Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Various angles (1/6)

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Various angles (2/6)

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Various angles (3/6)

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Various angles (4/6)

Various angles

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Detail shots (1/4)

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

Parts for 3 different poses are included for the torso and coat.

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - With the coat removed. The outfit underneath is nicely recreated, but the arms are on

With the coat removed.
The outfit underneath is nicely recreated, but the arms are only provided in coat form, which looks a bit awkward.

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Three face expressions are included, but the eyes on the right two need to be applied

Three face expressions are included, but the eyes on the right two need to be applied using waterslide decals.
Getting them in exactly the right position is still no easy task, so the expressions end up looking subtly off..

Two tools and a smartphone are included as accessories.

A total of 10 hands are included.

A simple clear stand is included.

There are some leftover parts from the stand runner.

Limb articulation.
The hip joints barely move at all because of the skirt.

The round head has a decent range of movement too.

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Standing poses using the tools (1/4)

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Standing poses using the tools (2/4)

Standing poses using the tools

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Swapping out the lower body and coat parts to recreate a seated-on-the-floor pose (1/

Swapping out the lower body and coat parts to recreate a seated-on-the-floor pose

Seated-on-the-floor pose 2

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Swapping the coat and lower body parts to recreate a crouching pose. It's a pose that

Swapping the coat and lower body parts to recreate a crouching pose
It's a pose that really captures her signature attitude, but getting that one-arm chin-rest look is easier said than done.

Crouching pose 2

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch - Together with Figure-rise Standard Suletta Mercury & Miorine Rembran.

Figure-rise Standard Suletta Mercury & Miorine RembranTogether with.

This kit is the Figure-rise Standard release of Chuatury Panlunch. She's the third The Witch from Mercury character to get the Figure-rise Standard treatment after Suletta and Miorine. Most people probably know her better by her nickname "Chuchu," and her signature round head is faithfully recreated here.

The basic body construction follows a similar format to the previous releases, but the standout feature here is that the lower body and coat are provided in three different forms. By swapping parts, you can pose her standing upright, seated on the floor, or crouching down. Since it works by replacing parts of the body and coat, the poses come out looking quite natural — and it lets you pull off poses that would've been tough to achieve with other Figure-rise kits.

That said, the articulation in the standing configuration is pretty limited — the hip joints can barely move at all because of the skirt. The arms do fold in two stages, but since the coat sections are attached as separate pieces, the movement ends up feeling a bit awkward. That's probably exactly why they had no choice but to provide separate body and coat parts for each pose.

Accessories include two tools and a smartphone, and a simple clear stand is also included. Like the previous Witch from Mercury releases, one face comes with the eyes already printed on, but the other two require you to apply the eyes using waterslide decals. Getting the eye height and left-right spacing just right without it looking off is still no easy feat — it's hard to find the right position in the first place, and then the decals keep shifting while you're dabbing away the moisture with a tissue or cotton swab.

On the surface it looks like a nice feature that lets you choose which direction the eyes are looking — but in practice it just feels like Bandai is offloading the labor and the risk onto the builder to cut production costs, and honestly it's a pretty annoying option. If the folks at Bandai tried applying these eye decals themselves, they'd quickly realize just how much of a pain it is for us mere mortals.. (Just print the eyes like Kotobukiya does, for crying out loud!! Try doing it yourselves and see how it goes!)

Anyway, this is a kit that works around the articulation limitations caused by the coat by providing swappable body and coat parts. Separating and reassembling the torso and coat is a bit of a hassle, but thanks to that, the two special poses come out looking really convincing. Chuchu was a fairly prominent and charming supporting character in the original anime, so if she caught your eye in The Witch from Mercury, this should be a pretty fun build. :-)

Figurerise Standard Chuatury Panlunch | 2024.2 | ¥3,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.