Referring to the vote, you wanted to see the review about the Nekomura Iroha figure first.

This figure was released on November, 30th 2011 and I received her as christmas present.
The figure has no specific scale, but since she has a height of 175 mm which makes her around the same size as the 1/8 scaled lat type Miku from GSC, this figure could be labeled as 1/8.

I haven’t heard many good things about Griffon Enterprises, the manufacturer of this Nekomura Iroha figure before. But I liked the design of this figure and wanted to give this company a try.

Nekomura Iroha is a vocaloid, she was originally designed by Sanrio, the company behind Hello Kitty for Comiket in 2009. Iroha’s voice provider is a professional singer, and thus she is cabable to sing in high and low tones. I listened to a few songs, but they weren’t really my cup of tea

She was illustrated by manga artist okama, somehow I’ve never heard of a Nekomura Iroha vocaloid before. Well, Im not at home in the vocaloid culture so that shouldn’t mean anything.

The figure comes with a big and white base in the shape of a Hello Kitty head, normally Griffon seems to use the same black bases for most of their figures, but this base is designed different. The base has three small holes for the two speakers and a microphone on transparent rods. The nice speakers have a ball joint and can be adjusted in different angles and directions.

Hair & Face

Nekomura has two exchangeable heads and an attachable ponytale, so she can be displayed with or without helmet. Both faces have different expressions, without helmet she hows a a neutral friendly face expression, with helmet she shows a happy and energetic expression. The open mouth has a clean shiny finish as well as the eyes. At the backside of both heads is a hole for the ponytale, this part has a very loose fit and falls of everytime you move the base, a bit annoying.

The plain orange hair is not very exciting, I don’t know something is just missing. I prefer the helmet head, it resembles a mechanized cat head. The painting, the shading and the shiny finish are very well done. Underneath the detailed helmet Nekomura wears a set of black headphones.

A nice part of this figure is her dynamic pose and the small body, well she looks rather undeveloped and more like a child, but that makes her appearance very cute ^^

Her eyecatching red outfit is a mix of a yukata and a tight body suit, the upper part around her shoulders has a bright to deep red gradient effect. A big Hello Kitty batch is applied on her chest. At the legs and on her hairband there are nice small details, the white screenprints are applied in a clean and sharp way.

The speaker gloves are called Dynamic-Phonon Buster, they remind me a bit of megaman, but Nekomura only uses them for peaceful purposes, must be really funny to see someone dancing with speakers on the fist “POW!”.

Final Words

Nekomura Iroha is a very cute designed figure, the tight red suit, and the pose are appealing. Both create a cool look and also the diorama like base emits the feeling of a Vocaloid on stage.

The overall quality can be considered as good, not so good is the stiff and plain looking hair with the always falling off ponytail. Also the figure itself isn’t that well connected to the base, you have to be cautious when moving her around, to prevent from falling. I would lie when I say that there are no differences in quality between Griffon and other manufacturers of the figure industry, the figure has rough edges, the skintone appears like the cheaper sort of PVC was used fir her face.

She isn’t one of my favorite figures, but when Im looking at her on the shelf, I admit that I like this figure quite a bit. Nekomura Iroha looks very nice next to my other small 1/8 figures.

The figure probably wasn’t worth the full price of 7540 yen incl shipping, even though a lot of stuff, like 2 heads, speakers and a special base are included. You don’t get the same quality for your money as with figures from other Companys like Alter or Max Factory or Orchid Seed.

Next time you can enjoy my Princess Bitch review, stay tuned.

Hello Kitty to Issho – Vocaloid – Nekomura Iroha

This is not the little sister of Megaman, Nekomura Iroha is an advanced Vocaloid synthesizer, but I never heard of her before, even though there are a few song of her on youtube. She is made by Griffon Enterprise and will have a height of 17,5 cm. The release is in November of this year.

What first met my eye were the creative design and the very cute appearance of this figure. I really like the tight, red shinobi styled dress, the speaker gloves and the shiny helmet. Nekomura has a nice petite body and her cute face with the friendly big mouth are also quite enchanting.

Aizawa Nao – Comic Aun 2008 Cover Illustration

Here we have Aizawa Nao from Orchid Seed, she is scaled 1/7 and her release date is this November as well. This figure was announced earlier this year, but I admit that she didn’t convince me with the early promo pictures of her, the lighting is pretty bad, but some days ago I saw a picture of this figure as a final sample on Orchid Seeds blog. From what I’ve seen there, I decided to place my order for her. I love her pretty face with the bright and piercing eyes and the red brownish hair. Her pose is quite interesting and I like the fancy Halloween style outfit a lot. She will great next to my other 1/7 scaled figures Sonikoand Menace. As to be expected from an Orchid Seed figure there are 2 castoff options, I prefer the one without cape, but with bra.

Soniko Bondage version “Candy Pink”

This figure is also from Orchid Seed and scaled 1/7, her release date is in January 2012.
I already have the black color version of this figure and I’m not the person who buys the “same” figure twice, but of course for my beloved Soniko I make an exception :D. This new color version features a nice combination of baby blue, white and pink. In private I also hope the new version will have more prominent blush marks than my other one with the black outfit. Maybe I’ll sell the version I like less later, but for once I’m planning to display both of them together.

Choco*Ochi, Super Sonico Collection x Mota

Concealed behind this strange title is a set of three different chibi figures of Soniko, they are produced by Orchid Seed and will have a size of 8 cm. This set will be released in February 2012 and contains a casual dressed Soniko with guitar, a naked apron Soniko and a Soniko cosplaying as Al Azif. You can exchange some parts of them like the face for example.

Oshino Shinobu

So far Good Smile Company made  nice figures from the popular Bakemonogatari franchise.
Aside from their Hachikuji Mayoi, I was partially interested in all of them, but there always was a small part inside of me who made me pass in the end, sorry Kanbaru and Hanekawa. But I instantly fell for their Oshino Shinobu, she is scaled 1/8 and will be release in March 2012.

This Shinobu figure is sculpted after the illustration of the BluRay cover. The base looks very creative with the donuts and the parts that belong to the other characters from this anime.
Shinobu herself looks very cute, with the beautiful red eyes and the soggy donut in her mouth, she also has this lovely light dress and the helmet is also a very cool item, it can be taken off btw.

I will probably order the Black Hanekawa figure from ALTER, but so far I couldn’t bring myself to place another order. I also would like to order Naoe Kanetsugu, Ichijou Ayane and Astraea.
I don’t trust Kaitendo enough to pay so much for Ayane and Astraea will probably go on sale.

And like always my updated Preorder Roadmap from November till March.

Im really looking forward to receive the lovely 1/6 scaled Asuka from Max Factory next month!

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