Tama-chan is dressed in her protective armor with her shinai and head gear in each arm. Unfortunately she’s screwed to the base, even though it’s possible to remove the screws, the peg is under her foot and not on the base, so she can’t stand without her base. Her base is made to look like wooden floor, but didn’t really work though since it’s still look too plastic.

Tama-chan name on her protective armour, pretty good detail on the armour and head gear.

She does looks like this in the anime xD.

Overall a decently made figure from Kotobukiya, not much complain on it except for the obvious seam lines on both her arms. The paint job looks good too.

Was kinda trying to make the setting to look like a dojo, but I don’t really have necessary stuff to do that. A 1/6 katana and sort of potted plant to make it less plain xD.

Tamaki Kawazoe
Series: Bamboo Blade
Scale and Material: 1/8 pre-painted PVC
Company: Kotobukiya
Price: 5500 Yen
Released: August 2008
Added to collection: August 2008
Availability: available at Hobby Search
Photo taken using: Canon EOS 400D with EF 50mm f/1.4 USM and EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens. Additional lighting provided by Speedlite 580ex II triggered using a wireless trigger. Camera triggered by using Phottix Cleon wireless remote trigger.

Anyway back to the figure, sadly there isn’t much Air Gear figures out there, there are the Megahouse Ringo and Simca, a Simca polystone from Yamato and a Simca PVC as well and the latest is a Ringo from Yamato which is the only Air Gear figure I have now. This is the Hentai Kamen version of Ringo that made an appearance during Kogarasumaru with Behemoth. The figures photos are NSFW btw, so view at your own risk xD.

When she was release I saw some photos of her that makes her looks quite bad but fortunately it was just badly taken photos and she actually looks pretty good. A bit lack of detail in someplaces, and her skin tone is kinda pale other than that she’s ok. She comes with a transparent base with the word Air Gear on it, two pieces of plastic moulded to fit her Air Gear hold her to the base.

Not much extra accessories, just the bag and hair. Her twin tails are removable to fit the bag and extra hair. There’s an extra stand to her straps which I only use for one of the shot.

Overall a decent looking figure except the lack of detail and the colors could have been better especially the skin tone. I would have prefer a figure of her in sera fuku but seeing that there isn’t really a lot of Air Gear figures being release, I don’t think that will happen anytime soon.

Note: Pics might look too dark for some people since I can only adjust it to my LCD.

Ringo Noyamano
Series: Air Gear
Scale and Material: Non scale pre-painted PVC
Company: Yamato
Price: 6800 Yen
Released: July 2008
Added to collection: August 2008
Availability: sold out
Photo taken using: Canon EOS 400D with EF 50mm f/1.4 USM and EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens. Additional lighting provided by Speedlite 580ex II triggered using a wireless trigger. Camera triggered by using Phottix Cleon wireless remote trigger.

Bought Air Gear vol. 9 recently, well maybe not that recent hahaha and also Megami Deluxe vol. 10 at Kinokuniya. Found the megami when I was at Kino recently with Aiko, and found out that there’s a nekomimi Feito poster inside YAY. The poster its the same as the illustration on the cover but since I am a Feito fanboy, I am just gonna mention her xD.

Figures pic after the jump but NSFW though so BEWARE.

Some recent figures I purchased, Alter Chua Churam, Yamato Ringo, and Kotobukiya Tamaki with Froggy Mikulu stamp of approva ^^. Will try to do a shoot for them as soon as possible hehe xD.

This is my work table, had to put some of my figures on the table and on top of the CPU due to lack of space. Try to keep it clean as much as possible as I don’t like messy table hhaha. I use this table for my figures shoot as well, have to move my lappy, Ringo and Chua Churam away when I take photos.

More pics after the jump

The shelf right opposite my table where I store my books, a few figures and my mangas. Can see a whole loads of figure boxes on top and beside the shelf, need to rearrange them again soon though. They are quite a hazzard btw ^^;;;

Haruhi gang are display on a small table where I put my camera equipment as well as some photography magazines and books.

The shelf next to where I sit is where I displayed most of the figures in my collection, had to DIY some plastic to cover it to keep dust out. Some of the artbooks and anime DVD I have is stored here as well.

1 thing I lack in my room is anime posters I think, feel like putting some up but they gonna get dusty very easily though. I wonder if this qualify as an Otaku room haha.

Mikuru is dressed up in the meido outfit that she wore during the Annual School Festival in the anime, the previously released Tsuraya is in the same oufit as well. She comes with an extra hand for the nekomimi pose and of course the nekomimi headdress xD.

The cup on the tray are not removable, unfortunately xD.

Peekaboo from froggy Mikuru <3, she’s just so cute.

Nekomimi mode, currently she’s displayed in this mode ^^.

Both my 1/8 scale Mikuru.

