From Muramasa: The Demon Blade - a Wii game with a gorgeous hand-painted visual style - comes the possessed princess Momohime, now lovingly crafted as a 1/8 scale figure by Noritaka Fukumoto for Alter. I'll admit that I'm yet to complete Muramasa but I've really enjoyed what I've played so far and it's just such a beautiful game to look at, so when I saw the previews for this figure I was pretty quick to make a pre-order. It looked incredible in Alter's official promo shots, but those can often be misleading as certain elements become too difficult to mass produce or, more simply, quality control isn't quite perfect. As a figure collector, you come to expect those differences and, within reason, accept them. With Momohime, Alter have managed to deliver a work of true craftsmanship that has absolutely no trouble living up to its promise.
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