The beautiful Valkyries descend from the skies supervising the fairies of the forest they dive into the battle. The Valkyries are at the winning hand and among the female warriors an huge dark shadow appears. The demon lord Odin swings his huge Psypher into the air, slamming the queen of the fairies to the ground. But as one victory is made another is lost and Gwendolyn loses her precious “sister” Griselda. Sister, as all Valkyries are one of each other her heart cries out of hatred toward the huge demonic cauldron they fight for. Still whatever the great lord orders, the Valkyries will obey his command, however when Gwendolyn finds out a traitor she has to disobey her father. She wishes to safe her father even if it will strip her of her pride and honor.

Thus the lovely princess Gwendolyn is expelled from her world. Strip of pride an honor she is cast a spell called “Love”. She now must grow old to be a mother and love the man she fought to.  Oswald the Shadow knight bearing the cursed sword and slain the great wise dragon Belial who have chosen to live with the humans. While Gwendolyn drags herself from her bed she still praises her father and never doubts her decision. Cursed with her faith she’s eager to obey the laws of her father. Night after night the shadow knight returns of battle but when he suddenly remains absent, Gwendolyn starts to worry. In disgusts of her thoughts of the curse she has, she goes and find her husband. Soon she will discover a bigger plot.

A war is brewing and the fairies prepares themselves for battle. The forest is their home and lives, without the phozons the forest casts, the fairies will wither and die. Despites the commands of the queen the general commands the dwarves to forge a forbidden blade. In meanwhile the queen’s daughter, the princess, Mercedes has borrowed her mothers bow. Out in the woods she had practice her skills, hunting frogs. When she returns she finds her mother preparing for combat. Quickly she takes the bow up her feet, so heavy she can barely carry. Her mothers smiles and questions her intention.

Mercedes face rises when she looks up to her mother. “Help ofcourse”,  she says. Her mother smile wary, ‘my dear’, she says, ‘do not go to battle when you do not know the reason to fight’. Her daughter looks to her. a bit confused first, but then she asks “So, why what do we battle for”. Her mother let out a small laughter, she doesn’t want her daughter to get mixed up in an battle between the fairies and the demon’s lord daughters, the Valkyries. So she waves her help away and set foot the her troops. The battle will start as Mercedes grants her mother a unknowing last eye. The queens energy would flow back into the woods, giving birth to new plants and other lifeforms when she returns …

Racing the highways and slamming the fiends with a physical assault. A fierce ‘melee’ warrior, quick, agile and relentless fighter in the world of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha … That must be Subaru Nakajima. Subaru is introduced in the last season of Nanoha named StrikerS. Along her friend Teana Lanster she makes her way to the 6th devision created by Hayate Yagami.

When Subaru was young a terrible fire broke out. She had struggled and cried for her sister between the burning furnitures of the building until a pillar started to collapse. She fell down and cried and yelled as she was going to die. Suddenly a pillar  moved but froze in it’s fall. Behind the dark shadows of the pillar a friendly smile appeared. Nanoha safed her, she called out  her magical device Raging Heart and casted her famous ’starlight buster’. A moment later Subaru found herself safe. Nanoha’s warm arms wove the the cold breeze of the lonely night which dazed before her eyes as they fly to in the sky. As she rose her eyes she would meet Nanoha’s friendly smile as the dazing stars passes. In that moment she promised to be brave. Then she broke in tears and awaited her big sister.

Her tail twists up the air as she crawl her way to the pillows. She grabs a Saito looking doll in her mouth and drags her puppy all over the bed. Spinning she blushes as she stumbles upon the cam. A bit of embarrassed, but despite, determined to continue to tempt Saito off guard. She already doesn’t care much of the other nobles as her heart continues to grow for this ‘outlaw’.

Nekomimi model of Louise has almost no relation to the anime. The only connection would be Louise dress up as a kitty to impress Saito, which I suppose was enough reason to have a figure of it. Neko, cat in Japanese, version of Louise of the anime “Familiar of Zero” is a very cute figure. Her drooling eyes, nice pose, a little of blush and a very cute Saito Hiraga doll in her mouth makes it a such a lovely figure and I couldn’t resist to buy. Photo’s and pictures within the review (underneath or click the read on link on the frontpage).

Started as a mere face of a synthesized program Vocaloid2, 16 years old Hatsune Miku’s grew up as a world phenomenon of “featured cyber-pop-star”. Powered by her cute and high pitched voice which may not be achieved by humans, she is truly blessed. Looking again, Hatsune Miku is actually not a popstar, in fact she isn’t even an human at all. She’s a production of Yamaha to be a face of their program named Vocaloid. Yamaha is known for the synthesized specialty. A Yamaha Synthesizer was earlier often used for midi files. … Though I won’t bother you with the Yamaha, check the wikipedia page for it.

