In recent times it seems WeArtDoing figures are gaining popularity, so I’ve decided to review my most recent arrival – silver fin shark fairy. The blue and white colour scheme appealed to me more than the black theme.

Preorder price: CN¥1,180 (£129.34)
Price including shipping: CN¥1,560 (£172.24)

I did opt to ship EMS from China to the UK, but the box is huge:

With the shipping packaging, it was 44x39x36cm and 4.3kg. So even with other lines, shipping wasn’t going to be cheap.

As per their other figures, the box art is based around the “primary” variant, then a sticker on the back tells you which one is inside. The front tagline reads “In the hush below, a folded dream floats where plastic and waves turn to echoes, then rises at daybreak to let the ocean’s heart beat once more.” Yeah, I have no idea either, sounds pretty though. The art is cute and nicely themed so she isn’t floating in a void.

The sides of the box just say “SLEEPING BEAUTY”:

The top and bottom is their logo:

Nice blue marble on these sides.

The back has the technical information about the figure and the aforementioned variant sticker in the top left:

So nothing particularly notable about the other sides aesthetically. But looking at the Chinese and the English, the brand is given as We Art Doing in the Chinese and SankToys in the English. Sank is their “main” brand.

Inside:

Took these photos after I had unboxed her so there’s nothing in the slots. The stand fits at the top, the tray to the right and shark fairy herself in the final large slot. The small one to the top-left contained a loyalty card – they’ve stopped numbering the individual figures so it just proclaims “limited edition of 498”. The foam piece at the bottom of the picture sits atop the foam insert, protecting all the parts from any pressure on top of the box.

Base

The first part to take out of the box is the stand:

This allows you to stand her up at an angle, so she can be viewed easily when displayed on a shelf. Solid, white, heavy. Not too much to say about it.

Next up was the tray:

Originally this was packed in two layers of plastic, one around the tray one around the tray and plastic shreds. So next was working out how to disassemble it:

The plastic wrap remnants magnetically attach to the tray in two halves and can be slid off. Easy enough to slide on and off.

Tray on its own:

Looks the part, but it’s hard plastic instead of disposable. The lines definitely give it the feel of a cheap disposable tray.

Figure

The figure magnetized to the tray:

If you look closely at the tray photo, you can see two small circles which are the magnets.

Close-up of the magnet in the tail:

With the clear plastic here, the magnet is very visible from the back, but you don’t see it from the front.

Fully assembled:

She’s very much an eye-catching figure in my opinion. The blues complement the white and her skin tone.

Body close-up:

She has a good amount of shading on her body, giving her a soft look and emphasising such areas as the hip joint, ankles, toes and elbow and wrists.

Face close-up:

Aww, so cute, so sleepy. The face feels like it has more detail to it than previous WeArtDoing figures I own – she has a couple of paint layers to her eyebrows and more shading around her face. Also her lips have more of a shape to them. I love the soft look her face has.

Her hair has a shine to it – I won’t be surprised if this is divisive. I think it fits in with her being a fantasy creature.

Hair:

It peeks through the plastic wrap – I like the way this looks. She has clear hair tips – I like the clear effect, but I know there are a number of people who aren’t a fan of clear hair. I think this fits in well with the icy theme and I love the colour fade from an aqua to more of a sea green.

Top of the hair:

Here we can see where the hair blends from opaque to clear. She also has a fin ear to continue the shark theme – I like this detail.

There’s also a surprising amount of 3D to the figure – she has a pair of stabilising fins on her tail that you can see from this angle.

Gills:

I don’t think the close-up does them much justice – they look a bit more like scars or burn marks when you’re this close. But the effect is well done when you’re not so up close. And here we can also see the seashells protecting her modesty – WeArtDoing doesn’t do fully nude figures. I like this choice of cover as it fits in with the figure theme, versus using something more “supermarket”-y like some black wrap or tape.

She also has a fin on her back that’s blended into her skin. I think it could’ve done with some more texture to it so it wasn’t as shiny but it doesn’t affect my enjoyment of the figure.

Back:

Here we can see where they’ve done some blending of the back fin and tail to her body. I think her tail could’ve done with a bit more of a dark layer near her tail to blend it in a bit more. Again, not a deal-breaker, but think it would enhance it. The skin paint is very good though – no complaints from me there.

Tail joint:

From some angles it looks like there’s a bit of a gap, but it’s mostly shadow. I like the little fin back here, though it does open up questions of where her cloaca is, assuming she has one. Definitely no butthole back here. It also has a nice pearlescent finish.

Tail:

And the main attraction of the figure: the shark tail. I like the way she’s hugging it in her sleep – it’s probably something I’d do if I had a tail. I also like the icy colours of the tail – it has a couple of colour shifts which help give it detail. Poor lass isn’t A-grade – she has a tear in one of the bottom tail fins. With the shift to translucent it gives a very “ice shark” vibe to me. I think the colour choices complement the figure well.

Taking her out of her tray:

She’s shaded and detailed on the reverse side too, if you display in a way that this side would be visible. She does have some flatness to her hair, but the rest of her isn’t superflat. That magnet is definitely visible from this angle though.

Close-up of the hair from the back:

The colour shift from white to blue is a bit more sudden on this side, but still loving the colour shifts. I also love the effort they’ve put into her curls.

So those magnets… are they any good? Yes! She is held to the tray quite solidly – she’s not going to slip off without being strongly nudged or tugged. The wrapper also helps protect her as it is solid plastic. The tray sits sturdily on the base – it wouldn’t withstand attack by cat, but it’s not going to randomly fall off.

And if you’ve got this far in the review, here’s some trivia:

See this barcode? I scanned it and… it’s an actual barcode! I did see that it had the correct guard bars, so I thought I’d give it a scan and it picked up.

So what’s the barcode for this lass? 6977397120038. It didn’t return anything of note in Google hits, so I thought I’d fire it through GS1 verifier:

The text is “藏克文化艺术(厦门)有限公司”, which machine-translates to “Zangke Culture & Art (Xiamen) Co., Ltd.”. “Zangke” is “Sank”, which is WeArtDoing’s parent brand. So this barcode does belong to WeArtDoing/Sank. I did hunt around to see if this barcode was registered to the Shark Girl as a product, but couldn’t find any matches. But it is right there on her packaging! Not on the outer box though. A rare time there is a genuine barcode on a figure and I’m here for it 😆.

Conclusion

Overall I love this figure – sea creatures is one of my special interests, so the theme was definitely of interest to me. I think I picked the right variant for me – the blues and pale greys are more aesthetic to me than the black/brown/blue of the main variant. Some previous WeArtDoing figures don’t have the greatest skin shading so it’s nice to see they’ve upped their game with this one especially as she’s very much up front and centre. She’s a good balance of human to shark and I love the expressiveness in her pose. The figure is easy to assemble and holds together well. She’s well-protected enough to survive the international shipping trip too – they put some foam blocks around her to help prevent her wiggling in transit.

I think if you enjoy what you see with this figure, it’s worth considering picking her up – just expect the postage cost to hurt somewhat. I’m in the UK so our shipping costs aren’t too bad, but if you need to ship with a volumetric method to the US, that’ll hurt. The packaging on mine was the WeArtDoing shipper box tightly fit into a HPOI box. So for AmiAmi you can expect higher size/weight as they’ll include their forest around the shipper, but the size/weight will work if you’re shipping from China and not adding extra packaging. Within the WAD shipper, they do include foam corners to hold the product box away from the edges. I can see some people opting for sea shipping on this one.

