Basement Labs: Figma

Well, my Figma Akemi Homura arrived earlier this week, so time to ramble on about it for a few paragraphs

I left her alone for a bit and found her laying like this. I laughed

Well, Anyways, the quality is what you'd expect if you've ever owned a figma anymore, the range of motion is good everywhere that isn't restricted by her clothing. In Homura's case her shoulder are restricted by her mantle, preventing them from going up above her head, though its made out of rubber so it isn't as bad as it looks. Her skirt is also stiffer plastic than usual for some reason, unlike on most figmas where its made out of rubbery stuff. As evidenced by the picture above, all the joints are pretty solid, floppy joints are not a concern here.

For Accessories, she comes with an alternate arm with her shield on it, a rocket launcher, a DEAGLE BRAND DEAGLE, a Pipe bomb, a Driver, two altfaces(For a total of happy, yelling, and her usual serious expression), glasses and the braided hair.She also comes with an assortment of hand, some of which vary a bit from the usual set of figma hands. The shield pops off pretty easily, and it makes me wonder if during development she was going to have an alternate opened version shield (Or maybe the one from nendo homu works, I don't have one to check)

Forgot to take a picture of all the parts, so this one is a bit rushed

Overall, I'm very satisfied with my homura, but I do have some random nitpicks that may be of interest.

1. My Homura came with a black line of misapplied paint on her unshielded left arm. It wasn't enough for me to rage at amiami and try to get a new one, but it was minorly annoying.

2. The details on her bazooka, shield, and Deagle are lazy. The Deagle doesn't have any kind of barrel, not even a black dot at the end to indicate the bullet hole, and the rear hole of the rocket launcher also isn't shaded at all. The shield looks like it could use some panel lining.

3. She can't hold her golf club in an actual golf pose. Not that she ever does in the show, and if you've ever golfed before you know that the basic guideline is "If this feels uncomfortable as fuck, you're doing it right"

Magical Golf

4. Someone in an IRC channel I frequent pointed this out to me, she has sculpted cameltoe. What the fuck max factory, that's fucking creepy as all hell.

What the hell Max Factory, what the hell. And I felt dirty taking this picture.

And....I'm done rambling, now for pictures and the occasional commentary.

First off, A picture of the joints on her hair. The braided hair doesn't have any joints, but the regular hair does, which is a nice change from the giant brick some figures have that makes their neck articulation useless.

All of her faces have clips for the glasses to go on, resulting in things like this, the happiest girl ever to hold a bazooka. She also has pretty good balance, note how one of her feet is hardly even on the ground.

So I finally got around to unboxing my figma Kurisu and fiddling with her. Her articulation is about the standard for a figma-good. The only thing blocking any of her range of motion is her brown jacket, though I'm not totally sure figma hip joints swing that wide anyways. As with any long-haired figma, her neck articulation is hindered a bit due to the hair getting blocked. She has the standard assortment of figma hands, along with a phone and a bottle of Dr Pepper, both attached to the hands holding them. She comes with three faces, a neutral face, a winking face, and a yelling face. Between the three she has a pretty good set of posing capabilities.

The notable difference from most figmas is the crossed arms, which is actually two pieces that stick together. Getting her regular arms off the joints was a bit of a struggle, and I was worried about accidentally yanking the shoulder joints out of their sockets, but they seem to be attached by some kind of balljoint that doesn't pop out as easily as the sliding part does, once they're on and clicked together however, they look great. Her stand is somewhat difficult to get in the peghole in her back, which is somewhat annoying since her feet are kinda small making her hard to get to stand unassisted(Though it isn't impossible by any means). I ended up just propping the stand between her back and her coat, it was easier than trying to wedge it into her back. One of my friends says the red color of the tie rubbed off on her shirt a bit, but I have yet to have that problem. Overall, a very good figma, though my opinion my be skewed by my enjoyment of Steins;gate. Now, ON WITH THE PICTURES.