The Kanon game for the DC, PS2, and most recently, the PSP has been one of NCS' best selling visual novels since the game's console debut in 2000. The franchise has since sprouted off into the manga and animation markets and commands a sizable fan base in Japan. The logical progression of such success is merchandising and we've witnessed a spate of Kanon toys and consumer products in the past few years. We've always liked Makoto Sawatari, one of the main characters in Kanon who's a jester of a girl. During the course of the game, players learn that she's actually a fox who was adopted and then abandoned by the protagonist Yuichi a decade earlier. Her story is particularly tragic and Max Factory capitalizes on the tragedy with a 17.50cm Makoto figure as sculpted by Shinzi Koshinuma. Preorders ship in late Feb 2008.
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