Some weeks ago, the wonderful Shigure figure from Good Smile Company arrived. Shigure is from the browser game Kantei Collection, where she is a special Destroyer girl. After Kongou and also I-168 from Max Factory, Shigure is my third Kancolle figure, certainly not the last. Shigure is one of my favorite ship girls in my fleet and in the game I take good care of her.

A little WWII Trivia, the historical ship Shigure was considered to be a lucky ship, after she survived two mayor naval battles nearly undamaged while everyone else was destroyed.
The japanese navy did not perform that succesfully in the last two years of the war. I left my military interest in the past and Kancolle is mainly war fiction mixed with Sci Fi elements.

We focus on the pretty figure instead, Shigure is scaled 1/8 and was released in December 2015. The figure shows Shigure in her Kai Ni verrsion, it is based on her card in Bushiroad’s card game ‘Weiβ Schwarz’ it looks slightly more badass than her browser Game illustration.

In general my figures purchases appear to be rather focused on sexy onee – sans, rarely but sometimes it also happens that figures of my favorite characters are being made.

What I like about Shigure, she is a naturally cute ship girl. The figure doesn’t really show, but Ingame she has a really nice smile. I also like her softly, calm voice. Shigure is quite humble, friendly and polite. Judging from her appearance she is a younger highschool student.

A very appealing part of the figure is the beautiful face. The shape of her eyebrows and mouth give her expression a serious direction, still she looks quite enchanting. Her detailed eyes give Shigure some extra bishoujo points. Also the detailed brown hair is very nice, I like the short braid and metallic hair ornament. The hair accentuates her pretty face nicely.

Together with Yudachi and other Shiratsuyu-class girls, Shigure Kai Ni has the coolest Destroyer girls uniform design in Kancolle, I love the dark colors, the tie and the short sleeves.

The outfit of Shigure is mainly a normal dark school uniform, she only wears a mechanical belt where everything else is attached. Oh and her shiny shoes are equipped with cute rudders.

Shigure is not only a bishoujo character, she also some weapons and mechanical parts.
The things at her thighs are torpedo tubes, the backpack shows her 12,7 cm cannons and the smaller guns are 13 mm anti air guns. Shigure Kai Ni is not a simple figure to put on display as it is, sculptor Sai developed a nice idea about how to give the figure different ways to display.

You can have Shigure with bare fists, with one small AA gun and you can also put the backpack cannons in her hands with support arms coming from her back it looks really cool. It’s only a little complex at first, so it’s good that there is a manual included.

Final Words

Shigure Kai Ni turned out so nice, I’m really happy about having another favorite Kancolle character as figure. The sculptor and GSC created a convincing and very elaborate 1/8 scaled figure of Shigure, everything about her looks amazingly good, be it the sculpting, the articulation, the paintjob or the shading.

Shigure is a high quality figure, the great sculpting and the elaborate paintjob on her hair, her clothes and the mechanical parts is quite impressive…

the two main display options are very good, in both ways Shigure is an extremely appealing figure. With 12,7 cm guns in her hands Shigure looks very powerful and bulky with these weapons attached as backpack, she appears lighter and sporty.

Haha I found an old review Draft in my post folder, since some time I planned to publish it, but today is the day where I will show you an edited and updated version of this review.

The figure in this review is Alice which was made by Alpha x Omega, I thought that the first review from years ago was no good and didn’t want to leave it like that and trashed it.

Alice is a 1/8 scaled figure with a height of 145 mm, she was manufactured by Alpha X Omega,
(a collarboration between Alter and Megahouse) and her release was date in August 2008.

This Alice is one of my older, favorite figures, the combat loli whose origin is the Queen’s Gate Battle book series, also had a mayor role in the PSP Game Queens Gate Spiral Chaos.

The full name of this character is Alice Faye and she is known as a human treasurehunter, her weapons are two really customized Mauser C96 guns and a whip. She looks very young and has a petite body, but one of her special abilities is that she can grow into an adult woman when she wants to. There was also a figure made of Alice in her adult form from Megahouse.

The characterdesign of Alice was made by Nishii here are some Illustrations from the book.

As Alice was announced I was drawn to her unique and beautiful appearance, as fan of twintails it would have been a shame not buying her, even when her loli appearance in such a revealing outfit threw me into doubt, back then where I just started with collecting figures and had only a little experience with less modest figures. Compared to back then, nowadays I couldn’t care less about her being a seductive loli, like I also don’t care about busty figures

The head of this figure is very well sculpted, her face has a nice tone and blushmarks, her facial expression depends on the viewng angle, it differs from cute, fierce to serious. Alice has beautiful piercing red eyes, which add a lot to her expression. The flow of her long hair is very detailed with these freely sculpted strands it appears very light. The hair has a few more unclean spots all around, but it’s not such a big deal from a normal distance. The hair has a nice color and shows some shading. Another eyecatcher are these scary black puppets at her twintails.

I modified a jacket into a cute and more innocent dress to give her a different appearance.

The unique bend over pose with the crossed arms looks cool. Alice’s body is quite petite, she has small arms and short, thin legs. As to be expected from a loli character, her breasts are small but have painted nipples from the backside her butt looks quite interesting with Alice’s white panties in need for adjustment and one of her buttocks is visible, I like this part of her.

It seems that the outfit is a bit inspired by Batman ;D, it’s just coincidental. Her corset dress doesn’t really cover much of her body, although it looks really cool. The black corset is very well sculpted with some silver colored buttons and rivets. The corset can be equipped with long brown weapon holsters, it is is partially castoff able, not that the corset would have covered much anyway .

Overall Alice’s outfit is really cool further details are the black gloves, the bat winged arm rings and the thigh-high stockings which are accenting her legs nicely. The half-boots with the white skull heart decals are also very cool. The weapons are two Mauser C96 guns with sawed off barrels and army knives attached, even these weapons show an incredible level of detail.

It’s a bit difficult to put them in the hands of the figure you’ll need a lot of force for it, so at first I decided not to use them. Later I could put the weapons in her hands somehow.

The base is a transparent round disk with her name carved on it, by todays standards this base is really simple, but in 2008 such things didn’t really matter as long as the base full filled it’s purpose of a secure stand for the figure.

Final words

Alice is a cool looking combat loli with a load of nice details everywhere. The paintjob is very well done and the hair is beautiful. The face didn’t really matches the cuteness from her illustrations, albeit her face looks still pretty and very well sculpted. Her petite and small body is really appealing especially with that great outfit she is wearing. After quite some years of owning her, there no turnoffs or damages, it’s a great figure and still one of my favorites. The pictures I took are from different dates between 2008 and 2014 and made with different cameras.

See you next time