KING

As a Tekken enthusiast since 1998 i always wondered why theres not much of the series on the toys department, specialy considering Street Fighter rivals with DC or Marvel in the amount of action figures, toys and collectibles they have but for Tekken the scenario has been always dry. Epoch did an amazing job releasing a very complete Tekken 3 action figures set back in 1998 and we had to wait more than 12 years for the very short Play Arts Kai line for Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Five years later Storm Collectibles made our dreams come true with theyr high quality Tekken 7 action figures (tough still, they leave an awfull lot of characters out of it).

To my surprise, Bandai took the licence last year for the Tekken 8 series but for some reason i wasnt very excited when they release theyr Kazuya and Jin (maybe because of my apathy for the characters??) but that changed this year when they release Nina Williams and King. I do LOVE King, he has been my favorite character since Tekken 3 and i had no choice but to get him despite my limited experience with this S.H. Figuarts line. I only got Shampoo, Rashid and Zood on my collection.

In 1/12 scale, this King is shorter than his Storm Collectibles version tough he still one whole head shorter than Zodd (i wonder if in fact Zood is that big considering King is 200cm) but sadly i have no other Tekken charactet to measure King´s height but yhea, this figure is small.

He can stand on his own perfectly....unless he have his stupid and awfull cape on, in thsi scenario he wont stand at all since the idiotic cape is soo heavy it completelly broke King´s balance and the only way to make him stand in hunching him over the front or with a base, but given the cape size and shape i am sure a base wont work either. Anyway, just remove the cape soo King can stand perfectly.

He is articulated on the head, the neck (where the mask ends), the abs, waist, whoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knees, ankles, half feet, tail, the two yellow thingys hanging from his arms, base of the cape and theres two articulations in the midle of the sape. Thats a whole lot considering how simple is his design rigth?

Both the head and neck have ball joints soo they can move pretty good up and down and to the sides, tough the pink feathers get in the way of the sides movement a little bit, the amount of movement is really good, same for the ball joint on his abs and waist. The shoulders have ball joints and a butterfly articulation soo he can join his arms in the front but given all the pieces are made of hard plastic and how big his muscles are, this section is more restricted than i was expecting. The biceps rotate and the elbows have a double articulation and they move witha  good range of movement. The wrists tough are very restricted by the yellow bands around them soo while they rotate, they dont move to much to the sides.

The two yellow ornaments hanging from his biceps are ball jointed, just like his tail, soo they have a very good range of movement and his legs can be "disjointed" down soo they hae more freedom of movement and they can be back up in any moment. This system is pretty weird....i dont think i ever have a figure with this kind of mobile ball joint system, certainlly Zood dont have it. Still, the ass prevent the legs to go back at all. The thigh rotate and his knees have a double articulation soo they bend really good and since the knee pads are part of it is pretty confortable move them. The ankles ball joints are kind of limited tough and i have no idea why tough the half feet articulation works really good.

Now the cape...it have a hole on the top of the back side that conects with an ugly, black rod with a ball on the back of King (hidden under his ornamented collar), i think it may works as a ball joint but problem is it dosnt, the cape is just hanging there like a portrait on the nail in a wall soo the cape not only cant be possed, but each time King is touched the damn thing fall to the ground. This ugly thing also have two ball joints in the middle but the material is hard plastic, soo this ball joints cant move at all.

Sculpt is really good, the jaguar mask looks perfect, specially on the fangs parts, tough it have no texture at all. The muscle build is fantastic and the butterfly structure around his arms have the musulature sculpted in the front and the back soo the articulation is hidden most of the time. The pecs have nipples sculpted as well as veins, just like on his shoulders and biceps. pretty realistuc.

The collar is extremelly ornamented in front while the feathers have a fantastic sculpt on theyr own and can be removed, but the collar section canot be, since theres pretty obnoxious pegs on King´s shoulders that penetrates the collar piece and conect with the feathers, soo remove them whill leave King with two weird hornis coming our from his shoulders. I am not sure i like this but i guess the figure wasnt designed to be displayed without this ornaments.

