Today we will take a look at the second Cinderella Girl figure, Shimamura Uzuki. Like Rin Shibuya she was also manufactured by Good Smile Company as part of the New Generation version line up. This figure was released by the end of May 2014 one month after Rin Shibuja.

Since the big success of the Idolm@ster anime from 2011, Idol groups  received increasing attention in the anime media; they save the world, play in the world of pro wrestling or just make their high school life more interesting, like in Love Live! which second season aired not long ago. This show was lovely with it’s likeable characters and entertaining episodes.

I think it was a charming mix of different High School girls with their unique quirks and their different sizes they had in the cast. I really liked Nico, Nozomi, Hanayo and Rin a lot ｡^‿^｡

Nico Nico Niiii!

Ok, lets turn over to Uzuki, like the previously reviewed Rin Shibuja, Uzuki is based on the mobile game Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls. She is described as a girl with an always positive attitude and hard working Idol. Uzuki is a friend of Rin Shibuya and Mio Honda, two other aspiring Idols. With already 17 years she is two years older than her two friends.

Uzuki has the opposite personality from Rin, she´s cheerful, sweet and girly, fishing for attention. I won´t fall for that you calculating Idol. Well, ok Uzuki is a quite cute girl.

Among the Cinderella Girls Idols there are a number of girls with a natural hair colors and so also Uzuki, she has pretty dark brown hair with cute detailed bangs and curly tips. Also in this regards the figure keeps it’s high quality. The cute decoration adds a nice touch to the hair.

I actually bought Uzuki because of her closed eye face, it’s something fresh and very cute. I can imagine that not everyone wants a figure without eyes, but GSC was so smart to give her a second face plate, it also adds more options to the figure, I prefer the closed eyes, though.

Uzuki shows us a cheerful smile with her opened mouth, one could say that it is a fake smile , but considering her personality I guess she shows an honest cheerful expression.

She has nicely painted eyelashes, eyebrows and blush marks, her friendly face is quite lovely even without seeing her eyes. The deep mouth is also pretty sweet. One flaw you probably noticed already is that her nose is too close to her mouth which looks a bit strange from a few angles, with the second face it gets even a bit more bothering Her ears aren’t covered by her hair, so you can see an earing matching the decorations from her hair and blouse.

Uzuki has without a doubt a very sweet and cute looking outfit. It looks like something a loli would wear, but there have been some modifications in terms of length and with her attractive body of a 17 year old girl, her outfit doesn’t seem to be all this innocent anymore.

The outfit is nicely sculpted all around, the short blouse exposes her belly and backside, I really like how her arm come through the short sleeves. Her dress features several tones of pink, this creates a girly and friendly look, there are different kinds of decorations on it, like these appealing looking stripe patterns, buttons and blossoms over her belly.

The frilly parts of her rather short skirt are thin enough to create a convincing look, it’s fun to discover all the elaborate details of it.  Uzuki also has cute socks and a pair of pink shoes.

As I took the figure out of her box I was surprised about Uzuki’s fairly sized chest, she has a lot more developed body than Rin and isn’t shy about showing it on stage with her skin revealing outfit. The body sculpting is also done very well, be it her cute hips, the belly or the upper arms and also her appealing backside should be mentioned. Her really short skirt reveals most of her long legs, yeah the cheerful girl is quite skin revealing as I mentioned earlier.

Her pose is somehow cute when she is performing her “Nico, Nico Nii” like move.

Final Words

With Shimamura Uzuki I took my second Idol figure under contact, her looks are different from Rin, but both have a somehow matching style as pretty Idols. Uzuki turned out really cute and shows nice details paired with a convincing quality. The cheerful smile on her pretty face is really enchanting. She looks great in person, also from the shelf she remains sweet and appealing. Still I wonder about her fanbase, either young girls are enchanted by her sweet costumes and pretty appearance or middle aged men like her for being a sexy girl in adorable outfits, maybe it’s something in between. Anyway she is an adorable figure with second face option.

I have no further Idol figure  on order, I’m thinking about getting Koshimizu Sachiko , this time from manufacturer Phat Company who also has a few more Cinderella Girls in the making.

I hope you liked Uzuki a bit, is there an Cinderella Girl Idol figure/prototype you like in particular?

iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls is basically an online game that can be played on your mobile, the player takes the role of producer san. You collect Idols, train them and enhance their stats. I haven’t played it so far, but we will take a look at the figure from Good Smile Company.

