If there is one topic I don’t discuss often, it is prize figures. There are too many of them every week, every month, but as the year comes to an end, we take a brief look at the trends that define year 2023 for low cost anime figures. Ram and Rem from Re:Zero is facing serious challenge from The Quintessential Quintuplets this year. Vocaloid Hatsune Miku is as strong as ever in the sheer amount of figures made for this one character, but Tokisaki Kurumi from Date a Live / Date a Bullet, Mai Sakurajima, and Albedo from Overlord were also popular enough to spawn a number of figures this year.
Last but not least, Taito’s AMP Marin Kitagawa certainly exceeded my expectations on how good prize figures can be. Please do check out my review of her here:
Do you collect prize figures? Which one did you pre-order or purchase this year? While it is almost impossible to cover over 500 female anime figures released this year in the prize figure market, we take a look a