One of the gloves and legs have a porous texture while the bots with the leaces sculpted independently look really nice, my favorite part is the sole that have cat paws printed on them, something i always loved from this man. The paint is perfect tough theres a lot here: a dark blue boot and a yellow boot with black leaces and some grey details while the blue pants have yellow, black and gret designs and the title KING on them. This is a very intrincate design and the paint is perfectly applied, same foe the silver ornament on his biceps with red and blue jewekks and the blue gove on his other arm with the yellow wlbow pad that reads "Anger of the beast King" in very tiny text. 

The necklace on the front is painted in silver with shiny blue, red and yellow and the golden and blue patther on the black section is perfect. The feathers have a shade of pink and white that makes them looks shine and the mask have a soft wash of white in the bottom half and black dots and yellow eyes perfectly painted, as well as the black noce, lips, pink inside of the mouth and white fangs. I deffinetly have no complaings over the pain job.

Also, the msucles have a really good soft wash of darker tones that makes the muscles stand out pretty nicelly specially under direct light, they looks very defined and even wet like a true wrestler and the skin tines is darker and sexyer than Zodd´s. The ugly cape is just black, wich is dissapointing since in the game it shines like oil, with a rainbow of blues and reds but here is just plain black, tough the silver design on the back side with the King logo looks good i guess.

He comes with two extra pair of hands as well as a single left hand: aside of the closed fist he have relaxed open hands, claw shaped hands for holds and a single left hand with his finger pointing. The sculpt and paint is perfect, with the blue and black gloves that helps make them looks different tough they are made with hard plastic.

At first i tough changue the hands would be difficult, since, aside of the yellow band around the wrists, it also have black strips hornaments that fits in between the hands and the yellow bands but for my surprise, this dosnt move too much and make the hands wap pretty easy. As a side note i gate this black strips are not articulated like the ones on the biceps, they are always pointing at the dies and they are pretty obnoxious even if they cna rotate along the hands.

Sadly, thats it, no more accesoryes than the hands. I know King dont use weapons but its rpetty dissapointing they didnt add attack effects or something...i dunno, maybe Storm Collectibles really spoiled me but i cant stop feeling there missing potential here.

There is also a background made of cardboard and have the image of the King of Iron Fist arena on it. The printing is very high quality and the color palette with electric blues and vibrant reds is really spectacular and makes King stand out pretty good and at the same time, matches the character perfectly. Its a shame tough the background comes divided in two, soo you will always have an anoying division just ain the middle. Oh well, it was the same with Rashid background.

I got the feeling this figure would be my favorite thing in the world a few years ago, before Storm release theyr own King. I hate compare them, specially because this guy is half the price of the Storm one but not only this guy is shorter, but the materials dosnt feel as good and the lakc of accesorys is really odd.

Plus that cape...i really suffered taking this picture thanks to the cape. Make it with fabric would have fixed it or soft plastic, but the cape really ruins the overall experience of this figure and thats odd given how small it is.

But aside of that, articulations are brillant, sculpt and paint are magnifisscent and this is the most festive and spectacular King we seen soo far soo its imposible for me not liking him. I guess the more Kings we get, the better and it dosnt mather the sacle or price, its imposible to go wrong with King. Problem is, now i dont know if i should get Nina, Jin and Kazuya as well....

DRACULA

 Its pretty odd to give closure to a collection in an unconsiou way and then, years later reopen it, feels odd but is not that rare while collecting toys, specially vintage. At the end of the 90s Sideshow Toys make they debut releasing the Universal Monsters action figures, the very first time we got articulated figures of this characters but also the very first time we had the linkness of the actors as well, figures 100% faithfull to the characters on the screen, in a big scale and with museum quality sculpt and paint. This Sideshow Universal Monsters figures where the gem in the crowd in the horror collectors from back then.