Well the figure itself is well sculpted and painted, as expected of something from Max Factory, though I find that her head is kinda big if view from the front angle, maybe it’s just me haha. I do wish she have some support on the other foot though, as with the first MF Mikuru, only one of her foot is connected to the peg.

Asahina Mikuru
Series: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
Scale and Material: 1/8 pre-painted PVC
Company: Max Factory
Price: 5524 Yen
Released: July 2008
Added to collection: July 2008
Availability: available at Hobby Search
Photo taken using: Canon EOS 400D with EF 50mm f/1.4 USM and EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens.

Patung terlampau

Oleh Mohd Jamilul Anbia Md Denin dan Syarifah Dayana Syed Bakri
anbia@hmetro.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: Lambakan patung permainan gadis aksi lucah setinggi hampir satu kaki yang dijual di kebanyakan pusat beli-belah terkemuka di ibu negara mengundang rasa kurang senang di kalangan ibu bapa.

Ini berikutan penjualan patung permainan terbabit boleh merangsang minat remaja dan kanak-kanak kepada seks, sekali gus mendedahkan mereka kepada perlakuan tidak bermoral.

Patung terbabit yang tampil sama ada bogel sepenuhnya atau separuh bogel dengan menonjolkan bahagian tertentu diletakkan bersama barang permainan lain, menjadikan sasaran penjualannya di kalangan remaja dan kanak-kanak sekolah.

Difahamkan, kebanyakan patung gadis berahi itu diadaptasi daripada karakter kartun manga atau animasi dalam komik Jepun.

Wartawan Harian Metro membuat tinjauan penjualan patung itu selepas menerima aduan daripada seorang ibu, Normah Abdul Karim, 40, beberapa hari lalu.

Menurut Normah, dia terlihat patung berahi itu ketika membawa dua anak lelakinya berusia 12 dan lapan tahun menonton filem Iron Man di sebuah pusat beli-belah terkenal di sini, baru-baru ini.

Sebelum memasuki panggung wayang, anaknya merayu-rayu di sebuah kedai menjual barang permainan di tingkat lima pusat beli-belah berkenaan.

“Anak yang yang teruja dengan filem berkenaan meminta saya membelikan mereka patung Iron Man di kedai terbabit yang berharga sekitar RM50 setiap satu.

“Sewaktu membelek patung Iron Man, mata anak sulung saya, Aiman, mula menjeling ke rak pameran kaca di belakang kaunter pembayaran yang mempamerkan beberapa patung permainan lain,” katanya yang juga pengusaha taman asuhan kanak-kanak (taska).

Normah yang mulanya menyangka permainan biasa yang diimport dari luar negara itu bagaimanapun terkejut sebaik mendapati rak permainan itu dipenuhi patung gadis beraksi lucah.

“Ada patung mainan itu bogel sepenuhnya dengan memperlihatkan bahagian sulit wanita. Malah, kebanyakan patung itu beraksi mengghairahkan sehingga menyebabkan saya sendiri malu untuk memandang.

“Saya lantas menarik anak daripada terus merenung deretan lebih 30 patung lucah berkenaan kerana bimbang boleh merosakkan minda mereka,” katanya yang sempat mempersoalkan penjualan patung terbabit kepada pekerja kedai itu.

Katanya, pekerja berusia 30-an itu memberi alasan patung berharga menjangkau RM200 itu hanya dibeli golongan dewasa yang meminati animasi Jepun.

Dia berkata, alasan diberikan seolah-olah cuba menafikan unsur seks yang ditonjol patung berkenaan.

“Bagi saya penjualan patung seumpama itu satu penghinaan kepada wanita berikutan cuba mengeksploitasi tubuh kaum hawa bagi mendapatkan keuntungan,” katanya.

Sementara itu, wartawan Harian Metro mendapati patung mengghairahkan itu dijual secara terang-terangan di beberapa kedai permainan di pusat beli-belah terkemuka di ibu kota.

Kebanyakan patung itu yang diimport dari China dan Jepun sengaja direka bagi menonjolkan aksi menjolok mata sama ada dengan sedikit pakaian atau bogel sepenuhnya.

Patung itu yang dibungkus rapi dalam kotak khas djual pada harga RM20 hingga RM300 berdasarkan ketinggian dan ketelitian pembuatannya.

For the translation of the article above, you can read it here.

Koleksi anak orang kaya
Oleh Mohd Jamilul Anbia Md Denin
anbia@hmetro.com.my

KUALA LUMPUR: Kebanjiran patung permainan lucah yang dijual di beberapa pusat beli-belah sekitar ibu kota dikesan dibawa masuk peniaga tempatan semata-mata bagi memenuhi minat dan hobi aneh terutama golongan anak orang kaya yang menggemarinya.

