The previous Wonderfestival post took most of my energy, but here is another figure review. She was recently released precisely on the 28th January 2015 and it’s actually my first figure from manufacturer Wing, a rather new manufacturer with business connections to GSC.

I already found a few figures from Wing very appealing, but I was most convinced by
Event Staff Onna no Ko, she has no real name since she’s actually an original character illlustration from Ishikei, he does very elaborate, but also rather ecchi works of pretty girls. This profile illustration was used as a mascot of the Comiket two or three years ago.

The figure was sculpted by Ishizaki Saori, someone quite new in this field of work, but he or she ( I never really know when reading these names) was given a nice opportunity to create a distinctive figure, well done Saori. The Event Staff girl is scaled 1/6 with 25 cm, even when taking the bendover pose into account it’s actually closer to 1/7, I don’t really mind, though.

Event Staff girl fires a happy smile over her shoulder, she has very big and detailed amber colored eyes, which have a cartoonish style and are framed by red glasses, the upper half is left open to put no obstacle in front of her beautiful eyes. Her whole face is beautiful with a nice rounded shape, the detailed, slightly opened mouth shows a nice upper front teeth line.

The figures waving straw blonde hair shows appealing shading and detailed strands, for my taste it could be sculpted  a degree finer, but it’s a bit bulky compared to the illustration.

Comiket is probably an event of the cold season, since the lady is wearing a warm leather jacket with hood and warm boots. Her clothes look nice with detailed shading and realistic wrinkles and seams, jacket and boots have a furry outline. Her boots slightly resemble Timberlands, which give her some Hip Hop credibility, also because of the shiny yellow hot pants that accentuate her butt, she looks a bit like one of these background dancers.

The Comiket staff is sporting a really bold outfit, it’s not something you should wear in public, but I also think she looks really cool in that dress with her jacket, half transparent, dark rim stockings and hot pants.

A cast off option is the feature of this figure, she simply has two different upper bodies you can exchange, it’s easy, there is no paint transfer nor light scratches occur when switching parts back and forth. On thing I noticed during the cast off, is that her left arm is separately attached, when you put the head on her neck the hair hides the point of attachment anyway.

You can choose between the jacket covered piece, or the one with bare breasts where she pulls down her shirt, both options look good, with more visible skin her sex appeal is on a different level, apparently. The figure has pretty boobs, which are more on the bigger side of things. But also her belly is beautiful and also her back part knows how to convince.

The figure presents her cute well defined butt with a smile. her behind is actually rather big, but not too big, the arched back makes it appear even more prominent and attractive.

Her legs length appear somewhat  shorter than we often see on regular anime related figures, together with the nicely plump thighs this “shortness” makes her even cuter and attractive in appearance. She’s lovely as petite blonde girl with well endowed feminine attributes. I like the playful character of this figure, when she sticks out her butt and turns her head backwards in a cute manner, the glasses give her something innocent in strong contrast to her visible buttocks and add they a lot to her expression.

The body sculpting looks really attractive and also shows a pretty skincolor and texture. At her shirt straps and arm band, are two areas that could have been sanded down more smoothly, but since these areas are just something around 1,5mm, it’s no mayor issue.

Final Words

My first, first hand impression with Wing was a pleasant one with Event Staff Onna no Ko as my figure of choice. I’m also quite happy to have such a good looking figure with glasses now, I like characters with glasses a lot, but unfortunately my figures rarely have such a feature. The Event Staff  girl is a convincing figure, the two different display option are fun to have, while I slightly prefer the half nude version, both are nice and have their right to exist.

On another note this figure has an incredibly nicely sculpted body and a pose that brings out her feminine nature. On close inspection the illustration which was used to make this figure is a little different in a few aspects, but the essential things are covered in this figure adaption, Event Staff Onna no Ko is really pretty, the big eyes combined with the glasses make her incredibly cute, additional to that she has this bombshell body. I decided for a darker setting this time, I will probably take pictures of her again with a brighter set in mind.

Today I will write my very first figure review, about my latest purchased figure, Hattori Hanzo.
This figure was manufactured by ALTER and  is scaled 1/8 with a height of 22 cm. The release date was in April 2010. Back then I bought her for around 8800 Yen at Hobby Link Japan.

Her origin is the anime adaption Hyakka Ryouran which started airing in September 2010.

ALTER actually has more figures from this show in line Yagyu Jubei, Yagyu Jubei-Swimsuit Version, Senhime, Sanada Yukimura, Gotou Matabei , Naoe Kanetsugu and a second Naoe figure as exclusive swimsuit version. A figure of Yagyuu Gisen was already announced as well.

Aside from ALTER also other figure manufacturers made Hyakka Ryoran figures, AMIAMi zero also planned some nice and promising ones, which are more of the sexy category.