Sideshow released 5 series with 3 figures each but somehow, the last series was exclusive to theyr web, and back in 2001 it wasnt as easy online shoping as it is today, soo series 5 was extremelly rare and had a very low production and one of the figures it included was Dracula, one of the most basic character of the collection. Soo for 25 years i literally seen Dracula pop up rarely online at 200$-500$ prices but last weekend, i finally find him in retail price and brand new!!

I am not sure waths the scale of this figure since they are like half a head taller than a Storm or NECA figure soo ially for back then standars, they are twice the size a McFarlane figure from the 90s soo they have a really good presence in the shelves and the base deffinetly makes Dracula stand out even more, tough this guy cant stand on hiw own thanks to the sculpt on his legs, soo he needs the base all the time.

Articulations are very limited, like they used to be back then. He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists and waist and thats it, not articulation at all under the waist and the artiulations are all cut joints soo he can rotate his head to the sides, and his shoulders, bend his elbows a little bit but thats it, this Dracula is mosty an statue that can achive just a couple of poses.

And speaking of elbows, the other figures have an extremely rudimentary and basic articulation that ends breaking way too easy after 25 years but this Dracula tough have a double sided joint that makes the articulation much more sturdy. It was pretty good to see Sideshow Toys learn from theyr mistakes but too bad they implement this upgrade only with the very last of the figures.

Sculpted by Oluf W. Hartvigson and using the linkes of Bela Lugosi, the sculpt is really amazing. I mean, it cant be seen on the hotos i took, but theres wrinkles on his forehead. The attention to detail is really stuning, the shape of the face, the awkard smile and size of the nose, the bags under the eyes, this really captures Bela Lugosi face features completelly as well as his manierism.

He is thick, just like Lugosi back in the 1930s and the suit is pretty simple bu nicelly sculpted, specially n the arms and the leg that is bending because the wrinkles flows pretty good along side his body. The bow and the vest have a pretty rugged texture and the articulations on the elbows have sculpted the wrinkles of the suit soo it dosnt matter if you have his arms bend or not, the articulations will be always hidden!!

The paint is really simple but effective. While the whole suit is black it have some darker brushes in the wrinkles to make them stand out and the shoes are shiny black as well as the line on the side of his pants and the collar of the jacket and buttons. The handkerchief on his chest is white as wlel as the best and shirt under it but that makes the chain ont he vest stand out as well as the golden necklace with the red ribbon. Theres not a single drop of paint invading the black of the suit.

The skin tonse also have a pretty pale and natura looking color, with a pinks wash on his hands as well as his fingernail painted and the lips, eye bags and his face expression lines softly painted to look natural, but the best aprt are the eyes: deep electric blue with the pupil painted on them as well as a drop of white to emulate a shining. The paint jub here is extremelly exquisite from now day standars but back in the 2001 this level of quality was trully unreal.

The cape is made with real fabric and while the outtside is black, the inside is grey soo is reallya ccurate the the Lugosi outfit used in set and it holds on his neck with a black rope in front. While the rope is a little too rough looking it dosnt stand out too much and it does the job nicelly but i am afraid it got lose over the years. Also, while the cape is not wired but its a little thick for the scale and dosnt flow perfectly, the lenght of it is perfect to cover Dracula completelly.

Unlike the other Monsters in this collection that are mostly on museum pose, this figure is preposed to reproduce a particular scene of the movie; the very first time Dracula is on screen, with a candle in hand, inviting Renfield to come over and walk the stairs up to the insides of his castle soo aside of the soft smile and motion moving up the stars and the extended hand inviting, he also comes with the candelabra with the lit candle on top.

The sculpt is really good, with the shape of a spidery dragon like creature painted in golden and the candle have wax rolling down painted n dark grey with the flame on top in red. The sculpt and paint are really good tough it feels like a delicate accesory and fits perfectly on Dracula´s hand since he left hand have two fingers extended for it.

