The Wonderfestival 2011 Summer excibition started on 24th July 2011, unfortunately I couldn’t be there like someone else I know :p At least you can see most of the stuff which is shown there on the internet as well, without queques and scramble. I searched and checked out a few sites and blogs with pictures and infos of new figures and prototypes the whole morning.

I found many nice and promising figures, lets start with the manufacturers in alphabetical order.

ALTER

Aegis from the game Persona 3 Portable in the Aegis – ART WORKS Version, she will be scaled 1/6 , her release is sheduled for fall 2011. I don’t think I will order her, but she looks quite pretty.

Charlotte Dunois from Infinite Stratos, I’ve never seen the anime but the pose and the outfit give her a very cute appearance, she will have  two exchangeable faces/hairstyles and is scaled 1/8. Charlotte Dunois  realease is planned for 2012

This Nanoha – holiday version figure is scaled 1/7 and shows her in adult from the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS anime, I like the outfit with the jacket and bikini and the laid back look of her pose. Also the flow of her hair looks great, her release is also planned for 2012.

I couldn’t believe my eyes as I saw that both Megahouse and ALTER had  very pretty Merry Nightmare figures at their booths. The anime adaption of Yumekui Merry was far away from perfect, but Merry was always a character I liked and I loved her white visual key related outfit. I like both versions so far, I would like to see them colored soon so that I can decide.

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Hinako from the Bathtime with Hinako & Hiyoko Ova. Mhhh haha oh well what should I say. I think this chubby girl has nice curves and is overall very cute in her soapy bathroom dress. Additional to that her pose looks so lively, she is scaled 1/7 and will be released this year. ecchi ecchi ;D

Gift

Gift’s realisation of a Super Soniko figure, she is scaled 1/6 at first I was fired up to get her, but I think I’ll pass here, it’s not the way I want to see her character and the enchained arm would make me feel sorry for her everytime I look at her. Gift made a nice sculpting and a pretty base but for me the whole message of this figure is just too much for me.

This 2nd Soniko from Gift, is the Super Soniko – Summer Version, this figure is scaled 1/8 and wears a scanty beach outfit, there was a GK of her in the past and now it was turned into a PVC. If I’d like her face in the final product, the possibilty that I’ll order her is very high

Good Smile Company

Saber from the upcoming Fate/Zero anime comes with a damn motobike how cool is that?! Saber will be scaled 1/7, she is sheduled for 2012. That is such a promising prototype, well done

What made me really happy was this Millhiore F. Biscotti figure from the anime Dog Days, I wished for it and GSC delivered her in the long princess outfit, I would have preferredMilhi in the short princess dress or singer dress, but I’m happy that she’ll made anyway. Her face is just *hnnng*. She will be released in December 2011, I’ll order her for sure.

There will also be a Millhiore F. Biscotti Nendoroid with her big bird Harlan, both look extremely cute, but I don’t think I will order these two, even though they are super adorable. So far there was no release date announced for this Nendoroid.

Who needs Hachikuji Mayoi, Oshino Shinobu from Bakemonogatari is made of pure cuteness There was madeca GK of her from the lovely illustration where she sits on a mountain of donuts and now Im happy that she will be availabe as completed 1/8 scaled PVC. She’s so cute !ordered!

It seems GSC that has high goals this time and they also showed a great Makise Kurisu prototype in a dynamic running pose. Makise Kurisu is from Steins;Gate and the figure will be scaled in 1/8.

Last Wonfes Arsene from the anime Tantei Opera Milky Holmes was still an uncolored prototype, but now she is a fully painted 1/8 scaled beauty, I probably won’t buy her, but it makes me happy that they’ve put so much love into a side character, she’s hot and her outfit looks fantastic.

Honestly speaking aside from Madoka and Sayaka I found GSC’s Puella Magi Madoka Magica prototypes well sculpted but rather boring. Anyway I like the 1/8 scaled Madoka in her pretty and classical magical girl outfit and the girly running pose is really nice. They also did a good job in putting her 2d face from the anime into a super cute face , for me she is a very appealing figure.

