It was a welcome surprise to see (and acquire!) Sega Toys/Chara Ani 1/8 Misumaru Yurika at a local anime goods store recently, given that I’m still slowly watching my way through my Nadesico DVD boxset.
Also as it’s not a recent release - when was this first released? Some of the comments on Danny Choo’s post on this figure date from 1999 even though the site archives themselves only date back to 2004. And the date stamp on the post itself doesn’t show the year. You can surmise I was slightly confused. On 1999.co.jp, the release date was mid August of 2006 - which makes it a lag of more than decade since the series first aired. It’s an unbelievable lag if this was the first release! Apparently a collaboration between Sega Toys and Chara-Ani but not listed on the latter’s Nadesico page any longer. Hmmm…
Regardless of not being exactly sure of when she was made, I’m still muchly happy with this purchase. Her facial expression captures Yurika’s genkiness very well, as does her confident and funloving pose. Although there are generally less details to take care of when it comes to bikini figures, this bikini scores well in my book because of the incredibly fine detail of the Nergal logo on Yurika’s left breast and for the three bows - one in the middle of her bikini top and the other two as side-ties for her bikini bottom.
It does look good, but in character terms Yurika’s breasts really should be a bit larger than that. (Not “Eiken” large, or even “Rushuna” large, but bigger.)
Hahaha that is hilarious that there are classes for jugs the way there are classes for battleships =D.
The naval analogy never ceases to puzzle me. E.g. aircraft carriers are huge but they are also flat…
…ahhh ahh, but only flat on the top side, not on the bottom!
But yeah, I’ve often wondered about that myself. The terminology, that is, not the accuracy of figures’ bust sizes. No really, I swear. <_<