Ryomou Shimei Figma

Ryomou Shimei is one of the main characters of the manga/anime series Ikkitousen. This particular version is from Ikkitousen: Great Guardians. I picked her up from Hobby Search for 2,261 Yen, and she's still available right now if you're interested. I never got into the anime much at first because of the overly excessive fan service, but lately I've decided to start watching, and it's not that bad after all. So far, Ryomou is my favorite character, for various reasons.






First off, Ryomou comes with 3 different faces, 10 hands, and a pair of handcuffs. The handcuffs are a pretty cool accessory but they are pretty thin and stretchy so I'd be careful with them. The hands switch out smoothly with no hassle at all, and no worry of breaking them. I especially like her gripping hands, the ones that look like they're for choking. Almost her entire french maid dress is soft PVC, which is pretty nice if you ask me. Her oppai are even squishy because the dress is merely raised in that area. I guess the only complaint with her would be she doesn't have the battle damage option for her clothes like Kanu does, if that's really something to complain about. I don't mind it a bit actually, because her dress looks great the way it is, with no ugly lines in it. Her maid cap comes off with her front hair piece, and you'll notice she even has a small ahoge in the back of her hair. So, if you're an Ikkitousen fan, like bad-ass women who know how to fight, or you just have a maid fetish, you might consider picking up this Figma.







Well then, I couldn't resist having Ryomou and Kanu Unchou fight it out, so I decided to take a few more pictures with the two of them. Of course, you can see Figma Kanu's review as well if you haven't already. But, since this is Mou-chan's review, I couldn't let her lose the battle.

Friday the 13th Loot

Well, it's still only the 13th over here. So how many people are superstitious? Do you believe any of those things? Usually people think of Friday the 13th as an unlucky day, and for Haruhi fans I guess it was just that. Seeing as how Kadokawa trolled the world about the Haruhi-chan youtube show. I did get woke up unusually early by a phone call from my cousin's baby this morning.. that was weird. But all-in-all it was a good day because I got 2 packages at the same time, one via EMS and one from the mail box. The first package to arrive was from Hobby Search, I picked up Figma Sun Seto from Seto no Hanayome and Ryomou Shimei from Ikkitousen, as well as a Clannad pouch with Nagisa's silhouette on it. I'm using the pouch for my Nintendo DS although it's big enough to carry slightly larger things.




A few minutes after that package came in we went and checked the mailbox and found Chi waiting for us. I bought Chi used from fellow TeamBlue member DancingQueen a few weeks ago when she was selling some of her unwanted figures, couldn't resist picking this one up as I'd seen a nice review of her a while back on Lovelyduckie's blog. I'm proud to be the new owner of this Chi, finally I have an actual PVC of her, and a 1/5th at that? Well, anyways I just wanted to do a little update since I'm not sure which one I'll be reviewing first, but I'll do a post for each one of them soon.




No, these three pictures aren't meant to be good, I was just trying out the night shot mode of the camera for fun. Real pictures will follow in the reviews.

Kanu Unchou Figma

Here we have Kanu Unchou figma from Ikkitousen: Great Guardians. Now, mind you, I haven't watched the anime yet, as it is the 3rd season of Ikkitousen, and I've only about 2/3rds of the first season. I've seen enough to think Kanu is pretty bad ass, although I really don't care for the anime much. This figure was I bought more for the fact that this is the first "cast-off" style figma, and the first figure that I'll have owned that was actually ecchi in the least. My wife thought she looked pretty cool also. So this is probably the first figure that I've bought where I really didn't care for the anime much and don't know the character all that much either, but there are so many figures of her out there, and I'm an avid figma collector it would seem.



Now, you may have heard people's reviews about Kan'u being a bit smaller than other figma. Well she stands about the same height as Tsukasa, but her upper body really is smaller than the other figmas. Her face is the smallest of all the figma I've seen. She does have thick legs and bulky knee socks that help her balance easier, but the socks do restrict some of her feet's ability to move. Her hair is pretty awesome, and it can also support her weight along with her feet for posing without the stand. The stand itself has a different sort of attachable piece that I've shown here, to allow her to be on the stand without her hair getting in the way as much, but the piece seemed a little too loose for comfort, she's alright on it but I might try and secure it a little more just to be cautious. Another interesting thing about her hair is that the longer piece is actually removable, and it has a figma joint in it. She comes with 3 faces total, open mouth, normal and what has been come to be known as the constipated look, lol.






As for the cast-off side of things, well I'm not so sure you could call it cast-off but that's what I'll call it anyway. Her shirt/breasts are removable and replaceable with the ripped battle version, and removal and replacement was pretty simple, just a little pushing on her "eyes" and they slide into place, you can notice a bit of a crack where it comes off, but I don't think it's that bad. As you saw in the very first picture in the post, her pantsu is removable, but not exactly how you think. In order to change her skirt you need to remove both legs, then remove the pantsu, then pull the skirt off and put the other one on. I had a bit of difficulty putting the other skirt on her, and what I ended up doing was turning it inside-out (it's a soft rubbery plastic) and slipping it over her waist, then turning it back the right way and slipping it into the waistline crack where it's supposed to fit into and stay in place. A bit of a task, and somewhat scary at first, but all in all it turned out just fine. Yes, the first shot you see she is actually without her legs, I got the idea when I was changing her skirt. I just realize that this post sounds really, really bad. Well, hope you enjoy the pictures!