Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Upper body

Head

The backpack with its impressive large verniers

A gorgeous shield with great color separation all the way to the missiles, plus a variety of seals.

Arms and weapons

The V-fin on the crotch uses a clear seal rather than a shiny foil sticker.

Legs

HGUC Jegan - The right side skirt has a beam saber, and the left has a grenade pack — both nicely reproduced. (1/2)

HGUC Jegan - The right side skirt has a beam saber, and the left has a grenade pack — both nicely reproduced. (2/2)

The right side skirt has a beam saber,
and the left has a grenade pack — nicely reproduced.

Both the beam saber and rifle come with dedicated hands, so grip is absolutely no concern.

HGUC Jegan - There are two beam sabers included — a long one and a short one. As a side note, the HG Arios GNHW/M released th

There are two beam sabers included — a long one and a short one.
As a side note, the HG Arios GNHW/M released the same month includes the same ones.

Articulation is...
not quite what I'd call outstanding for a modern HGUC kit.

HGUC Jegan - That said, the shoulders can raise up at a wide angle and the waist rotates a full 360°, which makes posing pret

That said, the shoulders can raise up at a wide angle,
and the waist rotates a full 360°, which makes posing pretty easy.

The hip joints can rotate to either side to a reasonable degree.

Action pose

HGUC Jegan - A fairly dynamic shooting pose. (1/3)

A fairly dynamic shooting pose.

HGUC Jegan - Shield missile launcher action using Action Base 2 (1/4)

HGUC Jegan - Shield missile launcher action using Action Base 2 (2/4)

Shield missile launcher action using Action Base 2

HGUC Jegan - A high-difficulty shooting pose that's only possible with a stand (1/4)

HGUC Jegan - A high-difficulty shooting pose that's only possible with a stand (2/4)

A high-difficulty shooting pose that's only possible with a stand

HGUC Jegan - Airborne beam saber action. The pose looks really natural. (1/5)

HGUC Jegan - Airborne beam saber action. The pose looks really natural. (2/5)

HGUC Jegan - Airborne beam saber action. The pose looks really natural. (3/5)

Airborne beam saber action.
The pose looks really natural.

HGUC Jegan - Together with the Federation's workhorse, the GM. They're both mass-production units, but the difference in refi

Together with the Federation's workhorse, the GM.
They're both mass-production units, but the difference in refinement is pretty striking.
Still, the GM has its own kind of timeless charm to its design.

HGUC Jegan - Together with the Re-GZ from Char's Counterattack. Both are in the green family, but the color feel is quite dif

Together with the Re-GZ from Char's Counterattack.
Both are in the green family, but the color feel is quite different.

The full HGUC Char's Counterattack set of 8.
The entire old Char's Counterattack series has finally been renewed!

Straight build

Finally! The Jegan — the last of the old HGUC Char's Counterattack kits to get an upgrade — has been released. With this, every Char's Counterattack kit that originally came out in 1/144 scale has been reborn as an HGUC.

Overall quality is, as you'd expect from a modern kit, incredibly (and I mean incredibly) clean. The head is split in a clever way to hide seam lines, there are blue clear parts, the shield has clean color separation with a variety of seals, and both the side beam saber gimmick and the grenade rack gimmick are faithfully reproduced.

The molded colors might be a bit hit-or-miss for some people... but I think they did a good job of capturing the feel of the original without making it look too toy-like. The canonical color is a somewhat fluorescent bright green to begin with, so there's really only so much you can do about that.

Articulation is a little disappointing for a modern kit... though to be fair, the HG 00 series has been setting such an insane bar for articulation lately that the comparison is kind of inevitable. That said, the shoulder and waist joints are flexible enough that overall action poses come out looking pretty natural — and honestly, I'm not sure wild articulation would even suit the Jegan's design all that much. ^^:

It's not something I'd call exceptional, but there's really nothing to complain about either — it's a clean, quality rebirth of the Jegan, and I'm happy about it. Here's hoping for an MG release too. :-)

HGUC Jegan | 2009.8 | ¥1,700

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.