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I'm gonna get this one for sure!

Though it is a cast off.. I think i'd still be displaying her with her shirt on. I dunno, find it real sexy.

I love the Kanokon series. That being said, I am not a big fan of Chizuru's character in terms of personality and design. Nozomu on the other hand...

Will my wishes for a Nozomu figure ever be granted? NOZOMU FANS! please reply...

The sculpt is pretty good...but I wish these kinda things came with instructions to help the cast off process so people won't break small pieces...

The figure is great, but those sleeves are one big fail. How did they go through quality check? It looks a bit too weird to have her in underwear but with those sleeves...

Wait, they actually gave her a nose? That's surprising.

I like the soft cushion idea lol too bad about the sleeved arms ^^; Nice shapely lower eyes ^^;
for photos, I usually take the highest JPG quality ^^; My husband tend to use RAW more often than I do :P I name the folders year/month/date title/description in a My photos folder :P

having her with only the sleeves looks good in my opinion ^.^

having her with only the sleeves looks good in my opinion ^.^

I've been watching Kanokon, but for some reason been really slow to go through the eps even though I find them really funny (yes, I'm that kind of person ^_^;;). That said, the face on this figure seems a bit off to me for some reason. The body is smokin though.

I see you are now comrades with HLJ - they're my most used retailer. I actually first used them years and years ago to get me Yamato Macross toys.

In regards to how I organise my folders. I have a folder on my desktop called "New Folder" which I save my photos too. ^_^;;

"She also comes with a pink cushion that you can stick in your underpants." Rofl. Sad @ her arms. Haven't finished the series but would like a cute figure of the twins from the anime.

I was actually considering this figure after you posted her on news, but I am disappointed with the sleeve oversight. She'd make one smexy amputee tho. Maybe they figured you wouldn't focus on the arms when she's undressed.

Oh, hey. Ayako-fansub's OP, awesome. xD
Though, I wish I liked Kanokon more, so I'm not particularly itching to get this oe.

Very nice fig. But it's very expensive, and the euro-yen ratio keeps fallin every day x_x

Her sleeves look so funky by themselves. :/

Series was incredibly chock full of blatant fanservice. Bordered softcore porn.
Still liked it.

pass on this one, but she looks really good :) love that detail!

Kinda sexy, but I didn't like Kanokon so much that I feel I need to get her ^^. Keep being amazed about how neat your backup system works Danny; been thinking to get meself a multi-TB NAS device to store everything since my other backup drives are getting quite full....

In regards to the video, I don't recall it having that sort of echo before. The OP is a lot cleaner than that video makes it sound like.

haha, the arms issue is funny. It's almost as if someone completely forgot about it.

Regarding photos, I sort them out by year, and then event, and then date if the event spans over a few days.
EG: photos2008Manifest 2008080926
photos2008Japan 2008080801

WOW!!!!!!
I have to say, that is one amazing figure!!!!!
For Koto standards, this is the best Koto figure!!!!!!
I didn't know you can take off the clothes too...WOW!!!!!
I'm going to get this figure!!!!!! Sadly the price is just...too much for me at the moment...

This series was on my watch list, and I throughly enjoyed it. Simple life, simple pleasures...

CHIZURUUU~!!!
Seeing this reminds me of how she pushes her bumper on Kouta in the series.
Kanakon series is nice but in terms of collecting the video i dont think i would.
It was interesting but not that interesting enough.

Sweet heaping cleavage! O.O; I would imagine that'd be much too distracting to display in the office.

Are the sleeves sculpted on or is it a layer of plastic? Maybe someone there dares to "rip apart" the sculpting to take the "sleeves" layer off of her arms.

I love the figure.

If I had cash I'm going to get it and pose it somewhere in my room

Kanokon was probably the dirtiest/ecchiness anime I've seen (not counting hentai), everything from speech to action was dirty XD still it was funny to watch. This figure of Chizuru is great, a good addition to put on your working desk ^_^

Very sexy. I will buy one

Love the curves, hate the sleeves. I mean c'mon, knowing who the figure is , it absolutely should be castoffable. and thus if it is, it's sad they didn't include extra arms. Hope fully this is a huge pvc.

My goodness those are a lot of ?s for one post.
1. Kanokon was on the watch list, I liked it.
2. I shot RAW for work and JPG for just stuff
3. everything of mine is backed up to external HD and burned to DVD
4. For folders it's just name of event or object and date taken if it's a repeating event like autocross. Then it's filed accordingly into the folder tree.
5. I'd pass on this figure because of the lame sleaves and the OMG price.
6. Forgot settings for camera. Mostly it's on P sometimes I'll mess around with other settings like when shooting autocross I'll mess around with the shutter speed settings.

