$25 Fake Anime Figure vs $100 Real Anime Figure: Whats the Difference? 

I am pretty surprised on the good feedback some bootleggers sellers tend to have.

Well, the company that made the real thing is also notorious for low quality products anyways.

Well dont buy from eBay 8 out of 10 are fake sellers and most of the feedback is fake if its under 8k reviews.buy from aliexpress for fake figures. And yea most companies from Japan have there figures produced in china just saying probably cost them 15 to 20 to produce each one.

From what I've seen, they're getting better since they often (enough) use original molds not, but the paint is usually noticably worse/off

well, the work does not look that bad at all.

Jimmer Seiber true

imma go buy it =w= fuck the haters.

+Jimmer Seiber Ik, I'd buy it.

I would agree if the stand wasn't shit. Sega sells figures around that price but with better paint and stands that aren't shitty. Banpresto has better stands and decently better paint job. Both cheap figure companies.

The main problem with the cheaper figure is the paint, for someone that usually paints their figures it is a pretty good deal.

Super Sonico has some amazing figures and statues Cx

I wonder if he only keeps it as a decoration 😳

@@mr.n34l60 jesus christ

No, I want it because I collect Super Sonico and others... I was too distracted from her for the whole video. 😂😂😂

I am so fucking disgusted This comment section needs jeesus

He's like the friend that gets straight As cos he studies secretly and says that he doesn't study a bit

some of mine had to stay in the box since i run out of space... and i had two room connecting to one...

His collection is pretty small/normal sized compared to some i've seen

I played 1,600 hours of TF2 and I'm definitely not an expert on the game in any regard.

I feel you

Seems you have the luxury of having internet however XD

Perks of working at a public library.

Janie's gallery anyone can have internet these days. Even go phones can have them

@@fpspcgaming9436 Smart Phones and internet can be more pricy then fake figures. Even real figures.

Most anime figures are 100% over priced. not worth $100 in the slightest. $50 maybe

Nah this specific company FOTS are shit quality and expensive

Banpresto makes cheap figures that are good quality.

@@diamondlpl I agree I have Macross Delta Walkure and Frontier and they are cheap and nice

I disagree with the paint for the backpack detailing. I believe the real one makes the backpack shiny and glossy and not dull.

it is indeed very glorious....:3

very glorious indeed UwU

@@reeemaximus2380 ikr! :3

Yeah though it writes him off as a pervert lol. Wish I could have my own collection of yaoi! Proud of my closet perv self as much as I'm a good shojo ^.^

OR BANK ACCOUNT

GreenTea alot of the price come due to the shipping (usually) being from japan,which borders no nations and is an island,and from experience i know for a fact it’s much cheaper to buy them IN the nation.

i dont even have a wallet lol i have no money

Wow you suck at this

Before it was taken out of the box but outside the difference is pretty clear

Me 😅

Not gonna lie, I thought it was the real one untill I saw the colouring of the box. Im experienced on bootlegs.

@@bakaoneesanplays1791 he actually had a point. From what I see, the bootleg is going for more tones and depth in coloring, having some light and shadow fading effect while the legit one had one color, monotone and subtle just like the anime.

True, but doesn't change the fact you are giving money to the wrong person and not the author. And if you ever wanna sell it back, a fake will hardly sell for more than a single Digit, while a real one could skyrocket the price in about 3-5x higher(if well rpeserved and with the original box).

+Alucard Whoever'd buy a bootleg would be someone on a tight budget. I don't think they'd resell it...

+Simon Foex True

Alucard true, but some people may not be able to afford a 100$ figurine and find it useless paying that much money (i personally find it useless) when you can pay 25$ and the only difference is really in the face but barely noticeable from afar. some people may only afford the 25$ because of their budget honestly (personally opinion).

