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Taito's flagship standing prize figure, the full-size character piece rather than a desk miniature. The name fuses Core and Colorful, the brand's pitch being a story's core characters rendered in bright, detailed plastic. It runs deep on outfit variants, with Bunny Girl Senpai's Mai Sakurajima a clear favorite.
Coreful is Taito's main prize figure, the standing, full-size character piece you win from a crane game when you want more than a desk trinket. The name is a small pun the brand wears openly, Core plus Colorful: the idea is to take the core characters of a story and render them in bright, glossy detail, with Taito leaning on careful sculpting and clear parts to lift a prize figure a notch above the usual cabinet filler.
In practice the line lives on variety. A popular character returns again and again in new outfits, a bunny suit, a knit dress, a china dress, a summer dress, school uniform, roomwear, so a single heroine can hold down a whole shelf on her own. Bunny Girl Senpai's Mai Sakurajima is the clearest case, turning up across the line in version after version, but Re:Zero's Rem, Date A Live's Kurumi, Rent-a-Girlfriend's Chizuru, and the Oregairu and Saekano leads all get the same repeat treatment. As with Taito's other prize brands, most releases come paired with a Taito Online Crane exclusive.
It is the workhorse of Taito's prize catalogue, broader and longer-running than the smaller Desktop Cute and Aqua Float Girls formats and pitched a size up from them, the place a character lands when the goal is a proper standing figure rather than a novelty. The roster keeps pace with whatever is airing, recent additions like Frieren slotting in beside the long-running favorites, and the Core-and-Colorful brief has held steady the whole way through.
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