Kit Review
Straight build
+ seals
Size comparison with a cigarette pack
It's quite large..
Alongside the 1/100 MG First 2.0, which can be considered a standard size.
Body.
The wrinkles in the clothing are expressed very naturally.
Head.
The wild, spiky hair — like someone dumped an entire tub of hair mousse on it — is sculpted with quite a lot of dimension.
Back section.
The clothing wrinkles on the back make it pretty tricky to apply the round seals smoothly.
For areas like this, waterslide decals + Mark Softer is honestly the cleaner way to go.
Beefy arms
Leg section.
The feet are small, so there's a bit of trouble getting it to stand stably.
The yellow areas are handled with stickers.
As you can see, the eyes come with separate pupil seals/decals for front-facing, left, and right gazes,
and you can also choose from a variety of markings to put on the body.
The downside with the eyes, though, is that there are no spare parts — so once you apply them,
whichever gaze direction you pick, swapping them out later is a real pain.
Two face expressions are included and can be swapped out.
The open-mouth face is interesting in that even the teeth and tongue are fully color-separated.
The eyebrows are handled with seals/decals, but they blend in pretty naturally.
You can swap between a fist hand and an open hand,
but the connection point is weak so the hands tend to pop off easily.
The dedicated stand.
"Clear" usually brings to mind a hard, rigid material,
but this stand's plastic is oddly flexible.
The mounting point rotates 360 degrees, and the support arm also has an extension feature.
The stand grips from both above and below the backside, so it holds very securely.
The arm and leg bend articulation is more average than you'd expect.
The gimmick where the bicep pops out when you bend the arm is a fun touch.
There's a built-in gimmick where the shoulder slides forward, but it's a bit hard to get it to move naturally.
When you pull the arm out, the inner shoulder should come forward smoothly — but it's a little stiff.
The neck has a double joint, so the forward and backward range of motion is quite wide.
The waist's forward, backward, and side-to-side range of motion is top-notch too.
The sash at the front moves freely on a ball joint so it doesn't get in the way of articulation.
The hip joints slide up and down to increase the legs' range of motion,
though the actual range of movement is a bit narrower than expected.
The outer garment on the upper body isn't fixed in place — it's just draped on loosely,
so it shifts around naturally with arm and waist movement without getting in the way of articulation.
The upper thigh and ankle on each leg rotate 360 degrees horizontally,
which allows for more natural poses.
The ankle structure is quite flexible, producing a stable ground contact angle even at fairly extreme angles.
The toes bend one more time, and the yellow soles use a rubber material
for solid grip —
but the feet are just too small, so balancing it is a bit of a struggle T_T
That's about how wide you can spread the legs while keeping both feet flat on the ground.
You can also do a full split like a gymnast,
A front-to-back split is possible too.
It's not a "squatting on the toilet" pose — it's the Kaio-ken activation pose.
It doesn't come out quite as naturally as I'd hoped,
but then again, that pose isn't exactly the most graceful one to begin with, so it's going to look a little awkward no matter what.. ^^;
Spirit Bomb charging pose
The action poses look pretty convincing.
Ka~ me~ ha~ me~
Ha~~~~
Using the dedicated stand makes it a lot easier to hold poses.
Thanks to the stand, you can pull off poses like this that would be impossible to balance on their own.
My personal favorite — the kicking pose.
The legs don't go up quite as high as you'd imagine, but it still looks plenty dynamic.