JUN KAZAMA

After 3 pretty awesome serires of figures of Tekken 3 i was actually expecting a 4th serires tough the blister didnt anounce anything like that in serires 3. Instead, Epoch restarted the collection based on Tekken Tag Tournament and changed the figures a lot.

Still sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and in scale 1/10, the line included Kazuya Mishima, Lei Wulong, Eddy Gordo and Jun Kazama, but sadly this serires was very rare and i was never able to see them more than a couple of times. I really wanted Kazuya but istead i only got Jun Kazama.

Jun is thing....really tiny figure...as small and Xiaoyu but without the fluffy outfit, she is pretty light and delicate and can stand on her own tough they also included a base, but this time the base didnt had the Tekken logo and only had a piece of rocky floor with a black arm to hold the figure. I lost the arm at some point but Jun can stand on her own soo i am not worryed.

If the Tekken 3 character were mostly statues, Jun is fully articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles and this is the biggest change deffinetly. She have a huge pose range but....all articulations are cut joints, soo they only move in one direction and this mean you need to rotate her elbows 180° to simulate bent elbows. Her legs have the same system soo its really tricky to give her a nice looking pose....she cant even close her legs at all...

The sculpt is good like always, with her face looking really delicate and femenine, with the ribbon on her hair and her short and vest, her outfit is really simple and overall...she is kinda simple looking too...i mean, compared to the Tekken 3 characters.

The paint is totally clean, specially on her face and this time around the strands of hair on her forehead are not slopy at all. Her outfit is a very pale blue, wich makes her looks almost totally white and the only strong colors in here are her black hair and a red handkierchef on the pocket of her chest.

Her accesorys are 3 extra hands: two open hands and one pointing hand that can be exchanged really easy and help to imporve her look. The ther accesoryes are a pair of bent legs. Yes..this is soo weird but she have a extra pair of legs that can be exchanged in the knes section. Its easy to do it but is not easy to pose this legs correctly to make her stand.

It seems Epoch was really aming for dynamic posing with this lasts erires of Tekken, but the complex articulation system was a big let down for me and kinda makes her looks like a robot. She is pretty for sure and for years this was the only Jun figure on the market, but the Play Arts Kai really surpassed this figure on all sences.

KING

At the end of the last century, when videogames started to change into something more cinematic, we also got a huge wave of figures based on game characters. One of the most active brand was Epoch, dedicated mostly to fighing games they released a pretty long and succesfull line for Tekken, a line that is until now the most complete one.

Series 3 opened with Hwoarang and Anna Williams and closed with King and Forest Law, but King was my favorite by a long shot, he is one of my favorite figures of the series rivaling with Anna Williams. The "Anger of Beast" King is sculpted again by Hiroki Hayashi and is on scale 1/10 and he is actually the tallest and bulkyest figure of the entire collection, he is really heavy as well, a huge hunk of plastic.

He can stand on his own perfectly and again, he have limited articulation in very specific points: right shoulder, ebow and wrist, left bicep and wrist, waist and both knes and thats it and is sculpted on a single pose but with the help of this articulations he can achive a couple of different poses as well.

The sculpt is really really good, his musculature is soo amazing and impresive, Hiroki Hayashi really knows about anatomy both male and female and he shows it here. Animal anatomy is also included here thanks to the leopard mask and the boots have a lot of intrincate details, even a cat paw the shoe sole.

The fur texture is well done and is also included in the tail. They give him his tail!! It can be removed with a peg and a hole on his ass but it can rotate too soo is included in the articulation department.

The paint on his outfit is very simple and clean and most of the paint work is on his musculature, different tones of brown and pink to high light his already impresive body and looks really really good since his skin tone is softly brown. The leopard pattern on the mask is good tough for some reason the fangs are not painted and this is the only inconvinient.

Aside of the traditional black with logo base all Tekken characters have, he also comes with an extra set of hands, a closed fist and a thumbs up fist (or thumbs down), bot hands can be exchanged pretty easy and the third and last accesory is the wrestling champion belt made with soft plastic. The sculpt on the big coin belt have an eagle with a crown and is painted in golden and since the plastic is soft, it can be wrapped around King´s waist.

I was pretty happy with this figure and 20 years later i am still happy with him since he is one of the coolest and best looking figures of the series and this is pretty much the only action figure of King. Forest Law didnt looked bad at all but for some reason i didnt buy him soo this one was the close piece for the series for me.

ANNA WILLIAMS

At the begining of the century Epoch was on a wave of release with many obscure toys lines and a lot based on videogames, but theyr longest line was Tekken for sure and theyr serires 3 was really impresive. It took them a long time but they finally released my favorite female from Tekken, Anna Williams.

