Very nice shots Moog and a great toy

These pics are so great Ben !

^^ Both, absolute gems!

I always liked the green version of that Yokai.

one non-Sunguts but the Mizuki theme is continued... sorry for the shit photo!

Beautiful line up!

^^ what's the deal with with the tiny medama oyaji? part of a diorama? so cute

He's leading along the newly-born Kitaro

never saw that before. is it really by sunguts? thanks for the info!

^^^ Yes it is. There are are several versions, but none of them seem to turn up too often.

what an odd departure from their more neutral-pose toys. almost looks like a candy/gachapon toy in that respect. must be fairly hard to come by — i don't think i've seen it even in any of the hardcore gegege no kitaro collections on the board. thanks again for the info, guys!

^^ That one turns up on Mandarake every now and then, but its never cheap!

Like this set that kappa has:


I've only seen this set pop-up once and it was silly money.
Such a cool set . . . . awesome collection by the way, kappa!

There is a GID set of those tanuki with with the monster as well, which I have only seen turn up once and also was very expensive, YJA I think, 5 or so years ago.

Edit: Monster is called Mizuchiryu.

I brought 3 of these in through the shop in late 2007. I probably should have kept one around as it is a really great little toy.

The clear one is still for sale. Don't think it suits this figure personally tho...

http://www.e-yamashiroya.com/f/5f/mizuk ... index.html

This and the GID ones seem to be retail or less when they turn up in mandarake, not sure about the regular ones.

Never seen the tanuki set anywhere again - never been able to find any of their other tanuki figures for a reasonable price (except the sleeping one, new) so relieved I picked that up before the secondhand prices rocketed

Those opaque 'birth of Kitaro' figures are rare and usually are top dollar, more recently if they come up cheap that's amazing, yamashiroya is a good spot to check out I am surprised they still have the clear ones.

Edit: I added these two links, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrL-GbpCHf4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYI0Ux0ARqM

The opaque ones are exclusive to yamashiroya

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/ja/it ... 32021.html

Sold out but if you keep checking back I'm sure another one will turn up, I was under the impression this was one of the cheaper sunguts figures. I got mine for 2000 unopened (not mandarake)

'Opaque' is not able to be seen through; not transparent. The above referenced releases were sold on the Sunguts website, Grumble toy and one-up. So I think what you really mean is that those particular clear ones are the exclusives.

Yeah, sorry, opaque ones = clear ones. None of the versions are very expensive at mandarake tho.

Yamashiroya is a big toy store in Ueno, the top floor(?) sells vinyl

Here is the last one that showed up on Mandarake

http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/en/it ... 80288.html

That's about $68-$70 dollars US

"Yamashiroya is a big toy store in Ueno"... Thanks for the info, I want to visit many toy stores when I visit Japan.

Ah OK, maybe the prices went up then. Nakano is generally more expensive than the other branches, though.

^^ All great . . . you gotta love Sunguts . . . he never quits.