His other accesory is a vampire bat that can be conected to the stand with a trasnluscent hollow rod. The rod lack of color make it looks like is fliying around Dracula completin the look perfectly tough extra care should be used when posing it because it can be blocked by Dracula´s extended hand and cape. The bat itself is nicelly sculpted with a hairy texture and a latherish texture on the wings, painted n black with some blue hues on his wings and white fangs, but the overall design is extremelly silly since his body looks like a croquette and his wars are gigantic. It looks very cartoony but i am guessing this kind of bats are the ones they had in set? I dont remember...

and lasly, theres the base: a set of Dracula´s castle stairs for him to follow up along side a sign in front that reads "DRACULA . BELA LUGOSI . 1931" painted in brown on top of a black surface. The sign in front of this figures base gives them a very museum look and the stairs looks soo crazy realistic here!! The stony sculpt is amazing but the grey used to color them is fascinating since theres like 3 different greys and browns and some blues, all mixed together in a completelly natural look and that pretty stuning for a figures from 2001. It even feels cold to the tact.

This figures lack of articulation could feels really dated by now days standars but this collection in particular was pretty much the very best action figure representation of this characters for 20 years, until NECA came and managed to have the same quality of details but with lots of articulations, but even soo this particular Dracula stands out for other elements, like the pose and the stairs diorama.

Now i am missing only the Frankenstein monster tough i seen him multiple times over the years, i really need to get him since now with Dracula in my hands i really can complete this collection perfectly.

NOSFERATU ZODD

An update??!! Yhea!! At last!! Its been quiet sometime since the last entry but i knew a time like this will come eventually: its pretty difficult to justify the prices of figures and toys now days, specially since salary stays the same but i will try to update more often mixing new releases with old figures that has been with me for a long time because....yhea, this hobby is getting much more expensive each year, just like the subject of this entry.

For years i been filling the Good Smile Company survey asking them for one of my favorite Berserk characters in Figma shape: Zodd. And for years they have been ignoring me and they even clsoe theyr Berserk line long time ago but somehow, Bandai listened to me and finally added Zodd to theyr S.H. Figuarts line, a line that i have been ignoring for years. For years S.H.Figuarts has been avoiding all the series i like and been focused on Dragon Ball, Naruto, Avengers and overall mainstream shounen and comics until last year when they took the Berserk licence.

More Guts and Grffith variations in the same scale as the Figma´s and the little kids Schierke and Isidro, this last two tempt me since they are new characters but not my favorite and then then release Nosferatu Zodd on his human form!! I dont know waths the deal with this, it seems this figure is exclusive of the Premium Tamashi site, but this guy was way too expensive, almost twice as the rest of the S.H.Figuarts but i just bit the bullet and got him.

It is true his box is much bigger than the rest of the figures but he is not that huge at all since its perfecly in scale 1/12 soo he is a whole head taller than Guts and much more bulky but he fits perfectly with the Figma figures as well but unlike those, Zodd dont have a base but he dosnt need it since his balance is perfect and can stand on hiw own.

He is articulated on the head, neck, absi, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, thights, knes, ankles and half feet. Both the ehad and neck are ball jointed soo they have a HUGE range of movement to the sides and up and down and hair dosnt get in the way but the abs articulation barelly moves up and down soo it can be moved only to the sides, despite the belts and torso pieces being a totally independent sculpt, they are made with hard plastic.

The shoulders have two ball joints!! I never seen soo many before. Once conects with the torso and another ones conects with the biceps, with the shoulders covering them like some kind of cups.....but they leave a HUGE gap in top that makes the ball joints visible but not only that, the shoulder cups thingys are made with soft plastic, soo while they kinda move up and down around the ball joint, they dont let him move his shulders up too much. Very dissapointing.

Biceps rotate and elbows have double articulation, tough the inside of the elbows is sculpted following the arm shape and color and texture, soo this elbows not only bend pretty good but they are really well hiden. Totally different to those hideous whoulders. Wrists ball joints are big and move perfectly tough the ball dosnt fit too deep inside the hands and they tend to fall constantly but i guess thats much better than not be able to remove the hands at all.

