Good Smile Company Vocaloid Petit Nendoroid Vol. 1
It felt like a good weekend to just be lazy around the house and it was one of the few times I really didn’t feel like doing a review. Then I remembered I had just gotten these little gems and thought they would be the perfect filler this week. Today we’re taking a look at Good Smile Company’s Petit Nendoroid Vol. 1 figure series from the Vocaloid franchise.
Hobby is War~
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Vocaloid Petit Nendoroid Vol. 1: Background
Good Smile Company’s Vocaloid Petit Nendoroid Vol. 1 was released in November of 2009 and retailed for about ¥9800 (90 USD) before shipping and import. You could also buy each individually at ¥500 a pop but there is little guarantee you’ll get the one you want since the box is sealed. The set was sculpted by Yukiwo Ageta / Nendoron.
So this set covers the Vocaloid’s from the Vocaloid and Vocaloid 2 voice synthesizers as well as some fan made designs. Kaito and Meiko hail from Vocaloid, Miku Hatsune, Rin and Len Kagamine, and Luka Megurine from Vocaloid 2, and the three Chinese knock-off looking ones in Neru Akita, Haku Yowane, and Meiko Sakine are the fan inspired designs. The Vocaloid 2 characters are by far the most popular with Miku leading the pack.
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Vocaloid
I jokingly refereed to these three as the Chinese knock-offs but in actuality I like them just fine. As it turns out each is usually a hybrid of two of the others: Neru is a Miku/Rin hybrid and Haku is a Miku/Meiko hybrid, but Meiko Sakine is just a moeified version of Meiko. I think it’s neat of GSC to include these in the set especially considering their fan origins.
But of course, Miku Hatsune is queen above all and she gets no less than three unique versions of herself in this set. This includes her standard outfit complete with leaks, of course, but the real winner in my mind is “normal school girl” Miku. The reserved pose, the sullen look, the pink flower in hand – she’s is just too adorable for words (even if you dress her up). I demand she be made into a large scale figure now!
As is typical with sets like this you get a special prize draw in the mix (each container has 12 boxes – 10 of each figure, 1 duplicate, and 1 special). This time the special prize draw is the ever popular (and appropriately named) Miku Hachune. What’s neat about this one is Yukiwo Ageta / Nendoron gave her all manor of joints so she can be positioned in multiple ways. Well, more than your typical Nendoroid, that is.
One of the things I like about these Petit Nedoroid’s is the fun customization options that you can do with their faces, resulting in fun crossovers or different ambiances. Like in this case we can cross Vocaloid and Lucky Star to give us Lucky☆Loid.
That’s what I would like to say at least. Unfortunately there is a lot of discrepancy between how the faces and hair pieces are molded between lines due to shapes of heads being so different and in this case the result is something which doesn’t quite fit right. It will usually work in similar lines but not between different ones.
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Final Thoughts
Since this set was announced there have been quite a few new additions to the Vocaloid line but none are nearly as popular as the Vocaloid 2 ones, especially the “Character Vocal Series” (what Miku et all are part of). Even so there are plenty of new, upcoming, and unused designs from the franchise for GSC to release another set or two of these.
Just please don’t do Leon. Ever.
out for now,
Rico-sama
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Vocaloid Petit Nendoroid Vol. 1 Full Gallery
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Really nice pictures~ ^^ Just wanted to point out that the ’schoolgirl Miku’ actually hails from a song called Saihate, which despite the funky beat is actually a song about her losing a loved one (hence her in a suit, because I believe she attended the funeral). I personally prefer the livetune remix (at least when Miku’s singing it) but the original is quite interesting as well ^^
Thanks for the info. I think I’ll check that video out.
Following Miku Hatsune’s videos isn’t something I’m accustomed to doing, as you can tell. I have an album of hers and I quite like, but it’s just hard to sift through all the Miku videos out there.
The funeral thing is a bit of a downer but I still want a figure of her though!
No problem! In a way you’re right; it’s kinda hard to sift through all those videos and find something you like. But I like Vocaloid, so it’s in no way an obstacle for me. XD
I would love a Saihate Miku, too, since I love the song and her outfit, but ah, I don’t want to see any more people complaining about the series getting milked. xD; I’d love for someone to make her, though. Maybe it’ll happen, since GSC’s starting to make figures of really popular Vocaloid songs (World is Mine, Love is War, BRS if that can be counted)… but then again, they’re all supercell/ryo-produced songs, so…uh… I don’t know if that means anything. ^^;
I, for one, have no problem with the series being “milked”. I think the franchise is robust enough and diverse enough to support multiple figures. I mean we haven’t seen that many of the same type of Miku – most of them are variants like WiM, VN02, LiW, etc.
Then again my perception could be warped by all the Evangelion figures out there, lol.
Thanks for the writeup, but I just wanted a bit of clarification on how the box works. So the set is guaranteed to have 10 unique figures + Hachune Miku + one dupe, or is that just how yours ended up?
The set is guaranteed to be like that. In the four or so Petit Nendoroid figure collections I’ve bought it’s always been the case to have 10 regulars (all unique), one special, and one duplicate. I’m not sure how applicable it is to other gashapon sets but I would imagine something happens there as well.
What the heck? The link for the picture that doesn’t fit quite right comes up as a problem loading page for me.
Anyways, I don’t know if you noticed this in your box set, but the paint job is rather messy. I think they are adorable as heck, but I felt that the Death Note puchi were better executed. On another note, I had no freaking clue that the mystery puchi had joints on it. NO WAY!!! I thought it was such a cute petit nendoroid and now you’re telling me that I can add another level of awesomeness to it. Just wow…
Weird. Works fine for me. Here is another link to it.
I didn’t notice a more messy paint job, no. But then again it’s not something I really pay much attention to with gashapons. They seem consistent with the Lucky Start and The Melancholy… sets I have.
I know, it’s awesome right? That was a real pleasant surprise when I opened Miku Hachune.
Man, I laughed at the glaringly obvious discrepancy for mold lines and gaps when switching parts amongst the petit nendoroids. It reminds me of the Imouko nendoroid, too.
It would’ve been awesome if they had been designed with that interchangeability in mind. Oh well.