MegaHouse LookUp Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM Cagalli Yula Athha Plastic Figure
Orchidseed Super Sonico Summer Vacation Ver. 1/4.5 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
AniMester Saborigachi na Ochame Maid Nozomi 1/6 Plastic Figure
HOBBY STOCK Yahari Ore no Seishun Love-comi wa Machigatteiru. Zoku Yuigahama Yui Mizugi Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Haikyuu!! Qset+ Kozume Kenma Kuroo Tetsuro Plastic Figure
Daibadi Production Polynian MLL-V2 Machaon / Arkeon (Gray Flesh) Action Figure
MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Blue Lock Tenohira Mikage Reo Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Megami Device M.S.G 07 Ninja Blade Kazakiri Shippu 1/1 Plastic Kit
KOTOBUKIYA Umamusume Pretty Derby Daitaku Helios 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) DOOM POP UP PARADE SP Doom Marine Plastic Figure
BellFine Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san 2nd Attack Nagatoro-san 1/7 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Gaiden! NARUTO Shippuden Uzumaki Naruto to Okemono-tachi Plastic Figure (Re-release)
MAGI ARTS Nekopara Vanilla Deform Figure
FREEing Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Shizu Bunny Ver. 1/4 Plastic Figure
DCTer Alchemist 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gaiking Legend of Daiku-Maryu MODEROID Raiking Plastic Kit (Re-release)
MegaHouse Portrait.Of.Pirates ONE PIECE KxMAXIMUM Sanji Plastic Figure
ORANGE ROUGE Doukyusei Kusakabe Hikari & Sajo Rihito Wedding Ver. Plastic Figure
Flare Ayakashi Triangle Kazamaki Matsuri & Kanade Suzu & Shirogane Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Kamisama Hajimemashita Nendoroid Momozono Nanami
MEDICOS ENTERTAINMENT Super Figure Action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III DIO (Kakusei-ban) Third Action Figure
BearPanda Yufeng Laiyi 1/6 Plastic Figure
Shibuya Scramble Figure Seishun Buta Yarou Series Sakurajima Mai -Starry Dress Ver.- 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Fullmetal Alchemist The Brotherhood Nendoroid Alphonse Elric (Re-release)
Maiden Voyage Odoriko Rufus Illustration by Suzusame Yatsumi 1/7 Plastic Figure
MEDICOS ENTERTAINMENT Super Figure Action BIG JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Killer Queen Action Figure
Our Treasure Anime Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai -First Kiss wa Owaranai- Shinomiya Kaguya [Summer Queens] 1/8 Plastic Figure
SUNDROPS Hoshizora Tetsudo to Shiro no Tabi Noir 1/7 Plastic Figure
WING Blue Archive Hoshino 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Jujutsu Kaisen Nendoroid Doll Oyofuku Set Itadori Yuji
VERTEX Original Elf Village 14th Villager Mama Tiana Mokuyoku-chaku Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
AmiAmi x SNAIL SHELL Shouri no Megami NIKKE Modernia: First Affection 1/12 Action Figure
MegaHouse G.M.G. COLLECTION 02 Mobile Suit Gundam Principality of Zion Char Azanable Action Figure (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Mobile Police Patlabor MODEROID AV-X0 TYPE-ZERO 1/60 Plastic Kit (Re-release)
MAX FACTORY Hololive Production Nendoroid Ninomae Ina'nis DX (Re-release)
DMM Factory Illustrator Collection Figure Toshishita Kanojo Illustration by ran9u 1/6 Plastic Figure
BANDAI SPIRITS Figuarts Zero chouette Ranma
Solarain TV Anime Ryza no Atelier -Tokoyami no Joou to Himitsu no Kakurega- Reisalin Stout Mizugi Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
TAITO spiritale Majo no Tabitabi Elaina -Kyuusoku Ver.- 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Kirby: Planet Robobot Nendoroid More Robobot Armor & Kirby (Re-release)
