GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) SAKAMOTO DAYS Nendoroid Sakamoto Taro Basic
threezero Fullmetal Alchemist The Brotherhood FigZero Roy Mustang 1/6 Action Figure
BANDAI SPIRITS Figuarts mini Sailor Moon -Crystal Star Compact Edition-
MAX FACTORY METAL GEAR SOLID2 SONS OF LIBERTY figma Solid Snake MGS2 ver. Update Edition
threezero Anime ULTRAMAN FINAL Season FigZero ULTRAMAN SUIT C-TYPE (Anime Version) 1/6 Action Figure
KADOKAWA KDcolle Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Llenn Gensaku-ban Dress & Mizugi Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
spiritale Majo no Tabitabi Elaina -Kyuusoku Ver.- 1/6 Plastic Figure
APEX LIMEPIE Series Arknights Chien Tea Time VER> 1/8 Plastic Figure
MedicomToy MAFEX No.265 KILLMONGER Action Figure
DCTer Mimosa Liliya 1/7 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
KADOKAWA KDcolle Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Ram Maboroshi Yoru no Mahoutsukai Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
PLEX Gigantic Series x Defo-Real Godzilla (2016) Dai-yon Keitai Kakusei Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Haikyuu!! ARTFX J Oikawa Toru 1/8 Plastic Figure
Myethos Gift+ Houkai 3rd Elysia Natsu no Yousei-san Ver. 1/8 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Kozuki Kallen Sokai Sennyuu Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Megami Device Kofu Tsukuyomi Regalia 1/1 Plastic Kit
SQUARE ENIX NieR:Automata Nendoroid NieR:Automata 9S (YoRHa No.9 Type-S) (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Super Dimension Century Orguss MODEROID Orguss II Olson Special Plastic Kit
CCSTOYS MORTAL MIND Sereis Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Gurren-Lagann Gokin Action Figure (Re-release)
ENSOUTOYS Nishikikope Illustration Totsuki Cocoa 1/5 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Attack on Titan Marshmalloid Eren Yeager
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Dorohedoro Nendoroid Shin
ALTER Sono Bisuku Doll wa Koi o Suru Kitagawa Marin Liz Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Anime Bocchi The Rock! Nendoroid Ijichi Nijika Shifuku Ver.
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Genshin Impact Nendoroid Doll Venti Aoarashi no Yuu-uta Ver.
MAX FACTORY Berserk figma Dokuo no Kishi
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Carneades Tenshi Keisatsu Elle 1/7 Plastic Figure
Shibuya Scramble Figure Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- Yamashiro Kai Nii 1/7 Plastic Figure
FREEing BASTARD!! -Ankoku no Hakai Kami- Sean Ari Bunny Ver. 1/4 Plastic Figure
ORANGE ROUGE Blue Lock Nendoroid Plus Isagi Yoichi Rubber Mascot
MegaHouse LookUp Poncho Haikyuu!! Hina-garasu
APEX Azur Lane Charybdis Kagayakashi no Rei-mo Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Fafner: Dead Aggressor THE BEYOND MODEROID Fafner Mark Dreizehn Kai Chronos Plastic Kit
Hobby Sakura PSYCHO BUNNY Illustration by LOVECACAO 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gyakuten Saiban Nendoroid Doll Naruhodo Ryuuichi
BearPanda Kulomu Illustration by Tamano Kedama 1/6 Plastic Figure
WANDERER Shin Evangelion Gekijoban Mari Makinami Illustrious 1/7 Plastic Figure
FuRyu POPPRO x F:NEX Hatsune Miku Chuushuu no Yoru Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Full Metal Daemon MURAMASA MODEROID Sansei-sei Shusengo Emon no Jo Muramasa Plastic Kit (Re-release)
KOTOBUKIYA Cross Frame Broken Blade Eltemus Renewal Ver. 1/60 Plastic Kit (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) SAKAMOTO DAYS Nendoroid Sakamoto Taro Basic
