ARCHER

I remember my visit to the Expo Geek years ago and hos dissapointing it was tough the most relevant about that day was the arrival of my very first Figma. I never felt interest on Figma before that day since the figures were pretty small and mostly showcasing lots of underage girls and lolis, but that one that change my opinion that day as Archer from Fate/Stay Night.

I remember how much i was impressed with the box and the presentation of the figure and since Archer has been my husbando for 18 years already, i was very happy wit this figure.

He is a little bit smaller than Lancer for some reason tough he fits perfectly with all other Figmas and he can stand on his own erfectly despite the heavy outfit tough the Figma base is included and works wonderfull along the little plastic bag for his accesorys.

His sculpt is amazing, his face shape, eyes, hair, everything perfectly matches the Fate art. One would say its easy since he is a pretty much standar "anime" character, yes he is kinda simplistic but over the years i seen lots of figures of Archer and most of them dosnt looks like him. Really, for such a simple design, they always screw him, even the expensive Medicom 1/6 scale figure dosnt looks too much like him.

His body shape is muscly and athletic, with lots of curves and no matter the pose, he looks sexy always. The color application is perfect and extremelly clean and brigth, perfect for an anime character like him and his face details are perfectly painted.

He is fully articulated on the head, chest, waist, legs, tigths, knes, ankles, feet, shoulders, elbows, wrists and incude two articulations on the tails of his outfit. All this articulations works perfectly and have a huge range of movement and are strong enough to hold the poses. The red shoulder piece as well as the red piece on his waist are made with soft material soo they dont get in the way.

The tail thingys looks really spectacular and can be posed perfectly but they looks awkard in a statis pose, specially from behind tince the waist piece dosnt keeps the flow. A little odd detail tough most fellows will pose the tails fliying around soo i am OK with that.

He comes with lots of hands as well as two gace plates; one stoic and another one shouting. Both looks awesome and are easy to tsntall tough the screaming one have his eyes looking at his rigth side and, while i apreciate how expresive they are, that limit the display options. Also the hands are a little tricky to exchange thanks to the ovall thingys at the end of his sleeves.

He have his two extremelly good looking swords to use as well as his huge bow and gigantic arrow. The bow is really spectacular and fitting (since he is an archer) but put it on his hand is really difficult and the weapon is soo thing....i am afraid is extremellt delicate. The arrow have awesome details and paint but it gets on the way thanks to its size.

Soo the big winners here are the swords. Not only have an insanely cool design and paint, but they works perfect for him and are a lot of fun to play with.

Really, it was with this figure were i finally notice how good are the Figma figures, i was soo impresed with this guy, he was soo perfect and he is still perfect after soo many years to the point i feel i dont need any other Archer figure.