Kotobukiya

I like Nanoha nearly as much as Soniko XD Here is the young Nanoha from the Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha The Movie 1st movie in an 1/8 scale. She is in her school uniform, obviously she overslept and is in a hurry to go to school. She has a very cute face with a bread in her mouth.

The second 1/8 scaled Gokou Ruri figure from Kotobukiya turned out very well, she looks awesome in her casual dress and this pose which shows a lot of her personality looks fantastic, *damn* she even has cat ears. The anime Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai was not my thing but at least she was a character I liked. Her release date is in November 2011.

From Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse Kotobukiya showed a figure of the popular character Takamura Yui in an 1/7 scale. She has a beautiful loose fit kimono and has an ancient japanese umbrella. Her release is planned for the years 2012. Judging from the sculpor this figure will probably turn out very pretty.

Native

luth pointed my nose at this Elfriede figure she is from Native’s Creators Collection and will be made in a 1/7 scale, surprisingly she seems to wear panties unlike many other Native figures XP.
I guess I won’t order her, but the pose and the wrinkles of her outfit look very interesting.

Another Soniko figure ole ole! Here we a have Soniko – bath time version, how shes steps out of her bathtub. This could a figure from Native I would like to buy if I like her painted face and Natice would not put too much details at her *meow* area nor add another kinky detail to this figure.

Max Factory

Sandaime Muramasa from Soukou Akki Muramasa is a beautiful maid/waitress  figure from Max Factory. Her face is pretty and the pose emits something like gracefulness to me. She is scaled 1/7, her release is planned for December 2011. I’ll probably order her, because I really like beautiful figures in this kind of dressup. Also her darker skincolor might be an interesting detail.

I don’t feel much for Hatsune figures by default, but I like the more unusual designs of her like the 1/7 scaled Hatsune Miku HSP Version. Her more chibified head is a nice detail as well as the pose. I guess I would cancel my lat Miku version for this more creative looking Miku figure.

Finally here they are, the 1/8 scaled Se:Kirara figures, Shizuno Izumi will be released next year 2012, this lovely girl wears something like a school uniform/ lingerine outfit, maybe its castoffable haha I like her, but maybe I’ll wait for a figure of Akiyama Nozomi.

Last Wonfes Max Factory had this Asuka with the cool and interesting face expression up their sleeves, I like this 1/6 scaled Asuka – Test Plug Suit Version and now she’ll be released in November 2011 YEAH! I will probably order her, the pose and the hairstyle are just too nice.

Megahouse

I couldn’t believe my eyes as I saw what Megahouse had at their booth, a good looking Merry Nightmare figure ^-^. The anime adaption of Yumekui Merry was far away from perfect, but Merry was always a character I liked and I loved her white visual key related outfit it is so stylish.

Orchid Seed

In my last Soniko – Babydoll version review I’ve mentioned that I would love to buy a Soniko figure with a happy face expression, and what I saw at the Orchid Seed booth nearly made my eyes wet. They announced a 1/7 scaled figure from one of my favorite outfits of Soniko.
Soniko looks so cute and happy there. ! how awesome ! Please hurry Orchid Seed.

Orchid Seed made a different color version for their Soniko – Bondage version which was released a few month ago. She looks so cute in this colorful outfit I wouldn’t have expected white and light blue suit her so nicely and her blushmarks seem to be more prominent.

Orchid Seed also had chibi figures at their booth called Super Sonico Collection x Mota, I want the one with the guitar, but so far there wasn’t much info or a release date mentioned for this set.

I could have listed a few more figures I liked, but I think this selection is enough, overall I think that this Wonderfestival of summer 2011 was very good, there were a lot of great looking figures and prototypes, more than last Wonfes. I guess I will order 3 or 4 or a few more figures from the one I’ve listed here. Thx to all the companies, Im glad to see that you use your gains for creating creative and interesting new figures every year.

Have you seen a few figures at this Wonfes that you would like to add to your collection?

Pictures are from moeyo, cutanews, dengeki online, akibahobby, figurefm and foobarbaz thx

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My Wonfes Winter 2011 favorites

Soniko babydoll version by Yamato

Super Sonico Bondage version by Orchid Seed

So after a short delay Im here with part 2 of my anime winter season review 2011 here are my impressions about  the shows I haven’t talked about in part I of the winter season review 2011. As always I will give you a short discription and a few of my thoughts about them.

