FREEing Table Museum figma Leonardo da Vinci Works Mona Lisa (Re-release)
BellFine TV Anime 2.5 Jigen no Yuuwaku Liliana Shin Tenshi Keitai/Lilisa 1/6 Plastic Figure
BANDAI SPIRITS S.H.Figuarts Kocho Shinobu
FuRyu TV Anime DAN DADAN TENITOL Momo Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Rebuild of Evangelion Nendoroid Doll Nagisa Kaworu
Capcom Figure Builder Creator's Model Golden Lion Gekiko Rajan Reproduction Edition PVC Figure (Re-release)
MegaHouse LookUp Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Amate Yuzuriha (Machu) Plastic Figure
Union Creative Anteiru Illustration Bijutsu-bu no Reika-sensei Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) TV Anime Shangri-La Frontier POP UP PARADE Sunraku Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Fafner: Dead Aggressor THE BEYOND MODEROID Fafner Mark Dreizehn Kai Chronos Plastic Kit
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Azur Lane PLAMATEA Baltimore Plastic Kit
BANDAI SPIRITS S.H.Figuarts Okarun
HOBBYMAX Evangelion (RADIO EVA) Nagisa Kaworu Ver.RADIO EVA Part.3 1/7 Plastic Figure
FuRyu F:NEX TV Anime 2.5 Jigen no Yuuwaku Miriella Tenshi Kutei-tai / Mikari 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse UA Monsters Godzilla (2023) Watatsumi Sakusen-ji Image Colour Ver. Plastic Figure
HOBBYMAX Bungo Stray Dogs Mayoi Inu Kaikitan Dazai Osamu Seisou Ver. Deluxe Edition 1/8 Plastic Figure
WINGS inc. Azur Lane Perseus Keisou Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse LookUp Kimetsu no Yaiba Agatsuma Zenitsu Plastic Figure (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai BanG Dream! Nendoroid Takamatsu Tomori (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Detroit: Become Human Nendoroid Connor (Re-release)
SUNDROPS Hoshizora Tetsudo to Shiro no Tabi Neri 1/7 Plastic Figure
SQUARE ENIX Final Fantasy VII Rebirth PLAY ARTS SHIN Vincent Valentine Action Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Goblin Slayer II POP UP PARADE Ken no Otome L size Plastic Figure
RIBOSE RISE UP+ Hoikai: Star Rail Chibi-neko Series Figure Keigen Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Busou Shinki Akuma-type Strarf bis 1/1 Plastic Kit
Hobby Sakura Circle Katsudou Ayazakura Yuzuki Standard Edition 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Persona 5 The Royal POP UP PARADE Panther Plastic Figure
ALTER Fate/Grand Order Pretender/Oberon Vortigern 1/8 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Shouri no Megami: NIKKE Nendoroid Neon
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gekijoban GRIDMAN UNIVERSE THE GATTAI DX Soundras Action Figure
MAX FACTORY Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- Arcueid Brunstad -Hoshi no Uchiumi- 1/7 Plastic Figure
ANIPLEX TV Anime Lycoris Recoil Inoue Takina Birthday Kinen Illustration Ver. Plastic Figure
Phat! Company Phatism Umamusume Pretty Derby [Shiroi Tsubasa wa Mai Modorite] Hokko Tarumae 1/7 Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Sousai Shoujo Teien Customized Face & Decals Set Vol.4 [Morikura En Design] 1/10 Plastic Kit
KOTOBUKIYA GaoGaiGar FINAL Cross Frame Girl Brave Girl 2 Plastic Kit
MAX FACTORY Shin Megami Tensei Series PLAMAX minimum factory MF-93 Demonee-Ho Plastic Kit
Design COCO Sophie no Atelier 2 -Fushigi na Yume no Renkinjutsu-shi- Plachta 1/7 Plastic Figure
MAX FACTORY Dungeon Gohan figma Chilchuck
KOTOBUKIYA Metaphor: ReFantazio Gallica Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA M.S.G Modeling Support Goods Dress-up Parts Crash & Side Cape Dark Green Ver Plastic Kit
FREEing Table Museum figma Leonardo da Vinci Works Mona Lisa (Re-release)
BellFine TV Anime 2.5 Jigen no Yuuwaku Liliana Shin Tenshi Keitai/Lilisa 1/6 Plastic Figure
BANDAI SPIRITS S.H.Figuarts Kocho Shinobu
FuRyu TV Anime DAN DADAN TENITOL Momo Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Rebuild of Evangelion Nendoroid Doll Nagisa Kaworu
