Month: March 2023

Marin Kitagawa – JM Studio

This figure is an unlicensed resin. I bought this figure as I fell in love with the succubus design – as of time of writing, I haven’t read/watched My Dress Up Darling.

The box

Front:

On the front of the box, we get to see both versions of the figure, and I get a banner on mine saying the first 100 preorders get a womb tattoo. Ooh! And some quality censoring on the nipples 😆

Box sides:

The left side is the contiunation of the image on the back of the box. On the right we have a list of information you usually get at the time of preorder, and a QR code that is the link to their QQ group.

Back of the box:

We have a nicely posed photo of the figure 🙂

Top of the box:

Not much to see up here.

Foam (with the pieces taken out):

We have a decently compact layout, and everything was well-protected so everything came intact. Each hole held one part, so no poking around for missing parts.

The extras

As I preordered early, the figure came with this transfer you can apply to the figure. Haven’t decided yet if I will apply it.

The clothed body:

Assembling was a bit involoved when it came to the head, neck ruff and wings, so didn’t want to reassemble on this body. Not a bad looking body, but the top does look weird whilst the body is unassembled like this. There is a lot of part reuse between the bodies – feet, tail, arms, wings, ruff and head. So not hugely convenient if you want to switch between bodies.

The rest of the review is NSFW, so click the button below to see more.

Assembled body

With assembly, getting the right order took some work. It’s best to put on the ruff, the head then do the wings. There’s enough space between the hair strands to slip both the wings in. Getting the ruff aligned took some work, but I got there in the end. The tail was a bit of a fiddle to go in, but the feet, arms and ponytails were easy. Getting the cushion orientated correctly took a bit of time – eventually I worked out the corner “nibble” goes against her right arm. Once assembled she needs the cushion to not roll over.

The body is nicely shaded as well as the hair, and also enjoying the shiny tail. The black parts of the clothing don’t have shading, and the shading on the ruff is very subtle. I’m not bothered about the lack of shading on the black parts, but I think the ruff could do with some detail to differentiate the buttons and the bow. You can’t really leave the ruff off – it hides the join between her head and neck, but you could fashion some choker for her to wear pretty easily, if you wanted her more naked.

Face:

She has a cute smile and the eyes are done well. Also loving her little horns. The hair shading is pretty stark – I like it, but it is a bit mismatching with the rest of the figure.

Moving down to her chest, the nipples are nice and not overdone, and I like the nice round shapes.

Left:

She looks nice from this angle, can work as a viewing angle if you’re not bothered about her facing you. The cushion is a nice texture and nicely sculpted.

Right:

From this angle, we can see the light doing the heavy lifting on the shading for the black part of her dress. I like the way she’s sitting twisted around, and the sneaky tail poking over her leg.

Close-up on that tail:

Was a bit of finagling to get the tail at the right angle. Assuming this is the correct one :). I like the way it is wrapping around her body as well as the glossy finish.

Back:

Here we can find her wings and 🍑. She has very shapely buttocks. Some people may find her wings a bit bland, but I think for this scale they’re fine and fit the figure well. Once you work out the assembly order, the wings go in pretty easily, which is nice as they often can be difficult on figures. They seem to fit firmly, and I didn’t have any issues with them escaping whilst photographing a figure so they shouldn’t fall out when on your shelf.

And finally a shot of her on display:

Looking very cute on her fluffy base :). Overall, the stand-out parts of this figure is the body and the head. None of the details are bad, and what’s there is neatly painted. Resin collectors may not be happy with her size – she’s a 1/6 with a pose that is compact – but fits well into a PVC collection that isn’t all FREEing bunnies. The figure to the right of the photo above is a 1/4 scale, so she will look dwarfed by them. Being a small figure, her packed weight was 1.6kg, so she was cheap to ship.

Overall I’m happy with my purchase and to have another cute succubus in my collection 🙂

Sanis – ClayM

This figure is by ClayM, and distributed by Lechery in Japan.

The box, as imported from China:
https://i.ibb.co/vYZY9NF/box-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/99mqJfD/box-side.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Xkt22HK/box-other-side.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/VLdN2zL/box-back.jpg
Interestingly for the Chinese release they have stickered over the Lechery logos and address on the back of the box. Looking at Hobby Search, under the big logo labels there is a Lechery logo and a ClayM logo without the text.

Here are the parts in the polystyrene:
https://i.ibb.co/zhqFq7Q/boxtrays.jpg
Nicely protected, but would’ve been nice to have instructions. Most of the assembly is obvious, however I did break the cast off chest cover by doing it wrong. If you want to avoid this, I’ll cover that later.

With her chest part on:
https://i.ibb.co/vksyfgZ/clothed-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/3Tf2yys/clothed-left.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/JrGRHct/top-closeup.jpg
The cast-off part is a bit wiggly but does seem to stay put if positioned and left alone. It can wiggle and reveal her nipples though.

