Good Smile Company has opened worldwide pre-orders for its upcoming Nendoroid of Claire from Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. People in the U.S. and Canada can place their orders on Good Smile Online Shop U.S. for $42.99. Those living elsewhere worldwide can instead head to the Japanese international website, where the chibi action figure is available at ï¿¥6,900.
Claire will be the first character from Marvelous’ Story of Seasons series that Good Smile Company will make a Nendoroid of. The company announced the initial plan in late July 2023. It later shared images of the unpainted prototype in February 2024.
Good Smile Company has shared new sample images of the fully painted Nendoroid prototype. The earlier prototype featured a turnip that the owner could split to simulate the planting of the upper part. The new sample images confirm that the full set will come with the series’ cow and chick, as well as a watering can and a farming field sheet. Claire will also have an alternate facial expression plate that shows her winking.
Claire is the default name for the female protagonist in Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town. The farming life simulation game is readily available on Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. However, the character had been conceived far earlier when Marvelous’ Bokujo Monogatari series was still known to the English-speaking audience as Harvest Moon.
Claire made her debut in Harvest Moon for Girl, an alternate version to the PS1 entry Harvest Moon: Back to Nature that was released exclusively in Japan. English-speaking people could play as her in Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town on Game Boy Advance in 2005 and Harvest Moon: Boy and Girl on PlayStation Portable in 2007.
The pre-order window for the Nendoroid of Claire from Story of Seasons: Friends of Mineral Town will close on May 15, 2024. Good Smile Company will ship the chibi action figure from Japan in September 2024 and North America in Q1 2025.
