I’m the forgotten one. The one lost in the forest. The one who goes to what everyone else wants to do, but always winds up going alone to something that I care about. Maybe I don’t ask well enough, or what interests me nobody else cares about, or I just gave up asking. I’m insulating myself, I know, but at some point I know it will be no or that’s boring or something came up or, most often, they “forget” that there was something I wanted to do. My name is Nanjou Ran. Don’t ask what I want; you don’t mean anything by it.
Review of Nanjou Ran from Kotobukiya
Nanjou Ran comes from the game Sengoku Rance, beyond that I don’t really know. I picked her up on a whim at AnimeNEXT. The curves on her back, arms, and legs, are visually appealing, as is her costume in general. The ahoge make a pair of horns, which is interesting since she’s a caster making me think it’s some sort of pact based magic.
This is a decent figure made by Kotobukiya, not great, not bad. Some of the stuff on the back side is fairly sloppy, but otherwise the front view is good. Sculpt doesn’t feel as accomplished as it should to truly wow. While the curves of her body are appealing of themselves, not sure if it’s a solid description of the motion of flaring out her papers like that. It’s half pose, half motion.
Ran is mounted by screw to a clear purplish triangle, which is pretty weak and detracts from the overall look of the figure.
Other Stuff
It’s been a while since I’ve done a “set” for a figure shoot, which I’ve been getting away from more and more. It’s tough to do, so it’s a little because of the lazy. Plus, more often I find it a distraction, which it is here to some extent. I like the red on the white, it’s usually a striking combo, so I kept it in spite of how distracting, rather than complimentary, it can be.
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Yes the quality seems a bit cheap but still its a nice looking figure in terms of beauty. Indeed making sets for figure shooting seems tiresome work but the reward most of the times is great, probably one of the bigger downfalls of doing outside shooting is that you can’t control the environment. Still haven’t tried shooting inside because of the lack of a tripod and the pictures 90% of the time come blurry.
Other than usually doing this at 2AM, not being able to move the sun to where I want keeps me with artificial light.^^ Well that and the area near me just doesn’t feel pretty or gritty or industrial or elegant enough to make it worthwhile to go outside.
love this set
the white background set is not a photo anymore but more of an art! 
I’ve been lazy taking figurine photos as well.. busy and got way too many games that I need to finish haha
Right now Persona 4 has got me. It’s been a while since I’ve been into playing a game everyday, though the last time it was Persona 3. That series is just a huge time sink.
I agree with ron~! These photos are amazing!
Thanks!
I agree about the backgrounds, but I think it works with this one. I know how you feel about Persona 4, by the way….by the time I finished I had sunk in 120 hours. The ending is incredible though ^__^
I’m around the 70 hour mark. Some days though all I want to do is social link building and fishing, but the last time I played it was a straight dungeon crawl.
[...] Pueden ver el set fotográfico de Nanjou en flickr o el articulo en Ingles en Happy Soda [...]
You never cease to amaze me with your shoots.Awesome pictures!
Building a set is a timeeater but definetly worth the effort
Amazing pictures. No doubt Kotobukiya figures are made with good quality.
I think their quality varies a lot. The thing I like about Koto is they make figures for a lot of shows/games that others don’t. MF, GSC, and Alter tend to overlap each other a good deal. Koto does the same figures too, but also offers a bunch the “pvc trinity” don’t.
One of good Kotos. This is one of best Sengoku figures Koto poped up. They managed to create nice faces for the series lately. Senhime and Kenshin were not so good.
Photos are awesome as always ^^ I like the combination ^^
That’s too bad about the other ones. The costumes on the SR characters look great. I got to see the little priestess at AnimeNext and I almost got that one too because her costume had lots of detail.
Nice shooting ! I love the presentation of this figure ! Congratulations ! It’s amazing!
Wow, I love the background! “AMAZING!” You were right to add the red ribbons you know, it just adds. & of cause It’s a nice figure too, love her hair. : )
I bet she just wants a friend…..
The hair is actually why I chose the figure, though once you look closely at the back of her head the hair gets pretty ugly at the “roots.” But, it’s in the back of the head, so not a critical flaw, but one you’d still rather not see.
Nice, it’s really amazing….But please don’t strip her skirt again..okay
I promise! :p
Is that the Kotobukiya Ver. of Nanjo Ran? If it is it looks better than the pic on most sites selling her
Yep, this is the Koto version. She’s got more hair detail than most Koto figures.
[...] also came across Nanjyuou Ran this month when Happy Soda reviewed it. I I normally don’t have much interest in Kotobukiya’s figures but I must [...]
That’s koto for yah ^^ The red trees with the white bg are amazing, a good combo and the lighting reflects her hair which looks pretty cool, I like the pose and outfit but the paint isn’t to appealing, great shots though
Great photos. The set looks great, and compliments the figure pretty well on this one, though the red sticks(?) is a bit of a distraction in a couple of them.
I love the pose/action of this figure, but I guess the quality is still Koto quality. ^^;