Phat Company decided to make figures of Juliana Eberhardt and Riela Marcellis, based on these illustrations. Riela was released in December 2022, she was sculpted by Yadokari, who already worked on many stunningly beautiful and promising figures, it’s worth to take a look at his past and future works.

Riela is the typical happy girl at the beach, even playing with a ball. The figure has very long hair, generally I would say it’s red, but there also is this crazy gradient from red to light blue.

There is a side ponytail on the left side of her head, it’s slightly shorter and the strands just end slightly under her hips. Her hairstyle also features cute bangs hanging down between her eyes.

Riela is real cutie with big round, red eyes, it’s good that they point to the left as it gives her a stronger expression and a very lively appearance. Her face has a cute looking nose and also a pretty open mouth sculpt; the front teeth line is showing and lipstick has been applied to her lover lip. The general make up coordinate is beautiful and the subtle blush makes this figure quite adorable.

The beautiful bodyline features big boobs with a sense of natural droopiness in the sculpt. More attention grabbing are the very wide hips, the big butt and the thick thighs of hers. All Raita girls have long legs and also this character is no exception in that regard either. The beach ball blocks a lot of her sexy body, the belly is covered by the ball and the butt is covered by crazy colored hair strands. aybe I should have tried taking it off.

The figure is wearing a pink bikini set that has a polka dotted pattern printed on it with a pink pareo wrapped around her hips.

It is a little unfortunate that the material of the bikini top appears thicker than it would have been necessary and it generally a bit roughly made. That problem actually only appears to be present at the bikini top, though.

At her feet she is wearing stylish sandals. smaller details like the rings around her right ankle and around the left wrist add a more lively appearance to the whole figure. The outfit is accompanied by a pattern matching ribbon and flowers in her hair, you can’t be on holiday without the typical hibiscus blossom in your hair.

We have a happy beach girl figure of Riela Marcellis, on the good side she is indeed very cute and shows very good body sculpting with a sexy bodyline. The sculpt is cleverly blocking any scandalous angles of Riela with strands of hair and a beachball, like the illustration already indicated. The quite nice figure suffers a little by the generally thick appearance of the clothing, this is holding down the figures potential a bit, since she is not a castoff-able figure there is no need to make these parts extra sturdy.

Finer sculpting of the outfit parts would have elevated the figure a lot more, otherwise this figure is big, pretty and cute that I like to have in my collection.

I’m often drawn to figures in this category, they are pretty, attractive and distribute a summerly atmosphere.

My latest one is the Magic Bullets – Pin Up Girl from Kalmia Project, a figure based on the art of Sasaoka Gungu, before she was announced I already liked this sweet and especially nicely drawn illustration of her.

Her release date was in mid November 2016, my convenient excuse for reviewing her somehow late, was the slow Sal shipping, that took like 6 weeks. I liked Pin Up Girl because of her more creative, casual beach pose and tanlines, the figure is scaled 1/6, in her compact pose she measures 17 cm. She turned out nice and obviously elaborately sculpted.

She is a curvy girl with a more sturdier frame, as the tan lines indicates she might be an active swimmer. The figure has voluptuous thighs and strong looking arms. She has ample breasts as well. Overall she is very attractive and good looking. The figures hands and feet are extremely detailed, every single joint is clearly noticeable as well as the nails.

The skimpy bikini is probably not working for many sporty beach activities, but all right for relaxing at the beach.
The bikini accentuates the soft skin nicely, the triangle top covers the crucial areas and is slightly transparent without revealing too much. Nevertheless it’s a daring bikini, that tightly hugs her impressive boobs, the springy effect of her skin looks sexy. I also like the separate bikini holder straps, the distance from the body creates a nice and realistic look.

Unfortunately the ribbons at the front weren’t sculpted separately, they are part of the bikini and painted inside, on close inspection it’s slightly sloppy, although it’s just a minor thing, separate ribbons would’ve looked more airy.

The figure has beautiful dark purple hair. it is nicely sculpted with nicely separated strands and has a clean appearance, her extremely nice looking fringe shows a nicely applied reflection line that enhances the great look a bit more.

