Hi today we’ll take a look at little miss sunshine, Inaba Rinne manufactured by MegaHouse.

Inaba Rinne was released in the middle of November 2013, she was sculpted by Kibayashi Norio, who already worked on many, many, many Queen’s Blade figures for MegaHouse.

Her origin is Chousoku Henkei Gyrozetter an 51 episode long anime aimed at the  younger audience. Wow it nearly aired around a year. Actually I didn’t watch a single episode of it.

MegaHouse picked two of the shows heroines, Inaba Rinne and the slightly hotter Rui Akana,
I don’t know how popular Gyrozetter really is, but I like that MegaHouse didn’t just throw out soulless merchandise figures of another “random” anime. Rinne comes with an unexpected amount of parts, like a second head, an alternative left arm, a right hand and alternative boots.

Hair & Face

Rinne is a teenager, her age must be between 10 or 12, I guess. As such she has a lot of cuteness. I really like the atmosphere this energetic little lady radiates, she has a round head with cute ears. The facial details, like the sparkling eyes, the little blush, the nose or the open mouth with the upper front line give Rinne something truly adorable and enchanting. Her second face is also pretty, yet with the closed mouth it shows a more determined expression.

She has brown hair with some shading here and there, her hairstyle is a voluminous side ponytail, decorated with a butterfly hairband. She is wearing her bangs in an divided fashion with stronger deep hanging strands on the right and a full forehead on the left, the curl at the tip of the ponytail is cute. Overall her hair seems to be a bit too close to the simple anime design, a few more strands in her hair would have been nicer for this figure.

Outfit & Body

What I liked about Inaba Rinne at first were her clothes, she’s a fashionable girl, her salmon red shirt has an interesting design with the wide collar and how the sleeves are attached to it.

The garters of her underwear top are wrapped around her neck, which creates a nice look. The white frill on and under her top is really cute, the yellow shorts are also really nice, it is something different once in a while next to all these figures with skirts, I guess this is my first figure with trousers. At her legs she has only one white – blue striped stocking.

Girls need their handbags to carry all their necessities and un – necessities along, also Rinne has a detailed one swung around her neck.

I think the pose of this figure is very well done, it captures her during skating/running on one leg, it’s cute how she balances with her arms and upper body with the other arm attached it looks more as if she is accelerating passionately.

She has special boots  that can be transformed into three wheel roller skates, you have the option to display the figure with the boots that show the wheels out or the retracted version.

You can notice that the sculptor has done a number of Queen’s Blade figures before, when you see that he even implemented a well thought cast off option for Rinne, you can take off the yellow trousers and the frilly part of her top, of course Rinne isn’t nude underneath and wears pink panties. One blogger also ripped off her top, which shouldn’t be done after all, but there is a fully sculpted pink tank top underneath, nevertheless.

It’s always a little weird to talk about physical aspects when the figure is based on a young character, but anyway Rinne has a nicely shaped butt and also her waist is nicely sculpted.
She will become a beautiful lady in the near future

Final Words

I love my cheerful and super cute Inaba Rinne a lot, she is a little sunshine on my messy desk.

MegaHouse put quite some effort in making a lovely figure of Inaba Rinne, she has a very good quality and the different parts and display options make her a good deal. I ordered a number of figures in this year I didn’t really need and didn’t felt happy with after all, KOBATO!!! for example, but with Rinne, I made the right choice. I got her for 5918 Yen at AmiAmi, she’s still available.

Afaik only 6 people on MFC ordered her which I find a bit strange since this one a is a great example of a figure that captures the charm of a cheerful and innocent young girl.

In case I won’t post anything befor christmas, Im wishing you happy holidays.

It took longer than expected, but in the end I managed to finish this post, somehow.

It is not one bit NSFW 

Yuki:
Welcome!  I’m Yuki and starting from today I’m the author of this blog. Now we will discuss the pro’s and con’s of masturbation. How often do you do it with yourself actually?

Wieselhead:

Woah! Woah” what do you think you are doing here, get away from the keyboard that is supposed to be a figure review and not  about your personal hobby.

Yuki:
*Tss* figure review, no one gonna read your too long 1000 word reviews anyway.

Wieselhead:
HaH!? Now Im hurt. Get back on your base and behave little plastic girl and stop acting out of character.

Yuki:
(￣へ￣）not fair.

Wieselhead:
Huh! So today is the last ero figure review for 2013, ok, I will get the Sonico Package version this month, but she’s more godlike than ero.

Yuki is a character based on Maid Yome, an ero manga of some sort, I didn’t research on it cause Yuki told me not to look. Anyway the character got a figure adaption from Orchid Seed, which was released in the end of October 2013. Yuki is scaled 1/7 and has a nice size, she goes well with other of Orchid Seeds 1/7 scaled figures, like the Bondage version of Super Sonico.

On first look you can already tell that Yuki is a damn pretty figure, she has vanilla colored hair, a smooth texture and a nice skintone. Her face is also quite pretty.

The problem I had at first, before I ordered Yuki was, that the figure was posed in a way where one of her hands is placed next to her crotch. You know, I really like sexy figures, but I’m not 100% comfortable with figures that are sculpted in an active sexual situation. Well, to make short story short, after I’ve seen first review pictures on Reflective Boundary, I instantly throw my doubts over board and snatched one last copy of this figur at Hobby Link Japan.

