A bonanza of figure news today, including word on new CC and Rena prize figures from Geass and Higurashi, a 1/4 scale Mylene Hoffman PVC from Daiki Kougyou, a pair of new Ikkitousen girls from Griffon (along with Disgaea’s Rosalind), new information on Kaiyodo’s Revoltech Fraeulein Idolmaster Amami Haruka, Queen’s Blade Cattleya uncensored, new QB trading figures from Medicos, a limited alternate color Sekirei series from Ganbo, new looks at a couple of figures in Orchid Seed’s lineup, and more!


GA Graphic reports that prize figures are in production of Rena from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni and C.C. from Code Geass. Rena is due out in September and CC in late August; both are roughly 14 cm tall and “open price” (as prize figures they’re not officially supposed to be sold, but shops order them anyway and set their prices freely).

Amiami opened preorders yesterday for a 1/4 scale Mylene Hoffman PVC from Daiki Kougyou and 009-1. The sculpt is based on a Kiyama Naotake garage kit that came out at Wonder Festival 2007 summer, and at 22 cm tall only depicts Mylene from the hips up; the figure is due out in late may at 9,660 yen retail.

Two new PVC Ikkitousen figures have been announced from Griffon: a suntanned version of their Ryofu Housen (private ver.), and a Ryomou Shimei (maid ver.). Both are now up for preorder at Amiami as well, though the Ryomou maid has no pictures yet; Ryofu goes on sale in April at 1/7 scale, 16.5 cm tall and 6,500 yen while Ryomou is due out in May at 1/7 scale (22.5 cm tall) and 6,825 yen retail.

In other news from Griffon, they’ve announced a Rosalind PVC from Disgaea. She’s due out in April at 5,880 yen retail, non-scale with a sculpt from Fio.

Due for release on February 19th, the 4th issue of Dengeki Figure Hobby Otome-gumi includes a scoop on the the new Revoltech Fraeulein Idolmaster Amami Haruka action figure. We scooped her back following the Revoltech matsuri last year, but this confirms her production status – probably set for release in May.

Akiba Hobby represented last night with a fully uncensored Megahouse Excellent Model CORE Queen’s Blade Cattleya review. I don’t know why they bother censoring these things to begin with, but it’s refreshing to see a Japanese blogger step out of the box and violate this particularly stupid taboo. Warning: don’t click if you find the sight of incredibly large plastic breasts or incredibly small plastic penises offensive.

In other Queen’s Blade figure news, Medicos has announced on their blog that following the release of their first round of Queen’s Blade trading figures on the 15th of this month two subsequent rounds of QB figures will be coming in October or November of 08, and April or May of 09. Given how long the current project was in the works these seem like very tentative dates indeed, but certainly something to look forward to for all us QB figure fans.

Online shop Ganbo Store has a special page online for their limited edition alternate color Sekirei figure lineup, which includes repaints of Movic’s Matsu, Tsukiumi, and Musubi (race queen ver.) PVCs. The Matsu is currently on sale and shipping, with Tsukiumi released on February 29th and Musubi up for preorder on March 7th; all three retail at 6,090 yen and are being produced in lots of 1,000.


GA Graphic presents looks at two figures currently in the Orchid Seed pipeline, their Mabinogi Nao and Ma ga Ochiru Yoru Sherrice. Nao is due out in April at 7,400 yen, 1/7 scale and 26 cm tall with two changes of clothing per color version, while Sherrice is due out at 7,800 yen, 1/8 scale (20 cm tall), castoffable and with a variety of option parts. Both are available for preorder at Play Asia right now, if you’d like to support HD with your purchase:

In Wonder Festival news, Griffon’s R-Line division has updated their event page with information on the full lineup of what they’ll have for sale and on display at the event: They’re selling 100 copies each of a pair of china dress Ryomou Shimei and Kanu Unchou resin kits, 50 copies of a Queen’s Blade Echidna resin kit, 50 copies of an Ikkitousen Teni resin kit, 30 copies of the resin version of their recently announced Reina hybrid kit, 500 copies of an alternate color version of their DX Kanu PVC, 300 copies of an alternate color version of their china dress Kanu PVC, and a display only copy of their Tomoe resin kit.
Play-Asia’s figure blowout continues!
Those who read yesterday’s Mainichi Junk post will know there’s a “Year of the Rat” sale going on over at Play-Asia, and they’ve got a lot of great figure deals on offer – many for items we’ve reviewed at HD in the past. The full list of discounted figures can be found here:
Some of the more noteworthy discount items include:







