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Review: Nendoroid 769 Kagamine Len Harvest Moon Ver.

I wanted Len Harvest Moon Ver. for a long time and ultimately I ordered him along with his sister and I’ve to admit this one is another of the Nendo I particularly love, not so much for its accessories but because he’s simply beautiful (below in an official photo).

...they were both sadly damn expensive to get... but I really love them.

So, a premise.

What does it mean ‘Harvest Moon version’? Everything starts with Hatsune Miku. At the HATSUNE MIKU EXPO in Shanghai held in China Goodsmile announced they would release a Miku based on an illustration (which you can see below) by the Chinese illustrator Rella, who is well known as one of the greatest Hatsune Miku illustrators on Pixiv in which Miku was dressed up in outfit based on those seen at the Mid-Autumn Festival in China (hence the name ‘Harvest moon’ due to it being a harvest festival).

(for who’s wondering she’s on my ‘I’M GONNA BUY THIS NENDO’ list)

Afterward though, Goodsmile decided to release also Kagamine Len and Kagamine Rin, always using illustrations made by the Chinese illustrator Rella in which they were dressed up in outfit based on thoseof the Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival (which you can see below).

And now let’s dig into how this Nendo is.

Kagamine Len Harvest Moon Ver.’s package is the Nendoroid standard package, with the mark Goodsmile company clearly visible (actually sorry, in the first photo isn’t so clearly visible due to the light hitting the box but it’s there). Do yourself a really HUGE favour and avoid buying bootlegs of this Nendo as there are a lot for Kagamine Len Harvest Moon Ver. but they’re really, really ugly.

The blister box isn’t as filled with accessories as Hatsune Miku Harvest Moon Ver.’s one but it still contains many cute things so let’s look at him!

His stand has the standard Nendo base, a square with many holes in which you can insert the brace those plug can be attacked to his back to support him.

However we don’t have just Len’s stand but also a stand for the special background that comes with Len and that you can place behind him.

Included is also an extra neck joint.

Like all the Nendo Len is stored in the box in a neutral position, with his legs straight and his arms straight and at his side.

The cartoon inserted behind him in the box has no background, it’s just a yellow with written over his Nendo number 769 but behind it in a plastic bag it’s attached the special background panel I mentioned before (below without the stand).

It’s really cute and gives a nice atmosphere, sort of like an ancient illustration centered on moon viewing.

Oh, and of course we’ve instructions in English and Japanese.

And now let’s look at him disassembled with all his spare parts!

We’ll start with the legs.

Sadly they’re just two straight legs. Same as KAITO Senbonzakura Ver. Len’s legs don’t come with the plug. Basically there are holes on the legs and you insert in them the ball shaped joins on the Nendo’s pelvis.

It gives the legs mobility… but I get really fearful about the ball shaped joint to break each time I pull a leg out so in a way I’m sort of glad I don’t have extra legs with whom to replace these ones.

Let’s continue with the arms, 2 for the right side, 3 for the left.

The arms are fundamentally a pair of straight arms and then arms to hold the bunnies and the Chinese tea set he comes with. As you can see they can be removed by the sleeves so that you can exchange them (actually I didn’t manage to remove the last left one so i think it’s not meant to be removed).

The sleeves have detailed folds and I love how their colour slowly changes from grey to orange.

We continue with Len’s body.

His Chinese clothes aren’t overly complicate, they’re actually pretty simple compared to Miku or Rin but they’re still lovely. In them too the colour switches gently from grey to orange.

I couldn’t manage to remove the pelvis from him. Below you can see the ball joint for his legs.

Faceplates! 

Only two sadly, a smiling one and an embarrassed one. The smiling one is nice but nothing special, the embarassed one is very cute.

It’s true, Len’s face and Rin’s face are exactly the same so you can easily swap among them and, in addition to this, Goodsmile produced already 3 more Len (4 if you count the cheerful version) and an equal number of Rin, so, if you are a Kagamine siblings fan you have already other faceplates for them but, well, I would have still loved if they had given him an extra one.

Hair.

Len’s cute, little ponytail is connected to the rest of his hair by a peg, so you can move it a bit.

For once Len’s hair doesn’t come with his headphones so I really love it all the more!

I also like the yellow used for them, which has darker shades.

And now we move to talk about the accessories included, the first being the bunny ear parts.

Following the Goodsmile tradition the idea is that you basically stick those small trasparent pieces in between the sealing parts of the hair so to keep them still.

I HATE THIS as they tend to slip and, what’s worse, one of the tiny plastic pieces somehow managed to slip out of the ears and I almost lost it. I had to gue it to keep it safely inside the ear, which is something I hate.

To be honest though the ears are cute, much cuter than the ones included in the Nendoroid More: After Parts 04 A Set rabbit ones.

Personally though, I love more the other accessories, my fave being the two cute rabbits.

Len (or another Nendo) can hold them both as each of them has, below it, a little hole to hold them.

They can also stand on their own! (by the way, they’re white, no idea why they come so grey in the photo... -_-;)

The bunnies are really beyond cute, I lvoe them so much!

Another accessory I love is Len’s adourable Chinese tea set.

Here it’s how it looks from above...

...and below it you can see the hole that allows Len to hold it.

It’s adourable and very Nendoroid sized. As I’m used to give them Re-ment accessories, which are often slightly bigger, I love how this one instead fits them perfectly!

Now… poses. 

The poses are all easy to get and, as you can see, Len comes out always very cute, no matter if you leave him alone or with Rin.

By the way, Rin and Len’s design as well as the rabbits make me think of some Chinese legends among which the story of Chang E, which is the most widely accepted tale regarding the moon and the origin of the Mid-Autumn Festival and of the legend of the jade rabbit. Maybe it’s just me though.

Would anyone who’s not fan of the Vocaloids or of Kagamine Len himself, want to buy him?

Honestly I love Kagamine Len Harvest Moon Ver. both for his Chinese clothes and his accessories as well as his cuteness.

Yes, he could have more spare parts but I still think he’s enjoyable enough and I would recomment him.

And that’s all for him.

Next time I’m going to give a look at Kagamine Rin Harvest Moon Ver. which I got with him!