From the little info I gathered without research I’ve learned that Yuki seems to be a shut in who likes playing games on pc. It also seems like she doesn’t pay much attention to her outer appearance, not that this is necessary when you have a body like that. She is wearing her hair in simple long hair fashion with bushy bangs that start to cover her eyes she might be kind of clumsy, the cute ahoge on top gives her the appearance of a  little airheaded person.

The vanilla colored hair give her a kind of innocent atmosphere, as innocent as a girl touching herself can be. On top she is wearing detailed, but non detachable full size headphones. I like her sweet face a lot with very pretty eyes, the cheeks that are flushed in excitement and the open mouth that expresses moaning or heavy breathing make her face detailed and attractive.

When I look at Yuki, I imagine her with the voice of Noto, Mamiko in a cute calm tone.

Yuki:
You said I’m cute (´ε｀ )♡

Wieselhead:
Ah acting all sweet and friendly again, you won’t fool me this time.

The pose presents Yuki sitting on the floor, in all her aroused glory with her legs tucked up, lost in her private activity. In stage one she has a wet shirt on with a cool shine trough effect, I have no idea how this works, but the transparency looks convincing. The arms are close to the body, with one arm she is reaching to her private parts, while the other arm is pulling at her shirt.

Yuki comes with a few optional parts to match the illustration, the figure is based on, there is a skirt which can be wrapped around one of her thighs and a crumbled thing that is ought to be her pantsu wrapped around her ankle. You can combine this parts to your liking. I’ve heard of stories about possible paint transfer from her skirt, but I don’t have to worry about it for now.

If you want to display her with bare boobs that’s also possible, it’s a complex but working cast off option, only Orchid Seed could pull off. You have to pay attention to close all gaps properly, I did not put attention at first and ruined my first batch of pictures with this.

The figure can’t be displayed completely nude, but in second stage her shirt is wrapped up and exposes Yuki’s body to a satisfying degree. Her boobs have a nice full volume and very pointy pink nipples. This girl is not chubby, but her butt, thighs and boobs have some more welcome fat, together with the smooth sculpting Yuki appears really soft.

Yuki has a very pretty belly and also the mons pubis looks super nice, the pose puts actually no focus on her genital underneath, but it is there and sculpted in a detailed yet subtle  manner.

Yuki:
Kyahh! don’t look!! *SLAP*

Wieselhead:
OUCH, ok ok I won’t, calm down please, ehh where did I stop?

Yuki:
You shouldn’t forget the Final Words block about me? Are you satisfied with me you little pervert づ￣ ³￣)づ

Wieselhead: 

Yeah, yeah Yuki has a nice pair of boobs, buy one please.

Yuki: 

Ehhhhhh!? Thats all you are going to say, how cruel *sob*
Wiesel you baka, baka BakA !!! ╭(๑¯д¯๑)╮

Wieselhead: 

Ok, I probably can come up with a better conclusion, Yuki is one really nice ero figure, she isn’t presented in a bold manner, like other figures of this kind, but you can see what she’s up to.

The face with flushed cheeks is beautiful as well as the vanilla colored hair with the single strands, the bushy bangs give her a cute touch. Yuki also has an really hot and attractive body with nice big boobs and excellent body sculpting overall. She is an expressive and stylish figure with a great quality, in fact she is one of the best figures Orchid Seed released in this year.

Other reviews of her can be found Tentacle Armada, How a Girl Figures and A Figure’s Story

Yuki:

Bye *blowkiss*

Yo whazzup, review time!

This will probably be the most unmotivated figure review since this blog started.

This weeks figure review is about Hasegawa Kobato, she’s a character from the lovely anime adaption Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai. Kobato is the little sister of Kodaka, the main character, both live alone since they decided to stay in town when their father moved away.

The figure was made by Kotobukiya and released in October 2013, the figure is scaled 1/8.

Kobato is obsessed wih a certain vampire anime and copies the behaviour of the main heroine very accurately and dresses like a goth loli. One would actually think a girl like her would have no friends or be bullied, but as we learned in the second season, her classmates adore her.

In this illustration of Buriki, Kobato lookds quite adorable and I was happy that this was adapted as figure. The figure sold like hot cake and the shops played the sold out – in stock game, Actually, it was not easy to catch one for people who didn’t order early, the first day.

Speaking of that I actually ordered the Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai artbook, but the shop messed up and never acquired a copy for me (╯︵╰,).

In the promo pictures the figure had nice opaque, pale skin, instead the final figure shows the skintexture of a marzipan pig, it’s the kind of PVC Griffon or Ques q often uses. What doesn’t appear like a big deal, annoys me so much, I can’t help myself, it just makes me angry. I don’t know which idiot decided to change the material for the final product, Why! Why! I could always count on Kotobukiya for appealing skintones, at least but for some reason not this time.

I’m already too biased to write a review like usual, I change my usual review pattern this time.

Review

The figure resembles her character from the anime quite well, although she doesn’t seem too smile that often in the show, when her brother pays too much attention to other girls.

