Kit Review

Straight build

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Detail shots (1/4)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

Two painted figure-style faces are included,
creepy, but surprisingly realistic...

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - A total of 4 sets of hands are included, and the sculpting is as realistic as a figure.

A total of 4 sets of hands are included,
the sculpting is as realistic as a figure.

The articulation is quite good.

The hip joints drop downward, so pretty much any leg pose you can think of is achievable.

Thanks to the triple-jointed waist, you can move the torso quite flexibly.

Even the tips of the toes are articulated.

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - A kneeling pose is reproduced very naturally. (1/3)

A kneeling pose is reproduced very naturally.

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Recreating various Titan poses (1/8)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Recreating various Titan poses (2/8)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Recreating various Titan poses (3/8)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Recreating various Titan poses (4/8)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Recreating various Titan poses (5/8)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Recreating various Titan poses (6/8)

Recreating various Titan poses

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Using a separately sold Kotobukiya stand or similar, you can pull off even more dynamic p

Using a separately sold Kotobukiya stand or similar, you can pull off even more dynamic poses.

From here on, it's just random Titan poses with no regard for the source material
(poses for articulation testing)

Shoryuken~!

The hip joints are so flexible you can even kick yourself in the back of the head.

Various religious poses are also possible (...)

Squat toilet pose

Ballet pose

The ankle articulation is great, so an arabesque is no problem either.

Horse dance pose

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - All kinds of military punishment drill poses are possible too. The toe-folding joint real

All kinds of military punishment drill poses are possible too.
The toe-folding joint really shines in the push-up pose in particular.

It can even nail the exercise every guy dreads — the V-sit (......)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. - Nothing really to compare it with, so here's a shot alongside the Cosmos Ver.4 kit. It's

Nothing really to compare it with, so here's a shot alongside the Cosmos Ver.4 kit.
It's less Beauty and the Beast... and more like a creep and a cute girl.

Kotobukiya, who have a real knack for turning anime and game characters into plastic model kits, have this time released an Attack on Titan kit. With so many different Titan forms out there I'm not sure how many will eventually get released, but for now the main character Eren Yeager Titan Ver. has made it out. ^^

Attack on Titan is so hugely popular these days that most of you have probably already read or watched it — I found it pretty engaging myself. Personally there are parts of the worldbuilding and the art style that aren't quite to my taste, but there's no denying it's a unique work with a kind of pull that makes it impossible to put down once you open it.

Anyway, this kit recreates the version of protagonist Eren Yeager after he transforms into a Titan — true to the source material, it's a completely bare, unclothed form that looks almost like a ball-jointed doll. (Every time I look at it I can't help but wonder... where exactly did his junk go..?)

The body does a great job of capturing the Titan's muscular physique while still delivering a high level of articulation. The arm parts are fine with just snap-fit, but the torso sections really need to be glued. I initially just snapped everything together without glue, but as I started posing it the body kept splitting apart or coming loose. -_-

As for the head, they apparently decided it would be too difficult to pull off with assembled parts, so two fully pre-painted figure-style sculpts are included instead — and they look impressively realistic. The hand parts are also separately molded in a similar figure-like fashion, and all four hand shapes came out looking very natural.

The biggest appeal of this kit is the wide variety of poses you can pull off thanks to its excellent articulation. It handles pretty much any pose from the source material with ease, and as you can see from the photos above, it takes all sorts of other positions just as well — so there's a ton of fun to be had just playing around with it. The joint retention isn't bad, but the shoulders do tend to pop out fairly easily if you push them too hard, so a bit of care is needed there. Maybe because there's nothing covering it at all, but it moves almost like a ball-jointed doll — it's genuinely a blast to mess around with~

That said, true to Kotobukiya form, the ¥4,600 price tag is probably the biggest sticking point. Looking at what's actually in the box, it feels like something Bandai would sell for under ¥2,000. T_T Still, the sheer shock(!) of Attack on Titan getting a plastic model kit, combined with how fun it is to pose, makes this a solid kit worth recommending to fans of the manga. :-)

Eren Yeager Titan Ver. | 2015.2 | ¥4,600

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.