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		<title>By: Shingo</title>
		<link>http://heiseidemocracy.com/2008/05/08/whf-ariake-18-garage-kits-galore/comment-page-1/#comment-95526</link>
		<dc:creator>Shingo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 02:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;Toonleap

The answer is right above your comment, actually. ^^

She&#039;s Reko from &lt;em&gt;Mushihime-sama Futari&lt;/em&gt;, a shoot-&#039;em-up arcade game from CAVE.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>>>Toonleap</p>
<p>The answer is right above your comment, actually. ^^</p>
<p>She&#8217;s Reko from <em>Mushihime-sama Futari</em>, a shoot-&#8217;em-up arcade game from CAVE.</p>
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		<title>By: Toonleap</title>
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		<dc:creator>Toonleap</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 02:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I was wondering who is she?
099s.jpg
Thanks for your guidance, Shingo...:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was wondering who is she?<br />
099s.jpg<br />
Thanks for your guidance, Shingo&#8230;:)</p>
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		<title>By: crybringer</title>
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		<dc:creator>crybringer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 12:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Even if it came out on last year&#039;s summer Wonder Festival, Reko-chan from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/mushihime2/index.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Mushihimesama Futari&lt;/a&gt; (pics 97 -  107) &lt;i&gt;still&lt;/i&gt; has me swooning.  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unsweet.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Unsweet&lt;/a&gt; is an awesome modeller.  I&#039;m looking (HOPING) for when this will translate to PVC...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even if it came out on last year&#8217;s summer Wonder Festival, Reko-chan from <a href="http://www.cave.co.jp/gameonline/mushihime2/index.html" rel="nofollow">Mushihimesama Futari</a> (pics 97 &#8211;  107) <i>still</i> has me swooning.  <a href="http://www.unsweet.org" rel="nofollow">Unsweet</a> is an awesome modeller.  I&#8217;m looking (HOPING) for when this will translate to PVC&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Deibi Manabu</title>
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		<dc:creator>Deibi Manabu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I definitely like the Louise up the top. The second Horo is cute too (the one not the Pinky.st). A lot of others are really sweet, but none that I&#039;d scream for being made in PVC.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I definitely like the Louise up the top. The second Horo is cute too (the one not the Pinky.st). A lot of others are really sweet, but none that I&#8217;d scream for being made in PVC.</p>
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		<title>By: Shingo</title>
		<link>http://heiseidemocracy.com/2008/05/08/whf-ariake-18-garage-kits-galore/comment-page-1/#comment-89576</link>
		<dc:creator>Shingo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;Work_Ethic

Thanks for the correction on the size. Without anything next to it in the photos I couldn&#039;t get an accurate mental image of how big it was.

&gt;&gt;cheez

See my reply to the first comment above for information on the figure&#039;s source.

It&#039;s unfortunately unlikely that we&#039;ll see her in PVC, due to the poor showing made by Kaoru&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yamato-toys.com/items/detail.php?gid=1046&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Whip x Nonoko Noon&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yamato-toys.com/items/detail.php?gid=1076&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Moon&lt;/a&gt; in PVC form, both of which ended up greatly discounted in the bargain bin.

I&#039;m with you in hoping for a PVC conversion despite this; maybe enough water has passed beneath the bridge that Yamato would consider working with her again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>>>Work_Ethic</p>
<p>Thanks for the correction on the size. Without anything next to it in the photos I couldn&#8217;t get an accurate mental image of how big it was.</p>
<p>>>cheez</p>
<p>See my reply to the first comment above for information on the figure&#8217;s source.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unfortunately unlikely that we&#8217;ll see her in PVC, due to the poor showing made by Kaoru&#8217;s <a href="http://www.yamato-toys.com/items/detail.php?gid=1046" rel="nofollow">Whip x Nonoko Noon</a> and <a href="http://www.yamato-toys.com/items/detail.php?gid=1076" rel="nofollow">Moon</a> in PVC form, both of which ended up greatly discounted in the bargain bin.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m with you in hoping for a PVC conversion despite this; maybe enough water has passed beneath the bridge that Yamato would consider working with her again.</p>
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		<title>By: cheez</title>
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		<dc:creator>cheez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 06:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The facial expression on 111-123 absolutely floored me.  PVC, pretty please?  Ideally the long-haired version, but I&#039;d snap up either one with absolutely no idea of the source material.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The facial expression on 111-123 absolutely floored me.  PVC, pretty please?  Ideally the long-haired version, but I&#8217;d snap up either one with absolutely no idea of the source material.</p>
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		<title>By: Work_Ethic</title>
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		<dc:creator>Work_Ethic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 03:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I got one of those!!  It&#039;s a great kit and I&#039;m almost done with her....I just have to finish her cow hat...LOL.  The very first one that sold went for crazy prices- like 650 bucks!  I got lucky and got mine for I think 150 bucks.  but yeah she is awesome piece.  