The face is compared to the illustration appears wider and the eyes slightly smaller. she also has a slightly more predator – ish gaze. Unfortunately, I’m a bit torn about the sculpting of her head, it feels like it’s limited to be pretty just from a few limited angles. Nevertheless from the right angles she looks sweet and unfolds her seductive charm.

In general bikini figures are made with an arched back, this figure though does the opposite, it does both, creating a more casual appearance and shows a belly fold, that again highlights the softly sculpted curves of her attractive body.The pose also accentuates her spine in an appealing way. The figures base is also nicely made and detailed, it’s resembling a real beach, there is a starfish and some blueish surge effect painted on it, the base looks really nice.

I also decided to get this figure because of her interesting tan lined skin. The skin color is nicely chosen, it gives the figure and exotic atmosphere, also the transition from tan to pale skin wasn’t done too sharp, it’s pleasing for the eye.

Final Words

Overall the Pin Up Girl from Kalmia Project turned out very good, she is a big figure with and interesting pose with nicely articulated limbs and joints. The figure also has a great looking curvy body, the sculptor did a great job with every area of her buxom body. Her skimpy skin revealing bikini also accentuates everything in a flattering way.

The Pin Up Girl also has very nice colors, next to her purple hair and general shading, her attractive tan lined skin is most obvious. Tan is a nice and barely used feature on a figure and a nice color palette for her was chosen.

She also comes with a very appealing base, I must have buried it under all this sand, but it’s a nice base, believe me.

One minor, although completely unimportant flaw are the front ribbons at her bikini. I’m only more upset that the face doesn’t convince me from every angle, although everything else is really nice, this bothers me.

In late summer I got myself a wonderful Ichiban Kuji prize figure based on Kancolle, it was manufactured by Banpresto. It’s called Yamato – mizugi mode. It is a premium A prize figure.

In general prize figures are affordable compared to regular figures, though somehow this figure appeared for a heavy prize in several big stores. I got mine for around 13.000 Yen.

…Yeah I know, but when I saw these lovely product pictures I could not resist.

The origin of the figure is the always popular browser game Kantai Collection aka ~Kan Colle~.
In the game, Yamato represents the famous Japanese battleship from the WWII era. The Yamato was an ambitious project, in order to build the biggest and technically advanced battleship. It was mainly a prestige Symbol, before the end of the war, the Yamato didn’t take an active role that would risk the ship. She was often just docked in harbors and used as living quarters and the ship had more luxury interior compared to other ships, the ship received a funny nickname because of that. Yamato also had it’s own Ramune (ラムネ) factory inside.

The Yamato is very special thing for many Japanese citizens, even considering that the ship did not take part part in any big battle, aside from her last mission, which was simply an useless attempt. Still Yamato remained a symbol of hope and readiness to make sacrifices, also in modern media as “uchuu senkan yamato”, where the ship was the last hope of mankind.

When playing Kancolle I randomly get upset to know what really happened to these “shipgirls” in reality. Of course since Japan had a questionable role during WWII, the strangely positive glorification of the ships feels slightly awkward, because the reasoning behind Japan’s expansionary policy was wrong and the japanese navy wasn’t all that smart. Coming to terms with the past is not easy for any country, be it the victors nation or the losing nation. I often have the feeling that Japan feels honest remorse for their deeds during WWII, but on the other hand with shrines that are used for glorification of the military regime and war museums that don’t portray any atrocities, leaves a bitter aftertaste to Japan’s coming to terms with the past.

Since we talked a whole lot about WWII in school, I was thinking Germany did an exemplary good job in coming to terms with the past, but when I see the News recently, I have the feeling that all the efforts made by the state still don’t reach everyone.

Kancolle is not amoral, it mainly is a cheerful game with cute girls that are intentionally based on old ships. But the attitude of trivializing historical events is always a questionable thing.

Her dedicated anime episode in Kancolle did a good job with portraying her character in a fitting way, Yamato is a tall girl with dignified elegance in terms of appearance and attitude, she is also portrayed as a really sweet girl with a friendly personality. The anime staff made a bit of fun of her, with showing her serving first class food and calling her a hotel.

