Arisugawa Shii – Gathering 1:7

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As I promised yesterday, here is a review of my latest figure, Arisugawa Shii. She is a pre-painted, 1:7 scaled cold-cast figure from Gathering. Shii is 26cm tall and weights ~0,72kg. I guess only my 1:4 Freeing Mikuru  is heavier.

(Writing this review while listening to my personal “music stream” generated by the AWESOME new feature “Genius Mixes” from iTunes 9. I won’t cover yesterdays Apple event over here as I already wrote an article about it on figure.fm. Feel free to check it out.)

I bought her from comrade Melonpan two weeks ago and she arrived with some other stuff last week from Switzerland. Was quite a good deal cause she was sold for ~130 USD back then in 2007!

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She is sculpted based on this artwork by Yamashita as the Yamashita fans among will know of course.

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I think this figure meets Yamashita’s artstyle quite well, cause her proportions seem to be a little bit more RL–like.

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E2046 added an so called “Gathering Surprise” in form of an semi-transparent mini skirt for those who like their  figures to be a little bit “safer”.

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I’m in an pinch when it comes to my opinion of the skirt: They added an magnetic feature which is awesome but on the other hand they used way too cheap looking PVC…

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One reason for me to get her when Melonpan MSN-ed me, was that she fullfills a nice amount of fetishes.  A sword wielding, megane-, stockings-, shimapan- and seifuku-wearing Japanese girl with twin tails isn’t a bad combination, right? ^^;

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Those of you familiar with this figure (and I guess a lot of you are) may have noticed that my Shii is standing on an wooden base.

Melonpan-sama added this one for free, because…

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…the original mirror acrylic display base had an unsightly  scratch. Works still well to look at some Nendoroid pantsu though ^_^

 

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.Rin looks cute in every scene. I think that’s why she is Danny’s MPL (multi purpose loli) too, eh?

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The details of Gathering figures are really awesome. The painting is quite good too with a few flaws on her sword hand though. Even after 2 years she is like new.

According to Melonpan some of his older PVC figures look already quite unlovely while his cold-casts look still perfect.

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Her biggest flaw is this gap on her head though. Didn’t expect that from Gathering!

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Overall I would give her 8 out of 10 points. Considering her original price such manufacturing failures shouldn’t happen.

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As I mentioned at the beginning of this review Melonpan added those items he had lying around:

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A Kudryavka.. ährm… fap-box cover? Health care supply upgrade? How are those called?

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Lucky Star purse and a Win2k-tan sticker. Thx Melonpan! Wondering if there’s already an Windows 7 –tan out there?

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That’s it. Hope you like my review. Was quite a busy week and I already know what my next post will be about ^_^ Hikky off.