Didn't want to overload you all with too many figure posts yesterday but if you keep tabs of my store's inventory, you might see that I snuck in a brand new Bishoujo figure release. Yes, the great artist Shunya Yamashita is at it again with TWO new figures of an American comic book beauty, once again proving that the Japanese do it best.
Announced yesterday was both the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix X-men Bishoujo figures. They are scheduled to come out some time in June or July and Jean Grey never looked so good.
Kotobukiya is making something special for Rogue fans. Just when you thought the Shunya Yamashita Rogue was really cool, they go and make a limited edition one. This version, the "Long Coat PX Exclusive" will be limited to just 1000 figures made. Personally, I'm just fine with the regular version but for fans that might miss out on this hot selling figure, this could be your chance. Don't expect a Pre-Christmas release though, since she's scheduled for an official US release in late January -_-
I will be stocking some for the store, so you can pre-order her here or just email me that you want to reserve one.
I hope to see more figures done with Koto and Yamashita soon.
This poster was at the Kotobukiya booth over at SDCC 09 about a month and a half back. just wanted to pay homage to Shunya Yamashita and his amazing work so far with Marvel. The Rogue figure recently arrived and it looks great. (kept one for myself ^^) Of course the news that happened earlier this week was that Marvel was bought out by, of all companies, Disney 0-O. As long as Disney keeps everything basically the way they were, Marvel will do just fine. Hopefully things don't go down the watered down kiddy route for Marvel. If that happens, chances are Yamashita won't be designing Bishoujo too much longer :-( It's very obvious that Yamashita with Kotobukiya (and sculptor Koei Matsumoto) make very gorgeous versions of American comic book girls. Sadly, the comic book girl figures developed here in the US tend to look like, well...very manly women 0_O, so please Disney...don't drop the deal with Yamashita and Kotobukiya.