The furry loincloth is made with soft plastic soo the legs have a lot of movement freedom as well as the thighs can rortate pretty good but the cut in here is extremelly evident and sometimes it leaves a gap betwen the muscles and the innder leg structure. Despite that this is much more eye pleasing than the shoulders.

Knes have double joints and the inside part is aslo sculpted followinf the same textre and color of the body, soo they articulations is etremelly well hidden. The feet ball joints works perfect and helps him balance himself perfectly and the half feet articulation is simple but works pretty good. Overall this Zodd have a big range of movement except on the torso and the shulders.

Pretty much every single thing Bandai has done is anime based soo there was some worry about the sculpt of a character like this but they did a greay job with Zodd in-human face features, from his thick nose to his small eyes with bumps instead of eyebrows, his wide jaw and pointy ear. The spiky hair looks and feels really good and even the scar on his forehead is sculpted.

The musculature build is perfect for him with some veins on his legs and arms to give him a natural look tough theres not much of a texture on his skin tough or the texture is extremelly low. His chest is really huge and have no nipples, just like Miura draws him and the hairy bits on his boots as well as his loincloth looks pretty good, tough i have my doubts if the loinclothe was this small...its barelly covering him.

The straps around his chest asnd belts looks nice but they have no texture at all but the best part is the demon head at the center, with the pointy horns. This peice is painted in silver paint as well as the metalic bits of spikes on his belts and straps and the red metalic eyes on the demon head stand out soo nicelly!!!

And while the troso underpiece is painted in metalic grey, the hairy sections as well as the belts have no paint at all soo they are cast just in dark and ligth brown. This makes them looks kinda cheap....i mean, giving a nice was of dakr colors could make the belts looks more like leather and the hairy loincloth and boots looks jost too clean. Actually his boots are just plain brown and looks unfinished.

Gladlly, the body paint is much better and detailed since his skin tone not only is correct, but it have a very soft wash that gives the muscles pretty natural shadows that makes them stand out, also areas like the knukles have a little bit of redish too that meks them looks very realistic. The hair is plain black tough the hair line is perfectly painted as well as the tusks coming out from his mouth and red vibrant eyes that have some black painted around them to make them stands out even more. The scar on his forehead is painted in ligth brown.

Aside of closed fists he comes with hands to hold his weapons and open hands shaped like claws. While the sculpt and paint is consistent on all of them and all of them are a little bit tricky to swap, the hands that hold items looks pretty toyish since they are the closed fists but with a big hole carved in the center.

Zodd also have two extra face plates: one with an angry look and another one screaming and while his standar neutral face plate looks angry enough, the  second face expression have a very nice sculpt around the nosee and mouth to give him a more scary look, with many more teeth in sight but my favorite is the sreaming face expression. The open mouth with pink gum and tongue and all those white fangs is just way too beautifully savage!! All face plates can be swaped pretty easy.

He also comes with two different sheaths for his machete/hatchet/monster sword thingy. One sheath have the weapon inside and anotehr is empty, of course for the moment when the figure actually have the weapon in hand. This could have been solved giving him an actual sheath for the weapon but i guess this is effective as well. Both have a very good leatherish texture but they have no paint at all and looks incrediblly clean. Both can be attached pretty easy to a side belt than hangs close to his leg and both are pretty anoying while posing him.

This apostle also comes with his only two weapons: and actual axe and a giant machete/hatchet/monster sword thingy....i am not sure wath the name of thsi weapon because is huge, pretty brutal and oddly shaped with spikes on one side and a hook at the other but the blade is soo incredible wide. I dont remeber if the manga mention its name tough but i have to check that out later.

The little ball at the end of the handle can be removed soo the weapon fits on Zodd hands while the head of the axe con be completelly removed for the stick to fit on the hand pretty easy. While the sculpt is very good on both of them (the odd looking blade have a lot of scratches, identations and marks of being used) the pain is just EXTREMELLY simple...the handle have yellowish bandgaes while the blade have only silver paint and nothing more. The axe is the same, silver paint with brown on the hanle and looks way too cheap, almost like a Kenner or Hasbro weapon accesory. Even if this is based on an anime, a little rust or dirt or even dry blood would helped to make this weapons much more credible.

