Kyun Chara is a Banpresto figure series that was originally designed as a Ichiban Kuji exclusive concept: Super Deformed rendering of anime characters by putting the emphasis on the cuteness of the SD artistic style. Because the concept proved to be quite successful, the series has been released on his own as one of the figure series regularly filling UFO catchers of Japanese game centers.
Kyun きゅん is a Japanese onomatopoeia used to express the tightening of one’s chest caused by powerful warm feelings of love, a feeling usually expressed by girls when seeing cute (i.e. moe 萌え) things. Kyun Chara can then be translated in good English as Cute Characters.
The figures are about 10 cm tall in average and respect the SD head-body ratio of 1:3. They come with a white stand base.
Kyun Chara 『One Piece』 ～Sabaody Archipelago～
This line, released mid-January 2012, is simply a re-release of the figures that were originally produced for Ichiban Kuji The World of Cute Characters.
It has been repackaged as 3 sets of 3 figures:
きゅんキャラ『ワンピース』～シャボンディ諸島編1～
きゅんキャラ『ワンピース』～シャボンディ諸島編2～
きゅんキャラ『ワンピース』～シャボンディ諸島編3～
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