Hey! Remember a few weeks back I was raving about the latest art book from japanese illustrator Shunya Yamashita? And I posted up a couple of my favorite shots from said book, including the one of Shoko (above pic)?
So, the other week, me and my friend Jas were walking through our neighborhood comic store, and while I was perusing the latest comics (picking up the newest comic adaptation of Stephen King's THE STAND), Jas laughed out loud and said to me, "Hey, check out this statue of this girl- she looks TOTALLY like the kind of girl you like!"
I walked over and just about did a double take when I saw THIS sitting on the shelf:
It was a sculpture of super-cutie Shoko, the "Pink Negligee" pin-up I'd scanned just a few days earlier! Holy CRAP!
I'd seen various statues modeled after Shunya Yamashita's characters before, but every single one that I'd ever seen was of his Final-Fantasy style warrior women, and it just never crossed my mind that there were others!
I have to say, this is a HELLA well made figure here. Look at the details in her legs, the frilly lace on her gown, heck, even the heels are removable...in fact, they're packaged individually, so I had the strange joy of slipping them on her feet! I paid strict attention to the fact that on the extended leg, the shoe is meant to be dangling off her foot, so I had to hang it just right!
Another thing that is always interesting about statues like this is, the sculptor had to imagine what the backside of these characters looked like. You have to have a pretty good imagination for stuff like this. I remember when they made figures of the Muppet Show characters, It was SOOOOO interesting to see what the sculptor created for the Muppets from the waist down!
Oh, and by the way, the statue of Shoko was priced at $54.00, but the figures were on sale that day, and I was able to pick up the statue for $26.00! Yeah, Whatta Deal! Think I'll display this one above my computer monitor...
