Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Size comparison with HGUC/MG. It's quite large for a Super Robot Wars kit, with a

Size comparison with HGUC/MG.
It's quite large for a Super Robot Wars kit, with a volume that surpasses most MGs.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (1/7)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (2/7)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (3/7)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (4/7)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (5/7)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (6/7)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 (7/7)

That beefy upper body.

The head with great partial painting and color separation.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Those massive shoulder pads... It's impressive that even tiny details like the cu

Those massive shoulder pads...
It's impressive that even tiny details like the cubic-shaped bits are all color-separated.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - The arms. The yellow diamond shapes on the forearms are also cleanly color-separa

The arms. The yellow diamond shapes on the forearms are also cleanly color-separated.

Back section

The massive Booster unit on the back.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - The legs, with equally impressive color separation. All those colors look gorgeou

The legs, with equally impressive color separation.
All those colors look gorgeous.

The massive Zankantou.

The tight color separation and partial painting are excellent.

It's a bit smaller than Dygenguar's sword, but it's still huge..

You get 2 sets of open hands and fists, plus 1 dedicated sword-holding hand.

Leftover parts.

Articulation is a standard 90-degree level.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - The large Booster unit can move up and down, and the support-like structure attac

The large Booster unit can move up and down,
and the support-like structure attached above moves in tandem with it.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Punching action! (1/4)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Punching action! (2/4)

Punching action!

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Cool poses. (1/4)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Cool poses. (2/4)

Cool poses.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - The Zankantou has a handle-like section as shown above, so it can be held like th

The Zankantou has a handle-like section as shown above, so it can be held like that.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - The Zankantou drawn out. (1/3)

The Zankantou drawn out.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Zankantou action. The joints are decent enough that poses like this are easy to p

Zankantou action.
The joints are decent enough that poses like this are easy to pull off.

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 - Together with the Hückebein. You can really get a sense of just how big the Type-

Together with the Hückebein.
You can really get a sense of just how big the Type-0 is..

The Grungust series has now made its way into the Super Robot Wars lineup, and leading the charge is the Type-0. The design itself is so flashy that I honestly wondered if it could ever be made into a plastic model — but Kotobukiya pulled out all the stops with their color separation techniques and brought it to life in spectacular fashion.

This kit pushes Kotobukiya's ever-evolving color separation skills to just about their absolute limit — even tiny little details that Bandai would never bother separating are all broken out into individual parts. Of course, even Kotobukiya can't perfectly replicate 100% of the design colors... but even so, seeing the straight build in person is genuinely eye-popping. @_@ On top of that, the color combination — red, yellow, blue, green, white, black and other primaries — creates such a striking contrast that the sheer presence of this thing gives you a real thrill..

And probably in order to pull off all that fine color separation, this non-scale kit came out significantly larger than other Super Robot Wars kits. It's roughly the same height as a standard 1/100 Bandai MG, but with a much more voluminous build.

Articulation is about average, but the joint strength is actually pretty good for a Kotobukiya kit, so most poses hold up stably. I was especially worried about how well the large Booster unit on the back would stay in place... but once built, it holds just fine — nothing to stress over. And the fact that it can hold up the massive Zankantou without the shoulders or forearms giving out is a real plus!

If you love big kits and want to experience impressive color separation right out of the box with just a straight build, this might honestly be the best kit for that. Even if you're skeptical about Kotobukiya's quality, you can build this one without much worry — aside from the sheer number of parts to separate, it goes together with a feel similar to a Bandai kit. Of course, I'd still recommend gluing some parts for a more secure hold, but Kotobukiya's snap-fit has clearly come a long way... :-)

This is one of the rare Kotobukiya kits with (almost) nothing to complain about, and it's a great kit I'd highly recommend even to Kotobukiya newcomers. :-)

Super Robot War Non-scale Grungust Type-0 | 2008. 7 | ¥4,800

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.