Capcom Figure Builder Creator's Model Golden Lion Gekiko Rajan Reproduction Edition PVC Figure (Re-release)
MegaHouse LookUp Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX Amate Yuzuriha (Machu) Plastic Figure
Union Creative Anteiru Illustration Bijutsu-bu no Reika-sensei Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) TV Anime Shangri-La Frontier POP UP PARADE Sunraku Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Fafner: Dead Aggressor THE BEYOND MODEROID Fafner Mark Dreizehn Kai Chronos Plastic Kit
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Azur Lane PLAMATEA Baltimore Plastic Kit
BANDAI SPIRITS S.H.Figuarts Okarun
HOBBYMAX Evangelion (RADIO EVA) Nagisa Kaworu Ver.RADIO EVA Part.3 1/7 Plastic Figure
FuRyu F:NEX TV Anime 2.5 Jigen no Yuuwaku Miriella Tenshi Kutei-tai / Mikari 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse UA Monsters Godzilla (2023) Watatsumi Sakusen-ji Image Colour Ver. Plastic Figure
HOBBYMAX Bungo Stray Dogs Mayoi Inu Kaikitan Dazai Osamu Seisou Ver. Deluxe Edition 1/8 Plastic Figure
WINGS inc. Azur Lane Perseus Keisou Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse LookUp Kimetsu no Yaiba Agatsuma Zenitsu Plastic Figure (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai BanG Dream! Nendoroid Takamatsu Tomori (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Detroit: Become Human Nendoroid Connor (Re-release)
SUNDROPS Hoshizora Tetsudo to Shiro no Tabi Neri 1/7 Plastic Figure
SQUARE ENIX Final Fantasy VII Rebirth PLAY ARTS SHIN Vincent Valentine Action Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Goblin Slayer II POP UP PARADE Ken no Otome L size Plastic Figure
RIBOSE RISE UP+ Hoikai: Star Rail Chibi-neko Series Figure Keigen Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Busou Shinki Akuma-type Strarf bis 1/1 Plastic Kit
Hobby Sakura Circle Katsudou Ayazakura Yuzuki Standard Edition 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Persona 5 The Royal POP UP PARADE Panther Plastic Figure
ALTER Fate/Grand Order Pretender/Oberon Vortigern 1/8 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Shouri no Megami: NIKKE Nendoroid Neon
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gekijoban GRIDMAN UNIVERSE THE GATTAI DX Soundras Action Figure
MAX FACTORY Tsukihime -A piece of blue glass moon- Arcueid Brunstad -Hoshi no Uchiumi- 1/7 Plastic Figure
ANIPLEX TV Anime Lycoris Recoil Inoue Takina Birthday Kinen Illustration Ver. Plastic Figure
Phat! Company Phatism Umamusume Pretty Derby [Shiroi Tsubasa wa Mai Modorite] Hokko Tarumae 1/7 Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Sousai Shoujo Teien Customized Face & Decals Set Vol.4 [Morikura En Design] 1/10 Plastic Kit
KOTOBUKIYA GaoGaiGar FINAL Cross Frame Girl Brave Girl 2 Plastic Kit
MAX FACTORY Shin Megami Tensei Series PLAMAX minimum factory MF-93 Demonee-Ho Plastic Kit
Design COCO Sophie no Atelier 2 -Fushigi na Yume no Renkinjutsu-shi- Plachta 1/7 Plastic Figure
MAX FACTORY Dungeon Gohan figma Chilchuck
KOTOBUKIYA Metaphor: ReFantazio Gallica Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA M.S.G Modeling Support Goods Dress-up Parts Crash & Side Cape Dark Green Ver Plastic Kit
Did Justin's wish finally came true?? A 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.

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).

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, ask Justin). And with GSC taking over the domain after 2012, they did not use the domain for a long time, having it redirecting "temporary" (SEO jargon for a "302" HTTP status code) to their goodsmile.info English home page, while using the subdomain "corporate.goodsmile.com" for their "official" company website (business-facing) only starting from July 2022 (yep, that late), until they decided to merge their website and online store into one.

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.

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].