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74 figure photos from Wonder Festival, Japan’s biggest anime/game figure expo!【Photos】

Jul 31, 2024

Summer Wonder Festival returns with a new batch of upcoming figures aimed at otaku hearts.

Two times a year, the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba Prefecture, about 30 minutes east of downtown Tokyo, hosts Wonder Festival. As Japan’s biggest figure and garage kit expo, Wonder Festival shows off not only the newest anime and video game character figures to hit the market, but is also often the first public showing of figures that are still in the prototype stage (which is why a number of them are exhibited unpainted). As such, it’s a snapshot of not only who the currently most popular characters are among Japan’s otaku community, but also a glimpse at who’s projected to still have a hold on fans’ hearts in the near future once the pre-production figures are ready to reach the shelves of stores and fans.

With this year’s summer Wonder Festival taking place last Sunday, we headed out to Makuhari and turned our camera towards the characters on display, and we’ve got a massive batch of photos to share with you, so let’s make the rounds of the exhibitors’ booths.

Amiami

Amiami, who just opened a gigantic eight-floor figure specialty shop in Tokyo’s Akihabara neighborhood, was displaying figures from a number of different brands.

Goddess of Victory: Nikke’s Isabelle (produced by Otaku Toys)

Touhou Project’s Reimu Hakurei and Koishi Komeiji (Magi Arts)

Taimanin’s Yukikaze (Pure)

Azur Lane’s San Jacinto (Anigame)

Goddess of Victory: Nikke’s Sakura and Rupee (HSK)

Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear’s Yuna (Prisma Wing)

Dead or Alive’s Marie Rose, Azue Lane crossover version (KT Model)

Atelier Sophie’s Sophie Neuenmuller (Amakuni)

Goddess of Victory: Nikke’s Alice (Amakuni)

● Kadokawa

In addition to publishing anime, manga, and light novels, Kodansha also has its own figure line, called KDcolle.

KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World’s Yunyun, Iris, and Megumin

Rascal Does Not Dream’s Mai Sakurajima

Spice and Wolf’s Holo

KonoSuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World’s Megumin and Yunyun

Mushoku Tensei’s Roxy Migurdia

Overlord’s Lupusregina Beta and CZ2128 Delta

● Union Creative

The Union Creative Booth also has a selection of figures from manufacturer Freeing.

Azur Lane’s Giulio Cesare, Reno, and Yumi (Freeing)

To Love-Ru’s Haruna Sairenji

Overlord’s Shalltear Bloodfallen

Gridman Universe’s Akane Shinjo

Oshi no Ko’s Kana Arima

● Wonderful Works

The Wonderful Works booth had some jumbo-sized artwork representing the characters and poses of their new figures.

Blue Archive’s Saori

Dolls’ Frontline’s DP-12

The Apothecary Diaries’ Maomao

● Aniplex/Claynel

▼ Hololive virtual YouTuber Hakui Koyori

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba’s Obanai Iguro, Giyu Tomioka, and Sanemi Shinazugawa

Too Many Losing Heroines’ Anna Yanami

● DMM Factory

Overlord’s Albedo

Spice and Wolf’s Holo

Oshi no Ko’s Ruby, Kana, and Mem-cho

▼ Nijisanji virtual YouTuber Sukoya Kana

● Milestone

My Youth Romantic Comedy Is Wrong, as I Expected’s Yukino Yukinoshita and Yui Yuigahama (AF)

▼ Vocaloid Hatsune Miku (Hobby Stock)

Attack on Titan’s Levi and Beast Titan (Proof)

● Apex Toys

Genshin Impact’s Hu Tao

Zenless Zone Zero’s Anby and Nicole Demara, Billy Kid, and Nekomiya Nana

Honkai: Star Rail’s Dan Heng

Azur Lane’s Owari, Formidable, and Bremerton

Arknights’ Ch’en the Holungday

Gridman Universe’s Yume Minami and Rikka Takarada

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina’s Elaina

Azur Lane’s Cheshire, Washington, New Jersey, and Laffey

Azur Lane’s Charybdis, Anchorage, Noshiro, and Amagi

● Spiritale

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina’s Elaina

Oshi no Ko’s Kana Arima

My Hero Academia’s Himiko Toga

Guilty Gear’s Bridget

My Dress-Up Darling’s Marin Kitagawa

● Wave

And last, let’s swing by the Wave Corporation both, to see…

Guilty Gear’s Bridget

The Idolmaster’s Kaede Takagaki and Kanade Hayami

Figure collecting is an otaku hobby with two limiting factors: spending budget and shelf space, so it’s probably a good thing that a lot of these models won’t be in stores for a while, since fans are probably going to need that time to decide on which ones to add to their home décor.

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