Kimi ni Todoke Second Season

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I watched the first season of Kimi ni Todoke, and loved it so much, that I made a post for it.
So it was no question if I should pick up this second season of Kimi ni Todoke. The show starts soon after the events of the first season, Sawako has more or less mastered her socializing problems with other people and is accepted in her class. Now she has a new problem, because of a new seat order a distance between her and Kazehaya is growing and misunderstandings between them appear, additional to that other people interfere in their relationship.[singlepic id=2044 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2047 w=320 h=240 float=none] On Valentines day for example Kurumi was really mean to Sawako that she wasn’t able to give Kazehaya her selfmade chocolate afterwards, I really wanted to punch her for that.

Kazehaya thinks that his feelings for Sawako are only onesided and Sawako is a bit of a blockhead when it comes to love and such stuff. Some scenes were really nerve wracking and forced me to shout at the TV a few times >_>
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Aside from the up and down rollercoaster there a lot of funny scenes, I always loved these chibi scenes in Kimi ni Todoke.
[singlepic id=2051 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2046 w=320 h=240 float=none] As to be expected this show has a nice and cozy happy end, we all wished for.
The animation quality is nearly as pretty as in the first season, but I’ve noticed that from some angles the faces of the characters really looked a bit strange.
[singlepic id=2050 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2052 w=320 h=240 float=none] This season was half as long as the first one, but it’s still long enough to conclude the whole Kimi ni Todoke story in a very good way. One point for complaining is that the lovey dovey scenes fell a bit too short I followed this anime 36 episodes and then I want an overdose of romance at the end please, not only a few minutes in the last episodes. Anyway Sawako looked great in her yellow dress ^^.

Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica

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When a studio like Shaft decides to make a magical girl anime you can always expect something different. The story centers about a girl named Madoka, a kind girl who grew up in a happy family. Together with her best friend Sayaka she lives an ordinary life like most middle school girls.
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One day she mets a magical animal Kyubey, Kyubey is who offers to grant wishes, but in return he’ll  turn them into magical girls who have to fight witches when they find them.

Sayaka and Madoka can’t decide about what they want to wish for so Kyubey gives them more time to think about. There are also other magical girls in the city who contracted with Kyubey.
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Madoka befriends with one, named Mami, a very skilled magical girl who knows how to kill witches, she takes Madoka and Sayaka along during her missions and explains them the tasks and possibilities of a magical girl. Because of Mami’s spectacular performances Madoka and Sayaka are Madoka became very interested in becoming magical girls themselves. At first it seems like Madoka was mainly impressed by the possibility to wear fancy costumes and in advance she designs her costume on a notepad.
[singlepic id=2022 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2025 w=320 h=240 float=none] As the story progresses Kuybey eagerly tries to convince Madoka to form a contract with him, but another Magical Girl named Homura permanently ruins his plans, because he is no fighter he can’t get rid of her.

At first being a magical girl to fight witches appears like a fair deal, but as the story progresses more and more of the cruel details are revealed which the magical girls have to accept in exchange for their powers. Kyubey seems to be a coldhearted villain, for doing such cruel things to them, but in my opinion he has just has a lack of common sense and is self centered, he’s not really the bad guy. Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica is a very cool looking show, the cute character design stays in contrast to the things which are happening in the show, the surreal and dark look of the witches and their hideouts is done in a very creative and also creepy way.

In this show there are shown very depressing things which can really drag you down.
[singlepic id=2023 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2029 w=320 h=240 float=none] Most of the time when the ED started the show left me speechless and sometimes even in despair, btw the song fits perfectly to this show probably the best ED Theme I’ve heard in a while. Respect to the trio from Kalafina ^^. Madoka’s experiences with, Kyubey, the witches the other magical girls and her friends, leads to her final decision at the grand finale of this show …
[singlepic id=2031 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2032 w=320 h=240 float=none] The ending is a bit complex I really had to think about some things which were happening and the meanings behind them, using your brain after watching an anime won’t hurt, I think. Theres also a very detailed Wiki page for Madoka. I admit that I prefer the “random magical girl anime”, with cute girls in cute dresses, but Mahou Shoujo Madoka★Magica which has a much more darker tone was also a show I really liked, the story of this anime is very well written and the show is full of creepy suspense and interesting ideas. I could also given it a rating of 9, but Im not a big friend of dark drama.

