Happy Valentine's Day to me

While I'm talking about figures, I went and picked up my newest figure yesterday: Kazuki Ferrari from Galilei Donna! It's a 1:8 scale figure by Griffon Enterprises, sculpted by TEAM GENESIS (all caps). This was more of an impulse buy, right after I watched the anime, which happened to be right after I ordered a bunch of other stuff from Amazon Japan, and I actually bought the last one from Hobby Link Japan. When I checked the page for her right after I paid, I noticed her figure went from in stock to discontinued.

You might recognize her pose right from the promo art that's been going around. Moving back in time, let's start out with the box.

Geez, I'm horrible at taking pictures, but then there's so much glossy wrap inside, it's hard to get good lighting in there. It's another big box, but it sure looks great. Moving on...

Kazuki stands up on the staircase here, and her right foot attaches to the staircase. That's the only spot that roots her to the ground, and it feels a little... I dunno. The figure is stable if you leave it alone, yeah, but shakes and wobbles a bit if you move or turn it around. I mean, Rin and Uzuki both do this a bit (and they both stand on one leg), but Kazuki seems perched more precariously on her stand than those two.

There are four pieces to this figure: Kazuki, Kazuki's bag, the staircase, and a clear peg. The clear peg is there to hold up the end of the staircase that Kazuki isn't standing on, and it slots into the stand itself and up into the bottom of the second stair. The other side of the staircase has some support, so it attaches right into the base. The staircase and each of its stairs also tend to be a little wobbly if you handle 'em a bit, and I think it would have been better if there were a support peg or two for the top stair as well. Or maybe the right side of the staircase could have the support beam under it. Or maybe all of this. I kinda get that we're supposed to be looking a cross section of the stairs, but I'd still like it to be more stable.

The bag has to be slid by the strap up through her arm to fit. You'll have to do a little jostling around to get it to stay - the strap is made to fit between the folds of her clothes, but you'll have to rotate the bag so that you can slip one part of it through the folds, then rotate it back to place the bag as it's supposed to sit on her shoulder.

If you look at the picture there, see how the bag strap splits on her shoulder, but joins when it gets to the middle of the strap? I fit in the single strap (the part that rests on her shoulder) in between her sleeve, then rotated the strap to get the middle part where it's supposed to sit.

The coloring on the eyes is nice, and the expression is pretty good too. She doesn't have any buttons on her undershirt, but honestly? Sometimes they weren't drawn in the anime. ^_^;

And here's how it looks like from behind.

I do enjoy the figure, I just feel I gotta be really careful with it. I wouldn't think of putting this on anything other than a display case or something, since it tends to wobble pretty easily.