Today I will show you a very pretty Sonico figure from Wave, after making number of 1/10 scaled Beach Queens, they returned with nice figures recently of much bigger scale and muh nicer quality. Sonico – bikiny style version has been released in November 2020. The figure is scaled 1/7 which make her 21,5 cm in height, sculpted by Zuiko.

The figure comes with a candy pink base with fluffy white plush on top, not really fitting for the beach, but the figure could also show Sonico during one of the indoor gravure idol model jobs.

I actually planned to review the Sonico – Summer Vacation version from Orchid Seed, but after some brawl with Nippon Yasan they cancelled all my orders and I got my money back. Unfortunately I didn’t find a good deal for her afterwards, maybe another time. Thx to all the delays 2020 to 2021 my carefully planned preorders changed a lot. I’ll have to pay several figure orders in these next 2 months, it’s a bit of a bad situation for me, that hopefully ends soon.

The figures face is quite adorable, sparkling pink eyes, blushed cheeks and a happy open mouth. The sculpting of her mouth could have been a bit more detailed, but that is like the only thing to criticize on this really nice bikini figure.

The hair on this Sonico figure is longer than on other figures of her, it’s done very detailed and has a lovely pink to sky blue gradient. Her trademark headphones look extremely detailed and the bow is made from metal.

Sonico also wears a beautiful necklace, as detailed as her nice headphones.

This Sonico reveals a lot of skin, the nearly nude appearance of the figure aside, it actually creates a happy beach atmosphere. Overall she has nice and gentle colors, Sonico has a beautiful skintone, a beautiful body anyway.

Super Sonico the ambassador of thicc/curvy body, back then Sonico was basically the first popular anime style character with a more curvy anatomy who appeals to both men and women, even with her sexy body she always has been portrayed as a friendly and good girl with an innocent personality. Many figures and illustrations have been made, not all are especially innocent. I bought a number of Sonico figures back in the days, but only the ones I liked a lot.

The bikini, as skimpy as it is still is made very detailed, realistic looking wrinkles and a tight fit, it’s a little funny how the bikini top appears to stressed from holding up Sonic’s proud assets.

Sonico’s flirty pose, is quite bold but with such a cute face one can’t accuse her of being lewd. Honestly, the pose is very good, bend over Sonico highlights her beautiful chest before her arms and sticks out her nice round butt. It is a similar pose like the Sonico – Racing version from Max Factory has, but not quite the same.

The boobs and cleavage look very inviting and soft, the illusion of the soft skin is very well done. Her hips and legs also look soft and squishy, the bikini bottom cuts deep into her skin, wearing it for more than a few hours is probably not advisable. I really like the articulations of her arms and the hands that are placed on top of her leg.

Final Words – This 1/7 scaled figure of Super Sonico is nice, Wave did a very good job her, everything is nicely detailed and cleanly done. She was sculpted very well wih a beautiful body line, it shows Sonico with attractive body fat articulated in a sexy pose. The skimpy clothes work very well in combination with the figures body and the signs of weight and stretch limits are visible, which is more fun than it sounds like. Additionally she has very nice hair and headphones, the face is pretty and cute. Alltogether the Super Sonico – bikini style is one of the better Sonico figures and quite enchanting.

Sonico has been a favorite of mine, since I started with this blog. My first figure of her was the Sonico – Bondage version from Orchid Seed in 2011 and within the past 7 years I bought around a dozen more. Of course I parted with a few, but I always stayed a fan. Today I will show you my latest Sonico figure dress in a bridal outfit.

Recently the perfect figure for Sonico fans around the globe has been released, the Sonico – 10th Anniversary Wedding version from Good Smile Company. She was available in three version, a standard version, you’ll see in this review, as Marriage Box -SILVER- with two silver rings or as Marriage Box -GOLD- with two gold rings.

And here she is as cheerful bride, balancing on one foot. It was a fight to get her on the base, you would not believe it.

The wedding rings and marriage documents aside, the standard version is not different in any way, the figure is quite nice on it’s own, she has a cute additional “before kiss” faceplate and overall a beautiful design. I really like Sonico, but I passed on these wedding ring sets, also because of the price *cough*.

The design was provided by Tsuji Santa, who is behind the design for most Sonico figures, it’s truly amazing that his creations receive so much love and awareness. The illustration was adapted into a figure is the aspiring sculptor Chiaki.

The figure was released on June 25th, 2018. She is scaled 1/6 and measures 35 cm ! her base measures around 10 cm alone already *argh* she doesn’t fit in the shelf that way, 2 steps on the stair podest would have been enough.

