Here's another interesting one from the backlog - the Figma 400-DX Splatoon Girl: DX edition set, purchased off Kijiji for $40 CAD from a seller an hour from here. Missed them when EB Games was clearing them out for a few bucks, but the $40 wasn't bad either.
Splatoon is one of the more interesting IPs Nintendo came up with in the last few years. I've never played the game personally, but it seems that Nintendo managed to put a kid friendly spin on the FPS genre - your avatar is a squid that can turn into a kid, and the goal of the game is to effectively paint the other teams base in your colours. I'm not sure how dying works... maybe you take too many hits and you're covered in the other teams colours? There's also the ability to turn into a squid so you can fast travel between pools of your own colour.
Splatoon was originally created for the WiiU, with a sequel created for the Switch, which from what I've read is effectively the first game with a few new maps.
This Figma set is a dual pack of Splatoon Girl figures, each with a slightly different design - this may or may not be all you can choose from. Retailing for a whopping 11,852 Yen in 2019, this translates into roughly $110 USD, so not exactly cheap. But, they did pack quite a few pieces in, though most of these are meant to be shared.
You get two complete figuress (Orange Splatoon Girl and Red Splatoon Girl) complete with affiliated ink tank, two Ink Pistols, one long range pistol (resembles a Super Soaker), two red and one orange ink spray effect, one ink balloon with red and orange splash effects, a baseball cap, a beanie, a pair of headphones, eight additional posing/weapon holding hands (including dedicated one for balloon and Super Soaker), a mischievous face with interchangeable eyebrow colours, a Green and a Blue squid form, two or so puddle effects for the squid, a eyeball movement tool, and a pair of Figma stands.
The Splatoon characters are definitely aesthetically different from.. well pretty much everything else on my shelf (which isn't hard given my usual tastes) and the face plates given them plenty of personality. The tools they've been given look ripped directly out of the game, which is to be expected of course, but at the same time I've seen instances where the sculptors really didn't bother trying.
In case you missed it, there's the ability to rotate the eyeballs, which is something I always love. Unlike more traditional Figma, the hair on these figures is made of a harder plastic with a glossy finish, which actually makes them look really cool.
There are some highly questionable design choices in this set, however. First off, those who own the Konosuba Figma know this one.... to attach the hats to their heads, you need the help of a tiny, flimsy, transparent plastic tab that you slip between the hair pieces. I have already lost one of these tabs, and have opted just to Blue Tak these things in place. I honestly have no idea why this horrible idea was ever reused on any other figure.
Another questionable choice was the headsets. Now, granted mine came broken out of the box, the fact you need to spread the arms of the headset apart to get them to grasp the cups of headphones is insane because sooner or later, you're gonna break it. They should have had two halves joining at the top, or maybe each arm connecting to the center piece. Something... ANYTHING... that doesn't require you to gently pry things apart and hope that things don't break.
Squeezing the guns into the hands is also a bit of a chore, and the fact of the matter is that the guns only work with certain hands, and the manual usually mentions this... but not this time, so there was a bit of effort spent heating up the hands to reshape them.
Articulation on both figures is identical. You get toe, fully ankle movement, single jointed knees, hips with pull down feature to extend range of motion, waist, shoulders with bicep swivel, single jointed elbows, wrist, and head. Between these joints and the Figma stand, you should be able to replicate the various dynamic shooting actions you would perform in the game.
Paint work is unsurprisingly sharp across the board, along with decals - this is a Figma, after all, and with a colour scheme that is nowhere as complicated as your typical Fate figure, you can rest assured your end product will look great. Build quality wise, there's the fragility issues on the accessories that concern me, but other wise, its again pretty much Figma standard - well finished parts, strong joints, no issues with regards to limb size., and of course no QC issues with regards to tolerances.
Overall, a very solid Figma set that is marred by some questionable design choices. It's nice that there are enough parts for some 1v1 display options with just this set alone, though I can sort of envision the absolute craziness one could get up to with sets of these and the Splatoon Boys and a nice multi level diorama.
Probably a much easier sell if you're a Splatoon fan, but if you're just a Figma fan like me, for full price there's probably other figures that will get your attention first.