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Cool Girl - Best of Cool Girl - Kisaragi Honey |
| Series | Cool Girl |
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| Title | Best of Cool Girl - Kisaragi Honey | |
| Release Date | March 2006 | |
| Manufacturer | Takara | |
| Suggested Price (JPY) | 9,500 | |
| Scale | 1/6 | |
| Height (cm) | 29 cm (approx.) | |
| No. of Parts | 1 figure + 8 parts + 1 display base | |
| My Rating | Good |
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Story
Kisaragi Honey is not your typical Japanese teenager. She has a penchant for getting
into trouble and being both naughty and nice. One day her carefree life is suddenly rocked
when she receives an odd message from her father. Rushing to his laboratory, Honey finds her
father murdered. The perpetrators are agents of the evil organization called Panther Claw.
They are after Prof. Kisaragi’s invention – The Air Matter Transmutation System. Honey
fights off Panther Claw and finds the consciousness of her father alive within a robot
facsimile. Prof. Kisaragi shockingly reveals to Honey that she is herself a cyborg which he
had created. Prof. Kisaragi had built her to be the perfect cyborg, capable of human emotion
as well as independent thought. To this end he had raised her as he would a human daughter.
Prof. Kisaragi had also placed the Air Matter Transmutation System into her body. Using its
powers, Honey is able to “change” into an unlimited number of different personas, the most
powerful of which is the spicy redhead “Cutey” [Cutie] Honey. Honey vows to avenge her
father’s death and wages a personal war against Panther Claw. She is aided (hampered) in her
battles by the Hayami Clan consisting of brothers Seiji and Jyunpei, and their perpetually
“horny” father, Danbei.
Packaging
The figure comes in standard Cool Girl / Cy-Girl packaging where it opens revealing the
figure and some accessories on the right window and more accessories on the left plastic
tray. The packaging is the usual collector un-friendly design where the left plastic tray is
impossible to removed without damaging it.
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| Box front view | Box rear view |
The following are the detail part listing.
Left Plastic Flap
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Main Tray
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| Box window displaying its contents |
The Kisaragi Honey Figure
In general, the "Best of Cool Girl" series is a re-release of older Cool Girls from
Takara. However, Kisaragi Honey is the first new figure that is release under this new
sub-line. She comes in a sleek silver and blue costume as seen in "Cutie Honey Flash
(1997)". The costume includes an ultra short dress, gold armbands, white mesh stockings, a
headband and a bolero jacket.
As with all "Alternative" versions, she comes with the new CGB 2.0 body. This is mean serious business in the articulations department. Moreover, her costume design is quite unobtrusive and I am quite happy posing her around. Her jacket is a problem though. It looks nice enough but it is too tight for her shoulders to move around.
There are 6 extra interchangeable hands provided. It sound sweet comparing to Cutie Honey who only got 4 but don't be too happy with that. She comes with the standard pathetic hand sculpting that mean a pair of uninspiring fist hands and another pair of robotic chop hands. I am reluctant to use these 2 pairs of hand for posing but thankfully she comes with a better last pair of hands (sword grip and open palm) that are in a more dynamic hand gesture. Again I got the feeling of the extra hands are provided just to buff up the parts count.
Her face sculpting is not something that I am very happy with. I have got use to Takara's Cool Girl face sculpting. I can swallow up Cutie Honey's face sculpting. However, I find hard to swallow Kisaragi Honey's. She comes with nice rooted shoulder length hair and nice paint job but I do feel something is missing. Kisaragi Honey is supposed to be a sweet-naive-innocent-but-sometimes-clumsy Asian girl with blonde hair but what I have here is a not-really-sweet-naive-innocent-and-definitely-not-clumsy western blonde. In my opinion, Takara missed the mark in capturing the essence of the character and that is the biggest flaw on this figure.
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Conclusion
This action doll comes well articulated with little obstruction from her costume making
her one of the more posable doll within this series. The accessories are uninteresting and
the face sculpting is definitely not of Kisaragi Honey. The remarks sound negative. This is
all because of the big expectation are not met when Takara slap in a "Kisaragi Honey" label
on it hoping to squeeze more hard-earned money from fans. If they do otherwise, like naming
it an original series instead, this is actually not bad at all for an action doll.
This item is purchased online from HLJ.
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Document Date : 2006-12-12 Last Modified : 2007-12-31 |
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