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Astro Toy with Rob Bricken: Marvel Bishojo Black Widow

Unfortunately, after announcing figures of X-Men's Rogue and the Avengers’ Scarlet Widow, Koto's Marvel Bishoujo line seems to be… well, over.

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Unfortunately, after announcing figures of X-Men's Rogue and the Avengers’ Scarlet Widow, Koto's Marvel Bishoujo line seems to be… well, over.

I think you mean Scarlet Witch.

Glad I'm not the only one to think her ass is huge. Guess it makes her boobs look slightly more in proportion though. I think a Storm statue in this line would be awesome.

Granted she has junk in her trunk but a lot of the Marvel heroines do. I mean in the comic and on paper. The majority all seem to have gotten a little "sistah" in them in the past few years with re-designs. And maybe it's just me but I'd rather have the slightly dis-proportionate ghetto booty over the ridiculously dis-proportionate fake breasts.

Very nice to see one of these east meets west figures reviewed. I must concur that DC's attempt with their AmeComi figures are a total abomination. Only a handful of the multiple lines of figures look anywhere near decent. The majority are designed by Udon studios, some okay some awful. A couple by other random artists. Like this one of Wonder Girl which looks more like stripper Nancy from Sin City dressed up as Wonder Woman.

There are a couple of nice ones by Dustin Nguyen, who has does the wonderful Paul Dini scripted Batman books of late. His Donna Troy redesign actually is pretty damn good and could be a decent new costume for the character who has never had that great of a costume. Of course, none of these artists are Japanese like Marvel's line.

Seems to DC all Asians can be Japanese enough for them. Not a knock to these other Asian ethnicity. There are a number of South East Asian and South East Asian American artists I like, such as Nguyen there. It really pissed me off when these artists are lumped in as Japanese or 'manga style'. That's like assuming Feta cheese is French instead of Greek because France is known for and has a big market for cheese. And actually the Bulgarians have a pretty good Feta too. Of course that's if you know your imported cheese. Most people don't know or care about cheese or manga art enough and are sadly happy to just lump things together as one import style.

Now while none of these Marvel Bishojo figures quite piqued my interest enough thus far, I do think they're well done as pointed out here. Hoping they finally release a character I'm more interested in spending that much on, namely Elektra.

Am I the only one who thinks that calling the Black Widow a "bishôjo" is quite wrong? No matter how many retcons they'd do, Natasha Romanoff is not a teenager.

Am I the only one who thinks that calling the Black Widow a "bishôjo" is quite wrong? No matter how many retcons they'd do, Natasha Romanoff is not a teenager.

I must say this figure reminds me of Julia from Cowboy Bebop. There was a large PVC Julia figure that was released by Yamato that had a similar booty. The belt was different, but there are artbook pictures of Julia with a belt similar to Black Widow's....

Aizen-chan wrote:

I must say this figure reminds me of Julia from Cowboy Bebop. There was a large PVC Julia figure that was released by Yamato that had a similar booty. The belt was different, but there are artbook pictures of Julia with a belt similar to Black Widow's....

I thought the exact same thing! She totally looks like Julia.