Then its his worst concibable accesory: an extra set of crossed arms. Remove the normal articulated arms and put the crossed arms in place, inserting the two ball joint pegs into the holes on the arms and you are done. The sculpt of the arms is really good as well as the paint and the end result is very good looking (tough llimiting deffinetly) but while this works in theory, in practice it dosnt. The removal of the arms is not as easy as it sounds and insert the two pegs in the crossed arms is just imposible since the ball joints keep moving around soo in the end the arms are just inserted in only one peg. Put back the articulated arms without breaking the shoulder cups is HELLISH!!! Very very difficult and tricky and in the end, the ball joints gote more lose after changing the arms once. Not only this proces is time consuming, but i feelt the price to do it and the resk are way too high just to have Zodd with his arms crossed.

And to compensate, his very best accesory ever: his furry cape!! This little cape is the skin of a wolf soo its made with real hair and have tiny paws hanging in front!! This little paws are soo damn cute!! The brown hair is short and very soft and the cape is wired soo you cna pose the little arms around as well as the cape part in the back. In order to use it the head of Zodd mist be removed but the proces is pretty easy, tough the fluffy hair cover his entire neck and sometimes his face as well, a price worth paying for such a cute accesory.

Lastly, i am not sure if this is an accesory or not, but the back of the blister have a kinf os carboard poster with Miura´s artowkr on it mixed with manga panels. It feels like some kind of background, like the Storm figures, but it deffinetly is not since it canot stand. I feel its more like something that cna be framed in hang the wall.

I am not sure if my love for Zodd makes me too forgiving of the flaws of this figure or if it makes me too picky and see mistakes that are not very important. I find some of the paint lacking and looking too cartoony but truth be told, the Figma figures dosnt have oto much textur eor paint details aside of the God Hand.

The engineering of the arms is terrible!!! but soo is the heavy and huge cape of Berserk armor Guts that hold onto a small peg, the stiff wings of Femto or the transformation of Void from a statue to an action figure. It seems Berserk figures always have some kind of design issue thath makes them not very fun to play with. But still.....i cant forget those ugly looking and not working shoulders.

This guy dosnt feel as premium as Figma somehow but in the end, he pretty much fits into ther quality style and scale perfectly and i guess thats the most important part for me. He should be more than perfect with the price i pay for him tough.....but i would never regret getting the only existing action figure of Zodd to pair him with his apostle version. I dont know if i will get Schierke or Isidro tough but i will deffinetly get any other apostle from Bandai.

GOLDEN KAMUY PUCHIRAMA DX STENKA

 Once upon a time anime was unlike anything we ever seen with a visual quality hard to belive as well as characters and storys imposible not to love and care as well as a quirky humor and no shame on show violence or even sexuality. Somehow only that last part remain and anime turned into a lolicon slop with repeated themes and formulas (called isekai). Tough theres still some corners where anime is reminiscent of old gloris like City Hunter or Fist of the North Star, and one of those gems is Golden Kamuy.

Golden Kamuy not only have crazy expresive characters (again, reminiscent of XX century anime with an almost "Fleischer" or "Tex Avery" style) but also manages to be extremelly serious and dramatic while being ridiculous and fesity all by teaching a history lesson of Japan most darker corners and sheed light into the Ainu in a way no other work has it done. Plus its just as violent and wild like Saint Seiya or Ashita no Joe and is just as manly as well, avoiding completelly the sexualization of little girls like most anime do.

I cant really recomend enough Golden Kamuy - specially the manga - to those who wants wants to be entertained as well as get knowledge by doing it. It really a very special series to lok up but somehow it dosnt have too much merch in the figures department aside of a couple of very expensive statues and a bunch of overpriced Nendroids.