Simon Foex i didn’t say i don’t support. if figures are cheap like you said like 30$, i’d buy it if it’s real. but if it’s 100$ for a figurine, i could pay for something else more useful and buy a fake one. that’s all i’m saying

ikr...im with you on that

Na I don't really like her but if you do more power to u

To be honest, who else than a grown man would be able to afford collecting these figurines. They were the target group for this product from the start.

You got a problem with that

@@UltraNyan very true, I couldn't afford to buy any until I graduated college and got a real job.

@@UltraNyan I know, when I was in School I could never afford any of these, had start with posters and stickers.

I wanted to buy some posable action figures for art reference-- but authentic ones from many action series are 60+. Checking this video out to see if I should just go with Aliexpress bootlegs... But there's so many elements to this video that are... distracting

A weeaboo

@@kuakkauk. - You should learn to read better. Your response doesn't makd sense. >.>;

@@redjack2629 i meant a weeaboo kind of research .

Hey there! Something could be considered a scientific research if the scientific method is used. It consists in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses. In other words: See the object, make a suposition, try to proof it's true, have a conclussion.

Beloncha La Reina De Tus Ojos thanks for the input

Do you think you would be able to make it look actually good and not make it even worse?

@@wiktoriakohman2200 wha

@@randomname7062 what what

@@randomname7062 hey xd

@@wiktoriakohman2200 what

If the "fake" is pretty much identical I an ok with it. I don't collect figures for the value. They are nice decorations

@@Mallinaamari They usually never try to compete with bootlegs in the first place, that is part of why they exist. A lot of the original sculpts are made in very limited runs to motivate the high prices of original sculpts. But, at least on of those originals is bought by the pirates making the copy mold. ;)

Mällinaamari even if fake figures went away tomorrow they would always find a reason to charge you more

That's how I am. I don't care to have fake figures as long as they look good.

I guess it's also about supporting the art and the industry, if everyone buys the fakes it makes the official ones more expensive and means that less will be produced. The fakes are theft so that's my main issue with them, although I understand not being able to afford figures, I've only just managed to get a couple of cheap ones that had gone on sale.

Yeah, there's really bad flashback from the originals plastic. It might actually be a UV filtered material that would cause that, but generally I do think the fake box looks nicer.

it would look better. if you didnt know the artstyle of the series is simple, and doesnt go out of its way to grab your attention.

The only thing that I noticed was the shoes

Because you're supporting Chinese bootleggers trying to profit off of deception and tricking people into thinking they are buying a high quality sculpted product. I'd rather support the people putting time and care into crafting a figure than those who try to get away with mass producing them with molds and such.

Gear It’s still being mass produced either way so who cares

Genuinly most of the figures I've gotten from wish either just dont have a box, or the box is really fucked up. For such a lowered price they're really not that bad.

Bees are they worth buying? i’m not a collector or anything but having a few anime figurines around as decoration would be nice :)

@@ironia9825 oh yea I havent had any bad experiences except for a figure who didnt fit in the stand without putting a blow dryer to her foot 😭 as you do with wish in general though, make sure the product has okay ratings, if there are none check the sellers ratings! :)

@@bumblebeehappy Are the paint jobs okay? Does it somewhat look similar to the original? I'm asking cuz I'm planning to get one from wish, but too afraid of the quality. Thanks!

There actually pretty good i myself own some wish figures their good but always check the comments and if theirs a picture that’s better

I want a real sized one that's squishy. For... therapeutic purposes.

Ever wonder why he bought that huge sonico?

Ikr?!

@@nicorobin3691 Ew. Just fucking Ew.

That’s his waifu

This. I wholeheartedly agree with your second point. I came from the sneaker community and over there we have the same problem. We don't care if you bought fake stuff as long as you don't act high and mighty about it and then proceeds to mock the one who bought the authentic one.

A) bc 25 dollars isn't as expensive as a 100 or 200 dollar figure (common sense lol) B) do you even have a bootleg figure to know what the quality is genuinely like? the quality of the figures are obviously worth the price. And question b doesn't go for every bootleg bc alot of bootlegs have different qualities soo...

