Like mana from heaven, like prize figures from a UFO catcher claw, like hot resin into a garage kit mold – yeah, the most backward and haughty of companies has finally learned of democracy in this, year 20 of the Heisei era! This evening Volks unveiled an extension of their recently launched PVC collaboration with Alice Soft: they’re making figures based on various Alice game franchises, and they’re letting people vote on who they want to see out in PVC! Details below:
First up to the plate is the venerable Rance series of games, with a total of 77 votable characters from the past three games (Sengoku Rance, Rance 6, and Rance 5D) as available targets. It’s one vote per IP address per day, so vote early and vote often (until votes close on March 20th), and may the best man woman (no men allowed) win!
I hope they’re not planning to limit the Rance series to a single figure, as given her current popularity it will likely end up as Uesugi Kenshin (though Yamamoto Isoroku, Kouhime, Suzume, Sheel, Rizuna, Maria, Kanami, and some others will likely be popular as well). Regardless, this is a pretty stunning and revolutionary move for the normally isolationist, elite and creme-de-la-limited-edition people at Volks. Here’s hoping it’s the beginning of better things to come!
Update: Interesting… as of 11:00 PM tonight Urza (ウルザ) is winning with 7.6 percent of the (very early) vote. I went for for Suzume myself. :3
It’s elections time!
wow!
THIS IS COMPLETELY AWESOME. Uesugi Kenshin voting time! Though I’d also love to see Nanjo Ran and Yukihime in a PVC…along with others more.
What I think they’re doing here is building up the demand for something that they’re eventually going to release as a lineup, because it really wouldn’t make sense to release just one figure. I’d say that the character that gets voted the most will be released first, and with the high demand already assured thanks to the publicity gained from the voting (as well as from the voting itself), they’d probably release the runner-up characters next.
In any case, this is completely, and totally, awesome. As of now, looks like Rance 6 characters are leading, and with good reason! I’d love to see Uesugi Kenshin win though.
ROFL, this is crazy. I would love to see a figure of at least half o them! ^^
I went for Camilla myself.
Wow! This is amazing! It would be so hard for me to choose though. It’s most likely I’ll get the figure no matter which character wins.
Hemisphere’s analysis is on point, me thinks.
Guess Volks is watching with green eyes of the amount of money companies like Megahouse, MaxFactory, et al are rolling in from their solid line of PVC female characters.
Good for us fans. Though I guess the wallet’s gonna be bleeding again. 8)
Definitely good news. There’s nothing more blasphemous than a 200 dollar resin kit with a horrendous paint job. Now there will be fewer of those monstrosities in the world.
Oh yes, the kits I have, remain unpainted for the reason mentioned above…
I am going to vote for Kenshin daily, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Shizuka end up winning due to her 2ch popularity…
BTW, the “female Rance” is in the polls too, as “Mysterious Girl” LOL
>>Afker
Hahaha, good call! I didn’t notice her (him?) at first glance of the poll… that was one of the funniest scenes of Sengoku Rance, she really should be made into a figure.
Yeah, Shizuka’s going to be winning this one thanks to the 2chan fanbase. Kenshin just keeps dropping down from the list, while Senhime and Urza just keeps maintaining theirs. I’m not complaining, though I’d still love to see a PVC of Kenshin from Volks!
@ Hemisphere
Doesn’t Volks already have TWO PVCs of Kenshin? d-:
>>Afker
Volks hasn’t released a single PVC figure based on a character from any Rance game, ever. Until recently they’d never planned the release of any bishoujo character in PVC at all, that I’m aware of; their Haruka project was the first standard PVC figure project with Alice, and now this is the second.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Senhime or Urza in PVC form, though I’m not particularly interested in Shizuka. A bit too cookie-cutter tsundere for me.
Aren’t those PVCs exclusive only? ;__; If not, then I stand corrected.
The Haruka ones? …Hmm, I guess we don’t know for a fact yet that they’ll be general release. The eternal optimist in me was assuming that Volks had finally realized that there was more money to be had selling to a wider audience, but maybe not. I don’t believe they’ve finalized their distribution plans yet, I’ll definitely keep an eye out for when they do.
Lamia looks good but its limited, not sure PVC or not
http://www.volks.co.jp/jp/srw_og/lamia3/index.html