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.

This week GoodSmile releases Nanoha Takamachi’s Raging Heart and her best friend Fate Testarossa Swimsuit. I must admit I’m not really stunned to buy either one of them. Still to see them together in this picture brightens my day amd the Raging Heart would be a greawt keychain. So GoodSmile still care for Nanoha. We must hope they carry on.

On the other side, I think they* seriously need to check Nanoha’s face over again.

*They are GoodSmile and CMS which both lacks the girlisch face of Nanoha and the staring, sad eyes of Fate. Well, ok, if you were on the beach you shouldn’t look sad, but I mean, the faces are kinda dull. I can’t remember Nanoha having such a bust too.

If I do see them in the local stores, I actually may buy them. Let’s see what abunai offers at september. Abunai is a dutch anime convention I will attend to at September. It isn’t as expensive as the AnimeCon was in May, but shouldn’t be any smaller at all.

GoodSmile Fate Testarossa Swimsuit
GoodSmile Nanoha Takamachi’s Raging Heart

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.

Fate Testarossa starts as a formidable opponent of Nanoha Takamachi in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. In the third series she’s adopted and changes the name to Fate Testarossa Harlaown. I preferred the burst version, see happy soda’s site which also made a review. However I could not get it, all sold out . So, in meanwhile I bought this one and I hope the burst version becomes again available in the future.

So, let’s start my very first figure review. Yes, this my first. Be nice, but criticism is a must!

Figure name: Fate Testarossa
Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s
second season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
Scale: 1/8
Company: Good Smile
Costs: €58
Release Date: October 2006
Other reviews: riuva