I love you Kotobukiya, I am a fan of your figures for the most part. Which is why it comes to my surprise Koto made such a simple mistake with this one, it cannot be left alone. For some reason 2010 seems to have a lot of Taiga figures being released, why? I’m not sure. Only now us fans can have our Toradora figures? Anyway, onto the PVC vs GK post. Kotobukiya has made a PVC based off of a GK by “Gouhondou” ( 剛本堂 ), sculptor Yokoshima Shinpei. The PVC figure by Kotobukiya will be released in October 2010.

I’ll start with positive, this figure is 1/6 scale, 250mm tall, means she’s the largest PVC figure of Aisaka Taiga to date. She’s only 7140 yen! Quite cheap for a 1/6 and any PVC nowadays, and you can get her cheaper at ami ami and hobbysearch, etc, with their promotions. I very much appreciate Kotobukiya’s idea and I’m not bitterly complaining/bashing them. Just slightly disappointed…

GK

PVC

First thing you should notice without even looking at the GK, why are her shoes blue and her uniform is black?

Image curteousy of Neko Magic. If you look here, her shoes are brown. While I understand why Koto decided to make it dark her uniform, why the blue shoes? Another image from the anime here. Her uniform is dark navy, though no visible shoes. Still for that, the GK may be inaccurate for the lighter blue, but at least it looks consistant.

If you look at them side by side, Kotobukiya’s head looks slightly bigger. Making the proportions look way off.

Images from 2ch.

However it isn’t all that bad, maybe some more shots of her would help clarify, and from certain angles, she doesn’t look all too bad. They did the sculpting of the body just fine it looks. Just a fumble with the head/face and paint job.

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