The Sonico wedding version has fantastic hair with a wonderful sense of movement. I can’t remember a Sonico figure that had better looking hair, It’s super detailed with her usual soft, pastel pink color with a darker shade at the edge.

The face showcases Tsuji Santa’s current style of his long time Sonico project. The cute face has big eyes with a lively and nicely detailed iris. The bride shows a gentle, open mouth smile with wide front teeth line. The additional face isn’t any less appealing, the “before kiss” face creates a special atmosphere. With the lightly closed eyes and detailed eyelashes, her face looks so cute. There is also her pretty mouth with her soft shiny lips waiting to be kissed.

On first glimpse the sweet bride Sonico makes a strong impression, while towering on her stairs clad in velvet like material. The complex outfit with the huge skirt and all the cute details looks just impressive. the outfits pearl white color creates a beautiful harmony with the girls pale pinkish skin and honestly her design shows a lot of skin, it’s nice.

Sonico is presented in an as bold as beautiful dream in pearl white, I bet Sonico would be highly embarrassed to wear that during the official ceremony. It could have been a bit less skin revealing, the top looks a bit funny.

Her boobs are covered and supported by two thin straps with leads to this high amount of sideboobs, I’m not fully convinced by that part, it should have rather been a standard shoulderfree design with a tasteful cleavage. Of course her center cleavage looks beautiful, but I don’t know if a wedding dress needs to show side boobs. I partially really love her dress, although the wedding dress rather turned out to be an outfit for the wedding night.

Nevertheless the outfit has so many beautiful aspects, like the veil with the pastel blue and red roses and it’s other small details. Also the wonderful skirt with it’s fine details and soft folds. Around her waist, Sonico wears a fancy corsage with garterbelt that leads to her pretty stockings, the stretching effect has been adapted quite convincing. The high rising panties fortunately doesn’t cover much of her butt. The arm long gloves are very pretty, in her right hand Sonico can hold a beautifully arranged floral bouquet, the ribbons are sculpted in a playful and dynamic manner.

The design team has been quite generous about the wedding versions curves ♡♡♡.

Sonico has a stunning buxom body in this figure adaption, her boobs are quite voluptuous here, personally I would not mind less, her cleavage is really beautiful nevertheless. She also has such a big and prominent butt, it’s one of the appeal points of this figure. I really adore those wide hips and her juicy thighs. In between of this big ends hourglass Sonico keeps her envy provoking narrow waist, although she has a cute slight stomach. Her lower half is just so great and curvy, I love it. Her overall appearance makes her a desirable woman, who wouldn’t want to be her groom.

Final Words

The Sonico – 10th Anniversary Wedding version is a stunning Sonico figure. She has a beautiful appearance with a dress and face, that radiates a cheerful mood. The different face is a lovely extra, since it adds so much more to the figures concept. At 1/6 scale this figure is big, more than big enough to admire her amazingly curvy body, hips and butt are so sexy.  There is the option to display her without skirt to have a better view on these areas. All Together it makes her a great addition for any Sonico fan and supporter. If I would address an issue about the final figure, it would be the smaller gaps at the panties and midsection of the figure. Aside from that everything looks nice and clean.

.

What I also liked was the Seikatsu Micchaku Shuzai Special Figure (Lifestyle Total Coverage Special Figure) lineup from FuRyu, where Sonico is portrayed in a variety of daily life activities. Those nicely made prize figures were more focused on Sonico’s cuteness than her being sexy dynamite. The Sonico – Sweets Time version was my first figure that I’ve bought from FuRyu, that review was from 2014 though, last christmas (2017) my dear sister gave me another figure from this lineup, the Sonico – Chatting Time version. I was happy that my sister remembered that I really like Sonico.

Since 2014 Prize figures constantly improved in quality and some even rival a few of the big manufacturers adaptions, of course not because of perfect quality but when there is one thing those figures show their appeal it’s creativity and nicely articulated poses. Recently I was quite impressed by an Kaede prize figure that fellow figure photographer Miette purchased and photographed. Prize figures of Love Live Sunshine currently look more interesting than the announced figures of the top manufacturers, it’s amusing, but I nevertheless also hope to see figures of Aquors in fancy and pretty idol outfits at the upcoming Winter Wonder Festival.

Sonico is sitting on a pillow with her legs placed on the floor, in this pose she measures 140 mm in height.

The figure has a nicely articulated pose, portraying a everday scene of a girl having a chat over the phone. The vintage telephone gives the figure additional charm, as well as the green teddybear that she is holding in her arm.

