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Tag Archive: Good Smile Company


Seems like I have been making Dollfie Dream related posts a lot recently, so let’s break it up with something else~ What we have here is the 1/4 Fate T. Harlaown Swimsuit version that just arrived at the door today, I have been longing for this figure to pair her up with the previously released 1/4 Nanoha.  I wasted little time to take her out of the box and set her up for a photo shoot.

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From the story stand point I personally prefer Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha A’s but I have to say I am more attracted to the mature Fate in the StrikerS series~ It’s ok to say that right? Haha

For additional pictures and review, please visit blogging comrade Meronpan’s review and James’s review in Exelica Meteor

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One of the most highly anticipated shipments of the year, GSC Saber Lily from the CAPCOM fighting game Fate Unlimited Code has finally arrived at my residence, a bit earlier than I expected but it’s not like I am complaining. Here is a overview of the loots:

  • Good Smile Company 1/7 Saber Lily
  • Native X Max Factory 1/7 Kotone Ousaka X2
  • Suku-Mizu Mecha Nurse Girl Nana
  • 60cm Doll Inner Oriental Lace Red
  • 60cm Doll Inner Happy Ribbon Blue
  • 60cm Chiffon One-Piece Black
  • 60cm Lir Princess One-Piece Black
  • TnK Princess Checked Bikiki set
  • Bandai Action Bases X3
  • Shimapan from Miss Dollfie Summer 2009

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A bunch of stuffs has been arriving since the beginning of the month, from the figure end, besides the aforementioned GSC Saber Lily, there is also Kotone Ousaka from Native X Max Factory, an illustration turned figure from the all too well known master Tony, and Suku-Mizu Mecha Nurse Girl Nana, another illustration turned figure from the mecha girl expert E-Ji Komatsu.

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As we are closing in to the end of June, I would like to spend a little time to reflect on all the pre-order activities that has been going on in the past month.  As some of you are already aware of my recent interest in Dollfie Dream, I have been cutting back drastically on pre-order figures and various expenses, however, I have managed to balance out my pre-order list with some cancellation of my original pre-order.  Let’s take a look at the addition list first!

The first one that got added to my pre-order list was no one than Saber Lily from E2046 Gathering series, I am quite a sucker when it comes to Saber Lily so when I found out she was ready to be preordered, I wasted little time to put her in my shopping cart!  Saber Lily T’s System version is slated to arrive in late August.

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I am sure a lot of you have grown tired of my continuous Dollfie Dream and Otaku Project spam, how about a little change of pace and go back to the good old PVC figure review for a bit huh?  I have done a brief summary of this 1/5 FREEing Kenshin in the Dollfie Dream Completion Project Arrival post as I got her but that didn’t do her enough justice so I decided to do a more detail review for her.

One of the main reasons why I haven’t done much with PVC photo review is because of the wordpress 2.8 upgrade has broken one of my most favorite plug-in Wordpress Flickr Manager.  It takes cares of everything for me, but since it’s broken and the developer is no where in sight, I am not sure when this is going to get fixed >.>;  I wish I never upgraded to wordpress 2.8 despite of all the new features, having a working flickr manager is way more important to me….

Anyway, enough ranting, let’s get back to Kenshin!  Believe me when I say this is probably the best looking Uesugi Kenshin PVC figure we have to-date, she definitely deserve this title.  The previous attempts by Griffon and Kotobukiya could not even come close to the beauty of this Kenshin.

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Ahhh, I finally got my hands on the 3D Custom Girl Saber Lily mod after so long (ok, I admit I haven’t spent too much time on looking for it).  Thanks to the good folks at Hongfire, the mod has been uploaded in megaupload since last month!  The link can be found under this post.  It’s not really news anymore to those who are actively playing 3DCG, but for those of us who don’t have the time to sort through the thousands of mods that are already out there, this is a huge find!  I have noticed that someone has made this mod since march on this post, but the sad thing is I haven’t been able to devote any time to find it, but I finally found it today!

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The month long Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na (PC2005), Brighter than dawning blue (PS2->PC 2009) and Yoake Mae Yori Ruriiro na ~Moonlight Cradle~(PC2009) visual novel marathon plus the odds and ends of summarizing Feena normal end, Natsuki and Estel storyline has finally come to an end.

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I am happy that I dug deep and stuck with it, and I enjoyed the time I spent summarizing their stories; it really gave me a reason to try to understand their stories a lot more than I usually would have.  I have yet to finish Feena’s true arc summary, something I intend to do in the near future.  I have accomplished my goal of bringing the stories of these wonderful heroines to light, that’s one down on my to do list.

Now I should present my treasures of the month… this month will be crazy, yea I said it.  Three boxes are up for inspection, the hobby search box has arrived a few days ago but I have put off the inspection until I finished Moonlight Cradle, plus the package yesterday that I picked up at the post office today and the package that arrived today.

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I have talked about how I value my figurine collection and they must be protected from dust and dirt with my weather sealing film.  However, due to lack of display area in the past, I have never been able to protect every figurine I wanted to. With the new display area online and the 10 or so figures that are due to arrive later this year, I have decided to introduce a new system that can promote/demote my figurine collection from my dust protection system.  With me being an English Premier League fan, I thought of the promotion and relegation battle that takes place every year!  Poorly performing figures would be relegated out of my dust protection system (into the championship), newly release and high quality figurine can be promoted into the dust protection system (promote to premier league)!

With this being the first season, massive amount of figures have been promoted and relegated.  Let’s take a look at them, we will start with the relegated figures.