Cast-off chest part:
https://i.ibb.co/hYGzPyW/top-side.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0D4vb6m/top-front.jpg
If you look at the right of the image just above, you may be able to see the hairline mark where I broke it.

To avoid breaking it, remove her right arm first:
https://i.ibb.co/55dMM3W/armless.jpg
Very important! Even if it appears you can wiggle it out, learn from me. No you can not.

Putting the arm back on and noticing an odd hidden seam:
https://i.ibb.co/hsLNnSG/seamline.jpg

Cast off:
https://i.ibb.co/RBBbs32/uncovered-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/CskRmLF/uncovered-front-offset.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/YRVVTYy/right.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/TBnfcj1/left.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ggwpxJh/back.jpg

Having a look at her bassy base:
https://i.ibb.co/KxFyjCp/butt-base-solo.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ZN0p0PR/butt-base-back.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Cw7pFf7/base-base.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/TtZ18mZ/butt-angled.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/3BLMXfF/but-base-with-feet.jpg
A demon butt, with themes from her own design.

With the base tail attached:
https://i.ibb.co/MM9fBy0/tail-seat-base.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ZKMfZD0/tail-seat-top.jpg
The base provides a nice, stable perch for her to sit on. It’s more leaflike than her own tail, and has its own vagina… If she overbalances when moving her, it’s more likely for the tail to pop from the base than her fall off this leaf. Or at least that’s what I found.

Head:
https://i.ibb.co/fGVNzbp/face.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/f15CDV5/face-right.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/jGfBfxp/hair-back.jpg
Her face has a very resiny look to it, which I’m not the biggest fan of. I do love her hair and horns though.

Part of me wishes she had a shorthair head too as she has this lovely design on her back you can’t see for her hair:
https://i.ibb.co/WVbWqvr/back-no-head.jpg

Chest:
https://i.ibb.co/Ksp6qZf/bewbs.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/dPjGZTG/veins.jpg
She’s certainly blessed in the chest department. She has some subtle veins painted across her chest too.

Other detail shots:
https://i.ibb.co/j570HFn/neck-detail.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/jbSQBxD/wrists.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/HxMmwcn/rigth-left.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/V92zmzs/left-leg-closeup.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/2tS6HZQ/wings-closeup.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/fCJL3Td/tail-end.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/CvP7mP5/cake.jpg

Sleeping Cthulhu – Blue ver. – WeArtDoing

Decided to do some showcase blogs of some figures I’ve got recently, that aren’t necessarily featured on MFC. As I won’t be providing much in the way of analysis, I’m filing these under the “loot” category, rather than review.

This figure is of a sleeping female Cthulhu in a can. The figure is by WeArtDoing. I now have two of the three variants – this one I bought in stock from a random store on Taobao. She was 1188rmb with 15rmb freight collect. International shipping ended up being 270rmb – may’ve been cheaper if I had them remove the batteries, but I was juggling a couple of other parcels at the time, so just shipped as-is.

The figure comes with an edition card and three mediocre-quality postcards. I got #19/299 – which is ironically a lower edition number than the one I preordered.

https://i.ibb.co/9s65KdC/postcards-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/f0rRcYs/postcards-back.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/NFd3qXF/card-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/5BFxbHG/card-back.jpg

Photos of the figure:
https://i.ibb.co/FHs4XMq/angled.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/ZfdyLfP/can-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/6gLcbJr/body-closeup.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/PcK9KVk/right.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/fkZ3xJ0/left.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/crVdTcL/hair-back.jpg
I do love the strange theming and the blue colorations. The body is a bit plain for its shininess – in some lights it does look a bit like bootleg plastic, so it would’ve been nice to see some extra shading to offset that.

Tentacle close-ups:
https://i.ibb.co/GcvDw1Z/tentacle-closeup.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/gyqqYsJ/back-tentacle-closeup.jpg
I love the texture moulded into the tentacles and the colour transition.

But wait… there’s a feature:
https://i.ibb.co/x7GXJjB/can-bottom.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/VxFjQkH/can-button.jpg
There’s a hidden switch that turns on an LED in the can. The can bottom is held on by magnets, so it’s easy to take off and put back on again.

Here’s some photos with the LEDs on:
https://i.ibb.co/mz461zh/light-angled.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/FW5XdKZ/light-front.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/BtMz6mJ/light-top.jpg
The light is quite pretty and does add to the figure.

Overall, I’m happy with my purchase. It’s a fairly unique figure, and I do love me some Cthulhu-themed things. Out of the blue and pink variants, I think I prefer the pink one, but both are pretty.
I have her displayed with the pink variant, with another one of WeArtDoing’s figures:
https://i.ibb.co/2q4Pmgk/shelf.jpg
This shelf is a work in progress, so it’s fairly empty right now. If you like to see a similar blog for either of the other two figures in the above photo, let me know in the comments below.

Thanks for reading!