Kobato has a cute face, the heterochromia eyes are nicely detailed, there is also a little blush on her cheeks and the friendly smile is really charming. The hair shows a  very bright blonde color, there is a fading transparency effect incooperated what I actually like, the strands are sculpted surprisingly good.

The dress is looks good and appealing, fingerless gloves, a corsage top with white rims, a number of blood red ribbons and lovely hair decoration. Kobato also is wearing stockings, a garterbelt and black panties. Partially the details on it could be a bit finer, when you look at the ruffles of her skirt, they appear slightly thick compared to rest of the dress.

See, the figure is not bad overall, you get your little, goth loli with nice hair and a pretty dress.

The pose actually looks like falling off the chair with a big smile, but to whatever Kobato is up to it looks cute. She has a shiny black base in oval shape with some white ornaments printed on.

On the base is a cream white chair, in an antique, Victorian design, the red velvet seating is a quite nice detail of it. The  legs behind are halfway sunk in the base, it would be cool to have a full chair though. You connect Kobato and the chair via metal rods that slide in the holes of her knees. You can’t really use the chair with other figures, well it’s glued to the base anyway.

Final words

Of course Hasegawa Kobato is no bad figure, she has a pretty face, nice hair and a pretty goth loli dress. The details are nice and the paint is applied cleanly, it shows the actually good quality of this figure. Why I’m that dissapointed is hard to tell, I guess I had too high expectations after Max Factory’s wonderful Kobato and Maria figures and the fact that the skin tone turned out a lot different from the promo pictures, didn’t help either. So Kobato is no figure for me.

What is your opinion about this figure?

Another Senran Kagura figure is ready for review, my pace is horrible, listen to my advice, never order more than two figures a month. Katsuragi is the second one, after I was already positively surprised by Hibari, I also wanted to get the next one. Phat Company continues
with the adaption of Senran Kagura figures from the Ringo Renmei garage kit circle.

Katsuragi was released in the end of September 2013. The figure is scaled 1/8 and has a height of 20 cm, the person in charge of sculpting was Amasu who also created Hibari for Phat Company.

The anime was based on the Game/Manga and already aired, I reviewed it some time ago here. While not perfect, but very entertaining it created a boost in terms of  announced Senran Kagura figures and other merchandise. A distinctive feature of Senran Kagura is the buxom characterdesign with a healthy amount of cuddly curves on most of the characters bodies.

Katsuragi is a third year student of the National Hanzo Academy, together with her friends Asuka, Hibari, Yagyuu and Ikagura, she  takes part in the secret Ninja classes. Katsu nee is a rather perverted member of the girls, she loves to harass Asuka and sometimes Ikagura by fondling their breast for her own pleasure, contrarily she doesn’t feel comfortable when being touched by others. She doesn’t mean any harm by this and is quite attached to her friends.

She is a tough fighter and always searches new challenges and stronger opponents. Although she easily to provoke and a rather hot headed character, which sometimes backfires at her. Katsu nee is specialized in kicks therefore her armored boots are actually her weapons.

Katsuragi is supposed to be 17, she is 165 cm in height and her three sizes are 95 – 57 – 90.

Hair & Face

Even when Katsuragi is a little wild and bold girl, her hairstyle is rather feminine with long blonde hair and huge blue ribbons. The hair looks quite elaborate with all these strands coming out, they are shaped very smooth with rounded edges, so far I’ve noticed no rough areas. The whole backpart appears to be made of one solid piece, the often unpreventable middle seam is hidden by the blue ribbon. The color shows a nice gradient from pastel blonde to caramel brown.

It’s hard to believe that someone with such an adorable sweet face has a pervy part in her personality. Anyway Katsuragi is very cute with her face that is radiating a very happy atmosphere. She has detailed green eyes with lovely blushmarks underneath, her open mouth features an upper front teeth line, something I find very appealing on figures.

Body & Outfit

Posed in a very cheerful and energetic way and pushing out her impressive bust give Katsuragi an interesting and playful appearance. The open shirt reveals most of her upper body from the chest to her belly button, but don’t expect it to be castoffable. What also meets the eye nicely shaped legs with smooth thighs. The skintone is nice and there is some shading here and there.

Katsuragi is not so bold to wear her school uniform like this everyday, it is her official “Shinobu Transformation” outtfit. Well, it’s not much different from her summer uniform. She is wearing her unbuttoned shirt in a bra less fashion, she also has a lovely blue minirock with an interesting square pattern printed on. She has striped panties, which are purposely hidden by her flowing skirt. As footwear she has loose socks and heavy boots resembling samurai armor.

Final Words

Katsuragi is a nice figure, she’s the image of a bright and energetic figure and a cute blonde girl. Im no real fan of her personality, but I love her character design, the clothes, the colors and the overall style. The figures quality is good with appealing sculpting and nice details, she also has a solid feel to her.

Katsuragi was made by the same sculptor  and so she looks very good next to Hibari, it’s nice that they are a matching in height and style. Overall the Senran Kagura figures from Phat Company are really nice. A version of Katsuragi which is more focused on the curves and and a bit bigger, is the upcoming one from AmiAmi zero. Im not disinclined to get this one as well.

After the crude figure review from last time, this time it will be more vanilla, I guess.

So another figure review, I’ll try to reach the one post per week pattern again, at the moment it is a bit difficult to find the time for taking pictures and writing depends mainly on my mood.
This time Fate Testarossa, the cute, timid loli with a bad childhood is the model of choice.

