DEVILMAN LADY VIOLENCE

Back in 2000, when Devilman was extremelly popular, Kaiyodo released many figures of the character that i am not entirelly aware of, tough the only ones i got was theyr cute named "Violence Action Figure" series that only consisted on two characters: Devilman and Devilman Lady.

While Devilman was pretty close to the original design tough he had a weird color, Devilman Lady is totally different to Go Nagai´s original design. Her face is extremelly feral looking, almost like a werewolf tough she is using beauty make up. Also her wings are huge and shaped differently (both in her head and back side).

She is on the same scale as Devilman but inlike him, she cant stand on her own at all soo they decided to give her an accesory: a base. This base dosnt work too much actually since she likes to fall back even with it, but insted of using a totally generic base they decided to sculpt it like a monster. The monster - or demon, looks like a green manhog with his arm extended to the front while Devilman Lady stand on his shoulder.

The arm of the creature can be removed and show a bone and a blody hole on its place while Lady hold the ripped away arm on her hand proudlly. This base is really good looking for the display tough, like i said, is totally usless.

And just like Devilman, Lady have an extremelly odd color choice that makes her look totally different to the original design. She is cast in transluscent plastic with her body bainted on a nacar white?? Or metalic white? I am not sure how to describe it, but this color make her looks like some kind of statue in a museum or a goodes with the skin of a pearl.

Her fur is purple and her wings have a mix of both colors. I find this purple to give her a very strong femenine wuality and with the plastic texture, the purple kinda shines given her a pretty strange look.

She is articulated on the neck shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, ankles and knees and while this articulations work good and are very simple, theres not many options to pose her thanks to the sculpt. She is deffinetly much more limited than Devilman and the fact her wings are not removable makes it worst.

I am not sure wath to think about this figure tough, at first i really hated her because how different she looks, but rigth now i can see she have some beautifull quality i didns see before, tough the lack of balance and limited poseability really blows.