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PostPosted: October 1st, 2010, 8:43 pm 
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After a very long and irritating wait for my updated ID to arrive in the mail, I was finally able to get down to the PO to pick up this glorious figure

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Remilia is a vampire from the Touhou series of video games. Her age is, give or take a few, 500 years. She's the owner of a large mansion that plays home to a vast number of different characters, the only one anybody here may know being Cirno. Cirno being the "strongest word" girl I posted a while back in OT (which I won't link because its 8mb for one image), and the face of my laptop:

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Still can't really get over how large this box was. I knew the figure was going to be big, but, it's easily bigger than the box that BRS came in:

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In any case, Touhou is a very difficult series of games made entirely by one guy named Zun. They're absurdly popular in Japan, and quickly gaining popularity abroad thanks to word of mouth. For an idea of what happens in these games, here's a video of one level.



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In all, this figure measures 40cm side to side (~16 inches for you imperial nuts) and barely fits in my case. I had to tilt the whole thing slightly to the right just to get it inside, and it's taking up an entire shelf to itself. Blows my mind.

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Apparently her face isn't very photogenic, as her evil smile looks even weirder in this image than it does when looking right at the figure. Pretty nutty. The detail in the flame on her hand is pretty cool, though. Her hand is articulated in a way that it can hold the flame perfectly in place with her thumb and index finger poking out a bit for a nice effect, and even if the flame is removed her hand still manages to give a really good effect by itself. Both the flame on her hand and her spear are made of mildly see-through PVC which makes it awesome.

Speaking of spears.

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Thing is massive. And intimidating. It's name is Gungnir, which is the spear Odin wields. Many of the weapons the girls wield come from Norse mythology, with Remilia's sister wielding Lævateinn. Kind of a nice little integration, I think.

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She comes with a round plastic base with a small metal nameplate attached to it, but I much prefer displaying her like this. Looks more dramatic and less like a trophy.

The Bad Apple video that was very popular about a year ago features almost all of the Touhou girls.



Although, not all of them are big and scary like this Remilia.

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Awww, isn't tiny Remilia adorable? :3

Anyway, I once posted this in the OT thread. For a challenge, see if you can match all the chars labeled here to their silhouette counterparts in the video. =o

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PostPosted: October 1st, 2010, 9:12 pm 
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as noted previously, i think it's awesome =D particularly like the awesome paint effect on the wings. didn't realise it was 40cm though (i must have just assumed everything else in your room was tiny or something? =s), also really like how the centre of Gungnir has kind of a darkened effect, with different colours towards the back of the blade? if you follow.

bad apple is still pro.


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PostPosted: October 2nd, 2010, 12:21 am 
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So is this another one of those series where the female characters look like children but are officially regarded as being older than they appear, so it's supposedly less creepy when they're raped by the spiked tentacles of a Lovecraftian horror?


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PostPosted: October 6th, 2010, 3:43 pm 
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So this is a series of bullet hell games? I'd seen the video you showed me a while ago (Bad Apple), but I hadn't known it was a videogame.

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PostPosted: October 28th, 2010, 1:36 am 
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Among the hardest of bullet hell games, yeah.

On another note, a second member of the Scarlet Mansion has joined my collection as a glorious scale figure.

Konpaku Youmu~

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PostPosted: October 28th, 2010, 9:15 am 
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I really like the stand for her. How epic would it be if you managed to get all the chicks from Scarlet Mansion. Every time you get a new one, you should do that message from the Smash Brothers games when someone is added to the roster.

But yeah, awesome stuff man.

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PostPosted: October 28th, 2010, 9:39 pm 
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As awesome as that would be, my bank account would absolutely murder me. o_o;;

I am collecting the whole set in nendoroid form, though. Six of those have released and I have them all so far. :3


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So is this another one of those series where the female characters look like children but are officially regarded as being older than they appear, so it's supposedly less creepy when they're raped by the spiked tentacles of a Lovecraftian horror?


Well, I think he just said it all for me. ^_^

Yay for little girl vampires, right?


But yeah, I like the pose of the swordswoman in your second set of images. I just can't help but wonder if she's simply another cute heroine who stylishly wields swords for defeating monsters and banishing demons in a non-violent way, .... or if she is another one of those girls you know with secrets of harboring a frightening power that results in the brutal murder of other human beings. *shifts eyes*

Speaking of wrecking your bank account, Stythe, I don't see how you haven't done so with you already have. Your room (or entire living domain) must be quite the anime/manga collector's showplace by now.

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PostPosted: October 30th, 2010, 5:33 pm 
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It's not quite as showy as it used to be, since I sold pretty much everything that was on my walls before I moved. Kept a few of the things that I really liked, but now at least my walls look normal.

Kept all my figures, though, and they're worth a solid chunk of cash.


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