The figures outfit is based on the Seasonal Summer 2016 event from Kancolle.

Yamato wears a bikini in white and red colors with black stripes, that doesn’t reveal too much. It is a decent beach outfit. The top supports her main artillery in a gentle way. At the hips she has a pareo wrapped around her. It has one red and a transparent layer and underneath she wears a white bikini bottom. It is closed with a little anchor, it’s a nice little detail as well as the small garter around her left leg with a small life belt attached to it. The paintjob on her bikini top is a bit rough, the other areas are passable.

Final words

I really like this Yamato – mizugi mode figure, this adaption turned out very cute.
Her rather big  size and the standing pose give her a beautiful and graceful atmosphere.
The pretty and long hair looks quite nice on her also with a little roughness at the edges.

The umbrella is a cool accessory, I like how it increases Yamato’s ladylike presentation. Her cute face, articulation and the sculpting of Yamato’s body are really great. On first look she doesn’t give me the impression of a prize figure, but nevertheless, a few minor things that could be slightly better are there, it mainly concerns the open mouth which could have been sculpted a little sharper and the base, on my copy is a bit uneven underneath, one side is 2 – 3 mm higher and therefore it shakes a bit.

Sometimes as figures collector it happens , that you will see a figure, you know you would actually like, but there might be reasons that prevent you from preodering. It’s not the first time I got my hands on a figure that was already released a few years later. The recent late purchase happened with this Super Sonico – Rock ‘n’ Roll Valentine version which was released in August 2014. Last year, I finallly had the right mindset to get this lovely figure ♡.

The figure was a colaboration of Wing and Sentinel. The sculptor Busujima Takamaki turned an official illustration by Tsuji Santa into a truly wonderful figure. Super Sonico – Rock ‘n’ Roll Valentine is a 1/6 scaled figure, with a height of 25 cm she has a good size and presence.

Super Sonico the easily flustered gravure Idol is very good for all kinds of merchandise, especially figures. After many Sonico figures have been made, we learned that the cute and buxom character can be portrayed as embarassed, flustered but also happy figure.

Wing and Sentinel decided to make their Rock ‘n’ Roll Valentine version happy and cheerful.

The figure has alternative face plates, there is a winking face and a face with both eyes opened, both are equally cute and appealing. The face shows beautifully painted eyes and blush. The opened mouth has a cute shape and upper frontal teeth, it’s a lovely face overall.

On her head Sonico wears her trademark headphones painted in a shiny metallic color, below is her beautiful and smooth, pastel pink hair, I always love her fluffy hairstyle, the strands in general are very elaborate, but also at the back they show a very detailed and dynamic flow.

Sonico wears a cute heavenly blue bikini with big polka dots. Her bikini is sculpted in a detailed way to have a stretched look at the corners of her top. The bottom part is very tight and digs into her skin. The top is made to be castoffable, arms and head come off to make the process easier, blue ribbons hide the detaching points. Sonico can hold a guitar, that is supposed to look like it is made of brown and white chocolate and already started melting.

As special feature the package also has differently sized adhesive and re usable chocolate splatter stickers, it’s a funny gimmick. You can decorate the figure like a little piglet ;D

Sonico has a nicely developed buxom body, the cuddly appearance is really sweet in this figure adaption, this cute little belly is quite charming. She also has nicely shaped and ample boobs, in just the right size for Sonico, some other figures of her don’t care about the official sizes and portray her with more than she should have. This Sonico figure here shows her with marvelous wide hips, another really prominent part are her her meaty and very womanly thighs, it looks so great!

Final Words

Wing and Sentinel created a without much exaggeration, a fantastic and also creative adaption of Super Sonico, the figure delivers everything I like about the girl, she looks extremely cute and cheerful. Since this is not my first Sonico the bar for another one was already quite high, what speaks for this figure is the great portrayal of Sonico’s attractively plump body. The face shows her positive, strong cheerfulness accentuated by a contagiously bright smile. I’m delighted that I added another very appealing Sonico to my figure collection.