Perkara ini didedahkan Ketua Unit Penguat kuasa Pusat, Bahagian Kawalan Penerbitan dan Teks al-Quran, Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) Mohd Rizal Abidin selepas melakukan beberapa serbuan ke premis menjual permainan, susulan pendedahan Harian Metro berhubung penjualan permainan lucah 4 Ogos lalu.

Menurutnya, rata-rata peniaga ditemui mendakwa hanya menjual patung terbabit terutama kepada golongan anak ‘orang berada’ berikutan harga patung terbabit menjangkau hingga RM200 setiap satu.

“Apa yang dimaklumkan oleh peniaga, kebanyakan patung permainan ‘terlampau’ ini mendapat tempat terutama di kalangan remaja yang membelinya untuk koleksi peribadi atau dijadikan cenderamata kepada rakan-rakan.

“Pihak KDN memandang serius penjualan patung permainan berunsur lucah ini dan siasatan dilakukan sebaik berita berkenaan disiarkan. Tindakan perlu diambil kerana patung permainan lucah ini mengandungi unsur yang boleh memudaratkan moral masyarakat,” katanya.

Menurutnya, susulan itu, beberapa operasi dilakukan membabitkan empat lokasi kedai mainan sekitar pusat beli-belah terkemuka di Bukit Bintang, Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya dan Brickfields sejak Isnin minggu lalu.

“Operasi membabitkan lapan anggota KDN Putrajaya dibantu pegawai KDN Selangor diketuai Penolong Pegawai Penguat kuasa Kanan, Bahagian Kawalan Penerbitan dan Teks al-Quran KDN, Mohamad Hashim Kamaruddin akhirnya berjaya mengesan pelbagai jenis patung lucah didapati dijual secara terbuka kepada orang ramai.

“Hasil daripada bukti diperoleh, pihak KDN bertindak merampas lebih 114 unit patung permainan berbaur lucah berkenaan dari semua premis terbabit,” katanya.

Semua patung lucah bernilai hampir RM10,000 terbabit dirampas dan dibawa ke ibu pejabat KDN Putrajaya sementara tindakan pendakwaan dilakukan.

“Pemilik premis memiliki dan menjual patung itu boleh dikenakan hukuman mengikut Seksyen 7 dengan penjara tidak melebihi lima tahun dan denda tidak kurang RM20,000,” katanya

Menurutnya, rata-rata peniaga menjual patung lucah berkenaan menyedari kesalahan dilakukan.

“Mereka mendakwa patung terbabit yang diimport terutama dari China berjaya melepasi pemeriksaan pihak berkuasa di pelabuhan sebelum diseludup ke negara ini,” katanya.

Title: Wealthy Children’s Collection

KUALA LUMPUR: Surge of erotic figurines sold in several shopping complexes around the city capital had been confirmed being imported by local retailers for the sake of fulfilling the demand and interest of people with such wierd hobbies especially those that are rich.

This matter was unveiled by Central Enforcer Chief, Publication control and Quranic text Division, Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN*, Ministry of Internal Affairs) Mohd. Rizal Abidin - after several raids to toy selling premises, following a cover by Harian Metro (The newspaper responsible) regarding the selling of erotic toys on the 4th of August.

According to him, most of the sellers claimed that they only sell those figurines to ‘the more established youngsters’ due to the price of said figurines reaching up to MYR 200 each.

“According to the seller, most of these ‘obscene’ toy dolls are popular amongst teenagers that buys it for their personal collection, or as gifts for friends.”

“The KDN (see above) take the selling of said erotic themed toy dolls seriously and investigation of this matter is conducted as soon as the news was published. Action had to be taken as these erotic figurines contains elements that can harm corrupt our society’s morals.”

According to him again several operations made involving four locations of toy shops around famous shopping complexes at Star Hill, Subang Jaya, Petaling Jaya and Brickfields since last Monday.

“The operations involving 8 officers from Putrajaya’s KDN branch supported by Selangor’s KDN officer led by Assistant Senior Enforcer from Publication control and Quranic text Division, Mohammad Hashim Kamaruddin finally succeeded to track down various erotic figurines found to be sold openly to public.”

“From the acquired evidences, the KDN confiscated more than 114 units of figurines with erotic elements from all of the above mentioned premises.”

All of the confiscated erotic figurines are estimated to be around MYR 10,000 and were brought to the KDN’s HQ at Putrajaya while prosecuting measures are being undertaken.

“Shop owners found posessing and selling of said figurines can be jailed for no more than 5 years and fined for no less than MYR 20,000 according to Section 7 of the Malaysian Law.”

According to him again, most of the sellers of above mentioned erotic figurines are aware of their crime.

“They claimed that those figurines were mainly imported from China and were succesfully avoiding authority’s inspection at local ports before being smuggled into this country.”

