As usual, I should have seen it coming. Or rather, I should have heard it coming. The running footfalls approaching from behind. The intake of breadth. Perhaps even the swinging of her arm through the air. There was, of course, no missing either the loud greeting of "HELLO!" and the slap on the back.

‘You sure are late going home today!’ she chirped.

‘You too, Asa-senpai.’

‘Cooking club activities! And now I’ve got to rush back to make dinner. See ya!’

And as she turned to speed off in her characteristically energetic way…

Nature sent a blessing wind. Blue crossed stripes on white…

She spun round, an interrogating gleam in her eye. ‘You saw, didn’t you?’ she crooned.

Crap! Did I say that out loud!? ‘Huh? Of course not! Definitely not! Not even a little!!’

A sly grin crept over her face, eyebrows raised sceptically. ‘That’s a little disappointing.’

By the light of the setting sun, her smile was reflected in mine.

—

This figure can look quite different when seen from just a slightly different angle. My favourite is the one above right where the eye can travel in a straight line from top to bottom, taking in all the design points of interest from her ahoge, hair ribbon, front bow, cleavage, upraised left hand, pleated skirt and underskirt, briefcase (with adorable Ama keychain) and bent knee. Certainly seems to have been sculpted with a very specific placing in mind.

Her back is certainly a lot less interesting. I do appreciate and enjoy all the painstaking details such as the dots borderng the grey underskirt, the belt buckle at the small of her back, the buckles and clasps on her school briefcase, the painting of the brown stripe just above the hem of her white skirt, shirt sleeves and sailor collar but, as with all the points of interest mentioned above, the front view is definitely where the focus is.

Being a green-haired chara, I thought that a green background wouldn’t work at all but it doesn’t seem too bad. Also the light was a bit low. But the hair still manages to stand out from the grass behind. And I think it has a nice contrast against the uniform. Also, for some reason, the pic on the left had a brownish tinge which cleared up after using Auto Levels (right). Not a very successful shoot but a fun one nonetheless.

Still have much to learn especially from other great shoots like Dancing Queen‘s – who used a background with yellow stripes that’s just a tad more elaborate than the packaging box’s. Blue, as seen on 1999.co.jp‘s catalog pics, works great too.

My favourite is Saku‘s photo shoot. He made such marvelous use of a variety of outdoor backgrounds (sky, water, buildings and trees), careful posing as well as low f/stop to create a lovely date mood and the feel of 1/1 perspective. Great to see others enjoying this figure of my favourite SHUFFLE! chara too.

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“This looks like one of the back corridors of the old building,” she thought.

She was certain that she had managed to return to normal space; the fading light was from the evening sun of the real world.

It was going to get dark soon.

Where was her opponent?

Footsteps.

And a greeting: “Nagato-sa~n ♥”

“Just look at yourself,” she said, her voice an oddly sweet admixture of amusement and condescension.

“Cease and desist immediately.”

“You always treated me as your back-up. No, just a mere back-up.”

“No more. Today, right now…” The blade caught the light and in a single reflected glint, she saw an interminable wave of raw data.

“Just admit it already! My cover art is so much more gorgeous than yours!!”

“…”

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White Tama-nee with non-tsun eyes (foobarbaz shoot) is Sweet but the whole point of the sculpt is Sultry – which Black Tama-nee oozes plenty of.

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My only reservation about trying to get her is the risk of ending up as a news item on Lolitron. =_=;;

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