Chun Li Battle Outfit Bishoujo Statue
 

Kotobukiya Announces Street Fighter Chun Li In Battle Outfit Bishoujo Statue

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Granted I love the blue OG outfit on her, this one is pretty hot looking, especially the pose.

Agreed, plus the non-Leia bun hairdo adds to the tentpole-enducing imagery. ;)

If Chun Li were Mai Shiranui...I'm surprised to be the first to make this observation; it's screaming at me.

Damn, even the Japanese are running out of ideas...

I can live with it. ;)

@Nite

I prefer Mai, so I'm not bothered aesthetically speaking. ;)

What actually bothers me is the growing lack of imagination in circles that are all about...imagination. With the creative spheres becoming more and more commercialized/commoditized, everything that was once cool is becoming an uninspired mash-up. Formerly, artistic talents sought to distinguish themselves and their work from one another. Now, they cannot seem to wait to regurgitate whatever expression their contemporaries have enjoyed success doing. Art and style have become formulaic and this fact makes me very uncomfortable.

At least we know that miss li gets a brazillian. ;)

Capcom vs SNK 3 confirmed.

Guys it's not that deep. It's just an alternate costume in the game. And an alternate costume based on a traditional Chinese garb at that.

If it's not that deep, why add to the conversation? Not trying to be prickly, I'm always bemused when someone tries to eschew a conversation by adding to said conversation. What traditional Chinese garb shows that much skin? In my opinion, it's an appropriation of Mai and Lei Fang. I thought Capcom's artistic team was better than that. I was wrong.

Well my purpose wasn't to abstain from the conversation which is why I said something in the first place. And by its not that deep was in reference to your "rant" about people lacking imagination. I just wanted to provide "clarity" on the outfit. This is a Qipao. Obviously not a traditional one. Same as her default costume. Capcom tweaked a traditional garb for this outfit and for her original. Lei Fang wears a more traditional realistic Qipao. But it's nothing like Mai. Who's not Chinese but Japanese and is dressed like a Kunoichi. I think you're generalizing all these outfits as being the same thing when they are not.

These Bishoujo statues were quick sellouts when they were doing classic Marvel/X-men characters... but now they are shelfwarming like crazy at my LCS... like nobody is buying them anymore it seems.

Street Fighter Chun-Li Battle Costume Bishoujo Statue - The Toyark - News

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Everyone ran out of room on their shelves.

That's pretty much the only reason I won't get this, nice as it is these statues take up too much space and are too expensive to live in storage.

nice figure...she doesn't really look Asian though..

Oh, she looks Asian. The face at least.

Specifically, the face fits the current Asian girl archetype that's considered by the media and masses as ideally beautiful: big eyes, delicate nose, and round face.

Source: is Asian.

yeah....nope..

IMO the earliest batch of Bishoujo PVCs were more like pin-up girl interpretations of various comic/game characters... like the kind you find on the nose of a bomber plane... kinda sexy, but not too bad. They kinda got away from that as time went on IMO.

I like this version of miss li. Never found the leia-alike hair bun things cute.

Looks great to me love her hair down. :D

Yeah, I wish they would just finish up a specific line before revisiting a character and recasting them...The Video game ones like Tekken and SF you would think would be easy for them to knock them all out unlike the comic ones...

I think that's what happened they're doing more different newer Marvel Now characters, and none of the hot classic ones.

True, they're definitely making them less risque that's for sure...at least the comic lines that is...

I think the term you're looking for is inspired by/homage to. And it is a common Asian areas style dress too. Same areas those characters drew inspiration from for their outfits(though Mai's is more a mix of kunoichi priestess as you see in her arm shoulder bands, she is a Japanese ninja after all, not Chinese, hers is closer to Kasumi's and Momiji's ninja outfit). Lei Fang's in particular is based on an actual Chinese dress you can buy as was the point to that aspect of her story where she wears it for a night out.

It's a common outfit in anime areas too. It's in various Japanese culturally influenced properties like Devil Hunter Yohko and others. Though that one has a no cleavage top to it because of the yin/yang emblem on top. So hers is closer to the Lei Fang dress style. (Predates DOA too.)

So really, appropriation this is not. It's a commonality to too many intellectual properties from the 80s on up. The Chinese influences of the design are mostly in the trim and belt. The bracelets are a trademark Chun-Li thing that Lei Fang homages in some of her alt outfits.

Really glad to see they included Chun-Li's musculature too! Would have looked odd without her trademark leg strength.