This figure was an instant preorder for me – I’m a big fan of dragons and dragon hybrids. Also she has a succubus tattoo. And apparently I am not alone – she got enough pre-orders for Insight to switch to PVC production – which for a winged figure was a relief as wings can be quite breakable with their sharp points and thin nature.

Box

Front:

Fancy and plain at the same time. The gold foiling is nice, but kind of hard to read/look at under certain lighting conditions. And we have a transliteration of 少女 to “syojo” – usually this is transliterated to “shoujo”. Design gets the job done, but doesn’t feel particularly inspired by the figure itself.

Side(s):

Here we have a silhouette of the figure so can get a feel for what’s actually in the box. The opposite side is the same, so didn’t take a photo of it.

Back:

Yeah, the gold makes it a pain to take photos with lighting. Could I have fiddled it to make it more readable? Yeah, but I’ll provide a translation of the gold text below.

Is it a blurb about the figure? No. It’s a blurb about Insight:

Cuteness and beauty alone aren’t enough!

Insight is a figure brand that brings your erotic desires to life.

A cute face and beautifully detailed sculpting are essential qualities for a figure.

However, what people find erotic varies from person to person. Insight offers a wide variety of figures, from classic beautiful girl figures to niche and unique figures, with a wealth of new products!!

With a lineup only Insight can offer, we will deliver figures like no other you’ve ever seen before.

Hm. It’s fine, but I would’ve much preferred blurb about the figure rather than Insight themselves. Could’ve put this blurb on one of the sides then had some backstory for the figure on the back.

Inner:

A black void. However if we look closer…

There is actually a design in there, but without bright lighting it’s easy to miss – and may look like the box is a bit dirty inside as some of the lighter parts of the pattern are easier to see. So instead of a box liner, we have the same choice as bootleggers – printing a design directly onto the box inner.

Overall, the box is fine. It does the job but isn’t particularly inspiring. I feel like the twiddly borders could’ve been more “dragon inspired” with maybe some scale or wing shapes. Or her tail has an interesting shape that could’ve been used – we’ll see that later. The gold foiling does help give the box a more premium feel, but I do think it was overused. It’s certainly nicer on the outside than your average Insight box, but compared to the competition it falls a bit short. One thing I appreciate with Native is the box designs tend to involve a motif related to the figure itself.

Blister

Front:

Eee, tugs shirt. The blister did do its job, but we have the very creased corner in the bottom right. The left side fared better but has a couple of bends still. Does suggest there was some production/packing issues resulting in the crinkled blister.

We can see the figure is well-covered – no chance of being flashbanged out of the box.

Back:

From this angle we can see the wings, tail and chains are in a secondary blister – I did hope they’d pack it with wings and tail separate and tessellated, and pleased to report they did. Which makes shipping costs more friendly on the wallet. She’s still a fairly big box, but not as bad as it could’ve been.

Overall the blister design is good for the most part, but not rigid enough to keep its form in shipping.

Assembly Notes

As I was photographing this figure, I didn’t really pick an optimal way of assembling it. I think the best order would be:

• Attach wing chains (the two longer ones) to wings
• Attach ankle chain to both ankles
• Push wings into body (or leave them off if you want more leverage when attaching to stand).
• Attach wing chains to wrists
• Add tail to body
• Place figure on stand

For me, I ended up putting the figure onto the stand first which means you have less space to get into certain areas. Not sure how easy she’s to put on the stand once wings are attached, so might be best to leave those off until she’s on it.

One thing to note when putting the chains on is that the ring that they attach to is soft plastic – this freely bends to get the chain in. The hard ring and soft rings can both be rotated to get the soft ring into a good place to attach, though the process is still somewhat fiddly.

Surprisingly (for Insight) the tail and wings fit well into their holes. Didn’t need to use a hairdryer to get them in and they fit tightly. However… the base. Eesh. It’s like they weren’t produced together – the holes didn’t quite line up as is common with Insight and I couldn’t get one side fully down into the base. They don’t seem to do a test shot to get these bits fully correct :/

Base

Here it is in its full glory. I think they should have used a dark grey or did a wash on it – in black it doesn’t look great. The stony/scaly floor is a nice touch, but the plain black doesn’t do it justice. For the peg holes, weirdly we have one that’s a full peg hole and one that has an open front. Guess this was to help assemble it when the pegs are slightly off?

The figure!

OK, let’s jam her onto the base!

Couldn’t resist shoving her on the base in her wrapped form. If you skipped the section above, she was a pain to get onto the base – the pegs and holes didn’t quite align right unfortunately.

OK, let’s get her out of her plastic straitjacket:

Honestly, you could display her like this if you didn’t want to go full dragon. Yes, she has holes in the back but if you can’t see behind she just has the scaly legs and horns. As the end rings are soft plastic you could nick one off the wings if you wanted to make a longer chain to attach her wrists together.

I like me a full-on dragon, so let’s assemble her:

Whilst the chains were somewhat of a pain to put on, both rings being rotatable did help significantly. It would have been nice to include an instruction sheet in the box to explain this – at first I was worried the metal was just to slot in through the tiny gap until I got a good feel of one of the rings and realised it was a soft plastic.

Let’s start with her face:

She has a very cute, shy look. She wants you to take her home, but not bother you about it. But do you have the 6900G to do so?

No complaints about the face from me – the eyes are nicely detailed, the paint on the face and her mouth are nicely done. The horns are nice too, with their orangey brown tips and texture in the sculpt. The hair, however. Boiled sweet look. Why did they have to put such a shiny finish on it? The colour is fine, the finish not so much.

Moving down to her price board – I do like the shading on it and the writing. When I preordered it, I was thinking of potentially snipping it off but it complements the figure well enough that I’m going to leave it attached.

Back of the head:

So. Very. Boiled. Sweet. Really don’t know what they were thinking with this texture. It doesn’t fit with “dragon” or “human” at all. As a snake-owner, I can tell you scales are generally a matte finish.

Boobs:

Hello, welcome to the review. Feel free to go back and check her face.

Her chest is busty but not too much for her frame. The purplish areolae complement her darker skin tone well.

Some sideboob:

A perky pair – got some good breeding on this one. However, the shading is a little odd around her arm – they sculpted the detail but then overshaded it (I know! From Insight!) making it look a little odd.

Stomach and abs:

She’s a very muscly dragon girl – definitely didn’t skip chest day. It’s a little overdone for my tastes and she has a bit of an odd belly button.

Tatt:

The womb tattoo shapes have been nicely designed. The two-tone does add to it, but I’d prefer a proper gradient. Though given Insight’s track record, this is probably for the best.

Wing:

The chain on the wings is a nice touch – though not sure it fully stops her from flying away. Depends how much they need to stretch and how much she can flex her arms to allow it. Whichever way, it wouldn’t be comfortable to do that for long, so she likely wouldn’t get far.

The sculpt on the wings is nice – but it’s the texture of the wings is where they really fall down. Let’s look at the backs to show this more:

It’s too shiny to be leathery in my opinion – gives the feel of a toy figure with wings. Like it was made by Hasbro or similar. The shading is also lacking around the muscle/ligament that goes into the wing – feel like that could do with some extra tones to give a better feel of skin over ligament. I think a bit more paint detail here and there on the wing and a reduction in shine would help it feel more realistic than toylike. With the paintwork on the rest of the figure, I feel like they could’ve achieved this.

