Finally, the last of Volks’ Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier gals! Suzuka hime!

Suzuka is… well, to be honest, it’s been a while and I didn’t look up enough kanji in the first place while playing… so I’m not too sure what her deal is.  Some sort of princess, some sort of relationship to Kaguya, calls upon a mech thing during battle to do the dirty work (…she dances and it kicks ass ^^;).   mmm check out wikipedia if you want slightly more details ^^;;

I forget who it was that referred to her as such, but I loved the unagi reference to her ^^;  Probably Haken since he’s always making up funny (well, trying to be funny ^^;) names for everyone.  Indeed as she’s dancing, just imagine a squirming eel… errr… hahah, well, I got a good laugh out of it

I believe noto mamiko is the voice actor too ^_^

I noticed a huuuge surge in traffic (for me ) from people looking for kaguya… checked the dates, and yep, it was soon after the US release of the game.  We’ll see if suzuka or aschen have that effect, but I doubt they can match the bakunyuu princess’s charms

The face is not quite spot on for my tastes, but I like how the rest of the figure was executed.  Well, rather, I like suzuka’s character design and the figure doesn’t mess that up

Above is the face she ships with but the other one in the box is with her tongue out

Really love how her fans turned out.

Even though most of her fighting is handled by a mech, she does whack mobs around from time to time.

Her skirt thing is cast off, and you must remove it at least once to get the protective plastic off.

Of course I smudged her leg in the process -_-  Ah well.

Guess all the super robot taisen girls like black pantsu.

Now for a guro pantsu shot…

hahah well, not really guro but still

Again, just like her outfit in general, though its execution seems to be more and more typical of Volks… slightly rough feeling, ya know?

For me I rank it as a solid delivery overall, though I wish there were more figures to compare to.

Now that we’ve got everyone together… 合体！ (gattai!)

Add in three babes…

I think something about Aschen and kaguya being the same height and kinda close together detracts from final result, but, nothing I can really do about that.

Decided to pose Aschen with her smiling face after all.

kaguya side boob

My first multi-part base I’ve completed.  Could’ve been the wave Fortune Arterial gals but backed out of that one after not reordering my cancelled shiro (*shakes fist at kid nemo*).

Quite an expensive set to put together thanks to the Volks premium but fans of the game will likely be happy.

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My least favorite character in the trio but I needed the complete set ^^;

And that’s not to say I don’t like her ^^;

Aschen! Another character from 無限のフロンティア スーパーロボット大戦OGサーガ (Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier)… some sort of android assistant to the male lead, Haken.

Aschen’s got a split personality… alternating from serious and reserved to playful and cheerful.

Her pose is taken from one of her signature moves… a sort of awkward reverse kick ^^;

She seems kind of precariously balanced… hope Volks figures are lean resistant ^^;

Hard to tell with her arms crossed but she’s pretty well endowed

Mmmm so we’ll adjust the angle a bit…

boin~

There’s something about Volks’ PVC offerings that feel sort of… chunky?  I don’t really know how to describe it.

So far the two I have seem pretty well executed overall but for me they lack the Alter touch ^^;

And the hair has quite a shiny finish that may turn some off… for me it somehow kinda of matches the finish of the rest of the figure… still undecided if I like it thou ^^;

As you can see, the details seem a bit rough…

The odd base shape is due to the fact that it’s meant to be combined with kaguya & suzuka’s for a complete display.

I’m still partial to the black backgrounds, but I’ll be switching it up from time to time.

If you’re a fan of the game and are looking for figures, I’m not sure you have too many other options ^^;  And to make things worse, it isn’t exactly easy to get a hold of Volks stuff.  If you are interested in Volks stuff at all I can recommend Tokyo Hunter and Goody Japan to take care of your order.  There’s also Tenso, featured in one of danny’s previous contests, but unfortunately I haven’t completed my order with them yet (was a preorder).

I ordered Aschen through Goody Japan and it ended up being on the pricey side…

Subtotal amount :        7,875 yen
Domestic shipping :       840 yen
Our commission  :       1,181 yen
Bank transfer fee  :          300 yen
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Total amount         :     10,196 yen

Then had to pay for shipping from Japan to the US ^^;;;  Curse you Volks!  Basically added +25% to the price to use an ordering service orz.　　In retrospect, a bit over the top in terms of price, but now that I have all three… I do like having the set ^^;;  Not bad, but probably only for the most dedicated fans of the game.

For pics of the complete set… look forward to a Suzuka review in the next day or so ^^

Update: Forgot to link Tentacle Armada for another review!

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Just finished a massive 200 shot (well, massive for me at any rate) review session.  The trick to a nice white background still eludes me.

Above you can see I tried out the fabric background again, curious if the new lights would help in that endeavor.  I guess it did, however my lack of ironing again rears its ugly head.

Maybe I’m just getting lazy with the black bg since in that case the lack of light just helps me ^^;

Simple increasing exposure time has a limit before things start getting washed out…

Ah well.  Need to experiment more including trying posterboard again…

Metatron review will actually be my next I think…

Followed by lulu…

Then… probably horo?

And finally aschen.

Again apologize for my lack of comments outside this blog.  My current priorities are posting, responding to comments here, then commenting on to 50+ blogs I subscribe to.  Unfortunately I’ve been having trouble allocating time for the last part orz.  To deal with my insurmountable reading backlog I think I’m gonna try a new system… sorting by most recent post and then just working my way back in time.  (currently I generally go through blogs one by one and catch up on all the posts I’ve missed before moving to the next one)

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Aschenbecher leeren ist so mühsam…

aschenbecher übervoll