AKIRA FUDO

Series one of the Fewture Model Devilman action figures series was finished and build up a cool collection of monsters with pretty similar features and sizes and some of the most important characters of the manga. Series two tough wanted something different: a series of minor characters with a lot of differences in body types and species as well as the addition of “action features” (pretty normal back then) and a big upgrade in both sculpture and articulations.

The opening piece for this so called DEVILMAN - MORE THAN DEMON series was the protagonist on his human form, Akira Fudo. Is actually weird Akira wasnt added to series one tough since he is one of the most important characters.

Yasushi Nirasawa´s design over Akira rejected all 70s flaor and style and gives him a pretty modern japanese punk style: big boots, tigth leather pants, chains, tattos and shirtles, this Akira looks way too much like a japanese punk boy from the late 90s.

For me is hard to identify Akira with this style, tough i guess it makes sence for the 2000s and he keep some of his trademark design details, like the scars on his pecs or the fangs. I am not sure i like the glam black lipstick tough, but the fangs, piercing eyes and black hair makes him looks a lot like a werewolf boy.

This time around, his torso is cast on a skin tone plastic with a pretty soft transparency. This gives to his skin a pretty realistic and clean look and along with his chains made with real metal, gives him a pretty luxury and high quality look back then.

The muscles are nicelly sculpted and i have to admit, while i dont like men this skinny, he is pretty sexy looking with the softly painted nipples, chains and tattos, and his open pants makes him very erotic looking.

He is articulated on the head, shoulders and wrists, soo theres not a lot of options to play with poses in here. He is very static, tough he can stand on his own perfectly but comes with a pretty cool looking base. This series two base have the shape of a coin, with a very nice and gothic design and Akia´s name written in demonic language.

Given hos small he is (half the size of the other characters), he comes with accesorys, aside of his base he also have the demon skull mask cast in transluscent plastic. The mask thingy fist perfectly on his head and dosnt straigh too far from Go Nagai´s design.

His other accesory is part of his “action feature”: an extra head. Now day figures comes with lots of heads, extra faces and hands. Back then, a figure with an extra head was something pretty rare and a novelty.

This head´s only difference is on his hair, taking the shape of wings. We could say this is Akira just about to turn into Devilman and gives him an extra pitn by displaying him along side his full transformed Devilman form (looks good with both normal and Winged versions).

Overall, this Akira is very good if a little too hard to link to Go Nagai´s character thanks to his modern design, but to be honest i find him one of the most boring figures of the collection. I am actually glad he was the first in series two since i saw A LOT of this guy in stores over the years and i even took my sweet time to get him.