I was going through my hard drive today and noticed that i had a file named “Sakura at the beach”. I was curious and opened it and discovered these pictures! I had taken these when i did the Tessa/Chidori Shoot and was planning on posting them at a later time but i guess it totally slipped my mind.

I’ve had Sakura for a while now and originally she wasn’t even mine. She belonged to my bf and was one of the first figures he bought with his own money. But after an incident with the cats i felt the figures were much much safer with me than with him.

Sakura has one of the nicest backsides of my figures.

The reason i took at the figures was his first figure was the Max Factory Etna which i bought him as a present was chewed up by my cat lucky. He had wanted a cat and conned me into it since the one kitten at the store was ADORABLE! So we took her home but i later caught her chewing on Etna’s Hair.

Since then he’s not allowed to have figures in his house unless he can get some form of storage that protect them from the cats. But he doesn’t mind since he’s moved on from figures to Gundam Models.

I remember doing this shoot, I had surprised my bf by taking the day off work and telling him we were going to the beach. I packed up the figures and surprised him once we got there with them. He was SOOOO embarrassed and walked as far away from me as he could.

At first i was even nervous about taking the figures outside so i didn’t mind him walking away, but after a while the nervousness went away. People would stop and look, but they didn’t really say anything. I was scared mostly of people coming to taunt me or kick sand, but people were really nice and some stopped to even ask me what i as doing this for.

After a while my bf came back and we hung out at the beach for the rest of the day, but the figures had to go back in the car since i didn’t want the sand scratching them up.

Even thought she wasn’t my initial purchase i really do like this figure, she’s really well made and really sexy as well. If your a fan of Sakura or a fan of Sexy girls in bikinis then she’s a figure to get. It’s typical Kotobukiya work, not top quality but still good. But her skin is a bit shiny and she has a few seam lines that are noticeable. But not so bad that would deter someone from buying her. My only complaint is that her swimsuit top’s strap in the back isn’t painted right and there is a part that overlaps and looks bad but it’s in the back and it might only be mine. But other than that she’s really awesome!

Figure Info-

Manufactured by Kotobukiya
1/8 Scale
Initial release in December ’06
Price of 4,200 yen
Backorderd at HLJ and Sold Out at Kid Nemo