ENDEAVOR

 Latelly i been having an itch to watch My Hero Academia and i dont know if those are bad or good news since my only interest on it is thanks to a single character: Enji Todoroki. I love Endeavor design and character overall and i dont want my interest on him to be thrown away thanks to a lousy and juvenile narrative. I been devoting too much room space and money on him since 2020, when i saw the very first figure of him on a Bandai store on a convention. 

Both bandai and Banpresto has been a blesing since they been releasing a lot of high quality statues at an extremelly low price and that let me build a nice collection of this particular character. I am not sure if theres a cheeck list but every few months, Bandai has been releasing figures of collections about May Hero Academi with 5 to 6 characters, and sometimes in the mix they add Endeavor.

The collection dont seems to have a title this time since the only info in the box calls it "Ichibankuji My Hero Academia" and "Figure D: Endeavor".The full collection consist on this guy along side his son, Bakugo and Midoriya as well as two enemies (one of them Dabi) with Endeavor being one of the tallest figures in the collection.

This guy is exactly the same scale as the other figures of the character, its amazing how consistent has been Bandai and Banpresto with scale (except with the figures based on the movie) and as a statue, this figure dosnt have any kind of articulation or accesoryes aside of his base. The base is a translucent oval with a conector for one of Endeavor feet as well as two rods to hold his legs. The base works wonderfully, is elegant and works perfect to keep him in balance with such a tricky pose.

This is by far the figure with the most dynamic and action oriented pose from all of them. Enji is jumping to the front, with his torso turning with the motion and one of his hands rady to shot a fire ball soo the only part that conects with the floor is his left boot and the rst of the figure is levitating!! The rods holds each of his legs with a clamp soo the figure rest in a pretty confortale and safe way without losing its dinamism.

The body sculpt is really generous with the musculature, with the tigth outfit not hidding anything at all of his anatomy with only a few wrinkles here and there and even his neck have some veins sculpted to show how much tension there is over his body. One odd detail tough is the fact they dont give him fingernails!!

The Face is OK, with his spiky hair and a face expression showing his teeth. The teeth tough arent too detailed either and are only painted in white but the paint on his beard and scare and eyes are really really good and well defined. Tough to be honest its pretty difficult to see his face since the flames mask is pretty big here. 

Actually, most fo the figures is pretty invaded with flames since not pnly the mask around here eyes is much bigger and thicker, but theres flames coming out from his chest and abs that invade hi entire torso to the back side, and the back have a full wall of almes covering him. The flames on his boots are also very thick and the flames on his hand on top are huge and are twisting in a pretty spectacular and stylish way.

The whole fire is made with transuscent plastuc soo you can see his hand under it and his torso and they are cast on orange/red plastic with a soft brush on yellow here and there. The flames have a pretty velvetish texture and looks and feel very good and thety catch the light nicelly.

Like mentioned above, while the face is pretty difficult to see, the paint is perfect on the eyes, scar and beard and most of this figure pieces are cast on each dominant color, soo the skin tone is very consistent and clean as well as the blue on his outfit and brigth orange on the boots. The orange and red are perfectly painted while the blue sections have a very soft dark wash to give deepth to his musculature.

The metalic gauntlets as well as ugly shoulder pads are painted in metalic grey with some dark washes as well but they share the same velvetish texture as the flames. The rised arm can be detached in order to store him on his box but thats the only removable part.

Overall, this figure is missing some details - like the teeth and fingernails - but the pose really make it stand way too much. The colors make it looks perfectly like an animated character with a vibrant and simple coloring, but seen this character in the midle of a battle is such a threat, and the sculpting of the flames really make this figure looks like is constantly moving.

Actually, its a shame but no photos make justics to this figure, its deepth and sence of size really looks diferent on image. Its odd how many figures of Endeavor are out there and somehow every single of them manage to stand out on by theyr own style and made me soo difficult to chose wich one is my favorite!!