Ok, so for this review I’m half-assing it this time! I apologize but things have been busy and while, I have actually gotten a few new figures of my own, yet It’s been hard to find time to sit down and do another review! I’m doing my best for you! Here we have the first Sega set of Gurren Lagann figures of Yoko and Nia.

As we should all know by now, Sega’s quality in these figures isn’t really up there. But with a retail price of 1,500 yen you can’t expect the best quality figures. That being said I love Nia’s eyes! They got them spot on! Her hair is lacking in the blue undertones, here it looks even a bit green and doesn’t have enough of the blue we come to expect with Nia. Her pose is generic and isn’t too spectacular. Some hiccups in the paint and the sculpt is sub-par, but again for such a low price you can’t expect the best.

With Yoko here I feel they got her body proportions a little off, but then most figure companies tend to change her body type per figure and she never looks exactly the same. Her pose, like Nia’s, is also quite boring and generic and doesn’t really scream “badass girl with a gun” when you see her, heck she doesn’t even come with a gun! I feel they got her eyes done well but something about her smile is awkward as is her eyebrows, giving her a confused look when you look carefully. One thing that bugs me with this Yoko figure is they don’t seem to do much with her long hair, it just drops down next to her and doesn’t flow or have a feeling of movement. I also wish they would have picked a better color for her hair, standing next to my other Yoko figures her hair seems to be almost too red.

With both figures if it weren’t for the fact that I’m just a huge fangirl I would never have bothered. I have very few Sega figures since the quality is just so little/non-existent. The few figures from Sega I own are figures characters I truly love like Sakura and Tomoyo from Card Captor Sakura. So owning the Yoko and Nia figures isn’t a stretch for someone like myself who likes to go after owning them as well! Would I recommend them to anyone? Only if they really wanted a Yoko or Nia figure for cheap, and even then I’d still say to just save your money and get the Uplark Nia for if you want a Nia figure and for Yoko there are so many other figures much worthy of your hard earned money.

-Figure Info-
Yoko
Manufactured by Sega
non Scale
Initial release in August ’09
Price of1,500 Yen

Nia
Manufactured by Sega
non Scale
Initial release in August ’09
Price of 1,500 Yen

You can still find these figures, for those on a budget it’s the best set to get your hands on!

Big Bad Toy Store
HobbyLink Japan
Hobby Search
J-list
Kid Nemo Company
Otaku Fuel
Play Asia
Toylet

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The Yoko art book so was awesome that i had to get myself the nia art book as well. I love the art in this book, it’s very cute and tasteful since Nia isn’t as provocative as Yoko is. Still there are some sexy poses of Nia but it’s all done very awesome imo.

Young Nia and post time skip Nia.

lots of “arsty” type pictures in this book compared to the Yoko book.

Beach Nia

All three Nia’s. Young Nia, Post Time Skip Nia, and Anti Spiral Nia.

Playing the guitar

why couldn’t she have her own gunman in the anime?

Wedding Nia

The picture on the right is totally awesome!

Sexy Nia

Sexy Anti Spiral Nia

Bubble bath nia?

Horseback Nia is pretty darn cute!

See sexy young Nia

Nia and Simon

More Nia and Simon

Wonder if we’ll get a Darry art book?

I’m glad this image was in the book I’ve always liked this image. The rest of the images in the book are character interviews and character design pages.

A cooking with nia page

Last page is some official and non official Nia merchandise. I would love to some tech Dakimaruka of Nia but those are expensive. Plus I’ve yet to see a PVC of Nia that i like.

Also at the end of the book is a small envelope with pictures from the book. I still have no diea what they are for and the Yoko book came with them as well. If anyone has an idea of what they are for let me know.

You can get your own copy at HLJ!
I would link to Kid Nemo but it doens’t look like they have it on their site.