A) No shit $25 is cheaper than $100, but that doesn't answer my question. If you're struggling for money that you need to buy a bootleg, there are better things to be spending your money on than a static toy. B) No doubt there are some bootlegs that come close in quality, but they wouldn't be selling for that cheap if they went through all that effort to make a perfect recreation. Bootlegs are almost always inferior, not always to the same degree, but studying them for a moment always yields the corners that have been cut to minimise costs.

@@Bush-Warrior a) bc ppl can afford a cheap figure unlike an expensive one also buying a cheaper figure leaves ppl with more money too and ppl would rather buy a knockoff and be satisfied and not broke than buy an authentic figure and be broke its honestly that simple to understand idk why u want to go back and forth that is LITERALLY WHY b) many reasons, for example we can just like that specific character of the figure, another reason is bc alot of bootlegs come out almost as good as the original or really good for their pricing. btw not all bootleg figures are bad trust me i know bc i actually have some (: though there are some i do dislike and rather buy the original of

@@Ghostling6180 no one mocks ppl who buy authentic shit literally yall are the ones who talk the most crap

If you look up their stuff on some retailers (such as Solaris) there's sometimes a warning printed saying: "This manufacturer packs their figures poorly and won't refund for shipping damage. We will use extra packaging but purchase at your own risk!"

@@Senbei01 wow you know its bad when the retailer warns you lmao

Pulchra is notorious for their cold cast figures which easily break during shipping.

Bful' is notorious for sending out broken figures like 70% of them are shipped out like that

Thus is the difference between real collectiors/real anime fans and people like you. Imperfection is unacceptable. Your inner chunibyo will tell you this.

@@bakaoneesanplays1791 Are... Are you really gatekeeping anime figure collecting? xD

I have a fake snow miku as my first nendodroid- her hair looks decent though but her shorts were poorly painted.. Still happy abt it tho

Sadly about fake figurine is not supported the franchise anime franchise kinda dependents dvd sales merch and figurine so yea if u buy fake the chance of ur franchise that u love might die

I have a 2 fake Miku's aswell. Atleast I have 7 real

MangoCMK Same 😑😂

Same

Fuck it. In the end its the same thing just made by other company as long as the quality is there.

Kevin De Bondt It really isn’t the same. You’re playing pretend at that point

@@2dbeats3d often its just made by same company off the book

Rulesofnature good point

fair enough

true though...good point rulesofnature

Understandable

I feel like your statement answered that question lol. Monthly boxes are not a charity. Best case scenario is them buying up reject stocks, which has been common in the earlier "surprise box" industry. The huge issue is that not all reject stock is legally sold.

It's usually far more than slightly worse. Do you own any legit scale figures? (Not prize figures) the sculpt quality is on another level.

You wouldn't, if you know ur money does not go to the series Author, also if you ever plan to sell it its worth less then what you bought it for(while an Original its the opposite). And since its a bootleg, good luck if it even lasts a few years without starting to deform with its own weight.

I'd probably be happy with the $25 one too if it looks good enough. But his comment about it smelling like burning tires concerns me. Might be contributing to indoor pollution.

@@lrdalucardart nothing go to the original series author, at most it's the licence or the manga sales. When you buy figure, it goes to the company that made it. So if they pay 10 million yen for the licence to thr author,if the figure sell well and they will make more profit then the author. If you want to support, the original author then buy the manga

@@lrdalucardart Who says that he "wouldnt be satisfied"? you're just assuming he cares about "giving money to the author" (which he doesnt, since he gets money for the license instead, and nothing from the figurine being sold), and you also assume he wants to sell it maybe he just likes the show and wants a figurine to place over his computer and that's it ~ also, deforming with its own weight? dude, not even figurines that come in cereal deform by themselves just by "existing" unless you place them in the sun/rain for months, you're nuts if you think that happens

I can understand some hobbies with fake versus real But come on. Its just display plastic. Cheaper gets the job done Id see if there was a sole company that made a lot of high grade figures then yeah itd be worth the price. But there are tons of figure companies. Saturation drive down value. Why pay so much if it doesn’t even come from “the best” manufacturer

To be fair, Pulchra is notorious for poor quality figures, if this was comparing a bootleg to an Alter or Phat figure, the difference would be way more noticeable

@@ShadeLightTheory Eh, I tend to find them more inconsistent, you can find some of their figures to be fairly decent quality.

