SEPHIROTH

 

With the second coming of Final Fantasy VII at the begining of the century, SquareEnix started to pay attention at theyr toy department with the release of the Advent Children action figures and that was just the begining since they would release action figures of every Final Fantasy game in the line. But they started with Tifa, Vincent and...not Cloud but Sephiroth.

I guess Sephiroth is endeed more important than Cloud? This figure is the tallest of the serires, he is huge (tough still smaller than the Kai Snow Villiers) and gladlly, he can stand perfectly tough he comes with the same standar base from the serires.

Sephiroth is articulated on the neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, legs, knes, ankles and his shoulder pads are also articulated soo he canhave total freedom of movement on his arms. All articulations work great, and even his neck is strong enough to keep the pose despite his heavy hair. All working good with its limitations of course, the cut joints just let movement in one direction.

Sculpt is really good, with his face looking really androgynous but still different to Vincent. His jacket is made with soft plastic but my favorite sculpt is on his hair. Is a solid piece of plastic but flows behind his back nicelly and looks good on all poses.

Paint is almost no existant again, with most of the paint covering his grey hair, face and white on the end of his sleves. His skin tone is as pale as Vincent but his lips are soft pink and his big eyes green, almost with a feline expression.

He is the best equiped from the serires since he have two extra pairs of hands, to hold his weapon and open palms. As weird as this is, the diverity of hands gesture helps a lot to gives him a lot of personality, and out of the entire serires, he looks the best on almost any pose, with his long jacket, hands gesture and long flowing hair, this is a guy that looks like he is on a poster of cover of a game no matter wath pose you use.

His other accesory is of course hiss word, Masamune. Extremelly simplistic katan, its size is HUGE, almost bigger than Sephitoh himself

He was upgraded years ago with a Play Arts Kai and unlike Vincent, i really dig the Kai version since it comes with a giant articulated wing. Its a shame i didnt get him but this one version is not too bad, i think he is the best looking figire along Vincent and i have pretty fond memories of more inicent times with this figure.