How a Girl Figures

Here i’m going to cover Atelier-Sai, Bandai, Banpresto, Chara-Ani, Clayz, and Fewture Models. Again what i thought about my over purchases this year, Which was my favorite this year. Plus why did i ever buy those nasty figures…

Atelier-Sai
1/6 Teresa Testarossa Race Queen Yellow, 1/6 Chidori Kaname, 1/6 Asahina Mikuru Red Bunny, 1/6 Haruhi Suzumiya Black Bunny

Can someone honestly say they hate a certain figure? I know I can, I can honestly say it about 4 of them to be precise. I hate these figures, they are horrible and yet I bought them all. Why? I don’t know why still. My thought is that I had the money at the time and they were some of the first figures I saw! Atelier Sai beat Max Factory to the punch and released both the Red bunny Mikuru and the Black Bunny Haruhi. I just had to have a Haruhi figure so I went with those. Then later I saw the Max Factory Haruhi and all it’s wonder and pre-ordered her as well, well my order kept getting pushed back so I kept buying more Atelier-Sai figures. I didn’t have any other amazing figures to compare them to so i thought they were good figures. I got the Tessa figure and then reluctantly the Chidori figure. I didn’t originally want the Chidori figure, she seemed too slutty. Yes, too slutty! Chidori is not a slutty character, she’s loud and strong and doesn’t let people push her around, she’s no where near slutty. Both of the Full Metal Panic figures were out of place, neither pose nor outfit suited the character. Plus once I started getting more quality figures I realized how bad quality these figures were. The face is off, they don’t look like the characters at all! Plus they are huge, and they all had the same boring giant black base.

Bandai
Otome-Dama Croissant Mask

More of my boyfriend’s figure than my own, This alter ego of Ringo from Air gear is a beauty. She’s well made, and well painted. My only complaint is the base, she is very wobbly on it. But other than that she’s a beauty. We did purchase her online through HLJ so we did have our time to debate on whether we truly wanted her or not. Out of all the Ringo figures I have she’s not my favorite but since she was for my boyfriend really than i have no complaints.

Banpresto
Kyoko Otonashi A

Once again this was as usual an impulse buy, but more along the lines of I didn’t even know a Kyoko figure existed. I looked but never really found any figures online (that just shows you how bad i am at finding stuff online). But I saw her sitting in one store and my first thought was that she was a fake, They had her in a display case outside of her box. SO i asked if they had the box she came in, they told me yes, went to the back room and pulled t out. Yes she was real and for only $22 she was already mine! She’s well made considering the price really. Not extravagant at all, but then Kyoko’s beauty was simple so if they tried to do anything extravagant i might not like this figure.

Chara-Ani
Ren

I do love this Ren figure, I really love Peach-Pit art so when I saw this little lady on display in an anime store she was mine. What i love about her the most is the way her hair sits. It’s exactly the way her hair was in the story, lively and flowing.

Clayz
Rin Tousaka Swimsuit

I think the thing I love most about Rin here is her legs. They are practically perfect, long, smooth, the shape, She looks like a gorgeous model. Plus how she’s seems to tease you, you don’t know whether she’s pulling her top off, or putting it on. She doesn’t seem like she’s trying to tease you with her sexiness, but instead she you her sweet side. She’s really a must have if you’re a die Hard Rin fan!

Fewture
Chii

The only real Chii figure i’ve ever gotten my hands on. I don’t know what it is about this girl that i love so much; Her outfit? Her pose? Her hair? Everything is about perfect. Except for a teeny mark on her left butt cheek, She’s perfect. the only thing, and i mean THE ONLY THING I DON’T LIKE, is her base. It’s huge! plus she’s not even attached to it. it’s huge and bulky and pointless. It’s just a space waster really, she doesn’t even need a base if you’ve going to give me this lame ass base Fewture!

Regrets:
The figures i regret the most aren’t figures that I never bought. no no no, it’s figures that i did buy, only because i had the money. I didn’t buy them for beauty i bought them to show off. I explained it before; it’s like buying a hummer, you don’t need a hummer. It’s not the nicest looking car out there, it’s big, bulky, and a gas guzzler. You could have bought a nicer hybrid, smaller, much more elegant, saves you money on gas, an all in all better deal! Now thats what i did with my Atelier sai figures. I bought them only because they were the first haruhi figures released. Plus they were bigger and were more expensive. Why did i do that? i had such a small collection and i wanted to show off, i wanted people to think “wow this girl has some awesome figures!” But i later realized it’s not about Quantity with figures, but the quality. Within the figure owning community i bet if you saw someone with only 4 figures but they were some of the most rare and beautiful figures ever and then you saw some kid with tons of giant nasty figures that are easy to find and cost lots of money… Who would you looks up to? Me personally I’d look to the one who has the better figures. It may be a smaller collection but they are so much better in quality really! Luckily I was able to sell off all my Atelier sai figures this year, and with the money I earned I was able to get much more smaller better quality figures! I really shouldn’t say this but please if you want to ever become a figure collector STAY AWAY FROM ATELIER-SAI! At least wait until the finally get their act together and staying doing much more quality work and please if anyone from Atelier-Sai even stumbles on this, i’m not being mean, you guys just have to get your act together!