ICE DEMON

The Amon, Apocalypse of Devilman action figures by Fewture Models was pretty small but made a trully handsome display once all together, tough they looks kinda gay all holding hands, the figures complement each other wonderfully in both silhouette and color palette.

But while the series one had a glow in the dark skeleton Amon as a gift for those who collect it and series two had Demon Lord Dante, the Amn series had something much more special.

Join the icy bases of the figures and you get a kind of decorative memento of a fosil Devilman under the ice.

The bones of the sleeping Devilman are soo perfectly painted that looks natural and fused with the black rock bed beneath him. The transluscent plastic that encapsul them have some withe brushes and washed areas that makes it looks like an imprefect crystal. Is even cracking in many parts, yet the view of the inside is perfect.

I really wish the amazing looks of this awe inspiring piece could be catched in photo, but is pretty difficult to do it. And while i like the idea of get extra figures for collecting a series, this item was a much more special surprise for the fans it almost makes me wish to buy the figures again just to display theyr bases together.

AMON

Just before the start of the series two of Devilman action figures, Fewture Models released an extra series deddicated to the OVA Amon, Apocalypse of Devilman. This series was really small tough it share the high quality of the other two series. Devilman and Saylos based on theyr OVA looks were pretty solid figures tough the third character would surpass them pretty easy.

This is the third Amon designed by Yasushi Nirasawa and, just like with Devilman, he is extremelly different to the other two and in my opinion, the best of them all. While the first Amon was almost “nosferatu-esque” and Zenotic Amon looked like a dragon, this Amon is much more beastly and brutal.

Like Clive Barker would say: “its an amalgamation of demonic excess and erotism”. Probablly the manlyest of all the figures, with crimson skin, a mean look, bearded, very hairy, with huge bulguing pecs, the back of a bull, giant muscles on his arms and legs, a tiny waist and even a bulgue, this Amon is the weet dream of any fan of bara. Is easy to understand Siren behaviour on Crybaby after being in presence of this Amon.

The wings of his head are HUGE, with the texture of old leather and full of holes, the sculpt on his head is extremelly crisp and defined, with perfectly visible lips and individual fangs sculpted as well as a stylish beard, the level of sculpt in this guy is crazy amazing.

The chiseled muscles are detailed with the same quality, with veins all over them and an impresive anatomy and scales between his pecs, the hair on his legs is as sharply sculpted as his skin. I must say even his back is EXTREMELLY impresive, with raw muscles that are about to explode and an ocean of hair that flows perfectly, the artistry on this guy is amazing.

While the hair is mostly black with only a few brosn on his head, the red on his skin is darker enough to make him looks natural, but with certain light it kinda shines with a soft metalic looks. The red on his face matches the red on his body perfectly and the only other colors on him are his silver fangs and yellow eyes.

He is articulated on the head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, abs, legs and knees soo he is not as crazy movable as the other two, yet each one of his articulations are free to move and have an amazing range of movement, nothing restrict them, not even the hair on his shulders since its sculpted on deparate pieces that “levitates” over his shoulders and move a little bit along them.

Also, his feet are huge and thanks to the lack of articulation on his ankles, he can stand perfectly even on a runing pose!! I think this is the figure on the entire 3 lines that can stand perfectly without the use of a base!! And this is not small feat given how tall he is and how incrediblly heavy feels.

This figure is sure extremelly heavy, much more than Jinmen or the rest wich only makes him sexyer.

Even soo, he have the big chunk of ice that works as a base, to match the other two tough he dosnt need it at all.

Amon beats easy Devilman thanks to his good looks and can beat Saylos as well since all his articulations are much better, soo this is by far the best figure of the Amon, Apocalyse of Devilman.

Not only that, but he is the rarest of the series and i was extremelly impresed with him when i first got it since it felt like a trully special figure, something unique, and now i am still impresed with how damn looks he looks on almost any pose.

While series one had Winged Devilman and Jinmen as the most brillant pieces and series two had Zennon and Mico and Welvath, the Amon series had this piece as the best of the best representative. Even if you dont know who this creature is of who exactly is Devilman, this monster extremelly good looks suits perfectly to any collection of horror stuff and even looks menacing alone on any shelf.