For the pictures I used a backdrop that I’ve build for last years Maid Ami figure and took a few things out of my figure furniture box and created a cute room for Sonico. The sweater dress of the figure has an attractive design and texture.

Sonico’s face looks very cute with blush marks and crisp eye decals, her face also wears a quite expressive facial expression. It seems like Sonico listens to something exciting or maybe she heard some shocking news over the phone right now. Her hair looks good with the backside being especially smooth and the pastel pink gradient is just beautiful.

Of course Sonico also is sexy, in her shoulder free sweater she has a pretty cleavage and nicely shaped legs.

Overall it’s a nicely sculpted and nicely painted figure, the colors have an appealing saturation the sculpt leaves a very good impression, on closer inspection some areas are slightly rough, but you could display the figure with pride.

I don’t purchase many prize figures, eager collectors are always in need for space and I rather would order an expensive figure to put it on the shelf honestly. But I might make an exception for anime characters I really like ^^.

Anyway, even with a limited budget one doesn’t have to live with unappealing figures, prize figures nowadays can be both appealing and affordable

Somewhere on an empty road a Nissan 200 SX with two passengers onboard was driving away.
The man had a very pretty, healthy girl on the passengers seat, who throw a innocent smile in the drivers direction.

“I feel like my breast are swollen since yesterday, could you take a look”

“No, No they are perectly fine” he replied quickly in a flustered act, while refusing himself to take a look at the object of discussion.

“But when I push a little here one of them is bigger, see?” totally ignorant avout the appeal of her own body, the girl won’t stop pressing on her boobs creating all kinds of weird shapes inside her cleavage.

“Stoop! Im driving BAKA! GO and cover your boobs already!”

*nipslip* “Kyahhh!”

the front window instantly turned red….

this just happened in his dream!

Hello, this review will be a little different than usual, the figure is so special to me, that I felt like writing a little story additional the usual review routine. I’m not lying when I say that it was my most anticipated figure of 2013, she was announced around 1 Year ago and without further delay she was released in December.

Sonico PKG (Package) verson is based on an illustration by Tsuji Santa, which was printed on the manual of the Sonicomi – communication with Sonico PC Game. The figure was made by Orchid Seed, they already have a history with Sonico figures, in my opinion they made the best Sonico figures so far and this is no exception.  This figure was made by Ishiyama Satoshi, a talented sculptor, who already made made a large number of busty beauties for Orchid Seed.

Sonico PKG ver. is scaled 1/5 and has a height of  33 cm, I have no figure that is bigger than her.

 Hair & Face

Sonico has her usual hairstyle, shoulder long at the front, at the back it ends a bit above her butt. The strands in front rest on her chest without a gap. The hair is painted in a bright pink color with darker pink highlights. It is nicely sculpted with many single strands, aside from a few uneven spots you can only notice on very close inspection it is rather smooth. The seamline on top is hidden by her trademark, the silver headphones, these are very detailed and have a convincing metallic look.

What I really like about this certain Sonico is her different face expression, it’s not the usual happy or flustered expression, it’s somewhat neutral, but there is a kinda strong atmosphere it emits, like she’s lost in thought while taking a look at the surrounding or calmly walking along the beach. The face is sculpted very well with details like a cute nose and big expressive eyes, there is a faint blush on her cheeks with the slightly open mouth the whole face appears a little more realistic than other anime related figures.

 Outfit & Body

Sonico is obviously a buxom beauty with a really attractive body, she has a nice pair of big boobs, they are very well sculpted in a teardrop like shape, the slight sag gives them a feel of weight and a idea of gravity. The skimpy bikini top covers her chest tightly and there is a certain tension on the thin garters. The figure has a rather big round butt, her buttocks appear  beefy as if they were made of concrete and the bikini pants don’t really have a chance to cover her skin.

Sonico is popular for having a bit more meat around her bones, her broad hips are so damn hot. The figure is supported by her strong thighs compared to that, her belly is rather free of fat and her hip bones are still visible in this figure adaption, a deeper engraved bellybutton would have made the sculpting perfect for me. I think it’s an awesome sculptur nevertheless.

Sonico’s outfit is quite unique a bikini with star patterned stockings and boots.I really love the heavy boots, colored in petrol, it is a elaborate design and the white bootlaces look convincing.

The white bikini has nice shading effects and a detailed sculpting with wrinkles and stuff.

The figure ist castoffable, first you have to take off the head, then the ribbon in the middle at her back, after that you disconnect the straps. The bikini is flexible enough, don’t be scared to break it in the cast off process. It’s a good solution, the top has a tight fit and isn’t bulky at all.

