I know it’s a very “late-ish” review, one is that she had a “slight” mishap to her waist joint.
Marisa is the second Touhou Project character that had been produced in figma form. Her full character information can be found here.
Her figure is reproduced quite nicely and not mistaken this is from the Touhou – Imperishable Night version.
Yes, her skirt is one massive piece and layered. An apron on top, the main skirt and an under-skirt, her ribbon at the back is from a soft material. She’s quite stable yet easily to fall down whenever there’s small gust of wind.
The hat can cause major stability issues. Due note that her large ribbon for the apron is a bit soiled due to an emergency operation (with a hint of panic). Had to use a pin vise in prying out the joint that was broken (a nightmare for any figure owner).
Detailing
Marisa comes with three facial expressions, notably her default cheery look, her wide grin and a shouting expression. All this captures her personality, IMO.
Her hat can be remove, and typical with any long-haired figma, her head and arms movements are bit… restricted.
Attention to detail are also present for her (black-white) shoes. Extra care must be exercised in removing her shoes, that will be shown later.
In order to secure her hat, a transparent plug are used. This means her hat is exclusively used by her.
There’s a socket. Don’t worry, this socket here can be closed with…
There, all closed up. 🙂
the best part of the whole review is the part part gunpla part XD
oh yes, why dont you link back your Marisa-repair post (no Terminexia jokes here,please) to this review? that can be useful to other unlucky owners of Marisa 😀
Done. =D
Part part gunpla part?? *GasP* She’s a hybrid!!!
She’s, she IS a figma-gunpla hybrid. =D
Then again, it IS me here (with craz… creative ideas).
Na-na-nani? A figma Marisa review now? Oh, we usual customers have got pretty accustomed with your Marisa and her Master Spark-ing quite well by now. ^^
Yeah, I know, quite “late-ish”. XD
That’s Marisa for you, she angry, she does master spark. =D
Those Gundams must be pretty good guys to be able to donate parts like that!
I bet finding a decently-priced Reimu is going to be pretty tough. I’m kinda surprised they aren’t getting re-issues like the Nendoroids are.
Got the ABS runner part from my Geara Doga Rezin Use HGUC kit.
Yeah… hoping that Reimu will get a re-issue… T_TT
The way she throws her broom then ride it reminds me of an early Dragon Ball character XD.
So her articulation was kinda limited, I see. But I think she’s worth it for the wide grin itself :).
LoL.
Limited yes, but still okay-ish. Indeed, her grin is worth more than that. XD
So that’s how that black-white Danmaku machine ticks… XD
She very “generous” in giving out her master spark. XD
That’s quite sometime before you made this review lol~
Yes, very late-ish. XD
This was a fun review, much more interesting than your typical review, fashionably late too.
Marisa is one of my favorite figmas she is just so fun and expressive. This review made me get the urge to take more pictures of her.
I do hope you get Reimu soon, I would love to see your take on her.
Thanks. Got nothing better to do on a Sunday, sooo… >.>
And yes, very late.
More pictures of her? Please do. =D
Yeah… *sigh*
Figma is always about great details for anime character and lots of fun accessories ^^
Indeed, their sculpting are very nice but they tend to have certain “quality” issues… Sometimes.
lol having her hat next to her makes her head look waaaayyyy smaller. For me the only figma i kept was the touhou collection, they all are well made and come on touhou, couldnt seperate myself from them, its great having marissa along with reimu, sakuya*, and aya, SUIKA next!! looking forward.. whole gang of them lol
Marissa whether people are fan or not is worth having, plus she comes with the broom!
=) nice long but detailed review.
* fixed name
Her hat is BIIIG. XD
So far had three figma, still can’t get Reimu; Suika… quite expensive for a loli. XD
Her broom is very useful. =D
touhou characters are nice to have… still I don’t wanna though.
how bout Suika? I think better preorder now before it’s rare item.
I let my friend get her, not a fan of tsurepettan. XD
Congratulation! Marissa is a good figure.
I almost give up on completing the Figma Touhou Project since they always become limited.. T_T
But not as limited as figma Saber Lily… And the coming soon figma W*RS.
Marisa: It’s Marisa, single “S”, da ze~!
Haha this review is way overdue but heh better late than never 😛
Her wide grinning expression is probably what I like about her the most…..you can use that face for tons of story telling buahah!!
Yeah. XD
Her grin is the BEST grin EVAR~!
Marisa has been a big player on your blog, so it’s nice to see a formal introduction for her, and a review of course~ ^^
The hat causes stability issue? So she becomes somewhat back heavy of some sort? Too bad about the brekage back then but at least you get to fix her up with spare ABS from Gunpla runner (good use of leftovers for sure!).
Even though I am not familiar with Touhou stuff, it’s nice to see background info of character or accessories for those who do not know who and what they are (e.g. me ^^;). They sure are not the easiest or cheapest figmas to get, and now that you mention WRS up there I’m forseeing myself getting really pwned by her orz
Her personality matches mine, i.e: chaotic good. =D
Not to say back heavy, but more about aerodynamics issue caused by her hat surface and her human-like (other words tiny) footings). Took me about a few weeks to get that idea on her fix.
Glad to be of service about her backgrounder and items. Umm… not very easy that’s for sure.
W*RS… don’t worry, you and others are getting serious pwnage. XD