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This is a review of a figure not wearing pants, but considering she is in a really chibified style, this can't really be called NSFW. Still I want to put this out as a warning before you scroll down!

Background

The reason why and how I got her

Original art

Video

The Box

First Look

Pose #1: Salute

Pose #2: Winking and using Sturm

Pose #3: Flying with Striker Units

Pose #4: With hat and upright flying position

Comparison with the other Strike Witches Nendoroids I own

The Points

Positive

Neutral

Negative

The Scores

Sculpting 7/10

Painting 7/10

Posing 8/10

Base 7/10

Packaging 7/10

Enjoyment 8/10

Conclusion

Availability

And to finish it!

Thank you for reading this review!

Welcome to my review! Today I will be talking about a figure of Erica Hartmann ENTRY #2033 from Strike Witches ENTRY #2 ! This figure ITEM #61379 is from the Nendoroid action figure line ENTRY #23355 made by Good Smile Company ENTRY #7620 . Interesting to point out is that one of the collaboration sculptors, Me-n ENTRY #8328 is very well known to have helped on a lot of Mecha Musume ENTRY #477 characters their figures.I will start off with telling some more about her background.Strike Witches is a manga, light novel and anime series with character designs from the famous artist Shimada Fumikane/Humikane ENTRY #21456 . The storyline of the franchise takes place in an alternative WWII, where girls with magical powers, called witches, represent famous pilots and the enemy to be beaten are aliens called Neuroi. Witches are the only people that can wear Striker Units, airplane-legs needed to get close to the Neuroi. The series may be a bit hard to get into as it can seem very strange for some, but it's easy to fall in love with the character designs that are a nice mix of cute and fierce.Erica Hartmann comes from the World Witches universe country Karlsland, which can be compared to Germany in our world. Her mom also being a former Witch, lead to Erica and her twin sister enlisting as well. Erica has a bit of a carefree personality, but cares a lot for her family and friends. In her personal life she can be quite chaotic, but in battle she is really strategic. As a weapon, she mainly uses a machine gun.User AMEKO-CHAN one day listed this figure for a very affordable price for sale on this website, so I jumped right on buying her! My plan was to complete the Strike Witches Nendoroids in my collection, so I didn't have to think much when I saw her below her regular aftermarket price.The look of this Nendoroid is specifically based on her looks in the first season of the anime. We can see everything faithfully recreated, from her uniform to her interesting multi-colored hairdo when she wears her Striker Units.For people that prefer the box shots, first look and first shots of the figure as a video, please take a look at the inserted video below. For the people interested in pictures: keep on scrolling!Parts of this video will also appear as gifs during this review!Considering this is a 'mid aged' Nendoroid (released 6 years ago), she has the type of box design from back then. It has cute pictures of the different kinds of poses you can make with her.The box is sealed off with one piece of round tape (as mine was bought second hand, this was already opened).Erica comes with quite a lot of optional parts!The instruction sheet mentions all the parts Erica comes with, together with the correct order to assemble the flying position on the base, the hairpiece and how to let her hold the machine gun.The pieces you are getting with this figure are:- Main body with faceplate and first haircut attached- Hat- Machine Gun- Striker Units legs- Alternative haircut- Screaming faceplate- Winking faceplate- Arms for her barrel roll attack called 'Sturm' (Storm)- Three additional 'normal' arms with different hands- Tail- Normal base peg- Base peg for flying position- Base with logo of 501stLike with my other action figure reviews, I will put this figure in a range of the different poses you can make, using all the different parts she comes with.This pose looks extra adorable as her short arm can't reach to the good height of an actual salute!Erica's smiling faceplate looks very cute and her big and bright eyes look very similar to her anime look!Her jacket has all the sewn lines sculpted in. The charactertic part of her design with 2 pieces of her button-shirt coming underneath the uniform jacket is there as well.It's a bit harder to catch the details of her shoes on camera. They have a lot less details than for example the shoes of my Perrine Nendoroid (reviewed here: BLOG #42788 ), but as this Nendoroid is quite a bit older, it was not really to be expected.The 501st logo base