Finally figure material arrived again, the Saber EXTRA – swimsuit version, which I was really looking forward to will be on review today. In 2015 I bought many swimsuit figures, I must really like summer the beach and pretty girls in a variety of swimsuits (´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡.

Saber EXTRA was manufactured by Alter, the release date was in early October 2015. The figure was sculpted by Hashimoto Ryou. I was quite excited when I learned that the figure scale was 1/6 with her kneeing pose she measures 18 cm , the size gives her a good presence.

Never was a fan of Saber in most Fate animes, she was interesting as heroine, but didn’t win my heart. In UBW which aired recently that changed a bit, she was quite cute.

I often mentioned that I like Saber in alternative clothes, that’s the reason why I bought the maid R version. In Fate/EXTRA the Saber character received a rather drastic makeover, in personality and physical appearance. Now she is the heroic spirit of Roman Emperor Nero.

Nero is most well known for some pyromanic behaviour, but there is more than this. In the BBC docudrama “Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire” Nero was portrayed by Michael Sheen, a very impressive acting, haha maybe also some overacting, that showed the Insanity of an Emperor who wanted to be an well regarded actor.

For the Saber character, the insanity level was toned down and I guess she is also very likeable as Saber (Nero), still it is a petite, eccentric, narcistic Saber with some Gilgamesh arrogance.
I unfortunately haven’t played the Fate/EXTRA game, but it’s definetely a funnier Saber.

Saber has her usual tied up hairstyle, on this figure it’s decorated with red ribbon, the bangs are wildly arranged and on top is a huge ahoge, combined with the bikini it can only look cute.

The word that comes to mind when looking at her face is flirty, she is more than aware about how much of a bombshell she is. Saber has a seductive, challenging gaze for you.

The pretty, green big eyes stand out, the mouth has a nice look, it’s actually a mischievous smile, that emits a sense of danger. Lets do some playful wrestling at the beach…

Hopefully Saber won’t be too rough…

The alternative Saber looks fantastic with the body of a grown up woman, well with a body size of 150 cm ^^ The trained muscles and softness of her feminine curves is nicely balanced. The arms appear somewhat brawny, it’s cool. Obviously Sabers bust grow by at least 4 letters into and ample bosom. It’s a good big size, without looking out of proportion, her cleavage is very pretty, it also underlines the seductive, tough and confident woman appearance.

The pose is really cool and nicely articulated, Saber is showing off both, her womanly curves and her superiority in strength. She grants you the honor of staying at the same beach as her.

The figure also has pretty single fingers and nail polish, it’s good that there is no gap between hands and the contact areas on her body. On the left hand shes is wearing a flashy bracelet consisting of shiny purple beads.

The backside has a great definition like shoulder blades and middle line, Saber also has wide hips with a beautiful butt attached to it. Personally I would have liked her thighs to be slightly chubby, but since Saber is a fighter and no cuddly Gravure Idol, the lack of flab makes sense

The sculptor did an amazingly good job with this Saber, the details on her body are hot on front and backside, also the belly looks marvelous, eerything is very convincing and together with ALTER’s special skin texture, this Saber in bikini turned out especially appealing.

Saber EXTRA has a pretty outfit for the beach, a wild pattern bikini with a rather big ribbon under her breasts and a side tie bikini bottom.  On bikini figures you often see tops that barely cover anything, but the top supports Sabers ample bosom in a decent way.

Final Words

I was looking forward to receive the Saber EXTRA – swimsuit version and my expectations weren’t dissapointed. ALTER delivered a wonderful figure with top notch quality. This Saber is incredibly sexy, at the same time she’s also tough looking and just a beautiful beach figure.

In case you want to see more of her check windcase post ^^

Amane is one of the heroines of Grisaia no Kajitsu, a popular visual novel, I reviewed in a previous post. The figure was manufactured by Kotobukiya and released in February 2015.

As this figure was announced I considered to get it, but other things came up and prevented a preorder. Several weeks later, after release this nice figure was available with a discount. Since my orders were delayed and I badly wanted to receive a new figure, I chose Amane.

