Official site updates for Comic Gum and Comic Alive today provide us with a couple of rare Sunday figure scoops: first is news that the UArt Bladeworx Mogudan Kanu Unchou we’ve been following for the past month or so will be coming in a limited clear pink version exclusively via mail order from Comic Gum. Details such as price and release date don’t appear in this online listing, but they can be assumed to be comparable to her unlimited counterpart.
In other news, Comic Alive has announced a Kanokon heroine figure project that will be rolled out with preorders opening one per issue over the next four months. The first one will be a 1/10 scale version of Chizuru, and is available for preorder in the magazine’s current issue. This is similar to the promotion they ran last year for Zero no Tsukaima, which produced the only Henrietta and Kirche figures I’m aware of to date; here’s hoping this announcement doesn’t similarly doom Kanokon’s cast to figure obscurity. Images of both newly announced items below:
It’s a slow news day, what can I say. At least Comic Gum was kind enough to provide us with a (tiny resolution version) of the original Mogudan illustration this Kanu kit is based on; I’m guessing they didn’t show us anything more detailed for fear we’d realize just how off model the sculpt is. Ah well, preordered anyway… If you’re similarly daft, J-List would be happy to part you with your hard-earned funds.
Chizuru’s looking rather nice, though i’m more looking forward to future PVC’s of her aka different positions.
Yeah, I hope she’s taken up by other makers for wide release (at a scale larger than 1/10, too).
I’m just glad the original color version isn’t limited. Somehow, for DD, I just prefer them in their original colour scheme. This is unlike say Vampire Saviour, which I don’t mind the alternative blonde Morrigan. 8)
>>blacklotus
I’m glad Comic Gum didn’t get the original color monopoly on this as well. I’m still bummed that their Cerberus line original color versions were magazine limited. :/
Is comic gum mail order stuff hard to get even if you’re in Japan?
If that’s the case, I think it’s time this company goes belly up too. In this day and age, companies that makes it difficult for their customers to buy their stuff deserve to go out of business. 8/
I really hope the Kanokon figures are not limited. I really want a couple of Chizuru figures to add to the collection . . .
>>blacklotus
It’s not particularly hard, it’s just really annoying and takes more time than it should (you have to fill out your name and address on some cards, take them to the post office, get some kind of postal money voucher thing, mail it, keep track of receipts, etc).
Hobby Japan’s system is much simpler and easier; you just drop a card in the mail with your address on it and pay for the item via COD when it arrives.
>>loplop
These particular Kanokon figures are definitely magazine limited, though I expect we’ll see offerings form other makers soon. Well, I hope we will. The ways of figure makers are mysterious indeed…
>> Shingo
Thanks again for providing the info.
How in this day and age, it’s mind-boggling companies like these still exist in 1st world Japan. I guess they have never heard of the computer revolution then. 8p