As to be expected by a figure sculpted by Ishiyama Satoshi, Sonico has beautiful breasts the elevated areola area and detailed nipples give them the final touch, I like this angle.

7:00 Cameraman san takes a blurry look at his clock

“Oh I have to hurry, I must pick up Sonico at 7:45 and take her to the studio, we have a shooting” “Arghh! I’m short on time, breakfast or shower?” mumbled Cameraman san to himself while he was rubbing his eyes. He decided to take a shower “this guy is terribly energetic today I have no time for that now… get down” demanded Camera san as he was looking down his feet in a frustrated manner.

7:25 Cameraman san is fresh and fully dressed ready to leave the house any Second. He grabs his keys and starts the motor of his 200 SX, “it will be a sunny day”, he thought as he was driving further.

7:26 As fan of cheesy Jpop music her turned on his current favorite and started singing along “Hime,Hime, hime hime hime”

7:32 He arrives on Sonico’s appartment and checked his outer appearance “passed” he said in a sharp short breath. Sonico was already outside and noticed him, with a cheerful waving gesture she quickly approached the car, he inspeced her outfit from a distance, she was wearing a sand colored jacket over a dark blue dress with white polkadots, long enough to cover her knees.

7:37 Sonico takes a look through the opened sidewindow and made a cute salute pose torwards Cameraman san. He could barely suppress his stupid smile after being greeted from lovely girl like her, after he regained his cool, he said “jump in young lady”. Sonico nodded and took her seat. “Good morning” she said calmy. “Hi Sonico we will work together again this week, it’s always a pleasure” “Yeah” said the pink haired girl as her cheeks slowly turned red. “Today it is for the big shoe Company” she added in a fast spoken sentence. “speaking of that the outfit, that our client chose is a little eccentric, but  don’t worry you should look good in it anyway” he said in order to comfort the girl next to him.
“Hahaha” Sonico burst out in laughter, “it can’t be worse than the cow costume last time, you know Suzu made fun of me the whole week”, complained Sonico with a bitter smile.

7:44 Cameraman san and Sonico arrived near the studio’s location. “You don’t have to be nervous, I’m here for you.” he said as he was touching her shoulder. There was weird silence inside the car. “Don’t worry about Sonico, I’m stronger than it might appear” she said in a very gentlle voice” while she lowered her head, Sonico carefully held out her small hand into Cameraman sans direction and formed it into a fist, he understood the idea of the girl and calmly met Sonico’s fist with his. “Thank you” said the girl softly, with a bright smile.

“Let me see the outfit please” she demanded friendly but authoritative. “Sure” he hesitantly handed over the large bag, sweat was appearing at his forehead “they said you can keep the boots, if you like”, he added, as Sonico impatiently grabbed the suspicious container and opened it.

“WHAAAT!?” a loud voice from a pink haired demon like creature shook the car, “I will wear only this, they can’t be serious” “I’LL KILL YOU!”

To be continued

Final Words

There are still some pictures left below, but it is really time to sum up my impression about this figure. Orchid Seed delivered an excellent figure of Sonico with top notch quality, I didn’t stumble upon any seam line at her body. The body sculpting is very smooth and detailed thank you Ishiyama Satoshi for making her such a stunning beauty. With her standing straight, you can enjoy all her buxom glory, it is a calm but at the same time expressive pose. The most important part of a figure is always the face and even here the Sonico PKG convinces with waving flags, the deep eyes, the nose and the mouth make her a really adorable Sonico.

How does this Sonico PKG figure rank in comparison with my other Sonico figures? I would say it’s slightly ahead of the nice Sonico – Bath Time figure from Native, her butt and boobs looks far better and she’s standing up, what I prefer. But she is a little behind the Sonico – Bondage version (black) this is still the best Sonico figure, her stylish outfit, the sex appeal, also the whole atmosphere she emits and many different cast off options make her my number one.

The enchanting Soniko, mascot from Nitro+ gaines more and more popularity these days, she also received an own artbook treatment recently. This Sonicomi Art Book was published by Softbank creative and the release date was in the middle of December 2011.

It was sold in two version, there was the Sonicomi Art Book Premium Box which included an extra towel and a CD that included a few bonus outfits for the Sonicomi game for around 5524 Yen and the normal version which came without any extras had a price of 2800 Yen. At first I somehow wasn’t that interested in getting the book, but in the end I tried to get one copy of it.
I was able to find one of the last copies at cdjapan, at that time I thought there was just one version of the book, but it turned out as a misunderstanding, so there were no extras for me

Anyway, it turned out as a very nice artbook, but first lets talk about the technical aspects, the book has a glossy cover and consist of 144 A4 pages. The illustrations are high quality prints.
With a size of 30 x 21.5 x 3.6 cm and a weight of 1014 gramm it’s one of the bigger artbooks.