Kotobukiya’s Amane is scaled 1/6 with 25,5 cm and a slightly sturdier appearance, she has a nice look and presence. I remember the times where I thought 1/6 is too big, nowadays it’s different. First of all it’s a great scale to present a figures detail and sculpting qualities.

In the Visual Novel Amane is often refered to as “big girl” her appearance is a little buxom compared to others, she’s the flirty Onee – chan type with many waifu qualities.

Visual Novel character designs are often sparkly and have really pretty bishoujo ladies. The figure is very close the game design from the beautiful blue eyes to the shape of her head. Her joyful expression is lovely, with lively eyes, an open mouth and the right amount of blush.

The figure stands on one leg, on a sand texture base, it’s around 1 cm high. It rarely happens these days, but Amane is screwed on her base. I guess it saves some time to do it that way, since you don’t have to think about pegs, balance or stability.

The body sculpting is very good and clean on this Amane figure, as mentioned earlier she is a buxom girl. So she shows a nice, attractive body. Ample boobs, wide hips, also sturdy limbs and big hands are part of her body. The clean appearance give her skin a soft, cuddly look.

Amane has a rather complex pose, since she is captured during running while looking over her shoulder and holding a water hose. It looks cute, lively and dynamic and give this bikini figure some unique appeal.

I like that Amane is a dynamic figure, her pose is quite cute when she’s running around with the water hose trying to make people wet. That looks interesting even though it appears dangerous with the hose around her leg. nevertheless her smile is enchanting, she looks like having a blast.

Kotobukiya decided to produce her as bikini figure, she was wearing this one during a happy class excursion with her friends. It’s a slightly pinkish – white model with a cute frilly collar and a ribbon at the front, her bottom part also follows this style. For bikini standards the top is still quite revealing with sideboob, underboob and such things, she looks a little excited, too ;D.

The hose consist of two pieces, the piece in her hand is already fixed, you only attach the longer part and the water fountain, it looks rather convincing with it’s detailed texture.

You just take the figure out of the box and assemble the water hose and voila!

Also the hair is something very good about this figure and Kotobukiya put some effort in making the distinctive hairstyle pretty and detailed in the final figure, these strands at the back are great. The hair has a pinkish, purple color and the tips are translucent pink.

Final Words

Amane is a very nice, attractive figure, I like the character and Kotobukiya did a great job in turning her into a figure with all the important traits and level of detail over the whole figure. Kotobukiya made her rather sexy in accentuating her cleavage from several angles with the help of this skimpy bikini top. That aside I like her slightly buxom appearance and the body sculpting is very well done, also the 1/6 scale suits this figure nicely.

I adressed the issues of a different skintexture in my last two Kotobukiya figure reviews, coincidentially Amane has the regular fully opaque texture and I’m delighted about that. Although I don’t really understand these variations from the same manufacturer.

Well, that should it be for this figure review, as said Amane is a lovely figure and I’m glad that I did order her in the end.

I recently did a new shooting with Mirai, I once wanted to put her in a bikini cause she has a supe nice body. In preparation I’ve bought a 50×80 cm board, wallpaper, drapings and some iron film, to connect the background(s) with the wooden board via magnets, I already have.

Next time I will dress her in something more modest I promise you that

As I was browsing through flickr, I got the idea of buying Mirai a bikini, a skimpy one. I looked at HobbySearch offers and ordered two, unfortunately the more interesting model was out of stock in the end and I only received the 1/4 scale bikini, keep in mind that Mirai is an 1/3 scaled fashion Doll. A first test showed that it was mostly compatible at least with her M bust.

I tried a few different poses in this shooting refering to certain anime art illustrations. Such things can be extremely helpful when you don’t know what to do for poses, lol.

Of course thigh high socks go very well with swimsuits and bikini’s, ALWAYS!

When dressing your Doll with skin revealing clothes, you have to accept joints and gaps at certain areas. I already got used to it, but since it was a convenient spot in the picture above, I covered the gap at her hips with a little Photoshop magic. You can also get soft and flexible body’s where most joints are hidden, but these third party products are quite expensive.

While the top covered the important parts, the lower bikini part could not handle Mirai’s hips and butt that well, she felt very embarassed with it, it looked also so weird at the back, I could not take pictures XD I exchanged it with something from a sporty swimsuit, I bought earlier.

