With a very mature air about her, comes the sexy Kotona!
Kotona Elegance is one of the two heroines from the anime Zoids Genesis.
In 2006 a figure of her was put on sale in a swimsuit,
and quickly became popular. Now,
prototype sculptor Chieri has once again made a new PVC figure of Kotona for the 2007 WonFes.
Wearing a well-known costume from the anime,
she's sitting on a chair in a very alluring pose.
For both the people who have Kotona in her swimsuit and those who don't,
this is one figure you'll want to get your hands on!
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Kotona was sit by the bar when I got there to get a drink. It had been a tough day working with nasty clients. I gazed over to look at Kotona when she looked back and returned with a smile.
“Tough day?” she asked.
“Yeah…” I replied while trying not to fall off the chair from her immense beauty.
Review of Kotona Elegance by Max Factory
Kotona certainly lives up to her name of being both charming and an elegant lady when she arrived a few days ago. I was very much attracted to her looks when I took her out of the box. Despite being a skilled assassin, she doesn’t look like one on the outside.
If one didn’t know she was a assassin, she would have been easily mistaken for a model or even a pretty cosplayer.
Kotona sits on a translucent green chair, which fits her pose very well. She wears a dress similar to the Chinese Cheong Sam (Traditional dress), pink long gloves and kinky boots, together with her looks, allows Kotona to easily capture the limelight.
Her green mint hair is distinctive as well, and she’s the first figure in my collection to have that hair color.
One thing I didn’t like about this figure was how Kotona has a plug hole in her left hand in order for her to support herself. But I like the fact that you can pretty much sit her on anything.
^ Low angel shot for the guys
Figurine Info
Product: Kotona Elegance Costume Ver.
Produced by: Max Factory
Sculptor: Chieri
Scale: 1/7
Material: PVC
Release Date: Mid March 2008
Price: ¥6,153
Available: 1999.co.jp (Available)
Photography Notes
Used three lights this time, two as frontal lights while the third as a hair light. Decided to try using the cardboard backdrop that came with the box for the background in some of the shots.
Post Processing
I had to do quite a bit of post processing as I had somewhat screwed up my white-balance settings, resulting in a slightly warmer overlay of colors for the photos. There was also a speck of nasty dust on my camera CMOS sensor (the black blob) which you could see in some photos which I didn’t managed to remove ORZ
Apologies for the inconsistent color tone!
Extra
And the Tony Taka illustration she based off. Yummy!
(P.S Anyone who read through the Tony Taka C69 Barbecue book realized that Kotona wears black pantsu in one of the pages? ^^;)
Almost every day, I would suggest to Kotona that she wear a lab coat. I hear the screams out there reacting to the foolishness of the idea of covering up such a sweet body, but there’s something mysterious about Kotona and the lab coat plays to that — there’s a story behind her eyes. Of course, she could still wear her short skirts. What self-respecting hot anime girl in a lab coat wouldn’t? Hell, she’s got the pen twirl down pat. Some glasses would be nice too. Lab coat, pen twirl, and glasses. It’s a better life than that of an assassin, well maybe.
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Kotona Elegance Figure Review
I had a few reasons for adding this to my already painful list of pre-orders. Mostly what it came to was, Kotona is elegant, even with the short dress and retro space-girl boot/stocking footwear. The elegance is there in her eyes, the ones on her head.^^ Gotta thank Danny Choo for making it so most figure folk think you’re talking about her rack when mentioning a figure’s eyes.
Kotona is a Max Factory figure sculpted by Chieri, whose done a bunch of things under Max Factory. So with this one they’ve got Kotona resting on some blue-green modern design chair, leaning back, stretching one leg out while hugging the other. With that pretty gaze, it’s a winner. Her hair frames her face perfectly too. All lines point in.
I’ll interrupt the love fest for a second to point out that the paint on her outfit spiderwebs into the other colors. It looks okay on normal, but a little sloppy on macro. Those eyes will poke your eyes out.
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The other thing I like is she’s in 1:7 scale, which has become my favorite scale size for these anime girl figures.
More Blather!
I didn’t pre-order Kotona. It was the pictures at foo-bar-baz that made me do it. When her gaze is in that sweet spot where everything lines up, yeah that was it. Plus Kotona is built closer to a woman than a girl.
Edit: It looks like Windbell got this one too, yay! I like it when good figures find homes. As he notes, you can pretty much let Kotona sit on anything appropriate. I’ll leave what is appropriate up to you, since my mind is going straight to the gutter.
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