Looking to the top of the wing, we have a keratin/bone spur – that has a nice bit of shading to the base of it, plus a bit of shine to make it look like a claw.

Wing chain:

I like the way the chain hangs, even if it isn’t too realistic about keeping her where she should be. The ring directly connected to the manacle does seem to stay wherever you pose it at, which is a nice feature, though probably not entirely intentional.

Closeup of the manacles:

Again, no shading here. Would be good to have a little weathering as I doubt slavers keep their chains that clean. She does have nail polish, but it’s only really visible on her thumbs. It is there on her fingers, but they’re curled up where you can’t really see them. The shading is nice on her hands and arms though.

Moving to the upper side of the tail:

Here we can see they can achieve a wash, with the lighter colour on each of the tail plates. It’s also not as shiny, which I think helps with its appearance. Maybe could do with being a little bit more matte, but this works fine.

Underside of the tail:

There is some nice pinkinsh tones on the underside of her tail. Definitely some scutes that will protect the base of her tail. Relatively minor nitpick – I’d prefer if the pink had a bit more of a transition to the creamy colour.

End of the tail:

I expect you wouldn’t want to get whacked with this bony protrusion – looks like it would be good for defending herself. Also they could have used this shape for the corner filigrees on the box as an homage to the figure. I do like they added this detail to her tail – adds to her dangerous aura.

The tail tip is supposed to touch the base, but doesn’t quite on mine.

Legs:

I like the textures of the scales on her leg, and the way they transform from armoured scales on the front to small scales on the back. The blend from skin to scales has been done OK – I like the way the scales thin out and the blend of colour on her skin, but I can see the skin colour on her scales being contentious. I don’t find it that distracting personally.

Foot:

Definitely some dragon feet here. I like the paint and the sculpting, but again we’ve gone a little overly shiny losing the scale effect a bit.

And for the controversial bit, her vulva:

I did try to get a lower view, but it turned out blurry. But it’s still… there’s not too much to see. If you bought this figure for the private parts, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. Honestly it’s not a figure that has a great viewing angle for that. I wasn’t buying it to ogle at the private parts so lack of detail isn’t an issue for me – I think she’s fine as she is. Just so long as it isn’t “Barbie”, which she isn’t.

Conclusion

This figure certainly isn’t for everyone – but being a dragon figure that does place her in a niche already.

There are some aspects that are great with this figure – most of the sculpting is solid, the face is nice, chest is ample and has good areolae. However, there are two major factors that let her down – the boiled sweet hair and the toylike wings. I think if both of these aspects were revised I could actually recommend it to collectors, but as it stands these cheapen the look of the figure too much for them to not be noticeable to someone buying a figure at this price point.

Assembly was surprisingly easy for an Insight figure, but still problems with fitting the base to the figure – they really need to get better with making bases fit their figures. On one of my Akuma-chans I actually broke the base slightly because of this issue. Not surprised if some people will with this one.

There are some other minor areas that could do with improvement – the shading on the body is fine for the most part, but there’s a couple of areas where it went a bit odd. Not too much of a fan of the way the abs/belly button was done. Base could’ve been done in a grey to make it look more like cobbles, but it’s better than a plain disc at least.

Overall, I think this is a solid effort by Insight standards – it’s still not going to compare to the “golden standard” of other 18+ manufacturers, but they’re not producing dragon slave girls. If you like the overall look, and not too bothered by the major flaws, you could go for it – just be prepared to struggle with the base.

This figure I didn’t pre-order. Initially I planned to skip it as ODD had some other releases coming up that were more my jam. But then the Chinese Crackdown hit, ODD split up and this became the last release of “old ODD”, and their upcoming designs were scrapped. The ODD brand continues – but as part of Apex (formerly Fish Head Man). Not to be confused with Apex Innovation.

As the release drew nearer, I decided I wanted to get it even if it was just to review it. However listings on Taobao were dry – previous ODD releases there was a decent amount of leftover stock. I’m in the ODD WeChat group, and one person was offering up a preorder – they ordered her twice by mistake. I did consider adding my hat into the ring but ultimately decided not to, especially as someone else chimed in with “why not list it in Xianyu?”. And that got me browsing… and finding a couple of people offering their preorders up on Xianyu. Initially I tried a cheaper preorder but the seller never responded to the shopping agent. The second one was for MSRP (CN¥1,280), and they came back quickly. Yay!

One nerve-wracking wait later… it was at the proxy! I went for the usual closed-box inspection, so then I spent the next 2 weeks fretting I screwed myself over and that there was potential there was nothing in the box especially as it was lighter than I expected. Thankfully my random fears were unfounded, and arrived just fine. Outside of the small brain, this piece is smaller than my other ODD pieces. She was listed at 20cm, but sometimes small facts like that don’t enter into my brain somehow.

Shipping-wise, the box was 36x29x20cm and 1370g. Overall she cost CN¥1,425 (£153) with shipping and service fees. One advantage of the small size and weight was international shipping was really cheap.

Box

For the main image we have this on two sides of the box:

No, that’s not me failing at photography – the image is pixelated and blurry on the box. Looks like they took one of the promo images and resized it. Well, at least it lets us know what’s in the box roughly.

The other two sides:

Google Translate says this says “Holy Water Machine”. Probably the nicest looking side.

The top and the bottom of the box are just black.

Foam inner:

Nice compact design – not much wastage of space here. Thick enough border on the foam so that parts can’t get dented from the outside. There was a foam block above the part on the left, but removed it for this photo.

Overall, the box is functional. Not winning any design awards with the outer. Can understand they couldn’t show the figure on the box, but the whole thing is very lazy. I’m fine with the writing on the sides, but the front image could’ve been the holy water dispenser from the “SFW” side or some kind of imagery reminiscent of the theme but not the figure itself. The foam inner did its job of protecting the parts and the items weren’t too hard to remove.

Water dispenser

Front:

Nothing suspect going on here. Just a tap and decorative panel. The top detail is well-sculpted and has a nice golden finish to it. The tap magnetically attaches to the panel – it can be knocked off/turned around if you accidentally hit it but strong enough to stay in place whilst on display. The wood has a nice dark cherry wood appearance. It’s not the most realistic wood texture I’ve seen but does the job. The silver fixtures are also nicely detailed.

Closeup of the crest:

Up close some of the sculpt looks a little imprecise – most notably the lines at the ends. The cross signifies this is supposed to be holy water – can reserve judgement for later.

Three-quarters view:

Here we can see the tap in better detail – looks the part, no complaints here.

Sides:

Both sides are the same – I like the way they continued the gold edging here too. The bottom scroll could’ve done with more distinct sculpting, but it’s a minor issue. We also have a carved detail to stop the sides from looking too plain. On the left side I do have a little bit of escaped gold paint at the bottom on the wooden lip.

Around the back:

Here we have an interesting divot and a more conventional one. The wooden texture wasn’t fully carried on into the upper recess – not sure why.

Cushion:

Here we have a shaped cushion, showing something is going to fit here. I have a feeling most who are reading this know what. There is also a square divot for an accessory – ended up using this as a guide of which way the walls of the holy water cabinet should fit – it can slot on either way around as there are no attaching pegs. Or not at all if you want the full view.

So let’s attach the accessories:

Both of these magnetically fasten to the wood. They both attach well without being too easy to knock off.