The "Lightning Scarlet", Anna Williams is sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and in scale 1/10, pretty much the same scale as her sister Nina. but unlike her, Anna can stand on her own perfectly and is not on a battle stance, instead she have a pretty sensual and fluid pose, perfectly for her and her beautifull red dress.

She is articulated on her head, long gloves and waits soo she is the more statuesque of the entire line. Galdly, her pose have enough attitud and personality to not make her look stiff, quiet the opposite. The sculpt is really good, with a very realistic anatomy and some sculpted designs on her chest, her face is really beautifull and her bob haircut is longer than how she use it now.

The paint is really good, with some soft golden shines on her brown hair and metalic golden tones in the inside of her dress, her dress is vibrant and have some black details tough the best part is the bird on its rigth side. I really wish the Kotobukiya statue had this level of detailing on the dress. My only complaign is her eyebrows, for some reason they are mostly blonde.

Her accesoryes aside of her black base with the lego are a bunch of weapons and an extra arm to hold them, just like Nina. The arm can be exchanged much more easy than Nina´s and like her, Anna comes with a gun and two knifes: a machine gun, a sword and a huge knife that looks like a saw. Is like the same arsenal of Nina but much more hardcore.

Is weird giving Anna such weapons since she never use them on the game but they looks really good on her and make sense given we even see her using a rocket launcher. Overall, this is one of my favorite figures from the series, not only this is the only action figure of Anna but she is exceptionally good looking.

HWOARANG

It was the 2000 when we got a huge wave of videogame action figures like Final Fnatasy VIII, Resident Evil, Crahs Bandicot, Tomb Raider as well as Tekken from the japanese brand Epoch. It was like we were actually going to get every Tekken 3 character back then, even those characters that were not playable (like Devil Jin).

Serires 3 started with the "Blood Talon" Hwoarang, Jin´s eternal rival. Sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and in 1/10 scale, Hwoarang is the same size as Jin and can stand on his own perfectly and is articulated on the neck, waits, left shoulder, rigth elbow and left wrist.

And unlike the characters in the first serires, the figures from serires 3 are sculpted in a more casual pose, not battle stance. Hwoarang is standing calling someone in front of him, mostly Jin i guess because they loosk really good one in front of the other, with Jin ready to battle and Hwoarang calling him with a smirk.

The relaxed pose dosnt make him easyer to move around tough since thanks to the limited articulations (one arm can move, the other cannot) he looks kinda stiff in most poses aside of the basic one. He is not using his Tae Kwan Do outfit but his more complex motorcycle outfit with boots, chaps, jeans and a tigth and very sesy short and his goggles on his forehead.

The sculpt is good, with a very sexy musculature and a lot of fine details on his gloves and hair, his face is very simple but expresive (he is very simple on the game too) and the paint match the sculpt really nicelly. There is not slopynes in here at all, every section is perfecly painted and clean with his chaps even having a blue paint deco that makes them looks like used leather.

The skull on his back is also really good looking, such a cool design! But the best part is his head, or more preciselly, his hair. The paint on his hair is really vibrant and full of different tones, reds and orange to make shine a really good sculpt.

Aside of his black base with the Tekken 3 logo, Howarang also comes with the King of Iron Fist Tournament trophy since he was the winner of the thrid tournament, a pretty ugly thing with Heihachi´s grining head on it painted in golden. The other accesory is an electric guitar that we never saw on the game but fits him perfectly Is kinda difficult to make him hold it naturally (i cannot be done actually) but the guitar have a black rubber band soo it can rest on Hwoarang´s back or shoulder.

While i am not sure wath to think about the change of pose, it was evident Epoch wanted to expand the serires to something else by adding more accesoryes and articulations and while this is not the best figure of the series, is still the only action figure of Hwoarang.

DEVIL JIN

After a succesfull serires 1 of Tekken action figures, Epoch closelly followed with a second serires based on Tekken 3. Back then it was very exciting to see soo many toys based on videogames like resident Evil, Tomb Raider and Street Figther soo Tekken added some changes to serires two to add more excitment.

The serires two opened with Heihachi Mishima and Yoshimitsu and despite the cool design Yoshimitsu had back then, i wasnt too much of a fan of both characters at all. But the next two figures were something else, laveled as "SPECIAL" editions they were monsters, bigger, more expensive and rare to find: True Ogre and Devil Jin. I was never able to get the final boss of Tekken 3 but i was able to find Devil Jin later....like...10 years later or more...

Still sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and in scale 1/10, Devil Jin is the same size the regular Jin Kazama but looked damn spectacular and epic thanks to his huge wings. He is articulated on his neck, shoulders, gloves and legs as well as a middle articulation on his wings wich can be removed thanks to a peg system.