SAYLOS

With the release of the OVA Amon, Apocalypse of Devilman, Fewture Models released a small series of action figure almost at the same time as the second series. One of the characters selected for this series was the original character created by Yasushi Nirasawa for the OVA: Saylos.

Saylos is actually one of the most beautyfull designs for a demon, a vypering creature that looks like a snake made of ice, he is both very evil looking and elegant.

Saylos is cast on a white plastic that gives him some transparency texture that makes him looks like ice, he is aerodynamic and the scales of his body are sculpted in a pretty simplistic and clean way.

The colors are soft light blues, darker blues and purples, are mixed together along his body in a way it makes him looks like the chromatic colors of a fish, with the only different colors coming on the spikes on his arms, his black claws and the red cross on his chest. This red cross is actually a scar inflicted by Amon centuryes ago, something the OVA didnt mention.

His face is the most interesting part of the figure, with black lips, long fangs and a pretty sharop sculpt on his noce and eyes, he have big holes on his checks soo you can see his fangs peeking from them, holes on hsi forehead and long tentacles in a “Predator” way, this is one of the coolest demons ever seen on action figures.

He is articulated on the neck, shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, abs, legs, knees and ankles, but sadlly he is extremelly hard to play with, given to the spikes on his arms and the tentacles on his head, is very difficult to move around his arms or his head and thanks to his static tail and the weak articulations on his ankles, is pretty difficult to make him stand.

He comes with the big chunck of ice base that looks terrific and makes him looks taller than he is, but even with this, he is pretty difficult to balance and keeps falling around.

Its weird how cool looking is this character, yet he is not one of my favorites… maybe due to the difficult to handle him, but i find him more frustrating than fun. Then again, he is the only “new demon” from the OVA series soo is difficult to find a justification to nut boy him.

DEVILMAN

Back in 2000 they released the OVA Amon, Apocalypse of Devilman using Yasushi Nirasawa design as base. Not only this OVA was awesome (and very different to the manga) but it was also packed with its own action figures series from Fewture Models. Devilman was soo big and amazing back then!!

For wath i read tough, it seems Nirasawa made the figures before the OVA even started, and it was thanks to this figures that the studio green lighted the OVA.

This small series lands between series one and two of the Fewture Models figures and it shares the same quality and scale than those figures. The first figures of the series and the first i got was of course Devilman himself.

This was the third Devilman Fewture produced yet its amazing how different he looks to the other two: he dosnt looks as human as the first one but not as grotesque and devilish as the Winged Devilman version either, also his blue color makes him totally unique as well.

His face is the most stylish and cartoony of the Devilmen, with huge wings on his head and his smile with black lips and shapr fangs that make him looks like a vampire. His body is very muscly but very lean as well and his hands looks insectoid.

His legs are no furry, but they looks like…exoeskeleton? I never understand this design legs at all, but they are a perfect replica of the OVA design, with all the spikes and black leatherish looks. The wings, sadly, are pretty small in my opinion but i guess they do it in order to make him different to Winged Devilman.

The paint is good, with jet black for his insectoid hands and legs and soft blues with purples higlighting his muscle structure. This make him one of the most elegant looking Devilman. Sadlly, since the wings on his head are soo big, the whole head is cast on black plastic with the blue painting added later, this means his face is much more darker looking than the rest of his body making him looks weird.

Articulations are good, actually this is the best articulated Devilman Fewture did, with articulated head, abs, shoulders, elbows, wrists, wings, legs, knees and ankles, he can achive A LOT of poses and hes easy to play with. And with the help of his spear like tail he can be balanced pretty easy and can stand on his own.

Even soo, he comes with a base, his only accesory. This base is totally different to the black rock of series one and the coin with name of series two and instead is a big and heavy chunk of ice with rocks and bones inside the transluscent plastic.

