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Searching for her for a reasonable price! Located in US ^-^

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In stock @ Nin-Nin-Game (¥229,830)
Brand New! => Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura Kinomoto -Sakura Card Arc- [ARTFX J]
~1676.38 € / ~$1781.87
└ +5% Points on all Orders!
└ Worldwide Express Shipping! ✈

View spoilerHide spoilerAuri • 2 months ago • #116679802So I wrote to Kotobukiya in Japanese using DeepL as a support even though I studied Japanese in uni lmao, I double checked and changed some words too, but yeah it's not gonna get much better. This was my message if anyone wants to try:
View spoilerHide spoilerこんにちは、私は貴社の製品、特に過去に製作されたカードキャプターさくらのフィギュアの外国人ファンです。
残念ながら過去にARTFX J さくらカード編フィギュアを購入することができませんでした。
そのフィギュアは本当に大好きなんです。
今現在、このフィギュアは中古市場で酷い価格になっている事を知って欲しいです。
200,030円とかでしか手に入らないんです。
この商品を新しく生産してもらうことはできないかと思い、メールしました。
この商品を欲しがっている人がたくさんいるのです。
外国人については、このページ https://myfigurecollection.net/item/455586 で確認できます。
右側に「wished by 1,109 users」というリストがありますが、これは1109人がこの商品を欲しがっていることを意味です。
カードキャプターさくらは海外でもほんとに有名、漫画の新シリーズももうすぐ終了です。
そして、来年は25周年を迎えます。
ぜひ、このフィギュアの再制作を検討してください。ご検討のほど、よろしくお願いします。
翻訳ソフトを使用しています。英語でのメッセージは以下の通りです。
Hello, I am a foreigner fan of your products and especially the CardCaptor Sakura figures you have produced in the past.
Sadly I was not able to purchase the ARTFX J さくらカード編 figure in the past.
I really love that figure. I would like you to know that as of right now, this figure has terrible prices in the used market. It can only be found for prices such as ¥200,030.
I am writing you to ask if it would be possible to have a new production of this product. There are many people that want this item.
You can check about foreigners on this page https://myfigurecollection.net/item/455586, there is a list on the right side "wished by 1,109 users", meaning 1109 people want this product.
Card Captor Sakura is very popular overseas and the new manga series is coming to an end soon.
Next year the series is also celebrating its 25th anniversary.
Please consider producing this figure again. Thank you for your consideration.
The form doesn't get translated by my browser, so if anyone is having trouble the stuff marked with the red kanji is mandatory: surname, name, mail address (twice), reason of inquiry (figure, plastic models, character goods, ??, other), message, reply (necessary/not necessary), tick the privacy consent.
Keep in mind after the "reason of inquiry" you can input the name of the product. I put ARTFXJ カードキャプターさくら さくらカード編 just to be sure, but it's not mandatory.
Feel free to use my own message, change it up with any translator (I would use DeepL still, as it seems more reliable) or however you want. I thought pulling on the anniversary and Clear Card ending could have helped, but a simpler message might have been easier to write and understand.
Form link is here www.kotobukiya....
I will probably keep tormenting them for some time :)

They replied! I feel like crying :'(

Here's their reply

お客様

この度はご要望メールをいただき、誠にありがとうございます。
今回頂いたご要望は担当者にお伝えし、今後の参考とさせて頂きます。
今後とも末永く弊社製品をご愛顧下さいますよう、よろしくお願い申し上げます。

Translated by deepL as follows:

Customer.


Thank you very much for your e-mail with your request.
We will pass your request on to the person in charge and will keep it in mind for future reference.
We look forward to your continued patronage of our products for many years to come.



So please consider contacting them, even with a fake name or without asking for a reply. I believe we can do it!! Let's get this damn re-release!

Nin-Nin-Game • 2 months ago • #116724990In stock @ Nin-Nin-Game (¥200,030)
Brand New! => Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura Kinomoto -Sakura Card Arc- [ARTFX J]
~1421.81 € / ~$1469.62
└ +5% Points on all Orders!
└ Worldwide Express Shipping! ✈

almost 1.5k dollars..? huh?

we need a rerelease asap good lord

So I wrote to Kotobukiya in Japanese using DeepL as a support even though I studied Japanese in uni lmao, I double checked and changed some words too, but yeah it's not gonna get much better. This was my message if anyone wants to try:

View spoilerHide spoilerこんにちは、私は貴社の製品、特に過去に製作されたカードキャプターさくらのフィギュアの外国人ファンです。
残念ながら過去にARTFX J さくらカード編フィギュアを購入することができませんでした。
そのフィギュアは本当に大好きなんです。
今現在、このフィギュアは中古市場で酷い価格になっている事を知って欲しいです。
200,030円とかでしか手に入らないんです。

