Next up on the review pile is Alter’s Ookami Ryouko from Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi. While I picked her up relatively early in the year, technical difficulties and aborted photo shoots delayed her review by months. Continue on after the jump to see how this “wolf in wolf’s clothing” stacks up.
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Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Good Smile Company 1/8 Canaan
Finishing the Canaan TV series has conveniently inspired me to finish the review of Good Smile Company’s 1/8 scale Canaan that I started with my previous post on the matter. I’ve dusted off a few of the outdoor shots for this review as well as put Canaan in front of the camera again for some new material.
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Review: Orchid Seed 1/6 Arshes Nei (NSFW)
Arshes Nei is the first figure from Orchid Seed to make it to the top of my review pile. She appears to be a seasoned warrior of an exotic heritage, but can she hold her own against 2011 standouts like Dizzy and Rin? Find out below.
(This post has been tagged NSFW. Reader discretion is advised.)
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Review: Alter 1/8 Dizzy
Alter has entered the Guilty Gear arena with Dizzy as their combatant. They did deliver us figure “Heaven or Hell?” Dizzy review “FIGHT!” up next.
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Review: Good Smile Company 1/7 Tohsaka Rin (Unlimited Blade Works)
Good Smile Company made us wait 18 months to get our hands on this 1/7 scale rendition of TYPE-MOON’s ultimate twin-tailed tsundere. Was she worth the wait? I think so. Find out why below.
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Review: Alter 1/8 Buddy
Next on my review pile is Alter’s Buddy. Keen observers of detail will note that if my review queue were a proper FIFO the next review after Momohime should rightfully go to Clalaclan, but decided to bump Buddy up to the front for whatever reason.
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Review: Alter 1/8 Momohime
Review: Clayz 1/6 Tony Taka Nekomimi Maids
Last year, around this time, Clayz announced a figure rendition of an eye-popping Tony Taka original artwork featuring two nekomimi maids (see below). As I seem to recall, it took all of a couple seconds to decide I would be ordering this figure.
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Review: Good Smile Company 1/8 Black Rock Shooter
At the beginning of this year, I had a very clear goal when it came to my figure hobby: to get Good Smile Company’s Black Rock Shooter, the figure I most regretted not purchasing in 2009. This would prove to be a more challenging task than I had anticipated as the popularity of the BRS figure wildly exceeded my–and probably everybody else’s–expectations.
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