Testing your luck by no means felt really easy.
For a lot of followers, the attraction of blind-buy gacha toys is a paradox. On one hand the random nature provides a bit of pleasure, as you received’t know what you’ll get till you open up the capsule or field, so too few doable outcomes spoils a few of the enjoyable. Then again, although, the extra doable prizes there are, the decrease your possibilities of getting one you actually, actually need, proper?
However each every now and then a gacha toy collection comes alongside that elegantly solves this drawback by giving us a pleasant number of prizes, and likewise making all of them issues we’d be very pleased with, and that’s what’s occurring with these My Neighbor Totoro figures.
Studio Ghibli specialty store Donguri Kyowakoku has simply issued a rerelease of their “Stuffed with Poses” determine strains of cuddly forest spirit Totoro and his adventurous pal Mei. Of the 5 designs proven for every of them, there’s not a foul one within the bunch, so the shock isn’t if you’ll be pleased with the outcomes of your blind-buy, simply how.
For the Totoro lineup, you would possibly find yourself with Totoro taking part in his ocarina…
…roaring as he flies although the sky…
…spinning his prime pre-flight…
…fiddling together with his umbrella…
…or taking (or at the least making an attempt to take) a nap as he meets Mei for the primary time.
Shifting over to Mei’s set, every determine is a callback to a memorable second from the Hayao Miyazaki-directed anime basic, corresponding to Mei’s bewilderment on the soot sprite she thought she’d caught between her clasped arms having magically disappeared.
▼ Excitable child that she is, when Mei feels one thing, she feels it strongly.
Along with the figures seen within the images, there’s additionally a sixth, “secret” determine for each Totoro and Mei.
The figures can be found by means of the Donguri Kyowakoku on-line retailer (Totoro right here, Mei right here) and are priced at 1,320 yen (US$8.90), which is decidedly on the upper finish for blind-buy figures. They seem, although, to be of very nice high quality, and at roughly 7 to eight centimeters (2.8 to three.1 inches) in peak, they’re a little bit larger than the everyday capsule toy too.
Oh, and getting again to that remark at the beginning of this text about how “many” followers respect the random pleasure of gacha items, sure, we notice that to some those that’s truly a destructive side, particularly in the event you’re seeking to put collectively an entire set and don’t wish to waste cash on duplicates. For you, Donguri Kyowakoku can also be providing these figures as full field purchases (Totoro right here, Mei right here), with all six designs, together with the key one, for 7,920 yen.
Supply: Donguri Kyowakoku
High picture: Donguri Kyowakoku
Insert pictures: Donguri Kyowakoku (1, 2)
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