Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (1/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (2/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (3/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (4/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (5/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (6/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (7/10)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Various angles (8/10)

Various angles

The face came out looking like it was printed on with crisp clarity

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - The body parts are molded using layered injection with three colors — skin tone, ye

The body parts are molded using layered injection with three colors — skin tone, yellow, and clear orange.
Yellow only appears in the middle layer for the round chest pad area, while the rest is skin tone + clear orange.
This nicely captures that look of a thin, semi-transparent orange vinyl(?) layered over a skin-toned body.

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - The layered injection effect on the body looks absolutely stunning. (1/3)

The layered injection effect on the body looks absolutely stunning.

The pose with fingers slipped between the hair strands is pulled off really well.

The red suit section shines with a glossy finish thanks to gloss injection

The stand looks a bit smaller compared to the previous releases.

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - All the included seals are provided in duplicate, so you don't have to worry if you

All the included seals are provided in duplicate, so you don't have to worry if you mess one up.

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley - Together with Figurerise Labo Fumina/Miku/Kotori. The quality and contents keep get

Together with Figurerise Labo Fumina/Miku/Kotori.
The quality and contents keep getting better, but the price keeps climbing too..
(¥5500, ¥6000, ¥6500, ¥7000 in order. Looks like a strategy of bumping it up ¥500 with every new release..??)

Together with Asuka's unit, the RG Evangelion Unit-02.

Shikinami Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion has been released as the 5th kit in the Figurerise Labo lineup. The costume is the pilot suit she wore in the theatrical film "Evangelion: 2.0", a full-body bodysuit with semi-transparent sections on the torso and lower arms. Layered injection has been applied not just to the face and eyes, but also to the body surface, just like with Fumina.

Unlike Fumina, where layered injection was used to achieve a transparent skin tone, this one depicts a clear orange costume worn over bare skin. The chest area with its yellow pads features a whopping three layers of layered injection, delivering an impressive visual finish. On top of that, the red sections have gloss injection applied for a shiny, glossy look, and even the small round buttons(?) running down the body are meticulously color-separated in white and green — which does mean the part count ends up being quite high.

The build process is smooth as you'd expect from Bandai, though the hair and torso sections are a bit complex, so it's best to go through the manual carefully step by step. There are quite a few small, round parts in particular, so watch out for losing them — though they're well-designed with different pin shapes on the back so you won't mix them up. Some areas use seals for color reproduction, and all seals are provided in duplicate, so you're covered even if you mess one up.

The finished quality is top-tier for the series, and there's a real sense of satisfaction in getting this level of visuals without any painting. You can spot some seam lines between parts here and there from the assembly, but the surface texture is so varied and the overall quality so good that it largely makes up for it. With this many parts and special effects packed in, the price has gone up to ¥7000. Fumina, the first in the series, was ¥5500, then Miku at ¥6000, and Minami at ¥6500 — so it's been going up ¥500 with each new Labo release ^^;

Either way, this is a high-quality buildable figure that really shows how the Figurerise Labo lineup keeps pushing forward, and it's a kit that once again leaves you in awe of Bandai's incredible technology :-)

Figurerise Labo Shikinami Asuka Langley | 2021. 3 | ¥7,000

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.