GSC Hatsune Miku CM Ver.

Good Smile Company was one of the first figure manufacturer to capitalize on the popularity of Hatsune Miku, the mascot for Yamaha’s “Vocaloid” music synthesizer program.  Many companies followed suit soon after, but Good Smile Company’s Hatsune Miku remains as one of the most popular figure to be released for the Vocaloid diva — seeing two re-releases in 2009.  Their original release captured Miku’s charm without the robotic voice.  It couldn’t get any better.  Could it?

It did when GSC teased us with this Hatsune Miku commercial.  Soon after, they announced that she’ll be available for sale as a WonFes/Good Smile online shop exclusive.  Her price, surprisingly, is ¥1,000 lower than the regular release.  Lovely!

MegaHouse Brilliant Stage Taiga Aisaka

I got the chance to re-acquire this lovely  Taiga Aisaka figure from MegaHouse’s Brilliant Stage line during HobbySearch’s sale earlier this month.  I say ‘re-acquire’ because I had her on my pre-order list at one point, but dropped her after every figure on my pre-order list was delayed to August — the month this Taiga was released.  The funny thing is, I had my pre-order with HobbySearch back then; so this could be the very figure that I pre-ordered.  Instead of paying full price, I’m bought her for 60% off instead.  ^^v

Alter Vita

Alter brings us Vita, the hot-headed eternal loli, in her Knight Armour complete with her helluva hammer Graf Eisen ready to crush some balls in Zerstörungform.  This is one fierce loli you don’t want to mess with!

Brilliant Stage iDOLM@STER Yukiho Hagiwara ~ 萩原雪歩

MegaHouse gives us Yukiho Hagiwara (萩原雪歩) from the popular idol rythm/simulation game, THE iDOLM@STER.

A terrible crybaby, Yukiho aspires to become an idol in order to one day shed her cowardly disposition.  She’s afraid of dogs and doesn’t do well with boys either.  Yukiho enjoys drinking Japanese tea and writing poetry, but she’s usually too shy to share her poems with anyone.

GSC Hatsune Miku

Good Smile Company presents us with their beautiful rendition of Hatsune Miku, the ever-popular mascot for Yamaha’s music synthesizer program *Vocaloid*.  I got her in the mail back in January and promised a review “next week”, but it never materialized because I was hit with school admission material and new job training sessions ^^;  Those are out-of-the-way now, and here’s my promised review…