![]() Hefting her leg up in the air and giving the whole wide world a good look at her crotch. True to form - the anime really is just one long panty shot - Hakufu's figurine captures her winding up for a kick, which necessarily involves She just really likes beating the crap out of people. Although she harbours an immensely powerful dragon spirit, she clearly doesn't have two brain cells to rub together in her head, and remains oblivious to all the intrigue and politicking surrounding her and the pivotal role she plays in the destiny of all fighters. Though that's one of a large number of words she wouldn't know the meaning of. Sonsaku Hakufu is the protagonist of Battle Vixens, Apart from that she's well-designed - even her multi-part spear managed to make it through shipping without being bent somewhere or other. Her right foot sports a rod that sinks into the base, and while it does a good job of keeping her upright, with only her tiny toe footprint set into the base, there's not a lot to keep her foot from turning in its socket. Is the largest of the six in terms of how much desk space she takes up. With her ginormous spear pointing out in one direction and her base going off in the other to counterbalance her, the complete Kanu figurine She's sporting a midriff-baring version of the girls' regular uniform, along with loose leggings on her shins, and - characteristic of her - her left eye is hidden by her hair, although it's sculpted and painted properly if you tilt her up to check. Kanu's posed in mid-whirl, with her super-long hair swirling around her body, her skirt flapping up, and inevitably her breasts in mid-bounce. Well, fair enough - it's not like she's got anything to prove, since she took out Ryomou after having her arm broken, and then defeated Hakufu just for show. The main character in Dragon Destiny, Kanu features briefly in Battle Vixens for a brief display of invincibility, but doesn't take any further part in the action. Each of the six figurines is packaged in pieces, individually sealed in plastic wrap, and (with one exception) they're simple and straight-forward to assemble - which is just as well, since the only instructions are the finished photos on the box. The characters in this set are from the second series of Ikki Tousen, called "Dragon Destiny" - I only have the first, "Battle Vixens," on DVD, but some of them are the same, and it's not like anyone really cares who the kung fu schoolgirls are anyway. ![]() As it turned out, I got the other duplicate, but she's a variant, so it didn't bother me overmuch. Thanks to a cooperative comicshop, I even skewed the odds by buying the figurine they'd opened to put on display, whereupon they'd open another one for display, and I'd buy it, and so on until we hit a duplicate. Fortunately - I can't speak in general, but this was the case with the set I bought from - there are six figurines shipped in sets of eight, so your odds of wasting money are a lot lower than Magic: The Legend of the Five Pokemons or whatever those daft card games were. Now, I'm a fan of anime with plenty of goofy fanservice - not just for its own sake, but also because it tends to keep the creators from taking themselves too seriously - but I'm really not a fan of blind-packing, which these figurines suffer from. Combine that with non-stop panty shots, and you've got Ikki Tousen. An epic historical adventure penned in the 14th Century by Luo Guanzhong, the 800,000-word masterpiece is set during the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, 18 centuries ago, when the dissolution of the Han Dynasty led to a time of such violent intrigue and unrest that some estimates suggest that China's population was more than halved in almost a century of perpetual warfare. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of the seminal works of classic Chinese literature. B u y t h e t o y s, n o t t h e h y p e.
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