The illustrations aren’t all of the ecchi kind, its balance between cute and sexy pictures, most of it are illustrations from Tsuji Santa, but there are also some render prints from the game engine.

Scanning the pictures takes less effort than do a photo of the pages, therefore I activated my badass scanner once more, to show you some of the nice illustrations of the Sonicomi Art Book.

Even without extras Im very satisfied with this artbook, the book as well as the prints have a very good quality, it’s first class Soniko merchandise of high valence. The illustrations vary from cute and innocent to quite ecchi ones, but there are no nude or hentai like illustrations included.

Unfortunately both versions of the artbook are already sold out, but I hope you liked this little artbook review. I already have another artbook of an french artist up my sleeve, Stay tuned ^^.

Hi mina-san today I have a new post about the Sonicomi Game, after I already showed you the insides of the limited edition box, this time I will talk about the Game itself. I already finished one of the 16 Endings, so I can give you a few infos, pictures and whatever about the gameplay and the setting, even though I couldn’t understand everything so far.

Preperations

Sonicomi is a japanese game and these guys from there won’t make it too easy for Gaijin like us. Before installing the game you have to set the locale setting of your OS to japan first.

Under Windows 7 it should work like this

So now one last step in advance, install the SdActi authentification tool and type in the code written on the SdActi manual. Now the Game can be installed and should start without problems.

Yeah I have triple core XD

Menue

The menu has a nice design and allows a smooth navigation, at first there are three main options, after you cleared one ending two new options will be unlocked, Free Mode and Clear List.

In Free Mode you can take pictures of Sonikowithout time limit or blinking Hud signs, you can dress her the way you want and can use every set you’ve unlocked in the Game.

There is side menu which lets you choose between different posing options, they differ from set to set and you can also trigger certain reactions of Soniko. In this mode the pictures you take are stored on your pc in 560×420 pixels. Clear List is just an overview about the endings you’ve cleared, there are 16 possible endings you also get an overview about the cleared client requests.

Setting

if you give the right answers Soniko goes doki doki

The player takes the role of Cameraman-san, like Producer-san in Idolmaster ^^. The player first gets in contact with Soniko on a concert during a failed stage dive of her.We talk a bit with her and say goodbye. The next day we see Soniko again as our model for the shooting. After that her manager is impressed by our job and Cameraman-san end up as Soniko’s official photograph.

The character of Soniko which most of you might know as Nitro+ mascot or just as illustration is very well fleshed out in the Game; she is cute, kind, a bit shy, sometimes insecure, but she’s also a very happy person. Soniko isn’t portrayed as a dumb sex bomb, she seems to have a real personality. Her voice is given to her by Ayano Yamamoto, a quite unique and cute voice

There are also other characters like Soniko’s devilish manager, her hot idol rival, Angie Gravite, the clients and so on. There’s also a guest appearance of Danny Choo’s Mirai.

Unlike in most visual novels, the Soniko character is rendered in 3D, while other characters remain 2D. Thx to 3D Soniko can show emotions in a more detailed way, she has lots of different face expression, expressive gestics and a certain body language. The backgrounds are 2 and 3D.

The Game centers around gaining Soniko’s trust and maybe her love as well as supporting her in becoming a fully fledged gravure idol. On several ocassions you can talk with Soniko by choosing one sentences on the screen, you have to click one of the sentences within the time limit.
There are also rare occassion where you can touch Soniko, you can click the spot where you want to touch, I don’t think she would like it, if you suddenly touch her boobs, not that I’ve tried it ^^.

The routes in Sonicomi are decided by the answers, actions and decisions you choose,the style of the outfits you give to Soniko are very important as well as the succes in the photomissions.

Photomissions

The action part of Sonicomi are the photomissions, where you do shootings with Soniko for several clients, the missions are divided into selecting the location, choosing a matching outfit for the clients request and doing the shooting. There are many different clothes and accessoires you can choose from in many colors and designs and more stuff can be unlocked during the game.

this menue shows your overall style that you achieved from your choice of outfits in the photomissions, the style decides about the routes you take

example 01- photomission

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QdEfoMermU

example 02 – dressing up

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ7XdMjR5fQ

Soniko shows different reactions to your choice of outfits and helps you with choosing the right outfit, when she jumps in the air and raises her hands you did a good choice and can go straight to the shooting. The controls are similar to an egoshooter, you can move with the WASD keys and aim with the mouse, with the space key you can crouch and with X and C you can rotate the camera and a few more keys, in the mission you’ll probably be too busy too use all these keys.
The ENTER key is helpful when too many targets appear at the same time. It will clear all the targets at once, however you can use this key as long as camera symbols (D) remain in the bar.

