Archive for the Previews category

Max Factory’s Kagami Hiiragi figma

Well Max Factory continues it’s release of Luck☆Star figmas in September with Kagami Hiiragi. As always with the figma line she is not to any true scale but is complete posable and comes with a couple of hand and face options. She stands in a 13.5cm tall and will retail for 2,500 yen. She is [...]

Hellboy 2

Well after four years we are finally getting a Hellboy sequel. Hellboy and the Golden Army is directed by Guillermo del Toro who directed the first movie, but who probably better know for Pan’s Labyrinth. From the look of the trailers you can definitely see the influence.
The basic plot of the movie is that [...]

Alter’s Yagami Hayate

Coming this October from Alter is Yagami Hayate from the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. She comes with a to scale Reinforce Zwei. At 1/7 scale Yagami flys in at a full 29cm tall and Zwei is 4.5cm tall. She will retail for 10,290 yen but with preorder discounts you should be able to [...]

OrchidSeed’s Mizuho Kazami

Well I missed her when the first announcements were made but here she is the beautiful Mizuho Kazami. Mizuho Kazami that beautiful (dare we say sexy) Alien, highschool teacher that fulfills one lucky schoolboys fantasies. She is of course from the anime Please! Teacher. The series that is probably best know for getting US anime [...]

Kotobukiya’s Clalaclan Noir

For those who missed her the first time around or were simply turned off by all that pink. Kotobukiya is reissuing Clalaclan in an alternate all black version. She is slated to come out this September at the same price as the standard color version, 6,090 yen. Except for the color change there appears to [...]

Alter’s Ayanami Rei Alter Ver

One of the three new figures up on Alter’s site today was this beautiful Ayanami Rei. She is slated to be out in Oct, she will retail for 6090 yen. The 1/8 scale figure lays to 17cm long. She is already up for preorder at Hobbysearch, Play-Asia, and KidNemo. More pics over at AmiAmi.
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Goodsmile’s Hime (Princess Resurrection)

This just came on Goodsmile’s page today. Coming in October is Hime from the light novels and anime Kaibutsu Oujo (Princess Resurrection). She is 1/7 scale and stands 23cm tall. She will retail for 7200 yen, a bit on the high end of the scale for a figure. But, she is 1/7 scale and she [...]

Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs

Coming later this month is the second of the new Futurama direct to DVD movies. The story take place right after the end of Bender’s Big Score, with a giant rift in space and time allowing a planet-sized alien from another universe to come to Earth. The creature takes control of Fry, making him [...]

FREEing’s Tenko Kuugen

Coming in September from FREEing is this interesting figure of Tenko Kuugen from the anime Wagaya no Inari-sama (Our Home’s Fox Spirit). The anime is bases of a series of light Novels by Shibamura Jin. S/he/it stands in (well sits in) at 21cm tall and 1/8 scale. She will retail for 8,800 yen a [...]

Max Factory’s figma Kanu Unchou

This just came up on Goodsmiles site. Max Factory is releasing in July Kanu Unchou from Ikkitousen, Great Guardians as part of their figma line of posable figures. She stands in at 14cm tall and will retail for 2,880 yen. Looks like not only does she come with normal and battle damaged clothing but interchangeable [...]

Real Drive

The other new anime that I am watching right now is Real Drive. It’s kind of hard to explain the plot in less then 5 paragraphs, but I will try. The shot of it is that in the later half of the 21 century we’ve come up with some sort of high end cyber tech [...]

Alpha Omega’s LaLa School Uniform

Today’s Alpha Omega site update brings us this figure of all of you To Love Ru addicts out there. Slated to go on sale in September for 6,615 yen. LaLa stands in at 1/8 scale and 24cm tall. I haven’t seen her up for pre-order anywhere yet but I’m sure most the of usual suspects [...]