No the figure  isn’t based on the illustration but I found this picture cute and quite fitting to add.

This figure of Fate Testarossa from the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st was manufactured by Gift and released in the end of June in 2013. Fate is scaled 1/4 and has a height of  27 cm. I often mentioned that I like Nanoha Takamachi quite a lot with her enchanting voice and the kind personality. But oh well, it’s always the same story, whenever I have a favorite character I am so picky that I often can’t decide to get a figure of this certain character.

Gift also made a Nanoha figure in Bikini, but I wasn’t that convinced to order her in the end. What convinced me to get the super sized Fate was my general liking for the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha anime and a good review from Tier, I found her to be gorgeous and wanted her for myself.

Hair & Face

Gift often has a little freedom when creating their figures, they often differ from the original source, sometimes this freedom is not to every bodies liking, but sometimes it’s also for the better.Well Fate is close to her anime appearance and resembles my image of Fate very well.

Fate is presenting herself in a wonderful twin ponytail hairstyle, decorated by dark blue ribbons. Her hair is very long and has a yellow tone with orange shading. The strands have a nice level of detail and are accurately sculpted, I really like the separation at the ends of her ponytails.

What qualifies Fate as a fully fledged loli character is of course her big head in comparison to her body. Even though Gift added no cute blush marks, the face of Fate is very well done, it has a nice shape and this gives Fate a cute expression that fits the characters personality. The figure shows big puppy eyes, a tiny stubs nose and a slightly opened mouth. As little gimmick you can decide to display Fate with her magical device Bardiche in her mouth or without it.

Body

It is no secret that Fate is a rather young girl in Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st, but if it weren’t for her big head, Fate could also be a slender, yet older teenager girl. A teenager girl with a flat chest of course. Anyway, Fate’s body looks really good from the front or the back  there are some nice highlights like her detailed back with the scapulars or her lower back. The transition from hips to thighs is also very well done. The legs have a well balanced length, they are not too long and not too short. The sculpting of the whole body is especially smooth.

Outfit

I can’t really remember a scene in the Movie where Fate was wearing a bikini, but that doesn’t really matter. Her outfit consists of a two piece bikini in white at the front and dark blue at back. With the two layers and the laces at the front her top has a cute, sporty design.

The slip is rather tiny and skin revealing, to create the effect of the fabric’s stretchyness there is lighter shading at the part that covers her buttocks. There are some realistic wrinkles at the front and the back, from a lower angle you can notice a detail you wouldn’t expect from a loli figure. To have more  stuff to dress her and to have an additional item, the figure comes with a Parero. It has to be placed with a little force in both hands, but its worth the effort. It goes very well with Fate and has a nice design with wrinkles and a printed on hibiscus pattern.

Smaller details are also part of the figure, there is silver necklace, different colored bands and a white ribbon wrapped around her arms. There is also a tiny footchain and blue beach sandals.

Pose

The pose of her is nothing special, but it creates a fitting mood and convincing pose of Fate in a beach like scenario, I’m actually a fan of such simpler, standing straight poses. This is also something I really like about the upcoming Sonico – Package version from Orchid Seed.

It seems like Fate wants to close or eventually open her parero, to have both hands free she put Bardiche in her mouth while walking towards the beach restaurant. I love these smaller details about the pose, like placement of her arms or the nicely tilted head. The base is a simple shiny white disk with a small diameter that connects to her feet, it will win no beauty contest but gives the figure a secure stand without grabbing away much attention from the figure.

Final Words

I never expected to buy an 1/4 scaled figure before since it seems a little too big, but Fate is actually not taller than an adult 1/6 scale figure, only the head is far bigger in comparison.

Large scale figures can actually be very charming, even from a distance you can examine every nice bit of the figure, which is especially true for the face. Fate has such a nice face, I love it. The figure offers an interestingly designed bikini and a fantastic body sculpting. Oh this actually my first figure from Gift, well their quality is very high, there are no unnecessary seam lines or flaws in the hair, also the paintjob is nice and clean. I paid 9670 Yen for Fate and chose registered SAL, worth of 3050 Yen for shipping, nevertheless I’m really happy about the purchase of this figure.

“Come on over Fate chan, Onii chan will build a huge sandcastle with you” ＾▽＾

Hey Yo! Whazzup people MC Irma in da house. It felt like forever but in 2013 Irma arrived with her dagger. Ah, well Irma is no hip hop idol, her occupation is Assassin, but she hides her identity with working as a cleaning lady, in fact she is known as Strongest cleaning lady on the Continent.

Queen’s Blade always has been a favorite franchise of mine, even though it has an louch unsteadiness between being borderline hentai and telling an interesting, epic story within a rather grim environment. The first two seasons + OVA’s were quite entertaining for me.

Queen’s Blade Rebellion also had a promising setting and wasn’t bad either but had a strange open end, god knows why it wasn’t already continued, I wanna see more.
Overall I really like when they focus on one of the many interesting characters within the cast.

Unfortunately, I don’t know much about Irma’s personality and don’t remember much about her role in the Queen’s Blade anime, it is told that she is a kind of coldhearted person, she doesn’t like to be around noisy humans, but cats are something she likes and cares for a lot.

