{"id":1175,"date":"2008-07-11T20:46:55","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T12:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2008-07-11T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T13:01:00","slug":"e2046-kanu-unchou-on-a-motorcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2008\/07\/11\/e2046-kanu-unchou-on-a-motorcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"E2046 &#8211; Kan&#8217;u Unchou on a motorcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/product_info.php?products_id=8124\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu1.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:250px; height:400px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about E2046&#8217;s prepainted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/03\/20\/e2046-gathering\/\">resin figures<\/a> before, such as their cast of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/01\/15\/e2046-haruhi-bunny-full-review\/\">BUBBA Bunny Haruhi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/02\/18\/bubba-mahou-shoujo-yuki-nagato\/\">Yuki Nagato<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their ORI series of products, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/index.php?language=en\"><strong>E2046<\/strong><\/a> has created an original <strong>Kan&#8217;u Unchou<\/strong> (from Ikkitousen) resin figurine that looks like the most thorough work in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/gathering.php\">pre-assembled product line<\/a> thus far.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu7.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:400px; height:250px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when Kan&#8217;u ever rode a motorcycle in the <strong>Ikkitousen<\/strong>, but she sure looks good doing it. Somehow figures look better when they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_list.php?img=0&#038;products_id=6685&#038;album_type=gathering\">come<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_list.php?img=0&#038;products_id=6686&#038;album_type=gathering\">with a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/10\/mahoro-sports-bike\/\">motorcycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As usual, pre-assembled and professionally-painted resin kits don&#8217;t come cheap, although E2046&#8217;s pricing is definitely cheaper than paying a hobby shop to do it for you. This particular one costs <strong>300 USD<\/strong> excluding shipping, and you can get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/product_info.php?products_id=8125\">unpainted garage kit<\/a> for <strong>100 USD<\/strong>. Generally, resin figures do look more impressive than mass-produced PVC ones, and E2046 has a pretty good track record so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_detail.php?img=2&#038;products_id=8124&#038;album_type=gathering\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu2.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:250px; height:400px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_detail.php?img=1&#038;products_id=8124&#038;album_type=gathering\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu3.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:400px; height:250px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_detail.php?img=9&#038;products_id=8124&#038;album_type=gathering\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu4.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:250px; height:400px;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNice&#8230;uh&#8230;tattoo<\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_detail.php?img=13&#038;products_id=8124&#038;album_type=gathering\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu5.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:250px; height:400px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_detail.php?img=11&#038;products_id=8124&#038;album_type=gathering\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/11_kanu6.jpg\" alt=\"Kan'u Unchou\" style=\"width:250px; height:400px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More pictures available in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_list.php?img=0&#038;products_id=8124&#038;album_type=gathering\">official gallery<\/a>. (With even larger watermarks!)<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how well these things sell, given their limited nature (each one is assembled and painted manually) and pricing as compared to PVC figures, but E2046&#8217;s version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2006\/12\/21\/bunny-haruhi-is-mine\/\">BUBBA Haruhi Bunny<\/a> sold pretty well, enough to warrant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2007\/01\/04\/red-pre-painted-haruhi-bunny\/\">remakes<\/a>. It seems that E2046 has been trying quite hard to duplicate that success with an original sculpt of their own. Besides this, they also appear to be working on a sculpt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/view_album_product_list.php?img=0&#038;products_id=8128&#038;album_type=ori\">Shunya&#8217;s Asuka<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From my experience, most people who coughed up over a hundred bucks for Haruhi (like me) were fanboys of the show rather than collectors of resin figures in general. I wonder if <em>Ikkitousen<\/em> has enough fanboy appeal. Well, do take a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/product_info.php?products_id=8124\">product page<\/a> for yourself. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e2046.com\/product_info.php?products_id=7739\">Miku<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full disclosure:<\/strong> I&#8217;m not being paid for this post, but it was solicited. The opinions above represent my own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about E2046&#8217;s prepainted resin figures before, such as their cast of the BUBBA Bunny Haruhi and Yuki Nagato. As part of their ORI series of products, E2046 has created an original Kan&#8217;u Unchou (from Ikkitousen) resin figurine that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/2008\/07\/11\/e2046-kanu-unchou-on-a-motorcycle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[504,757,758,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.darkmirage.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}