DEVILMAN VS SIREN ~ SHI NO MA

 

A couple of years ago (time sure flys fast!!) i posted the reviews of my Devilman action figures collection in here, but truth is there is a lot much more about Devilman than that, i still got plenty of figures about the Go Nagai character and i am still missing an awfull lot in my collection. The 80s and the 90s were like a magic fountain for Devilman and sometimes wonder if we will see another influx of popularity like that ever again.

Even Kaiyodo participate on the Devilman fever back then, at the begining of the century, with a collection of four statues made in polystone, showcasing famous scenes from the Devilman manga with a hihg quality sculpt, paint and price too. Out of the fours i got only one, the one tittled "SHI NO MA"

Like i said, this statue is made with polystone soo its really really heavy but sadly.....its quiet tiny as well. Really, with the price i pay back then i was expecting something much much bigger, but this statue is smaller than an average action figure, actually is the same size a Funko Pop (tough is still pretty heavy).

It stands perfectly tough is delicate....it fall once from my shelf on an earthquake and ended with a couple of cracks, mostly due to the incrediblly amount of detail and the small scale, the sculpt is really intrincate.

The figure shows Devilman and Siren battling, Devilman is half underwater with Siren fliying on top of him, holding his arm with her claws soo the base of the statue is water tough is not trabsluscent thanks to the stone material, the paint makes all the trick to make it looks like the water on an illustration.

Again, the sculpt is incrediblly intrincate, with the bodys contorning and twisting around each other as well as the water and wings, the wings of Siren must be my favorite part, the detailsing on the feathers is astoninshing!!!The wings and the waves in the water looks really beautifull.

The body proportions are a little extreme and grotesque looking, but i guess thats thanks to the small scale, you must exagerate proportions to give it moving motion to the piece. 

The paint is also really good, while the faces are kinda hidden, the eyes, mouth and other details are clearlly painted as well as the shadowing and washing on the bodys to highlight the muscles of both demons. Also the paint have a strange pearly quality that makes it shyne. This is specially evident on the water and Siren wings.

The only downside for me was the scale. Most of the time is pretty difficult to discenr wath is happening until you get pretty close and notice all the intrincate sculpting and paint, and even soo, some part are really difficult to see without a magnifiying glass. Its even pretty damn difficult to take pictures of this actually as can be seen in here.

The other statues show Devilman´s ripping of Siren´s wings as well as Devil navigating a logs sea and fusing with Akira, pretty nice and gothic but the scale kill them for me. The price was very high back then and now they must cost a fortune soo this collection will be incomplete for me.