Originally I had wanted to come up with just one post for all of Wonder Festival’s releases, considering that Lelouch is too busy with schoolwork and life to be able to post anything here for a while, along with the reason that I am no longer as into figure collecting as before. But for some odd reason the figure manufacturers decided to “Boys/Girls, Be Ambitious” and there were quite a few releases I wanted to talk about. Here is the first look with my top figure manufacturer of all time, Alter.

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You may wonder at the title and the cover above. The truth hurts though. Mai was the most expensive figure in my collection when I received her some time in the second quarter of 2009, perhaps around May. I am unable to recall exactly when I did get her. In December, when this photoshoot of her was done, nothing untoward happened to her when she was finally taken out of the box. What happened at a later photoshoot that did not involve her, was the heartbreak.

Apparently Wcloudxkumo is not going to give any love to this character, and I did mention her in the Miyazawa Models Expo post a while ago, so here is an announcement that Oui, from the arcade card game Sangokushi Taisen 3, is now available for preorder at AmiAmi, while her limited version by Miyazawa himself is available at both AmiAmi and HobbySearch for preorder. Much thanks to Moeyo for bringing this to my attention or I would never have known, since both sites also announced, at the same time, Hatsune Miku VN02 (from Vocaloid) up for preorder (AmiAmi, HobbySearch). foo-bar-baz also had a post stating she was up for release.

Edit: Looks like HobbySearch was a little late in opening the preorder for the normal version of Oui.

A few notes are in order.

It has been a very long time since I last featured a figure review here, mainly because of reasons I stated before – a slowly fizzling passion in the figure collection scene, the lack of a good camera, and the lack of motivation to bother with organizing figure photoshoots. Nevertheless, I did have in mind a few figures which could not be brought out into the great outdoors to be photographed due to their fragility or rarity – Senhime here is one of them. Done by E2046’s Gathering team, I am not sure if she actually is a recast, but she was among the figures that tempted me the most when I first browsed through E2046’s catalog back then.