Irma was created as part of MegaHouse’s Queen’s Blade Excellent Model line and released in the end of July 2013. The figure is the debut works of Roin, keep it up Roin youre awesome ^^. Irma is scaled 1/8 and has an overall height of 21 cm, she comes with a number of parts like two scabbards, a sword, a dagger, sword and dagger hilts to be placed in the scabbards and a torso.

Hair & Face

Irma has light blue hair with dark shading at the tips, the hairstyle is short and appears rather wild with many single strands from the back it also looks great. The head of the figure is slightly tilted downwards which makes her face a bit hidden from the left. In other cases that might be a bothering thing, but in this case it gives this figure the right appearance. Under her bangs she “hides” very expressive and detailedy eyes in a vivid pinkish tone. The cheeks underneath are slightly flushed, the mouth is desinged in a fierce way with clenched teeth and light pink lips.

The face is very detailed and not flat a all, the eyes look beautiful also the sulpted lower lip and the nose give her head a good 3 dimensional shape and a very attractive appearance.

Outfit & Body

Irma’s pose seems to capture her shortly before striking down on her opponent with her stretched leg and sword and dagger in her hands, it’s a very action orientated pose that is befitting her feline like body. In case you are curious, yes Irma stands firmly on her solid metal peg. The base isn’t the most creative one, but it’s ok not every manufacturer pays much attention to this aspect of figure manufacturing.

She is wearing a modified, skimpier version of the death squad armor, which is a lot more skin revealing. On the other hand it looks really cool and  badass. The outfit consists of many layers and fine details that makes it interesting to inspect the figure more thoroughly. The wrinkles or the red and golden lines, it’s a quite spectacular design. Irma must be an eccentric assassin.

The black vest with the high collar has a nice leather texture, there a  golden rims and a little fur above the shoulders. The top is short and stretchy, it barely covers Irma’s boobs halfway. MegaHouse isn’t shy about accentuating pointy nipples under the top. Around her hips she has a broad belt like piece of cloth which doesn’t cover her light grey, high cut thong very much.

Mainly used colors of her outfit are anthracite, black, red and gold, but there is even more interesting things about her, like the half sleeves and gloves, the tough combat stockings or also these bossy black high heel boots. Optionally she can be equipped with a dagger and/or the slightly larger sword. The scabbards can be placed in smalls holes at her belt and thighs.

The chocolate brown skin color has an exotic flair, since such figures are more than rare and of course this tan suits Irma perfectly, the shading here and there increases her attractivity points.

While the majority of Queen’s Blade characters is buxom, Irma is the most slender, mature character among them. She is rather petite in an athletic way, but she also has a decent bust.
I would say she is a great example for being slim and sexy. Nevertheless Irma is carrying a rather meaty butt around when you compare it with the rest of her body, it’s really nice actually.

Cast off

Like most Queen’s Blade figures, Irma is castoff able and it works in the same way as the previously reviewed Chouhi, she has a semi nude torso than can easily be exchanged with the other one. It’s a seamless procedure without paint transfer or other dangers as abrasion marks.

So when her clothes are gone, the remarkable body sculpting of Irma comes to light, there are so many nice aspects of her body that itfeels to stupid to mention everything; there are these nicely rounded shoulders, collarbones, firm breast with cute pointy nipples and also well defined abs. The figure also shows a beautiful backside with lovely shoulderblades and firm round butt.

Final Words

Irma didn’t receive much love or attention from figure manufacturers before, it seemed rather unrealistic to believe a figure of her would ever be made, but MegaHouse created one and let me say it is a really great figure of her. I also think  that she is one of the best Queen’s Blade figures that were created by MegaHouse so far. She has the face, the body, the outfit, the pose and the quality for deserving to be considered a really great figure. Again I took too many pictures ;D

Today I will review a figure called Chouhi Ekitoku from Orchid Seed, this review is partially NSFW.

I started pretty late with adding Ikki Toussen figures to my collection of plastic figures, which is nearly hilarious because the first anime is already 10 years old. The first season was rather bad, but 4 years later with studio Arms in charge, Ikkitousen: Dragon Destiny turned out better.

The first figure I received was Kan´u Unchou from Daiki in 2012 and the second one was Chouhi Ekitoku ” Magical Chouhi” from Orchid Seed. There was a longer delay for the figure, but Chouhi finally was released in the end of July 2013. She is scaled 1/7 and has a height of 18 cm. This figure is based on one of the intermission pictures in the Ikki Tousen GG anime.

I like Seito Academy the most, with Kan’u, Chouhi, Koumei and Chou’un and Ryuubi , they are a lovely group of close friends, but also because it’s one of the schools without scheming male jerks. Well in the early 2000 era of anime, such badass boss characters were still popular I guess nowadays an anime like Ikki Tousen would have no characters like this within the main cast.

Chouhi is brave and does her best in supporting her friends, but as B Rank fighter she doesn’t have the power to fight against any of the top fighters, at the beginning she even just had a C Rank. in the anime she will be seen mainly fighting against weaker groups of henchmen.