threezero Fullmetal Alchemist The Brotherhood FigZero Roy Mustang 1/6 Action Figure
BANDAI SPIRITS Figuarts mini Sailor Moon -Crystal Star Compact Edition-
MAX FACTORY METAL GEAR SOLID2 SONS OF LIBERTY figma Solid Snake MGS2 ver. Update Edition
threezero Anime ULTRAMAN FINAL Season FigZero ULTRAMAN SUIT C-TYPE (Anime Version) 1/6 Action Figure
KADOKAWA KDcolle Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online Llenn Gensaku-ban Dress & Mizugi Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
spiritale Majo no Tabitabi Elaina -Kyuusoku Ver.- 1/6 Plastic Figure
APEX LIMEPIE Series Arknights Chien Tea Time VER> 1/8 Plastic Figure
MedicomToy MAFEX No.265 KILLMONGER Action Figure
DCTer Mimosa Liliya 1/7 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
KADOKAWA KDcolle Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Ram Maboroshi Yoru no Mahoutsukai Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
PLEX Gigantic Series x Defo-Real Godzilla (2016) Dai-yon Keitai Kakusei Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Haikyuu!! ARTFX J Oikawa Toru 1/8 Plastic Figure
Myethos Gift+ Houkai 3rd Elysia Natsu no Yousei-san Ver. 1/8 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Kozuki Kallen Sokai Sennyuu Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Megami Device Kofu Tsukuyomi Regalia 1/1 Plastic Kit
SQUARE ENIX NieR:Automata Nendoroid NieR:Automata 9S (YoRHa No.9 Type-S) (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Super Dimension Century Orguss MODEROID Orguss II Olson Special Plastic Kit
CCSTOYS MORTAL MIND Sereis Tengen Toppa Gurren-Lagann Gurren-Lagann Gokin Action Figure (Re-release)
ENSOUTOYS Nishikikope Illustration Totsuki Cocoa 1/5 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Attack on Titan Marshmalloid Eren Yeager
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Dorohedoro Nendoroid Shin
ALTER Sono Bisuku Doll wa Koi o Suru Kitagawa Marin Liz Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Anime Bocchi The Rock! Nendoroid Ijichi Nijika Shifuku Ver.
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Genshin Impact Nendoroid Doll Venti Aoarashi no Yuu-uta Ver.
MAX FACTORY Berserk figma Dokuo no Kishi
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Carneades Tenshi Keisatsu Elle 1/7 Plastic Figure
Shibuya Scramble Figure Kantai Collection -Kan Colle- Yamashiro Kai Nii 1/7 Plastic Figure
FREEing BASTARD!! -Ankoku no Hakai Kami- Sean Ari Bunny Ver. 1/4 Plastic Figure
ORANGE ROUGE Blue Lock Nendoroid Plus Isagi Yoichi Rubber Mascot
MegaHouse LookUp Poncho Haikyuu!! Hina-garasu
APEX Azur Lane Charybdis Kagayakashi no Rei-mo Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Fafner: Dead Aggressor THE BEYOND MODEROID Fafner Mark Dreizehn Kai Chronos Plastic Kit
Hobby Sakura PSYCHO BUNNY Illustration by LOVECACAO 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gyakuten Saiban Nendoroid Doll Naruhodo Ryuuichi
BearPanda Kulomu Illustration by Tamano Kedama 1/6 Plastic Figure
WANDERER Shin Evangelion Gekijoban Mari Makinami Illustrious 1/7 Plastic Figure
FuRyu POPPRO x F:NEX Hatsune Miku Chuushuu no Yoru Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Full Metal Daemon MURAMASA MODEROID Sansei-sei Shusengo Emon no Jo Muramasa Plastic Kit (Re-release)
KOTOBUKIYA Cross Frame Broken Blade Eltemus Renewal Ver. 1/60 Plastic Kit (Re-release)
Did Justin's wish finally come true?? The Third Follow-up and Calling out BAD journalism by journalist Justin Ling and Wired.com original article from May 26, 2022