And Wish

Yah but it hurts the industry and the people who make them. Also the studios get a portion of the money and when you buy a bootleg you are pretty much giving the creators the middle finger.

@@townietoast461 know any good website for real figures ?

Exalted Tiki idk

@@townietoast461 hurts the industry...? 500$ for a plastic toy. Come on

Townie Toast how does it hurt the industry if people are too broke to buy the official figures? They’re not even going to buy the real figures anyway so how is it hurting the industry? Good thing about low price figures is that people are willing to them for cheap and they love it. The company from Chinese company profit from them, they’re not rich people, so it supports them as well. Id rather pay poor company than rich company honestly.

I agree. Tbh the one that's $100 looks like the fake to me.

Great. So just buy the bootleg and slowly chip away at official figurines until there aren't any more to copy.

@@bakaoneesanplays1791 or they'll start selling originals for a cheaper and reasonable price. Lets face it, you should go out of business if you're on the same level or out shined by nock offs sold at a quarter of your prices.

@@jacobkreifels7690 well im not into anime waifu figurines but well like spending 100 buck for me is too much i rather spend that money in videogames or dlc expantions i mean i think is ok you are like a super fan of that anime or anime waifu but if you are not that fan i definit ill go for the bootleg

The difference is clearer in person. It's like watching someone compare 4K to 720p. You won't see it on camera. I've had scale figures and bootlegs. The bootlegs are cool when you have no money but they look very noticeably shit.

When

Wait really? When?

oh shit, really?!

@@pazztall i dont know when i just know that it has been confirmed. They dont always give out release dates when they confirm a season 2

Oh ok thanks! ^^

Well, I can tell you the life style you'll need. No girl friend, no eating out, no other expensive hobbies, survive off roman noodles. You'll save allot is money that way.

@@deanreaver3268 same

@@deanreaver3268 please give me some of those Roman noodles

@@deanreaver3268 with that being said, i don't need a girlfriend

And for that same reason... *STAY SINGLE, AND STAY SAFE...* Please don't sprinkle your "snowflakes" inside of a girl/women please 👁👄👁

They are so $hitty what are you talking about quit being cheap and buy the real one's and support the companies that make em

Yeah. It's doesn't help that legit anime figures are in limited supply and the prices for them can be astronomical. I'm sure anyone who values their money and are a hardcore fan of an anime series would want to buy legit figures. But the reality of trying to find them for a reasonable price is pretty harsh. You would have to be someone with a really good job and who saves every penny in order to be able to afford these figures whenever you want.

@@fireshadow6632 agreed. I finally found my miia figure in a shop in Japan for 20,000¥ so I got lucky. But some of the prices are insane in resale.

Lol the $25 is nearly a 1:1 copy. Some of it looks actually better than the $100.

If you really wanna save money, JUST DON'T BUY IT.

That really wasn't the point, he was just pointing it out as an indicator of a fake figure. The tape doesn't really matter, honestly if it wasn't for the black smudges I wouldn't really care about buying it myself.

Oh boy, you should look at model kit prices, then. Something that size would be $10-25 in general, but the non-bandai kits, especially the size of the ones in the background, will be going for hundreds of dollars. The Kotobukiya White Glint from Armored Core: 4A is upwards of $150 and that one should be roughly... A 6" figure. Which you have to assemble yourself, as well as having to fix seam lines, nub marks, and color seperation issues yourself. Bigger kits can go for hundreds of dollars. XP

If you have real priorities, don't waste your money on knock-offs then.