Nowadays we find Vocaloid and especially Hatsune Miku all over the world (blogs). I read the criticism at riuva to blog anything popular, but Miku can’t be ignored. She’s just too cute and her voice is something unearth. There is no way you can ignore her voice and it’s quite unbelievable she gained popularity in just a few months after her broadcast in Tokyo (see the youtube review). She crossed the path as popstar and anime all together having both the popularity of anime and music fans. Breaking the boundaries Miku introduces a new world to a lot of newbies. The world of synthesized music, high pitched and fully digital. Now enough introduction and start roling the figure review.

Louise de la Valiel is a student at the magic school who is barely able to cast the most simplest spells. When she is to summon her life time guardian familiar, probably a Lizard, Dragon or Salamander in the magic world she lives ine. She instead summons a Japanese boy from earth. Being laughed at her summoning can’t be redo, so she drags the boy to his ‘cage’. The boy still is her familiar and though it doesn’t seems so, it is a gift send from the heavens (for her). Obviously the boy, Hiraga Saito, is kinda confused and doesn’t obey his master commands very well.

Soon after being summoned Hirage clears his mind. Though confused he doesn’t allow anyone to laugh at him and makes a big fuss. It doesn’t even take a day until he discovers his master, Louise reputation. Louise is mostly addressed as Zero at the campus, referring the zero to her spell casting skills. Though she’s incompetent in casting she still tries her best all the time. Even the family spots her and her father is mostly disappointed. A  la Valiel, a noble blood, must be able to cast at least those simple spells at the acedemy.  This might be the cause why Louise has a low tempter. Can Hiraga find the real Louise behind Zero? Is Zero really the first la Valiel without grand casting spells, or does she behold a more severe spell?

Zero no Tsukaima, The familiar of Zero, is a humorous anime series. Stuffed with ecchi and magic it appears to be quite a charming series over 3 seasons.

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Price: €49.99 (~ $71 American Dollars)
Publisher: Kotobukiya
Sculpted: Masaki Sanada
Scale: 1/8
Store: archonia

I’ve spotted some Nanoha nendroids at nekomagic. Nekomagic have some nice shots from the Hobby Complex 07 which was held in Tokyo. Among these there nendoroids there were also several Nanoha figures I wasn’t familiar with. I’ve copy-pasted the Nanoha images here on hirvine, since I’m a big Nanoha fan. To view all the photos of the Hobby Comple 07, Tokyo , please visit nekomagic.

Shamal is one of the wolkenritters in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and StrikerS. Together with Vita, Signum and Zafira she makes part of party to protect the master of the book of darkness, Hayate. Her device is called “Clear Wind” which is alike a two diamond shaped stones carved on two rings each. Shamal wears the rings on her forefinger and the second on her ringfinger.

In battle she doesn’t directly merges into battle, as her strength isn’t physical attended. Instead she casts curses and steals magic from her victims’ Linker Core’s. A linker core is the heart of a magician in which magic flows from. Without a linker core, the magician has no magic and so cannot cast spells. A linker core can be broken if Shamal leeches a longer period.

It is Shamal’s duty to keep an eye on the group and transfer the adsorbed magic to the book of darkness and fill it. She acts like the mother of the group.

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Publisher: CMS
Sculpted: ???
Height: ~210 mm high (8.3 inch)
Scale: 1/6
Price: €80 (US $104)
Accessorizes: 2 books (1 open, 1 closed), 4 different faces and hands

Square Enix have created two action figures for Aerith Gainsborough (in English translated to Aeris Gainsborough) of Final Fantasy VII. Final Fantasy VII is a playstation RPG game created in 1997 by Squaresoft.  In 1998 a pc version was released and in 2005 a movie which tells about the story two years after the original game. Final Fantasy VII continues it’s story in Crisis Core at the PSP in 2007, which in fact narrates an earlier period prior the original game in 1997.

The original game tells about an ex-soldier SOLDIER named Cloud Strife. He quite the army and joined the rebel group AVALANCHE. Avalanche thinks the planet is dying because of the ‘MAKO’ energy the city drains from the planet. … Well, don’t worry, I won’t go on for too long. Aeris comes into play as Cloud Strife just completed his first mission. While he’s running away from the guards he meets a beautiful flower girl who hands him over a flower. This girl is Aerith Gainsborough or Aeris Gainsborough if we correctly translate it. Is the flower girl I you see in the pictures. (Though the dress is from Crisis Core).

Square created two action figures of Aerith Gainsborough and 1 superb pvc figure which cost you nearly $199. The first was released in 2007 (I think). The second (the one on the photoshoot today) is released in 31st Jan, 2009. I, as final fantasy fan, have both the figures but lacks the credits to actually pay the pvc *sigh*. Today I took pictures, of Aerith Gainsborough the flower girl, I got last Friday the 13th.

At first I like to mention I did not put all figures of  “Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha” series in this overview. It was way too much and I had to split things up in parts. This overview is part 1. If any can provide me with more information, please do.
At second I won’t order the figures on date, name or whatever. I might do it if I get time :/.

I hope you like the little overview of Nanoha Figures.