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.