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.

Takamachi Nanoha -  Beach Version, Good Smile

Vita – Normal and Unison mode version, Alter

Publisher: Alter
Sculpted: Tanaka Touji
Height: ~190 mm high (7.5 inch)
Scale: 1/7
Price: €55 (US $72)
Accessories: Graf Eisen Dril mode, Graf Eisen (normal), Giant Hammer Graf Eisen

This figure shows Vita and her weapon graf eisen in action.  In her flight she takes out her weapon and summons Graf Eisen giga form. Graf Eisen turns into a giant oversized hammer (for a very small girl).

Vita takes the hammer into both hands and forms a spinning tornado along herself once she sweeps the giant into the air. The massive weight of the hammer carries and supports Vita’s balance in her deadly and fierce ‘tornado’ attack.

Nakajima Subaru Alter

Scale: 1/7
Height: 220 mm
Release: 22 July 2009
Sculptor: Mumei
Price: €60 (US $79)

Unlike a real mage Subaru uses Belka Magics. Together with with some modified roller blades and huge gloves she runs the highways confronting foes face on face. Her weapon is called Mach Caliber. Together they are determined to help and support people in need.

It all started when she was an helpless little girl who was saved by a lovely mage, Nanoha Takamachi. From that moment she wished to be strong and looked forward to meet this kind person again and become a life saver as well. In StrikerS, the third season of the Nanoha series we find her struggling for these goals.

* Kidnemo misspelled Subaru, they wrote ‘Suburu’, but it is in fact Subaru. Don’t mail me again to ‘correct’ the name. Thanks.

Alter Lanster Teane

Lanster Teane, Alter

Scale: 1/7
Height: 160 mm
Price: €59 ($70, ¥6800)
Release: 30th January, 2009
Sculptor: ???

Teane Lanster is a sharpshooter who wields her guns named Cross Mirage to overcome her brothers dead. Her parents passed away when she was little and all she had was her brother. Her brother was a great shooter, but got lost in a mission. Cold hearted he was never honored and Teane obviously could not accept that fact. Now walking the footprints of her own brother she finds her own path crossing aside. Together with her partner Subaru she will become the next generation StrikerS!

Good Smile, Hayate Yagami

Yagami Hayate Knight Armor, Max Factory

Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and
Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Scale: ??? … 1/8
Height: 135mm
Price: €20 ($27.99)

Yagami Hayate makes her tribute in the series from the second season. Alike Nanoha Takamachi she starts as an innoncent girl. Even ‘worse’ she has an handicap and lives on her own until four knigths emerges from the book of darkness who serves her. Instead she uses the knight to become the ultimate ruler of the planet, she prefers them to have a family.

It’s a pity the book of darkness cannot suppressed that easily … You find that story in the second series of Nanoha. Nekomagic has quite a lot of pictures.

Alter Yagami Hayate

Yagami Hayate , Alter

Scale: 1/6
Height: 290mm
Price: €154 ($199) / aim for €130 ($170)
Release: ?? November 2009
Sculptor: Tsumezuka Hiroyuki

Alter version of Hayate is huge and an outstanding piece of expertise. Several bloggers had to restrict their complaints to: expensive and a supersized box.

Along with Hayate, the mistress of the Book of Darkness, you get Reinforce Zwei. A tiny (and ugly version) of a Reinforce Zwei Non Scaled version of Alter.

Reinforce has her own base or can float at the right shoulder of  Hayate. The book and Reinforce seems to float as the dark angel casts her spell. The wings on her back are just awesome. This figure is definitely worth to buy, even for non Nanoha fans. Though, know she’s huge!

TIP: checkout foobarbaz Yagami Hayate photo’s. Those are splendid and gives you a good view of the figure.

Capsule Figures, Yujin

Scale: ??? … 1/9
Height: 110mm
Price: €18 ($22.99)

I missed the first set, but the second and third set is in my (pre-) order list. These little figures are just cool to have as an collector. I wouldn’t advise them for a figure as is. Capsule figure’s are always low in quality and these wouldn’t be different. Though as collector item it will do for the small price.

Alter Fate Testarossa

Fate Testarossa Buster Version, Alter

Anime series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and
Anime series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and
Anime series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Released: December ??, 2006
Re-release: May ??, 2008
Height: 250mm
Publisher: Alter
Sculptor: Tsumezuka Hiroyuki
Scale: 1/8 <– beware the cape is huge!
Price: 6,500 yen, €70, $84

The finest Fate Testarossa figure so far is created by Alter. Her sad expression on her face tells an unheard and sad story. Still, she stands firm and solid. Bearing her heavy blade proudly. Her weapon named Bardiche and Arf her familiar are her only friends. As she struggles to complete her mission to collect dangerous ’stones’ for her mother, she stumbles on Nanoha … Could Nanoha smile and kindness reach Fate’s heart? ^.^ Nanoha Season 1.

Alter Reinforce Zwei

Reinforce Zwei, Alter

Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and
Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Released: May 08, 2008
Height: 190mm (without base)
Publisher: Alter
Sculptor: Tsumezuka Hiroyuki
Scale: Non-Scaled

Reinforce Zwei, the blessing wind, is an unision device who came to life when Reinforce One died. As an unison device she’s able to combine her strength with her master or one of the “wolkenritters”* protecting the book of darkness. Still, out of the battlefield, Reinforce Zwei is just like a human. She does her chores and have a job next to her master Hayate.

