Changing in color from white to black to assimilate enemy fire, the mighty Ikaruga fighter ship soars into the model kit market with a black rendition.
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Choun Shiryu dons a skintight blue China dress and kneels down for a reason which we can't divulge right now.
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The buxom Choun Shiryu of IkkiTousen fame is sculpted into a 1/6 scale 'bunny' figure.
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The lead heroine of the Ikkitousen animated series finds herself back in the toy market with a new figure.
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Kanu Unchou of Ikki Tousen fame is a popular subject for toy sculptors and their corporate overlords. The reasons are fairly evident but we'll list them anyway..
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As if there wasn't already a surfeit of love for Kanu Unchou, toy manufacturer Kurushima has also started preorders for a limited edition 1/6 scale Kanu cold cast that will be distributed exclusively by Miyazawa Mokei.
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The Japanese toy market goes into stretches where a certain character is sculpted to death until sales level off.
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Taki's Kanu figure is set to 1/9 scale and is constructed of PVC and ABS.
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Kanu Unchou is very desirable. We know this because toy manufacturers have announced and/or shipped nearly 10 figures featuring the raven-haired warrior since the beginning of 2008.
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Isn't everyone sick of Kanu Unchou yet? Can't we get someone else from the Ikkitousen series to represent the franchise?
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The next time a barbarian stays at the Hotel Gansevoort, he might muster up the temerity to request a maid with blue hair who wields a jaw-splitting spear.
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Kanu Unchou has gotten most of the attention when it comes to the toy market's obsession with Ikkitousen but Kakoen Myousai has appeared in a few resin kits and ready-for-display figures.
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The flood of Kanu Unchou figures has passed and the release scheduled has slowed to a trickle. Peak Kanu is behind us. The latest Kanu Unchou figure to join the ongoing trickle is a coldcast sculpture from manufacturer Alpha Max.
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NCS inspected photos of the newly announced Kanu Unchou Perfect Body Version thoroughly but we couldn't really discern what made this particular version the "perfect body" as opposed to the myriad incarnations of Kanu we've sold through the years.
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In the September 2009 issue of the Comic Gum manga magazine, Ryomou Shimei of Ikkitousen was depicted as a goth-girl wearing a black Lolita outfit with ruffles and black stockings.
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When Kanu Unchou is alone in her boudoir, she dresses herself in ribbon-width undergarments and proceeds to cup her own bosom with both hands.
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Kanu Unchou garners most of the attention when it comes to Ikkitousen toy figures in the Japanese marketplace because she's so pretty and smart.
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A couple of months ago, Daiki Kogyou started preorders for a stunning rendition of Kanu Unchou as a Shinto shrine maiden in the vein of Koyori (aka Miko) of Sengoku Ace/Cannon fame.
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Kanu Unchou. In an apron.
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Artistic interpretations of Kanu Unchou from the Ikkitousen series can be literal where Kanu is slim, slender, and full of verve (as indicated by her expression) or more Rubenesque.
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We're admittedly apathetic towards pretty much any Kanu Unchou figure that's headed our way over the next few months.
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The purple-tresses of Kanu Unchou are in evidence once again with a new Ikkitousen figure from R-Line where she's on all fours and nearly naked save a flimsy jacket and skivvies.
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Kanu Unchou's popularity and her consequent pervasiveness in the Japanese toy market has been taken for granted for a few years now.
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When Kanu Unchou is alone in her boudoir, she dresses herself in ribbon-width undergarments and proceeds to cup her own bosom with both hands.
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Kanu Unchou of Ikkitousen fame has reached a pinnacle in Japan where she'll probably be sculpted into perpetuity.
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Kanu of Ikkitousen has suffered a number of indignities through the years. She has been shackled, beaten, and worst of all, she was once even sculpted as a Race Queen.
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