Before anything else. Wow! That must be like the longest post tile ever and for that reason I shall be addressing it as Ver. Ka Haruhi instead of the absurdly long Composite Ver. Ka Commander Haruhi’s Customized General Purpose Humanoid Type Decisive Battle Use Exoskeleton.
Recently, Tamashii Nations announced a collaboration between Katoki Hajime and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. If you have read my past posts, then you would already know that I’m “quite” a big of Katoki Hajime. For those who don’t know who he is, to keep it short, he is one of the top mech designers around specifically doing Gundam designs and contributes his designs mostly to the Master grade lineup of Gunpla or his GFF and Ver. Ka Composite figurines More information on him here, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katoki_Hajime. Now The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, I’m sure, needs no introduction. Generally, when this collaboration was introduced, I was shocked and excited to see the outcome.
And here it is,
Yup, a bunny girl mech with a bunny girl in it. Honestly, when it was first revealed, I was a little surprised but, I seem to like it even more and more especially that rifle. 
The mech and Haruhi can be separated which is a nice gimmick but, I doubt it has much actual usage. Note the yellow ribbons on the side of the mech and the typical S.O.S. and Haruhi insignia all over the mech.
From the side, it is rather thin but, that is acceptable. Though, the design of the whole mech looks very Unicorn Era design themed. The legs especially really shout ReZEL and Unicorn.
The mech’s entry system looks pretty simple and something which caught my eye was the feet, kinda small. Oh, And the bunny ears move!
If you’ve already noticed it, they are all using a Soul Stage stand which makes me wonder will there be the signature Composite Ver. Ka and GFF style stand which Katoki is known for. Hopefully so. :\
Well, this may actually turn out to be the first Haruhi figurine I’ve ever gotten. Overall, the display sample looks good. There are one or two things amiss like the feet looks a bit small and the articulation wouldn’t be too good. But, the nice design more than makes up for it (as like all other Katoki Hajime figurines) and that rifle, especially that rifle. So far, no price has been announced but, like all other Compostie Ver. Ka figurines, the price should be north of 4500 Yen. Hopefully, by then there will be more weapons and that much-needed stand.
So, what say you? Get or not to get?
Images are from GA Graphic
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