@@inisipisTV - "real" != "different". You don't have to be living off of instant noodles and discount mystery meat to not want to pay that much for a figure, honestly.

You should see the Tsume-art figures/statues, easily reach +600 euros depending on the figure (some even reach 1500 euros, like the Athena one)

@@redjack2629 I have bought quite a few Master Grade Bandai Kits but now I have no time to really focus on builds anymore, its a shame really.

How would you even know that... how much of my 100$ exactly does the artist get?

@@fumomofumosarum5893 how much of the $25 does the artist get? 0%...? 0%....?

BTW, the real bootleg ones also have around 1/7 the price of legit ones. Just a reference for anyone who only have the budget to buy bootlegs. However, I don’t recommend buying bootlegs.

The bootleg ones were originally designed for manufacturing at a extremely low cost to match the power of consuming of normal Chinese students many years ago, but as the income of Chinese people gradually increases, the bootleg ones are less and less favoured. However, they have become some cheating tool for some west retailers, which I noticed not long ago. Every wise people is able to judge the difference between these two kind of products. Support the legit ones even though some of you may not have enough spare money!

Nah

thank you

I bet you’re the same type of person that whines about piracy

You're assuming that everyone starts off by buying legitimate figures and then "switches sides" to buying bootlegs. You have no evidence for this. Personally, I never bought overpriced legit figures to begin with. I buy all of my figures secondhand or as bootlegs. When the prices of legit anime figures are so high, you bet your ass I'm going to support the secondary and bootleg markets instead (neither of which support the original companies). If the legitimate creators lowered their prices they could easily make up for the difference with volume and squash the bootleg market. Instead, they opt to keep prices high and produce in limited quantities. As such, a significant portion of the buyers opt to purchase bootlegs that cost a fraction of the price and are 80-90% identical. You also assume that all products and merchandise are available everywhere. Even with modern streaming services like Funimation and Crunchyroll, certain series, languages, or even dubs are unavailable based on location/region. Short of importing region specific DVD/Bluray players and purchasing complete Bluray/DVD series straight from Japan, people in certain locations have no option for watching an anime series outside of piracy. If neither Funimation nor Crunchyroll offer an anime in the format I wish to view and the alternative is a very expensive complete collection, you bet I'm going to watch an illegitimate stream somewhere. From your standpoint I'm taking away from the creators' profits, but the fact of the matter is: They were never going to receive my money to begin with since the product is out of my reach.

i tried to get three anime bootleg figures......they took my money....and never gave me the figures....i was scammed....

Because of the hand painting and manufacturing costs.

My thoughts exactly! Cheaper comes at a price, but there are several good alternatives such as prize figures, segas, nendoroids and so on. I would love to see the collection, that puts mine to shame!

AnimePlz123 we’re moving so I hope that we can display all of our stuff soon, but I’m homojaku on myfigurecollection! Your collection has a lot of figures that I’ve been dying for (especially that 1/2 Sonico, she’s my fav!) so yours is awesome as well!! We love figures a lot. I would love to have a Miku collection like yours, we don’t have many Mikus!

?? honestly those figures are way too expensive and overpriced. its completely fine to buy the fake ones. Not everyone is a millionaire and saying dont go for the hobby if you cant afford it is super ignorant of you. As long as there is a cheaper way to get to those figures people will take them doesnt matter if they look worse.

Jungkooks Waifu I believe there is a happy medium between buying expensive scale figures and buying fake bootleg figures. Nenderoids, prize figures, sega, banpresto, buying used, using point systems, and so on are all ways to get legit figures at a prize often less than $50. Compared to a poor quality fake figure for $20 (which in my opinion is often overpriced for what you are getting), you are getting something that looks way better and actually supports the anime industry. There is a lot more you are sacrificing in buying fake figures than just quality. But hey that’s just one guys opinion.

