The Bonkurasu Brigade

Yuki: The plastic shrink wrap is off…
Ryoko: I can see that!

Actually I opened it the day after the previous post.
Somehow the eagerness was there.
But I was too busy to do the post then.

Its open!!

Alright! Took some pictures, everything is in place for a little writeup.
So without further ado lets take a closer look at the “Nyoro-n Churuya-san Megassa Limited Edition”(ねんどろいどぷち ちゅるやさん めがっさ限定版).

Packaging

Its basically the same box as the Haruhi-chan Limited Edition only that it is redone in smoked cheese style. The reason is most probably because smoked cheese is the favourite food of Churuya-san. The little window that the figure peeks out is now the back/bottom of the box. Creative redesign, I like!

The inside is similar to the Haruhi-chan LE too. The familiar two tray plastic support design.

Books

Main manga: Front and back (Normal ver. cover)

As said in the previous post, “Megassa” is probably Tsuruya-speak for “mega” or maybe “very”. Ok on to the books. According to a bit of research, the Nyoro-n Churuya-san manga actually started off as a doujin work by Eretto(えれっと) from the circle “Utsura Uraraka“(うつらうららか) more on that later.

One more thing, the book is in full color.

Main manga: Without outer jacket

Heres a rough translation on the history of Nyoro-n Churuya-san manga taken from the JA wiki:

On 15/6/2006 news of the reveal of a Churuya-san illustration on Eretto’s site became the talk of the internet and in the doujin world. After that irregular Churuya-san 4-koma started appearing on the same site and later spawned 3 compiled volumes of doujinshi titled “Nyoron☆Churuya-san”.

As it is a derivative work [spinoff], it received the same amount of attention as the original work. Ascii art and flash animations [staring Churuya-san] appeared on the net (especially the various message boards and personal sites), many characters from other works are parodied as well [drawn in the style of Churuya-san?].

Coming August of 2008, the title announced its serialization on Monthly Comp Ace. The title taken for the serialization has the “☆” , which was in the doujinshi, removed. Nyoron Churuya-san serialized from the November 2008 issue to October 2009 issue then releasing a takubon on September 10.

On 18/12/2008 it is announced to be animated along with fellow parody series “Suzumiya Haruhi-chan no Yuutsu”. The anime was released on the KADOKAWAanime’s Channel on Youtube. It ran from 14/2/2009 to 13/5/2009, ending with 13 episodes [average length of one episode is 2 minutes].

The original creators also sent their good wishes near the end of the book. Theres a message and a cute SD Tsuruya-san drawn by Ito Noizi. Tanigawa Nagaru wrote a message.

Booklet: Front and back

The special booklet that came this time round is kind of a congratulatory booklet with art and 4-koma by other illustrators(names as seen on the back cover) featuring the characters from Nyoro-n Churuya-san.

Figure

The petite Churuya-san is 6cm tall.

Onto the figure itself now. Compared to Usamimi Nagato, Churuya-san has less accessories to play with but she comes with another set of arms to switch from her out-of-box carefree open arms stance to her cute clueless “Nyor~on” stance. You can mix and match the 2 sets of arms too.

Churuya broken up.

A very cute figure, I really like that expression on her face. But her “stiff” long hair hinders the articulation of her head and arms. Also I had to remove the head every time I want to switch arms. The hand part of the right arm of my figure is tighter than the left, not a big problem though.

Churuya, happy to be free.

Would be great if she came with another open mouth face like the one from the upcoming Nendoriod release.

Some fun

Make your own smoked cheese!

Take a look at the photo gallery for all and a few more pictures.

Epilogue?

“Churuya not the star…?”
No worries there, Churuya-san…