Close-up of the water extractor:

I like the way they have given it a water level. Now let’s find out how this gets filled up…

How the water is made

From the front everything looks the same:

Yes, this is a different photo from earlier 😆

As we turn it around we see there’s something in there:

Whatever could it be? 🤔

Side:

Aha! But… people don’t usually have their heads at the bottom?

And for the full reveal:

And here we find out that holy water is… princess pee. She’s referred to as “姬”, which can translate a few different ways. Not sure if they are intending to imply she’s royal (which fits in with the theme for me) – so went with the “princess” translation. But it can just mean “girl”/concubine, which is the translation I’ve seen other sites go for. But would it be holy water if she wasn’t a royal?

Whatever she is, she’s incredibly flexible! Overall, the body sculpt and paintwork is good. If she’s under strong lighting she does look a bit overly shiny around the knees. It doesn’t show up in all lighting conditions, but could’ve done with a bit more of a matte finish. If you like extreme positions, this figure is for you. For those that is isn’t for, I expect they left at the photo above.

Assembly is straightforward – she basically comes in one piece – just need to attach the bar that goes from her wrists to her anus. When putting her into the holy water stand, the extractor fits easily into her vagina. The drool does just sit in front of her face, so it can look out-of-place if she isn’t positioned exactly right. Would’ve potentially been nice if there was a way for it to connect with her face, but being clear there isn’t much options for a connector. Maybe if it could peg into the ball-gag? It’s not a dealbreaker as you can get it positioned up right. She’s not a large figure, so if she’s not quite in place it doesn’t show off too badly at a viewing distance.

Close-ups

If you got past the reveal, I assume you want to see more. Her face:

Her face has a nice amount of detail – blushing face, tears, an expression saying she isn’t enjoying this… She did take the time to do her nails though. Whilst I don’t usually go in for figures that look like they’re being tortured, I find ODD figures are so far into the fantasy aspect that I don’t “connect” with them in that way.

One thing you do notice this close up is that her hair floats. So if you’re viewing her straight-on you will see this, but I think this figure is best viewed from above. Still, would’ve been nice if the hair could fit on the stand properly.

The ball-gag someone took the time to sculpt for sure – kind of impressed they detailed the straps going to her toes.

Where the sausage water is made:

The water extractor fits well. She’s also got detail around her anus. This close up we can see how some of the inner labia paint is a little off – more on that later.

Now onto an accessory I wasn’t sure what it was at first:

Just had these two clear bits and some putty. Water for the tap? More drool?

Nope, tears:

This was using the included putty – even from a distance you could see the white putty and it didn’t look very good.

Tried again with some slivers of glue dot:

This was less distracting but was still so-so. I don’t have any clear putty/gel. This at least looks OK, but I messed up her left tear quite badly so the sticky wasn’t holding well.

In the end, I ended up picking off the putty and the glue dots and putting the tears back into the box. Don’t think she really needs them, but I think if you were planning to apply them some clear museum gel would be in order, plus a bucket of patience – these things are about 1cm long so positioning them is a pain. If you’re willing to put in the time, a sliver of glue dot may work, but be prepared to mangle a couple in the process. Overall, I’d just say leave these in the box, or you could use the straight one to be dripping water from the tap. She already has some tears painted on her eyes, so not sure why they felt like including these too – I’m guessing to match the 3D drool. They weren’t in the original promo images, but did find one factory photo with the left tear so I assume from the shape of the other it is for the right eye. Or maybe you’re supposed to use one or the other? Not sure.

Factory photo:

Looks like they put the putty at the top, but with the photo not being fully in focus I think it looks better than it would do in real life – I think the putty would be far more noticeably putty if the photo was properly in focus.

Close-ups without the stand

I found she balanced well without the stand, then I realised later that it was intended you can just display her on the cushion without the holy water tap surround. So if you don’t want the “holy” motif, you can do away with the upper part of the stand. So let’s have a closer look at her without the surround.

Front:

Off the stand, the hair actually touches the floor. Looking pretty much the same as before. Only no stand.

Top of her head:

The hair has a good amount of strands in it. There is a bit of a gap at her parting that could’ve been improved. I like the way they have a couple of strands going up her back.

Face:

She looks fine without the drool. Or the extra tears.

Close-up on the wrist restraint:

From this angle it looks a little odd because they did make it good and chunky to fit it onto her wrists – you only see it when you’re looking at her from a specific angle so fine with this compromise to make a stronger part that securely fits to her arms. We can also see the bead/knot that attaches to the rope that goes to the bar.

Close-up of the bar:

Does. Not. Look. Comfy. Not that it is supposed to be – but oof. Definitely an incentive not to move her arms.

Top view:

She has some detail in her vagina. Though for some reason the paint is really sloppy around her labia minora, with the paint bleeding out onto her labia majora. With the amount of detail put into the rest of the figure, not sure why this bit was done so messily. I didn’t really notice it until I was doing these photos without the base – it is mostly obscured when she’s on the base, but if you want to display her solo I feel like this would be a bit of a dealbreaker. I only have a sample of one so not sure if I just got unlucky or if others are like this.

From the sides:

Definitely get to appreciate the extremeness of the pose from the sides. Not impossible for a contortionist, but I doubt it is comfortable. Can see the effort that has gone into sculpting her body and her boobs don’t have boob weld from this angle thanks to the pose. We can see she also painted her fingernails.

Tummy:

Plenty of shading on her body to accentuate her shape. And some squished boobage. Plus the second of what I’d consider a large paint error – the rope isn’t painted very well on this side and her skin colour “leaks” onto the rope. Again, something you won’t see if you’re using the full base but will see if you’re not using the sides.

Underneath:

Found a small amount of boob weld! Her nipples are nicely sculpted and painted. Here we can see the flatter surfaces on her hair to help her stand. Impressively, she doesn’t have much in the way of flattened surfaces for her to stand.

And she also stands the other way up:

She’s surprisingly stable this way up. And you get to ignore the major paint errors, though you will see the flattened areas of hair.

Can also get a good angle on the boobs:

She’s of a decent size without being comically big. They’re also shaped nicely so they look like boobs and not water balloons. A number of more extreme fetish figures can go rather overboard in this aspect so nice to see something more natural-looking.

And one bonus shot from the side:

She does lean over when put this way up, so not sure how stable she would be for display purposes. Would be looking to have her supported some way if displaying the wrong way up. Right way up she balances fine, and you can use the base bottom for more support.

Conclusion

I feel like this one is very much a niche figure – either you’re going to be into this or not. The religious theming is probably going to put some people off, but there is an option to do away with it. Without the surround she can just be a contortionist in bondage, and you can include the “water extractor” if you so wish. I like the way there are these display options. The strap and bar going to her anus you can’t really leave off though – it leaves a noticeable hole in her arm restraints.

Overall, the paint and sculpt quality is very good but there are some areas that could do with improvement – most notable being the painting on her labia. Seems an odd place to have subpar painting on a figure intended to be nude fetish figure. The drool can look odd seeing as it doesn’t attach to her face or the gag, but I don’t think it’s a dealbreaker. You could do without it, but it will leave a gap on the base.

The tears were a strange inclusion – I don’t think she needs 3D tears, but they’re there if you want to attempt to attach them or use them for some other purpose. I’m content to leave them in the box.

