I wonder… how many of you guys got any of the other FREEing 1/4 ladies from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu? And if you did, were you all just doing it to fill the Yuki-less void in your life? I’m willing to bet you were. Not much to say about her. She looks about as good as the others. Her face maybe looks a bit older. I do like the body sculpt. Nice breast size. Probably a good idea to jump quick on this one. Stat time! She’s 1/4 scale, 420mm tall, and will be out in November for 11,800 yen.

Hit the jump for five pictures. One of them is a group shot.

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If you guys are anything like me, then any time Max Factory says they’re shipping something, it probably means you have at least one figure on the way. Well, if you read the title, then you know that today is one of those days. Max Factory has just tossed a posting up on the staff blog pointing out that they’ve gotten the shipments for three of their figures.

Ah, I’m drawing out the suspense by not telling you who’s shipping. Well, ok, I’ll tell you. Mao from Shining Tears, Yuki from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuuutsu, and the ever verbose Shenhua from Black Lagoon. Generally they go out on Thursdays, in my experience, so look for them then or possibly before. GOOD NEWS FOR FIGURE LOVERS! And yes, I have a Yuki on the way. What I really want are a sexy Revy and Balalaika so I can live out all my perverse fantasies. With tiny plastic figures.

Another weekend, another depressingly low paying week at the office. Special. Them’s the bricks, I guess. I’m almost done with Black Lagoon, but I am waiting for KAA’s DVD rips of the rest of the show. They do good work. Anyway, THE PROJECT has been coming along quite nicely. I have one more little (read: huge/complicated) part to get done before I am going to tell you guys what it is at large and sort of explain my big plan and all that jazz. I am hoping everyone will dig it. Anyway, enough of that, it’s rollup time. Then I’ve got some work to do.

Anime/Manga/Games

• Honestly not a whole lot here today. SO LET’S DO IT! I’m not really that excited.
• First up, Japanese tabletop game (everyone seems enamored by the idea that the Japanese call them table talk… special) Night Wizard will be getting the anime treatment. Animation comes courtesy of Hal Filmmaker. Two things. First, the image on that page is shrunk down so it looks shit, but is decent. And second, what the hell is up with people just starting to do gradient hair? It’s been cut out of so many things to this point. It’s such a nice look, why did it take so long? Of course, this will likely end up being a super fad and going way out of control.
• That’s actually it. Special.

Figures

• A bit more on the figure end. First up, pKjd is alive and posting. He has the first shots of FREEing’s 1/4 scale Mikuru in the flesh. Well, first English shots.
• In other blog bits, Shingo is packing in the mag figure scoops. It’ll be another week because I’d be able to get my hands on them (if I even would. lul. Expensive import, man.), so IN THE NAME OF NEWS! SHINGO GO!
• Moving on! Max Factory is sick of playing second posable fiddle to Kaiyodo’s Revoltech line. They want a piece of the posable pie. As such, they’ve gotten together with Asai Masaki to bring forth the new figure set, figma. The first two offerings will have the old schoolers quivering, a pair from Puraresu Sanshirou. But the meat and potatoes will be Haruhi’s Yuki. She looks DAMN GOOD for a posable. Damn good. Shingo has shots up, once again. Damn his access to magazines.
• Have the announced Code Geass figure kits not been… sexy enough? Well, Bandai’s offering will do it for you. It features the ladies of Code Geass is a more supplicant demeanor than many of them are used to. They wear it well. Bwahah! It’s out in August for 5,160 yen.
• Are you a big fan of hella old TV shows? Then maybe you’ve heard of a little show called Yattaman, the follow-up show to Time Bokan. Well, AmiAmi just opened up preorders for a Doronjo figure from the series. I tell you, that is one sexy old lady right there. Figure isn’t GREAT, but still pretty decent. She’ll run you 6,300 yen this August.
• Well, this last one… not too keen on it, personally. From the HIT SERIES (it was decent.) Mamoru-kun ni Megami no Shukufuku wo! comes a PVC version of Takasu Ayako. She’s dutifully exposing her underwear… for no real reason, I guess. Still, everyone likes boobs She comes with black underpants and pink, for 8 year olds who are still into that. That’s two versions. They’re each 7,140 yen this September. Oh and 1/6 scale.

And we’re done. I had something I was going to say, but I totally forgot what it was. Like… seriously. It was a good question, too. Damn my brain. I bet it will come to me right after I post this. DAMN IT ALL!

Well, you asked for it, and so shall MaxFactoy provide! Max yesterday sent out stock info for a second run of Yuki PVC preorders. The figure is still running 5,800 yen and it will be out in August. CAN YOU STAND THE WAIT?! CAN YOU?!

super duper rats (Power UP!) has put up a review of Max’s bikinied Banc Neige PVC. She looks good, and Mr. rats has definitely taken some wonderful shots of Madame Neige, and I implore you to go look like a motherfucker. DO IT NOW! And give him lots of hits! Good stuff coming up in this next thingy.