Shunya Yamashita – 1/7 Shoko-san

As promised, if not a little later than expected. I’ve decided my first review will be of one of my favourite release of the year.
As the titles says, this piece was designed by the by ‘Shunya Yamashita’, now a household name in the Japanese figure world. over the past year or so, he has designed some of the most popular PVC’s and continues to do so, the line-up for nesxt year is already very appitizing.

This time round, i’ll show you ‘Shoko’ which was released by ‘Kotobukiya’ back in September 2007, back then she retailed about 7,300 Yen, thouugh she may have gone down slightly since then.

Shoko measures in at around 6.2 inches high from the bottom of the love heart cushion base to the top of her left foot, and her width is just touching 6.5 inces from the flowing hair from her head to the top of her left foot yet again.

As for features, she has two high heels slippers that can be taken off as you please, and they fit hey quite well, nice to have one almost slipping off to give the effect she’s bouncing her feet

The lower section of her gown can be easily removed also, simply by pulling her upper and lower body apart and removing the item of clothing, to reveal a nice slim, toned and sexy tummy.

Thats about it for cast off’s, unless you want to mod the statue yourself, with a little fiddling, the upper part of the gown covering Shoko’s breasts can be removed with minor damage to the actual part itself, though I would advise against it, since it’s not much to look at under there. The straps of the gown come over the shoulders and just stop halfway down each breast, and there are pretty nasty seam lines under the upper garment going round the sides of the breasts, so do at your own risk.

Overall I am very happy with the statue, I love the sexy and seductive pose sitting atop that heart shaped cushion, it’s sort of playful and just hits a spot. Like many of his other pieces, ‘Yamashita’ has done a good job designing the face, very characteristic of most his faces, nice big eye’s with lots of colour, make the face look somewhat life-like in a anime/manga kinda way.

Thankfully, Shoko-San is still widely available so I totally recommned picking her up, and she can be found at Play-Asia

In the mean time, here are some self taken shots of Shoko-San. Enjoy.