[Kurona]

I'm not sure if I've said this here before, but Preban sets really take the joy out of SHODO collecting for me. Like, a big part of the appeal is that I can just hop onto manda and get one for around 200-400 yen, MAYBE 600-800 aside from some characters that have tragically shot up like Blade and Ichigo; or I can order a full set off AmiAmi and sell off the ones I don't want.

It's how cheap and easy it is, basically; how easy it is to add on to an order and just how much value I get for so little money. So it completely goes against the point for me when I see like... a set of 3 figures (with admittedly amazing paint applications and something accessories! not denying they used the budget well!) for 8000-10,000 Yen and it's a limited release? For a fair few of them it's definitely the only way some of them were getting done, for sure, but it's especially a drag to see it for more important figures like Blade King and W Xtreme and Terror.

Maybe that's just my personal experience, but like... I just bought Super-1, his accessory box and Great Leader off of manda for a grand total of 1000 yen, and I can't ever imagine wanting to pay about 7-10 times that for the same amount of stuff, you know?