New Arrival: Nendoroid Alphard

She's the world's most adorable terrorist!

Nendoroid Alphard, from the pseudo Type-Moon series Canaan.  Type-Moon should just buy out the rights to Canaan or something so they can stick her in Carnival Phantasm and let the characters cameo in the fighting games.

Alphard was purchased from Mandarake, where she was listed as being opened with "box little damaged", yet the one I got was clearly unopened and undamaged, unless someone's really good at re-sealing Nendo boxes.  So that's cool.  I've kinda wanted Alphard for a while now, mainly just to go with my Figma Canaan.  I never felt this way when it was first released, because back then I still had a bit of hope that Max Factory would release a Figma Alphard not too long after getting Canaan.  THAT TURNED OUT WELL.

Knowing my luck, she'll finally get a Figma when those compilation movies come out.

I kinda stopped doing these posts, but I decided to relent some and see what people thought.  Hardly anyone said anything, so this will probably be limited.  Also, I tried asking the Twitter about which figures I should do posts for (since I got Alphard at the same time as Figma MISAKA and Figma Madoka), but no one replied to that.  So, since Twitter failed me, I decided to do the figure that probably has the least amount of exposure out there.

Not terribly much on the accessories side of things, but then Alphard is a few years old now, and back then a lot of Nendoroids were like this.  Ridiculous amounts of awesome accessories seems to be a more recent thing.  She's got the nominal three faces, a bent leg, two right arms, three left arms, a pistol, a pair of splayed hands, and a pair of fist hands that can also hold the pistol/other Nendo accessories.

First and default face is a kind of smug smile.  You might even say she's...a smug snake (doh hoh hoh hoh hoh).  One of her extra left arms is interesting, as instead of having a hand attachment point, it just has a part of a hand as part of the sculpt, allowing Alphard to look as if she has a hand in a pocket.

For some reason, the neck joint socket on the body my Alphard is fairly loose and lets the head spin around easily.  Nothing too terrible, though, and I can probably tighten it up with ease.

Next is a frown face.  Because she is an international terrorists and they are not happy people!  Also Canaan is probably doing something to upset her.  The other extra left arm is just a generic bent arm, more or less.  Since Alphard isn't wearing some kind of dress, she's actually got a little bit of a range of motion on her legs.

Last face is a yelling face for action!  Her extra right arm is extended outwards for shootan poses.  The bent leg is for action poses, I guess.  Those action poses that Nendoroids are so famous for.  Her face here really makes her look like Touru from A Channel.

Back view.  Her ponytail is a seperate piece and can be rotated.

Seems to be pretty well compatible with other Nendo faces.

"Finish your dinner, young lady, or I won't let you go play with Maria."

Hey guys, check out my custom Epilogue Alphard Nendoroid!

While on the subject of Nendoroids (and since I doubt I'll get another any time soon), while at a Office Something recently, I discovered a brand of plastic containers called "Really Useful Box(es)".  They're, well, pretty useful.  They make one size in particular that's perfect for storing Nendoroid accessories, something I rather needed.  I ended up getting one for every Nendoroid I have, and Yoshika is the only one whose accessories don't all go in perfectly, mostly because her hat is so huge.

So, Nendo Alphard.  Seems kind of odd that she even got a Nendoroid at all, and not a Figma, but I suspect Canaan was at the beginning of the push to move anime back to relying on merchandising to be profitable instead of DVD/BD sales.  Guess it didn't go too well for the series, since there was a bunch of figures announced right at the series started, but then...nothing.  Personally, I think they should have tried to get a Figma Alphard to go with Canaan, and instead of a Nendoroid Alphard, they could have made a Nendoroid Maria/SUGOI SUGOI to go with the Nendoroid Canaan.  But maybe the future will be kind and I will be able to give Canaan her goofy love triangle after all.