Nendoroid Totori Review

And just right after I said I’ll be concentrating on gunpla, one of my preordered goods arrived last Saturday ^^;;

Totori came from the “Atelier Totori” game which came from Gust, who were the same people who made the Ar Tonelico series. Atelier Totori is a sequel from Atelier Rorona. I really don’t know her relationship with Rorona or the character that will come after her (Meruru), but suffice to say that the Atelier series has charming characters that GSC wouldn’t mind giving some of them the nendo treatment (Meruru will get a nendo or petit treatment as far as I know).

Mel Kishida’s drawings totally brings out the innocent feminine side in his drawing of underage girls XD. Mel is the illustrator who is responsible for Hanasuku Iroha and Kami-sama no Memo-chou just so you guys know =P. Anyway, on to the review.

The box looks something from the Atelier series with all the intricate designs and the gold-periwinkle combination makes it truly Totori. I have issues with some of GSC’s packaging designs, but they’ve been doing a good job lately. The figure also doesn’t come with parts that is just inside a soft plastic package (like the Toko Amano nendo hands). At least the chances of losing parts with this nendo is pretty slim, minus the test tubes.

The biggest charming point in this figure for me is the smoked soft plastic parts (her head gear and skirt). It makes the entire clothing of nendoroid appear soft as if the fabric of the actual character’s clothing is that delicate as if it were made off soft silk. If it were made of just white plastic, I probably wouldn’t but the figure at all.

Even the removable ribbon at the back is made up of soft plastic as well. I’ve noticed that GSC has been using the square base more often than their circular base now. I guess that clamp at the back helps out a lot in the poseablility of the figure. I have issues with the hair parts that flow down her shoulder, This kinda limits poseability of the arm parts and only her left side hair has limited movement, her right side cannot be moved I think.

Oh in case you were wondering why her hair looks funny, that’s because a part of her hair is removable. You can opt for a nendoroid that doesn’t have any peg on her, buuuut you’ll prolly be bothered by those seam lines there. I think GSC should’ve just placed the peg behind her or just used a clamp instead like the one that Saber Lion uses. It’s a love it or hate it feature.

Oh and you can remove her head gear for kicks, but that’ll reveal two peg holes on her head so shooting her from the top without some editing or some other headgear is ill advised XD

She also comes with other accessories to help her in her atelier duties like that magic staff and her bag of items.

To get that bag in, you’ll have to remove her head and an arm. Nothing really much to see here other than you can put it on other nendos as well =D

Love the intricate design on her staff plus the candy drop looking jewel affixed to it. Reminds me of Saber’s color scheme. I bet if you make Saber hold that staff it might look awkward from the start, but you’ll get used to it quickly.

She also comes with a smiling cheerful face with a dynamite item plus hand parts to hold the dynamite properly. Totori really looks happy after being able to complete an item of mass destruction right there.

Will you accept a girl’s gift even if it means getting yourself blown up to smithereens? At least Totori is giving it unlit XD

Totori also comes with two test tubes (pink and blue), an Erlenmayer flask (pink), another back ribbon part to portray her either sitting down or the wind at her back, waist/leg parts for sitting down (which I think Toko Amano nendo should’ve used) another set of straight and bent arms, and a crying face.

Sometimes doing alchemy isn’ easy. It requires lots and lots of trial and error and it can lead you to just break down, now if you had help it’ll be an entirely different story.

Enter our trusty homunculus assistant Hom! Never play your atelier game without one as Hom can greatly assist Rorona, Totori or Meruru (if she’s there) in their alchemic tasks

She can even rotate her neck part XD I bought this nendo for the nice plastic parts and this cute homunculus XD

With the arrival of Hom, alchemy should be easier than before, and our heroine finally finishes that mixture of hers!

Our little homunculus deserves a pat on the head right there. Oh yeah, Hom has a male form, but I guess GSC decided that the girl form would sell more so to avoid production costs, female it is.

She’s posed like this on my shelf right now. Glad I bought this one even if I’m not a fan of the atelier series (simply because I haven’t played it yet). But I am a fan of Kishida-sensei’s works XD If you wanna check his artworks from the previous atelier series along with other artists do check this review of the Atelier Series Official Chronicle.

