I try to avoid Japanese PVC with every possible efforts but there's always something that draw me back in again, I so hate and love it.
Everytime I sent me request out to my dealer means another strike on my account.
Japanese PVC status have a few characteristic makes them hard to follow.
--The incredible releasing rate: can easily release over 20 PVC statues per month.
--Too many companies: I can name over 15 companies wihtout thinking and that's prepainted PVC, that doesn't includes pre-painted statues or kits.
--No specific lines or organization: PVC statues can based on anything and I do mean anything. The original art work by artists, anime characters, game characters, comics characters or even novel. Companies release them in random order and you just never know what's going to come out next.
--The ever increasing price: Still remember when PVS statues first made available to market which is about 5 or 6 years ago. The general price range was around 2900 Yen to 3400 Yen which is about $25 to $30 USD.
But the PVC statues now can easily go as high as 6800 Yen to 12900 Yen which is $65 to $120 USD.
--Multiple versions of a same character: Onegai Teacher and witchblade can be of good examples, almost every single companies are making the same character at the same time.
And Japanese companies LOVE "nonsense variants". The variant doesn't have to make sense, some with the outfit you never seen, some are simply stupid repaint. They can put out a same PVC statue with over 4 different versions of swin suit color, and one of them might even be "Limited Eidtion or Exclusive" which is actually not.
Everytime I open up the website that my dealer order from, they alwasy have something new, and the amount Ameraica imported is merely the tip of the iceberg...
They make this hobby really painful.
I bought my Tendem Twin Animal Girls in Japan last year, it was a new release and the first one was the Lynx sisters.
And when I saw the Leopard sisters in my LCS last week I figured I missed something.
Just as I assumed, I missed out the Sheep sisters, so I ordered them. AND I found out there're optional parts for the Leopard sisters...
Alright it cost me about $200 just to catch up with this line, and there're only three relaeses in this line so far, so just imagine if I missed out other lines with more releases, I don't think a lot of people can afford that...
I'm not spoiling the fun, just I've been in this market longer than you guys do so wanna share some of my opinions with those who's about to start.
Hope you guys find it useful.
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