Now, that is a really cute butt on Mirai, Danny did a great job with her body overall.

What!? Who invited the kraken? Sorry, I thought it was funny I found two tentacles on ebay, you can do silly stuff like me with them. I did not went overboard here, Mirai is a good girl.

I really like the pose here, should also look nice with a full outfit ^. The background is not that optimal, it always irritates the white balance which irritated me. Haha so few text in this post,
I was rather satisfied with the outcome of this shooting, Mirai looks always pretty and cute.

The shooting went smoothly in terms of lighting and posing, one thing I learned once again is, that I should comb her more often after changing poses. In the next few weeks I should receive some new clothes for her, so be prepared for other Posts like this, but with less skin.

see you

Here is another figure review for 2015 even though the figure was released a few months earlier in July 2014. It’s the quite lovely Asuka – Inochika version manufactured by ALTER.

I totally underestimated this figure, I always thought her face looked somehow bad and only her body was great, but now as received her Asuka is one cute, chubby and cuddly figure in my collection, sorry Sonico. You know, I always prefered girls with natural haircolor ;D

This figure marked ALTER’s first step into more ecchi territory with Hashimoto Ryou who also worked on ALTER’s Sonico – Santa Swimsuit ver.  in charge of Asuka, he seems to be very skilled at crafting curves and I’m looking forward to his 1/6 scaled Saber EXTRA this year.

Here I already reviewed other figures of Senran Kagura made by Phat Company and Vertex.

The cute Hibari, the spirited Katsuragi and the not so convincing Yagyuu. It’s rather unusual for me to buy so many figures from the same origin, but I really enjoyed the manga of it and partially the anime. Senran Kagura exists in different media, video games, manga and an anime aired not long ago. The manga in my opinion has the most appealing style. The Senran Kagura girls are popular for having buxom and soft bodies, more than Sonico for example.

Asuka has a cute hairstyle with a bushy ponytail, wrapped together by a cute and large but thin ribbon. The hair has a number of single strands. The figure has a sweet face with the tilted head, chubby cheeks and blush and the super detailed eyes she’s quite adorable.
The detailed mouth looks also good and gives the girl a slightly worried expression.

Heidi Klum would probably disagree, but a little bit more body fat is no bad thing in particular, also on figures. Asuka is still miles away from being fat, but her whole body is nicely rounded.

Bikini figures often show a slender girl in skimpy clothes with slim bodies, these are often not considered to be as interesting as figures of dressed up heroines. As manufacturer these days, you can either give them more dynamic poses or increase the amount of details, to make bikini figures less “somehow plain”. Increasing the amount of details worked on Asuka.

I like all these small fat pads on Asuka, she has a lot of womanly charm with her wide hips, fairly sized boobs, niely shaped thighs and the cute soft belly. From the backside you can admire the great looking round butt. Overall the figure has a very feminine body.

Don’t get your hopes too high the only thing that is castoff able is her red scarf. 

Her soft and curvy body has more detailed curves on par with ecchi figures. All her proportions appear balanced, there is no tiny head issue and her big boobs don’t look too large when they are compared to the rest of her body.

Asuka is wearing a shirt with a bikini and thigh highs, if I remember correctly the girls in Senran Kagura wear bikinis under their clothes. The halfway downed shirt reveals her beautiful shoulder blades. It is something like a MOE point, Tamaki from Max Factory also used it.

Asuka wears quite tight clothes that dig into her skin, to accentuate the illusion of her soft body and make her look sexy. The under boob effect is attractive, as well as the squeezed shape when Asuka lifts one of her bikini strings. The body sculpting is incredibly good, the small fold here, at the side of her breast is just a lovely detail (￣▽+￣*)

A bikini is by default a simple piece of clothes, yet ALTER managed to make it look more complex, as if it was made of several parts with realistic seams, also the different colored striped are sculpted as lines. As student of ninja arts, she’s also wearing armguards, they are also nicely sculpted like everything on her. Oh, she also has nice hands and fingers.

