There's two things about me you should probably know: I love good-looking figures and when I'm set on getting a certain figure, I make sure I can find a way to add it to my collection. One of the newer additions to my collection fits both of those two little facts pretty well: I've wanted Kaiyodo's Fraulein Revoltech Pocco figure for quite some time. It was one of the first figures I could remember wanting badly back when I was a relatively fresh Tomopop editor, mostly because ... well, it looks gorgeous!

Now as the proud owner of Pocco, I have noticed a few small things that could have been done better, but she's still got that look of beauty to her, a look that allows me to overlook those flaws. Besides, I'm not one to let a few small complaints get in the way of enjoying something fun. 

Hit the jump to check out a little bit more about Pocco and see why I like her so much, faults and all.

Pocco started out as just an illustration by Shunya Yamashita, which is probably all I needed to say to convince Colette that Pocco is awesome. Eventually, somewhere along the line, the folks at Kaiyodo picked Pocco as a good candidate to be made into a Revoltech, made a few small tweaks to the design, and eventually released her to a waiting public. I remember seeing her for the first time and being blown away by the figure, wanting her to be my first poseable figure.

Well, that didn't end up happening. In the time between seeing Pocco and getting her, I ended up adding a Yostuba Revoltech and a Konata Izumi Figma to my collection, thanks in part to becoming a fan to Yotsuba&! and Lucky Star. I always kept an eye out for a chance to own Pocco, though, and not long ago, that opportunity came, which I gladly took.

What makes Pocco so great is just the style of the figure. It's so Shunya's style, but at the same time, it's so different from everything else out there that's similar. It's sexy, but not over-sexed. It's gorgeous, but not unrealistically beautiful. Pocco doesn't really have much of a counterpart in the wide world of poseable figures, even after all this time. She stands out as unique, and maybe that's what I like about her most.

The details Kaiyodo has included in this Pocco figure also really caught my attention. Among other things, she doesn't seem like the mass-produced figure she truly is. The folds of the sleeves of her clothing, the strands of hair poking out from under her goggles, the slight shade of red upon her lips that looks natural and not painted on. It's a level of detail that sometimes gets glossed over, but Kaiyodo has done well to capture every bit of Shunya's illustration in this figure. Even the accessories like Pocco's sword have their details carried over. That quality gives it far more value than its simple price leads you to believe. 

The only bad news? Well, I'm not showing you this ass shot for no specific reason. The actual joints on Pocco aren't designed very well, specifically right around her hips. But I bet you're not paying attention to what I just said right now, are you?

This picture tells a bit more of the story. While I've never had an issue like this with my Konata Figma, Pocco is not as poseable as she really ought to be. You can do some cool poses with her, but a lot of the same poses you can do with a Figma are kind of impossible here, and that's really the only let down. I had a few cool poses for this Show and Tell that I just could not pull off because of the figure's design, including a pose that I wanted to keep Pocco in while I displayed her. I've instead settled for the sword resting on her shoulders pose you see further up this post.

Still, even with that poseability issue, Pocco's a gorgeous figure to look at, definitely the most-intricately detailed Revoltech or Figma I own. It's the first of probably several Shunya Yamashita pieces I'll eventually own, but it's always the one that will have a special little place in my heart. And it's also the only one I'll have that Konata and Yostuba can steal a sword from. I probably ought to keep a better eye on those two now ...