Cure Echo
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Echo's packaging is basically the Smile packaging, but it looks absolutely adorable. The color palette and the posing, it just meshes so well. There's not a really striking yellow, just adorable pastel colors and I could stare at it all day!
Because of the accessories, her stand is sadly included in a paper baggie. However, it's not as atrocious as Beauty's.
Packaging Score: 3.5/5
Moving on to Echo herself!
(Not
including basic pairs) Echo has 3 pairs of hands in addition to one extra hand (all on the amazing invention known as a hand stand haha), 3
expressions, the neck joint, Fuu-Chan, Gureru, and finally Enen. Branded stand, backdrop, and manual are also included.
I'm definitely more than satisfied with her accessories. The stand for her different hands is truly a life saver as well, which I'm not sure if she was the one who started these going forward in the Precure series, but just thank god she has them.
Accessory Score: 5/5
I do like Echo's sculpt. She looks stunning as most of the figures have at this point in time, but she just really is cute as a button. Pigtails and shoulder-straps are adjustable, which is amazing to see and allows her to be not-so hindered. Because of her being unopened when I purchased her, it's been 5 years of her joints not being posed which did lead to some stiff-ness, excluding her knees which for some reason are looser than a goose. However, I'm not sure if this is my figure or a general sculpt issue, but she does have some really noticeable shoulder deformities as well as a misshapen part of her right arm.
Pigtail joints -> Arm deformity -> Shoulder joints
In terms of accuracy, I think Echo was pretty much nailed. The colors, the facial expressions, and the quality (excluding the potential manufacturing errors) are all spot-on.
Sculpt Score: 3/5
Articulation Score: 4/5
Accuracy Score: 5/5
I absolutely adore her. The character was one, and is one, of my favorites because she truly was a regular girl that became a cure to save her friend. I remember way back when in 2015 I actually checked up on these figures, was curious to see how they were going, and saw Echo was being made. It's again another one of those full-circle moments that makes me really happy. After some time working with her she's definitely loosened up, and if you like Echo you definitely need to get this figure!
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