You have to hit all the circles within the time limit, for getting better scores you should wait until the circles turn pink. When the stamina rows (A) turn pink you have to hit the right mouse button, a menue appears, where you can scroll with the mousewheel, motivating Soniko can be done by selecting the speech bubble, everytime you do this the motivation meter (B) goes up.

When it is full Soniko goes into action mode and strikes more dynamic poses which give you more chances to improve your score. You can even give her a short break to recharge her energy meter (C), which is neccesary during most shootings, without energy the shooting will be over. With another option you can let Soniko change her pose, from standing to sitting and lying down.

When the shooting is over you can see how you performed and how accurate your chosen oufit was, you can score SS, S, A, B, C, and D. D is pretty bad and will always give you a Bad Ending, it can be quite frustrating when you fail like this and it makes Soniko sad

Graphics & Sound

The visual appearance in this Game is a mix of 2D and 3D, during normal story Soniko is always 3D, the other characters are just 2D. In the photomissions everything is 3D. Soniko has some kind of cell shading and her motions are very refined, so she proably was rendered via motion capturing. The physix engine is responsible for the flow of her hair and the breast movement.

Sonicomi also makes use of effects like HDR, depth of field, soft focus and 8x anti aliasing. The effects are adjustable in different steps, surprisingly my machine can handle it at high quality.
The Game has a nice look, but there are a few flaws, the objects in the photomissions would look better with more detailed textures and also a few more polygons would have been nice, since some things appear quite chunky in the sets of the photomissions. Sometimes there are also a few clipping errors where Soniko’s body and her clothes intersect in a strange way.

The Soundtrack is cool, especially the theme song and the BGM, as I already said Soniko has a cute voice, but it’s a shame that the other characters have no voice.

Summary

Sonicomi is a nice Game and Nitro+ did a good job in giving their mascot a cute and likeable personality, in fact she is totally enchanting ^^. The story(at least what I understand from it) is nice and with 16 possible endings this Game offers a lot of playtime, even though I always ended with the same end so far, it’s quite tricky. The action part called photomission is fun and a curse at the same time, dressing Soniko in different fashion styles is fun even if you are restricted by the wishes of the clients and by Soniko’s reactions, quite a picky little girl ^^.

New clothes can be unlocked during the Game, there are a lot of different clothes and accesoires. The curse side is that the controls are not very precise during the photoshoot, maybe my mouse or I are at fault but sometimes it’s frustrating if you merely missed a target circle and the combo is corrupted, in my opinion the mouse aiming is a bit laggy. Another point of critic are the few save points in the Game, you can’t save before important decisions and you can’t save a certain outfit you’ve put on Soniko, the Game just allows you to save before a photomission and shortly after a photomission in most other visual novels you can save wherever you want.

I guess I couldn’t understand everything about the Game, because I can’t read a single japanese sign and AGTH won’t work so far, but that should be my impressions about Sonicomi from what I’ve understand, thx to years of watching anime I can at least understand some words Soniko says. Anyway the Game can be a lot of fun because of the interaction with the cute 3d Soniko.

If you have any questions about the Gameplay or the Game itself, feel free to ask me ^^

A trial version can be found here, for the 2.0 Version you also have to change your locale.

Sonicomi was made by Nitro+, the Sonicomi limited edition was available for 6,460 Yen and is already sold out as well as the normal version, thx to EMS shipping I received my copy last week.

Front and Back

The Game comes in a nice looking carton inside are the DVD with the Game, a five track Drama CD with the adventures of Soniko and her band Galaxy One, the manual for the Game, the manual for the copy protection system, many slips of paper, a guitar pleg, a card for the Nitro+ cardgame Card Masters/Dominion a picture frame like thing with a picture of Soniko inside which says “Our Memories – You and Soniko” XD Im a big Soniko fan, but Im not that obsessed with her character.

Booklet

There’s also a small book inside which has some Informations about Soniko and with illustrations from the game and illustrations from several artists. This is probably the nicest extra of this limited edition. I activated my badasss scanner to show you a few examples of the pages.

I scanned a few more of the Game Box contents, the manual cover, the front illustration picture which was attached to the box and the sheet with mixed illustrations of the cute Soniko.