I always leave my camera on Av (Canon 400D/Kiss X). I seem to get more 'successful' shots since i do more scenery shots than anything with movement. M is just hell. Don't use it unless you ABSOLUTELY know what you're doing. (i'm still pretty amateur though)

I heard that Canon STILL didn't put the AV+/- button in a better spot on the 450D/Kiss X2, so while in M, you'll still be poking your cheek with your thumb every single time you're changing the F speed.

I suggest you should stick to Av, since you do more 'still' shots for fig shooting.

I use a Nikon D40. If I'm lazy and in a hurry I use the auto setting with no flash. Otherwise I set it to manual. Playing around with the settings is fun ^_^ I also use both RAW and JPEG. If I'm happy with the outcome, I use the JPEG but I still play around with the RAW to get the best pics possible.

...But I always leave the lens at auto-focus. Except for my dad's 20+ year old lens. Kekeke ^^'

hahaha "Muchas Gracias to comrades at..." it seems that Danny is learning some spanish language from Hector... lol
"Muy bien Danny"

It's a little weird to see the figure cast of with uncastoffable sleeves... I guess they forgot?

Kanokon is great fun, and DVD5 just came out with more ero-goodness.

Wish I could get this, but money-wise its not possible atm ;(
Lovely figure, just a shame with the arms.

pink pantsu is cute ><

i recently got my first dslr and i not know very well how to take some great photos like that. basically i shoot everything in auto mode.
great figure! maybe i get this one to my collecion. the only problem is space, i not have more place to put my figures...

Very nice looking figure. Too scantily clad for mesa though. Love her pantsu though. And much cute face! Weird that the torso of the shirt of cast off, but the arms don't.

And pretty much all the Koto figures I have don't have shiney hair. My Chie and my Kotomi are just two examples that arn't shiney-headed.

I'm not too into cast off figures, but that's really lame about the sleeves. It is, as others have said, almost as if they just forgot about it.

Since the sleeves are surprisingly odd,maybe she isn't actually for cast-off posing?But added the feature for otaku pleasure?(though the sleeves pretty much ruins everything in cast-off mode)

looks very nice. :3

I watched the series and it's true that is full of pantsu and more,but I kinda like it (The poor twins are lovely ^^), but I think the manga's better.

About this figure, I think it's a beautiful one, but besides it's expensive, I don't like the uncastoffable sleeves so I'll pass this time. But you know, there's a version with a red bunny suit that is really hot (I can't remember the maker... sorry).

Greetings.

Superb figurine! Amazing finish and all, though the arms with sleeves I consider a major cock-up. Not my kind of figurine, it's just a half-naked girl and doens't really have anything special.

I really like this figure, but I'm not familiar with the character, so it's a hard sell for me. Though it is really tempting, only because it's such a gorgeous figure!

I always use RAW is better. Try to shoot whith it and take your time with Photofiltre from Adobe you will have some nice things. I always use it and I very appréciate his help.

About Chizuru. I love Her (avatar ^^) she kind and totalé crazy. but even she really crazy she evolved in a good way and sometimes she's so kind that tears could be drowning quickly ! Chizuru Powaaaaa !!

I didn't mind the show at first. And even though i love ecchi shows this one was a little too much for me.

Mmm... sweet, sweet Chizuru.

I think everyone thought the fanservice in Kanokon was excessive. But that's why we kept coming back for more, just to see how far they would push it.

Then Koihime Musou came along and blew it away with 1 scene...

Not a bad chizuru, but not my type of figure so passing over.

Sure I want this fifure, but can`t find a place to order!

The price's just too much..

and the show.. orz fail ^^;

too many fanservice till u get bored of it :p

I liked Kanokon but felt Chizuru was a bit over the top. Her eyes could see too far and felt it actually detracted from the show. I actually preferred Nozomu way more, and stuck with the show due to her.

But yeah I would not recommend telling other people you watch this show unless they are pretty otakuish.

Nice Figure, Only if the sleeves comes off, yea I agree

I use iPhoto for managing my photos. There arent many yet though as I just recently bought my first digital camera, before that I didnt take much photos myself. Havent really paid much attention to what all iPhoto can do but would love to be able to tag photos to be able to find them with search. Atm I just store all photos on their own event, which still works fine as all photos are just from party/holiday etc. Ohh and all photos stored on MacBook and backup on Time Machine drive...