BUT she is only 20 cenitmeters tall- not 30 centimeters...still it&#039;s a good chunk of resin!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I got one of those!!  It&#8217;s a great kit and I&#8217;m almost done with her&#8230;.I just have to finish her cow hat&#8230;LOL.  The very first one that sold went for crazy prices- like 650 bucks!  I got lucky and got mine for I think 150 bucks.  but yeah she is awesome piece.  </p>
<p>BUT she is only 20 cenitmeters tall- not 30 centimeters&#8230;still it&#8217;s a good chunk of resin!</p>
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		<title>By: serogane</title>
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		<dc:creator>serogane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;&gt;Shingo

Oh, I was referring to Kitsutehu&#039;s Garance kit (http://www.geocities.jp/shing_en/colors-gk.html#0), not the PVC.  I wanted to try my hand at building it, along with Aizome no Gunyuu (http://www.geocities.jp/shing_en/colors-gk.html#1).

I know I haven&#039;t been searching right on YJA, because I haven&#039;t seen Garance for a long time, let alone Aizome.

Wow, that&#039;s really comprehensive (For the Milk Girl).  Would you happen to have the original illustration for the Milk Girl?

&gt;&gt;&gt;oopai power

Just to add on to what Shingo said, the kit sold for 13,000 at the convention.  Since its first appearance at the Winter WF, 5 kit have appeared on YJA (Give or take one or two; I don&#039;t think I could&#039;ve missed many going on there everyday).  I was able to snatch the third one up at retail price.

For some reason, the scalpers don&#039;t go after this one, and it&#039;s not an item many Japanese people fight for on YJA (Luckily for me).  I know this because two people have posted about their recent acquisitions of this kit on the e2046 forums (A forum for a recast shop).

This is the 5th one, and it&#039;s still running if you&#039;re interested:

http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b85476744</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;Shingo</p>
<p>Oh, I was referring to Kitsutehu&#8217;s Garance kit (<a href="http://www.geocities.jp/shing_en/colors-gk.html#0)" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.jp/shing_en/colors-gk.html#0)</a>, not the PVC.  I wanted to try my hand at building it, along with Aizome no Gunyuu (<a href="http://www.geocities.jp/shing_en/colors-gk.html#1)" rel="nofollow">http://www.geocities.jp/shing_en/colors-gk.html#1)</a>.</p>
<p>I know I haven&#8217;t been searching right on YJA, because I haven&#8217;t seen Garance for a long time, let alone Aizome.</p>
<p>Wow, that&#8217;s really comprehensive (For the Milk Girl).  Would you happen to have the original illustration for the Milk Girl?</p>
<p>&gt;&gt;&gt;oopai power</p>
<p>Just to add on to what Shingo said, the kit sold for 13,000 at the convention.  Since its first appearance at the Winter WF, 5 kit have appeared on YJA (Give or take one or two; I don&#8217;t think I could&#8217;ve missed many going on there everyday).  I was able to snatch the third one up at retail price.</p>
<p>For some reason, the scalpers don&#8217;t go after this one, and it&#8217;s not an item many Japanese people fight for on YJA (Luckily for me).  I know this because two people have posted about their recent acquisitions of this kit on the e2046 forums (A forum for a recast shop).</p>
<p>This is the 5th one, and it&#8217;s still running if you&#8217;re interested:</p>
<p><a href="http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b85476744" rel="nofollow">http://page2.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/b85476744</a></p>
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		<title>By: Draneor</title>
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		<dc:creator>Draneor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I really hope the tukata Shiro Tougi kit gets a PVC release. It&#039;s just too cute not too. I wouldn&#039;t mind getting the Nerine one either. 

I also am quite fond of the Louise one (Heh. With a dog collar).  Not that I don&#039;t have enough Louise figures as it is.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I really hope the tukata Shiro Tougi kit gets a PVC release. It&#8217;s just too cute not too. I wouldn&#8217;t mind getting the Nerine one either. </p>
<p>I also am quite fond of the Louise one (Heh. With a dog collar).  Not that I don&#8217;t have enough Louise figures as it is.</p>
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		<title>By: Shingo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Shingo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 22:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;serogane
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-7n2q-71-8x-49-en-84-j-70-2m9p.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;You&#039;re in luck&lt;/a&gt;, for 159 at least. It sounds like Tora is planning to produce the others in PVC as well.

