DEVILMAN ART COLLECTION COMPLEX

 One of the most popular toy in Japan is the miniatures on capsules or blind boxes and i admit they are exiting as long as you can get them easy but if you are in another country, they are a pain in the ass. I am not sure of the blind boxes toys are still called "gashapon", but Devilman sure had a lot back then and the last ones were titled "ART COLLECTION COMPLEX" since each one of them was designed for a different artist.

This was the reason the collection had such crazy variants over the normal gashapons. Like for example, one of them was actually a tiny action figure. A Devilman painted on green and articulated on the head, neck, shoulders, elbows, wrist, legs, knes and ankles. The size of the tiny pieces is really stuning and the articulations works really good (tough sometimes hes dismembered)

I dont know who are the artists behind each figure, but this one reminds me a lot Yaushi Nirasawa´s work, with Devilman having spikes, tiny wings and the big smile, pretty monster looking. The color is radioactive green with some rusty tones to give volume to his muscles. I think out of the entire serires this guy is the most fun and eve had a variant on orange color.

Another figure have Satan standing on a rock with a hand on his/hed head. Is just a small sculpture with no accesorys and the sculpt on the wings and feathers is really awesome for such small scale tough is difficult look at his face. The entire peice is cast on transluscent plastic, green for the rock, white for the body and yellow for the wings. This give it a pretty unreal looks but makes it also difficult to see the details thanks to the scale. There was a green color variant of this figure.

My favorite of the entire collection is deffinetly the bust. Even if its a miniature, the bust nature makes the details to stand out nicelly and there is A LOT to see here: Devilman´s creppy smile, the skin on the wings on his head, the flesh texture on his neck, the muscles, the skull on his hand...and the paint, while is discret (mostly for the eyes, fangs and some minor details) is pretty natural looking. This mini bust looks terrific on the shelf and reminds me a lot Katsuya Terada´s work.

Next up is a piece inspired on the TV anime, the blue Devilman with the red super hero wings coming out from the ice with his best friend and foe, Dorango, on his back. Both are missing an arm and Dorango is heavilly wounded on his chest. The composition os the peice is really spectacular looking and while the sculpt is good, the best part is the paint since is really vibrant and catch the style of the anime. I also love how the stump on theyr missing arms are translucent, like both arms were freezed, soo the amount of detail is pretty cool.

The other figure on the collection consist on Devilman on top of a church roof top, with a goden cross behind him. While the image is pretty awesome i think this had worked better on a big scale statue since the scale dosnt let the details to shine as they could, specially on the face. The transparent wings is a nice detail and there was a color variant of this figure.

Lastly theres a figure of Devilman standing on....a red thing, blood maybe? I am not sure with this transluscent red thing is but i dont need to ask who was the artists behind this, obviouslly it was Go Nagai, this is his Devilman, the shape of his eyes and mouth, the pose, everything is reminiscent of his art and looks like a 3D panel from his manga.

This is also the biggest figure of the collection and while his face is extremelly good looking (well....his entire body is) is the only figure that cant stand on his own.

There was another figure on the serires but i was never able to get it soo my collection is incomplete. Some of this figures are really good, maybe too god for this kind of blind box miniatures and made me wish they make bigger version of them but also the different quaity of visions avoid this serires to feel as a unity.