DEVILMAN

 I remember in the end of the last century how difficult it was to collect Devilman, there was a lot of stuff about it but it came drop by drop. Aside of the Fewture action figures i also remember seen the Unifive figures sometimes and wonder how good they looked since unlike the Fewture figures, the Unifive were pretty close to Go Nagai´s work.

I think Unifive merged with Banpresto at some point but theyr Devilman figures are soo damn good and my favorite, of course is Devilman himself. This figures are not too big actually, they have the base size of all other action figures back then but they had no articulation soo they are more like mini statues. The only accesory was a big square base with a metalic sticker in front with the character title.

Devilman here is really really good. The pose was take from a Go Nagai artowork soo its pretty clasic looking, but the while sculpt is magnifiscent with the face looking exactly as the original design (or better yet, as the OVA´s character design) and the muscles are really really good, really bulky and realistic.

The figure have a pair of huge wings with a veiny texture and that makes it looks really imposing. Devilman is not soo tall but with the wings it ends as a pretty space consumming figure.

The paint is really good too, flawlles with his tiny fangs and eyes and while the skin have no more than one tone, the wings and hairy legs have browns and grey brushes to make the muscles stand out even more and gives a leather texture to the wings.

This figure in particular have another two extra variants, one in clear color (transluscent like an ice sculpture) and another Glow in the dark. I was able to get the glow in the dark version and is really the same figure tough the material is very different, pretty shiny and a little bit transluscent and that blurs the details, even if there is some grey/green tones in the legs, wings and muscles to give it volume.

Tough the lack if detail is compensated in the darknes, since this figure shines like a candle in an eerie green tone. Its pretty difficult to take pictures of the effect but in person he iluminates pretty strongly, even the dark wings.

This figure is ancient, and i dont know how difficult to get is now but while it looks simplistic on the sculpture and color and i wish it was taller, this is one of my favorite representations of Devilman. Not only is extremelly sexy looking but it cant be clsoe to the primal idea of this character (something difficult given how many version of him are out there) and the glow in the dark is an wesome adition to the display.