* Wolkenritters is German. “Wolken” means cloud and “Ritter” means knight.

Vita/ Signum / Shamal/ Fate, CM’s Corp

Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and
Series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Released: May 31, 2009 (Fate June 30, 2009)
Height: 210mm
Publisher: CM’s Corp
Sculptor: ???
Scale: ??? … 1/6
Accessories: Different faces, hands. (Fate has 3 swords, see nekomagic)

Three adult figures: Signum, Shamal and Fate Testarossa will be released over time by CM’s Corp. These three figures have all, what I think, a glimmered touch. The first (Vita) is released already (before November 2008 at least). I wouldn’t recommend the Vita, since Alter came up with an almost the same version in PVC which looks gorgerous. They don’t really fit the anime, but ain’t really bad. I wouldn’t recommended too anyone, but it seems to be great in collections.

Their homepages are: Shamal, Signum, Fate (I don’t know the link )
Screenshots Shamal: kent3583

Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Figures Overview

Thank you for reading my Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Figures Overview, Part 1. I will try to keep these posts up-to-date. If I forgot a Nanoha figure or you can give information (eg. Sculptor), please don’t hesistate and inform me!

Currently there is only 1 part!

The blessing wind

Anime series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A’s and
Anime series: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS
Released: May 08, 2008
Height: 190mm (without base)
Publisher: Alter
Sculpted: Tsumezuka Hiroyuki
Scale: Non-Scaled ( hehe so cool )
Buy at: Archonia, Play-asia
Other reviews: Happy-Soda, lololol, foobarbaz

My second shoot, following both tutorials of HappySoda (light and blocking light) and followed up the tips from Shino, who I think is from the lololol blog, I shot better pictures than last time. We’ll start with a little side-story about Reinforce Une.

Reinforce is a device from the tome of the night sky. Yagami Hayate, the mistress obtained her in season 2. However due certain events Reinforce Zwei (Deutsch for two) is now the new tome device.

Reinforce Zwei, does look like a chibi version of the earlier Reinforce. She made an appearance in the later season 3 (StrikerS) and we finally we see her into action as she takes on the full drive. Later on you get to know Reinforce is an unison device. Ok, I won’t spoil it, so I better stop informing about the series. At any case a screenshot of Reinforce Zwei, from StrikerS is below so we are able to compare it with the pvc version of Alter.

Together and along Fate Testarossa and Nanoha Takamachi they fight their way through the episodes in StrikerS as adult. Their viewpoint is changed but the action is spared until the last 15 episodes which will stock your grasps for sure.

More information about the three seasons is referred at the blog post Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Season 1-3. Which also provides Direct Download Links and the image boards.

So, now the review pvc figure Reinforce Zwei. In which I must say is a must have for all Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha fans. Let me convince you, having my second figure review.

I’ve changed the setup as I read the tutorial and it now looks like this.

Neat uh, the reflectors were a great idea. Two papers are of photo paper quality which reflects the sunlight pretty well. Now, let’s compare the figure to the Reinforce Zwei from the anime series. … Just looking at them, comparing the details, you probably notice, it’s perfect, not? You can even remove the cape like she does at the anime series.

I totally love the seamless floating tome. It’s really awesome, it’s attached at a hair stroke and I’ve took a good look at it. It’s correctly attached, which I mean, is strongly attached. In fact, the figure slipped from my hand and dropped a meter to the floor … Nothing was broken, however her eyes was shooting daggers at me .

Let us take a closer look. From this angle we do see the book attached to a single hair stroke. As I told, it looks a bit scary, but it’s really firmly attached. I’m not sure whether Reinforce is enchanting a spell or just is troubling with the sun. Let us presume she’s enchanting and calls upon her tome to do so. Pay attention the the tome details. It’s nicely crafted with seeming pages. The details follows up to have a lot of hairstrikes, beautiful hands, nicely done gloves and the nice uniform she wears. They have done an excellent job at the uniform below the waste, which really give a ‘clothes-feeling’. I can almost taste the fabric.

Two shots of the figure in full length. Having a shot from the angle where the floating tome is visibility attached and on the right side an angle where it’s invisible. You do now also clearly find the cape spreading around the body. Wrapping her up by the wind which blows in front of her. There is much motion in the figure, more than I expected earlier on.

I just found out, writing this piece of post, about the figure not standing right at the base. That’s my fault, must be blamed on rotating the figure and lacking to pay attention. Sorry guys, the site foobarbaz has good shoot of the figure standing at the base. I’m a bit lazy to shoot again.

Their legs … why are people complaining about her pair of tights uneven? I think that’s more cool than having them even. If you do want to discuss this, just pretend she probably has one tight and the other one is just a sleeve ^^. Oh look at that, HappySoda’s tutorial on reflecting light really was the effort. Thanks SuperRats.

At last the back … well not the full back since I thought that would be lousy shot. So I ended up making a shot of how the hair falls on her back. Nice to see is the hair is formed by the wind and the motion of her body. A stroke or two glides among her thighs and a single one, holding the book, stretches out in front.

Conclusion

Alter published a marvelous figure, again. Reinforce Zwei looks like the anime series, the cuteness is sprouting from it and the figure is firm. The stand does it’s work outstanding, even without putting it well at the base, the figure stands stable. It can have a drop of a meter or two and the pose is enternaning. At last I remind you of the oh so splendid seamless floating tome. I’m so happy with this figure, Nanoha fans you won’t be dissapointed.