#BlueLivesMatter
Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone. In years past this day has been celebrated with my year-ending five favorite figures post, but being that I’m lazy as usual – not to mention I haven’t even decided which five figures are my favorites – that post will be written in the first or second week of January. In the meantime, we’ll be taking a look at this unhappy girl, one Ran Kohinata, who is apparently taking a break from her law enforcement responsibilities.
This figure is manufactured by Alphamax via their SkyTube line. Like most of their figures, it’s sculpted in 1/6 scale and comes with a bundle of accessories to facilitiate displaying her to your desired level of lewdness.
We’ll start at the bottom with the toilet that Ran is seated upon. Curiously, this is at least the third figure-sized toilet that I own; even though I don’t have a thing for toilets or organic materials they are used to dispose of, they somehow keep finding their way into my collection.
It’s actually a fairly detailed toilet, with a hinged lid and seat and a removable cover for the cistern. It also comes with a checkered bottom plate, but it’s stable enough without it, if you’re like me and prefer not to waste the shelf space. Also, she doesn’t actually need to be displayed upon her throne; she can sit upright by herself just fine.
Ran is sporting a most disagreeable expression, which is a little unusual even amongst ero figures; there aren’t many porno figures in which the characters display outright anger. Then again, there aren’t too many porno figures in which the characters are victims of overt sexual assault as Ran is here. I feel like I should be disturbed that such a figure even exists, not to mention that it’s more or less a mainstream figure, but at the risk of painting myself as an unconscientious cad, I have to admit I’m not really all that bothered by any of this.
Ran can be displayed wearing her panties, though no corresponding bra is provided; there’s no family-friendly way to display her unless you improvise something yourself. Note that her panties are basically see-through, too. Incidentally, her hat is held in place by a magnet and it too is also obviously removable.
Disassembling Ran is a very straightforward affair; all the pieces detach and re-attach smoothly and securely, with a minimum of fuss. That’s one of my favorite aspects of SkyTube’s figures; I’ve collected a number of figures where the castoff process is an absolute pain in the ass (looking at you, MegaHouse and Daiki Kougyou) but SkyTube’s figures are very easy to work with.
Unsurprisingly, Ran’s panties can be removed. So can her skirt, technically, but you can’t display her without it; her upper torso and bottom portion don’t connect correctly without it.
Her vagina is quite nicely featured, with some real anatomic aspect rather than just being an undetailed slit. Ran lacks an anus, though, for people who care about such things.
Ran is tied up with her legs spread wide with a bar; the bar in inserted through the loops in the (plastic) cord. Do take care to insert the bar accurately, though, since I noticed a little paint transfer when I scraped it against her leg.
As sexualized as this figure is, fun times start with this alternate lower torso which depicts her vagina in a state of impressive distension.
Looking deeply inside, I think there’s a sculpted cervix in there. Is that a new thing in figure design? Is this a positive trend in figure themes? I think it’s a pretty neat innovation. The funny thing is that SkyTube’s Matsuri Tougetsu, had a similarly stretched vagina; both that figure and Ran are derived from illustrations created by Misaki Kurehito; his work, which often sexualized, isn’t particularly hardcore, but you really wouldn’t know it if you were only familiar with his style through these figures.
This police baton is provided, used here to hopefully provide a more pleasurable experience than in its more typical function of beating uncooperative citizens. It inserts smoothly and stays securely in her body, despite its evident unwieldiness.
Like so.
I dunno, it’s kind of comical-looking, I suppose. Maybe that takes a little of the edge off of this figure. Or perhaps not. It’s certainly an interesting substitute for a sex toy.
Well, I’ll note one thing; some of the promo pictures showed Matsuri sitting in a pool of urine, which is actually how the original artwork looked. I’m not sure if my figure came with anything like that; the included instruction sheet makes some mention of it but as no English translation is provided, I’m not sure what it says. I have to admit I didn’t search the box very thoroughly for additional parts or stickers; if it’s not there, I’m not particularly sorry that the urine wasn’t provided. I suppose that if she were depicted pissing herself, she is at least seated in the right place for it.
Despite being a very nicely-sculpted figure based off the work of a highly talented anime artist (one whose mainstream work – Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata – has gotten a number of less risque figures), I would guess that this figure has somewhat limited appeal. But for those who don’t mind – or like – this sort of thing, this is a really great figure. I know I keep saying this but SkyTube is one of the best things to happen to figure collectors.
