Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers + Panel lining

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Upper body front and back

Head

Arms and legs

Hands are just the standard 2 sets included.

The only weapon is a beam saber.

Various parts to assist with transformation.

Haven't seen one of these in a while — a 1/144-exclusive simple stand is included.

HGUC Anksha - Beam rifle + beam saber action pose (1/6)

HGUC Anksha - Beam rifle + beam saber action pose (2/6)

HGUC Anksha - Beam rifle + beam saber action pose (3/6)

HGUC Anksha - Beam rifle + beam saber action pose (4/6)

Beam rifle + beam saber action pose

HGUC Anksha - Double beam saber pose with the awkward arm-mounted beam sabers removed (1/4)

HGUC Anksha - Double beam saber pose with the awkward arm-mounted beam sabers removed (2/4)

Double beam saber pose with the awkward arm-mounted beam sabers removed

Transformation

First, separate the upper/lower body, beam sabers, and hands to begin transformation.

HGUC Anksha - Remove the center chest piece, open the chest wide like the Asshimar, then plug the stand fixing pin into the l

Remove the center chest piece and open the chest wide like the Asshimar.
Plug the stand fixing pin into the lower waist.

Fold the knees and feet flat into a straight line...

Swing the crotch forward and bend the legs 90 degrees back.

Open the folded backpack, rotate 180 degrees, and extend it fully.

Like the Asshimar, rotate and fold the head and arms to form a nice round pancake shape.

Then attach the lower body underneath the pancake (….).

Push the beam rifle's mounting bracket back and attach one to each side — transformation complete!

The underside after transformation. Pretty clean, all things considered.

You'll need a separate joint part to mount the mobile armor form on a stand.

Various angles

Together with the HGUC Jegan.

Plug the separate mounting part on top of the mobile armor...

HGUC Anksha - And you can recreate the look of another MS riding on top like this. (1/4)

HGUC Anksha - And you can recreate the look of another MS riding on top like this. (2/4)

And you can recreate the look of another MS riding on top like this.

Together with the HGUC Unicorn Destroy Mode.

Together with its predecessor, the Asshimar.
As you can see, the Anksha towers over it in both MS and MA mode.

HGUC Anksha - Straight-built state (1/4)

HGUC Anksha - Straight-built state (2/4)

Straight-built state

The Anksha — essentially the Asshimar's successor — has joined the HGUC lineup, which has been pretty much dominated by the Unicorn lately. One look and it's immediately obvious: yep, this is the Asshimar's follow-up. The design makes no secret of it. ^^

First off, the overall size of the unit is bigger than its predecessor the Asshimar, and with those massive beam rifles mounted on both arms, it's got a noticeably beefier build. It's also gone fully green in its color scheme, giving it a sort of eco-friendly (?) vibe.

Like most transformable kits, the focus on the transformation gimmick means articulation takes a back seat. The arms are passable enough, but the leg spread is very limited and rotation is poor too, so pulling off a cool wide-stance pose is pretty much out of the question. The knee bend itself is actually decent, but in practice it's hard to get a convincing action pose out of it. On the plus side, being a newer kit, the polycap fit is solid and joint strength is more than adequate.

The transformation process is similar to the Asshimar but with some differences — the head/torso/arm configuration is pretty much the same, but the lower body transformation has been tweaked a bit and the overall process has been simplified. The central pancake section is about the same size as the Asshimar's, but the longer legs, large wing-like backpack, and beam rifles give the mobile armor form a noticeably bigger presence.

The transformation itself is definitely a lot easier than the Asshimar's, but pulling out the Asshimar after all this time and transforming it again left me with some mixed feelings. The Asshimar had a real developer's soul poured into it — even at that small scale, they minimized parts removal by tucking the fists inside the forearms, handling the lower body with a multi-step fold-and-rotate gimmick, and even throwing in a subtle leg-extension mechanism. The Anksha, by contrast, just pops off the hands, removes the center chest piece, and detaches then reattaches the lower body — it feels like a simpler, more straightforward approach. Flip side of that is it feels like a step back in terms of design effort and ingenuity, which leaves a slightly unsatisfying aftertaste. Maybe I feel that way even more after building the MG Marasai, which felt like soup with the salt left out... (Bandai's gotta eat too, I guess..)

That said, it delivers a fully functional transformation with solid lockup in mobile armor mode, so overall kit quality is genuinely good. The limited leg articulation is forgivable given it's a transformable kit, and the sheer size of it for an HGUC is actually a charm point in its own right. It may lack the presence and charisma of the Asshimar, but there's real value in getting to build the latest HGUC transformable kit. :-)

HGUC Anksha | 2012.5 | ¥2,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.