In terms of figures Cinderella Girls seems to be on par with the popularity of Kancolle.
It’s funny at first most figures were mainly based on dating sims and eroge, then anime characters became and still are the driving factor, but it is interesting to see the very amount of announced figures that are based on characters that have simple Flash Games as their origin . There are over 100 different Idols in the Game and there have been already a few figma releases, scale figures have been announced by GSC and Phat Company so far.

Shibuya Rin is the most popular character from Cinderella Girls, in casual clothes she is described to have an unfriendly appearance. Well, there not much info about her, she is 15 years old and likes dogs. Her zodiac is the lion, hey I have some things in common with Rin.

This cute and glamorous lady was manufactured by Good Smile Company, she is scaled 1/8 and measures 20 cm. Rin Shibuya was released at the end of April 2014. She comes with microphone, microphone stand and a cable. All parts had to be assembled, I cursed this stupid cable but some minutes later the figure was completed even without manual sheet, none was included actually. I thought cable connected mics are a thing from the past century.

They probably wanted to give the figure something nostalgic, but wild Idol dances are not possible with cable. However I like how she swings around her microphone in a dynamic manner. In case you want to imagine what she sounds like, here is a link to her song…

Shibuya Rin – Never say Never

I don’t have many Idol related figures if at all Rin is the first one. Honestly spoken while I find real idols to be a bit annoying sometimes, I have a liking for 2D Idols in anime. I really enjoy things like Love Live or iDOLM@STER, I like to watch how these cheerful girls with different personalities walk the road of becoming a popular Idol with a pure heart and kind attitude.

Cinderella Girls has many nice character designs, I instantly was captivated by Rin Shibuya as I’ve seen her as grey prototype. In the meantime I also ordered Shimamura Uzuki from the same lineup, she should be released by the end of this month. I also like how Koshimizu Sachiko was adapted by Phat Company.

Hair & Face

The figure has long brown hair with detailed strands and a very clean finish and realistic flow.

Rin’s facial expression is very well done, in my opinion it conveys how much she enjoys singing for the audience, with her radiant blue eyes, the slightly flushed cheeks and her big mouth with the upper front teeth line she makes a cheerful and positive appearance as a whole.

Compared to her body the figure has a big head from some angles it makes her look a bit strange, owning to the unique Idolm@ster look Rin has been faithfully sculpted. Overall the face is nevertheless quite pretty and shows her enchanting happy face.

Outfit & Body

Rin Shibuya wears a gorgeous outfit, it’s called “New Generation” colored in very dark colors. Compared to other Idol outfits, which accentuate characteristics like playfulness, innocence and being cute. Purple and black give Rin a more grown up, mature look.

The design is very appealing and mixes modern elements with classic feminine fashion like the glossy corsage with the classic frilly dress underneath. The corsage pushes her delicate chest a bit. The figure shows some skin without selling herself for cheap to make up for bad music like certain US so called artists.

Confess! who did you prefer in the early 2000 era Britney or Christina Aguilera?

Well, these two actually have not much in common with the Idol culture in japan, the language aside there are differences in the visual presentation and attitude of the singers. Once it happens that I disliked most western female solo artists and nowadays I’m rarely listening to western Pop music, but next to a variety of J Pop and Rock I still enjoy some western bands.

Back to topic, Rin’s outfit; I love to look at her multi layered skirt, the awesome boots or the metallic colored buckles on her corsage, in my eyes it has an Hispanic touch with all the frills and decoration in her hair. You really see her Idol  atmosphere.

Final Words

This Shibuya Rin figure is the first released scale figure of iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls, she passed with waving flags, I really like her and the image of an sparkling, teen Idol who loves to sing on the big stage. Her dress is beautiful and has many nice details, she has a distinctive style and overall the girl has a nearly flawless quality. Also her face is quite adorable with her big eyes and sweet expression. It’s a quite photogenic figure, somehow her Idol background is fun, it is really enjoyable to take pictures of Rin in a lot of different ways. In my opinion she’s great.

What do you think about Rin?

Soon I will go on vacation, for the first 14 days of June I will be away in France. I will probably be able to check out your new posts, but maybe I will not post anything during vacation.

Welcome to Wieselhead‘s personal coverage from the Wonder Festival 2013 summer version, which was held on July 28th. It’s the biggest, most popular event for figure collectors around the world. There are two Wonder Festival each year, once in winter and once in summer.

