Review date: 2/19/2005

Manufacturer: Good Smile Company

Released: 2005

Availability: HARD

Type: PVC Figure

Sculpt:
Excellent. The sculpt is very accurate . Some might say she's a little more curvaceous than her anime counterpart, but she looks great this way. The hair has little details with strands of hair along the bangs and back. The face is dead on to the source. They even sculpted out her lips. Nice. I think I was attracted to her face more than her body. She's uber cute. ^_^

The body and pose are very nice. She's in a playful posture holding out her bikini top while she's pulling down her wet t-shirt with her left hand. The t-shirt's sculpt is fantastic. All the little folds and creases look very convincing. They even did a good job with the t-shirt along her back. The thickness of the t-shirt is just right. It really looks like she's wearing a t-shirt unlike some other figures out there. Great job. Here's a big surprise, they sculpted out her breasts and abs UNDER the t-shirt! I was pleasantly surprised. :) I thought they were going to make a solid piece of plastic under the t-shirt but they didn't. Kudos to the sculptor for doing this since they could've easily avoided showing you anything. Now perverts everywhere can rejoice! :P But seriously, it shows the quality of the original sculpt. The hands are also full of details. The hands are nicely detailed with fingernails and whatnot. They look very good and very feminine. The right hand and the bikini top is very well sculpted but there's not a lot of details with the bikini top itself. It looks good draped over her hand though. The left hand with the stretched t-shirt is very well executed. She has her left thumb pulling the t-shirt and it looks very realistic. Nice job.

The legs and feet are nicely sculpted as well. The position feels just right with the heel of her left foot slightly raised. But the leg's aren't my favorite aspect of the sculpt. They're a little too thick compared to the source but I think it looks fine on this particular figure. The bikini bottom was fairly well done with the straps and creases on her butt.

The figure has ZERO articulation so you won't be playing with it. There are little imperfections all over with the mold of this figure so it ain't perfect. The strands of hair weren't very clean and there are some minor dents. The major complain I have is that her right foot doesn't go into the peg. It's a major fluke on the side of Good Smile Company. But her left foot fits into the peg very snugly and she stands up well so there aren't any problems with stability. Still, it's a design flaw that I couldn't overlook. I'm glad her right foot doesn't overlap on the peg or it would've been a big problem.

Paint:
The paint job is fairly clean with some minor problems. The colors for the hair and skin tone are nice and vibrant. They are quite accurate to the source. The hair itself is airbrushed with different gradients of pink/orange and it looks great. The eyes are amazingly detailed and very clean. The lips seems to be painted with the same pigment as the hair which was pretty well painted. They also painted her fingernails and toenails with a little bit of pink. Great details.

Now here's the important part, the paint for the t-shirt. The paint job is crucial to make a wet t-shirt look convincing on a figure like this. If the paint job is off, then the whole illusion is broken. Good Smile Company did a good job with it. The placement of the colors are good but I did find the colors a tad too dark. The skin tone is a tad too orangey compared to her "real" skin for the rest of her body. The same can be said for the t-shirt itself. The blue is a little dark (even if the pictures here don't show it). I wasn't sure if they were going for a light blue t-shirt or if the blue was supposed to be the shadow for the creases. If the colors for the skin tone and shadows on the t-shirt were a little lighter, than the illusion would've been better. It's not a fluke since the colors look the same on the box. I had mixed reactions with it. The back of the wet t-shirt looked more convincing.

The bikini top and bottom are also well painted with a dark yellow pigment and a little bit of airbrushing for the shadows. Both the bikini and t-shirt are painted with a glossy paint which was a good detail.

But there are imperfections all over certain parts of the figure. They are very minor though. I saw some little specks here and there but it was all minimal.

Where can I find this?
Well, I'm not sure where else considering the place I bought it from is sold out. Since this figure was just released (as of this review), I suggest checking out some Japanese online stores for it. Please! Twins is pretty well known so you might see it in some online import stores also. Good luck.

The figure in its box. Lovely design with both the colors and the layout. The box design looks remarkably similar to Kotobukiya's box designs just like the sculpt.

"Now now boys, whatcha staring at?"

They actually sculpted the breasts and abs under the t-shirt! Fantastic details.

The feet. As you can see, the right foot doesn't go into the peg just like the Mizuho figure from Kotobukiya! What a strange coincidence.

The base. As basic as can be.

The back. Nice work with the t-shirt here also.