YUNA

Back in 2000, when Final Fantasy was extemelly popular and jumping to next gen (and finally getting voices) Kotobukiya was at full force releasing action figures based on the creatures and monsters from FF VIII and X but they never released a human character somehow, instead they released the cast of both games as vynil statues that for some reason were extremelly pricey (for back then standar) and pretty difficult to find.

Pretty difficult except the first two of the X serires: Tidus and Yuna and while i am not too much of a fan of Yuna i really dislike a lot Tidus soo i ended getting only Yuna. She have a huge scale, the same size as a Hot Toys or Sideshow figure and can stand on her own with no problem tough she came with a black round base but i dont have it anymore.

She is articulated only on the wrists to turn around her hands. Pretty usless except for adjust her accesory soo she is a statue on all sence of the word. She is not my favorite character but i dont dislike her either, in the game she wasnt as anoying as many of the female FF characters and i loved her fighting style based on Summons soo i was pretty happy with her back then.

She is pretty, really pretty, I think Kotobukiya did a great job esculpting her soft face features with a little bit of anime touch, more focused on the Tetsuya Nomura illustrations than her render. The folds on her upper outfit and sleves are realistic enough and are fluid enough despite her pose to be extremelly simple. She is just there standing still and yet she dosnt look stiff thanks to the gesture on her hands and very subtle movement on her dress.

I am actually glad she is not arms open jumping or something, with her size that would be very difficult to handle.

The paint is wath makes the sculpt shine. Her dress have very soft hues of blues to give it volume while her sleves have soft pink. Her hair is kinda plain tough, i wish they give her more shadows and shades but i guess they wanted it to match her skin, since this section is cast on skin colored vinyl, with no texture and paint at all.

The intrincated design of shadows on her dress and waist piece (obi?) are actually printed like stickers soo they are really vibrant and perfectly deffined. Her face is beautifull, with soft pink lips and a blue and a green eye to show the amazing attention to details.

Her only accesory aside of the missing base is her staff, with a good sculpt but a really awesome paitning. I do love the aquatic tones of blue on the staff as well as the deep browns. Its kinda difficult to put the staff on her hand thanks to the rigid nature of vynil but once installed its direction can be moved by moving the wrist of Yuna.

Now, this figure is old, 20 years old and is pretty dusty and have some scratches here and there, also she is missing the big ribbon on her back. I try to clean her as much as i could and curate the scratches but i wasnt able to do anything about the ribbon soo excuse the incompletness of this piece.

Overall, she is really pretty. Considering her Play Arts action figure as well as the Play Arts Kai, i think this is the most pleasent and aesthetical accurate representation of the character: soft, serene and really pretty. Tough as pretty as she is, my waifu wasnt Yuna....but Lulu.....and sadly, she was crazy expensive back then and now she is even more.