Kotobukiya Nadesico

Super Aestivalis

Kit Review

Straight build

Following the Aestivalis Ryoko type from Nadesico, the Super Aestivalis piloted by Saburouta has now been released. Naturally, it reuses a good number of parts from the Ryoko type, with differences showing up in the head, shoulders, torso, backpack, and weapons. Looking at the actual designs, there are quite a few differences — but at the same time, it's hard to call them truly distinct from one another. That's just the nature of the Aestivalis series.

Overall quality is on par with the Ryoko type, as you'd expect — decent articulation, stiff joints, reasonable color separation, but the molded colors look a little cheap. Size-wise, it's also quite small like the Ryoko type, noticeably more compact than your typical 1/144 Gunpla.

The kit quality isn't bad by any means, but this is already a mecha series that's been around for a while, and each unit doesn't really stand out all that much from the others — so it feels more like a fan-service kit for Nadesico fans. Either way, as part of Kotobukiya's more niche lineup, the real value here is being able to get injection-molded kits of various mecha that Bandai would never touch. :-)

Nadesico Super Aestivalis | 2009. 9 | ¥2,100

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.