WonHobi 9.5 & Black Rock Shooter
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Mar 2, 2009 03:16 JST
- Tags: Events, Good Smile, Hatsune Miku, Native, PVC, WonHobi
Good Smile Company recently held a follow up mini-event to their large Wonder Hobby 9 (WonHobi 9) figure event, appropriately called WonHobi 9.5. As the first event revealed all the newest announcements there wasn’t much in the way of new releases to ogle, but there are still a good number of new photos of upcoming releases to admire.
Also, one of the most prominent new releases unveiled at WonHobi 9, the quasi-gothic Hatsune Miku Black Rock Shooter was given a release date, something that should be of interest to many…
First off, the lovely Black★Rock Shooter. Quality images are lacking of her, but our original WonHobi 9 post contains much better photos of the figure.
This promotional board mostly speaks of of the character’s origins as a Nico video. Interestingly, there are apparently over 2,000 pieces of art on pixiv already made of the warped Miku clone.
In case you have yet to see the video, I’ve made it available on a forum post.
Finally, the release date – August 2009.
That means the matter of the pre-order stampede shouldn’t come up for a few months…
Another figure from the last event, Sora o Kakeru Shoujo’s main character Akiha Shishidou.
The detailing looks excellent, and not just in front…
A lovely panchira!
On the bottom row and from left to right, here is the Kagami Miku cosplay Figma we recently covered, Maid Tsuruya-san Figma, and Waitress Mikuru Asahina Figma.
The Tsuruya-san and Mikuru Figma are due for May releases, and the Kagami one is already available for pre-orders.
Something I noticed recently is that the reason that the Kagami Miku cosplay and Tsuruya’s maid outfit both look superb in Figma form may be that the outfits do an excellent job of concealing the joints with knee-socks or pantyhose, large wrist cuffs and collars that conceal the neck.
Whatever the reason, both of them could pass for regular figures from a distance and look wonderful.
Also, the Reika Figma (from Gantz) in the back left may look somewhat plain from this shot, but looks much better in the zoomed-in shots I’ve seen online.
The Figma of ドロッセル / Drossel (from the Disney-produced CG series Fireball) looks excellent.
Being a non-human character deals with the problem of joints even more thoroughly than Kagami or Tsuruya-san…
The Figma Bikes from the ongoing promotion.
The new set of Idol Master Nendoroid Puchi look adorable.
Nendoroid Zange-chan, carrying her little sign that my’s favorite recent Nendoroid accessory.
So cute…
A display of a Nendoroid army at the event, or a candid shot of a true otaku’s room?
This tentacle raep figure from Native always makes for excellent photographs.
The Masamune Shirow Juliona Trans figure from Lilics.
I did mention last time I would need more photos of it to better make up my mind, and I’m still uncertain as to how I feel about her.
A lovely upcoming Hatsune Miku figure from Good Smile.
The Tony Pantsu Malfunction Maid figure, the second newest figure based on a Tony original illustration after the recent Banana Ero-Figure.
See the rest of the coverage at AkibaHobby and AZURE Toy-Box.
There was also another Figure event held even more recently – the Hobby Complex GK01, which as its name suggests, focused on garage kits.
We most likely will have a short post on that coming up sometime soon.
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Ahh If i had money id be broke :P
The figmas are a sure get on my part!
That Miku figure looks a lot like the last one GoodSmimle had except the eyes are closed...
ブラック★ロックシューター ♪♪♪
Must get myself one of them when I go back to Asian ^^...
Isn't the Tony Taka maid pantsu malfunction old? I've seen it before, unless this is a different one.
Yes it is, although I believe a recolored version (not pictured) came out some time ago.
I really need to win the lottery so I can buy all these figures.
I do want them :)
Maid Tsuruya and Combat Waitress Mikuru.. expect personal financial loss. -_-"
How long do i need to wait for Meidofuku Mikuru,anyway? She's been wearing that awesome outfit since episode 01 for god sake.
