Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Size comparison with HGUC / MG

Upper body

A heart shape in the chest, surrounded by what looks like ribs.

Pointy crotch.. ;;

Head

Rear view.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Various skull shapes on the back, forearms, and shoulders. (1/3)

Various skull shapes on the back, forearms, and shoulders.

The skull section on the left forearm has a slot to store the sword.

Legs with skull-like knees.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Chicken claw-like feet — the soles aren't flat, so ground contact is a bit poor; it feels a

Chicken claw-like feet.
The soles aren't flat, so ground contact is a bit poor;
It feels a little wobbly when standing up..

The base body with the two large back skulls removed.

You can choose between two face options.
The open-mouth face looks pretty realistic..

Includes one set each of fists and open hands, plus one sword-gripping hand.

The sword named Oni Renge.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Articulation. Not bad for a kit with this kind of design.

Articulation.
Not bad articulation for a kit with this kind of design.

The two skulls on the back are secured by clear rods like these..

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - The clear support arms — two per side — have pretty solid joints, so you can move and lock

The clear support arms — two per side — have pretty solid joints,
so you can move and lock the back skulls at various angles.

Dropping the skulls downward gives you a look like this.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Action pose. (1/4)

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Action pose. (2/4)

Action pose.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Draw pose. (1/3)

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Draw pose. (2/3)

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Draw pose. (3/3)

Unsheathing pose.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Oni Renge action. (1/4)

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Oni Renge action. (2/4)

Oni Renge action.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - More action poses. (1/4)

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - More action poses. (2/4)

More action poses.

Covered in skulls from head to toe — it's quite a bizarre mech..

Together with the Rein Weissritter, which has a similar organic feel.
Both are pretty bulky.

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit - Together with the Hückebein. With the back skulls added in, it's got quite an imposing buil

Together with the Hückebein.
With the back skulls added in, it's got quite an imposing build.

Kotobukiya's Super Robot Wars series has been putting out one bizarre mech after another, and now Persön-Lichkeit has joined the lineup. As you can see, the design is extremely outlandish — at first glance, it's the kind of thing you'd never expect to get an injection-molded plastic kit. (Kotobukiya, you legends!)

First off, the strange design covered all over in skulls and bones is pulled off pretty well, and it even has a resin kit-like sense of volume. The various skull shapes on the back, shoulders, forearms, and knees are nicely put together with good parts breakdown that gives them a solid three-dimensional feel, and the torso section — where you can make out the ribs and heart — is well done too.

The clear support arms connecting the two large skulls on the back have a wider range of motion than you'd expect, and they hold their position quite firmly, so you can freely move the skulls around to different angles and positions without any stress. The overall articulation is about average, but most of the joints are solid, making it easy to pose and giving it a good sense of power. The one unavoidable downside is that the soles aren't flat.. so the footing feels a little unstable.

You get to choose between two face options, and the open-mouth version in particular is nicely painted and looks really convincing. Being a company with a long history of making figures, they're clearly strong when it comes to facial expression like this.

Anyway, this is a mech that's second to none when it comes to sheer uniqueness — though once you've built it and take a good long look, the design does give you a bit of a chill (;). In terms of basic quality it's an excellent kit, so if it catches your eye, I'd say go ahead and build it without worrying about quality. :-)

Super Robot War Persön-Lichkeit | 2009. 6 | ¥5,500

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.