When people hear the name Ikki Tousen most people think of tits and that isnt doing the Manga/Anime any justice.The franchise has alot more to offer besides the wonderful world of bankunyu,like butts.Therefore ill declare today as the Butt Awareness Day ( Sorry Mom) and present you todays figure,Sonsaku Hakufu Changing Clothes Version by New Line, after the Jump.

I could write a long paragraph about Ikki Tousen and its characters but thats as necessary as a plug up my butt.Everybody including their granmothers uncle knows this series and either hates or loves it.Beeing the pervert I am, I of course love the series and its well endowed characters.If you are genuinely interested in the series do yourself a favor and ignore the crappy Anime Season 3+ and stick to the Manga.Make a big turn around the Tokyopop Serialization though since the translator took crack while trying to make the Manga as unreadable as possible.

Todays Figure is the Happy Go Lucky mainprotagonist of the series Sonsaku Hakufu right in the middle of changing clothes.Normally she wouldnt be bothered by someone peeping at her but this figure aims for the more cute/shocked look instead of staying faithful to the character.Her rather round face with large puppy eyes underlines that look even more but this was also the case with the prototype so it isnt that much of a deal since you know what youre getting into.

Her Sculptor,Goemon,seems to be pretty obsessed with swimsuit figures since he nearly exclusively does them with a few exceptions like New Lines Black Lagoon Figures.Maybe he is recieving all the impure thoughts that Ishikawa Goemon the XII. is trying to ban from his mind?

I am not a big fan of swimsuit figures since they are rather plain compared to completley dressed figures and demand a good paintjob and finish to get good sense of depth.I applaud Goemon for the great work on the back of the figure but could smack him for his work on the figures hair.The hair gives a sense of movement,as if she is turning around to look at the person that stepped in the room, while she was changing but it still looks straggly and pretty rough in some places.I give Goemon the benefit of doubt for the roughness of her hair,since this could have happened during the molding process but the straggly hair is a flaw from his side.

While were talking hair I might aswell talk a bit about how this figure reached me.You may remember my rambling about DHL`s lousy customer service and how a figure got returned to HLJ.Well,this was the figure that had to be sent twice to me and sadly she got damaged during transit: her ahoge broke off. Noemally I would have to send the figure back to get a replacement,but this is the limited release of the figure and it was naturally out of stock by the time it arrived on my doorstep.In the end HLJ offered a 20% discount off the figures price and I had to glue the Ahoge back in its place.In a sad turn of events the glue merged with some of the PVC and left a visible white line where the ahoge snapped off. Quite a complicated backstory eh?

As mentioned a few lines before this is the limited release and features blue undergarments unlike the original release with its boring white colour.The whole thing goes under the name Irisawa Adult colour Version and I wonder what makes blue panties more adult than white ones.Both Versions feature half opened bras that allow a peek at her nipples. All perverts can rest assured that this is typical Ikki Tousen release that knows how to cater to its audience.

The rest of her sculpt is sure to please fans of well bosomed beauties and I fully approve of Goemons work in that area.Theres one thing I dont like about Goemons sculpt besides the hair and thats the way he sculpted her mouth.It isnt very defined and painted with a small white line supposed to resemble her teeth.This is probably just a matter of personal prefence but i still thought I should mention it.

This was my first New Line Figure which I mainly ordered because I admired their Black Lagoon figures and I am kind of uncertain about their quality.The Body Sculpt itself is great but I have the feeling that Goemon or New Line (whoevers at fault) is having problems with rendering fine details in the quality required to make this a truly great figure.I never saw the Black Lagoon figures in Person so I cant tell if this is true but if anyone has more information on this be sure to let me know.

You can see the spot where the ahoge snapped pretty clearly in these

Im no fan how he sculpted her mouth :/

You can see the bad molding and hair defects good in this one

Time to raise Butt Awareness!

Love that Oshiri

The base is a nice little extra with the towel and socks.Makes me wonder if she ran around in socks and unerwear only though

My favorite shot out of the whole set.She has an adoreable back. Sexy!

Show me Boobs! show

This isnt really figure related but since today topic is Ikki Tousen I might aswell throw in some pictures of my newly acquired Magatama.I bought it from the Ebay Seller Wombat1138 and it made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when I opened the box.She seems to be a seller that truly cares about the stuff shes selling since it was packaged in yet another little handfolded box.Its nothing special but still it made me quite happy

If youre looking for some Magatama I can highly recommend her Shop Magatama-Rama ^^

And I am not done with rambling today!

I cant believe I didnt join Twitter earlier because sometimes miracles do happen.A few days after Ive posted my Review of Kotone-chan I noticed a huge income of traffic from Twitter and it turned out to be from Keumaya the maker of the figure! It feels really,really great to be acknowledged by the maker of a figure and I can finally feel assured that I didnt buy a Bootleg from Ebay but a genuine figure.

At first he twittered in Japanese but later he even asnwered me in English. This is so awesome and I am never gonna wash my Twitter again XD

He also found Tiers review through me and wondered why we gaijin cant seem to assemble her correctly ^^;;;;

Thats it for today! Over and Out!