uses the sculpt of the one coming with Lucchini (an older one in the line than Erica, reviewed here: BLOG #13391 ), but with higher quality plastic this time. It's not as slick looking as the one Perrine comes with, but again this can be excused because of the age differences between these Nendoroids.Okay, I'll have to admit that this pose is not canon, but it looks quite cute right?Erica's winking face is adorable as well and she has a cute blush on her cheeks.The Sturm effect also looks good, but the attachment of these special arms to the body is not that great, small gaps can be seen.To use the alternative hairpiece, only the front part needs to be switched.Just like the other Nendoroids from Strike Witches, the connection peg of the tail to the body is not that great. It holds up better than Perrine's and Lucchini's, though!Also like the other Strike Witches Nendoroids, the flying forward pose is a bit awkward. Although surprisingly it looks better on Erica than Perrine and Lucchini!The Striker Units have a nice amount of detail for the small size they have been made in. The tiny propellors can move as well.Similar to the Sturm arms, the arms for the machine gun are also not that great of a fit. I don't really know why as this Nendoroid does not have any limitations in the design such as long hair or a big outfit. The machine gun itself is decent in sculpt and painted in one color of black paint.Erica looks really cute with her big hat on her big head! The painting of the alternative hairpiece is also nicely done.As also earlier mentioned in the review, I also own two other Strike Witches Nendoroids: Perrine ITEM #323991 , who is three years newer than the Nendoroid reviewed here and Lucchini ITEM #5432 , who is three years older than the Nendoroid reviewed here.It's interesting to see how all three come with slightly different bases even though they are from the same line. Erica's quality looks closer to Perrine's rather then the older Lucchini. Still, there are some small differences to be seen in proportions between all three, making them a slighty bit weird to display together. As I'm planning on later making character-specific displays for my Strike Witches, this is no issue for me, but it could be an issue for collectors that want all of the Nendoroids displayed together.- Comes with a lot of display options!- Overall decent quality for a Nendoroid of this age.- Weird set-up for flying position with the base again, like the others in this line.- Because of the big age differences between the Nendoroids in this line, they can be weird to display together.- The fit of some parts is not that good and small gaps can be seen (Sturm, arms, tail)Nice amount of details, I especially like the sculpt of the head. Sculpting quality what was to be expected of a Nendoroid this age. A bit of point deduction for parts that did not fit that well.Similar to above, about what was expected from an Nendoroid this age. Nothing to wow you, but also good enough looking for a Nendoroid this age and price.Quite a lot of nice posing options (I especially like the extra hairpiece), but again comes with the awkward front-flying option.They made the base a bit more special than your average Nendoroid, but the quality of the plastic of the base is not that great. Luckily they improved it with the Perrine Nendoroid, released a few years later.The older Nendoroid design box that works decently, but is not as nice as more modern boxes.Even though I rate this Nendoroid as 'only' slightly above average on most fields, I do have to say that I have high enjoyment. I like having this cutie in my Strike Witches collection and I like Erica's character a lot!A very nice Nendoroid if you're a fan of this character or in general like Strike Witches. For people not into this franchise, she might also be interesting to get for customizing or mix-and-matching with other Nendoroids especially with the hairpieces, hat and machine gun.Originally released for ¥3,810, this Nendoroid can still regularly be found in stock at a lot of stores for similar prices.I am currently still unboxing most of my collection after them in storage for a while, but here is how she is displayed right now:Together with a lot of other Strike Witches figures where I need to find a better place for later~For those who read all this way, thank you! My next review will be a mini-review about the high quality trading figure of Satou ITEM #396895 from Ajin.I hope you enjoyed this review, you could also check my other figure reviews when interested! Here are a few of my recent ones:All pictures in high resolution and some extra pictures not used in the review will be uploaded here later today: profile/Maakie/... 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