This character wasnt on Tekken 3 at all, he actually was only on Jin´s ending video soo he dosnt have an actual battle pose to match the other characters and this helps him to be a little bit more dynamic tough he is still hunched. And they didnt use any parts of the very first Jin figure, he is a totally new sculpt and have a totally different musculature to match this new pose.

Also, this time his body is cast on flesh color plastic soo hhis skin looks more natural with some ligth shadows and tones to help. The paint is perfect this time, with no slopynes anywhere, his 3 red eyes, the strands of hair, his tattoe on the chest, pretty much everyting is perfectly nd clean painted and while his wings have no paint at all, they have a pretty nice feather sculpt.

He has no accesoryes at all but only the black base with the logo on it but this time around, the base is not enough thanks to his pose and how heavy are his wings, he keeps falling back over and over again. I think this is the only issue i have with this figure, the lack of stability.

This is deffinetly one of the most spectacular looking Tekken figures and like most character, the only one of this character. I wish i had True Ogre as well but i am very happy with this Devil Jin and this guy really uped the hype for serires 3.

LING XIAOYU

Epoch was a japanese toys manufacturer that made figures of a lot of very obscure japanese serires (like Vampire Hunter D) but also made the very first figures of fighting game characters and theyr logest line was for sure Tekken. Sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and in 1/10 scale the figures were really good looking and cool back then.

Series one started with Jin and Nina and closed with Paul and Xiaoyu. I regret not getting Paul since he is one of my husbandos by now, but i got Ling Xiaoyu instead. I really love how Epoch was soo aware of scale because Xiaoyu is soo small compared to the other characters, soo small and stocky and like the other figures, she is only articulated on the neck, shulders and legs.

She is on her ready to battle pose, to fit the rest of the characters, looking to the rigth and thanks to the position of her arms is mor difficult to achive a different and natural pose aside of the battle stance. She was soo different back then....with the poffy pants and big yellow ribbon on her back, thanks to her piffy tails and face sculpt she looks like a little chinese girls intead of a super model...like she looks now.

The colors are pretty brigth but kinda sloppy in some parts, like the strands of hair and yellow details tough her face looks perfect, with very childish looking eyes, very different to Nina´s. But my favorite detailing is the rabbit on her back, She was soo cute back then.

Thanks to the position of her feet, she cant stand on her own soo the oval black base with the Tekken 3 logo is vital in here, but she comes with another accesory as well: Panda. A really tiny figurine of Panda standing in a kind of chibi style. This little figure is a nice addition i guess but dosnt fit too well with her and the other characters.

She was the last figure of serires one and like the rest of the characters, this is the only action figure of her in existance. Series two was much more rare and come with many difference over serires one but i was only able to get one of them.

NINA WILLIAMS

In 1998, the japanese brand Epoch (i wonder wath happened to them??) released the very first action figure line of Tekken, a line that is for now the most complete line as well. This line was also one of the very first figures based on fight game characters, along Street Fighter from Resaurus, and it was extremelly cool display them all together close to the TV and Playstation.

The frst figure was Jin Kazama and the second was the "Silent Assassin" Nina Williams, the poster girl from Tekken. In scale 1/10 and sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi she is a little bit shorter than Jin, and this was one of the best part of this line, but unlike Jin, Nina can stand on her own at all thanks to her high heels.

Just like Jin, she is in her battle ready pose, looking to the rigth and the silhouette match perfectly to the character model of the game. I specially like her muscle arms and how her boobs are not huge like with the Kotobukiya. Her anatomy is actually very realistic.

The sculpt is good just like with Jin, tough sculpting her hair and other clothe sections could give her a more 3D look, her face is still pretty considering her size. She is articulated on the neck, shoulders and legs, wich gives her an extremelly basic movement range and makes her almost a statue.

The paint is good, specially on her face, she got really fine details on her blue eyes and lips and i like a lot how her hair is not yellow, but metalic golden. Another detail i like is the pink paint on her fingernails and division between her fingers.

The black paint on her outfit is not that good tough since some black invades her skin sadly and theres no shades or texture on it. But my favorite part is her outfit, she is not using that ridiculous and wacky purple sadomasochistic outfit, but a very casual and cool costume with high heels, leather pants, a top and a red leopard vest. The fashion for Tekken was very different back then.

Unlike Jin, she is actually loeaded with accesoryes wich is pretty weird. Aside of her very basic and important base with the Tekken 3 logo (she cant stand without it) she comes with an extra arm with a hand to hold accesoryes. This arm is actually very difficult to change and only exchanged it twice since i fear the peg could broke any moment.

She also have a pistol and two silver kinfes, all this weapons can be hold with her extra arm and it makes sence since she is an assassin, she actually looks good holding them but is weird because in the game she never use such weapons...