&gt;&gt;oopai power

Here&#039;s what we know:

The kit was sculpted by someone named Tsukata/Tsukada (塚田) whose works are presented through a dealer called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gillgill.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Gill Gill&lt;/a&gt;. He maintains a blog &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.livedoor.jp/tiniy4/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.

More info on the figure in question can be found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gillgill.com/event/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. Her title is ミルクガールの中指の思い出 &lt;em&gt;Milk Girl no Nakayubi no Omoide&lt;/em&gt; (Milk Girl&#039;s Middle Finger Memory). She&#039;s based on an illustration in &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Terada&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Terada Katsuya&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4898298133/heiseidemoc-22/ref=nosim&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Cover Girls&lt;/a&gt; artbook.

Specific size and scale are unknown, but it&#039;s a &lt;em&gt;big&lt;/em&gt; hunk of resin... probably around 30 cm high at a rough estimate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>>>serogane<br />
<a href="http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-7n2q-71-8x-49-en-84-j-70-2m9p.html" rel="nofollow">You&#8217;re in luck</a>, for 159 at least. It sounds like Tora is planning to produce the others in PVC as well.</p>
<p>>>oopai power</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what we know:</p>
<p>The kit was sculpted by someone named Tsukata/Tsukada (塚田) whose works are presented through a dealer called <a href="http://www.gillgill.com/" rel="nofollow">Gill Gill</a>. He maintains a blog <a href="http://blog.livedoor.jp/tiniy4/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p>
<p>More info on the figure in question can be found <a href="http://www.gillgill.com/event/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Her title is ミルクガールの中指の思い出 <em>Milk Girl no Nakayubi no Omoide</em> (Milk Girl&#8217;s Middle Finger Memory). She&#8217;s based on an illustration in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsuya_Terada" rel="nofollow">Terada Katsuya</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/4898298133/heiseidemoc-22/ref=nosim" rel="nofollow">Cover Girls</a> artbook.</p>
<p>Specific size and scale are unknown, but it&#8217;s a <em>big</em> hunk of resin&#8230; probably around 30 cm high at a rough estimate.</p>
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		<title>By: oopai power</title>
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		<dc:creator>oopai power</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 21:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>any more info on the milk girl bust from 085.jpg to 090.jpg.. name, scale, size?</description>
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		<title>By: blacklotus</title>
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		<dc:creator>blacklotus</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great looking stuff as usual from the talented Japanese. Too bad my figure modeling skill is below average. 

After spoiling a couple of original expensive kits and a half dozen fakes, I doubt I will attempt another g-kit for the forseeable future.

I will stick to buying completed figures and continue to practise my modelling skills.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great looking stuff as usual from the talented Japanese. Too bad my figure modeling skill is below average. </p>
<p>After spoiling a couple of original expensive kits and a half dozen fakes, I doubt I will attempt another g-kit for the forseeable future.</p>
<p>I will stick to buying completed figures and continue to practise my modelling skills.</p>
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		<title>By: serogane</title>
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		<dc:creator>serogane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 15:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This WHF definitely ended on a good note.

I&#039;ve been dying to get my hands on a great kit of Horo for ages.  I&#039;m not too big on the Horo pinkie, but the other Horo (108-110) doesn&#039;t look half bad.

Kitsutefu&#039;s kits are always pleasant to look at (Never seen them on YJA).  I wouldn&#039;t mind getting my hands on 158 and 159.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This WHF definitely ended on a good note.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been dying to get my hands on a great kit of Horo for ages.  I&#8217;m not too big on the Horo pinkie, but the other Horo (108-110) doesn&#8217;t look half bad.</p>
<p>Kitsutefu&#8217;s kits are always pleasant to look at (Never seen them on YJA).  I wouldn&#8217;t mind getting my hands on 158 and 159.</p>
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		<title>By: the_pseudokings</title>
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		<dc:creator>the_pseudokings</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 13:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>bring on the PVC of REFLECT&#039;s new Cammy.

The Terada Cover Girls based bust is really impressively scultped... but I kinda wonder why this piece was picked over the others, considering all of the awesome work in that book.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>bring on the PVC of REFLECT&#8217;s new Cammy.</p>
<p>The Terada Cover Girls based bust is really impressively scultped&#8230; but I kinda wonder why this piece was picked over the others, considering all of the awesome work in that book.</p>
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		<title>By: PorcelainePriss</title>
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		<dc:creator>PorcelainePriss</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please someone produce Mao-neechan in PVC!!! Some very nice pieces there - Peorth &amp; Cammy both lookin&#039; su-te-kiiiiiii!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please someone produce Mao-neechan in PVC!!! Some very nice pieces there &#8211; Peorth &amp; Cammy both lookin&#8217; su-te-kiiiiiii!!!</p>
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