MegaHouse LookUp Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM Cagalli Yula Athha Plastic Figure
Orchidseed Super Sonico Summer Vacation Ver. 1/4.5 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
AniMester Saborigachi na Ochame Maid Nozomi 1/6 Plastic Figure
HOBBY STOCK Yahari Ore no Seishun Love-comi wa Machigatteiru. Zoku Yuigahama Yui Mizugi Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Haikyuu!! Qset+ Kozume Kenma Kuroo Tetsuro Plastic Figure
Daibadi Production Polynian MLL-V2 Machaon / Arkeon (Gray Flesh) Action Figure
MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Blue Lock Tenohira Mikage Reo Plastic Figure
KOTOBUKIYA Megami Device M.S.G 07 Ninja Blade Kazakiri Shippu 1/1 Plastic Kit
KOTOBUKIYA Umamusume Pretty Derby Daitaku Helios 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) DOOM POP UP PARADE SP Doom Marine Plastic Figure
BellFine Ijiranaide, Nagatoro-san 2nd Attack Nagatoro-san 1/7 Plastic Figure (Re-release)
MegaHouse G.E.M. Series Gaiden! NARUTO Shippuden Uzumaki Naruto to Okemono-tachi Plastic Figure (Re-release)
MAGI ARTS Nekopara Vanilla Deform Figure
FREEing Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken Shizu Bunny Ver. 1/4 Plastic Figure
DCTer Alchemist 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Gaiking Legend of Daiku-Maryu MODEROID Raiking Plastic Kit (Re-release)
MegaHouse Portrait.Of.Pirates ONE PIECE KxMAXIMUM Sanji Plastic Figure
ORANGE ROUGE Doukyusei Kusakabe Hikari & Sajo Rihito Wedding Ver. Plastic Figure
Flare Ayakashi Triangle Kazamaki Matsuri & Kanade Suzu & Shirogane Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE ARTS Shanghai Kamisama Hajimemashita Nendoroid Momozono Nanami
MEDICOS ENTERTAINMENT Super Figure Action JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part III DIO (Kakusei-ban) Third Action Figure
BearPanda Yufeng Laiyi 1/6 Plastic Figure
Shibuya Scramble Figure Seishun Buta Yarou Series Sakurajima Mai -Starry Dress Ver.- 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Fullmetal Alchemist The Brotherhood Nendoroid Alphonse Elric (Re-release)
Maiden Voyage Odoriko Rufus Illustration by Suzusame Yatsumi 1/7 Plastic Figure
MEDICOS ENTERTAINMENT Super Figure Action BIG JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part IV Killer Queen Action Figure
Our Treasure Anime Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai -First Kiss wa Owaranai- Shinomiya Kaguya [Summer Queens] 1/8 Plastic Figure
SUNDROPS Hoshizora Tetsudo to Shiro no Tabi Noir 1/7 Plastic Figure
WING Blue Archive Hoshino 1/7 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Jujutsu Kaisen Nendoroid Doll Oyofuku Set Itadori Yuji
VERTEX Original Elf Village 14th Villager Mama Tiana Mokuyoku-chaku Ver. 1/6 Plastic Figure
AmiAmi x SNAIL SHELL Shouri no Megami NIKKE Modernia: First Affection 1/12 Action Figure
MegaHouse G.M.G. COLLECTION 02 Mobile Suit Gundam Principality of Zion Char Azanable Action Figure (Re-release)
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Mobile Police Patlabor MODEROID AV-X0 TYPE-ZERO 1/60 Plastic Kit (Re-release)
MAX FACTORY Hololive Production Nendoroid Ninomae Ina'nis DX (Re-release)
DMM Factory Illustrator Collection Figure Toshishita Kanojo Illustration by ran9u 1/6 Plastic Figure
BANDAI SPIRITS Figuarts Zero chouette Ranma
Solarain TV Anime Ryza no Atelier -Tokoyami no Joou to Himitsu no Kakurega- Reisalin Stout Mizugi Ver. 1/7 Plastic Figure
TAITO spiritale Majo no Tabitabi Elaina -Kyuusoku Ver.- 1/6 Plastic Figure
GOOD SMILE COMPANY (GSC) Kirby: Planet Robobot Nendoroid More Robobot Armor & Kirby (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].