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Gift 1/8 Super Sonico tiger parka ver.

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Character Super Sonico
Manufacturer Gift
Scale 1/8
Sculptor Hiroshi ひろし (桜前線)
Release Date Dec, 2014

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Among so many scaled figures of Super Sonico, this is a distinct one for sure. Sonico is usually found in much less pieces of clothes, normally in something like swimsuits, lingerie, open shirts or naked aprons. There’re settings that she works as a model and also do cosplay just to make it sound more reasonable for her to have so many different outfits. However not very many figures choose to do her own everyday clothes like this tiger parka outfit here. This outfit have been seen in many artworks and have been used for Nendoroid and Figma. It’s totally understandable why it has not been used in larger figures yet, because for the designers as well as customers we would probably go for those sexy bikini/underwear versions before we even take a look at the more ordinary ones. It has also taken Gift so long to finally release this item since the first time they showed her grey prototype. There were many other outstanding new Sonico figures out during this period of time and this particular one has become even less interesting to many people. Nonetheless it’s still a great figure and I really like it.

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A Sonico figure with much of her skin covered, then what are they gonna do with her sexy body? I was a little bit worried about this before its releasing, so it really gave me a big surprise when I finally unpacked her. With the twisted body pose and zip shirt open, the first thing you will notice is still her huge bust. That funny tiger on her T-shirt also helped to get your sight focus on her breast. The outside of her parka jacket has some camo pattern shaped like that tiger too, plus the big cat ears on the hood, so everything is actually in this tiger theme. I like the vivid contrast created by the cold blue color of the outside and the bright orange of the inside of her jacket. Dressed up pretty warm for her upper part, her beautiful legs stand out naturally. Here the sculptor did more slender thighs for her, which is very different from that type with more and more fat that we see in other Sonico figures now. Of course I like chubby Sonico but occasionally having a slender body isn’t bad at all.

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After the Santa swimsuit verion from Alter, this is another Sonico with her headphones almost completely hidden under the hood. The headphones are the most essential part of her so how can you call her Super Sonico if the headphones are hidden? Plus I’m not a big fan of the animal ears and I really want them removed from the hood :(. However Gift did not offer you a replace head with the hood off so that’s a little bit less fun to play with. Despite of that I actually like her face very much. It’s not either very similar to the style in the original art which isn’t truly my favorite or goes too far from that like in some other Sonico figures. It’s kinda at the sweet point for me now. She has sweet smile on her face and I like the way they treated her mouth. Big open mouth can easily ruin the face of a figurine in my point of view. The redness on her cheek is lovely too. This cute little face with the casual outfit made me almost forget what type of sexy figure she usually is.

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Although not very necessary, her guitar case can be taken off. The replace left hand is just empty fist after you take the case off and doesn’t look quite balanced with the peace gesture of the other hand. It is not actually as easy as it would look like to install that guitar case in fact, because you worry about damaging the complicated painting on her jacket. I’d rather have it come in fixed on her body. Her fingernails especially the right hand is surprisingly carefully done by the standard of a 1/8 scale figure. It’s a pretty neat figure as  a whole. The only thing I could probably say something is perhaps the base. I’d love to have more details on that plain pink base (well pink is already slightly better than the pure white for some of GSC’s figures).

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