We round out the week’s figure news with word of a Nendoroid Melissa Serafi (Seraphy?) from Goodsmile, the reissue of last year’s Jukujo Kazumi polystone from Toys Planning, a new Portrait of Pirates Nami PVC from Megahouse, preorders open for Gigapulse’s Koihime Musou Kanu and Goodsmile’s Suzumiya Haruhi Nendoroid Petit series 2, and introductory pages up at Kotobukiya for their Plamo wo Tsukuro! CUSTOM Airu (Aile) as well as the Art of Shunya Yamashita Noel and Karin.
Goodsmile put up an official page on their site today for a Nendoroid Melissa Serafi (Seraphy) from Unisonshift eroge Waga Mama Capriccio. She’s scheduled for release in June at 3,500 yen (10 cm tall, non-scale), and comes with detachable pumpkin, two arm configurations, and three exchangeable faces. Preorders are already open for the figure at Amiami and elsewhere.
Originally released in May of 2007, Toys Planning announced that they’ll be reissuing the sister harlot designed, Kazeno Daichi sculpted Jukujo Kazumi. She’s an original polystone figure that clocks in at 15 cm tall (approx. 1/6 scale), and is castoffable down to nothing but her panties and a can of “Asavi” beer. The reissue is due out in May, at 8,800 yen – not so unreasonable, given recently inflated PVC prices. A Moeyo review of the original release can be found here, and uncensored images are up at Kazeno Daichi’s homepage.
According to Amiami, Excellent Model Portrait of Pirates One Piece Series NEO-4 Nami ver. 2 is scheduled for release from Megahouse in May, and is now in preorder. Details in the listing are scant, but if past form holds she’s 1/8 scale, 18-20 cm tall, and due out at the nice price of 4,200 yen.
Gigapulse’s Kanu PVC from Koihime Musou, scooped recently here, is now available for preorder. Release is expected in June at 6,825 yen and 1/8 scale; further details are available in the initial scoop.
The Suzumiya Haruhi Petit Nendoroid 2nd series is now available for preorder. Like other Petit Nendoroid sets this one is being sold in a box of 12, consisting of 5 characters x 2 pattern variations + 1 secret and one extra; individual units are 500 yen, meaning 6,000 for the box. Release is scheduled for May. The set includes Haruhi (vacation ver.), Yuki (reading ver.), Mikuru (maid ver.), Asakura, and Kyon’s sister.
Kotobukiya has an official product page up for their Niθ designed Plamo wo Tsukurou! CUSTOM Airu (Aile) kit that we’ve been tracking for the past few months. Contrary to hopes it seems she’s currently limited to unpainted, unassembled resin kit status, and will go up for sale at 12,000 yen per kit – possibly at Wonder Festival? We’ll be watching for more news on this. In other news from Kotobukiya, official pages are now up for the Art of Yamashita Shunya Karin and Noel cold casts that went up for preorder last month, offering the most detailed look yet at these two delicious items.
I seriously hope that the secret character for the Nendoroid Petit Haruhi series #2 is Itsuki. I’m getting a Nendoroid Petit Kyon and he needs a friend.
Then again, knowing figurines… It’s probably another special version of Haruhi or one of the girls in special costume… *sob*
Hmmmmm- I just got the Melissa Serafi just the other day- and NOW a Nendoroid version- I think she is cute but somehting seems off about thsi one. I think the original is cute enough without needing a Nendoroid version. But who can say “No” to 35 dollars. They look really cute together.
The Kazeno Daichi looks very tempting and has a really nice relaxed look to her. At 88 bucks, that’s pretty nice for a polystone considering as you said the rising prices for PVC’s.
I’ll most likely find a way to swipe these puppies up.
Thanx Shingo!!
hehe I just preordered the nendo Melissa. Way too cute to pass up. She’ll be my first nendoroid come July!
It’s also good to see the shunya busts are lookin quite awesome. Preordered Karin, but not Noel. I love the original illustration for Noel though. I’ve been tryin to look for more dark skinned/tanned girls where there have been very few, but the bust isn’t quite what I was lookin for (needs more legs. Made an exception for Karin cuz of her tattoos lol)
2 version of Shunya Yamashita’s Petra sculpted by Modeler-T (produced by Aoshima) has been released…too
I missed out on the Haruhi Petit 1st series and the second series looks just as good. It will fit well alongside my Max Factory Haruhi set. (No imouto announced yet or if ever) :/
Still, is it something I really want or is it just urges kicking in.
Can someone tell me what “polystone” is?
>> Jeff
Google is your friend. But since I myself am interested in the differences, I’ve searcha dn found a good site for the materials used in our beloved anime figures:
http://www.riuva.com/?p=301
Polystone
Polystone is the common name for Polyethylene, just another plastic. But there are two main types, High and Low Density. High density is used for the figurines. Polystone offers good resistance to moisture, impact, heat, sunlight, cold and has good rigidity. I mean good compared to PVC. Everything here is compared to PVC.
Polystone distorts of about 80 degrees Celsius. It is not that ductile, lighter than water, and can be moulded, machined, and joined together using welding (difficult to glue). It’s a thermoplastic as well, meaning it can be heated and reshaped and cooled. This is easy to mould and rather durable. The higher heat resistance and rigidity also means figurines do not lean or distort, or worse, start degrading in sunlight. But for this added quality, polystone figurines are more expensive than PVC ones and the selection is a lot less.
Unlike PVC which is more ductile, Polystone does BREAK because of the higher rigidity. So shipping overseas is a bit more of a risk for these. Use EMS at all costs.
And yes, it’s also known as polyethene, the plastic bag. So people who have been fooled by the fancy name, please hang your head in shame.’
Darn. Everything here looks to be a buy for me. Still I’m only pre-ordering 1 ‘dripping’ Kanu. (-_-)”
The rest will have to wait till my finances improve…
p.s. A dripping Kanu…that is definitely not what I imagine myself saying when I studied History of the 3 Kingdoms Period for my Chinese Literature…
p.p.s. I’m actually glad that Airu is only available in kit form. This means 12k yen saved for me to get some other figures instead.
I preordered Karin. Just wish she didn’t have that pesky strip of cloth…
I vowed not to get anymore Nendoroids but Melissa is just too cute! Damn GSC!
Melissa Nendoroid is cute.
The Jukujo Kazumi figure is a very nice one. Glad she’s covered, as the one by Giga Pulse is nice (and I’d love it), but she’s not able to be covered, so at least I can get this figure by Toys Planning! ^^
As for the Nami – I already have this, from the first version of her MH released in 2006. I believe this is just a re-release, but they changed her name (Neo-4). So, since I already have this, I don’t need to buy it. ^^