She can be easily overseen in the cast, since she has no weapon or special moves, her role is mainly a supportive one. Chouhi is tomboyish, loud and has a short temper, but on second view she is a good girl with a big heart. Her delinquent accent is rather funny, she often acts strict towards Ruby to make a better leader out of her, the weakling bookworm.

Putting a tomboyish, 17 year old girl in an magical girl – maid uniform appears rather weird.
Still, I wanted this figure since I noticed it as grey prototype on Wonfes, because it has a certain attraction to it, sure it appears more than out of character, but it does that in a very cute way.

Hair & Face

The short hairstyle is cute, Chouhi has brown even hair which transforms into wildly arranged thorn like ends at the back of her hair. Stronger strands are also framing her eyes, in the middle Chouhi has straight fringe on top she is wearing a pink and frilly maid cap.

She has the eyes of a vicious animal and the look of the character is nicely recreated. With the short hair and the big eyes, Chouhi could also be a mischievous runt, but Chouhi is at least 17.
Her face also shows a deep engraved mouth with strong shading, a tongue and a sweet fang.

Outfit & Body

Chouhi Ekitoku has an odd outfit, I can’t deny that it looks like a magical girl collided with a maid.

The outfit appears like an unhealthy strawberry cake with lots of cream and sugar, it has very girly and cute pastel colors. Especially in the upper regions the outfit is a bit more bulky, take the puffy sleeves for example, the magical maid attire is also decorated with several pink ribbons of different sizes. There is a nice amount of details, like all of these frills on her outfit, the sculpting and overall execution of her clothes is quite clean, without seams or overpainting.

I think it’s a very good figure, but there are a few things about her outfit that I’m not too fond of. The pearl shine stocking and gloves somehow disrupt the harmony of pastel colors a little, they could have used normal colors for these parts. Another thing that bothers me a bit, is that the gloves let her hands appear a little too big for the figures proportions.

The illusion of thin fabric on her panties is really nice, the thin wrinkles and slightly transparent effect gives a nice and nearly realistic touch to it.

I like big butts and I can not lie! ( Sir Mix – a – Lot – “Baby got Back” ) *lol* what a song. Anyway Chouhi is a marginal chubby girl and in her deep bend over pose (not as deep as the illustration implies) her meaty butt comes into focus, when she sticks it out in an ecchi and playful way.

Instead of the usual way of Cast Off, Orchid Seed provided a second torso without clothes, who can be simply exchanged with the other one. It’s easier for the company to make it this way, because less thoughts about designing the clothes have to be made. This method also prevents too bulky clothes, gaps, paint transfer and other involved design compromises.

Chouhi hides a nice body underneath her “magical maid” outfit with happy, nicely shaped boobies, a nice upper back and a nice lower back of course. The figure seems to be more relieved after being freed from her special outfit, I also think that she’s very attractive this way. Somehow her facial expression changed to be much more whimsical and upbeat than before.

The second body is also really smooth you have to look really hard to find the common seam lines on such figures, like on the sides of her body or arms., everything on this figure very clean.

On another note I had a little problem with the castoff, in this case my problem was the excess plastic inside the nude torso and on the connector peg, which prevented the proper connection between.upper and lower body. I had to use some tools to get rid of the unneeded material.

Orchid Seed’s Chouhi is a standing figure, but she is also able to sit on different things like a camera lens, this can be used for a different perspective and interesting posing opportunities.

Final Words

The end is nearly reached, let me say a few things to conclude this review of Chouhi Ekitoku from Orchid Seed. The figure turned out quite nice and it was worth the wait, she is wearing a without doubt very flashy outfit and actually not everyone’s taste, but I knew what I ordered so it’s definitely no flaw. I like the lovely facial expression of Chouhi that shows a lot of personality.

The new implemented cast off method saves time and you don’t have to be scared of breaking or scratching anything. Quality wise Chouhi Ekitoku also knows to convince, sculpting and paint are nearly flawless without any prominent seam lines. The only thing that bothers me is the size of her gloves.

It was really fun to review a castoffable figure after a while. Yeah, I think that I actually wrote too much text and included too many pics, but it just shows that I like the Chouhi figure quite a bit.

Today‘s figure review is about Akaza Akari, the sweet announcer and heroine of Yuru Yuri.

The naughty anime always makes always fun of her lack of presence, but actually Akari is the most popular character. She was featured in a number of figures and other related products.

This Akari was manufactured by ALTER , she was also delayed like so many other figures from them, anyway she was finally released in June 2013. Akari is scaled 1/8 and has a height of 18 cm.

I’m quite attached to Akari Akaza, cause we have a lot in common, I’d even call her my anime soulmate, it seems bad to find someone like this in a silly comedy show, but underneath the” no presence” running gag, Akari has a beautiful personality. Akari is polite, kind and also cares for others,  she likes animals, even the creepy ones (snakes). Even when her kindness is often unrequited Akari won’t change trying to be a good person. What we also have in common is that we always stay sheerful, even when the world around us isn’t always nice to us. These are things I can relate to. Well, maybe I also have a lack of presence, but that is another topic.

I’m 200% picky with figures of my favorite characters and rarely by such figures, but Akari received a wonderful figure adaption. Whenever I sit at my desk and look at her I say Akarin !!!
In a melodic tone. Let’s have a closer look at Akari’s qualities in the next 100 sentences (lol) .

