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Figures! Street Fighter Lucky Star and the Return of Velvet

Lucky Star characters enter the Street Fighter IV arena, and Odin Sphere's Velvet returns.

It must be figure day because I saw an awful lot of spiffy figures stuff going down on my RSS feed-- but there were two (or, technically, five) that I wanted to share with you.

The first four are the new set of Lucky Star figures-- and man, I wonder how long before they'll need some kind of second anime to promote their stuff, because they potentially have an infinite number of Lucky Star crossover figure sets they could do. This one is Lucky Star x Street Fighter, featuring (left to right) Tsukasa as Ken, Kagami as Ryu, Konata as Guile, and Miyuki as C. Viper. I'm a little disappointed that they didn't give Miyuki the pompadour, and that outfit looks awfully revealing for her character to not be all blushy, but damn if they aren't cute.


And then there was this figure-- you may recognize her, because she's a re-release, but I will use any excuse possible to post this figure of Odin Sphere's Velvet, because it is some kinda gorgeous (even if I think her stomach is a little more sucked in than strictly necessary). At an SRP of ¥9800 (about $105 USD), I don't expect many of us to buy her, but man...I wish I could.     
 


Yum.
crusader8463on April 20, 2010 at 8 a.m.
Dear: Little Red Riding Hood
 
Can I be your big bad wolf?
HeeroYuyon April 20, 2010 at 8:44 a.m.
Oh jeez... I sure hope these crossovers don't follow the associative rule, cause otherwise some people might consider me (gay?) for Ryu...
  
Then again, Kagami also did a Rin cosplay figure, so it balances out in the worst case.
MoonStormon April 20, 2010 at 9:09 a.m.
Now those SF X LS figs are cool.
Whiskeyjackon April 20, 2010 at 11:02 a.m.
Damnit.
Well I'm poorer now..
ShadowKnight508 moderator on April 20, 2010 at 11:14 a.m.
Nice...now my sister (who is hopelessly obsessed with Lucky Star) will asking for one (of not all) of those figurines for her B-day in May.... 

I don't have much money to spend on stuff like this, so whatever money that I have avaliable I spend it on Anime to help support the industry.
JJOR64on April 20, 2010 at 1:05 p.m.
DO WANT THE LUCKY STAR FIGURES!!!!!!
metalsnakezeroon April 20, 2010 at 1:11 p.m.
Interesting. Wonder if they could do the same thing with the other Lucky star characters.
John_Martoneon April 21, 2010 at 10:46 a.m.
@HeeroYuy:
Its okay, no one will judge you... he's like, 900% muscle mass.
 
But yeah, these are great. Totally in Lucky Star's vibe to mix as well, now if only we could get BlazBlue+Anything. My knee jerk reaction was BlazBlue+Bakemonogatari.
HeeroYuyon April 21, 2010 at 11:38 a.m.
@John_Martone: In terms of personality alone, it'd be Hitagi Senjougahara dressed up as Rachel, Araragi dressed up as Iron Tager, Suruga Kanbaru as Tao, Meme Oshino as Ragna, Hanekawa as Litchi,  and Mayoi Hachikuji as Noel. Can't decide if Hitagi's dad would be Hakumen or Bang (lol)...
 
Oh, and Araragi's sisters could be Kokonoe and some lab assistant that always bug Araragi/Tager into going out and doing stuff!

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