GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Sousou no Frieren Nendoroid Dantodai no Aura
HOBBYMAX Evangelion (RADIO EVA) Shikinami Asuka Langley Ver.RADIO EVA Part.3 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen o! POP UP PARADE Megumin Baito-fuku Ver. L size Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Shin Japan Heroes Universe Ultraman Soft Vinyl Polyurethane Figure
Sega S-FIRE Sono Bisuku Doll wa Koi o Suru Inui Sajuna Pretty Maid Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA MY LITTLE PONY BISHOUJO Applejack 1/7 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
PLUM PMOA Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Club Zhong Lanzhu 1/7 Plastic Figure
MedicomToy MAFEX No.237 THE DEEP [THE BOYS] Action Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World POP UP PARADE Rem L size Plastic Figure
FuRyu TV Anime 2.5 Jigen no Yuuwaku TENITOL TALL Amano Lilisa Plastic Figure
Hobby Sakura Bonyari JK Aiuchi Hina Another Colour 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Shouri no Megami: NIKKE Noir: Black Rabbit 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai K-On! POP UP PARADE Hirasawa Yui L size Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai TV Anime [Oshi no Ko] Huggy Good Smile Arima Kana
KOTOBUKIYA Megami Device SOL Raptor BEAST MODE 1/1 Plastic Kit
BANDAI SPIRITS S.H.Figuarts Hayakawa Aki
Union Creative Anime BASTARD!! -Ankoku no Hakai Kami- Arashes Nei Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gimai Seikatsu Nendoroid Ayase Saki
Prime 1 Studio PRISMA WING Piapro Characters Megurine Luka Art by lack 1/7 Plastic Figure
FuRyu Kabushikigaisha Magilumiere TENITOL Aoi Lily Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Frame Arms Girl Wilber Nine Plastic Kit
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Character Vocal Series 01 Hatsune Miku Mikaeri Bijin Miku Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
Design COCO Sword Art Online Asuna Wedding Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse Desktop Real McCoy EX Dragon Ball Z Super Saiyan Son Goku & Super Saiyan Son Gohan & Bike Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) MEIKO Nendoroid Doll MEIKO
SQUARE ENIX FORM-ISM Final Fantasy IX Garnet Til Alexandros XVII Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Apex Legends Hyper Body Wattson Action Figure
APEX XIAMI Xin Shanfung China Dress Gensumi Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse LookUp Poncho Haikyuu!! Hina-garasu
PROOF Ranma 1/2 Gensaku Saotome Ranma 1/7 Plastic Figure
ALTER Arknights Lappland Tenga naru Kyocho Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Kirby: Planet Robobot Nendoroid More Robobot Armor & Kirby (Re-release)
ASCENDIA Emily Nurse Illustration by Chowbie 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Time Raiders Wu Xie Shinsetsu Kyumu Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) ToHeart2 Kousaka Tamaki 20th Anniversary Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
Sega S-FIRE Kaiju Hachi-go Ashiro Mina 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine Nendoroid Doll Oyofuku Set Kato Megumi
Daibadi Production Polynian MLL-V2 Machaon / Arkeon (Gray Flesh) Action Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Frame Arms Girl Stylet XF-3 with Exo-suit Stylet Plastic Kit
MOMOROSER Konata Kansai-shi Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Sousou no Frieren Nendoroid Dantodai no Aura
HOBBYMAX Evangelion (RADIO EVA) Shikinami Asuka Langley Ver.RADIO EVA Part.3 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Bakuen o! POP UP PARADE Megumin Baito-fuku Ver. L size Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Shin Japan Heroes Universe Ultraman Soft Vinyl Polyurethane Figure
Sega S-FIRE Sono Bisuku Doll wa Koi o Suru Inui Sajuna Pretty Maid Ver. Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA MY LITTLE PONY BISHOUJO Applejack 1/7 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
PLUM PMOA Love Live! Nijigasaki Gakuen School Idol Club Zhong Lanzhu 1/7 Plastic Figure
MedicomToy MAFEX No.237 THE DEEP [THE BOYS] Action Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Re:Zero -Starting Life in Another World POP UP PARADE Rem L size Plastic Figure
FuRyu TV Anime 2.5 Jigen no Yuuwaku TENITOL TALL Amano Lilisa Plastic Figure
Hobby Sakura Bonyari JK Aiuchi Hina Another Colour 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Shouri no Megami: NIKKE Noir: Black Rabbit 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai K-On! POP UP PARADE Hirasawa Yui L size Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai TV Anime [Oshi no Ko] Huggy Good Smile Arima Kana
KOTOBUKIYA Megami Device SOL Raptor BEAST MODE 1/1 Plastic Kit
BANDAI SPIRITS S.H.Figuarts Hayakawa Aki
Union Creative Anime BASTARD!! -Ankoku no Hakai Kami- Arashes Nei Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gimai Seikatsu Nendoroid Ayase Saki
Prime 1 Studio PRISMA WING Piapro Characters Megurine Luka Art by lack 1/7 Plastic Figure
FuRyu Kabushikigaisha Magilumiere TENITOL Aoi Lily Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Frame Arms Girl Wilber Nine Plastic Kit
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Character Vocal Series 01 Hatsune Miku Mikaeri Bijin Miku Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
Design COCO Sword Art Online Asuna Wedding Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse Desktop Real McCoy EX Dragon Ball Z Super Saiyan Son Goku & Super Saiyan Son Gohan & Bike Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) MEIKO Nendoroid Doll MEIKO
SQUARE ENIX FORM-ISM Final Fantasy IX Garnet Til Alexandros XVII Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Apex Legends Hyper Body Wattson Action Figure
APEX XIAMI Xin Shanfung China Dress Gensumi Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
MegaHouse LookUp Poncho Haikyuu!! Hina-garasu
PROOF Ranma 1/2 Gensaku Saotome Ranma 1/7 Plastic Figure
ALTER Arknights Lappland Tenga naru Kyocho Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Kirby: Planet Robobot Nendoroid More Robobot Armor & Kirby (Re-release)
ASCENDIA Emily Nurse Illustration by Chowbie 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Time Raiders Wu Xie Shinsetsu Kyumu Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) ToHeart2 Kousaka Tamaki 20th Anniversary Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
Sega S-FIRE Kaiju Hachi-go Ashiro Mina 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata Fine Nendoroid Doll Oyofuku Set Kato Megumi
Daibadi Production Polynian MLL-V2 Machaon / Arkeon (Gray Flesh) Action Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Frame Arms Girl Stylet XF-3 with Exo-suit Stylet Plastic Kit
MOMOROSER Konata Kansai-shi Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
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].