The pose… well, what is she doing here looking shy and flustered? Actually she is a good girl, the pose should  portray her while dressing up and closing her neck holder bikini. It’s a bit erotic how her finger of the left hand presses into the “soft” tissue.

Final Words

This figure of Asuka from Senran Kagura turned out really, really, I would say especially good.

It is a well made figure of a curvy and slightly chubby young girl, featuring the distinctive character design of Senran Kagura. It’s incredible how soft she looks even though it’s just a pvc figure, the illusion is perfect. Body and pose the figure create an intimate atmosphere. ALTER managed to produce a quite sexy, I would even say a sensual figure without relying on a castoff option or showing her bare boobs. Asuka also has a pretty face, the big eyes make her really adorable.

I had a lot of fun with taking pictures of her, I hope the pictures show that and also how photogenic Asuka is. It would have been and still would be nice to see them making another Senran Kagura figure, Ikaruga for example

another review can be found at Reflective Boundary

It’s not over here, more pictures are waiting below, I guess also a few where Asuka is wearing her scarf. In the next review I will take a look at Mammon from the 7 Deadly Sins.

First a Merry Christmas, everyone! We already took a look at the beach qualities of this figure in a recent review, as promised, I did another set for ALTER’s Super Sonico – Santa Swimsuit version figure the with focus on this figures christmas appearance in a fitting scenario.

I actually didn’t plan this shooting as a scene, but it looks little story in the first few pictures. Starting with her backside is but works better to start this as a little story as introduction.
Well, she also has a is tasteful backside ^^

Shortly before Christmas Eve, Sonico remodeled the room and is now waiting ardent for her chosen one to arrive. A few minutes later, as Sonico was lost in thought the door opens.

It’s Chosen one san, finding Sonico in a cute and also sexy christmas related outfit kneeling on the cozy floor, a bunch of presents and a small christmas tree placed all around the room.

This Super Sonico is scaled 1/7 with a height of 13 cm, she was made by two experienced sculptors, Hide and Makio Munetoshi who combined their excellent skills to create this figures sculpt. After a few delays the figure was finally released in early September 2014.

The figure convinces with a cute, slightly flirty expression, the kind smile suits her very well.
The majority of manufacturers so far have preferred to portray her with worried expressions, which partially suits her perfectly, but more happy Sonico’s show up, which is welcome.

I’ve already said most things in the previous review, to sum it up, I am really convinced by ALTER‘s first Super Sonico. She has everything a Sonico needs, an incredibly adorable face and an attractive feminine and curvy body with good sense of putting bodyfat in the right areas

The ALTER company, which was before known as a little demure, slowly increases their number of attractive, shapely figures. ALTER known as top tier manufacturer and always especially nicely, sculpted figures did a great job with these feminine exposed curves of Sonico and previously Asuka, I’m not talking about the one from Evangelion ^^.

The cute figure comes with exchangeable heads, the hood aside they are similar I would dare to say. It’s a nice feature that allows to have Sonico around in summer and winter, although it’s not like anyone is going to blame you for not changing her appearance according to the season.

Without the hood I like her a lot in the beach setup with bare shoulders and collarbones.
The hood gives Sonico a more romantic look, the oval shaped hood is surrounding her head and headphones, the head has a shorter part attached to it, which covers her shoulders.

The red part is imitating thick fur, looks a bit like slaughted sea lion to me XD Well, the texture is short fibered and a little rough, but that is the desired effect. The white hoodie border in comparison looks very soft and fluffy. Around her collar, a long black ribbon is hanging around Sonico’s body, what a nice present she would be. The attached thing gives Sonico a festive feeling on top her cute and shapely appearance, the bell is really pretty on her again.

On summary ALTER’s Super Sonico – Santa Swimsuit version is lovely and that counts for both of her display options, be it christmas or the beach, she will rock both for sure.

One of the few exceptions where a Sonico figure has no cast off option, I don’t really miss this feature here, the skin revealing areas are nice enough and it gives her sonething innocent.

I hope you enjoyed the pictures of the christmas mode of ALTER’s Sonico.

My best wishes for you wherever you celebrate christmas, with your beloved ones or alone.