“The story of Hyakka Ryouran takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. Here student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu Muneakira is a high school student who rebels against his student council with the help of girls who’ve had the names of famous samurai here.

Hattori Hanzo has a pretty unique design, I really like how they mixed a maid outfit with the straditional japanese details. The style of traditional japanese samurai themed elements and anime fashion is a very cool feature of these Hyakka Ryoran characters and figure adaptions.

One odd story about Hyakka Ryoran the figures is that they were made and released before the anime aired. Even though I don’t care much about the origins of the figures I purchase, but I was quite surprised when Hattori Hanzo turned out as the masochistic servant of princess Senhime.

Hair & Face

Hattori has beautiful long purple hair, which is sculpted in a dynamic flying way. It has many detailed strands and shows light dark shading at some areas, her fringe looks especially nice.
On her head she has a maid cap that features these traditional Japanese design elements.

Her face looks also very good she got beautiful blue eyes and purple eyebrows. The face shows an angry expression or at least a tense fighting expression with an open mouth that features a nice upper front teeth line. The glasses has a silver frame and clear parts which are adding a nice touch to her, the glasses can’t be taken off, but fans of girls with glass would enjoy her like this.

Outfit & Body

Hattori Hanzo comes in a nearly normal maid attire with a long shirt and a apron at the front. At her hands the figure has bandage like gloves, she is also wearing white ropes all her limbs. The skirt which is full of sharp and shiny blades, first I thought these blades were made of PVC, but they are made of hard and spiky plastic. These narrow layers of different sized blades create a very impressive look. Under her maid you can see a small part of the purple rhombus patterned mesh shirt also one of her stockings has this pattern. Hattori is wearing a wine red panties which is quite nice and attractive. Her outfit looks cool and the different colors are chosen very well.

At her feet she is wearing Tabi socks and a extreme version of traditionsl tengu geta shoes, you have to be a real masochist to be able to walk in these shoes.What I like about Hattori is her a buxom girl appearance she looks more voluptuous than the other Hyakka Ryoran girls. She has meaty and attractive thighs and a very nice round butt =D

As weapon Hattori comes with a giant Shuriken weapon, she is able to hold it in both hands, you can also put other things in her hands, as you can see I gave her a broom “Maid Business”.

She is fixed to the base with one  bended metal bar when you put it all together for the first time, it’s a bit difficult to connect the metal bar and the figure together, but it works. Her pose is very expressive and due to her Pose its inevitable to look a bit under her skirt. There is one minor detail that bothers me a bit, when putting her on a high shelf it is be difficult to see her face. There is a little makeshift to display in a more face revealing position you cen use the metal bar in two directions, so you have the possibility to pose her in a different angle where she looks down.

Final words

Hattori Hanzo is a very pretty and cool looking figure from the Hyakka Ryoran lineup. With her maid attire and the blade equipped skirt she look s very martial at first, but I think she is beautiful in her own way. She has nice glasses and a very detailed hairstyle. Her sculpting looks good and clean and offers a lot of details to explore, her paintjob is great as well and the different colors are a interesting combination. Aside from the limitating posing option Alter did a very good job.

This is Arisa from “The Art of Shunya Yamashita“, she is scaled 1/7, has a nice sculpted face and a cool guitar at her hand. She was produced by Yamato and her release Date was in 2007.

I own that figure for some years now I like her but unfortunately she started to lean a bit. Her stand on the base was also very shaky until I felt the urge to use some glue. Last week I decided to do a little reshoot of this figure , I tried to make a stage like setting. That didn’t really turn out like I imagined, but some pics turned out pretty nice I think,

Arisa is standing on her tiptoes with one hand she is holding her detailed guitar in a chilled fashion and the other hand is placed behind her neck. In this shooting I used my Sony Alpha 550 with the Sigma EX 50mm, an 6500K lamp Softbox an external  Flash and a  small slave Flash.  For the backround I used black tissue and glitter stripes.

Arisa is avery pretty looking figure, her face is very well done, this figure doesn’t have the typical anime face. I like her purple twintailed styled hair and the strong green eyes, I really like the optional glasses that were included ^^.  She also has a nice smooth looking mouth. Her appearance is tall and mature, Arisa has long legs and wide hips. The sculpting of her body also looks great, this figure shows nice collarbones, nicely shaped boobs and a detailed belly.

Normally this figure wears a white plastic school uniform which fits to the overall look of her outfit, but I exchanged it with the red white shirt which you can see on the photos. The Figure is also castoffable but for this shooting I thought  it wasn’t necessary to do so, maybe next time =D

So that was my first Blog entry, I hope it wasn’t too bad I’ll will try to improve my writing and my rusty english in the future. Helpful critique is always welcome

see ya