Having another version of Devilman may sound kinda pointless but is hard to complaign when he is soo different looking and yet soo close to the animation on screen. Winged Devilman may be my favorite, but is hard not to love a Devilman as tall and well articulated as this one.

DANTE

One of the strangest but coolest elements of the Fewture Models Devilman action figures series is how each figure had the piece of an extra figure. Collect them all and you have a totally new and free figure, something unthinkable for modern figure companies!! Free toys for the customers!!!

The series one had a glow in the dark skeleton Amon, but sadly i didnt get all the pieces to build him since i buy some of the figures out of theyr packages. Series two, however, i was able to get them all in mint condition on theyr blister, soo i was able to build the secret extra figure.

At first the black pieces of plastic were pretty strange and confusing, but once the last of the figures were released, it was pretty clear who this secret figure was: Dante, the main character of Mao Dante and one of the villians of Devilman Lady.

Dante is a little bit taller than the rest of the figures, just like Zan, soo he is pretty awesome for a free figure and really heavy as well. Nirasawa´s design makes him looks very reptilian and much more realistic than Go Nagai´s design, with a very compact shapre and much more shorter wings and more menacing claws.

The monster have no nose, just like Dante in the manga, and have a skull on his forehead, tough for some reason he have Utsugi Ryo´s face on his back, only showing his forehead and eyes. This detail makes him quiet gross along side his long nine tails made with soft plastic.

The sculpt is sharp, with each one of the monster scales perfectly shaped and following a realistic anatomy as much as it can with a mosnter like this. Sadlly, he is not painted, soo he is jet black, except for his head. The skull and his fangs are silver colored and his eyes are red. I guess Fewture Model tough he would look too cheap all black and added this details to make his expresion stand out.

The looks is pretty earie, and looks like a shadow with glowing eyes and a smile, but i would prefer a colored version much better.

Fewture released a colored version actually, on his own blister, with very vibrant greens, blues and purples all around him, but this figure was very limited and super expensive to compensate for us, who get the full colection to build him.

His head is articulated, as well as his shoulders and wrists tough that dosnt gives him too much option for poses. His tails are made with bendable plastic and he can stand perfectly with those big feet, but since the pieces are put together with no glue, he can fall apart pretty easy.

Theres one extrage detail full of mistery for me tough: his chest can be open and you can see a litle bit of Utsugi Ryo´s face inside the joint on his back, but inside his torso he have a little mummyfied entity with horns and wings. This thing is silver color and i am really not sure wath it is… i dont remember Dante to be related to something like this in Mao Dante or Devilman Lady…

Even soo, with the lack of articulations and shadowy looks is hard to recomend a toy like this but as a little gift from Fewture, this is one kick ass detail and a great deal for the price of the rest of the figures. I wish modern toy companies would do this.

ZENOTIC AMON

The Devilman - More Than Demon series of Fewture Models had nine amazing figures already released when it comes to a close to the last one and it leave me half dissapointed. After having such important characters like Satan or Miki made figures or more obscure ones like Welvath and Zan, ist was strange to end the series with a re-design of an already existing character: Amon.

It was at this point when the series started to feel a little bit like Batman or Spawn, with millions of versions of the same character while other important characters, like Kain, Texsch, Odom… were waiting in line.

Then again, its hard to feel dissapointed with a figure like this since once in person, Zenotic Amon is a really beautyfull piece.

Coming in the standar size of the other demons, Zenotic Amon have the wings on his head reduced and reshaped to looks more like horns. His golden eyes are each one of the sculpted and painted fangs on his devil mouth are a threat for the eyes. He even have a purple tongue and jaw articulation.

His body is a mix of shining withe and regal purple and is covered on a geometrical armour that looks like scales. His back is specially amazing and looks like the back of a dinosaur or a dragon. All this scales are individually divided with light blue and painted with metalic purple, wich gives him the looks of a snake or a fish.

His hands have some fur and i am in awe to see all the sculpted wrinkles on his amazing clawed fingers. One of his hand have blood spalttered on it as well as the skull ring Amon had on the first series. This gives me the impresion this is an Amon evolution or second form (like Goku Super Saiyan) and creates a small narrative bridge that jouns the begining of series one with the end of series two.

