Kotobukiya Phantasy Star Online

Racaseal Redria Ver.APSY

Kit Review

Straight build

Redria has been released as the latest entry in the Phantasy Online RAcast series of girl character model kits. Most of the parts are based on the previous release Yellow Boze, and it's a mashup kit that even includes weapons parts from Shino and Whitill — though it does add short height type body, arm, and leg parts on top of that.

Since the kit itself is essentially a reuse of previous releases, the basic configuration, articulation, and poseability are all pretty much identical. The articulation is good and the joints are solid, making it a fun kit to pose — though the small feet do make it tricky to stand on its own. And maybe they felt a bit sheepish about it being a combined kit, but every weapon and gimmick from the previous releases is thrown in as one big gift set. There are so many weapons that you can pull off a huge variety of poses, which is nice. ^^

Redria comes with one unique option: you can swap out the arm, leg, and torso parts to reconfigure it from the standard height type to the short height type. However, since a large number of the internal frame parts are shared, it's not a simple parts swap — you basically have to disassemble and reassemble the entire body to make the switch... which is a real pain. I guess it's just a bonus feature so whatever, but with so many leftover parts piling up, it is a bit annoying that they only included one set of the shared frame parts and made you disassemble everything piece by piece just to switch between the two. -_-+

Anyway, as a charming and cute girlpla, it may be a mashup of recycled parts from previous releases, but the colorway is different enough that it has plenty of its own personality. On top of that, it's packed with accessories from all sorts of kits, so it feels like pretty good value for the price. Either way, if you're into girlplas, this should be a pretty interesting pick. :-)

Phantasy Star Online Racaseal Redria Ver.APSY | 2013. 6 | ¥3,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.