New Arrivals: Nendoroid Petit Saten and Kiyama

This will be a bit different from my usual posts concerning new content, I think.  No fancy image, but I still want to go over these since they seemed to release to little fanfare, and have a curious existence.

So, Nendoroid Petit Ruiko Saten and Harumi Kiyama, made by Sega as prize figures.  These two were purchased from Otacute.  Saten and Kiyama are both characters that only appear in the Index spinoff of Railgun, which is part of why Railgun is the vastly superior series.

The existence of these things is quite interesting.  For whatever reason, Goodsmile lets other companies produce Nendoroids from time to time (such as Phat! doing the Strike Witches Nendoroids).  So for whatever reason they're letting Sega make a line of them as prize figures, covering the Toaru Majitsu no Index and Toaru Kagaku no Railgun series.  And for whatever reason, they don't seem to be well known.

Also, I've taken all these pictures with a new point-and-shoot camera I decided to pick up, a Canon Powershot A2200.  Leagues better than the crappy Nikon Coolpix S220 I had been using as my point-and-shoot.  I haven't put together a good lighting set up at my new place yet, though, but random ambient light and my Ott-lite did well enough, I think.

Getting them out of their little boxes, the first thing that is pretty apparent is the quality of the figures.  While I don't have any bootleg Petits, I suspect these are kinda close to what they're like, or at least they're below the average quality of the normal blind-boxed Petit sets.  Saten has it particularly rough, as her face has a more bootlegish quality to it, especially the eyes, which seem to be painted in a way that makes them more reflective than typical Petit eyes.

One nice thing is that the stands actually peg into the backs of the figures rather than on the hair, as is the case with some other Petits that have long hair.  It's done in a way that doesn't limit (the already limited) movement much, and makes them less obvious.  Unfortunately, you can see more of the lack of quality on the back, with Saten's hair having that unfinished look to it.

Like other Petits, they have very basic articulation, and can move their arms, so Saten can be less excited and Kiyama can take her hands out of her pockets.

One odd curiousity, which I suspect has to do with design reasons, parts of Saten's hair is actually a part of her face.

The two can still swap faces, though.

Unfortunately, they can't swap faces with Takoluka or any other standardized Petit.  The face sockets for Saten and Kiyama are smaller than a normal Petit's, just enough so that other faces can't be stuck on and the faces from Saten and Kiyama can't be stuck onto other Petits.  Don't know if that was a deliberate design choice or just another quality issue.  I am quite saddened that I couldn't swap the faces with Takoluka!

Might as well, though more appropriately these two would simply be part of Misaka's lesbian harem.

Since I don't have Kiyama's Cool Car, the Halo Warthog I also got recently can suffice.

I'm a bit curious as to how Sega managed to get the go ahead for these Raildex Petits.  Seems like it would have been a good thing to make some normal Petit blind-box sets out of.  But then, for whatever reason putting GSC and Raildex together results in some of the most retarded stupid to ever derp.  I've got one more of these on order, of a Sister, so we'll see how that one turns out.  I expect more of the same, but hopefully her face will be compatible with Saten and Kiyama, at least.

On a different note, I also recently went to Ikea and spent lots of money on much-needed furnitures, although sadly the infamous Detolf is still removed from the market (though I did get what I think will be a suitable replacement).  One of the odder things I did grab while there was a small sheepskin carpet thing.  It feels really nice, but I grabbed it because I think I could put it to use in some pictures, as Menace happily demonstrates.