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.