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Sumika Kagami from Muv-Luv Alternative

written on September 1, 2009 by Tier

I hadn’t planned on getting any more of Good Smile Company’s Muv-Luv figures after Meiya Mitsurugi, but I can’t deny that Sumika really is cute. Furthermore, my Rogue preorder at BBTS was scheduled to ship at the end of August, and as fate would have it, that same store had Sumika on sale for a relatively cheap price. How could I not take advantage of such a serendipitous occurrence? It is like the planets have aligned, the cards have turned up just so, fates have intersected at a confluence of capitalism and happiness. It was meant to be, and so I tossed her in my shopping cart, added her to my order with Rogue, and now she is here.
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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/8 scale, bodysuit, Figures, Good Smile Company, muv-luv, Review, sumika kagami | 14 Comments

Black Widow from Marvel Comics

written on July 26, 2009 by Tier

Curiously, the pop culture comics industries of Japan and the United States do not intersect all that often. Sometimes an American property like Star Wars gets a manga adaptation, and Witchblade has the very rare honor of becoming a full-blown franchise with an anime series and all the ancillary accoutrements – soundtracks, figures, its own manga spinoff, and so on. On this side of the ocean, the two big comics companies toy with Japanese visual style – Marvel occassionally churns out titles in their Mangaverse line, and DC has its Ame-Comi series, a catalogue of mediocre toys done in pseudo-anime style. Usually its up to smaller publishing studios like Udon, Devil’s Due, the long-defunct Dreamwave, and very minor imprints like Alias (who I think are also gone) to create comics in anime style.

So imagine my surprise when I learn that not only will a major Japanese toy manufacturer be making 1/8 scale figures of Marvel characters, but that Shunya Yamashita is going to be the one to do the source designs. This has to be the best thing that’s ever happened in the history of humankind, right? Well …
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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/8 scale, avengers, black widow, bodysuit, Figures, Kotobukiya, marvel bishoujo, marvel comics, Review, shunya yamashita | 4 Comments

Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion (Volks Version)

written on July 18, 2009 by Tier

Another Rei! They never stop coming. What is the world coming to? I’ll tell you what the world is coming to. Obviously Rei and her army of clones have become real. They’ve jumped from the small screen and big screen to reality. To conquer the world and then the galaxy beneath the weight of their multitudes. There is no thwarting them. There can be no defense against their replication. They’re coming for us.
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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/6 scale, bodysuit, E2046, Figures, neon genesis evangelion, rei ayanami, Review, volks | 11 Comments

Meiya Mitsurugi from Muv-Luv Unlimited (Good Smile Company Version)

written on June 20, 2009 by Tier

Two weeks left in the month and I have little indication that my June preorders are actually going to ship in June, so it’s back to the backlog again. This time we’ll look at Meiya Mitsurugi, a character I know nothing about from Muv-Luv Alternative, a series I know nothing about. Wikipedia – the indisputably definitive source of information for all things in this galaxy – tells me that Muv-Luv is linked to the better-known game and anime Kimi ga Nozomu Eien. How one takes a series from a standard contemporary Japanese school-based love comedy to a science fiction drama starring young girls in impossibly tight combat suits battling against alien hordes is beyond me.
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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/8 scale, bodysuit, Figures, Good Smile Company, meiya mitsurugi, muv-luv, Review, sword | 7 Comments

Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion

written on April 1, 2009 by Tier

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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/5 scale, Alter, bodysuit, Figures, neon genesis evangelion, Non-Figure Review, rei ayanami | Leave a comment

Asuka Langley Soryu from Neon Genesis Evangelion

written on March 29, 2009 by Tier

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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/5 scale, Alter, asuka langley soryu, bodysuit, Figures, neon genesis evangelion, Review | 10 Comments

Rei Ayanami from Neon Genesis Evangelion

written on March 15, 2009 by Tier

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Posted in Figure Review | Tagged 1/8 scale, Alter, bodysuit, Figures, neon genesis evangelion, rei ayanami, Review | 2 Comments

Meiya Mitsurugi from Muv-Luv Unlimited

written on March 8, 2009 by Tier

Meiya Mitsurugi is one of the characters from Muv-Luv, an ero game and anime property that I don’t know much about. This figure represents her as she appears in Muv-Luv Unlimited, which seems to be a game that locks young women in tight outfits in perilous combat with a host of aliens. Originally designed by Volks, I purchased this figure as a prepainted resin figure from Hobbyfan. I like Meiya’s character design and the fact that this figure was discounted was a nice sweetener.
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