Kit Review

Straight build

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Various angles (1/4)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Various angles (2/4)

Various angles

It can be placed on a separately sold stand.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Swapping both joint parts to the shorter version lets you reduce the overall width of the Exos

Swapping both joint parts to the shorter version,
you can reduce the overall width of the Exosuit Unit.

Joint parts for securing Frame Arms legs to the sides are also included.

General-purpose joint parts are included as a bonus too.

Various articulated sections

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - A look at Frame Arms Girl Leticia fitted in. Even without a Frame Arms kit, you can use it sim

A look at Frame Arms Girl Leticia fitted in.
Even without a Frame Arms kit, you can use it simply like this.

Frame Arms Girl Stylet and Frame Arms Stylet Renewal Version together.

As shown, you can attach the arms, legs, and backpack from Frame Arms Stylet.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - The fixing pins on the Exosuit Unit are 3mm, which is the standard for the renewed Frame Archi

The fixing pins on the Exosuit Unit are 3mm, which is the standard for the renewed Frame Architect.
The early Frame Architect that came before Frame Arms No. 32 Ji-Dao uses 3.2mm fixing pins.
So when you plug them into the polycaps of those early Frame Arms kits, they end up loose.
The same goes for Stylet — in that case, wrapping some tape around the fixing pins before inserting them works pretty well for keeping things secure.
Alternatively, for the legs, there's also the option of just taking the hip joint parts from the Frame Arms kit and plugging those in directly.

Exosuit Unit with Frame Arms Stylet parts attached

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - To comfortably mount Frame Arms Girl Stylet, you'll need to remove a number of armor pieces an

To comfortably mount Frame Arms Girl Stylet,
you'll need to remove a number of armor pieces and weapons as shown.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - The complete build with Frame Arms Girl Stylet riding inside. (1/6)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - The complete build with Frame Arms Girl Stylet riding inside. (2/6)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - The complete build with Frame Arms Girl Stylet riding inside. (3/6)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - The complete build with Frame Arms Girl Stylet riding inside. (4/6)

The complete build with Frame Arms Girl Stylet riding inside.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Action poses. It's safer to use a stand when posing. (1/3)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Action poses. It's safer to use a stand when posing. (2/3)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Action poses. It's safer to use a stand when posing. (3/3)

Action pose.
It's safer to use a stand when posing.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Baselard collab shot. The Frame Arms Baselard is also an ear

Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Baselard collab shot.
The Frame Arms Baselard is also an early version, so you'll need to reinforce the fixing pins to combine them.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Baselard action poses (1/3)

Baselard action poses

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Kongo collab shot. The Frame Arms Kongo uses a renewed frame

Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Kongo collab shot.
The Frame Arms Kongo uses a renewed frame, so they can be combined as-is.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Kongo action poses (1/3)

Kongo action poses

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Hresvelgr collab shot. It's an early-type frame, so you'll n

Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Hresvelgr collab shot.
It's an early-type frame, so you'll need to reinforce the fixing pins to combine them.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Magatsuki collab shot. Same deal — it's an early-type frame,

Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl body Magatsuki collab shot.
Same deal — it's an early-type frame, so you'll need to reinforce the fixing pins to combine them.

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit - Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl Baihu collab shot. For Baihu, you can just plug in the hip joint

Frame Arms + Frame Arms Girl Baihu collab shot.
For Baihu, you can just plug in the hip joint as a whole unit.

This kit is the Exosuit Unit, released as an accessory for the Frame Arms Girl series. It's basically designed to combine a Frame Arms Girl and a Frame Arms kit at the same time — the Frame Arms Girl rides inside, while the arms and legs from a Frame Arms kit attach to the outside.

The Exosuit Unit itself is put together simply with a small number of parts, and it comes with a variety of articulated sections and joint parts. You can apply different types of back fixing pins, so it's compatible with any Frame Arms Girl. As for the external joints used to secure the Frame Arms arms and legs, they're provided in the 3mm fixing pin standard based on the renewed later-type Frame Architect.

Because of that, compatibility gets a bit awkward with Frame Arms kits before No. 32 Ji-Dao that use the 3.2mm standard. As you can see in the photos above, if you want to attach the arms and legs from those early Frame Arms kits, you'll need to wrap a bit of tape around the fixing pins. Alternatively, for the legs, you can take the hip Architect parts from the older version and plug them straight into the Exosuit Unit — but for the arms, they'll still be loose, so you'll need the tape trick there regardless.

It works best when you combine characters that have been released in both the Frame Arms and Frame Arms Girl lineups. Notable examples include Gourai, Stylet, Baselard, Hresvelgr, Kongo, Magatsuki, and Baihu. There are plenty of others that have come out in both lineups too, like Jinrai, Durga, Greifen, Zelfikar, and Yinglong. And of course, you can also mix and match Frame Arms and Frame Arms Girl characters from different pairings if that's your thing.

In my case, I've been steadily collecting every Kotobukiya Frame series kit since the first one came out in 2009, so while reviewing this kit I really wanted to try combining as many characters as possible. (Not sure who else would even attempt that;;) But the work was pretty brutal, and after about 4 hours of shooting I called it at roughly the review photos you see above.

Based on the renewed Frame Architect standard, the compatibility between the Exosuit Unit, Frame Arms, and Frame Arms Girl is pretty solid. That said, depending on which kits you combine, the stability for action poses can sometimes be lacking — in those cases, using a separate stand to prop things up lets you hold poses nice and steadily.

All in all, it's a pretty interesting accessory kit in a lot of ways. The purpose is clear and the quality is decent, so if you're collecting both Frame Arms Girl and Frame Arms, this seems like a worthwhile item to go ahead and grab. :-)

Frame Arms Girl Exosuit Unit | 2023.7 | ¥2,700

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.