Yumekui Merry

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The main character Yumeji Fujiwara, on first look a normal teenage boy, but he has the ability to see what kind of dreams the people around him had the in last night. One day Yumeji finds himself trapped in a surreal Dreamworld called Daydream, where he is hunted by a gang of cats and a misterious masked man. In the last moment a girl in a fancy looking dress, called Merry comes to his rescue, even though she doesn’t know him at all. Later she tells Yumeji that she lost her memories and for some reason is trapped in the human world. Yumeji offers her to stay at his house.
[singlepic id=2034 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2041 w=320 h=240 float=none] A refreshing change in this show is, that the main characters Yumeji and Merry have no love relationship, it is more like a friends or siblings relationship.
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So lets head to the frame story setting, because of certain circumstances Nightmares(Mumas) are coming to the real world and need a vessel to stay in our world, Later we learn that there a bad and good Nightmares, the bad Nighmares who overtake their human vessel and the friendly Nighmares who coexist peacefully with their vessels, Merry consideres herself as a Nightmare, but she needs no vessels to stay in the human world.
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Yumeji and Merry can enter Daydreams of other Nightmares, together both are fighting evil nightmares who posesses humans and send them back to the Dreamworld. One day they meet the Nightmare Engi who gives both of them doubts if the things they’ve done so far were right, which adds a nice twist to the plot.

The characters in this show are fleshed out very well, Yumeji and his group of friends are portrayed as young teenagers which still believe in their hopes and dreams, they are hanging around, playing games and are having fun. I must admit that I fell for the lovely Merry and her characterdesign, she has a super stylish looking dress, the hat, the coat and the striped stockings…such a great combination, I also liked her personality and her voice. Merry’s voice actress Sakura, Ayanae made her debut with giving Merry her voice she also performed the ending Theme of Yumekui Merry, she’s very talented and that at the age of 17 ^-^
Yui was also a good character, I nearly liked her as much as Merry ^^
[singlepic id=2040 w=320 h=240 float=none] [singlepic id=2043 w=320 h=240 float=none] The show was more on the serious side, but it also had a lot of funny comedy moments.
The animation style looks great, the surreal Daydream worlds are very creatively designed, the Nightmare characters also had an interesting design and the environment in the real world looked very nice as well.

The main idea behind this anime are dreams and how they influence humans and their lifes. This show could have been my favorite in this season, but in the second half the plot got random and uninspired. Unfortunately at that time the anime was made the manga this anime is adapted from, hadn’t enough plot to cover up 13 episodes, so JC Staff filled it with self written content, which maybe not have been the best idea for Yumekui Merry, the end felt unsatisfying and half assedly done. There is no Mistletine, Lestion or Chizuru Kawanami in the manga, they were place in the story quite well, but the one sided and overpowered Mistletine wasn’t that suited to become the endboss in this show. They should have waited with making this show, the manga content is a lot better in my opinion.

Final Thoughts

Overall I liked the shows which I’ve picked in the Winterseason 2011, my favorites were
Toaru Majutsu no Index II, Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?, Kimi ni Todoke Second Season and the Mahou Shoujo Madoka ★Magica anime, even though I don’t like too dark drama anime in general^^ A show I also liked to watch is Gosick, a show about a loli detective and her japanese Watson, but because it isn’t over I haven’t wrote about it in my review, maybe on a later date.

Still on good but more on the more disappointing side for me are Fractale and Yumekui Merry, I don’t like to say it, but the second half and the end weren’t that great, sorry Merry
I knew that Rio Rainbowgate would turn out trashy, but on the positive side my expactations were a bit exceeded, but honestly it is still no very good show.

So that were my thoughts about the Winter Season 2011.

Do you also had favorite shows in the Anime Winter Season?
What were your favorite character or favorite OP and ED songs do you had in this season?
I would like to hear your opinions.

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Anime Winter Season 2011 review – part 1
Anime: Kimi ni Todoke