You know what, let's just call this the nanokitty. Moving on...
So, I picked this up on a whim during a black friday event, on the simple reasoning of "kitteh!", rather than any familiarity with the line. Good Smile Company is a rival to gunpla's Bandai Visual, and I have no prior experience with their work. They seem to do a lot in the way of licensed anime figurines, with robot kits being just one thing they do. Their name sounds like a cyberpunk megacorp, but that's as far as my opinion goes. is, in so far as I can figure out, a kit-first and artist-promoted enterprise where everything is a 1 to 1 representation of a “fragment”. I'm hitting a bit of a language barrier with this one, where the official English descriptions seem to be mechanically translated metaphysics. The vast majority of the line seems to be gothic and rather artesy dolls that store/sleep in hexagonal boxes, obviously edging into waifu territory, with nanokitty here being a low cost entry. It is, not to put too fine a point on it, fucking tiny. It came in a box smaller than some dvds, or letters for that matter. The completed kit is bite-sized. Nanokitty can perch inside a bottle top. Don't drop any of it, you won't find it again.
Actual construction is a simple if delicate affair. The merest application of glue is needed to secure the major ball joints, and the white plastic is quite forgiving with respects to nub marks. The black plastic is obviously less so, but you do get a selection of alternate tails and a spare head with closed eyes. There is also a display base, but this is less to support nanokitty, and more to stop it blowing away next time you cough near it. The articulation is for all intents and purposes, perfect. Uncanny, in fact. Nanokitty has a porcelain doll vibe going on, but it poses so easily. I cannot conceive of a more mobile quadruped at this size. I would adore for engineering like this to be applied to something bigger and less fiddly. Its that elegant.
I'm an easy mark for cats, and oddities, but I was unexpectedly blown away by this. Is it art? I dunno, but if it isn't, it's damn close.
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