His wings have a pretty unique and hard to descrive design, tough they have no paint on them, they can be removed. But the best detail is deffinetly his super long tail. This tail have two sharp claws on the end and a gross and terrifiying mouth with fangs at the center. It looks like the second mouth of a Xenomorph.

Zenotic Amon is super articulated, with his movable jaw, shoulders, arms, elbows, wrists, legs, knees and ankles as well as his wings that can be closed. His tail is not articulated sadly, wich is tragic given how long it is and how it gets on the way soo easy.

He comes with the coung base with his name but sadly, this base dosnt help him at all. Thanks to the big amount of articulations on his legs and how thing this are and how heavy are his wings, he keep falling over and over again and not even his tail help him (i think it sorta adds to his lack of balance). I had to use a Play Arts Kai base to make him stand but like with Genie, it wasnt easy fit the base between his huge wings and anoying tail.

I am still a little sad we didnt had a new character to close the second series, but Zenotic Amon is too much of a solid figure to not like him, even with his lack of balance he is one of the most evil looking toys i ever seen, with a complex and very stylish sculpt and a beautyfull metalic painting, he is the very best deffinition of demonic elegance and can fit perfectly on any collection of horror figures.

WELVATH

Fewture Models released of a lot of strange and bizzarre toys 18 years ago, very important characters that never had an action figure before (like Ryo or Ghelmer) or pretty obscure characters that due to theyr design they would be too strange for toys (like Mico or Jinmen). One of this characters that fall into both categoryes was Welevath, the very first demon to fall victim of Devilman.

One of the very first monstruositys on the anime and one of the last figures of the collection, Yasushi Nirasawa was masterfully redesigning this character at this point and his confidence shows.

Welvath is the smallest demon on the collection, she is human size and is cast is totally white plastic with certain transparency that gives her and ethereal and marmoreal appearance. She dosnt have 70s tattos or anything like it, she is only dressed with a pair of leather pants for a much modern look and some funy electric blue tattos. To complement her look, she is using a yellow feather boa that can be wrapped around her in any way since it have a wire inside.

Her abdomen is misshaped, her feet are those of an animal and her arms are divided like a crocodile mouth, with little piranha fangs and a purple long tongue with huge black claws at the end. This is one of the figures with the best silhouette of the entire collection and the demonic faces with yellow eyes, tiny teeths and purple tongues on her boobs looks amazing.

Her face shows a sepulsive grin with fangs and one of her eyes has comes out of her socket like a purple tentacle. This tentacle is not soft so it cannot be adjusted sadly, but the rest of her sculpt and pain are top notch.

Everything on her have this odd shining quality, like she is made with neon lights, the soft purple of her skin, her vibrant yellow hair and boa, everything is neon on her because she glows under dark light. I didnt had one of this dark lights with me soo didnt take photos but she is surpsinglly colorfull, like a rainbow.

Her action features consist on 3 different looks by exchanging her head. Aside of the basic one we got another one with a mohawk and tattos on her skull and another one with long hear but on a screaming position with articulated jaw. I am not sure if she is screaming of laughing tough, but my favorite is the punk mohawk. For me it seems Nirasawa didnt made his mind wich one wanth to use soo he added all of them.

She is articulated on her head, shoulders, arms mouth, legs and ankles but thanks the the twisted shape of her legs and back, she dosnt have too many display uptions unlike her older demon brothers. And thanks to the sculpt of her legs she cant stand on her own at all.

She have the big coing base with her name on it, but the base dosnt help too much at all and she needs a little bit of extra help with a small piece of black paper i put under her toes. This works wonder and keeps her in perfect balance solving the problem.

She is not one of my favorites along Zennon and Psycho Genie due to her small frame and limited articulation, but she is soo damn close she is deffinetly one of the most brillantly made characters of the series. Her sculpt is amazing and her paint is just beautyfull and vibrant, she would look perfect on any display of horror figures or any collection of the grotesque and macabre or body horror. Its a shame she is soo damn hard to find.