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As promised here it is, a look on the Nida‘s character illustration booklet, “Shuraki Secret File Vol.4: Nida” ^^ I don’t have a scanner right now, so I had no choice but to use my camera ( > _ < );

As mentioned before, this booklet was included with Nida’s figure, together with the Drama CD. The booklet has 24 pages, including the front page and back page. Basically, it contains and mostly towards the Drama CD, the summary of the story, each character biography, cast interviews, and also Nida’s character song lyrics ^^

Since this is also considered an Illustration booklet, you get to see all the gorgeous art that was done by Shunya Yamashita ^^

As for the Drama CD, it also contained the character song for Nida, sung by none other than Chiba Saeko, which also voiced Nida herself ^^ The song title is “Anfang”, if you’re wondering. The Drama CD also featured other famous voice actresses, which include Chihara Minori, Koshimizu Ami, Mizuki Nana, and also Tamura Yukari ^^

You can also view the cast interview below:

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Anyway, on with the content of the booklet ^^

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Front Page

Back Page

Page 1 & 2: Prologue

Page 3 & 4: Main Characters Profile

Page 5 & 6: Supporting Characters Profile and Others

Page 7 & 8: A nice full 2-page art of Nida

Page 9 & 10: Nida’s Model Sheet

One of my favourite art of Nida ^^

Page 11 & 12: More Nida, Drama CD content, and lyrics of “Anfang”

Page 13 & 14: Illustration referring to Chapter 5 of the Drama CD.

Page 15 & 16: Illustration referring to Chapter 10 of the Drama CD.

Page 17 & 18: Illustration referring to Chapter 14 of the Drama CD.

Page 19 & 20: Cast Interviews

Page 21 & 22: Staff Comments and Credits

I haven’t finished listening to the Drama CD, so I can’t really say much about it, but looking at all of this, they really need to make Shuraki into an anime series~( ^ _ ^ );

These 2 awesome figures just arrived today~\( ^ o ^ )/

– Chuchu Astram 1/8 Scale (Good Smile Company)
– Shuraki Trinity Box #05 – Rizfis Luttiva Mente (Good Smile Company)

So many backlog reviews to do now ( > _ < );, but I’m pretty much excited ^^

I’ll try to do the reviews as soon as possible. So, look Forward to them~( ^ _ ^ )/

Continuing where we left off, here it is the second part of Nida‘s review ^^

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Cast off~

Close up~^^;

With the Damaged uniform + Dagger~

Closer look of the uniform~

With the smaller Sniper Rifle~

Closer look~

That ends Nida’s review ^^ I’ll probably do the Bonus items next, then go to Meifeng‘s. Look forward to it~( ^ _ ^ )/

Here it is, the first figure review for the month of June, and Nida here, will take the honour to be the first one ^^

As you can see, I’ve divided the review into 2 parts, because of the photo intensive review ^^; This is the first time I actually needed more than one part to do a review. This just shows how awesome Nida is ^^

Anyway, this figure of “Shuraki Trinity Box #04: Nida Schuetlich” by Good Smile Company was released on 24th May, 2008. It was originally scheduled for March 2008 release, but was delayed for more improvements.

Just some info on the series, for those who new to this ^^; Shuraki Trinity is a figure series made in collaboration between Good Smile Company and RED Entertainment. There are 5 figures to be released based on this series, and Nida is the 4th of the character. You can visit the official site here.

Ironically, Nida is my 2nd Shuraki figure, with Akatsuki being the 1st ^^;

Each character is designed by famous character designers and each has different nationality. In Nida’s case, she’s a German and designed by the awesome Shunya Yamashita ^^ It’s probably easy to distinguish the designer, even if you don’t know who designed Nida in the first place~XD Shunya Yamashita’s trademark is probably the lips and the eye design~

To make it even spectacular, they even have JAM Project to do the theme song for the series, which you can view the PV below:

Alright, back on topic~Nida comes with interchangable uniforms between the Normal version and the Damaged version, and of course, she’s Cast Off-able ^^ She also came with two different Sniper Rifles, the big one and the small one, and also a Dagger for safe keeping ^^

After reading all this, you know that Shuraki figure series is really special ^^ Just like previous releases of Shuraki figures, Nida comes with a 24-Page character illustration booklet called “Shuraki Secret File Vol.4: Nida” and a Drama CD. Oh, and also comes with the instruction manual for cast off.

Nida is voiced by Chiba Saeko ^^ She’s probably more known for voicing Natsuki Kuga/Kruger from Mai Hime/Otome series. The Drama CD also featured other famous voice actresses such as Koshimizu Ami, Mizuki Nana and Chihara Minori ^^

(You can view the content of the Nida’s Illustration Booklet right here)

Anyway, what can I say, this is one awesome figure. The paint job, sculpt, everything is top notch. Even the Base Stand is well made. The wait is really worth it ^^

As mentioned before, the review is divided into 2 parts, because I took lots of photos ^^; So on with the shots!!!~

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Close up~

Closer look of the Uniform~

Base Stand~

Closer look of the Sniper Rifle~

To be continued to Part 2