As I browsed my shelves and shelves of figures, thinking of what figure to talk about next, and listening to “God Knows….” by Hirano Aya; it occurred to me that one of my figures is not like the others. Yes, they’re all adorable and dangerous; but I only own one whose clothes can be removed. While thinking to myself that this was something I should rectify, it also caused me to wonder why I could remove the skirt from this one in particular…

I have a habit of buying figures simply based on the fact that I like them. This has caused many better informed friends to break the news that what I like is from eroge. I tend to shrug and move on then, with intents to get it anyway when they weren’t around.

Which brings me to the figure I’m going to talk about:

This is Hikaru from the eroge Peace@Pieces by Unison Shift.

Netting more information about the game caused a couple issues for me, one of them being entirely my fault and the other something that could only be rectified after years of study. After mistyping Piece@Peaces into a search engine multiple times, I finally face-palmed and inputted its proper name. First issue solved. Second issue, all the pages that could contain relevant information about it are in Japanese. While I could look at the page all day and enjoy the way the characters look, it has gotten me no closer to having any idea what is on the page. I’ve therefore called in an expert, who had this to say, “The Pieces are essentially shinigami who come to earth as part of their training and collect wayward souls. The main character is accidentally shot by Hikaru when she is chasing down a soul and weird things start happening to him. Hikaru’s role is pretty much to be cute, earnest, and clumsy.” When asked where the naughty stuff comes in, my source responded with, “It’s how they restore their magic power.”

Moving on…this is another really lovely figure from Alter. When it comes to quality, you really can’t get much better, though I could just be an Alter Fangirl because they produce so many of my beloved Kos-Mos figures; but that’s a whole other issue. This figure features a removable skirt, highly detailed painting, and intricate guns that read ‘truth’ and ‘lies’. The amount of detail on the figure is really astounding from the painting of the guns to the bow on her pantsu.

Go pick this one up to see for yourself and if you leave the skirt on, then no one has to know it’s from eroge.

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