Except, actually, Good Smile being a no-show at Wonder Festival just meant no figures from those series at the industry booths.
Similar to Comiket, Japan’s biggest independently published manga event, Wonder Festival is also an event for independent modelers and figure craftsmen.
The summer iteration of Wonder Festival, Japan’s biggest convention for anime/video game figures, models, and garage kits, recently took place at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba Prefecture.
That’s because figure manufacturer Good Smile Company was running its own company-specific exhibition elsewhere at the same time as Wonder Festival was going on.