Must get rieka:) I love gantz oh and that akiha bitch looks fine yeah for big oppai!!!!!!!!
ry got Fuzzy as I rewatched the Gantz anime like 3 times and don't remember any Reika, s
I read somewhere using Google translate (To Dutch) that we can pre-order Black Rock Shooter in two days.
http://ameblo.jp/gsc-mikatan/ << I Read it here.
"予約開始まであと２日のカウントダウン！「ブラック★ロックシューター」のデコマスをご紹介だお！"
PS. Don't hate me if it isn't true, I can't read Jap, and the translation sucks.
PSS. Very nice pics of the figure on that link.
what? so that's hatsune miku? ... doesn't look like her.
I went into a bit more detail on the concept character in the original WonHobi 9 Bishoujo figure post I linked in the article, if you'd like to know more...
that pink shimapan looks delicious... i wanna lick it!
blehhh! taste like a dusty pc screen...
BLACK ROCK SHOOTAN~!!!
fukken want that and the Miku Hatsune pvc ver 2
Hmmm... lots of pantsu...
Quen, are you happy now?
Was it obvious? ^^
Those scars of BRS... So hot. <3 I keep looking at this post. xD
She will be the number 1 figurine I have.
While tentacle raep pics draw attention and all, I really do think the thumbnail should have been of Black Shooter herself as she formed substantial subject matter of this post, ... then again... a little gratuitous self promotion never hurt anyone.
... much.
The Drossel and Miku figmas are indeed excellent. I sense I shall be going broke very soon.
We never use the front page picture for these sort of event posts for the thumbnail, and we didn't have any other decent pictures of the figure itself...
Ah, I didn't consider that you had that as a specified rule for post style. And, it is an interesting rule to have!
Nice article still. Thanks for letting me know about the upcoming figmas.
hmmmm... Out of all of them, I'd get Black Rock Shooter and Drossel.
Black ~ Rock ~ Shoo~ Tah ~
Was wondering if memory got Fuzzy as I rewatched the Gantz anime like 3 times and don't remember any Reika, she didn't appear there, manga only.
Need third Gantz season for the anime :(
I'll need to look up that figure.. Gantz suites are a nice thing to see on the female body..
No you don't a Anime Season 3.
You need to read the manga, as only the first 3 anime missions are original, the rest is FILLER.
BLACCCCCCKKKKKKKKK ROOOOOOOOOOCK SHOOOOOOOOOTAAAAAAA!!!
Finally a release date!!
I think I'll die from all the epic. It's too much for me to bear@!!1*dies*
Oh and to add, iinm, they altered her flame eye to look more like the original artwork too! :D :D :D
Ohyeah, I see that now!
So happy, a release date, now just wait for the pre-orders. :)
Holy shit, an ACTUAL (non-photoshop/mashup) Mitsurugi Meiya figma!
BRS preorder opening soon? Holy dung! *cancels mai gunpla order* Must.... save.... up.........!
Eye closed Miku is not upcoming, but rather a custom made for a GSC New Years commercial.
Awww... no wonder the quality was so excellent. Like Quen, I hope it does end up on the market. With a price tag that won't kill me....
Thanks for that info! I was surprised because it looks exactly the same as normal Miku, except with eyes closed. Wouldn't want to get both if thats the only difference...
I'd gotten ahead of myself, as I'd expect it to come up for sale at some point。。。
Judging by GSC's preorder start dates and actual release dates, I expect preorders to start either late this month or early in April. Now the question is how much will it cost? I'm guessing around 125,000 yen as this looks more costly to produce than Saber Lily but eh. I wonder if this is going to be as popular as Saber Lily.
Thanks for the update.
The headphones that Miku and Shana are wearing, where can one get those? An upcoming freebie? Reason is I need them to make usagi headphones for Yuki.
I'm not sure myself, but there hasn't been much news on them that I've seen since pictures of them started popping up on GSC staffer's blogs around Christmas. Perhaps Danny would know...
If you want to see what it'd look like on Yuki, look here:
http://ameblo.jp/figma/entry-10189687836.html
I'm getting that Drossel figma no matter what! Got any info on the release date for Drossel?
I don't believe there is one announced yet.