- Max Factory’s Shiranui Mai [HD Review]
- Megahouse Queen’s Blade Nowa (R1 Color)
- Yamato Doubutsu Nee-chan Momo
- Kotobukiya DOAX2 Lei Fang (bikini ver.)
- Chrono Gate 009-1 Mylene Hoffman [HD Review]
- Funny Knights Cream Koro-nee
- Max Factory POLO System Wendy
- Comic GUM Ikkitousen Hakufu (maid ver., black)
- Millennium Iron Maiden capsule figures
- Kotobukiya Yamashita Shunya Shouko-san (alternate color)
- Orchid Seed Miraroma Seihouin Erika [HD Review]
- Romando Nami SOS + love play unit [HD Review]
- Romando Nami SOS + love play unit (special color)
- Griffon Queen’s Blade Menace cold cast
- Toy’sworks Suzumiya Haruhi (gakuran ver.) [HD Review]
- Yamato’s Tandem Twin Amethyst
- Yamato’s Tandem Twin Wildcat
- Kotobukiya Utawarerumono Urutori
- Wafuudou Kousaka Tamaki (basketball ver.)
- Wave Kousaka Tamaki (bikini ver.)
Due to a foolish clerical error on my part finances are currently rather tight, so anything you choose to buy through an HD affiliate over the next few days will go directly to fund train fare to Wonder Festival next weekend, and to server fees from being Kotakudotted yesterday (thanks bashcraft!).
countdown to
9 days!
Cattleya – Huuuge tracts of land. It’s amazing what you can get your figures to do if you have perverse inclinations:)
geez the sculptor did an awesome job with Cattleya. Third Queen’s blade figure I’ve considered getting after Echidna and Tomoe lol. Interesting that the sculptors for all three are from the same group too. They’re definitely doin something right over there. Also funny that I wasn’t a fan of the character Cattleya in the first place but now I am lol. Guess when you see such legendary proportions it’s hard to look away…
I finally caved in and picked up MaxFac’s Mai. I’m not a huge fan of the original Cattleya character design but Megahouse have really outdone themselves this time. Its taken a lot of willpower (and fear of being kicked out of the house) not to pick it up.
“and to server fees from being Kotakudotted yesterday (thanks bashcraft!)”
Yes,when I saw that link in Kotaku yesterday and wasn’t able to enter the page thought the same ^-^
Those Griffon figures look gorgeous,the Ikkitousen and Queen’s blade (that Tomoe is jaw-dropping)Sadly a bit expensive.
Those Ikkitousen need PVC renditions, stat.
Yeah, the Rozalind is mine, for sure.
But WOW! Cattleya is jawdropping, isn’t she? ^^ MegaHouse so far haven’t eer gone that far with the details of breasts (the Reina has smallish nipples, the Nowa has barely any, and the Echidna one has slightly bigger than Reina, but still no real realistic detail), but the Cattleya really comes across as so real!
I wasn’t that interested at first. I put her up for preorder initially, but then decided to drop it. Then I saw the first inclination of epic nipplage (via this site, may I be so kind to say) and decided to buy it through Hobby Search the other day. Now, I’m extremely glad I did, as the Akibablog blog review REALLY makes me very glad I’m waiting for HS to follow through on the purchase ASAP.
As for the Rana, he’s absolutely adorable, and the anatomically correctness of his appendage is very good to the figure appreciator in me.
Can’t wait for this momentous figure! ^__^
Seeing the pictures of the Cattleya figure reminded me of how much I wanted a Kasumi Matsubara figure from Hitozuma Kasumi-san . . .
Hi Shingo,
I had missed out the order for Movic’s Tsukiumi and ended up not able to purchase it due to no more stocks. However, may I know does the Online shop, Ganbo Store is able take orders from overseas countries like Singapore? I would like to purchase the limited edition alternate color Sekirei figure lineup for Tsukiumi PVC. Also I had went to their website but all are in Japanese, do they have a english website? Looking forward to your reply soon!
>>Kent
I don’t believe the Ganbo online shop is capable of taking orders directly from overseas. However, if you’re willing to use a proxy service (such as the ones linked at the bottom of the left sidebar of this site) you should be able to place an order there with little trouble. I hope that helps!
Hi Shingo, may i know what is a proxy service? The website are in japanese hence (unreadable characters that I can’t understand)? Do they have any english site? Looking forward to your reply soon! Thanks!
>>Kent
A proxy service is a company in Japan that will act as your proxy in a transaction – in other words, they buy the item for you and ship it to you for a small transaction fee. When you want to buy something from an online shop that doesn’t ship outside of Japan this is often the only procurement option.
A list of proxy services can be found on this page you’re looking at right now in the lower left corner. I’ll copy it here:
Crescent Trading
Danke Danke
Goody Japan
M-World Service
Shopping Mall Japan
One of those shops should provide the service you’re looking for. Good luck!
Banpresto´s C.C. sucks!
Banpresto is a really bad company
Hi Shingo,
Thanks for the kind explanation on proxy service & the list of proxy services given. However, could you please advise me which proxy service have the best service with the best low price if I would to buy this limited edition alternate color Tsukiumi PVC from Ganbo online shop? Because there are juz too many proxy services to choose from and they are quite hard to compare..
Hi Shingo,
I also notice that Japan Yahoo Auction r also selling Tsukiumi PVC (Orginal colour ver.), however the seller will not ship internationally, thus if I would like to buy from them, I need to go thru proxy services. Would appreciate if you could also advise me if I will to buy something from Japan Yahoo Auction which proxy service provides the best service with the best low price with item below 6,000 Yen. Thank u.
>>Kent
Living in Japan I haven’t had the opportunity to purchase via proxy, so I can’t personally recommend any particular service. You could check out HD’s IRC channel for recommendations, or perhaps visit the forums; otherwise I’d recommend asking around other hobby enthusiast circles in general, as I know a lot of people have dealt with the same problem in the past. Sorry I can’t be of further assistance with this. Good luck tracking her down!
Hi Kent,
I’ve a spare Tsukiumi (original) to let go. PM me via HD forum with your contact for further discussion.
Yes, I’m Singaporean.
p.s. I’m going out for lunch now. 8)