Manual

medium size picture

Mixed Illustrations

It was the first time that I’ve ordered a japanese Game, well I somehow expected a bit more stuff to be included in this limited edition, maybe a poster, some stickers or something like that.
On the other hand, the Drama CD is very entertaining and funny, the box is nice and the game is working after some serious cursing of mine “Fuuu!” and it is quite entertaining to play the game.
I will write about my impressions of the Sonicomi gameplay in a different post, so stay tuned.

Magazine photography isn’t really my kind of sport, but theres always a first time for everything.

Some of the available outfits for Soniko in the game

The high gloss magazine contains informations about Soniko, the Sonicomi game, about all the merchandise and whatnot, on 47 colored pages everything is written in japanese. I would have liked to read the interview with Soniko’s voice actress Ayano Yamamoto, but since Im totally unable to read kanji, Im doomed just to look at colored pages ;p

Oh there are also a few polished artworks from inside the Game engine.

Merchandise, Merchandise, Merchandise

[singlepic id=971 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=975 w=320 h=240 float=none]
[singlepic id=976 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=977 w=320 h=240 float=none]

Included in this magazine is a DVD-Rom with the Sonicomi Game Trial version, its nearly the same thing I’ve talked in my Sonicomi trial version impressions post, but Soniko has a different outfit in this trial version. Also a nice folded poster in B2 format was included.

This poster was my personal highlight in this magazine. I liked it so much that I’ve bought a non reflective glass frame to hang it on the wall. I love the illustration from Tsuji Santa with the attractive and cute looking Soniko, the contrast between her pink hair, the slightly tanned skin and the green couch looks damn nice. From close view the bend marks or folds are not so nice, but it can’t be helped. Maybe the folds will vanish a bit after it stayed in the frame some time.

The next Soniko related post will probably be about the limited edition of the Sonicomi Game which will be released on September 30th apparently it was delayed to November 25th.
Im curious which goodies will be inside. Maybe I’ll buy this upcoming artbook here as well XD

I’ve ordered the limited edition of the Super Sonico Game “Sonicomi” which is produced by Nitro+, the player takes the role of a professional photographer who supports Soniko with her starting gravure idol career and getting closer to her, the game will be out on September 30th.

A few days ago a free trial version of the game was released and I didn’t hesitate to download it.

On the start screen the animated Soniko is humming the official title song “Superorbital” of her game and gives us a warm welcome afterwards. In this trial version you have the choice between taking a peek in the story mode or just play the photoshoot mission. Aside from the normal visual novel options, like screen size or voice volume, there are also a few options for the 3D, like auto setup, frame rate, anti aliasing, soft focus, effect quality, HDR and Depth of field.

Story Mode

In the story our alter ego is a professional photograph. We have a job today and are taking pictures at a concert of a certain band, in the audience we see Soniko for the first time, later that night we get closer to her as she bumped into us after a failed stagedive and falls unconscious.
Of course we help her and start a conversation with Soniko who became a bit flustered after waking up. After thanking us for the help she leaves to enjoy the rest of the concert.

Soniko left quite an impressions on our alter ego, she even appeared in his dream, but then the alarm clock disturbs his sweet dream. And so we head off to work, outside of the office we notice Soniko. No time for a chat, we’re already late at work. It turns out that the model for today is Soniko, who is going to start her gravure idol career. Soniko tries to act cheerful and energetic, but she seems to be very nervous about her first real photoshoot, so we have to motivate her.

Now Soniko is emotionally ready and the first photoshoot mission starts, but at first you have to prepare her outfit, the location and the topic of the shooting are predetermined by the customer.

After the shooting there is a final conversation with Soniko and the boss and here the trial ends.

Photoshoot mission

As mentioned before there is a single photoshoot mission next to the story mode.

This part is really fun you have a few clothes to make an outfit for Soniko, in the final version there will be a wider range of clothes, but the selection in the trial shows the possibilities in the game very well. You can choose between a shirt, t shirts, short trousers, skirt, stockings, socks, bare legs with shoes or without shoes and so on. Theres also an option for accessoires like a hat, glasses and a bag. You can combine the clothes the way you want and see how Soniko looks in them, she strikes different poses on the right side of the screen.

Afterwards you can check if your chosen outfit matches with the wishes of the customer.
When you are ready hit the button at the bottom and the photoshooting starts.

The mouse movement gets more limited during the photoshoot, to change your position you have to use the WASD buttons of your keyboard. There is a time limit and the angles you have to hit are shown via blue circles, for this you’ll get ratings from bad to perfect. After the shooting Soniko is exhausted from all her posing hahaha,via right mouse button you can access a few motivational options like talking to her or giving her some water to expand your time limit.

