It’s a mini review ‘cuz well… maybe it was the mediocrity of the figure or that I was tired or something but just wasn’t getting the usual motivation.

A slightly older release (…July of last year?) by Shueisha.  At the time I was focused on getting her and lala in their seifuku for a matching set.  Probably would’ve passed if it weren’t for set completion sickness.

She’s not terrible or anything, but for me she’s not really anything special either.

A kind of blank look on her face along with a sort of timid pose… details are ok I guess, but you can see how her hair isn’t particularly thrilling.  Kind of thick bangs there…  I do like her eyes though.

I think my favorite part of the figure is the skirt.

Hair seam, seams where her arms connect…usually that sort of stuff doesn’t bother me too much.  But when there’s not too much else to grab my attention, that’s when I get nitpicky ^^;

White pantsu…

I guess at least she wasn’t too pricey.  And from some angles she seems to look better… kinda like the below shot mebbe…?

Unfortunately, as you may already be aware… there’s the base issue.

Ugh the base.  It’s huuuuuge!  For dainty little sairenji!  It looks comical being so big.  orz

Ah well.  So as not to end on a sour note, here’s a group shot of my seifuku figures:

There’s at least one missing… can you guess who?  Sorry no prize :P

Lovelyduckie covered her back in september, also lamenting the huge base.

Haven’t seen any other haruna releases that blew me away so at least I’ve completed my set as best I could for the time being.

In summary, a pretty mediocre release for my tastes, especially when you take a look at that base.

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Quick Japanese tidbit: This post is titled ‘mokkai’ which is I believe is slang for ‘mou ikkai’ (if not directly derived, they do happen to have the same meaning ^^;).  Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase, ‘mou ichido’ (once more, again)?  ‘ichido’ and ‘ikkai’ have roughly the same meaning, ‘one time’, so yeap, ‘mou ikkai’ also means ‘once more’ or ‘one more time’.  Yotsuba-chan uses this phrase in volume 3, right before the fireworks display when Jumbo is mad Asagi wasn’t coming along.

…errr sorry ’bout that, got carried away ^^;

Word of warning about the above pic… It may be my terrible luck with figmas… but I ended up breaking one of Saber’s hands posing her with graf eisen ;_;  It fits perfectly in her hands but is so heavy, I think I wasn’t supporting it enough and *snap* orz  Luckily the break off left a easily grippable part of the joint so I was able to remove the broken piece and can still use other hands (unlike my fate).

After my Fate incident, I kinda expected things like this to keep happening to my figmas and it wasn’t too much of a downer.  You is having figma woes?  I know optic is ^^;;

Anyhow, my Japanese class final is tomorrow so I really need to get back to studying.

p.s. As you may have noticed from other reviews, the base is absurdly large! whyyyyyy ^^;;

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Looks like they’re releasing santa versions of Lala and sairenji! (pics above and below from the listings at hobby search)

The face seems a little off, but I love the outfit, pose and stand ^_^

Also, seems like they’ll be releasing the first kurenai figure I’ve seen so far…

(picture also from the hobby search listing) Unfortunately none of the pics at hobby search were very good but regardless, doesn’t look like I’ll be getting this murasaki. I’ll leave it to future reviews to convince me ^^;

The sairenji I preordered will be my first shueisha figure, so no clue what kind of quality to expect. Anyone out there that has any of their stuff?