I’ve been bad. And by bad, I mean that I’ve been buying things I don’t need. Haruhi, after a long break, has decided that she needs all of my money once again. She had me spend a small fortune on the limited edition DVDs of her show, but that wasn’t enough. She has now demanded that I buy her in figurine-form, courtesy of GoodSmile and their Nendoroid figure series. I’d resist, but I cannot deny the will of Haruhi-sama. Plus these things are so darn cute. More pictures below.
Nendoroid Figures are distributed at random. You can’t choose what figure you receive. Each set of figures includes five characters with one variant. There’s also a “secret” figure, allowing for a total of eleven possible figures. As you can see from the box, I was lucky enough to recieve the secret character for this set: Mikuru in her frog cosplay. ^_^ 
I never got around to an unboxing post about my Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Box Set (completed about six months ago), so here we have Mikuru posed in front. 
Mikuru in front of the open box set. I received lots of goodies with the box set (or I should say, with each volume since the DVDs were ordered separately), including CDs, pencil boards, iron-on decals, and even an SOS Brigade Leader arm badge. I need an occasion to wear the arm badge though. 
Originally, I only bought one figure; Play-Asia was taking pre-orders months in advance for the “Volume 2″ character set, of which Frog-Mikuru was a part. More recently however, I was browsing import site JList and discovered that they had three figures from the (more desirable) “Volume 1″ character set. I ordered two, which arrived just today. 
One of the neat aspects of the Nendoroid figure series is that you can mix and match character body parts if you own multiple figures. As you can see, I didn’t even bother assembling all of the figures correctly before taking pictures. Haruhi’s head is now squarely on the shoulders of Mikuru’s frog cosplay, while Mikuru (still wearing the frog hat) is sporting the latest Japanese Schoolgirl fashions. The final figure is assembled correctly, due mostly to lack of imagination. 
A closer look at the new SOS Brigade leader… 
… as well as the other two members.
I think, rather than clutter up my room, I’m going to be bringing these girl to work and liven up my cubicle some more. I think they’d be good company for Domo.