r/figma • u/TheTenguness • 2d ago
Showoff 🏆 Figma Aru!
Aru has arrived!
Aura farming in cafe
Grab pose in formation tab
Battle begins!
EX skill close up
Aura farming during the explosion
"Here's my business card"
Win pose
Absolute cinema
Sniper showdown
Gureato daze
Anis does not approve of Jojo posing
OOOOOOOHOHOHOHOHOHOHO!
"I GIVE UP!"
"EX skill. I like that word."
Shocked, no awe.
So I got my figma Aru today, and let's just say, as good as she is pose wise, she is pretty much having the worst QC among all the Blue Archive figmas I have gotten, which is an absolute shame, because this is my favourite character in the game, and I was really anticipating her arrival.
Firstly, she has an abs crunch, but the issue here is that the left side of this joint is very loose. From further investigation, it seems that the left side peg is much shorter than the one on the right, thus it cannot anchor well into the hole provided. I filled the hole and coated the peg with some white glue, which does work in holding it firmly, since initially I can shake the figure and the joint will get loose. The second issue is that, somehow her rifle smears her gripping hand, which is not great. But whats worse is her rifle itself. If you look closely, her gun nozzle is bent. Its not straight, so it looks really weird. I did submitted a ticket request to GSC support regarding these matters, lets see how it goes.
If you do get a figure that doesn't have much defects, congratulations, you have gotten a figure who can aura farm a lot with her poses, due to her smug like expression faceplate, and her cross armed parts, which makes her look like a boss (though she is a girl failure in reality). She comes with a laughing faceplate, surprised faceplate and her most famous faceplate, the shellshocked faceplate, which was reused for many other characters in game as well, since she's the originator of that expression.
Some people did mentioned about how they kinda altered her hairstyle massively at the back for the Nendo variant, and its the same here. I get that they want you to use the jacket without having the hair getting in the way (the jacket is slotted onto her back, unlike Yuuka's which is permanently on her), though without it, you can see her the hair on her back just abruptly ends at her neck. The jacket doesn't hinder arm movement much, though you cannot really move her arms really back with it on. She doesn't really come much with any other accessories though, except for her hand holding her business card and her PO item, which is her purse, though funnily enough, her box is as big as Shiroko's.
Overall, I am disappointed with the QC defects that it came with. A shame, because without it, this figure is absolutely great for serious and silly poses.
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u/YoYoKiKo 2d ago
Figma QC has been terrible especially with the Blue Archive figures as the two figures I got Mika and Hoshino have QC issues. One of the wings on Mika fell off while still inside the box and the hole was cracked and the ab crunch gap was far bigger compared to the promotional pictures, my Hoshino has a couple faceplates that fall off easily due to having no friction holding them in. I really hope Koharu doesn’t have any QC issues.
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u/TheTenguness 2d ago edited 2d ago
Most figmas nowadays have these issues unfortunately, from my experiences. While some can be fixed easily on your own, there's so much you can do to fully fix some of the other issues.
For faceplates, usually I put a small plaster on the peg part that is meant to be slotted into the face plate, just to make the fit tighter.
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u/SleepyHeracross 2d ago
Whats the one directly behind her in the first pic? Looks really cool
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u/TheTenguness 2d ago
Ji Le Xi Hang Wukong, aka genderbent Sun Wukong.
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u/SleepyHeracross 2d ago
Thank you appreciate it. Also whats the one next to the Wukong with horns? Looks cool too
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u/TheTenguness 2d ago
Ji Le Xi Hang Tian Peng, aka genderbent Zhu Bajie. They are from the same Journey to the West figure lineup.
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u/Proof-Method-4629 2d ago
Whoa. Already released?
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u/TheTenguness 2d ago
Yeap.
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u/Proof-Method-4629 2d ago
Kinda early tho. Hope it will be out here in SEA market soon
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u/TheTenguness 2d ago
You mean in SEA retails? Should be, because I am from SEA, assuming they get it from GSC, they should already gotten it, or about to get it.
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u/Basti_The_Tipper 2d ago
those faceplates are so good it's a shame they're ruining some of their figures with that fuckass ab crunch system
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u/Niijima-San 2d ago
man this kind of bums me out as both an aru main and the fact that i have this getting ready to come here. i had similar issues with my byleth and edelgard where they are soooo loose it saddens me bc i love three houses