I like how people are getting defensive over Liara's original design. Like Asari aren't already the creepiest aliens in Mass Effect. I've never seen where the supposed sexiness is coming from.

Besides, why Liara? I'd much rather have something like Wrex sitting around my room, and this is coming from a man with several ponies strewn about.

@LiquidPrince said:

@MiniPato said:

I'm glad I never spent any money on those super special editions of games that come with figures cause they look real cheap and plasticky.

The Batman and Assassin's Creed one are great. The Uncharted is pretty bad though.

I've still got one in the original box that came with my SFIV special edition. That C. Viper was ROUGH. ugh.

@Zippedbinders said:

I like how people are getting defensive over Liara's original design. Like Asari aren't already the creepiest aliens in Mass Effect. I've never seen where the supposed sexiness is coming from.

Besides, why Liara? I'd much rather have something like Wrex sitting around my room, and this is coming from a man with several ponies strewn about.

How is it creepy? The inspiration for the design was kind of great, they're supposed to look like women emerging from water.

It's like that scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Phoebe Cates climbing out of her pool. It's a concept that people subconsciously find attractive. They could have gone a whole lot of ways with the Asari but I honestly think they did a pretty great job. The Mass Effect universe needed their own "Orion slave girls" and it would have been a cheap ripoff to do the exact same thing except in blue.

Nerds acting bewildered toward another nerd for being nerdy in an apparently unacceptable way. Oh, the lulz.

I really like the Catherine figure and the One Piece figures. I think I would prefer a bit less stylization on the Liara figure, but to each his own. :P

Way to take one of the strongest, most admired feminist characters in video games and reimagine her through retarded, infantile Japanese sexuality.

I don't want to sound like i have the wrong idea of some folks.. but i never expected complaints about breast size on an anime figure.

@CashBailey said:

Way to take one of the strongest, most admired feminist characters in video games and reimagine her through retarded, infantile Japanese sexuality.

You should see my Madame Curie and Mother Teresa Kotobukiya figures!

Not naked enough

@CashBailey said:

Way to take one of the strongest, most admired feminist characters in video games and reimagine her through retarded, infantile Japanese sexuality.

At least they didn't make her 12 and put her in a school uniform with a ridiculously short skirt.

This is relatively inoffensive, it's just an anime version of the character. Like others have said, if you romance Liara in ME3 her bust is even about the size of the original figure too. But yeah, considering this is what Japan does to Western creations, no one should be allowed to complain about Kirby's eyebrows.

@CashBailey said:

Way to take one of the strongest, most admired feminist characters in video games and reimagine her through retarded, infantile Japanese sexuality.

Liara's a feminist? Damn, I shoulda played Shadow Broker.

@WinterSnowblind said:

At least they didn't make her 12 and put her in a school uniform with a ridiculously short skirt.

That'll be the Miranda figure. I'd set my watch and warrant on it.

@CashBailey said:

Way to take one of the strongest, most admired feminist characters in video games and reimagine her through retarded, infantile Japanese sexuality.

What exactly makes her a feminist aside from being a female...? I don't recall her giving any speeches about equality, or any pro women (or mongendered species in her case) rants.

@BrockNRolla said:

@onan said:

I just hate the generic anime face, it really doesn't look like her.

This.

This

@LiquidPrince: Shunya Yamashita is a genius, but you should've known better than to start a thread like this on Giant Bomb.

I find it hilarious ironic how BioWare states they want to keep their "artistic integrity", then they allow something that's specifically panders to the weeaboo audience.

@Catarrhal said:

@LiquidPrince: Shunya Yamashita is a genius, but you should've known better than to start a thread like this on Giant Bomb.

Meh. The few people that enjoyed it, it was for them.

@joles434 said:

I find it hilarious ironic how BioWare states they want to keep their "artistic integrity", then they allow something that's specifically panders to the weeaboo audience.

I'm no weaboo. Don't be a dick.