A great figurine with some kick ass looks. Get it quick.. It might be sold out pretty quick. Wicked piece of pvc for in your figurine stand or on your desk :)

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Creator: Yamato toy corp.
Title: Creators' Labo #15
Subtitle: Neon Genesis Evangelion- Rei Ayanami

Sculptor:  Mitsumasa Yoshizawa (reflect)
Height: 10.25""/26cm
Comes with: Display base, Illustrated postcard

Today I'll be reviewing a figurine of a favorite character of many people including me.

Rei Ayanami.

I've been waiting for this gem in pre-order for over a month expecting it to be released somewhere in march....I was wrong... suddenly last friday i recieved an email saying they had it ... and 10 minutes later it was en-route to my adress. Wicked!

the figurine was designed by Shunya Yamashita (you may know him as a character designer from square enix for titles as FFX and other titles like valkerie profile2:silmeria) I actually own another figurine by his hand...

It was sculpted by Mitsumasa Yoshizawa. A guy that has a number of great looking figurines on its name.... Generally with very nice looking faces and georgious eyes. Anywhere from Eureka (eureka 7) to ryomo from ikki tousen. This guys knows what he's doing when it comes to sculpting.. though he should work on his own clothing a bit.

Back to the figurine.. It stands at about 26cm high ....thats (10.15" for you non metric people). Her plugsuit has been broken up into shorter bits like gloves,skimpy dress and thigh highs revealing more skin than ever before. Her face is phenomenal one of the best I've seen to date. This is mainly due to its designer I recon. I've seen a version of her online where she has an eyepatch which is the model kit version. But who would want to hide a part of a face as awesome as that.

Lets start from the ground up. The base she stands on. Made of clear plastic with her name on it and a figurine. The footing is somewhat odd as she comes with 2 small support stands that you put between her feet and the stand. She's also hard to attach to the stand.. But after you do its pretty solid.

Lets move up a bit. What a great pair of plastic legs. Her thigh highs make for an interesting rendering of everybodies favorite Rei. Now I haven't seen the new movie but if its anything like this.. its a movie I wanna see. Her tooshy looks great and it looks  just right. A bit sloppy work on the paint job though. Some minor smudges here and there could ruin it completely for a fanboi. But its easily fixable given ofcource you can find the right paint.

Her bodysuit is more like the original plugsuit. highly detailed abd comes with a glossy finish that makes the suit look like latex. She's got some propper cleavage and something that looks like a backpack of some sort.

Her arms have proper muscle tone not too much not too little.. just right. Her hands look great and as fragile as one would expect from a beauty like her.

Her face looks great. One of the main reasons I bought this gem. One of the key features on any of this designer's figurines are the faces. They speak. They look as if they are saying "Don't mess with me.. or i'll mess with you". 

I know one thing for certain. I'm gonna be on the look-out for more of this sculptor and designer.

Price: 30$ and euro for the modelkit and about $60 for the fully made figurine i've run into few sites that still have it in stock so I guess its a popular one. Get it while you can.

Sculptor's site:
http://www.shortner/1ab

A wikipedia about the designer: 
http://www.shortner.com/1ac

The designer's site:
http://www.shortner.com/1ad

I bought it at :
http://www.shortner.com/1ae