Wire cutters are a useful thing to have while trying to extract her from her packaging.
I normally don’t take note of a figure’s box, but Isoroku comes packaged with multiple twist ties holding her in and scads of plastic. She’s a bit under 20 centimeters tall to the top of her head, although her ponytail adds a bit more height. This figure comes courtesy of Kotobukiya and is built in 1/8 scale. One wonders how the American public would react if a major American game company made a game in which you controlled a Taliban insurgent and ran around shooting NATO soldiers.Īnyway, on to the figure. Curiously, a few decades later the Japanese game developer Capcom would release a game called 1942 in which players took control of a P-38 and went about blowing up Japanese ships. The mission to kill Yamamoto was performed by pilots in P-38 Lightning aircraft, one of the most distinctive-looking fighters ever made. Yamamoto, not knowing that Americans were listening to his Vent channel, was subsequently assassinated by US Army Air Forces pilots over Bougainville Island. After enjoying a period of unprecedented dominance in the Pacific, his forces suffered a crushing reversal at Midway. The real Yamamoto served as commander of the Combined Fleet during World War II and was one of the architects of the zerg rush that clobbered the American battleship fleet at Pearl Harbor. Many of the characters from Sengoku Rance draw their names and backgrounds from medieval Japanese history, but Yamamoto is instead based on a Japanese naval admiral. Such concerns do not deter Rance, who resorts to manipulation, seduction, and misrepresentation to get his way. Rance – the titular main character of the game – eagerly volunteers his services as the prospective father, but Isoroku declines due to the impropriety of birthing a half-gai-jin heir. Unfortunately, being that she is the last of her family, that means she needs to squirt out a baby. Isoroku is depicted as a gentle, duty-minded person intent on extending her family line. I tend to keep her in my main force even though I haven’t had a lot of luck using archers, particularly towards the end of the game. As Ashikaga’s territories are adjacent to the player’s starting location, Yamamoto is one of the first commanders you can defeat and coerce into joining your own army.
In the game Sengoku Rance, Isoroku Yamamoto is a captain who has been coerced into serving House Ashikaga. Kotobukiya or Orchid Seed or someone should retool to make a figure of each female Sengoku Rance character the world would be a better place for it. Sadly, she does not, and sadly, many other worthy characters from the game haven’t been so honored. I wound up getting Kenshin and Isoroku Yamamoto, and if Shikibu had a figure, I’d get that too. After playing through Sengoku Rance, I decided that I wanted more figures of characters from the game.
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