23 Feb, 2013

Good Smile Company’s Ultimate Madoka has been one of the biggest items on collectors’ radars for a very long time now. We previewed her back in August, but after a few delays the huge, lovely and very expensive final version has arrived. Can Madoka truly live up to her ultimate tag? Let’s take a look. There’s no denying it, this is an...

17 Nov, 2012

‘ANOTHER Alter figure?’ I hear you cry? Well, I just can’t help it. Alter make the best figures, and since everything we review on here is part of my personal collection, I’m naturally going only for the good stuff. And it’s really really good stuff, as any collector will attest. This time around, we’ll be looking at something...

21 Jul, 2012

It’s been a while since we’ve looked at something from Max factory’s near-ubiquitous Figma range of action figures, but it hasn’t been long at all since we looked at something Shin Megami Tensei: Persona related. This time though we’ll be looking at a character from Persona 4, the 2008 Playstation 2 game that has proved the most...

26 Jun, 2012

Atlus’ role-playing franchise Shin Megami Tensei: Persona has always been beloved among the gaming community, but the past year has seen its profile rise considerably, mostly through the anime adaptation and subsequent spinoff games of Persona 4, the latest in the series. The toy we’ll be looking at today however comes from the previous title,...

8 Jun, 2012

Ever since her unveiling earlier this year, Ultimate Madoka (or ‘Godoka’ as she’s affectionately known) has been one of the most hotly anticipated figures in the collecting world. Yesterday Good Smile Company finally revealed shots of the fully finished and painted figure and, well, see for yourself…     I think it’s...

2 Jun, 2012

It’s been 14 years since The End of Evangelion, the closing movie chapter to the Neon Genesis Evangelion TV series, was released, and although recently in terms of figures companies have been leaning more toward the rebooted Rebuild of Evangelion mecha designs that doesn’t mean the originals have been left unforgotten. The 118th entry into Kaiyodo’s...

22 Feb, 2012

But didn’t we just see a K-ON! figure review I hear you cry? Indeed we did, with a review of Alter’s Yui Hirasawa just a few months past.  This time though, we’ll be looking at her bandmate behind the drumkit, the feisty Ritsu Tainaka, in what might be the most elaborate figure we’ve yet seen.       Ritsu comes in a...

18 Jan, 2012

Time flies huh? It was back in July of last year that we previewed Nendoroid Mami from Puella Magi Madoka Magica and now here she is in the flesh (or rather, the plastic). Ever since that preview she’s been highly anticipated by collectors everywhere, so let’s get down to business and see if she lives up to the...

3 Dec, 2011

Of all series in the last few years, none has quite dominated the figure landscape like K-ON!. Even stalwarts like Evangelion and Lyrical Nanoha pale into insignificance compared to the absolute torrent of merchandise that has been pumped out featuring the five girls of Houkago Tea Time, from dolls to trading figures to figmas to everything you could possibly...

15 Oct, 2011

As anybody who’s an anime fan knows, Studio Shaft’s dark reimagining of the magical girl tale Puella Magi Madoka Magica has been this year’s breakout hit, so it’s no surprise that we’re beginning to see a flood of toys, figures and merchandise related to the franchise though. You know you’ve really made it though, when you...