Disclaimer:

  • This piece is, once again, NOT about 4chan, you will not find anything about 4chan here. Go somewhere else.
  • We are not here to defend GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC), rather, this is a follow-up fact-finding article as GSC had launched their much delayed new website on February 28, 2024.
May 20, 2025: GSC main website no longer lists 18+ (and even some borderline non-18+) items from FREEing for pre-orders since 2024.

So, the company dispised by one Justin Ling had finally launched their new website on their seldom-used .com domain (https://www.goodsmile.com/), so can Justin finally claim "I was right all along" this time around????

Sadly, a big-fat NO. Not. Even. Close.

While GSC have stopped updating their old website (https://www.goodsmile.info/) since the end of December 2023, the old site is still accessible as of March 20, 2024. There was a hard-redirect implemented on the first week in March for the old site's home page to the new website, but that auto-redirection was removed some time after March 15, 2024, and most product litings remain accessible.

Even worse, GSC new website seems to want to get rid of any notions that it might carry any 18+ products. Previously there was the option to include "18+ results" in the product search parameters, and that option was no longer available as of March 19, 2024 (but not necessary impacting their existing search results). Also on March 19, 2024, FREEing had one new product listed for pre-order, and normally it would be listed on GSC website, but not that particular one (most hobby shops, including our partners HOBBY SEARCH AND HobbyLink Japan are marking that item as 18+, while CD Japan listed the same item with no issues (CD Japan is known to not carry anything that has implicity nudity). Without much information from GSC, we can only speculate that they really want to "keep it clean" going forward. Of course, this will get tested when MAX FACTORY makes anything new or brings back some old stuff from their PLAMAX Naked Angel lineup, and we will certainly keep an eye on that.

*** Update on March 25, 2024: well, we got one PLAMAX Naked Angel sightings on GSC Website with the usual GSC Tuesday pre-order announcements (new item no less).

For reference, this is the item in question (stock photos for this one not really NSFW, but heck, we collectors have a much higher tolerance for "skin" than normal people).

And the kicker: try searching for his favourite phrase "wendy" or "ウェンディ" on the new website. She will not show up, poor Justin. Oh yes, GSC has stated in one of their site announcements that they will not bring any old products over to the new site, unless any of them are getting a new re-run (unlikely for many of them, especially for anything from Marvel and Disney plus really old items).

Furthermore, from a technical perspective, the domain "goodmsile.com" was not even under the possession of GSC from 2000 to 2011. See for yourself with the handy Internet Archive Wayback Machine (https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://goodsmile.com/): around 2011, "goodmsile.com" was actually available for sale at a cool USD $4830, and how much GOOD SMILE COMPANY ended up paying to grab the domain is pretty much unknown (not really our job, go ask Justin to do his job). With GSC taking over the domain after 2012, they did not use the domain for a long time, only having it redirecting "temporary" (SEO jargon for a "302" HTTP status code) to their goodsmile.info English home page. Only in around July 2022 GSC launched their "corporate" website under the subdomain "corporate.goodsmile.com" (yep, that late), until they decided to merge their website and online store into one under goodsmile.com, with goodsmile.info being an archive site after April 2024.

It is now nearly two years since the original article was published, Justin Ling and Wired.com still own all of us a long-overdue correction and apology for that tiny wrong information Justin presented in his article (it is MAX FACTORY, for the third time). We don't really care anymore if Justin will admit his mistake and make amends, but this and two previous articles are just to make sure he is held accountable for his own words and refusal to admit one tiny mistake he made back in 2022, even after being called out directly on "X" by us. Same with Wired.com for their inability to fact-check.

Let the Internet remembers everything, right and wrong.

Written by Otaku HQ

First published on March 20, 2024.

May 16, 2024: additional information with reference to Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

May 20, 2025: article title update and minor content ("Wayback Machine" paragraph) rewrite.

Note: Justin Ling Twitter account went inactive after April 20, 2023, and who says we are letting him off the hook?? His "ugly" website [https://justinling.ca/] and his Mastodon account [https://mastodon.online/@justinling].