この商品を新しく生産してもらうことはできないかと思い、メールしました。
この商品を欲しがっている人がたくさんいるのです。
外国人については、このページ https://myfigurecollection.net/item/455586 で確認できます。
右側に「wished by 1,109 users」というリストがありますが、これは1109人がこの商品を欲しがっていることを意味です。

カードキャプターさくらは海外でもほんとに有名、漫画の新シリーズももうすぐ終了です。
そして、来年は25周年を迎えます。

ぜひ、このフィギュアの再制作を検討してください。ご検討のほど、よろしくお願いします。

翻訳ソフトを使用しています。英語でのメッセージは以下の通りです。

Hello, I am a foreigner fan of your products and especially the CardCaptor Sakura figures you have produced in the past.
Sadly I was not able to purchase the ARTFX J さくらカード編 figure in the past.
I really love that figure. I would like you to know that as of right now, this figure has terrible prices in the used market. It can only be found for prices such as ¥200,030.

I am writing you to ask if it would be possible to have a new production of this product. There are many people that want this item.
You can check about foreigners on this page https://myfigurecollection.net/item/455586, there is a list on the right side "wished by 1,109 users", meaning 1109 people want this product.

Card Captor Sakura is very popular overseas and the new manga series is coming to an end soon.
Next year the series is also celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Please consider producing this figure again. Thank you for your consideration.

The form doesn't get translated by my browser, so if anyone is having trouble the stuff marked with the red kanji is mandatory: surname, name, mail address (twice), reason of inquiry (figure, plastic models, character goods, ??, other), message, reply (necessary/not necessary), tick the privacy consent.

Keep in mind after the "reason of inquiry" you can input the name of the product. I put ARTFXJ カードキャプターさくら さくらカード編 just to be sure, but it's not mandatory.

Feel free to use my own message, change it up with any translator (I would use DeepL still, as it seems more reliable) or however you want. I thought pulling on the anniversary and Clear Card ending could have helped, but a simpler message might have been easier to write and understand.

Form link is here www.kotobukiya....

I will probably keep tormenting them for some time :)

Auri • 2 months ago • #116308396Sorry, I'm not the person you were replying to. In the past I made the mistake of writing to KotoUs (that are not affiliated with kotobukiya, might've been in the past) and even if they replied to me saying they would refer what I asked to the proper people, I feel like they didn't do anything or whatever. I went on a search for any email on the Kotobukiya English site, still found nothing. But they have a Twitter account, so that could be an option. twitter.com/Kot...
Edit: Japanese form is here
www.kotobukiya.... there's no English version as far as I'm aware.
These prices are so upsetting. I'm always almost thinking of caving and then I realize how cheap she was on release and that even 390€(or whatever currency, right now they make no sense) is too much because the Pinky Promise one costs just as much and it's way more detailed. I love this figure. I love this dress. I'm not willing to pay more than 200€ for her. One day maybe I will get her. Either I become rich, people wanna get rid of her or Koto finally re-releases her. (Yes, I'm very frustrated and mad everytime I come here that's why I even removed her from my wishlist)
sorry for the rant :'(

i don't mind the rant at all, i totally get it ;_; sometimes i also want to cave in and save up to pay the scalper prices but it just feels so wrong to pay THAT much. thank you for the links, i'll definitely be writing in on their form and i really hope we can both get it one day!

marifrog • 3 months ago • #115814882do you have a link to where we can write in? i so badly want this to be re-released :(

Sorry, I'm not the person you were replying to. In the past I made the mistake of writing to KotoUs (that are not affiliated with kotobukiya, might've been in the past) and even if they replied to me saying they would refer what I asked to the proper people, I feel like they didn't do anything or whatever. I went on a search for any email on the Kotobukiya English site, still found nothing. But they have a Twitter account, so that could be an option. twitter.com/Kot...

Edit: Japanese form is here
www.kotobukiya.... there's no English version as far as I'm aware.

These prices are so upsetting. I'm always almost thinking of caving and then I realize how cheap she was on release and that even 390€(or whatever currency, right now they make no sense) is too much because the Pinky Promise one costs just as much and it's way more detailed. I love this figure. I love this dress. I'm not willing to pay more than 200€ for her. One day maybe I will get her. Either I become rich, people wanna get rid of her or Koto finally re-releases her. (Yes, I'm very frustrated and mad everytime I come here that's why I even removed her from my wishlist)

sorry for the rant :'(

Duckie • 3 months ago • #115335857Remember you can always write to Koto, and they might put it into consideration.

do you have a link to where we can write in? i so badly want this to be re-released :(