Comments on: DC Anime-Influenced Action Figures

By: shannon

shannon — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:29:38 +0000

well…i am getting the supergirl…think it is so cool

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 03:17:26 +0000

I thought whenI grew up, I’d draw Batgirl. If you’re gonna withold Bratz, aim higher than Supergirl, too.

Because DC’s demonstrated no intent whatsoever in having anyone make a Supergirl or Batgirl worth reading.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 04:41:11 +0000

Sal mentioned those godawful Bratz dolls. Just about every little girl in my daughters kindergarten class has some of these and I have done everything in my power to explain to Mackenzie why I won’t let her have them. When we pass the aisle in the store she always says “I can’t have those”. It seems a little mean to deny a 5 year old a doll but I MORE than make up for it with gobs and gobs of art supplies. When she grows up and draws Supergirl it will be a book worth reading.

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By: Vic Vega

Vic Vega — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:50:36 +0000

I actually like the Catwoman one. I don’t think it looks anything like her but I still like it.

As for the other figs, especially Powergirl, well kudos to D.C. for making something that is actually CREEPIER than the Negima and Evangelion fetish stuff.

Who do they think will buy this stuff? And will it be put in brown paper bags on sale?

By: Lea

Lea — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:16:57 +0000

Makes me wonder where the Joker is looking. Naughty Joker.

By: James Schee

James Schee — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:03:03 +0000

Of course it isn’t just the Anime versions that ar ehead scratchers, though this one makes me wonder at the camera person too:

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/toyfare/003432582.cfm?popup=3

By: Josie

Josie — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:10:51 +0000

Reminds me of an MST 3K episode. I can’t remember the film, but a woman was doing a slinky dance in one of those poses and Crow was singing “Lookie, lookie, lookie! Look at my torso!”

By: Lea

Lea — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 05:23:39 +0000

Monk: Yeah! She’s doing a move that was called “picking stars.”

By: Monk

Monk — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:42:25 +0000

Yeah, yeah, outrage and all that . . .

Anyone else think Batgirl look’s like she’s disco-dancing?

By: Bill D.

Bill D. — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:44:05 +0000

The person up there who compared the Supergirl figure to a stripper is dead-on. That’s totally a stripper costume there. There’s even space in the skirt’s waistband for dollar bills and everything. I hope some enterprising exotic dancer sees this figure and makes a similar outfit for herself… she’d clean up, especially if she works in a city with a major comic con at least once a year. Oy.

Seriously, though, it makes the current DCU Supergirl outfit look positively modest.

By: Jonathan L. Switzer

Jonathan L. Switzer — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 20:07:42 +0000

I guess DC finally noticed all the money in creepy anime-style girl figures (see: the back of Previews EVERY. DAMN. MONTH.) and decided to go for it. I saw so many similarly appalling, vulgar figures pass through my former place of employment that I can’t even work up more than a disappointed sigh. I want anime-styled versions of these characters to be cool, not more damnable wank objects.

Though I’ll admit, I’d almost buy the Batgirl. Really, my only problem with it is the bat insignia curving ’round the utterly ridiculous melon breasts. But boy, that costume’s neat looking … just a shame about the body filling it out.

By: Andre

Andre — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:44:59 +0000

I like the Batgirl, and see a Zatanna is underway, but Powergirl [who now that I've seen a better shot at the Beat does have major back issues 0_o]and Supergirl are kind of skeevy. Though they’re basically as skeevy as the current DCU versions, just with generic anime girl faces [especially on PG]….. when your basic comic versions look just like the sexy/pervy anime collector figure verisons, it might be a problem. The earlier Kia Asiyama were a bit nicer.

By: Sal!

Sal! — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:07:44 +0000

Don’t know exactly why, but these figures brought to mind the ‘BRATZ’ line of dolls. My 4 year old daughter is mildly interested in these (due to her older cousins) and it frightens me. This isn’t the image I want her growing up with. I don’t want her thinking this is how young women should dress or look like. It’s disturbing.

By: Jer

Jer — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:04:41 +0000

Re: The Update
These are called Ame-Comi Heroine Series. So is there a possibility of a male line as well? Something tells me that if there is, the men will be less “sex kitten” and more “ass kicking”. (And there seem to be two more new ones in the bottom corner that are uncolored, in addition to the three new ones that you mentioned).

I’m not opposed to manga versions of the characters at all, but I’d like to see manga versions that looked more like they were trying to draw in teenagers (both girls and boys) and not draw in 30+ year old guys with a particular fetish. I don’t necessarily think you HAVE to go with a manga look to draw in new audience, but you do certainly have to be drawing something they’ll want to look at.

And while I think caleb is right about Supergirl being slightly better than the DCU version by Michael Turner (talk about damning with faint praise, I know), the Power Girl statue is atrocious. I may not always like what they do with Power Girl in the various books she appears in, but at least she’s supposed to be a grown woman. Juvenilizing her the way they did in that figure, but leaving her large chest as is, and then sculpting a pose where she’s trying to thrust her chest out at the viewer is seriously disturbing. I think the Power Girl one is the one that creeps me out the most of all of them.

By: Charles RB

Charles RB — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:15:44 +0000

Have Catwoman and Supergirl’s clothes shrunk in the wash or something? It looks like a single hard kick or run will cause their skirts to split apart. Odd way of fighting crime…

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By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:37:47 +0000

Rob noted that “most [manga] seem more fantasy and magic-based than superheroey”. I think there’s a reason for that — it’s a more universal, older wish. Girls, especially, dream about being fairy princesses or good witches instead of muscle-y or stripper-like power figures.

By: Lisa Jonte

Lisa Jonte — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:14:26 +0000

…I feel ill.

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:15:24 +0000

Rob: You’d think, no? But when I talked to Dan DiDio about a Batgirl manga, he pretty much said he wanted a Batgirl manga that would lead its readers straight back to DCU.

I seem to recall Andi Watson making a BG pitch, too.

And this is what DC dishes out. And man, is Supergirls neck messed up or WHAT? The more I look, the less I like them, and the more I think, “If there’d just been a little restraint, these could have been REALLY cool, and not creepy.”

But that’s like expecting Wizard to stop being a low-rent Maxim.