Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

HG Gundam Marchosias - Detail shots (1/4)

HG Gundam Marchosias - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

HG Gundam Marchosias - Comes with 4 daggers, a great sword, a Bastard Mace that can store the great sword like a scabbard, an

Comes with 4 daggers, a great sword, a Bastard Mace that can store the great sword like a scabbard, and a shield.

The forearm parts can be swapped between 2 positions to use as either Knuckle Claw or Knuckle Guard.

HG Gundam Marchosias - You can open a small cover on the bottom of the side binder slightly to expose the rail gun — it's a p

You can open a small cover on the bottom of the side binder slightly to expose the rail gun —
it's a pretty vague gimmick where you just kind of pry the cover open to a "good enough" position.

HG Gundam Marchosias - The side binders and backpack binders each store a dagger inside for a total of 4, and they can be mou

The side binders and backpack binders each store a dagger inside for a total of 4,
and they can be mounted on the tips of the opened binders.

Only 2 leftover parts.

Limb articulation

Rail gun firing pose

Great sword pose

HG Gundam Marchosias - MA combat Form + Bastard Mace action pose (1/3)

MA combat Form + Bastard Mace action pose

Together with HG Gundam Barbatos.

Out of nowhere, Gundam Marchosias has been released as part of the Iron-Blooded Orphans HG lineup after a 3-year gap. A bit of background: after the anime ended, a spin-off called Iron-Blooded Orphans: Urdr-Hunt was announced. It ended up launching as a smartphone story & game app with animated content, and this kit is one of the mobile suits that appears in it. I figured Gundam Hajiroboshi — arguably the main unit of Urdr-Hunt — would come out first, but for whatever reason Gundam Marchosias got the earlier release.

The design concept looks right at home with the Iron-Blooded Orphans aesthetic, and aside from one frame runner, everything is made up of brand-new runners. The most striking feature is the massive binders on the backpack and side skirts. Each of the 4 binders stores a dagger, and you can deploy them with the daggers mounted at the tips to form what's called the "Form" — an anti-Mobile Armor combat configuration. For additional weapons, there's a large blade called a great sword, and its scabbard doubles as a weapon called the Bastard Mace. The Bastard Mace can be stored by plugging it into the center of the backpack.

The armor on the forearms can be detached and repositioned, functioning as either Knuckle Claws or Knuckle Guards depending on the orientation. The side binders also have a rail gun tucked underneath, which you can expose by opening a small cover. That said, the way the cover opens is a bit awkward — you basically just lift it slightly and pry it open to wherever feels right.

Articulation isn't great given the design, though the joint strength itself is decent enough. That said, getting everything to sit at the right angles for a clean standing pose is surprisingly tricky. It's the kind of kit that takes a lot of fiddling to get into a pose that actually looks good. On top of that, when you deploy the binders and attach the daggers, the attachment points don't hold very well and the daggers end up dangling loosely — so it doesn't feel like the most carefully engineered kit overall..

Still, the straight build looks great visually, and the flashy Form configuration is a real selling point — this seems like a kit that Iron-Blooded Orphans fans will be happy to get their hands on. :-)

HG Gundam Marchosias | 2020.3 | ¥2,200

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.