Sadako Yamamura Figure - Ringu
Production Company: S.H.Figuarts/Bandai
Price: ¥4,536 (Discontinued)
Height: 5 1/2" Standing
You're setting up your horror collection corner and you've got your movies, your books, your manga, your anime, maybe even a creepypasta collection book and it's all looking really nice and organized and shows off your love of all things horror. But then you stand back and take a look and realize "I think something's missing" but you can't quite put your finger on it. You've got the basics, you've got the shelf, you've even got a poster or two... but you're still missing something: a figure! No collection of anything is fully complete without some sort of figure from your favorite franchise, be it movies, games, etc, and this carries over to the horror genre.
So while everyone else is filling their shelves with creepy ass Pop figures, I prefer decorating with the somehow-less-creepy-yet-more-realistic figures, be it from Target, comic shops... or, in this case, Bandai Figuarts. For this first figure review, we'll be taking a look at a present from my boyfriend: a now discontinued Figuart of Sadako from Ringu! And while I'm not much of an expert in the figure-reviewing-genre of life, I'm pretty fond of this one so let me tell you why.
First things first, let's take a look at the poseable features of figure:
It's a high-quality, highly detailed figure with a full range of possible motions, making it not only fun to play with, but also easy to recreate scenes from the movies. An important part for displaying in a horror corner, for sure. The figure doesn't come with a stand, but stands well enough on it's own. Plus the crawling position, both with the TV and the extra skirt, negates the need for a stand. And speaking of the TV, it comes with a decent set of accessories to make your positioning (and play time) that much more fun and unique.
The set comes with these accessories:
The second TV screen comes with a ball-joint to attach the figure at the hip for a 'crawling out of the TV' scene recreation, as well as a hair/head piece to match the position.
While there isn't too much that needed painting, where it does pop up is really well-done. The face is fully painted, even though it's more often than not covered, and shows the connection point for two of the different hair attachments. One covers the face completely, but the other shows the eye and thus the face was painted for the killer staredown Sadako's known for.
The other point of painted interest are the torn-off nails from trying to crawl up inside of the well. The intricate work here is really what sells it to me for the figure, a detail a lot of others might look over completely or do such a shoddy job of recreating that they'd just basically paint the nails red. But on this figure not only did they actually paint over the nails, but they made it actually look like the ripped off pieces, trailing back a bit on the fingers, to give you that deep-seated nail cringe every time you saw her nails (or lack thereof) in the movie. I really have to give them props for this detail, especially.
Then there's the sculpting, which is a much bigger focus on this figure. Most of the details come from the sculpting rather than paint and thus the attention to said details are certainly of note. For example, and obviously the major focus, the hair. Not only is each section of the hair nicely etched for their own piece, but the connecting points between the different hair pieces line up well enough that it keeps the look flowing.
The dress pieces, as well, make sure to add plenty of properly-placed folds and pleats to make sure it looks more like cloth than flatly-shaped molding.
On the body, too, tendons, muscles, and finer nail details keep the figure alive without getting too 'flat doll' like.
So, all in all, it's a great figure and one I'm happy to add to my growing collection. Right now I don't have much of a display I can put it in, which is why the pictures are on a bed rather than a shelf, but I hope to someday have a proper display for it. As a final conclusion, here's a few more photos:
So while everyone else is filling their shelves with creepy ass Pop figures, I prefer decorating with the somehow-less-creepy-yet-more-realistic figures, be it from Target, comic shops... or, in this case, Bandai Figuarts. For this first figure review, we'll be taking a look at a present from my boyfriend: a now discontinued Figuart of Sadako from Ringu! And while I'm not much of an expert in the figure-reviewing-genre of life, I'm pretty fond of this one so let me tell you why.
First things first, let's take a look at the poseable features of figure:
- Removable head
- Double ball-joint neck
- Full-Rotation Swivel Shoulders w/ dress piece coverage
- Double-Hinge Elbows
- Swivel joint w/ hinge Wrists
- Double Ball-Joint Waist
- Single Ball-Joint Removable Hips
- Ball-Joint with Swivel Thighs w/skin piece cover
- Double-Hinge Knees
- Swivel w/ Hinge Ankles
- Single-Hinge Toes
It's a high-quality, highly detailed figure with a full range of possible motions, making it not only fun to play with, but also easy to recreate scenes from the movies. An important part for displaying in a horror corner, for sure. The figure doesn't come with a stand, but stands well enough on it's own. Plus the crawling position, both with the TV and the extra skirt, negates the need for a stand. And speaking of the TV, it comes with a decent set of accessories to make your positioning (and play time) that much more fun and unique.
The set comes with these accessories:
- 3 different hair/head pieces
- 1 extra, crawl-position skirt
- 1 extra set of hands
- TV +extra screen
- Video Tape
The second TV screen comes with a ball-joint to attach the figure at the hip for a 'crawling out of the TV' scene recreation, as well as a hair/head piece to match the position.
Moving on from accessories, the details are what really make the figure come to life. Unlike the dead eyed minimalism of Pop Figures, the sculpting and, though minimal in its own way, painting on this figure gives it an almost 'straight out of the tv' feel. Creepy in its own way and all the more impressive for that reason.
While there isn't too much that needed painting, where it does pop up is really well-done. The face is fully painted, even though it's more often than not covered, and shows the connection point for two of the different hair attachments. One covers the face completely, but the other shows the eye and thus the face was painted for the killer staredown Sadako's known for.
The other point of painted interest are the torn-off nails from trying to crawl up inside of the well. The intricate work here is really what sells it to me for the figure, a detail a lot of others might look over completely or do such a shoddy job of recreating that they'd just basically paint the nails red. But on this figure not only did they actually paint over the nails, but they made it actually look like the ripped off pieces, trailing back a bit on the fingers, to give you that deep-seated nail cringe every time you saw her nails (or lack thereof) in the movie. I really have to give them props for this detail, especially.
Then there's the sculpting, which is a much bigger focus on this figure. Most of the details come from the sculpting rather than paint and thus the attention to said details are certainly of note. For example, and obviously the major focus, the hair. Not only is each section of the hair nicely etched for their own piece, but the connecting points between the different hair pieces line up well enough that it keeps the look flowing.
The dress pieces, as well, make sure to add plenty of properly-placed folds and pleats to make sure it looks more like cloth than flatly-shaped molding.
On the body, too, tendons, muscles, and finer nail details keep the figure alive without getting too 'flat doll' like.
So, all in all, it's a great figure and one I'm happy to add to my growing collection. Right now I don't have much of a display I can put it in, which is why the pictures are on a bed rather than a shelf, but I hope to someday have a proper display for it. As a final conclusion, here's a few more photos:
