Akibahobby reports that figure maker Kotobukiya will be releasing Kotonoha Katsura from School Days. She will also come with the fan favorite duffel bag of death. Sadly, she will not be holding a knife but a cellphone. For those who are not familiar with the series, School Days originally was an eroge visual novel adapted into an anime featuring a school romance story. The series ended in a twist which was unaired due to the nature of the content, but was found on the DVD release. She was be released later this year in Summer 2009.
Unveiled at the Tokyo International Anime Fair, Max Factory will be releasing a realistic rendition of Yoko Litner from Tengen no Toppa Gurren Lagann. The figure is absolutely stunning though some fans may wish that they had chosen to use the anime face. Maybe Max Factory will include an interchangeable head?
There are currently no price or release date available but as soon as that information is released we'll let you know. Judging by the scale, I would have to estimate the figure to be around or at least be $100.
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The Tokyo International Anime Fair has begun, and as you can expect a flood of new toys and figures on display!
Check back here as we frequently make updates to this post as soon as more pictures and reports are online!
We apologize for the lack of hobby updates, within the last 2 months, there have been approximately over 3 hobby related events making it difficult for us to keep track of everything.
Figure maker Wave brings us another set of Lucky Star figures (previous Konata and Kanata), this time it's the Hiiragi twins. Measuring at 1/12 scale, these will be pretty small figures but for true fans of the series this is the best so far. Kagami and Tsukasa will be released this August retailing around 3,500 yen each or about 6,800 yen as a set. Konata and Kanata will be released in late July for around 10,000 yen as a set and around 4,700 yen each. Personally I prefer Wave's previous miko (priestess) version.
In continuation with the 20th anniversary celebration of Ah My Goddess!, Griffon will be releasing a 1/8 scale Skuld PVC based on the cover of volume 24 of the manga. Griffon had announced previously that they were making a Belldandy figure. Skuld will be released in May 2009. We'll update as soon as more information is released.
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Volks will be releasing Yoko Littner and Nia Teppelin dolls part of their Dollfie Dream line. Dollfie Dream dolls are more anime orientated and specific characters have limited releases. As of this posting, Yoko and Nia will be web order only. No other information or pictures are available at this time, but we will keep you up to date as more information surfaces.
http://www.volks.co.jp/jp/gurrenlagann/index.html
UPDATE: More information and pictures can be found here.
Reko (Reco) from the hit arcade shooter series Mushihime-sama developed by Cave, is finally getting a full PVC incantation. Some of you may remember seeing her on various ads and promos sitting on top of a beetle. I wish they kept her hair lavender instead of the translucent color. Max Factory has chosen her outfit from the second game, and will be releasing her in June 2009.
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Figure maker Max Factory unveiled Morgon from the Dark Stalkers series at their Won Hobby 9 event. She stans stunningly tall at 1/6 scale. Hopefully they will make Lilith also from the same series. She will be released later this year in July with an announced price tag.
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Yoko, Fate, Nanoha, Shamal, Saber, and Sheryl are just a few of the new figures displayed by Alter at the Mega Hobby Winter Expo 2009. This is part one of our compilation coverage. As usual, we do not own any of the images, and they belong to their respective reporters/websites.
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Sources: akibahobby, moeyo, hobbystock
A surprise for the fans, this is the fourth Asahina Mikuru figure from the Melancholy of Haurhi Suzumiya made by Max Factory. The figure will come with 2 different faces with different expressions an interchangeable arm for her to expose the mole on the inside of her cleavage as seen in anime.
I don't believe she will be castoffable; however, if you look closely at the pictures you will notice something that appears to be a seamline on the inside of her shirt collar. My best bet would be that her shirt is probably made from stretchy material similar to the one found on Max Factory's Wendy figure from Gun X Sword.
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We reported previously about a Saber Lily figure from the new Playstation 2 game Fate/Unlimited Code, debuting at Comiket 75, and a splurge of prepainted pictures are up on Goodsmile's blog. Beautifully sculpted, it looks like she will come with 2 swords.