Overall would I recommend this figure? Yes, if it’s your thing though I’d bear in mind it’s a small figure – she’s about 12cm tall and the stand is about 20cm tall so you’re not getting a lot of figure for your money. However you are getting something that is unlikely to be replicated in the current market apart from maybe Insight. And anyone in this collecting space is likely aware of their reputation…

The art for this figure is by the popular Chinese artist wlop. They have had several statues of their work made, especially for the characters of their series Ghostblade. I did read some of the Ghostblade series, but didn’t really gel with it.

There are two versions of this figure – one with tattoos and a special edition with none. The tattoos are half the reason I ordered it so didn’t want the special edition. For Chinese buyers, the tattooless edition was only available to people who had previously purchased Light Year Studio statues, but international distributors just had her up as a normal preorder. Both editions were the same price at CN¥3,280. I ordered through an international distributor and the total cost including surface shipping was US$540. So not a cheap lass, but she is 1/4 scale.

Original Art

This is the original art piece the figure is based on:

Link: https://x.com/wlopwangling/status/1833707395463496028

Box

Front:

The front of the box is dominated by a photo of the figure, nicely framed with gold vines and a “Silvermoon” logo.

Back:

Here we have a closeup of her face. /review. Oh, you want more angles? OK.

Sides:

One side is kept simple with the logo, then the other side has the obligatory information dump. All of the PU!

Contents:

Not sure when it happened, but the leg of my figure leapt over to near where most of the base is stored. Didn’t notice until after taking this photo. It should be in the hole just above where the brush is sat (also not sure where this was supposed to be in the box). Fortunately no damage was caused by the leg relocating itself.

There is one other empty hole – this is the bottom part of the base which I had already taken out at this point. Here it is:

I got #257/298. Took a photo of this prior to assembly, as I’m not going to see it again.

Manual and Assembly

The figure did come with a loyalty card and certificate, but didn’t photograph these. I did, however, photograph the manual because oh my goodness, the assembly.

Here’s the front of the manual:

Nice clear image of the figure and its logo.

And the back:

…and this side tells you it’s the assembly instructions. And a QR code for Light Year Studio’s WeChat for aftersales issues.

So let’s get onto the meat and potatoes, the instructions themselves:

Looks pretty simple right? Just follow the instructions, pop the stuff on as shown and done? Just like Naga? Ohhh nooo.

The gripes start as early as instruction #2 – this part just rests in place and doesn’t clip on. Fine if it’s nowhere it’ll get nudged or have a breeze flow past, but otherwise I’d recommend tacking this in place. They did provide some tack, so I have tacked it at the back on two spokes so it can’t move. Where I plan to put her she may get some vibrations which may well knock this part about so tacking it in place will prevent it going for a wander.

Next problematic instruction – #4. It’s not immediately clear which way around she goes and can sort of fit either way. The magnets also suck so it doesn’t really pull her down and hold her on the base.

The biggest problematic instruction however is #8. Getting her head on is an absolute trial. And because of the way things are shaped, you must assemble in the order given with little leeway to do it any other way. Once her hair is on you don’t have clearance to assemble the hair strand in #5 or her arms. The hair strand between her legs slots into the hair at the same time as her neck but it flops around like nobody’s business – would be nice if they provided a peg to peg it into her neck then for her head to go over both parts so that aspect would be easier. But getting her hair over the stand, head on her neck and her butt on the base is just incredibly, incredibly fiddly. I swear they should have made this more parts so it wasn’t so convoluted to put together. Or at least had the strand connect to her solidly in some other way so you’re not trying to awkwardly peg two things at once. Not sure how long it took me, but it was 2 sessions of messing about. Wouldn’t be surprised if I was fiddling with the sodding thing for 20-30mins and getting quite rough with it just to get things in place. Eventually got there, but oh man, it’s not a friendly figure to assemble in my opinion.

Overall, it’s nice to have instructions, but they’re far too sparse – some information of which way around she sits on the base would be nice, and maybe some instructions of how to do the head assembly without forcefully attacking the thing would’ve been nice. Ideally, I think some modifications could’ve been made to facilitate easier assembly.

Base

Let’s start with the base. These are the pesky struts that sit against the base:

I can understand why this is a separate piece as it is on the fragile side, but I don’t understand why they didn’t add at least couple of pegs to it to lock it into place.

The base as a whole:

The whole base does look pretty cool. Some hints of silver do add to the piece and add an element of wear and tear to it.

Figure Spin-around

The hair colour is definitely a lot less pink than the promo photos – the final colour is definitely more silvery which is more fitting with her name, but it is also purple rather than pinkish. I like purple so this is an improvement for me, but if you were hoping for pastel pink hair…. she ain’t got it.

The tattoos are very painted-looking, which is in keeping with the art but in some respects does look like she may have been sharpie’d on rather than tattooed. It doesn’t bother me, but can see this feeling odd to some people. There’s a nice variation of colour in the tattoos so they’re not just a flat black.

Figure Close-ups

Face:

As can be expected of expensive Chinese figures, they spend time on the faces. I love her pale blue eyes and thoughtful look. The lipstick smudge is deliberate – it is part of the original artwork but not this intense of a smudge. Her face is less round than the art. Overall, I like her face though it’s not the most detailed I’ve seen on a higher end figure.

The ears have a bunch of sculptwork and shading to them, but honestly…. I don’t think they look that great. I don’t think we could expect the furriness of the original art, it is close to the promo images but it’s just not doing it for me. The upper shadow on her left ear isn’t visible when looking at her, but the ears don’t sit smoothly to the head. Under intense lighting the colouration looks more off than it does on display, but they just stick out somewhat.

Back of the head:

Personally prefer the colouring of her ears back here, but not sure if the texture chosen really fits. The hair you can see there are various colours running through it.

Arm:

She has the obligatory gold band to hide the arm join. It’s fairly unobtrusive but do wonder if they could have added something more fitting to her naturistic theming. Here you can see where the tattoos vary between red and black.

Body tattoos:

Looking up close, you can see the way they have a painted effect. I feel two ways about the effect, but it has grown on me. We also have the boob squish up against her leg.

On her hip we can see some of the golden knickers they’ve given her so she’s not entirely nude. Once assembled, this is about the most you see of it.

Arms:

And here you can see the result of me trying to get her head on 😅 Unfortunately I’ve got some paint transfer from her hair to her arm – haven’t cleaned it off yet and didn’t notice until editing the photos. Will likely clean this off at some point, but goes to show the frustration I had assembling the dang thing.

The tattoos are nicely detailed here and complement the figure well.

Hands:

Her hands are nicely shaded with some red tones. Not sure if they were trying to give her cuticles on the hand holding her leg, but the painting looks a bit off here especially on her middle finger. It is a bit noticeable when viewing, but not massively so.

Back of her hair:

She has no lack of hair. They’ve done a decent job of adding sculpted strands to it, and it does fit around the base reasonably well if you get it in the right place. I do like the way it flows around the base, but wish you could put the back of the hair on separately or it was PVC+ABS with lots of plasticiser so that you could at least bend it so it wouldn’t get in the way so much when trying to get her head on.

I like the silvery tones, though if you were expecting the colours from the promo this may be disappointing. She is called Silvermoon, so having silvery hair makes sense but the promo was very much pinky in tone:

Pesky strand:

This piece you slot between her legs whilst building up the figure, and it connects into the head. I came so close to leaving it out. You could probably get away with not having it, but I didn’t want to be defeated. You can see it from certain angles but honestly I wouldn’t have noticed it if they omitted it.

Organic leg:

More of the painted colour-varying tattoos here. Her toenails are better painted than her fingernails and the cuticle effect works better here. The toes actually have gaps between them, which is relatively uncommon for figures unless they’re spreading their toes.

