I try to avoid their site now though, because I have so many orders on the go at the moment, I don’t want to add to it.

No, no slime fetish… I much prefer tentacle armadas over slime.

…you don’t have a slime fetish, do you?

More likely just poor QC. You might have gotten one that had been exposed to the sun too long as well, but that usually turns things brownish.

I took another look at Al and now I can see what you’re saying about the stomach. You’re right it seems a little off.

I was on the site for 3 minutes and I found two things I thought I’d never get at fantastic prices (this is starting to sound like a plug but it’s true). Hope they come through as nicely as Al did for you.

I keep wondering if they were trying to give Eri a different skin colour because she wasn’t Japanese or something. But yellow?

I think her stomach needed more detailing, it seems to abruptly change directions. There’s a fold, but it just isn’t right. Looking through the pictures though I didn’t really take a picture of it, since it’s really only visible when her skirt is off, and I really hated her look without it.

Mandarake is a great place to get stuff. You may find them emailing you that the item is no longer in stock sometimes though. They don’t have a very good inventory system, they update it once daily.

I have this figure as well but never knew what she was supposed to be. The Necronomicon, huh? Evil Dead just got a whole lot cuter.

It’s interesting that Al and Eri came from the same “era” yet had such different outcomes in terms of coloring. I don’t own Eri so I can’t compare myself but I felt Al’s skin tones were very nice and are actually up to snuff with Alter’s recent stuff.

I kind of feel the Al had just the right about of detailing for the type of figure she is; there isn’t a whole lot you can do with a swimsuit after all. For me the real power in the sculpt comes from her pose and how energetic it is. However I do agree that she needed more detailing in the face.

Consider me über jealous that you managed to get Al at such a fantastic price. I’ll have to keep an eye on Mandarake in the future.

Yeah, I imagine she’s a tsundere.

Al Azif is pretty cute, and that’s definitely a pretty good price for an Alter figure. The broken heart logo cracks me up, too; I guess I can guess what sort of personality she has.

I wanted to say it was from a piece of art as well, but when I typed it I thought to myself, where’s the picture then? Since I seem to always get nailed for making false assumptions on small details like that, I chose not to this time around.