Review time lady’s and gentlemen. After many months without any Super Sonico figures, in autumm several new Sonico have been released, so it’s time to go back to my beloved 2D girl.

Some time ago ALTER surprised everyone as they announced to produce a Sonico figure.

Sonico stands for being a sexy girl and sexy wasn’t the category many of ALTER’s previous figures would fit in. Even though they started to add more fanservice like things to their line up, like Senran Kagura’s Asuka. This Sonico is based on one of Tsuji Santa’s older illustrations, that showed Sonico dressed in bikini with a bell on her bikini top and a red Santa Clause hood.

When reading it’s probably a odd sounding combination, but this figure looks really good.
A second head is included to give you the option to have Sonico more fitting for the beach.

In this review I will focus on the suited for the beach attire only. I have something bigger planned for the figures christmas option, but preparations aren’t completed yet.

Sonico is scaled 1/7 with a height of 13 cm, she was made by two experienced sculptors, Hide and Makio Munetoshi who combined their excellent skills to create this beautiful  figure.
After a few delays, some even speculated that ALTER wouldn’t manage to release the Super Sonico figure before December, but the figure was released in early September 2014.

Orchid Seed is in my opinion the best manufacturer of Sonico based figures, but I really approve of ALTER’s first adaption of the Super Sonico character, she’s a simply beautiful figure.

Sonico has been mainly portrayed as flustered or scared curvy girl dressed in skimpy and arousing clothes. Taito and FuRyu as Prize Figure manufacturers started to make figures of a more cheerful Super Sonico. Previously Sonico was only known as curvy mascot, since the Sonicomi game some years ago and the Soniani anime the girl received a personality.

ALTER presents Super Sonico in a relaxed fashion, she feels good and enjoys being around the person she likes. It’s quite impressive how cute this Sonico actually is, starting from her beautiful eyes, to the prominent blush. Sonico also fires a lovely, gentle smile that can pierce ones heart.

Her shoulder long hair is simply said perfect, it looks fluffy, smooth and is carefully crafted, also the applied color gradient give it a great look. The long chunk of pink strands over her nose is quite adorable. The tilted  head and the fingers placed on one bikini strap give her a flirty look.

Sonico never been thin as a stick and this is also part of her popularity since the beginning and there is definetely a fanbase for so called healthy, or girls with more developed curves. This figure here also has slightly accentuated muscles. Her her thighs are meaty and look strong.

The bust size of Sonico varies quite a bit, that applies to figures and also illustrations. Sure also ALTER’s Sonico has big boobs, but the presentation turns out more modest compared to other figures of her. Maybe because she is for once wearing a bikini that is compatible with her sizes.

The compact pose works very well for this kind of figure, next to the beautiful smooth body, her thighs do stand out, I really love the curve when you look from the side, as well as her wide hips. From the back Sonico has a superb big butt, it’s nice that her butt is slightly lifted up in this pose.

Sonico is wearing a nice, white triangle bikini, the red mini ribbons on top and slip are really cute details, fine wrinkles give the bikini a realistic look. From the top’s middle connector hangs a small golden bell decorated with a ribbon and leafs ready for christmas. At the outside of the bikini there are very detailed laces applied, that slightly remind oneself of holiday tablecloth.

This figure of Super Sonico has one of the prettiest cleavages in the whole figure realm to date, the shapely sculpting is top notch. There is some modest underboob fanservice. A cast off option isn’t part of this figure, but I won’t complain about that, since I’m more than happy to have a relaxed, relatively innocent looking, high quality figure of her for a change of things.

Final Words

Applause for ALTER and their wonderful adaption of the Super Sonico character. She has lovely hair, an adorable face and a shapely, nicely sculpted body. If you are looking for a high quality figure of Sonico that shows a different expression than being flustered here is your answer.

Taking pictures of her was seriously so much fun! cutting down to 34 images was quite difficult. As you can see, I focused on a tropical beach scenario an didn’t use her hood and base, the christmas version of this (review) will follow soon, so stay tuned.

I might review another new Sonico figure in between, though.

another review was written by Cerberus from Reflective Boundary