It’s now time for our third Figure Friday and today we’ll be taking a look at Megumin from KonoSuba! As we can see from both the image above and below, Megumin has a similar styled box to Aqua. This time around, however, the box is a bit wider than the previous ones due to the size of what’s inside (Megumin’s hat).

We can also see that as number 725, Megumin is one of the newer Nendoroid releases and as such she is the most expensive Nendoroid I own. I believe she just came out in the Fall of 2017. Even so, she already has another Nendoroid confirmed to be coming out in the future which is a school uniform version.

Once again, we can see some of the assembly variations on the back of the box, and there are more pictures like these on the sides of the box as well. Like with Aqua we again have circular windows into the box on either side.

Pay attention to the explosion graphic in the bottom right image on the back of the box. This is a piece that comes with Megumin, but it’s not exactly the easiest piece to find.

You’ll notice that this piece isn’t included in the picture below of the pieces she comes with. This piece is actually found taped in between the outer and inner portions of the box and so it’s quite easy to miss. I originally forgot about it until i was putting all the extra parts away after assembly and noticed I never took it out.

These are all the pieces that come with Megumin with the exception of the explosion graphic as noted above. There is actually a second, smaller platform and stand for the explosion graphic tucked beneath the platform for Megumin.

As usual, I try to make my assembly based on how I feel represents the character as a whole the best and so I ended up with the assembly pictured below. Unfortunately, I originally was going to go with a very similar setup, but Megumin’s left hand (our right) for holding her staff wouldn’t stay attached to the arm correctly so I ended up with this instead.

Other than her one hand not working for me, I have two other, smaller complaints. The first is that her staff is not gripped as tightly as the spear for Kyouko or the staff for Aqua. This means that while maneuvering her arm into position, the staff falls out too easily.

The second complaint is that her hat is basically just balancing on top of her head. I would have preferred it to be a more snug fit, but as long as you don’t plan on moving her around too much after assembly, this, like her staff, isn’t much of an issue.

Finally, we’ll close by mentioning the future of Megumin Nendoroids. As I mentioned at the start, there is already a second Megumin Nendoroid announced which is a school uniform version.

While more of Megumin is always good, this seems to be a bit of a waste since we already have a Yunyun school uniform Nendoroid. It seems like they made this second Megumin to be part of a matching set with the Yunyun.

Instead, I would have rather had the second Megumin be the Winter variant since that is a more unique outfit. Hopefully in the future we will get a Winter variant of Megumin, along with one for Aqua, because I’d be interested in that as well.

It’s already Figure Friday again and this time I have the goddess of water herself, Aqua from Konosuba! Aqua is one of two Nendoroids from KonoSuba that I have, the other being Megumin who will be featured in next week’s Figure Friday. If you missed last week, we took a look at the Kyouko Sakura Nendoroid from Madoka Magica.

The first thing I noticed about the packaging of the Aqua Nendoroid is that her box doesn’t have any watermarked designs on it like we saw with the Kyouko Sakura one. Because of this, and the flat, non-gradient colors, the box seemed more drab and boring. As of right now, I only have Nendoroids from two different anime so the boxes might be designed differently based off the anime the character is from.

However, the change in box design could also be due to when the Nendoroids were released. As you can see from the picture of the front, Aqua is number 630 while Kyouko Sakura was number 217. The design of the boxes may have simply changed over time, but we’ll figure all that out together once I have a larger collection.

The back of the box features some of the possible assembly variations for Aqua, and the sides of the box (not pictured) show assembly variations as well. The Aqua box also includes a clear circle on each side through which you can see into the box like the front.


As with any Nendoroid, deciding on which stance to set them up in is the hardest choice (other than deciding which one to buy). For Aqua, I first wanted to assemble her in the crying and running away position featured on the back of the box because this is something she does frequently in the anime.

While this pose is probably the most entertaining to me, I also had to think about the other props that she came with because I wanted her to have the most iconic Aqua look. She came with her signature staff as well as two fans complete with water fountains coming out of them to recreate one of her party tricks she uses in the anime.

In the end I decided that going with a pose which incorporated her staff was the best choice simply because although the crying pose is my favorite, it does not include any of the props she came with. That being said, I may end up changing her back at some point because I love that pose too much.

Along with the pieces she came with, I would have liked to see the ability to pose her where she is throwing up rainbows as she tends to do presumably because she’s a goddess, but I can understand that they are only able to fit so much into the box. Other than that, I have no real complaints about the Aqua Nendoroid or anything that comes with it.