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Loot update March 17, 2009

March is a really busy month with various magazines, figures release etc.  I don’t think April would be like this, perhaps May would be crazy again.  Anyway, various boxes have arrived in the past few days and then we have an update.

Loot update March 17, 2009

Loot update March 17, 2009

Upper left we have G’s Megazine vol.4 2009, upper right Megami Super Deluxe,lower left we have painted resin of Subaru from Beat Blade Haruka, and Hatsune Miku from GSC in lower right.

I thought I was done with all the G’s Magazine goods for Moonlight Cradle earlier this month, it turns out I was wrong!  While searching for Megami Super Deluxe, I stumbled upon this and the focus is the give away Feena trading figure.  Yeah I know it’s usually low quality, but I vowed to not skip out on any G’s Magazine bonus goods for Feena ever again, so there it is.

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G's Magazine 2009 vol. 4 with bonus Feena Fam Earthlight trading figure

Break open the bonus box and we have a tiny Feena that looks surprisingly good for give away.

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Then we have Megami Super Deluxe featuring all the moe 2D girls from vol. 1 to 100 (special thanks for comrade Optic from http://thedisjointedzone.com/ to inform us about it on DC).  Due to some technical error, I am going to end up with 2 copies of Megami Super Deluxe ;x, I might look into selling one when the market depleted of them.

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Megami Super Deluxe

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Next up we have the painted resin figure of the optional heroine Subaru from Beat Blade Haruka, a training ADV game released by Alicesoft released back in Feburary 2008.  Beat Blade Haruka is actually the 2nd game that utilize the Beat Angel System game mechanics (the first one being the popular Beat Angel Escalayer released in 2002)  in which the main character must recharge the heroine’s energy level by performing various sexual stimulations.  If the heroine were to lose against the monster in battle, her energy level would also be recharged, this time by the monster!  Since Subaru is the only one of the three heroines that didn’t have a PVC figure release, so I decided to pick her up.  She is actually rather popular among the fans, not sure why there isn’t a PVC made of her yet.   Anyway, when I saw her up as a Gathering kit from one of my main sources for prepainted resin, I picked her up immediately at E2046.com.    The unique point about this figure is that every pieces of her clothes are magnetically attached to her body!

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And here is a teaser shot

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Working on her photos shoot and background story right now, should be ready in a few days time!

And lastly, we have Hatsune Miku from Good Smile Company.  Now I don’t claim to be very knowledgeable on Miku’s background story.  All I really know is that she is originally a visual representation of a computer music program that synthesizes singing in Japanese.  Developed by Crypton Future Media, it utilizes Yamaha’s Vocaloid2 technology with specially recorded vocals of voice actors.

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Still on their way to me is the Queen’s Blade Alice figure, I have no idea why it’s taking so long for her to get to me, must be the free shipping thing ;x (I’m still crossing my fingers to hope she would arrive free of damage),   my first Oppai mouse pad, and 1/7 Teana Lanster PVC from Alter.

Next entry in the photos shoot series is Meifeng Liu 柳 妹鳳 from the Shuraki “Trinity Box” brought to you by the collaboration between Red Entertainment and Good Smile Company.  This particular figure represent a small fraction of my entire collection that I know very little about.  I am very good about doing my homework and dig as deep as I can, however, since this particular series of figures do not yet have a game or animation to represent them, there is very little I could do, I am basically dead in the water for this one.  Remember how I said I only buy figure based on a series I am familiar with?  Meifeng Liu was granted exemption status from that clause; because she is just that good!  What I do have is a quotation from Hobby Link Japan.

“The second entry in this popular series is China-born fighter Meifeng Liu, adorned in a gorgeous China dress and brandishing her sharp Engetsurin melee weapon. She loves getting up close and personal, dishing out lightning-quick and continuous attacks in battle! Sculpted by Takayuki Kawahara, Meifeng measures about 23cm tall to the tip of her raised weapon, and comes packed with an interchangeable battle-damaged China dress set, plus a custom diorama display base. The included 24-page illustration booklet features works by character designer Satoshi Kiba, along with information on the story and character, a cast interview, comments from staff, and a column about the making of the music. As if that’s not enough, a 73-minute Japanese audio drama CD is included, with Mayumi Iizuka performing Meifeng Liu’s voice and a special character song!” -HobbyLink Japan

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There is something special about this figure, besides the ability to cast-off.  As I started taking photos for her, I realized that she looks good from just about any angle, no kidding.  Whether it’s cast-on, cast-off, pantsu shot, damaged dress, the soft PVC ribbons on her twin tails, the ribbon on the left thigh, facial expression and the flowing hair, everything looks good!

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So I finally completed the Hiyori arc last night, it was good… better than I thought it would be (I played too many dark eroge, a light hearted love story is a good change of pace).  Now Chu x Chu is not a new game anymore, it was released back in 2007.  It didn’t catch my attention then, the only reason why I decided to play the game was because of the numerous reviews I came across on Hiyori Pixie figure by GSC.  The pose is graceful, the facial expression is charming and the costume or lack thereof, plus the ability to cast off.  I usually prefer figurine with long hair but she will do fine without it and make it up via other departments.

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Hiyori Pixie

So my quest began to find out more details on Hiyori Pixie (because of my stubboness, I insist on finding out as much information as possible on every figurine I have).  I am tempted to talk about the whole game since I have pretty much understood 90% of the game but the fact that I only completed the Hiyori arc and have no intention to finish the whole game, may be I should just stick to the Hiyori’s arc.

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