Soo yhea, i love this anime but i dont really have a collection for it until now, that Megahouse released theyr "Puchirama DX" based on Golden Kamuy. Waths a Puchirama DX you can ask? I have no idea but it seems they are a collection of small busts focused on shonen and seinen animes, like Naruto, DragonBall or One Piece. They have a very spectacular design but in small scale and more cheaper than Nendroids soo when they shown a Golden Kamuy one i was sure to pre-order it last year.

Soo this is a statue, a static sculture with no articulations or accesorys and give it size is a little heavy since its not a really big piece. The characters are in scale with standar action figures like NECA or Storm but given they are only from the waist up, this figure is half size of all those action figures.

I really wish it was bigger but i guess the low price and size are the selling points in here. 

The scene have not only one character but four, another of the selling point of this thing: Sugimoto Saichi in the front with Koito Otonashi on his rigth, Tsukishima Hajime on his left and Tanigaki Genjurou on the back, all together in a wodden structure and the logo in the front.

The wodden structure is totally broken in the back and have some bandages hanging around tough while the texture is very good, theres not much paint here soo the wodden looks pretty clean and very "anime". The Golden Kamuy logo in the front is painted in golden paint on top of a black sculpt soo it stands out pretty nicelly.

Sugimoto is launching a frontal punch and sporting his jacket hanging from hisshoulders and his military hat. The sculpt on his is terrific!! The musculature structure as well as the twist on his hips are very realstic and the scars of cuts and bullets are all sculpted. While the jacket is plain dark blue with no other paint added, his skin have a lot of shading for each of his muscles to stand out. The scars are also painted in darker brown but the bullets holes are not painted.

His face expression is really fierce with each of Sugimoto´s scars sculpted tough it is shadowed by his hat a little bit. The yellow details and silver star on his hat are perfectly painted just like the inside of  his mouth and scars but more specially, his eyes. The eyes looks amazing specially for th small scale.

Tsukishima on the rigth is shirtless and in a battle stance more comtempted thatn Sugimoto with his serius expression of always. Hes skin color is more pale than Sugimoto tough the scars of bullets and cuts are pretty similar to Sugimoto´s, sculpted and painted in a dark tone, he also have the same darker brush aplied to his muscles to give them shadows. 

His buzz cut hair is painted in a dark brown while the stubble and lines under his eyes as well as the mouth are painted with a black line in a very anime fashion, his eyes are allso magnifically painted tough theyr shape and looks are very different to thsoe of Sugimoto´s.

Koito is at the other side in the most restrained pose of them all, with the arms crossed in front of his chest in a very manly way and his jacket hangingfrom his shoulders. The military green jacket is pretty clean and have no details painted beyond the red lines and silver stars and Koito skin colr is the darker of them all tough i dont think he have the ssame brush of shadows the other two guys have since his skin color looks pretty clean.

The pectorals and abs are very good looking and his face expression is very stoic. While his body is the most clean of them all, his eyes are also very good painted and looks different to the rest of the men in here. His hair is in the same dark blue as his pants or Sugimoto´s jacket and for me this is the character i like less in this sculpture. I really would liked more to have Ogata.

And finally in the back is Tanigaki Genjorou, my favorite character and the one that stands out more since he is sculpted to the knees to stand taller than the rest and have the most powerfull pose of them all with the open arms and his chest puffed out. 

The muscles are amazing and perfect and i am not talking just about the front since his back side is perfectly visible and as detailed as the front. He also have an amazing ass even covered by his pants and the planks. His skin color is darker than Sugimoto´s and Tsukishima´s but is ligther than Koito and while he dosnt  have the same brush to give shadow to his muscles as the first two, he have each hair of his hary torso painted.

His expression is fierce. The buzz cut hair is black and they also painted the scar onunder his eye. I love his stubble and his bushy eye brows and his eyes. I really cant lie, this guy was my main reason to buy this statue.

Again, my only complaing here is the size. This figure is really small but i guess thats also a plus for storage space. It dosnt have too much of a presence with other figures but all alone, in the shelf and with the Golden Kamuy mangas it looks as a fantastic display. Even soo, i am still waiting for more Golden Kamuy collectibles to have since i would like this series to have a bigger presence in my collection.