Machine leg:

Love the look of this part. They blended the gold and clear parts well, and captured the machinery look of it.

Only one issue for me:

This part you have to putty in and it doesn’t tell you which way up to put it. You’ll see at the top where I put a little too much putty. I tried putting it in without putty, but nope, no friction whatsoever. Rather disappointing to have to putty in a piece like this – I’m not sure why they couldn’t make pegs that would stick into the leg without putty but oh well. This part came packed with the putty – the instructions don’t tell you to putty it, but it being bagged with it tells you all you need to know.

And the extra piece:

I know it’s in the original art, as an explanation as to why she has a mechanical leg, but I feel this piece is very “ehh”. The whole thing feels like an afterthought – the sculpting and paint seem very so-so. Might use this with a Nendo or something, don’t feel too inclined to place it with the figure. It’s only featured in the blurred background of the promo images so didn’t realise this even came with it until I unwrapped it and went “what’s this?”. I’m not against macabre elements in figures (and I do own a bunch of horror-themed figures, including Clive Barker’s Tortured Souls), but I just don’t feel it really fits to have it there with the figure. Just feels odd and misplaced especially when it doesn’t match the quality of the main figure. The blood looks good, but the trap itself is only one shade of silver which really makes it look brand new and/or kind of cartoonish, which doesn’t fit with the whole it chomped her leg off.

Conclusion

Another look at her again:

I think if you go in with no expectations and didn’t have to wrangle the assembly, it’s a striking looking figure with a decent amount of detail and of a good size. There’s certainly a lot of little details to appreciate but I’m not sure it quite fulfils the quality at this price point – assembly being a massive sticking point.

Compared to her promo image, the base feels a bit less premium and she’s a lot less pastel. I don’t think it deviates too much from the promo images but the pink hair is bound to disappoint some people I reckon. The tattoos are one of the main factors that set this figure apart from others, so paying the same price for the unadorned one seems rather crazy to me. Yes, you do get the mechanical leg but I don’t think that’s enough to set it apart from other figures at this price point unless you really don’t want tattoos on your figures.

For people who ordered on the basis of the artwork, I expect there will be disappointment from that angle. She’s not the soft, fluffy creature she is in the art though the promo images didn’t promise this. We’re also missing the spider and butterfly in the original art. Most of the differences versus the artwork were in the promo image so I expect most people wanting the art as a figure will have simply avoided ordering if it wasn’t similar enough.

Overall would I recommend this figure? Probably a no at its price point. If it was closer to CN¥2,000 then I’d say it’s a flawed figure but if you like what you see and prepared to wrangle it then go for it. I would have preferred it if she wasn’t so expensive, but happy to have her in my collection now that she’s constructed. It’s a striking piece that I don’t think matches with much in the market – would love to see more heavily tattooed female figures.

This figure came in two flavours – Memory Entanglement and Forgotten Festival. The second one had an Egyptian theme, but I preferred the straight-up tape-themed one, so that’s one I went for. I pre-ordered via the WeArtDoing Taobao store, and this figure cost CN¥1,180 plus CN¥13 local delivery. Shipping from China to UK was CN¥235. Which brings us to a total cost of CN¥1,428.

Box

The front of the box features the artwork for the figure. “Sleeping Beauty” is one of WeArtDoing’s figure lines, but this one seems to be wide awake. We also have what feels like “decorative text” phrases. The artwork is nice, but does feel somewhat bland with the font choices and amount of negative space. It’s not a bad box, but not one that stands out to me.

Back:

Not too much to see here. The standard “information block” you usually see on Chinese figure boxes in the second column and vague English translation in the third. In the top-left we have a sticker which details which variant is in the box – WeArtDoing normally only do one box variant and this is the only way you can tell which one is inside prior to opening it.

Side:

The side design is simple and effective. The tape may be doing weird things, but this may well be a supernatural tape.

Inside:

Not too many slots here, so not much to figure out. Though for people who already own WeArtDoing figures there may be a glaring omission – no card slot. A card was included, but it sat on top of the tapes in the top slot. The top small square contains the figure’s blindfold, bottom one is empty – I think this is for the other variant’s accessories. The vaguely anchor-shaped slot is the stand, and finally the blob-shaped one is for the figure itself.

Overall, the figure box is decent and reasonably compact given the pieces. I don’t think it’s my favourite WAD box, but it still looks good and protects the pieces in transit.

The figure

Let’s have a quick look at the stand first:

It’s a large and solid stand – shouldn’t have any issues of the tape falling off this bad boy. The fur base does stretch up the angled bit – personally I would’ve preferred the fur to stop at the very bottom as this area will likely be an annoying dust magnet. But hey, if you do rock the base at least it won’t mar whatever it is sat on.

Putting the first half of the tape case on the stand:

Without the figure, there isn’t too much to see here – just a furry pad for the figure to rest against. It’s nice and plush.

Putting the figure in the case:

A cool idea but for me the figure is too obscured. The face ends up being covered by either the print or the bar across the tape window.

Spin-around with the full case:

The container is very faithful to two stacked tapes. I like the fake tape labels on the side.

Taking off the lid:

The figure magnetically sticks to the base. The magnet strength is decent – it’s enough to hold the figure, but if you do nudge her she will likely slip. The tape wrapping around her body also works to censor anything too spicy. I like the way it’s not too much and there are loose parts spooling out around the figure. The hair also has a tapelike quality to me too.

Back:

The back of the figure is unsurprisingly very flat. Here we can see the shading on the hair better – her hair gets lighter towards the tips Apparently mine did have an oopsie – on her leg one of the tape strands has come loose. May reglue this at some point.

Chest:

She’s decently appointed in this area, but not overdone. There are a couple of joins visible in the photo, but I don’t feel like they stand out when viewing the figure.

Foot:

Apparently I failed to get a decent photo of her legs/feet. I like the way this bit of tape wraps around her leg and her feet have been sculpted well. They have even posed her toes which is a nice detail to see. The paint shading is also good in this area.

Face:

The camera struggled with the stark black background so did my best to edit these…

Her face is cute, and I like the open eyes and contemplative expression. She also has a nicely sculpted ear peeking through her hair. From this angle you can see there is some thickness to the tape – but this is a necessary compromise so that it isn’t too fragile.

If you want to increase the bondage theming, she also comes with an eye mask:

I think she looks good like this, but I prefer having eyes visible. It seems to stay well, though getting it in place is a little fiddly.

If you want to see the lid but don’t want it covering her, can pose it alongside like this:

It’s not a “realistic” display, but I like the way it looks. If I can make space, I will likely display it like this. The lid magnetises to one side of the box, so not at risk of slipping or moving. I was hoping to display her with the case closed, but it obscures the figure too much for my liking. I like her seductive pose and the way her body is more realistic proportions. The long hair goes with her “tapelike” nature.

If mass-producing company created this figure, it would likely be cheaper. For this figure, you’re paying a premium for small batch (limited to 698 for each variant) and unique theming. For me, I’m happy to pay the premium but if you’re looking for “value for money”, WeArtDoing isn’t likely a brand on your radar.

Overall, I’m happy with the design and the quality of this figure. It’s definitely a unique piece with a thought-out base, though I wish the tape window design didn’t cover her face.

Have you ever bought a figure or item just to document it? Well, now I can firmly add myself to that list. I have bought stuff out of curiosity, but this one firmly falls into this camp. If you are just here to see the figure, feel free to skip down to where the pretty pictures start :).