Also in this year many manufacturers of figures and other anime related goods featured and announced interesting and most of all beautiful figures, most will hopefully (or hopefully not ^^) be available in the upcoming months. Due to the amount of interesting figures the Wonder Festival 2013 summer coverage will be divided in two posts full of bishoujo figures.

In these posts I will talk about the figures, that I considered to be worth mentioning…

I was most impressed by the things from Max Factory, seems like they finally realized their talents next to manufacturing action figures. It’s a remarkable number of nice figures.

Shingeki no Bahamut – Cerberus

This was the first figure of this years Wonderfestival that caught my interest, maybe a top favorite. Fans of demon girls have a nice time recently, first the Seven Deadly Sins and now other demonic beauties. Cerberus has slightly less anime-ish characteristics than other figures, but she still has a beautiful youthful appearance with a cute face, a sexy body and furry hands… furry? ok ;D. I really like how Max Factory adapted this figure from the to me unknown source.

sculptor: no data  – release date: no data – scale: no data

Sword Art Online – Asuna 

This a surprisingly nice portray of a damsel in distress, Asuna/Titania has a very seductive appearance, it looks totally like Max Factory qualiy, I mean her face is so beautiful and this expression  is so detailed. The chained up arms it gives a slightly sadistic touch to the figure.

sculptor: no data  – release date: no data – scale: 1/7

Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai – Kashiwazaki Sena / Mikazuki Yozora

More Haganai figures, this time Sena and Yozora in cat ear leotards, I think they would look nice next to the previously released Kobato and Maria. Well, as much as I wished for something like this after the lovely Maria and Kobato in cat costumes, Im not that hyped for it. These two or better said Sena in particular is a little off. Her face appears a bit strangely captured

sculptor: YOSHI   – release date: 2014 – scale: 1/7

Sasami-san@Ganbaranai – Yagami Tsurugi

The anime was a bit super strange, but also very funny and with likeable characters. I actually mistook Tsurugi for her younger sister Tama, but ok I don’t favor any of these characters.
The figure is sculpted in a very cute pose and the side ponytail is another nice charm point.
Im already enchanted by the figure and will most likely purchase her when the time comes.

sculptor:  no data  – release date: no data – scale:  1/7

Strike Witches 2 – Francesca Lucchini

The good stuff comes at last, I always wanted a NICE figure of Lucchini, the mischievous and cheerful loli character of the witches. The prototype looks already very cute and portrays the character of Lucchini very well. It will probably be turned into a promising Strike Witch, ahh her machine gun is so huge. Too bad that I sold her bosom buddy Charlotte to someone in Hawaii.

sculptor: no data   – release date: 2014 – scale: 1/8

Papa no Iu Koto o Kikinasai! – Takanashi Miu

Miu ≧(´▽｀)≦, Miu is a fine young lady with a sophisticated sense of fashion, I really liked her personality from the anime. The saucy lunatic smile is a bit unique for a young character, it’s like she says  “I don’t mind but you’ll get arrested for sure” A bit of improvement here would help her face I think, even though it would be funny to have a loli figure with such an expression.

sculptor: Aketagawa Noboru – release date: 2014 – scale: 1/8

Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena – Labrys

Im honest, I don’t know whats this about, but it’s cool, the mecha girl characterdesign is totally cool, I like Labrys. The commanding pose and the huge battle axe make this figure even better, I hope the paintjob will bring out my positive image of this figure  in the final state, as well.

sculptor: Saitou Fumiki  – release date: 2014 no data – scale: 1/8

Nitro Super Sonic – Sonico – 1/7 – Santa, Swimsuit version

A Sonico figure from ALTER, who would have ever expected this any time!? This is a nice figure for sure, half nude, but with a non teased facial expression this is quite a nice change of pace compared to other figures of her, even though her best figures show her in a teased of embarrased state. There are also Sonico figures I don’t like, because of too exaggerated proportions or questionable poses, but let me say this, these hipster Sonico fans who say thing like “that would be the first Sonico I’d ever buy cause the others look cheap”, “if Sonico would have smaller boobs I’d like her”  totally annoy me. Accept how Sonico in general is or get lost.

sculptor: Hide, Makio Munetoshi   – release date: 2014 – scale: 1/7

Summon Night 3 – Aty

This Game seems to have a really nice characerdesign, even though I never played it. I like how Aty looks her as redhead magician with a fluffy hat and glasses, glasses are the best. The bright blue eyes, her face reminds me of Hattori Hanzo, I wouldn’t have mind if Aty had a slightly more young appearance than this. Anyway the outfit is pretty cool, I love the tight fit dress with the striation design, the belts around her waiste are a nice touch as well as the high boots.
Actually no one would wear these boots in daily life, those are mainly used in red light districts, it’s too bad. All Hail anime fashion, your characters can wear such clothes with attitude.

