Kotobukiya is going to release the Play Arts Kai Lightning ( イトニング ) non-scale action figure from the popular RPG series “Final Fantasy XIII” ( ファイナルファンタジーXIII, ) developed by Square Enix. Will be released in December 2009. Around 228mm tall, 4,000 yen.
You can pre-order her here
I haven’t play video game for ages and the last Final Fantasy I played was FFX. I actually got the FFX-2 but I still haven’t open it. I’m not sexism, but I always thought that the main character in FF should be always a guy (except FFX-2). Since when did they change the rule? Oh well, since Lightning was designed base on Cloud Strife from FFVII, maybe I can see her as a guy as well. =P
Download the wallpaper here (1440×900)
**Snow Villiers and Oerba Dia Vanille sold separately**
Finaly Fantasy XIII trailer
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Official Finaly Fantasy XIII homepage
http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/
via Kotobukiya
Besides X-2 and XIII, the main character in FFV is a girl too (Terra/Tina).
Somehow Lightning’s head seems detached from the rest of the body. Or maybe it’s because of the action figure type of joints?
Love the details of the gunblade weapon thingy.
I think that’s the collar of her turtleneck she is wearing.
Why do you think the main character always has to be a guy? A lot of women play Final Fantasy, at least in the USA. We like seeing female lead characters, especially strong ones who are not “damsels in distress”!
It’s because I started Final Fantasy from FF7 and I’m really into FF8. To me FF is always a love story about the leading character (the guy) trying to help or save the other main character (the girl). So it’s kinda weird to me both main characters are girls.
So many typos/grammatical errors, might wan’t to read through before posting.
Anyway, FFs are just adventures set in a fantasy world, there’s no real reason why the lead character can’t be female. There was no rule and I think it was cool of them to break from the usual and give ff13 a female lead. The idea is not to “see her as a guy” or an existing male character, if that were the case they would have just made her male straight out.
I see no reason for all FFs to have the main character in a romance, it’s just repetitive and predictable. And ff13 does have romance, it’s between Snow and Sera. And possibly Fang and Vanille, but that one is up to player interpretation. You even have your damsel in distress with Sera, so it’s not missing those elements, just done differently. Frankly, to constantly have the man rescue the girl has some pretty sexist implications and gets stale.