Nendoroid Lord el Melloi II (The Case Files of Lord el Melloi II)

I’ve been meaning to review this since February, when he first released – however, luckily in 2020 time is fake and that doesn’t matter. It’s late, but it’s also the first figure review I’ve done in yeeears on this blog, so that’s okay. There’s three pieces of Waver merch I intend to review on this blog including this one – but one of them (the Petworks/Azone doll) has been in postal limbo since March due to EMS closing up and the other (the Aniplex figure) isn’t released yet.
Anyway, even though I’ve drifted away from nendoroids in recent years, there was absolutely no way I was going to turn down the first nendoroid of my favourite character ever, Waver Velvet. I say ‘first’ because I’ve been wishing for a nendoroid of his younger form for, at time of writing, eight years. With the popularity of Fate/Grand Order and Waver being one of the most coveted characters in the game, it’s surprising to me that it’s taken until the release of the Case Files anime for any nendoroid of him at all to get announced. Let’s take a look.
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EX Cute Family – Boy Detectives Team II Aoto (Azone Pure Neemo Doll)

Hey blog readers, I’m having fun with Junko in the US right now so this is the last review you’re gonna see from me in a good while – I put up the skeleton of it before I left and have been adding to it whenever I have wifi. For some reason this process affected the quality of some of the photos, and I’ll hopefully be able to replace those at a later date.

Time for another doll review then – this time it’s the newest version of EX Cute Family’s Aoto – who is both Aika’s younger brother and Yuta’s best friend.

These dolls are like Pringles, man. You can’t have just one. Or two. Or…

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EX Cute – Komorebi Mori no Doubutsu-tachi Neko-san Aika (Azone Pure Neemo doll)

What a mouthful of a title. It’s time for another doll review! While there was definitely going to be more after Yuta, this Aika doll was actually rather unexpected. She’s from 2013 and is by now hard to find for a reasonable price almost anywhere – but I got lucky and just happened to be browsing the pre-owned section of AmiAmi at the right time and scored an impressive deal on one that was still new-in-box. Even though she’s came out nearly two years ago, I’d still like to review her because she’s adorable.

Her box is also adorable.

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Go Princess Precure Cutie Figure Set

We usually don’t do too many trading figure reviews on here, but I figured I might as well do a mini-review of these lovelies I got a few days ago because they’re relatively new and it’s something slightly different for the blog.  Trying to experiment with picture-taking so apologies in advance for crappy-looking photos.

Our three heroines! (From left to right, Cure Twinkle, Cure Flora, and Cure Mermaid)

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Hatsune Miku 2.0 figma

Like nearly all my figure reviews, this one is really late, which is a shame because there are already quite a few reviews of this particular figma incarnation of the digital diva. Things kept coming up, time kept getting short, but dammit I’d already decided to review her so review her I shall.
So here we go, figma’s milestone 200th product, also known as ‘Miku figma 2013’.

Oh Miku, how you’ve grown.

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