This trial version of Sonicomi was very entertaining and Im somehow happy that I’ve ordered the limited edition of the full Game, I hope there will be a few nice goodies included in this edition.
The 3D Soniko is very cute with her voice and the body language, nice motion capturing here.
During the photoshoot missions the game makes good use of the advanced 3D effects like HDR and Depth of field, the Soniko model looks really pretty that way, no she isn’t fat *punch* XD

Even though most of the text is written in japanese and I can’t read a single letter, I could understand a few words Soniko were saying, I hope AGTH will work with the final game

From my impression I think that the photoshootings will be more or less tame, maybe if you come closer to Soniko you can expect some more explicit scenes when you meet her privately.

If you would like to try the Sonicomi trial version, just follow this link, click on the “ダウンロード” behind one of the links and it should start downloading the 495mb. Make sure that you have installed the latest grapic driver for your video card and have the latest version Direct X installed.

Anyway I ordered enough stuff again to make a decent New Preorder post, not really outstanding or sexy figures this time, but things I really want as well as some goodies.

Lets start with a last minute preorder of mine Kotobuki Tsumugi 1/7 Waitress Version made by Max Factory, I just noticed how pretty this figure was one week before her release date, I really gave it a lot of thought if I should order or pass on this figure, to make things short as the in stock counter was down to 4 items I pushed the order button. I always wanted a figure dressed in a waitress outfit (waitress>maid), maybe I had prefered a sexier one ;p Nevertheless Mugi-chan looks like a very nice and well made figure and she’s also a bit sexy with her stockings.

I actually planned to buy GSC’s Suruga Kanbaru as bargain bin figure, but I’ve waited too long and she is sold out by now, even though I checked her in stock status 3 times a week.
To experience not another sold out desaster like that, I’ve finally ordered this cute Nymph from Sora no Otoshimono, she is scaled 1/6 and made by Kotobukiya. I liked Nymph in the second Season of Sora no Otoshimono and as this figure of her was announced I was hooked up, but just ordered her yesterday. Nymph is big, cute and comes with a cushion base, the shoulder armor and cape can be removed, I hope the choker comes off somehow as well.
Im really looking forward to get my first 1/6 scaled figure ^-^

In August I will get the Hachikuji Mayoi figma made by Max Factory I really like the character of Mayoi and this figma of her looks just adorable in the preview pictures her faces are just too cute. It’s also nice that they scaled her considering her age in the Bakemonogatari anime, so she’ll just measure cute 120mm ^-^. She comes with some nice accessoires like the backpack, an umbrella and a shift body in other words an additional body part for the kneeing pose.

My only preorder for October so far is the Hirasawa Yui “Windmill” PM figure made by Sega, two years ago I never considered to buy a single figure from Sega, but this year I noticed that they improved and are now capable of making nice figures in a quite good quality for a good price, of course I’ts not the same quality Alter or GSC has. Anyway, what I like about this Yui figure is her outfit with the HTT t-shirt the cute face expression and the very dynamic “Rock n Roll” pose. Unfortunately this figure was only available at Toyslogic, so far. Haha I’ve just noticed that I have two K-on! figures on preorder. I guess I prefer them in different outfits than in their uniforms.

Goodies

This time I also ordered other otaku culture related stuff, since it was cheap :P. So the small things at first, A little Dakimakura strap with Saten and Uiharu illustrated on it. it is 37mm wide and 100mm long. I mainly bought this out of curiosity and cause I like cute illustration, there were also Dakimakura straps with Misaka or Kuroko on it available, but they were a bit too bold ^^.

The Daiichi Uchu Sokudo CD with the BLUE STAR song, unfortunately the CD with the Superorbital song of Super Soniko which I really like, was sold out, too bad :(.
Well at least the cover of the CD I’ve ordered is nicer.

To complete my Super Soniko admiration I also ordered the limited edition of the Super Sonico Game “Sonicomi” produced by Nitro+. I don’t know why they call it limited edition, maybe

there are some nice extra goodies included. After I’ve watched some ads about it as research for my latest figure review, I was very tempted to buy this Game. It sounds like fun and from the things I’ve read about the game should be more on the romance side than “H” side.

Im confident about being able to play and understand most of the game with the help of Agth text extractor and an online translater like I did before with another japanese game, my motivation is very high. if it somehow won’t work the box of the game would still look good on a shelf I guess. I hope they won’t choose a too daring box cover for it, or Im screwed if someone finds out XD

Here’s my latest figure order roadmap, with all the orders that will arrive in the next few months.

related post

New Preorders part 6
New Preorders part 5
New Preorders part 4
New Preorders part 3
New Preorders part 2
New Preorders part 1