Hair & Face

She has a red short haircut with many rounded, tapering strands around her face, at the sides there are little pigtails, Kyoko one of her friends calls her buns rockets, but of course they aren’t. There is also a thin ahoge on top. On her red hair there isn’t much shading applied, it only seems to be present at the strands tips.

The face turned out really nice, with the three dimensional sculpting it appears a bit squishy. Akari has purple eyes, designed in the Yuru Yuri art style she also has soft blush marks around her cheeks and a cute open mouth. How can someone say that there is a lack of presence when Akari is so adorable

Body & Outfit

Akari is a middle school girl, so her body is rather short and petite, something between a loli and a teenager. Well I haven’t ordered her for being sexy, but I like her innocent and cute charm.

Yeah as you can see Akari is another school uniform figure, but this is nothing bad since her very uniform is really chic in terms of color palette and design, she is wearing a nice one buttoned, sailor uniform over her long sleeved red dress. Im actually a fan of such double sleeve outfits. The wrinkles and flow of it are marvelous and the harmonic colors gives the whole thing a nice look. As little eyecatcher Akari has a navy blue school bag, which she carries over her shoulder, it is very detailed, the little teddy bar is something that will make women hearts jump higher.

The figure is sculpted in a standing pose, with her outstretched arm and waving fingers she cheerfully greets her friends on her way to school. I like this captured moment a lot, since it shows a part of the characters personality. The base is a cool eyecatcher, it is a clear disk with a red outer circle, that also shows her name and inside the circle are pink polka dots.

Final Words

What brought me too Yuru Yuri was Chinatsu, but as I learned that her personality is rotten to the core, my interest was quickly directed towards Akari, she is cute and I could partially identify myself with her character, which actually never happened to me in anime show before, at least not to such an extent.

ALTER made a great figure of Akaza Akari, the figure of her is sweet and petite, she looks really cute and her cheerfulness was nicely captured in this pose and her facial expression. The creative outfit is great and offers many details, the use of wrinkles and flow of the clothes create a convincing scene of Akari in her natural surrounding. I’m totally convinced by this figure.

Do you like Akari from Yuru Yuri? If yes I would really recommend this figure.

Hi people! Review time again, I have a serious backlog with my figure reviews  and that can only be changed with a faster posting pace than in the previous weeks, Wieselhead fighto!!!

Todays victim is Yui Takamura from Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse. I hoped for it to be a hard post apocalyptic action anime, where humanity tries to stop utter defeat by the hands of nasty space aliens. At first it delivered exactly what I hoped for, but soon they exchanged the grim front lines with a cozy test facility for next generation mechs.

Yui Takamura is the Imperial Japanese attendant of the XFJ Plan and overseeing the progress of the test pilots is one of her tasks. One day a new testpilot called Yuuya Bridges arrived a young man who has serious problems with his two part nationality. During the first machine tests several problems occur that leads to direct confrontations between him and his boss, Yui.

Seriously, I loved these passionate arguments full of sexual tension between Yui and Yuuya. Other aspects of  Muv Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse are national racism and Cold War themed conflicts between Russia, China and USA. Later it even turned into a harem show at some point. Overall I really liked this show and it’s characters, it had some bumpy directed scenes, but the setting was definitely interesting. I would like to see a continuation of it’s story.

This Yui Takamura was manufactured by Kotobukiya and released at the end of April 2013. She is scaled 1/7 and has a height of 25,50 cm Most or nearly all figures of Yui, Cryska and Inia were made by Kotobukiya and Alpha Max, GSC made some Nendoroids and Max Factory made Figmas. Surprisingly only Kotobukiya felt the urge to adapt the female characters in their pilot suits, the rest is either presented in swimsuits or other skin revealing outfits.

As I checked the pictures after my first shooting of Yui Takamura, I felt that they were terrible. Well after several weeks I ckecked again and was more pleased with the pictures.

Hair & Face

Yui Takamura has beautiful brown hair with quite voluminous bangs. Several long strands of hair are flowing around, it’s like they are slightly touched by a warm breeze of wind. One of her strands is decorated with a white ribbon. The hair is sculpted nicely and has a clean appearance. In case you aren’t prepared for it the deep hanging bangs can be an obstacle when you want to capture her face properly, it’s nice in person, but challenging in terms of photography.

The face from the anime was adapted very well, from the shape to the sparkling purple eyes, Yui looks pretty and alluring as well. Her expression seems to be a bit lost in thoughts or  can be also interpret as sad, the slightly open mouth which reveals her teeth is a nice touch to her face.

Outfit & Body

Yui is wearing her pilot suit, that makes her able to use the high maneuverability of her battle mech to the fullest, without loosing consciousness. What I always find funny on figures with plug suits is the posing, often in a pin up style that doesn’t have anything do with the plug suits purpose. After a mission you should be looking forward to undress this tight and sweaty thing.

Yui is no exception to this plug suit matter with her tilted hips and arched back, she looks undeniable sexy. Her rack is quite developed and her rear is nicely shaped as well.

With her Katana she also won’t win against any beta, but ok it is badass and has that noble Samurai touch, that underlines Yui’s determination to fight for a better world that she showed in the anime.