I did a review of the original figure – which can be found here

The ordering

I skipped out on the pre-order. I was curious about seeing it but didn’t feel the need to own it – whilst she had 90s cool, I had the original which has a more appealing colour scheme to me. I could just wait for photos to appear on the internet from someone else who bought it right? Was especially curious how the silver parts would turn out.
So I waited. And I waited. Nothing. She’s not MFC-eligible, so that was one source that was out. Nothing appeared on hpoi or anywhere else I searched.

Finally I cracked, and tried ordering her from the ClayM store – only the order languished unfulfilled so I cancelled it. AmiAmi had stock – playing with the basket they only appeared to have one in stock – so it felt like now or never. No waiting for her to hit clearance like I originally expected her to go – her original version did get clearanaced at AmiAmi. So I ended up ordering her, she went to “orders closed” as expected, but then a day or two later they had another in stock. Not sure if they didn’t know their stock level or found another one when they went to pack my order – but she’s now out of stock again. As of writing, Hobby Search as “a few left” of the deluxe edition.

As she’s a big box I sent her surface. Took 78 days to arrive to my door – surface has been slowww from Japan to the UK for the past 6-12 months. But she finally got here, for me to share with the world.

Notes about the figure

Manufacturing/Production

This figure is a prime example of how the whole Chinese “pipeline” works and why the MFC data with manufacturers and producers gets all tangled up.
Both Sanis figures were produced (which includes manufacture) by 寶德(香港)貿易有限公司’s (Baode (Hong Kong) Trading) subsidiary 惠州市盛世文化有限公司 (Huizhou Shengshi Culture). However, for the first release this was distributed under Lechery in the Japanese region – some Japanese “manufacturers” actually just commission stuff to be produced under their name. Years ago, this would be an opaque process and it’d be regarded as some nameless factory did the production, however in the 2020s we’ve seen a lot of “behind-the-scenes” manufacturers become their own brands and market their own figures. For this recolour, Lechery wasn’t involved and Shengshi released it under their own branding of ClayM in all regions. A lot of what is presented as a manufacturer, especially for Chinese figures, is actually just a brand. Often the underlying company has a longer Chinese name and then the brands are often in English and have much more attractive names to a casual audience. For ClayM, you will have also seen their releases under the Kaitendoh branding – Time Rabbit Yuki was also a ClayM product and you’ll see their logo on the box.
If you want to know how the Chinese work out who is related to who, they can look up the company on their company registry (which they have now locked down from foreigners, RIP) and see what trademarks are registered to the parent company. Ones that are separate company entities can share directors, revealing there’s a relation between certain companies.

Scale

With the mixed distribution, the scale of this figure is either 1/5 or 1/6 depending on who you believe. So whilst you’ll see the original marketed as 1/5 or 1/6 depending where you buy, there isn’t two different-sized versions of this figure – ClayM advertised her as 1/6 and Lechery advertised her as 1/5. Which is right? Who knows. If it helps you decide a scale, her head is about 43mm tall from chin to top of head (not including horns). By my calculations, if you believe her to be human-sized she’s 1/5 (average human head is 18-20cm, so 21.5cm full size is close), if you think she’s more Amazonian then she’s 1/6. As far as I know, the original artist hasn’t been fully revealed, so can’t ask to see if she has anything of a canonical height.

Review!

Box

Front:

Interestingly, despite going back and editing the box they haven’t updated with new photography – we see the original colour variant on the front and the sides. As the sides are identical to the original, I didn’t photograph them. For the front the ClayM logo is now printed onto the box and the “Sanis” logo has been refined. It does look classier, but is less legible. The heart pattern that existed as a background on the lower half of the box is also gone.

Back:

Again, the ClayM logo is now the default. For some reason the original art now has a purple background crudely edited behind it – not sure why. You can see remnants of the original background in the holes in her wings and as part of the tail flame. Here we can see the producer listed as Shengshi, and the studio listed as ClayM. The scale has been left as 1/5 on the box and a sticker over the barcode. What’s under here?

The original barcode. I wonder if they just plain forgot to edit the bottom section with the new details (barcode, scale).

Top:

The only indication we’ve ordered the correct version – a sticker stating it’s the “Black skin, different colour” version. Whilst I knew her outfit and details were a different colour, I didn’t realise she’d be tan as well lol.

Opening the box:

Same as the other version, a polystyrene inner with ClayM-branded strapping. Not the highest quality polystyrene so don’t be surprised if you end up with some on your floor if you buy either variant.

The parts:

It’s a 2-layer blister, the parts arranged for efficiency of packaging rather than ease of assembly. So you’ll want to lay both out prior to assembly. There aren’t any instructions but assembly isn’t too difficult. I’d recommend assembling the base first, followed by sitting her body on the leaf. From there, you can turn her backwards – assemble the lower wings first, then the rest in any order you like.
Only one change from the original – the tail hole has a slightly different shape, which will be revealed why later.

Base

Bottom:

Not much to see here. Same as the other variant.

Top:

The black paint is more matte than the original, but we do have a purple shiny finish on the upper areas that shows when the light reflects off of it. In low lighting conditions it’ll appear near-black, but we have the advantage of photography lighting to show the shiny purple effect :).

Base assembled:

The leaf also has the same purple shine to it – I really like the effect.

Closeup:

There are dimples to help her rest correctly on the leaf. There are two magnets where her butt sits that holds her firmly to this leaf base, so you don’t need to worry about her falling off of it.

Spin-around

Definitely something of a 90s aesthetic to this colour scheme. Her face has a bit of gloss to it, and the eyes are definitely attracted to her thigh-highs with the colour contrast and shine.
The other thing that stands out to me is her skin colour doesn’t match the base – her base didn’t get the tan treatment. Guess she ran outta bronzer. I’m sure for most people it’s going to be her giant bazongas that are stealing the show – they’re definitely up front and centre and plenty of skin to look at.

Cast-off

For casting off, it’s the same procedure as before and honestly something they should’ve documented so you don’t risk breaking her. Her right arm wiggles out – may take a bit of waggling – it is magnetised into the side of her body, then you can pull it downwards (do this off of her base). The chest cover then can be pulled downwards with a bit more wiggling to reveal her chest:

Her left arm is firmly attached, so don’t try to remove that one.
Chest cover itself:

It has some purple shading on the part between her arms, but you won’t see much of this. The purple line running around the edges is a bit sloppily painted but not too bad.

The figure!

Before we get her head on:

What was immediately apparent to me was the more visible chest lines – she has these on the original but they’re very subtle. Here they’ve used a silver paint so they have much more contrast to her tan skin. It was putting her body on the base for the first time that I realised she was tan rather than the very pale skin of the original. Personally I like the skin tone, but wish the veining was a bit more subtle – in between the original and what we have here.
The pink-silver transition on her legs has been done well. Not sure if these are tights or boots lol. Not a big fan of the “texture” of the pink personally – would prefer shiny or more matte rather than this semi-gloss. The silver is shiny enough to check out my lighting at her knees 😆

Back:

Here we can see the back pattern which will get covered up by her hair. Oh, and also her wide dump truck – she has plenty to stabilise herself out back. The pattern on the edges of her clothing have been sculpted so there is extra definition between the clothing and body. The paint isn’t 100% so she does have a bit of mutant flesh. The skin tone difference is quite noticeable against the base.

