However, pouring hot curry roux or ramen broth onto the plastics customarily used for anime figures could cause the material to melt or warp.
However, the designers at otaku merchandising organization Million Girls Project (also makers of upskirt umbrellas) have decided to meld the words’ literal and implied meanings with a unique piece of tableware that’s half sexy anime girl figure, half functional food bowl.
Because of that, the Figuwan (a combination of “figure” and “wan,” the Japanese word for “bowl”) will be ceramic in design.
Specifically, it’ll be made using a mix of Seto-yaki and Mino-yaki porcelain production techniques, a set of skills that Million Girls Project claims has been lost to all but three craftsmen in present-day Japan.