For other nendo reviews you can check the links below:

Saber Lion (Fate/Coloseum)

Hatsune Miku Orchestra (Vocaloid)

Touko Amano (Bungaku Shoujo)

This marks the fourth nendoroid to join my collection XD

29 replies
  1. Miette-chan
    Miette-chan says:

    Totori looks great, I’m surprised GSC went a did a nendo of her since she comes from a relative niche series. I’m guessing the Atelier games are more popular in Japan than I think. Much like you I’m a fan of Kishida Mel’s art, in fact that’s what got me to play Rorona and make look forward to Totori and Meruru.

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      Yeah i think the atelier games have a good following in japan, and i do believe that it was mentioned in the interview that they tried to target both the male and female demographic market for this game. Drrr i havent played ANY Atelier game and yet i have two of their merchandise, i got sold with Mel’s art hahaha

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  2. Miette-chan
    Miette-chan says:

    Totori looks great, I’m surprised GSC went a did a nendo of her since she comes from a relative niche series. I’m guessing the Atelier games are more popular in Japan than I think. Much like you I’m a fan of Kishida Mel’s art, in fact that’s what got me to play Rorona and make look forward to Totori and Meruru.

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      Yeah i think the atelier games have a good following in japan, and i do believe that it was mentioned in the interview that they tried to target both the male and female demographic market for this game. Drrr i havent played ANY Atelier game and yet i have two of their merchandise, i got sold with Mel’s art hahaha

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  3. fabricerequin
    fabricerequin says:

    Georgeous nendo, im wondering why i didnt get her since she really ticks all the boxes of requirement mhmm. what would be great is if GSC did a1/8 version of her.

    nice review ver detailed.

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      Thank you for the kind words. Yeah i do hope that GSC comes out with a 1/8 version of her (or even a figma will do!). What are your requirements anyway? XD

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  4. fabricerequin
    fabricerequin says:

    Georgeous nendo, im wondering why i didnt get her since she really ticks all the boxes of requirement mhmm. what would be great is if GSC did a1/8 version of her.

    nice review ver detailed.

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      Thank you for the kind words. Yeah i do hope that GSC comes out with a 1/8 version of her (or even a figma will do!). What are your requirements anyway? XD

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  5. Fabienne
    Fabienne says:

    Oh my god she turned out even geater than I’ve thought, a really nice review ^-^
    These semi transparent parts are a big charm point of her beautiful dress.
    I really like the sitting pose of her and these faces looks enchanting and the test tubes are also lovely items. Good to see that they’ve used this kind of base, I like these more solid bases a lot.

    Also thx for adding that lovely illustration I haven’t seen that one until now.
    “Mel Kishida’s drawings totally brings out the innocent feminine side in his drawing of underage girls XD” haha nice line 😉

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      I love em test tubes, but I wouldn’t take em out on display because i really fear that i might lose em (like sakuya’s knives which took me a long time to find). Speaking of which i forgot to take fan service shots because those semi-transparent parts took my attention XD

      Hey its true =D Kishida’s art exactly does that hahaha.

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  6. Fabienne
    Fabienne says:

    Oh my god she turned out even geater than I’ve thought, a really nice review ^-^
    These semi transparent parts are a big charm point of her beautiful dress.
    I really like the sitting pose of her and these faces looks enchanting and the test tubes are also lovely items. Good to see that they’ve used this kind of base, I like these more solid bases a lot.

    Also thx for adding that lovely illustration I haven’t seen that one until now.
    “Mel Kishida’s drawings totally brings out the innocent feminine side in his drawing of underage girls XD” haha nice line 😉

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      I love em test tubes, but I wouldn’t take em out on display because i really fear that i might lose em (like sakuya’s knives which took me a long time to find). Speaking of which i forgot to take fan service shots because those semi-transparent parts took my attention XD

      Hey its true =D Kishida’s art exactly does that hahaha.

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      She’s prolly the best there is in terms of “chemist-lookin-nendo” but i think you can use her test tubes, along with nendo makise kurisu white ver for a better chemistry professor feel XD. As for alchemist, i think she’s perfect already XD

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      She’s prolly the best there is in terms of “chemist-lookin-nendo” but i think you can use her test tubes, along with nendo makise kurisu white ver for a better chemistry professor feel XD. As for alchemist, i think she’s perfect already XD

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    • Duqs
      Duqs says:

      I actually like Rorona more than Meruru simply because shes more errr grown up? I also didnt know much about her, but her character design was enough to woo me XD

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