And just like Jin, this is the only Nina action figure to date, and pretty much the only one dressed like a normal woman as well. The next figure in the like was Paul Phoenix but sadly, i didnt get him.

JIN KAZAMA

Turning back in time, to the last years of the last century, it was a pretty interesting moment for both toys and videogames. One of the main reasons to own a Playstation was Tekken 3, a game soo brillant it was hard to belive and with all that popularity the toys came from Epoch, a weird japanese toy makes speciallised on fighting game characters like Samurai Shodown or Guilty Gear.

They Tekken 3 line not only was the very first time Tekken had toys, but also is the most complete line until now since they released several characters. The very first figure i got was Jin Kazama, my main husbando from back then, it goes without saying that i really really loved this figure.

Named "Fatal Lightning" on the blister, Jin was sculpted by Hiroki Hayashi and is on scale 1/10 soo he is taller than Figmas, mostly the standar scale figures had back then and he can stand on his own perfectly. Jin have pretty basic articulations, only ct joints on his head, shoulders and legs and nothing else.

Soo he is almost an statue, sculpted on his "ready to figth" pose wich was - again - the standar from back then since complex articulations were only for larger scale figures. With the shoulder and neck articualtions you can achive a couple of extra poses but nothing else. Gladlly the pose is not bad at all since pretty much looks like the character model of the game but much more detailed.

The sculpt is really good, the anatomy of the muscles in front and back the arms, is really beautifull as well as the face and hair, the silhouette is pefect for Jin,s character model (something Namco forgeted in Takken 5) tough sections like the white cord on his pants os the strands of hair on his forehead are sculpted directly on his head and pants wich makes it looks a little plain.

The paint if nice too since theres a couple of places with slopy paint (like the black of his hair mixing with his skin on his forehead tough most of the paint is really good, like the tatto on his shoulder or his eyes and lips and the vibrant look on his gloves and fiery pants. The entire figure is painted soo this gives to his skin a kind of "toy" look since dosnt looks very natural despite all the soft shades and shadows it have.

He has no accesoryes except of an oval black base with the Tekken 3 logo on it. Jin dosnt need it but the base makes the figure looks much better and elegant. All other figures from Epoch have bases with no logo (like Haomaru) soo the personaliced base is apreciated.

And after 23 years this soo far...the only Jin Kazama action figure to ever exist, wich makes it extra special.

JUN KAZAMA

When the SquareEnix Play Arts Kai line was on its hightest point, before they started to release Marvel and DC stuff like crazy and theyr prices were kind of fair, they focused mostly on videogame characters and aside of Street Fighter they also made a Tekkn Tag Tournament 2 line (with a pretty nice looking box). And they started with a classic couple from Tekken 2: Kazuya and Jun.

Jun Kazama is much shorter than Kazuya and the same size of Ryu and she can stand on her own perfectly (this was a surprise) despite her feet being smaller than Kazuya but she still comes with the anoying Hexastand all PAKs had, a base that sometimes worked and some other times it didnt thanks to the awkard shape and arm.

Jun is fully articulated on the neck, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, boobs, waist, legs, knws and ankles as well as the shawl. Yes, her shawl is articulated and made with different pieces instead of only one piece, soo she can have total freedom on her shoulders movement. And this is the strongest point of this figure, thanks to the ball joints and simple design and, like Kazuya, her figther nature, she have an unlimited posibilitys for poses and can adopt any of the action she shows on the game.

Like Kazuya, she is entirelly made with hard plastic except her hip piece and shawl but the hard plastic on the pants block the ankles movement a little bit. Desite the material she is much more light weigth than Kazuya thanks to her small frame.

She dosnt have any of the "skin texture" Kazuya have soo her skin is really smooth looking giving her a better look than her partner. Her face is just beautifull, with the glosy and vibrant pink lips and perfect looking eyes with a soft and peaceful expression and the strads of hair covering them, Square did an awesome job with her in both sculpting and paint.

Her outfit is really simple with a birds print and very soft grey tones to give it volume. The grey tones are much more softer than those on Kazuya´s pants and looks much better, its evident less is more in this kind of thing. Her shawl issculpted in soft plastic and also have the print of a flower on the side, i really wish Kotobukiya did this kind of design print on Anna Williams.

Its evident Square did not care for this serires at all since the ony accesorys Jun have are an extra pair of hands. They are helpfull for combat poses but thats all, no extra face expressions, no combat effects or anything else wich was really dissapointing considering her price.

Also, this was the last figure of the line. Only two figures from the amazing list of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 character, wich was really dissapointing. Despite of that i am really glad they did Jun and not Heihachi, she realy deserved an action figure and this is deffinetly the best figure of her to date.