Kazuma Ikezawa action figure

The main character in Summer Wars is Kenji Koiso. He’s 17. But it was Kazuma Ikezawa, a 13-year-old side character and computer hacker, who was made an action figure by Alter (or their male line Altair) last year. I happened to come across it in a small otaku shop in Akihabara in December 2011.

I guess I never fully understood the obsession with action figures until I found this one. Or when it found me. Or shall I say when he found me? :P

What a beautiful craft by sculptor Sen-U Tanaka!

I did buy some smaller action figures before, mainly from Ashita no Joe and Sailor Moon. But never before did I happily pay over 6,000 yen for an action figure. Hello otaku world!

3 Comments

  • Higgs Boatswain
    February 5, 2012 - 08:06 | Permalink

    Quite lovely. It is as beautiful, in its way, as the Capitoline Spinario: http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/italy/rome/capitolinemuseumone/spinario.html

  • ubik
    February 10, 2012 - 10:08 | Permalink

    oh I love it! Next time you go to Japan you have to bring me one too!

  • March 5, 2012 - 13:14 | Permalink

    Very fantastic figurine!

    I bought this one last time I was in Akihabara. Pegasus Seiya, age 13:

    http://finlandonadeshiko.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/img_3299-kopia.jpg

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