Following last fall's Haganai Yozora Mikazuki figure and next month's Sena Kashiwazaki, Kotobukiya has scheduled a 1/8th scale, Kobato Hasegawa for October release. The 16.5cm PVC statuette will go with 7,000yen. Get a look after the jump.
Retailer Right Stuf has posted the preliminary listing for FUNimation's August releases, and if even half of it bears out, it could be the company's most anticipated month in a while with a lot of long awaited material, such as Future Diary the Black Lagoon OVA, Haganai and High School DxD. Get the details after the jump.
Say you have a few friends. And say you've invited them over for brunch. If you serve them on Haganai plates and they don't storm out, then those friends are keepers! Cospa is set to enable this experiment with decorative dishes featuring Yozora Mikazuki, Sena Kashiwazaki, and Kobato Hasegawa with the 16.3cm plates will cost you 1,050 yen ($10) each. Get a look after the jump.
News of a live-action adaptation of Haganai leaked when Kyoto’s Ryukoku University posted a recruitment ad for extras on its Facebook page. In an open letter posted on Twitter, author Yomi Hirasaka explained how they feel about the series going 3D. Read the message after the jump.
Alphamax has scheduled a Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT Sena Kashiwazaki Cow Pattern Swimsuit version for October release, from the thematically appropriately named sculptor MOON, who worked on earlier K-on! swimsuit figures. The 15.6cm goes for 8,000yen. Leading into that release, Media Factory has a Kobato Hasegawa 10cm figure scheduled for September. Get a look after the jump.
Griffon, who previously put together the belly dancer and Monster Hunter figures based on the girls of Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai now has an Aku no Keshin version of Yozora Mikazuki due in late May. The 19cm figure will sell for 7,000yen ($75.00). Get a look after the jump.
Set to follow April's release of Sena Kashiwazaki, AZONE has scheduled a late July release of Haganai NEXT's Yozora Mikazuki from their Hybrid Active Figure line. These 1/3 scale dolls are a lot larger than your standard action figure, measuring 50cm and featuring wigs and cloth outfits. Get a look at this latest after the jump.
Figures makers Good Smile Company has posted new previews of Nendoroid super deformed figures of wooser’s hand-to-mouth life's Ren and Darth wooser, Little Busters' Rin Natsume and Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT's Kobato Hasegawa. The first two are available for pre-order now ahead of July releases, while Kobato preorders start next week. Get a look after the jump.
Preparing for the warm months, Griffon Enterprises has scheduled a very hot Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai NEXT - Sena Kashiwazaki -Odoriko ver.- for late May release. The 1/8th scale figure from sculptor i-con will sell for about 6500yen ($70). Meanwhile, Griffon's Senran Kagura - Mirai -Hirottekudasai. ver. comes in a bit early, with a late April release planned for the Deru sculpted girl. Get a look after the jump.
There were all sorts of odd and disturbing figures at last weekend's Wonder Festival figure expo, from a pencil sharpener where you put the pencil someplace unmentionable to replicas of protesters from Japan's radical leftist student movement. S.B.M.'s figure of Sena "Meat" Kashiwazaki in a bowl of udon soup has the virtue of being safe for work... if a bit iffy from a gender politics point of view. Check out after the jump.