sculptor: Yagyuu Toshiyuki   – release date: 2014 – scale: 1/8

Nisemonogatari – Oshino Shinobu

Wasn’t it a pleasant surprise as the formerly silent Shinobu turned into a naughty, talkactive Vampire wearing an bishoujo summer dress in Nisemonogatari? I love it and now here is a figure of her also wearing a ladylike hat. In gray she already looks nice, I can’t wait until she’s painted.

sculptor: no data   – release date: no data – scale: no data

Nisemonogatari – Senjougahara Hitagi

This appears also like a nice figure from Nisemonogatari. Senjougahara sama is portrayed with her caring yandere side, to keep her boyfriend from doing dangerous exorcistic activities. I like the whole presentation of this figure, sitting on a chair with a piercing look in her eyes.

sculptor: no data  – release date: no data – scale: 1/8

Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon II – Asama Tomo

Kotobukiya’s second Kyoukai Senjou no Horizon figure, Tomo is posed in a powerful shooting stance, while her very female curves are accentuated nicely. It’s a nice looking  prototype, but still It’s still not my kind of dream figure from the Horizon anime, I want something standing in a more casual fashion. Sometimes I’m just too picky with figures where I know the origin.

sculptor: no data  – release date: 2013 – scale: no data

The Idolmaster (TV Animation) – Ganaha Hibiki

I enjoyed Idolm@ster the anime a lot and Hibiki was among my favorite characters next to Haruka. Here the unique style of the show is captures very well, yeah the mouths are big, either you like it or not so much. The clothes of Hibiki are cool, Im a big fan of her heavy duty boots and the hotpants. The energetic pose is another thing I like about this figure of  Hibiki.

sculptor: Mazaki Yuusuke – release date: December 2013 – scale: 1/8

Fate/Stay Night – Saber – Pajama version

GK adaption ! Yay! I have a weak spot for Saber in alternative outfits, Saber in pajamas is something unexpectedly cute. She was made several years younger, her vulnerable and shy pose awakens protective instincts ^^.  The floating pose can be interpret as dreaming, but I think she needs a bed.

sculptor: Hashimoto Ryou   – release date: November 2013 – scale: 1/7

Nitro Super Sonic – Sonico – Mouse version

Sonico with mouse ears, I like it ﾍ(ﾟ∀ﾟ*)ﾉ.I approve of all the changes that were made compared to the source material, the hair is more three dimensional, a better face expression, toned down breast size and an altered pose. The arched back accentuates her well defined butt nicely.

sculptor: no data   – release date: no data – scale: no data

Nitro Super Sonic – Sonico – Child version

Making figures of characters as child is a new or maybe very unique idea, child Sonico is based on an illustration from the booklet which was included in the Sonicomi game. Ahh why huge headphones again, you should listen to what your parents say about a healthy diet. Sonico must have old headphones or she’s a cyborg, whatever joking aside it will depend on the pose if I’ll like this or not, her face actually looks adorable, somehow I prefer her grown up though.

sculptor: no data   – release date: no data – scale: no data

That’s it for part one of the Wonfes 2013 Summer, I hope there was something in for you, tell me what you liked. If not there will be a part two with more figures.

related post

Wonder Festival 2013 Winter – part 1

Wonder Festival 2013 Winter – part 2

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

Recently announced figures I find partially interesting (not ordered)

Estellise Sidos Heurassein – ALTER

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

Saten Ruiko – Chara Ani / Toy’s Works

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

 Nyaruko – Max Factory

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

Ishikki Akane – GSC

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

Mamiya Marie – FREEing / Dragon Toys

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

Hasegawa Kobato – Kotobukiya

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

Kashiwazaki Sena – Aoshima

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

The False Songstress – Sheryl Nome – Max Factory

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

Oda Yae – Daiki Kougyou

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

What I actually ordered instead.

Maeda Keiji – ALTER / Hobby Japan

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

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

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

Super Sonico PKG ver. – Orchid Seed

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

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

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

Alleyne – Queen’s Blade – Orchid Seed

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

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

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

Kanbaru Suruga – Bakemonogatari – GSC

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

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

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

Mission accomplished!

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

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

The Delays

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

Which figures from my listed items, have you ordered ?

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