way which is quite nice in my opinion, after all the flustered and happy faces. The Sonico PKG figure is scaled in a not very common 1/5 with
330 mm she will be a rather tall figure. The release is sheduled for December 2013. ♡(>◡<)♡

Alleyne – Queen’s Blade – Orchid Seed

A 1/6 scaled Queen’s Blade figure from a Company known for great body sculpting, count me in. Swimsuit figures are nice when put into interesting poses that differs  from the hundreds of other swimsuit girls. Alleyne looks a bit like she’s annoyed by her wet hair. I have a weak spot for pointy ear elf girls and this one also has cute, flushed cheeks and an overall pretty face.

The leaf bikini of this figure looks rather interesting, the contrast between skintone and green is very nice. In case someone wants to see whats below, the figure is also completely castoffable.

1/6 is a nice scale for such a  figure, 270 mm of appealing and flushed elf service *Wafuuu*. Nevertheless the release is far away, I actually have to wait for the release date until January 2014, on the other hand it’s good that Alleyne  isn’t part of my figure budget of 2013.

Kanbaru Suruga – Bakemonogatari – GSC

Finally! Finally !!! I didn’t get my hands on this figure as she could be preordered, but in the end I got her from a nice MFC member in an unopened state, for a higher price than on release of course. Why can’t I sell my figure like that? Im probably too impatient to wait for “victims”.

Anyway the fgure arrived a few days ago and she looks really cool with her booktowers base and michievous smile. Im happy to have her and looking forward to take pictures of Kanbaru.

On a sidenote I hated her character with passion in the anime, but only at first. For the rest of the show and the second season she really grow on me, and turned into one of my favorite Bakemonogatari characters. With Shinobu and Kanbaru I now have the Bakemonogatari figures from GSC that I’ve wanted. Too bad they made no figure of Araragi so far.

Mission accomplished!

Haruka Amami –  Cu-Poche – Idolm@ster – Kotobukiya

I already mentioned this one in the New Preorders part 15 post, but after I’ve seen pictures like here, I definetely wanted to get her. Due to high demand the figure was restocked and I secured my order instantly. A Cu Poche is something like a Nendoroid sized action- figure with doll joints and mangnetic feet. I never was a fan of posing Nendoroids, maybe it will be a bit more comfortable with this adorable and cute looking Haruka from Kotobukiya.

The Delays

Due to some delayed figures I could sqeeze two more orders into the already full April. The Delays were rather unwanted ones, even though the overall sum of figure purchases in April decreased because of it . Man I really wanted my Akari in April, but ALTER seems to have a few problems with their production facilities and pushed her back to summer. Akari included they nearly delayed all of their announced figures for the next few months. Prism Illya was only delayed by one month.

Which figures from my listed items, have you ordered ?

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