@@animeplz1234 In my opinion, I'd like to do a healthy mix of both. For cheaper anime figures I'd buy bootlegs so that I could save money and buy the much more expensive original figures.

Buying off ebay is okay, you just need to find good sellers. Usually someone from china selling figures with low or bad feedback will just delete account and use different one. Bought 2 myself of 2 different sellers to see if they arrive and if condition, quality are okay.

@@dariusdauderys6218 I always prefer Amazon over eBay eBay is a little scammy plus Amazon is Mosey my main online shopping place to get video games and anime figures and funko pops. My friend actually bought a tracer figure from eBay for $35 it look like the original except it was made out of plastic the original one was mad of polystone which is very breakable so he gave me his plastic one and a couple days later the leg broke off because of the weight.

I usually just use wish if the price is lower there than amazon. It takes a little longer to ship, but they come in good conditions and packaging.

@@Jellyfish.cos_ a lot of my figures I mostly get from Sega they have a little paint error here and there but they're still mostly. fine.

@@Jellyfish.cos_ The other ones are Banpresto and Taito. I've never had any problems with these companies when I get my anime figures Sega Banpresto and Taito.

Based

Lmao

That's why i will probably never buy an anime figure. They are made from PVC, and that makes it feel like they should be cheap, but yet they are priced over $100, or a lot more than that, all the time. Im way more happy spending $150-$300 on Overwatch figures made from very strong and heavier material (poly-something, I forget what its made out of) and are by far better in almost all ways.

Understandable, but be warned that the Authors also get more money ratio per 1 figure sold then they do for selling thousand of mangas. So if you wanna support them "best", get a figure instead.

@@lrdalucardart I'm sorry but if their show/series is so popular that they have their figures copied then the last thing they need is "support". They are already set for life. But yes, if u want to support a small creator/artist in any way, I encourage that.

@@Screcy - Nope. Even the popular one's are not set for life, even if they are that's no excuse to buy a bootleg one. You also have to consider the original sculptor, graphic designer and other artist that brought that figure to the market, plus the people who invest in it's production so we can have such nice good things. Don't give money to hacks/thieves who never give any input whatsoever to the creation of the actual Figures, Anime or Manga that real artist worked hard to achieve. You either buy the original figure or you don't.

​@@inisipisTV ​How old are you? You have a very gullible mentality of: some people are good/some people are evil. That's not how the world works. You're calling the people who make the copies criminals, you know that, them making these figure is not illegal right? Also the original sculptor, graphic designer and other artists are paid when making the figures and not paid by the amount of figures sold so the fact that u buy it doesn't support them in any way. You support the company and the people who own the rights to that figure. You avoid to talk about the main point of my comment, that the the original is way overpriced and I'm not saying that without thinking of the costs to make it or the other legal payments required. It's true that the only reason that the copies are so cheap is because they cut corners but again if a copy is 15$ and the original 100$ that's not because they needed the extra 85$ to cover the costs of the artist, shipment and the selling from one expediter to another. About 50% of that goes there, the rest is all huge profit for them. My hole point is that they can overprice their figures because fans will buy them anyway. The only reason they don't charge more is because then people will actually prefer to buy the cheap copies. They have people that calculate this stuff. Even wonder why a certain figure is 100 and not 110 or 90? It' because of it was 110 less people will buy it (so less profit) and if it was 90 even tho more people would buy it it still wouldn't be enough people to cover the 10 $ difference (do they still make a big profit? hell yeah but not the maximum profit they could make). They don't care about the artists and the rest of the people, they only see the $. Am I recommending all people to buy only bootleg figures? No. If you have the income to afford buying the original and care about the small details then I encourage you to buy it. But if you can't afford it then buy the fake one. I don't agree with the crazy hate towards buying bootleg figures. People will always buy originals and fakes and there is no problem in that. The only problem is selling a fake as an original with the same price.