Comments on: Figure News: Art of Yamashita Shunya Karin, Noel up for preorder

By: Nyx

Nyx — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:47:37 +0000

Wow I’m really not a huge fan of Yamashita or the 3/4 bust action, but these are very very tempting! I love the design on both of them. It almost hurts to say I have to pass due to the price though. Woe is me!

By: 20Lizardmen

20Lizardmen — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:46:18 +0000

Jeff Flowers

I pre-ordered Niniane.She will be on stock sometime in April.

By: L.C

L.C — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:13:50 +0000

Cool and thank Shingo! ^_^
I actually got the info from my regular figure distributor…Am still thinking whether I would get either one, due to the price tag of the busts and the fact that my figure pre-orders have really piled-up as of late… ^_^;;

By: Al

Al — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:50:50 +0000

I would absolutely love to see Karin in PVC. While I love Shunya Yamashita’s illustrations, the only figures that appealed to me enough to get were Mirei-san and Non-Non. Still debating about Shouko-san.

Noel looks like a mash-up of Storm and Wolverine.

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:06:20 +0000

Shingo: Here are the links to them on Play-Asia, in case you need them for your figure release schedule: Noel Karin

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:23:58 +0000

What did you preorder 20Lizardmen?

By: 20Lizardmen

20Lizardmen — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:09:26 +0000

Great,another one. Pretty soon there won’t be anywhere left for ME to stay in my room,with all those damn figurines taking up the space.

And there goes part of the money I’ve been saving up to buy a new laptop.A Shuunya Yamashita figurine has the power to suspend rational thinking.

And I still haven’t received the OTHER one I pre-ordered at play-asia.

Life is grand…..

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:19:36 +0000

UPDATE: I just checked and they are on Play-Asia for preorder. Cha-Ching! They list as May-2008 releases.

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:58:29 +0000

By the way, I just received a Shion the other day, which is also a bust like Niniane, and I have to say that it is pretty nice and has some weight to it. I just put in an order for Niniane through my comic shop (it is this month’s Previews).

By: MK

MK — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:41:01 +0000

Polystone is brittle right… those are 2 busts you can drop….

By: Jeff Flowers

Jeff Flowers — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:36:31 +0000

Well, I am Yamashita’s whore, so if I can get them I will be doing so.

By: suneo

suneo — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:09:17 +0000

wow…they look absolutely amazing but as cheez said, wish they made it a full figure instead…

By: the_pseudokings

the_pseudokings — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:46:04 +0000

while somewhat tempting, the faces don’t look that “Shunya” and I’m not a big fan of the 3/4 bust format. I got the first one in this Shunya sub-series as it was a very reasonable price in the US and a nice design, but I expect with Koto’s recent price hike in the US that these 2 along with the recent one will just not quite seem worth it to me, and likely to others, as Shingo also lamented. Also, the first one did not excel in the paint category beyond the average PVC from a good company, nor in the sculpt replication/fine details realm, so why the series is polystone is beyond me.

By: cheez

cheez — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:59:36 +0000

Both very nice sculpts, but I’m not digging the cop-out on the legs. Makes them sort of look like they’re coming out of comically-small cakes.