Great fig, but will probably never get it (out of my price range). The show, meh, it was funny at times, but mostly just a huge amount of fanservice, which is needed sometimes to balance out the screwed up psychological anime ;)

My new DSLR camera is the european counterpart of the Kiss X2 (here called the 450D).
I mostly take pictures with the P setting (as the Automatic pulls up the flash way too much). If I need less fuzzy background, I use the Av mode and use a higher F-value. The rest depends on the situation, if it's dark and I like to play with the shutter speed settings in Tv mode.
Now I only need another lens, as I now have the kit lens (18-55mm) with which I can't zoom enough. Want that sigma 18-200mm ;p

I hardly ever use the "predefined" setting on the other half of the knob on top. My previous camera was a Canon Powershot A70, and it had the same mode-knob. Usually used Automatic on that one, as I could disable the flash by hand. There were occasions that I used a different shutter speed.

Pitty of those sleeves, as it is a very nice figure, in both casted-off state and normal state.

I wasn't really impressed with Kanokon, like Danny, I thought it had too MUCH fanservice. I also wasn't really impressed with what story there was. I like the figure though, mainly because I did like the character design. As for the photos, I am extremely OCD about this sort of thing so every picture is tagged and organized by year and then month and then the event. Vista's tag system is actually really helpful. Not too sure what Macs have.

Very nice figure. Beautiful pose, cast-on and cast-off. Nice detail on her delicacies and a stunning body to boot.

I agree on the sleeved arms. It's very strange for them not to include sleeveless ones on a castoff. She looks extremely good on the cast-off.

For pictures it's almost always A - aperture priority so I can control the depth of field. I use a tripod so shutter speed is irrelevant for a still life. If I eventually get a light meter, I'll got to full manual and key the exposure in from the meter.

Somehow looking at this figure totally reminds me of my job crossed with "Playboy.com's "Olive Garden Girls"...:P Yes I hostess at Olive Garden if that hasn't been figured out yet...
All in all, saw the figure and was like intant "WANT!:P" Liking the idea of castoff for this figure also!:D

THE BEST!
No such thing as too much fan service.

Still would like to get this figure even though the sleeves are a fail on the makers part. But you can always just display her cast-on and never worry about it.

BTW, sshots of the ecchi content (mostly of the twin ninjas) in DVD5 is up at http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2008/10/23/kanokon-nude-loli-ninja-dvd/ since DVD 5 just came out

Twin Lolis ^_^

Delicious cake, you must lick it.

You would think that for the price they would have included an extra pair of bare arms for cast off mode.

Danny when are you going to infiltrate Kotobukiya and start influencing their product line?

sexy, @_@

Chizuru is awesome! I watched all 13 episodes of Kanokon and each episode is terrific!

Way too much boobs, I prefer a medium size, it would give a lot more natural feeling. On this one, looks like she used a LOT silicon to get that unnatural size. :/ Other than that I would buy it.

I thought Kanokon was ridiculously boring. D:

Nice figure though! :) She's sexy... >.>;

Shes a nice figure but that they didnt include a pair of sleeveless arms is a big fauxpax :/
Once again a bad executed castoff feature.I wish manufacturers would think before they randomly throw in castoff features

Simply beautiful. -_-

Same as Danny. Watched the first post, "postponed" it due to too much ecchiness. Because I never drop animes, I only "postpone" them. :P
But the twin nude lolis really got my attention. :P

Yep, also don't like glossy hair. Goodsmile seems to be the one getting hairs nicely... not only they are not glossy, but they have some paint treatment (fading) that makes it look better than average.

No RAW pics for me too. Usually, I don't even use full resolution on my pics... my cam has 5Mpx, but I usually take 3Mpx pics.

Unless I really need high resolution, which doesn't happen much.

Since I'm taking all my pics nowadays with my cellphone, no Manual mode. But my first digi cam was semi-pro (manual focus, aperture and.. forgot the name). A 6Mpx Fujifilm. Back them, I took pics only in Manual mode, mainly because the automatic mode was crap.

I don't sort pics a lot. My desktop is for stuff "I still have to publish" and then I have an Images folder for all things already published. Inside, a subfolder called "Cellphone" which have all pics I took with my cellphone.
Sometimes I create a folder with the date I took the pics out of the cellphone just to keep track.

I drop the anime after the first one. The figure sexy but not enough to buy it.

wow..., good one

Definitely on my 'GET' list. Kanokon TV Anime might of had a lot of fan service but the comdey was perfect. I laughed too much watching Kanokon. Looks like there might be a sequel as well.