The dress is skintight and shiny like a waxed car, the colors are nice, there is dark purple, construction vehicle orange and a lighter tone of purple. On closer expection the gloss is not as polished as I wanted it to be, but I’m a bit too picky here the only little more bumpy area is noticeable at the side of her thighs. The sculpt has many embossments that accentuate the details all over her suit. The advanced pilot suit also has a number of strange excrescences.

The most flamboyant ones on her hips and chin, the chin guard reminds me of an old Kung Fu Master. Overall I like the design of her suit, it looks futuristic and has appealing colors, the strange thing on her hips is something about it that I don’t like very much, it can’t be helped.

Yui is placed on a nice looking, base, the figure slides in with one foot and hand rests on the wall. Actually the base is very well done, it resembles a concrete ruin and it does that in a really detailed way, with scratches, cracks, realistic brims and shading. There are also a few smaller rocks included that can be placed randomly.

Final Words

Back then I was happy to order Yui Takamura from Kotobukiya, because I liked the show and how this figure looked. As she arrived Yui looked very good with a nice face, nice curves and a cool base. It also is a very well done figure in terms of quality, the paintjob is so good ^^. Only after the not so satisfying photoshoot my enjoyment of the figure decreased quite a bit, on second thought the pictures aren’t bad, but still I don’t feel like keeping her now.

another review of this Yui Takamura figure and of Cryska that I’d actually rather ordered instead can be found at Tier’s Tentacle Armada

So after a little too long break comes a new figure review. Todays figure is Homura, the gloomy girl with a firearm and other weaponary fetish. Her origin is the all so famous Puella Magi Madoka Magica, where a more or less sad destiny was delivered to every magical girl involved.

Akemi Homura is portrayed as a smart person with a graceful appearance and a cool contained attitude, but actually I never liked her attitude or I don’t like what became of her (episode 10).

A disliking for the character doesn’t automatically mean that I will pass on an appealing figure. One thing really caught my interest, this Homura figure was adapted from a GK figure sculpted by Ousaka Miki. I love GK figures but sadly good GK’s are hard to get and are rarely turned into PVC figures. I want to support such things, in hope to see more such adaptions in the future.

This figure of Akemi Homura was manufactured by Wave and the release occured in the end of June 2013. Wave is very famous for their Beach Queens line, where they adapt the heroines of fresh anime shows in beach attire. These 1/10 scaled figures are of solid, sometimes even very nice quality, they often have moveable neck joints and a nice design overall.

Miette and Exilehero from Otagamers recently proved how photogenic these figures are, great job guys. Btw this was once my Misaka Mikoto, it’s good that the cutie has a sister now ^^

As nice as Beach Queens are, 1/10 is a quite small scale and they have a lack of presence when placed next to larger scaled figures. One of the reasons why I parted with mine after some time.

Homura might be mistaken for another  Beach Queen figure, but surprisingly the figure is scaled 1/8 and part of Waves Dream Tech line. With 1,55 m Homura is a rather small girl, the figure here is 185 mm in height, but for a real 1/8 scale she should be 9 mm taller, but it’s no really big deal. In terms of size and proportions the figure is close to ALTER’s Menma.

Hair & Face

Homura has nice dark brown hair with nice long strands, I really like the bangs in front. The hair is cleanly produced and leaves a positive impression. There is a red hairband with a ribbon on the left of her head. The face is beautifully sculpted and painted, the rounded corners give her a nice appeal. The anime is captured very well in her face, there are attractive eyebrows, lovely blushmarks that really boost her cute side. And Homura’s eyes are as deep as the ocean.

The figure also has a nice little mouth opening, overall her face turned out very pretty. Im not really sure how to interpret her expression, maybe you have an idea. To me Homura seems to be spacing out, there is also a little yandere touch, but also a lot of cuteness can be found.

Body & Outfit

Homura is approximately 14 years old, and as the young teenager she is Homura has a quite petite and skinny body. She is standing straight with her head tilted backwards and turned to the left. This rarely used pose makes the figure quite interesting and gives her a nice touch.
On the downside this pose also gives her some strangles, she is supposed to face the viewer.

Homura has no real female curves, but  she is a quite skin revealing figure, her belly is rather nice as well as the shoulderblades. The sculpting here is also done in a convincing way, she is nearly free of molding lines and these single little fingers are skillfully and cleanly pressed PVC. They could have chosen a lazy way to execute this part of her with no space between her fingers, but they didn’t.

The skimpy rainbow striped bikini is very cute and colorful which adds some contrast to the skin and the dark hair. it’s not a super detailed piece of sculpted clothes, but it’s enough to create a pleasing sight.

Final Words

So what are my final thoughts about this Akemi Homura from Wave, Im quite satisfied with her. The face is very detailed and makes a cute figure out of her. I also like her unique and kind of fascinating pose. One thing I learned again was, that I don’t necessarily have to like the character to appreciate a certain figure, when the design is nice and appealing for me and this GK adaption definetely was something I like. Of course there are more cheerful and curvier swimsuit figures, but Moemura manages to convince with her interpretation of vulnerable cuteness. It’s good to see a figure from Wave which is not scaled 1/10, while she’s still not a real 1/8 scale, Homura doesn’t look awkward when being placed next to other 1/8 scaled figures.

I ordered her on HOBBY SEARCH for 5,525 yen