[Toy Unboxing] Touken Ranbu Nendoroid: Uguisumaru

I have come from the dead with a double toy unboxing post!  This is the first part which is for Uguisumaru and the second part would be for his fellow Bizen sword, Ookanehira.  Of course, both posts comes with a lovely unboxing video.

Before anything, I would like to apologize for the quality of the videos as my old editor crashed on me.  Hopefully, the quality will be back to normal, if not better on the next unboxing videos as I work to get my hands on a new editing software.

Now on to the toy post!

These two babies arrived just in time for my birthday.  My friend Reo Ouji was kind enough to pick them up for me from the Wattatoys booth at Cosplay Carnival last February and bring it to our house when she came for a sleep over.  Once again, thanks to Wattatoys for always keeping me updated regarding my pre-orders and for always being flexible in your methods of payments.  I am also glad to know that their on-hand items are now available for viewing in their newly opened Shoppee store!

My new babies in their boxes

 Ahh Uguisumaru... In my opinion, he has been the most underrated sword in the Royal Iced Milk Tea quartet (for all of you unfamiliar, it's what people used to call the 4 special rarity Tachi swords). and also the one who was poked fun at the most because of his attachment to Ookanehira.  His in-game lines consists of almost 80% Ookanehira and some of us couldn't help but take pity on him and anticipate the arrival of this Bizen sword that he talks fondly about.  Some took it the other way and poked fun at Uguisumaru for having an imaginary friend that he likes to talk about most of the time.

That is what used to be the #NoOkanehira period where people would anticipate if the new sword announcement would finally be the sword that would make Uguisumaru happy at last (spoiler alert: it was usually an Awataguchi that ruins this for us).  There was even an Uguisumaru Twitter accound who would vent out all his frustrations about the sword announcements not being Ookanehira.  Finally on December of 2016, Ookanehira was anounced and there was no more lonely Uguisumarus after that.  I shall talk more about the perils of getting Ookanehira in the next blog, so stay tuned for that.

Upon opening the box for the nendo, I figured out instantly that I once again lost the nendoroid lottery.  The taping that held the plastic containing the extra arms and legs went loose inside the box and so some parts have already fallen at the bottom of the box upon opening, as seen on the video.  I also had an issue with the small parts (particularly the pom poms on his arms) being really fragile that I broke them without doing much at all.  This was also shown in the video.

Like all other nendoroids, Uguisumaru came with a number of extra parts.  My favorite was the tea set and the nightingale that came with him.

Aside from the issues that I have mentioned above, I have no other issues with this piece at all.  The color of his hair is particularly beautiful with the subtle fade of color nearing the tips.  All in all, I'm still happy with this piece.

On to the other pictures!

Watch the video below for the full unboxing.

See you on my next blog post where I trash Ookanehira!