I think she's pretty cute. I wouldn't buy it, because I don't buy any figures, but I think it's pretty cool.

Kanokon was boring for me, and none of the characters ever engaged me. I treated it as softcore health care material (that is, expecting ridiculous plot points and useless fanservice) and managed to watch the rest of it.

Shiny hair bugs me as well - which is why transparent hair like GSC's Shana is doubly annoying for me. I remember one of the reasons I used to dismiss figures was that they looked cheap with shiny hair. Not any more, but my annoyance stands.

tried shooting raw once, but you're right it takes far too much space. so I decided to stick with using jpeg. btw lol on the sleeved cast off. ^^

Ahhh I loved Kanakon!

I liked Kanokon, but I think I like this figure more than the anime.

I had my eyes on this one (no pun intended) for months but weren't sure whether to get it or not. But great review Danny you made my mind up on this one, though its going to be expensive as I planned to get the bunny Ryoko Asakura figurine too. Though I started work this month and should get my paycheck next week to get both woop woop!

Call me crazy but, I expected more from Kanokon.

my DSLR settings:

auto mode w/o flash for events stuff (only use flash for low-light situations)
full manual mode for figure photoshoots

Gorgeous skin tone- or maybe that's the light you've bathed her in. Looks great either way.

Chizuru looks great.. but the anime's style and content really left me with no choice but to drop it. Just pure senseless fan service without any distinct, clear plot at all >.<

Nice figure, but all my purchasing is on hold as prices increase. Everything I've been looking @ HLJ has gone up... like every day now. Absolutely ridiculous.

Kanokon may well be fan service for fan service's sake, but I quite frankly think it kicked Eiken's ass. That was too painful to watch.

I like Chizuru's body, but her personality is terrible. Conversely, I hate Nozomu's body (too loli for my blood), but I love her character - she comes across as the love-child of Lala-Ru and Glenn Quagmire. And Rollzomu FTW. I so want a GIF of that...

I would love to have Ren and Ai Nanao figures xD
Chizuru? Probably not.
Too NSFW for my room :x

It's sexy but if it comes down to just fapping over it, I'd rather just have images of it than the actual figure in my house. As well made as it is, you may as well just use porn DVD cases for decoration in your home.

dropped the anime but i love this figure!!
it has nice sculpt and looks good too if i'm able to afford it and put it in my room...
still, it's a bit "dangerous" since usually my mom just love to barge into my room.

who said "to much fan service"??

I'd get it if it weren't for those darn sleeves!
I though Kanokon was alright, mostly I just liked the animation.

Momma?

Im GETTING this one and i cant wait till she comes!!!!!

Awesome figure, I want it

I just love this series!!!!!!! Chizuru is my favvy!!! Hmmmm.... if only I could buy this

Hmmmm, those sleeves are weird. They should have come with another set of bare arms.

Why no sleeveless??? A bit weird...

I'm looking forward to the AlphaMax Chizuru Bunny Girl thats getting ready to come out soon also. I'm afraid to cast-off mine due to some past luck I've had with breakage. I agree that it would have been better to have come with bare arms, I would probably do it then . . .

She's so sexy! I like her.

wow nice figure...love it, every detail is visible:P i'm a beginner but i think i got the hang of it:))...off topic till i get used to the site but is it late for me to learn japanese, i'm 18?

A really great anime series!

RAW is great if you're going to edit the photo, since each channel is captured in greater resolution (typically 12- or 14-bit). Lightroom and Aperture can make use of the extra information to make more natural edits. If you have everything set up for a perfect first shot, you can stick with fine JPEG.

But yeah, Kanokon just seems..."saturated".

Just one question, Danny-san:
How much for it???

I guess at least Y5000-Y25000?

She's definitely not my type of figure, but that body shape is my type of figure. lol.

too much fan service? haha ~ i gotta check this out then!

where do u buy these stuff from???

I hope this figurine reaches the shores of our country! I really want one! :D ~drools

She could definitely be a murder weapon, she's really heavy!

Fall in love with this chizuru figure the 1st time I came across!! Wonder when she will be in my hands ^^ yea yea, I'm dreaming now.

so sexy PVC ~
I like the limited ver. one

that was a stupid design. if i was to ever make one, i would NEVER make the sleeves the way they did. the glossiness is fine as long as they focus it on the good parts. otherwise, she is a very pretty doll, and she's cute too!

i love this toys, great girl...
now search in www....

Thanks for pics !!

I like it but it is expensive.