AKIRA FUDO

I admit i love the Fewture Models toy line of Devilman and i am not the only one who does it because is the most popular line thanks to its awe inspiring design, high quality and amount of characters. But theres a lot of Devilman toy lines aside of Fewture and the most special and amazing one of the one made by Marmit.

I dont know much about Marmit, i think it was focused on soft vynil toys and kaiju figures back in the 70s-90s and theres not a whole lot of information about the company. I am not even sure if it still exists but theyr Devilman figures made a big impression on me for sure. They line is called "Dynamic Action Figures" and they are the oppossite to Fewture: While Fewture line used dark and grotesque designs, Marmit used the character design from Go Nagai´s manga, soo this figures are the most faithfull representation of the characters.

I dont know how old this figures are but they look and felt ancient, wich deffinetly suits the Devilman pretty good. My guess is they come from the 80s-90s since the card in theyr blisters dosnt have any date and they are actually very difficult to find by now.

The first figure on the series is the protagonist of course!! Akira Fudo. He is small, the same size action figures had back in the begining of the 90s, a little bit smaller than a Figma/S.H.Figuarts and thanks good, he can stand on his own. The plastic he is made of dosnt seem too high quality, it felt like old vynil maybe? and his articulations are the basics from back then: head, shoulders and legs and nothing more and legs articulation is useless since he cant stand if his legs are moved.

This guy is not bad quality at all, he is just a product of his time and both the sculpt and color are pretty good. The shape of his hair, his face expression, his body build, everything is an exact copy of Go Nagai´s manga drawwings wich is pretty amazing considering how difficult is to sculpt such cartoony style.

The paint is very limited of course, only his head and amrs and shoes and thats it, but the color have cealn applications and its simplisity helps give him a 70s cartoon look. He is not missing details tough, the pockets on his pants are sculpted and the border of his shirt and other tiny details.

He have only one single accesory: an exact replica of the demon mask as drawn by Nagai on the manga. The sculpt is sharp and clean tough the mask is made of white plastic instead of ransluscent and the mouth is covered, also it fits pretty tigth on Akira,s head soo i dont want to play too much with it.

Overall this is extremelly diffierent to the Akira of Fewture Models, he is smaller and much more simplistic yet  much more faithfull to the character and have a pretty special charm that fits perfectly to the 70s manga. Like the Kenner Ghostbusters or the old Star Wars toys.