Credits:
Original Translation: Exiled_Gundam
Edited by: Quazacolt

My view on the article, I would say lack of research and over generalization. I don’t know about other places, but here it’s easier to find decent and clothed figures rather than those nude ones, which are usually either bootleg or resin. Well you can find them if you really look for it but reputable shop that sells original figures don’t carry them though.

Also those that collect figures are mostly young working adult and not school going children as mention in the article, grouping figures together with children toy is so wrong imo. Students won’t even be able to afford to buy those figures anyway unless their parents buy for them.

I don’t really blame the mother for making the complain, though I blame the shop for displaying suchs figures in the open and the over zealous reporter that wrote the first article without proper research. This becomes a problem for us genuine figures collector, since those above mention figures are mostly bootleg version and probably makeup only a small percentage of the local figures market. I just hope the articles doesn’t make it hard for us to continue with our hobby.

Anyway more rant from Aiko, LilKeV84, Setsuna and Fat Cat Lim.

So what’s so fun about PuchiMoe, well it’s a electronice bubblewrap simulation, the difference is after certain number of presses you’ll hear the gal speak (what they say depends on which gal u got) xD. Or leave them for sometime they ask you to press them LOL. Kinda fun to play with when your are feeling bored haha.

This is our booth, with our very own Kanpan Musume, Aiko xD.

Choir singing a song from FMA, not really sure which song though.

Some dancing to start of the event.

Commander Chaos as Lucky Chaos this time around xD.

Some new faces in our display. The rest are pretty much the same as the previous event.

Photogs waiting for the cosplay competition to start.

Cosplay competition finally started after being delay for hours.

Interesting skit by Ichigo and Commander Chaos.

Icecream, hmm I forgot what she was cosplaying as.

E_G trying to be moe xD.

Group shot of the gang.

And finally, the best thing that happen to me that day was getting my hand on Nendoroid Puchi Froggy Mikuru. Well actually E_G got it, but I ask him to sell it to me, he was nice enough to do that xD.

Overall the event was better than C2AGE that was held recently, but still kinda lack luster. The organizing was horrible, with the cosplay competition being delayed for hours. Well still had some fun with the TFM gang as usual, having display at this kinda of event became sort of a gathering for us figures collectors here now xD.

Additional report by other bloggers.
Aiko
Aoshi
Shin
Setsuna
Fat Cat Lim

In with fellow figure collectors, we will be organizing our 1st Aniversary Figure Exhibit at the Taylor’s Anime Fest 2008.

Below are the event details:

Date: 26th July 2008
Time: 10.00am - 7.00pm
Location: Taylors University College, Subang Jaya
Entry Fees: RM5
Official Thread: http://comicfiesta.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=16071

A total of around 60-70 figures to be displayed on the event. 7 participants will be taking part:

LilKeV84
valho
Exiled_Gundam
Aiko
setsuna89
makie
missHerMes

We would like to thank the TAF organizing committee for allowing us to have our exhibit there. We’re looking forward to see as many collectors as possible to visit & support us there! Do stay around for a chat!

P.S. Do not forget your camera!

This batch of photos was uploaded like a few weeks ago, so those that frequent my Flickr has probably already seen them. I only shot the battle damage version and group shots a while ago xD. Experimented with something different in these shots, by using a glass on top of the background paper and placing a flash underneath, I created the glowing effect under the figure, which make the ground looks kinda like ice. Quite like the result that came out from this shoot.

Anyway back to the figure, she came in a suprisingly huge and heavy box, most probably due to her very large and heavy skirt. It’s so heavy that her left foot peg broke off from the base, another collector that I know have the same problem. Is anyone else having this problem as well ? Currently I had her in battle damage clothing to reduce the weight and she’s held by only the peg on her right foot.

The design of her dress is quite nice, with the flowing belt and skirt that make her look more dynamic. I would have prefer that her left hand can really hold the halberd though, instead of resting on her breast xD.

Definitely looks moe~ xD.

A few battle damage shots.

Group shot of all the Shuraki girls, kinda hard to place them properly for the shoot though, with all the weapons and flowing skirt haha.

After I received Rize, I read in Dannychoo.com that there will be a second Shuraki series. Well there are a few more girls in the booklet that looks pretty good if made into figures, but I am not sure whether I’ll be collecting the second series though. Guess I’ll just wait and see.

Rizfis Luttiva Mente
Series: Shuraki Trinity
Scale and Material: 1/8 pre-painted PVC
Company: Good Smile Company
Price: 6800 Yen
Released: June 2008
Added to collection: June 2008
Availability: available at Hobby Search
Photo taken using: Canon EOS 400D with EF 50mm f/1.4 USM, EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM lens and Tamron 17-50 f/2.8. Wireless flash using 580ex II and wireless trigger.