A late-90’s staple of Enterbrain’s TECH Win PC hobby magazine, OS Idol Win-chan finally makes her PVC debut. Coming from the production team that brought us the Himekuri Image Girl back in January the decision to pick this up was a no-brainer; read on to find out if she stands up (or lays down) to the precident.
Original Design: Yoshizaki Mine (吉崎観音)
Sculptor: Enoki Tomohide (榎木ともひで)
Source: TECH Win Magazine
Scale: 1/7
Material: PVC, magnets
Release Date: April 12th, 2006
Production: Kaiyodo / Organic
Price: 3,990 JPY (tax included)
Current Availability: Low Stock
Color Composition: 9/10
Paint Job: 9/10
Pose: 7/10
Character Fidelity: 8/10
Final Verdict: 8/10
The Yoshizaki Mine / Enoki Tomohide combo strikes again with this little bundle of PC-mascot joy, as faithfully reproduced in PVC by the wizards at Kaiyodo / Organic. The pose is the weakest point of the kit, as there’s only so much that can be done with a prone figure; this is offset somewhat by the ability to stick her on any iron surface (aside from a computer, of course, which is more ironic the more I think about it). This is the first new release to hit store shelves from among the pool of items introduced at last February’s Wonder Festival, and if they continue at this level of quality I’m predicting a whole lot of happy figure fans (and sad wallets) to come in the next several months.
Who is Win-chan? Is she an OS-tan?
Win-chan isn’t an OS-tan, and in fact predates the 2chan OS-tan craze. She was a regular feature in Enterbrain’s TECH Win magazine from October 1998 to April 2002, illustrated by Yoshizaki Mine of Keroro Gunsou fame. The complete TECH Win Win-chan art series along with several extras has been collected in the mook Sky Blue, available from amazon.co.jp here (HLJ has a listing with pictures, though it’s out of stock there).
Win-chan has been rendered in resin several times, including two versions by Enoki Tomohide of circle eyewater, one by Tohn of Ame no Hare no Hi, and one by Aoi of Night Blue (as crappily assembled and painted by me). Here’s hoping for more PVC versions to come, to spare everyone the horror of my nightmarish paint jobs…
Needs more mammaries..eh.. memory. XD
(Freudian slip error, please reboot)
great review and AWESOME info about the figure. i had no idea about her history. i have this figure in my next order but it’s in payment processing with HLJ. i liked the whole windows-theme ^^
btw, those other versions of Win-chan are GORGEOUS. i’m hoping for PVC versions of those instead. it makes me wonder why kaiyodo didn’t choose those versions, they are far superior to this version. the kit that you have is mucho sexy. i’ll buy it off ya, even with the “crappy” paint job…huhu.
>>Lk_LoA
Figures that offer more than that are few and far between, unfortunately. :(
>>LiK
Thanks! Glad to help out with the info, I had to look it up myself back when I was putting the resin together last year. Agreed about the other Win-chan kits, I’d love to see any and all of them in PVC. The other eyewater kit just came out at Wanfesu in February so I’m guessing we won’t see a PVC version in awhile, but it’s probably the most likely candidate…
Ahh, classic Yoshizaki. If I had known about this one earlier, I would have preordered it, but now I’m stuck ordering through eBay.
Didn’t know about the Sky Blue mook. I’ll be getting that one too. Thanks for the cool info!
[…] Sometimes, I’ll be going through my preorder newsletters and accidentally skip something super important (because those damn newsletters can be obnoxiously long and lackluster in information). Obviously, I missed Kaiyodo’s PVC figure of Win-chan, the popular Yoshizaki Mine character. Thank goodness for good reviewers like Heisei Democracy. […]