December 2006
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That Samurai Maid Iroha Figure
Iroha has become quite popular with figure makers lately, what with about ten PVCs released or slated for early 2007. The Cerberus Project sculpt differs significantly from the rest of the pack, gaving Iroha a more cartoony face, but more importantly, while everyone else chose to put her in pin-up poses, Cerberus Project decided to [...]
Figure Out Witchblade Maria
Maria from the Witchblade anime is a strange girl. She has tri-tone hair, wears a corset, thigh high boots, a swimsuit bottom, and carries around her own pedestal for when she feels like sitting down. Then there’s the sly sarcastic grin, the icing to let you know that she’s no normal cupcake. Larger
Figure of Murata’s UJ14 Robot Girl
I think Range Murata’s girl from UltraJump 14 (UJ14) is a cyborg or a robot, at least I hope so, because that headgear apparatus looks too heavy for a human to wear. One of the things above the style, above the coloring, above all the aesthetics of Range Murata’s illustrations that I admire is the [...]
Is Toy Works Shakugan no Shana Figure Really Her?
To me the Noizi Ito illustrations of Shana in GU-RE-N define what Shana looks like (rather than the animation), a look and feel that the Melon-Pan Shana released by Kotobukiya doesn’t quite capture. It was actually a nice a figure, but it didn’t satisfy me as a fan of Noizi Ito. Toy Works recently released [...]
