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?

It’s been quite some time since my last Preorder post, let’s say I didn’t order as fast as before.
Since last post I ordered 4 more great figures and as rare happenng 1 girly figma.

In case you are wondering how I can buy new figures all the time, at the moment Im playing “old figure out – new figure in” it’s a bad way of maintaining your collection hobby and I feel really bad for selling them, but I don’t have so much space availabe to keep them all forever.

At least keeping my very favorite figures remains top priority, it’s not like I’m going to sell these.

Next to the usual ecchi happyness I ordered some iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls related stuff.

Figma – Jougasaki Mika – Max Factory

Hey a figma! This young lady was sold as limited exclusive item through the GSC store, I guess you could have bought her on last Wonfes, as well. It’s a flashy figma with a cool outfit, what appears to be a school uniform, but with a very casual touch, overall a very feminine design. I mainly got her for her vulnerable blush face and the pretty hair, the grin is rather scary

release date will be in November 2013 – price 3500 Yen

Shibuya Rin – New Generation version – GSC

I was sure to get this figure since I’ve seen her as grey prototype on Wonfes. As I’ve seen her painted, I was quite impressed by this fabulous songstress, a lot of frill and shiny dark colors, the fine details on her dress look great. Rin herself is also a petite and pretty girl with a cute singing face, I love how she is swinging her microphone stand, these boots look great.

Im not as hyped about this purchase as before, but it should be fun to photograph her

release date will be in January 2014 – price 7030 Yen

Shimamura Uzuki – New Generation version – GSC

Another Idol, now it’s enough sir. While Rin is a dark raven Uzuki comes as sweet rasperry cake.
Her cheerful and energetic look and attitude is contagious. The outfit is rather playful, yet skin revealing. She has an exposed belly and a short, short skirt. I like the detailed pattern on her frilly skirt . I would have been satisfiied with the closed eyes face only, but GSC played it safe and ships Uzuki with a second face to please more collectors, it’s good to have the option.

It would be cool if the sizes of Rin and Uzuki would match in the end.

release date will be in April 2014 – price 7200 Yen

freshly ordered

Yagyuu – Senran Kagura – Vertex

I like Senran Kagura and I already have two figures from that line, Hibari and Katsuragi (review comes soon). Senran Kagura is popular for featuring characters with a bit more meat, where it matters (￣▽+￣*). Yagyuu’s complete dress is a little boring in the manga, but in this figure adaption her “uniform” is in a damaged state with parts of her scarf and a torn skirt. I was close to order her since some weeks, but delayed my decision a bit longer until I felt convinced enough. I love her pretty face, the super twintails, the super sexy curves in combination with the pose and her traditional umbrella. Why have I resisted so long after all? she’s my type of figure.

release date will be in January 2014 – price 7690 Yen

Yuki – Maid Yome – Orchid Seed

Don’t buy masturbating figures, that was something I really never wanted to do, but ok rules in collecting figures are meant to last for only a short period of time. Orchid Seed makes a lot of appealing figures, but Yuki is an exceptional pretty figure. At first I wanted  to talk Miette into ordering her, but after checking a few first reviews and pictures, I knew that I wanted this one, after all I snatched one of the last copy’s at Hobby Link Japan. Yuki’s ecchi activities aside, the character is also cute with a sweet face, vanilla colored hair, a nice skintone and perfect boobs.

release date was in October 2013 I ordered her last minute – price 7457 Yen

Upcoming figures I’m interested in – Im not sure about these, but at least I find them overly appealing and like to list the upcoming or just announced figures.

Princess Milk – Hime to Boin – Orchid Seed

Argh, crotch focused figures are so hard to display without feeling a creep, I could put a flower pot in front, wait thats a great idea XD. It’s mean to give ecchi figures such beautiful faces and the figures seems to be sculpted nicely, it seems nearly impossible to pass for me （*´▽｀*）.

release date will be in June 2014

Sonico – Santa, Swimsuit version – Alter

Sonico! Alter makes a figure of my beloved 2D girl. Wait, busty figures ? They don’t do that very often, but having a sweet Sonico from Alter has a nice ring to it. This early production sample is already enchanting enough with important blush marks and a tight bikini. The christmas hoodie is castoffable, to give Sonico an all seasons beach girl appearance. Ah yes, she’s scaled 1/7.

release date will be in 2014, hopefully Alter will overcome their vicious circle of delays next year.

Airy Ardet – Shining Blade – Kotobukiya

A simple, conservatie figure adaption of Airy, but still I find it cute how the kind and innocent looking girl is carrying her basket full of bread of happiness, maybe I’ll get her after release.

release date will be in March 2014

Sonico – Mouse version – Wing

(ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞  That’s really good stuff, not painted, but there’s already a release date, so it shouldn’t take too long until preorder will be accepted. That’s a nice Sonico figure with the usual combination of cute and sexy here she is with funny mouse ears. It looks like they transferred some fat from her boobs to her buttocks, which is a great design choice for this lovely figure.

release date will be in March 2014

Rias Gremory – Highschool DxD –  Pole Dance version – Kaitendoh

I feel offended when a character I know gets onebad figure adaptions after another, everything before Kaitendoh was a real dissapointment in my eyes. This is a chance for a promising Rias Gremory figure, the sculptor of this figure, Katsuaki Nemoto  already worked on Cat Lap Milk, so this Rias should turn out very well without much risk. She is shown from the funny, no spectacular Ending Theme of the first season of High School DxD. The face is spot on and the pole dance outfit looks good. I wouldn’t mind to own this attractive figure earlier or later.

release date will be in November 2013

Ousawa Miu – Y-shirt version – FREEing

This simple yet nice figure of  Miu, is portrayed in a self confident, nonchalant pose, but her facial expressionsays something different and  appears rather flustered, befitting her character in the anime. The long twintails look nice, but unfortunately the hair is not very detailed, same applies to her open shirt. The body nevertheless looks quite nice. On the bottomline I’m not getting this one at full price, but maybe when her prize drops.

release date will be in February 2014

Yagami Hayate – Nanoha The Movie 2nd A’s – Gift

A new sandcastle friend! I love my cute and demure big scale Fate figure, but I think Hayate is even cuter with her realistic haircolor, friendly blue eyed face and a lightly opened mouth, she warms up my heart. I think she is a very good addition to the already released happy Nanoha and calm Fate 1/4 scaled swimsuit figures from Gift. I don’t know where they buy these skimpy bikini’s, I think it’s to spice things a bit up. Hayate is  lovely like this, maybe she’ll need a hat.

release date will be in January 2014

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