Fruits Fulcute! R was a RPG from FANZA GAMES that ended service in August 2023. In the game, different fruits are anthropomorphized into cute girls. Since it is also an H game, there are spicy CG artworks and animations featuring NSFW content. Of all the characters in the game, BINDing was able to get licensing approval for a character named Lemon, having a 1/4 scale of her “bear fruit” in none other than a bunny girl suit. Sasuga BINDing for getting the licensing rights to produce this figure!
Admittedly, I don’t know a lot about this IP, so my context on Lemon as a character with respect to this game and everything else is extremely limited to non-existent. Like many games out there, characters can have multiple skins. It also happens that Lemon is one of a few characters in the game that actually features a bunny version. She was part of an in-game event called ようこそ！ハニーバニーGIRLS (Welcome! Honey Bunny GIRLS!), where Lemon and another character Citris were 6-star characters in a limited banner platinum gacha banner in May 2023.
Below is the illustration used as reference for the figure. Several aspects of this figure stood out to me. I really liked Lemon’s long flowing blond hair alongside her yellow-toned bunny suit featuring a large green ribbon tied as a bow around her tail. Given Lemon is, well, themed after a lemon, I also thought she would go well with the Tsunako: Eureka figure which also lemon-themed (as evidently seen on Eureka’s box and her bonus wall-scroll).
Lemon was announced and available on the Native’s Japanese domestic site for pre-order in mid-2023 (just a little bit before the game itself was shut down), but it never landed on their international site. At some point later in 2024, AmiAmi listed it on their international site for the same price. I pondered over this figure for quite some time while the release date was pushed back several times: I ended up keeping an eye on her on Buyfriend for a couple of months since there were no more pre-orders available on AmiAmi, but never ended up biting the bullet until mid-September 2024, after I got a small work gesture. She was thankfully released and available to order, so I bundled her with the FREEing Sakurajima Mai re-release and the VERTEX elf villager of Ulysses.
After being stuck in the postal service for four months due to a postal strike in Canada, she finally arrived near the end of January! Without further ado, here’s the box. It’s a very typical BINDing box, where you’ll see only the silhouette of the figure itself on the top of the box, alongside the franchise logo and lemon theme of the character Lemon herself.
Opening the box, we are immediately greeted with Lemon already in her castoff form on the bottom right. Her body is covered with a black plastic wrap, concealing the lower half of her main body. Her yellow honey-coloured bunny suit comes detached, and sits separately inside the box, as does her large green bow. The ears of her black and yellow bunny ear headband are detached, and sit separately on the top right of the box. Taking a closer look at the bunny suit, I noticed that the sides of the suit are split to allow the suit to be put on from the bottom of her body. She also has a golden slave collar which also comes detached. As far as I can tell from the game lore, she was rescued by the protagonist before she was sold to a “dorei-shou”, and continues to wear the collar to symbolize the proof of the various important people she’s met in her life.
In terms of the bunny suit assembly, I think it’s acceptable: I prefer this way more than seeing the body split in a visible manner like the abdomen area (as seen in BINDing’s rendition of Azuki from NEKOPARA if you displayed her literally without anything). That would have made it unappealing to display completely cast-off. That said, I would have loved to see the use of magnets, similar to other FREEing figures, which would have allowed for easily attaching and detaching the bunny suit.
Lemon’s head and hair combined are fully detachable from her body, as are both her arms from the forearms. This allows us to attach the bunny suit and the huge bow in between the back of her body and her long flowing hair. The piece attaching her head to the main body contains a metal rod, which makes sense, given the sheer amount of weight of the entire plastic piece of her hair. And of course, her thigh highs with actual fabric fishnets are a nice classic of BINDing and FREEing bunny girl figures: I wouldn’t want to have it any other way.
Anyways, putting her together, we have this:
To start from the top, Lemon has a pair of side-drooping bunny ears with a large yellow bow on the left side of her head. A “lemon” badge holds this bow in place. Her bangs are pretty even, hanging out right above her green eyes. She has a gentle smile complemented by her right hand finger. I really like her expression a lot: her slight head tilt and pose with her finger reminds me of FREEing’s version of Aoba from NEW GAME!.
As we move down toward her body, part of her hair flows in front of her shoulders, and a couple of cute rouge red bows dangle off her hair. This is a nice dark contrast to her vibrant, eye popping yellow bunny suit. The upper portion of the bunny suit features little white frills with a gold trim that goes from her back all the way to the front where the bunny suit cups around her chest area. Tying it all together is another small yellow bow right at the centre of her chest. She also wears yellow arm sleeves on both sides. The forearm area features nice fluffy cuffs, while the wrists have the typical bunny suit buttoned cuffs; this time around they’re white with yellow accents.
As we move towards the lower half of her body, we’ll notice a mini skirt with the front half missing, allowing you to get a full view of her body suit. Her mini skirt features the same white frills and gold trim by the top, and her underskirt is a nice dark green with a lighter shade peeking out on top. In terms of quality control, the underside could use some work, as there was a little bit of chipped paint here and there. As I mentioned above, the bunny suit came separately, and it splits in half from the sides, and you can slide the bunny suit in from the bottom. Viewing her from the front, the suit split is barely noticeable, but from the back side, it’s more apparent. Getting the bunny suit to fit onto her was hard. There is still a bit of space between the back of the bunny suit and Lemon’s back, so there is still room to make that seam tighter, but I haven’t tried doing that yet since this was already a tight fit on the lower side. Even though you don’t really see her back because of her long hair, there was no compromise in the sculpt of her shoulder blades. Very nice!
Down to her legs are the usual fishnet, this time in thigh-high form, similar to the ones seen on Eureka. One difference here is that we don’t get the same tight thigh squeeze, but rather they sit “just right” on Lemon. Though, with the mere presence of her wearing a skirt, instead, by definition, we get the nice zettai ryouiki region from the sides, so there’s that! Transitioning between the thighhighs and her bare, plump thighs are a nice dark brown cuff with thicker yellow frills on the fishnet side and small thin layer of white frillies on the bare thigh side. Tying it together is some nice gold trim around those dark brown cuffs.
Down to her feet, we’ll get her nice rounded yellow heels, which are a nice change of pace from the usual sharp, pointed heels of FREEing bunny girls. The soles are a glossy black, contrasting nicely with the bright yellow. The gold buckles are clean, as are the little yellow bows on the front of the heels. Her right foot is just hovering ever so slightly above the table.
Making our way to the back of the figure, we have Lemon’s long hair. This is by far the heaviest piece of plastic on this figure. Her hair is sort of a light tan brown colour, with a little bit of pinkish highlighting throughout. Sculpting and colouring are really clean here, so no complaints from me on this front. It’s kind of hard to capture the highlighting on camera, so here’s my poor attempt at it. Her hair does sit on top of the green bow.
Overall, I really like how this figure came out. The overall QC was decent: the main issue I found was on the underskirt of the bunny suit skirt; however, it’s not that noticeable from arms length away. Also, if I decide to display her in castoff form, then I don’t have to worry about that at all. I’d probably rate this figure an 9-9.5/10. No buyer’s remorse for this figure: she looks great both castoff and with the bunny suit on. Of all the bunny girl figures I have, Lemon is definitely the most petite/loli out of them all. Her proportions are on the smaller side. I don’t have many 1/4 scale hinnyuu figures aside from maybe bunny Eriri (which I got recently) and bunny Ryobi, so Lemon is a nice break from the usual kyonyuu figures at this scale in my collection.
Anyways, that’s all I have this time around. Will leave you with the gallery of photos and references below. Until next time!
~Lui
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