ENDEAVOR

 Endeavor is such an interesting character because he is mostly univerally hated, and theres not mch merch about him at all and i seen the very little exist always lag behind in the stores compared to the other characters of My Hero Academia, and yet....even with all of this some of his figures reach crazy prices for the most random and arbitrary reasons. This makes collecting him quiet fun but also quiet stressing (I still remember how difficult was to get his Funko Pop figure because it was "chase" and how theres literally hundreds of those available on every single store by now).

I know every single time i buy a figure of this man my interest on the My Hero Academia get higher but despite the risk, i keep getting them because the Bnadai Spirits/Banpresto collections are soo fun to collect, soo cheap and soo cool looking!! Tough this particular figure was reaching obscene prices on every store it got him available and it took me wait an entire year to finally find a place with a fair price.

Only named in the box as "Ichibansho Figure My Hero Academia", this collection consist on Midoriya, masked Midoriya, All Mighty, Endeavor, Hawks and the Jeans guy who´s name eludes me and as always, this are all very good looking but my interest focus only on Endeavor.

With the prices i saw onlain i was expecting a truly huge figure, but actually this guy is just in the same scale as the rest, taller than an average action figure but not big enough to feel like a premium statue. I have no issue with this tough, he is big enough to have an important presence on the shelves but not big enough to not fit on them. Also, despite the size, this guy is, for some reason, like 3 times much heavyer than the rest of the figures. I have no idea why this is.

This also means that he cant stand on hiw own at all, until you put the little transluscent stand he comes with, a weird plastic brik that fits around his boot. Only with this he can magicaly stand for hiw own with no problem, tough he already fall in me twice soo this stand is not 100% trustworhy and find the rigth balance for the figure seems to play a crucial role on making him stand.

This figure is the oposite to the last one in the last review. His pose is less action and spectacular, instead is very stationary and stoic, with Endeavor in a power position, but while the other had pretty vibrant and basic coloring that made it looks like an anime frame, this one is extemelly detailed, extremelly painted and full of textures.

The outfit have this small identations that gives it the texture or a hand draw sketch but this textures dosnt get in the way of the muscular details, with a lot of wrinkles in the rigth places that extend from one muscle to another. The anatomy is very generous, like always, specially on the pectoral area and legs, but this figure in particular have a bulgue (and it seems thats the reason why the high demand), the gauntlets and the shoulder pads also are full of scratches and marks that makes them looks worn and old.

The face have a pretty evil looking grin and his eyes are full of veins and that makes him looks like he is on berserker mode tough his head is more visible than the other figure, the flames on the beard are abundant.

Unlike the other figures, the flames here are very short and they twist aroudn following a single direction, and also theres lot of them....like, lots, his entire back is completelly filled with glames as well as his ass and the boots but the shape of the flames make them looks almots like smoke, like this flames are about to make combustion and are ready to explode in any minute. Also some of this flames are made of hard plastic while others, somehow are made with softish rubber like plastic but still, they are trasluscent.

I always tough transluscent plastis was always hard soo i dunno how most of this flames can be gummy and wtill been seen tough them tugh thet are cast in red, they have a lot of yellow paint around mixed with a little bit or orange but they contrast much more than the other figures from Bandai. The armor have a darker silver mixed with soft black as well that makes it looks like it have burns.

The outfit have a lot of dark wash as well to enhance shadows and meakes every muscle stand out a lot (bulgue included!!) and the hands, this time with fingernail, have also a black wash to make them looks dirty with ashes. The scar is perfectly painted as well as the mouth, with black inside it and under the teeth and the color job on the eyes is really impresive and perfect!!

The balance issue migth be a problem but aside of that,this figure is really epic looking and stands out a lot with his bulk and details. Like i already said, every single figure of Endeavor is extremelly different to the other but somehow every single one of them have something to offer and a pretty personal interpretation of the character. This is one of my favorites tough i cant chose a favorite one at all.

A new one is coming to celebrate the end of the manga, but aside of that i am reaching a closing state to end this collection, i am only missing the most expensive ones and the Nendroid (that cost like twice this figure) soo while i am happy my collection is almost compelte, i am also going to miss buy figures of this man.