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Update: Goodsmile's page for her is up. She will retail for a wallet breaking 9,800 Yen and be released in June 2009. Price is probably reflective on her size, popularity, and probably additonal royalty fees made to the game maker, Capcom.
First unveiled at Comiket 75 as a no photography figure, a painted picture of Moka's unleashed form from the series Rosario + Vampire surfaced online.
She will be released in June 2009 by Goodsmile Company. Larger image inside.
I'm pretty sure I saw this figure way back before Persona 4 was released in the United States, but while browsing amiami, I came across something interesting on the front page. Oddly enough the figure maker is listed as Atlus the game company itself. After a quick look, Alter does have this figure listed on their website listed under collaboration works.
The actual figure itself looks beautifully sculpted and definitely reminds of Alter's craftsmanship style. Probably my only complaint is the sculpt detail on the ends and the front of the hair. The right arm in proportion with the legs look a little off, but that could just be the camera angle. The figure comes with a removable fan and a pair of glasses.
The figure has been apparently released last month for 6,500 yen on Altus' webstore and probably will be available for purchase from figure retailers as various American stores already have preorders up.
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A leaked picture of the Goodsmile Nendoroid figure, Nagi, from the series Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens appeared on 2chan.
She will be released in May 2009, full picture inside.
With the Winter Wonder Festival cancelled this year, Comiket 75 became the place for figure and hobby companies to showcase their goods for the new year. Goodsmile Company in the past had no photography policies on certain figures on display, but usually images of them surface online anyways. This time it seems they had a strict enforcement as we haven't seen any yet except of the name cards.
It appears Goodsmile will be making a 1/7 scale Saber "Lily version" figure from the recent Playstation 2 game Fate/Unlimited Codes. She will be released in June 2009. Also it seems Max Factory will be releasing a cheerleader figma of Mikuru Asahina and probably a cheerleader Haruhi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Another card shows that Goodsmile is working on something related to a Nagi figure from Kannagi: Crazy Shrine Maidens most likely a Nendoroid.
Other notable figure includes a Nendoroid Kagami from Lucky Star cosplayed as Hatsune Miku, a 1/4 scale Nanoha figure by Gift, and a figure based off of one of Tony Taka's art.
Max Factory announced on their figma blog that they will be releasing a figure of Mitsurugi Meiya from the Muv-Luv franchise. She will retail for 2,500 yen with no set release date yet.
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In the latest issue of Hobby Japan Magazine, three new revoltechs are revealed: the Arc-Gurren Lagann, Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann, and the Gurren itself from the popular mech anime Tengen no Toppa Gurren Lagann.
Only the unpainted prototype pictures are available inside.
Painted pictures of Fate Harlaown, Nanoha Takamachi, and Hayate Yamami from the series Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha have appeared on Volks website. Previously announced the the December issue of Hobby Japan Magazine, Nanoha will be released on May 2009, Hayate on June 2009, and Fate on July 2009. All will retail for 7,980 yen; unfortunately, like previous PVC figures that are part of Volk's M.O.E. Plus line, they will be only released exclusively online for the Japanese market.
A special figure of Vivio Takamachi will be offered as a gift to customers who preorder all three figures at the same time, and will ship in July with the release of Fate.
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Hong Kong based figure maker HobbyFigures has sent us a press release earlier yesterday morning regarding their newest figure, a 1/8 scale cold cast Jin from the series Samurai Champloo.
HobbyFigures appeared last year with their debut figure Mugen also from the same series; however, the figure itself never saw an offcial public release due to quality control issues. Apparently the company will be releasing Mugen along with Jin at the same time.
Jin will be limited to 2000 pieces worldwide retailiing at $149 with a release date of January 1, 2009.
HobbyFigures is also still working on Fuu from the same series, and Risty from Queens Blade. We'll let you know when we receive pictures of them.
Lots of pictures of Jin after the jump.
C.C is the next figure in the Emotion Style figure line by Bandai. A definite improvement over their 