Closeup of the back pattern:

With this version, still lamenting she doesn’t come with a short hair/updo head that can show this detailing. The paint is quite sloppy in places so maybe it is best covered… Can see a bad paint slop to the lower right and there are a couple of streaks of silver on her skin. There’s also mutant skin here as the edges haven’t been painted silver in all places. Looks like they were aiming not to paint the edges but imo it’s better when manufacturers can so the raised parts can be attributed to the clothing rather than being mutant flesh.

Once her head is on this is about all we see of the back patterning:

It’s something, but not a lot.

Face:

She has sculpted eyebrows – personally not a fan of these. Also I think she was drunk when she applied her lipstick – it’s a bit of a mess. Irl, certain angles it looks fine, others you can tell it is a bit of a mess. The silver line at the top of her lids looks better irl than this closeup photo. She’s lost the angled eyebrows of the original and gone with a more conventional shape. What is visible irl is the silver overpaint from her horn crest. I do like the colour scheme on it though.
For her collar they didn’t fully lean into the silver/pink colour scheme and kept the base colour close to the original and just made the tip part pink. Though if they did go with silver there would be less contrast between her hair and her collar.

Side of her head:

I do love her horn design. For this variant they’ve given her horns different colour schemes – her front horns go from silver to pink whilst her back horns go from purple to pink. I think it’s a nice touch to add two gradients for this one. Am also a fan of the plated horn design of the back horns.

Back of the hair:

Their hair is a bit rough on this one – if you’re not too close it doesn’t show too much, but there are definitely some marks that aren’t supposed to be there. I think some of the speckling may be intentional but it doesn’t make for a good finish imo. The gradients are also less exciting than the original – I wish they added some tones to her hair – either some blue ones to contrast with the scheme or pink highlights to fit with the theme.

Neck closeup:

Due to the collar being a separate part, the heart design does look a bit wonk from certain angles. One of the red dots on her collar didn’t get its proper allocation of paint, and we can see how rough some of the hair tips are. This isn’t a figure that looks good close up.

Chest cover closeup:

It wasn’t until I edited these photos that I noticed the chest cover had some paint scraped off – looking to the left you can see a crusty bit where the sliver paint either didn’t adhere or got scraped off at some point. Here we can see the contrasts between the silvers – the silver parts do have slightly different tones and textures. Whether you like this will depend on your preference – but I think it does help add contrast to the figure which silver can normally lack. Also note how you can’t see the shading on the chest cover mentioned earlier – this isn’t something you’re going to see unless you’re specifically angling the figure to see it or taking it off so feels a bit strange they added that but not shading in other spots. And you’re not going to be picking up and rotating this figure – more on that later. The red detailing at her wrists is fine, no major paint errors or anything.

Chest from above:

Here you can see how the veins are very drawn on with this one – they almost look like pencil squiggles and I could see someone mistaking these lines for paint transfer. If I didn’t own the original Sanis I know I’d be wondering if they’re intentional or not. She has nipples of the pointy variety and some subtle darkening around them for her areolas. So nothing crazy in the nipple department, which is fine by me.

Tail:

This is the one part that’s differently sculpted versus the original – her tail loops around the front instead of the back. For the tail tip, the sculpt is the same but we have two red dots painted on it. There is some blobbed paint on one of the lower nobbles on the tail. To me, there’s just something a bit unsatisfying about the paint job – the shading and colours don’t quite gel together for me.

Wings:

This is the only part where assembly order matters – the lower wings want to go in first before the upper wings. Tail can go in before or after – whichever you find easiest.
And oh boy, the wings. Both editions have this problem – the wings aren’t magnetic and the fit is extremely loose. If you have putty, I’d recommend using it. If not, buy some – can get some white tack or similar. For this review I haven’t tacked the wings, but I will likely do so before I move them again. And this is a big reason why you probably don’t want to be picking up and moving this figure much – the wings will very easily drop out.
As for the wings themselves – they’re quite pretty – lovely silver and pink gradients. It’s just the fit into the back that’s poor – and unfortunately that shows too. Would’ve been nicer if the holes were sculpted just right for the wings to fit in. The “flapping” really is not a feature.

Sanis and Sanis
Didn’t do a full spin-around for this but here she is next to the original and both cast off:

Here you can see how the tails are different, and pretty much everything else the same. I wish they did more with the variant’s hair – just seems a washed-out version of the original and it would’ve been nice to have something more distinct for this one. For the collar, can see how the original version had better cohesion with the collar colours – feel like they could’ve done more to make the collar different on the variant. Overall, I think the paint was less rushed on my original than the variant – there is less paint spillage on it. However, looking at the tail I do wonder if my original has a paint error and there is some black paint missing on the tip in the middle – one of the middle blobs was painted but the other not.
The base butts are different skin tones from each other, but not massively so.
Overall, the original is my favourite of the two – but the alternate colour variant has grown on me. With her being tan, it does add more difference than just having an outfit change. I think the colour scheme has less mass appeal than the original but it does work as its own thing. With the tail change, it would’ve been nice if the the wings were fixed too, but no dice. Though that means you could do a certain amount of part swaps – wings, tail, base. Head swap would look strange with the different skin colours. Personally I don’t feel the need to do a part swap – I don’t feel like the original would be improved with the alternate colour’s parts.

Conclusion

Would I recommend this figure? If you’re asking, no. The quality isn’t there, and the colour scheme is something you’ll know if you want it or not. If I was recommending between the two, I’d recommend the original over the variant. When I saw this variant originally, I was confused who wanted it – the original wasn’t super-popular – on MFC it has 67 claiming as owned and 38 on hpoi. This variant has only 2 people on hpoi claiming as owned and one of them is me. Looking at the “wished” statistics on hpoi, approximately 1,000 were contemplating the original and less than 200 for the variant. So I feel like these colours didn’t really appeal to the masses.
But it’s an interesting figure, and I’m glad to have finally seen the final product.

In celebration of ODD being whitelisted, I’ve decided to review one of my ODD figures that I’m yet to write a review/article for.

So today we have Elf Saint Sora Loyes, Arrested and Charged. The Future Fantasy series storyline is that beings with beneficial abilities/properties are captured and their DNA taken. From the DNA, clones are made which are placed in machines which the super rich can buy and take advantage of them. So that gives them an excuse of why there are so many copies of the same figure :}. And also places them firmly in the NSFW+ section for MFC.

DreamX are producing a line of these Evangelion undressing figures. As I’m not collecting Asuka or Mari I’ve skipped on those, and just gone for the Rei. There are some more coming, but not decided if I will order them or not.

She does come with both a long-haired and short-haired head but I have only taken photos of the long-haired one.

So here she is:

The tape player is just a “bonus” accessory – it doesn’t have a place on the figure, but you can put it on the base for a more messy dressing scene. Or you could get a table prop to put it on.

The figure itself I’m really pleased with – the shine on the plugsuit is good and the blue hue of Rei’s hair is mesmerising. The paint is a liitle off in places, but that won’t really show on display. She was smaller than I expected, but that’s more because Rei herself is petite. She does have translucent hair, so that will put some people off but I’m not bothered by it. The glasses took a little bit of adjusting to get in her hands, but they sit well and she’s not at risk of dropping them. She has a nice skin tone too. Face could maybe do with a little more shading, but not a dealbreaker imo. Overall, I’d recommend this figure to a Rei fan. It’s an unlicensed figure though, so may not be easily obtainable.