Despite my previous experience with Kotobukiya’s quality which is hit and miss (50-50 chance), I had decided to get preorder her in my previous post. She is little bit pricey though for a Kotobukiya figure , although, it’s probably due to her 1/6 scale. For most people, its price is probably such a turn off since it rivals Alter/GSC figures in general. I hope the quality is as good as the price >.<.

Since I enjoy the series and vampire theme of anything whether it’s anime or movies, the chance of canceling my preorder is extremely low. I wonder if we will be getting the figure itself plus the red cloth since it would be really great for a photo shoot and also I am kind curious what kind of base that will come with this figure.

For those who haven’t watched the series, her pose was taken from the anime ED song. She is one of main protagonist character and her character gives you overpowering aura since she is the ruler of all vampire, however, at some other time, you can see her kindness as she truly cares all vampires.

November 2010 is getting busy with a lot of releases due to recent WonFes summer 2010 and of course, my wallet is getting thinner and thinner. I keep saying about my wallet but it surely didn’t stop me from pre-ordering. I guess it happened to everyone, did it ?

Additional tidbits

After my previous double date Asa-senpai at harbour front couple weeks ago, Sakura had demanded me to take her out for a date and as a sign of jealousy, she wouldn’t let me to take her pictures until I do so. Not only that, since she is competing with Asa-senpai, she also wanted me to take her for a trip to Niagara Falls. She had never been there apparently ^^;; and t0 my surprise, she didn’t mind tagging along with my family who happened to be going to Niagara Falls as well. When we arrived at Niagara Falls, she told that she would keep her promise and let me take some pictures of her while enjoying the scenery of Niagara Falls . She was very excited since it’s her first time her and told me to hurry up and take some pictures of her. She was demanding, wasn’t she ?   but she kept her promise and let me took some pictures of her.

She likes Niagara Falls so much that she wanted to have her pictures taken using Niagara Falls as the background.

This figure was released back on February 2007 so it’s quite an old figure considering the amount of figures being released every year. I barely remember when I bought this figure, although, I do think it was last year when I just started collecting figures. One thing that I am not sure of is the scale. It states that it’s 1/6 but the figure itself is more like 1/8 than 1/6 because 1/6 figures that I have are much bigger than this one. If there is a life size Sakura, she must be a pretty tiny girl ^^.

After along walk along the falls, Sakura and I went to a nearby park. She was little bit wet from the water falls but I was not really worried because her uniform is fully waterproof ^^ , although, I was hoping it’s not if you guys know what I meant ^^.

This is one of my favorite picture of her among others. The flowers background and some leafs beside her seemed to fit her image nicely

This would be my favorite picture of her. The angle is just perfect and the flowers match with her eyes colour and hair colour.

Browse through all pictures using the slideshow below ^^

Review

I am not sure if it is because I have been getting too many figures from Alter or GSC but I started noticing the different quality in particular, the paint job. I may be biased but other manufactures seemed not to be not as good as  Alter or GSC, the attention to details are great and beyond expectation.. As for this figure, the paint job is pretty good but I don’t like her eyes and face for some reasons. I don’t think her face looks closed enough to Sakura in the anime/eroge version (I am justbeing nitpicked here). As a typical Griffon’s figure, this figure comes with a clear based and her name + series engraved on top it. I didn’t bother to bring it because it’s pretty much a hindrance during outdoor photo shoot. She is a 2-part figures as you can separate her top and her bottom part. Other than her eyes + hair, her uniform is nicely painted and her socks adds a moe factor(I think) to her.

During the photoshoot ( not exactly a photo session but it’s more like I took pictures as I walked ), I was kinda in hurry especially the ones with Falls’ background because the wind was quite strong so I was really worried that the wind might blow my figure away >.> . The funny thing is that my mom was more worried about the figure that I was lol ^^;; and she told me to hurry up and took some photos. Even though I took a lot of photos with the Falls’ background, unfortunately, only some of them turned at least decent because the rest is too bright. One thing that I found really annoying about outdoor photoshoot is the fact when the result on the screen of your camera and on your computer is totally different. I couldn’t measure if the result is too bright or too dark (damn sun) on the screen.

Manufacturer : Griffon Enterprise Inc.

Scale : 1/6

Series : Fate/Hollow Ataraxia

Character : Matou Sakura

Released Date : February 2007

Camera : Nikon D40 with stock 18-55mm lens

Price : Couldn’t remember where I got her and for how much -_-;; 5,600 Yen at HLJ

Location : Niagara Falls

Previous photo shoot: here (my old photoshoot back in February 2008)

Image via Gelbooru

Last but not least, Happy Mothers Day

Gattai!!!!!

Another Saber figure is added to my Fate series figures collection and this time is the Saber Holiday version by Good Smile Company. Unlike other 1/8 figures that I have, this one is 1/6 scale (Yes James, I do buy 1/6 figures occasionally ^^). It was released back in October 2006 for 6,476 Yen ($59.00 US) so it’s quite an old figure and  I couldn’t remember where I got this from ^^;

The background colour works really well with her brown dress and base colour. I made them slightly darker than usual and the results still came up pretty well I think.

Saber refuses to wear her skirt.

She is blushing ^^

Pretty standard base

Is it just me or all figures wear white pantsu only ? I haven’t seen figures with a non-white pantsu ^^;;

Slight imperfection on her side legs as you can see the lines

“Hmmmm , should I put my skirt?”

Show time is over. Her skirt is back on ^^;

Details on her clothes

Pink coloured nails ^^

My failed attempt to peak XD

The overall quality for this figure is high as one can expect from Good Smile Company with some minor imperfection on the PVC itself. I like the frilly part of her dress and her cute pose. Painting is nicely done and love how she is blushing ^^.