Went to Sakura Con this past weekend, I haven’t impulsed bought a figure in a long time. But when I saw this Sheryl I knew I had to own her. If only for the fact that at the time I was cosplaying this exact outfit!

Lovely wavy hair!

A very plain base but the color works perfectly for this figure!

She’s a cheapish prize figure release by Banpresto. The quality is on par with sega prize figures so you know what kind of quality to expect.

My complaint is her mouth, the shading they did is horrible, it looks like she ate tons of cheetos right before and her whole mouth is orangy.

Also the shading on her shirt is a little too blue, it should be white.

Nice pink panties. It was funny as the first thing my boyfriend comments on is how my cosplay was inaccurate because I wasn’t wearing Pink panties. Silly boys!

Her eyes do look very vibrant and blue. She does get bonus points for having lovely eyes.

Her hat and her gun are also very cute and well detailed!

Its funny how most people I knew thought my shirt was wrong since it was so short, they kept trying to cover it with the vest, until I got the figure and showed them how her shirt is meant to be a crop top did they leave it alone!

Love her boots!

I love this Sheryl figure, but not as a figure collector but as a Sheryl fan. There are plenty of times that we buy figures based on characters we love, there are times we buy figures we love even though we have no idea where they’re from. But for me, there are rare times I buy a figure of lesser quality of a character I like unless it’s Yoko. I like this figure since the outfit is special to me. Otherwise I would never buy this figure, the quality is lacking and It’s not painted nicely on the face, yet I like her. Would I suggest her to you? Only if you are a huge Sheryl fan, or a Sheryl fan looking for a cheap figure. Yet if you want a higher quality Sheryl there are many more I would suggest to get instead.

-Figure Info-
Manufactured by Banpresto
Non Scale
Initial release in November ’10
Price of 1,400 Yen

As a prize figure she isn’t too hard to find but for a bit of a markup, I paid $30 for mine. You should be able to find her at any one of these fine bootleg free retailers!

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I’ve been so broke as of late. No Money means no new figures, no new figures means no reviews for you. So while this is the only new figure i’ve gotten in a while, I’ll be going back into past figure purchases and reviewing them for the time being while i build up my funds for new figures. Unless there is anyone out there who would like to send me samples to review!

From my last post, I scraped up the little money I had and got the Miyuki X Sheryl figure. I have a special place in my heart for Sheryl Nome, not only because of my Cosplay. But also because she’s a character I felt I related to.

Miyuki Cosplaying as Sheryl Nome also made me feel a bit closer to her as well!

Looks like she had a good seamstress as well!

For just a prize figure, she really is well made.

A tad smaller than the Alpha X Omega Sheryl Nome, but she looks cute small next to Sheryl.

The glasses do distract a little bit and aren’t removable. If i were Miyuki i’d invest in some contacts for such an elaborate cosplay.

Her Pink hair does work for Sheryl.

Nice base design!

Her face really is just adorable!

I love this figure, well worth the money and I’d love it if more figure retailers took the time like Toylet to get these figures in stock! It’s so sucky for us in the U.S. or even anywhere not in japan to be able to get our hands on these figures!

-Figure Info-
Manufactured by Banpresto
1/10 Scale
Initial release in September ’09
Price of 800 Yen (if you’re lucky enough to win the Lottery)

You can get your own Miyuki X Sheryl or any of the other awesome figure combo; Konata X Alto, Kagami X Klan Klan, or Tsukasa X Ranka at Toylet.net!

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Random reader: “ANOTHER YOKO! Seriously Dancing Queen! You need to stop! Enough is enough! There is a point when it becomes crazy! There comes a time when 16 Yoko figures are far too many”

ME: HA! I’ll never stop getting all the Yoko figures I can get!

Again as usual another Yoko, this time it’s the Lottery prize B Banpresto Yoko. She’s a hard one to track down but i got my hands on her for a pretty penny through eBay. Was she worth it? Read on to find out!

Cute face, Dynamic pose, love the base and how it’s her trademark skull clip.

I love the open mouth and teeth, her Yoko-opai are very cute as well.

The paint overall is well done, not any parts on her that are poorly painted.

As I mentioned the cute base and well detailed shoes, love the zipper!

Now here comes the complaining parts. Love at that curve of her back, NO WAY CAN HER BACK BEND LIKE THAT AND NOT BE BROKEN! Really it’s a 90 degree angle! while it does give her more of a dynamic pose this way and makes her Butt look amazing it really isn’t at all realistic, even for an anime figure.

When you look at her from the angle that you see that bend in her back she really looks very strange.

Favorite shot of this set, really an experimental shot and i’m glad how it came out.

See from this angle Yoko looks amazing! Very Nice underboob

Look at the curve, just drives me crazy! In a bad way!

I really do like her gun, it’s not hard to mess that up but then it’s possible.

Nice Butt for sure.

While I did have my complaints, as usual I still love her. Of course once again we all know my legendary bias towards Yoko and how she can do no wrong. So as always i’ll give the same recomendations I have been giving out. Love Yoko almost as much as me? Get your hands on this figure, she’s a rare one and a bit pricey but really a figure no Yoko fan should be without! Kinda iffy on Yoko but want a good figure of her? Try Gift Yoko, Enterbrain Yoko, Up-lark Yoko, or Alter Yomako Sensei. There are also some Amazing figures that are out that I have yet to get like the Kotobukiya Yoko you can see from Happy Soda or the yet to be released Bounty Hunter Yoko from Alter, She’ll be the Yoko to get!

Do I ever think i’ll stop getting Yoko figures? Not any time soon, still have tons more Yoko figures on order! It’s the first time that i’m not getting tired of getting figures of just one character. There is something special about each Yoko figure that I just can’t help but then them all! Will it Interfere with my regular collecting? Not at all as well! Still getting many Non-Yoko figures so it’s been a bit of a stretch to get them all but nothing shall stop me!

-Figure Info-
Manufactured by Banpresto
non Scale 250 mm
Initial release in May ’09
Price of 800 yen per try with the Lottery (paid around $120)

So Yoko is gonna be hard to find, but any of those other Yoko’s i’ve mentioned are available at any one of these fine retailers!

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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.

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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!