NEZUMI OTOKO

Soo i finally give up and got the Nezumi Otoko / RatMan from Gegege No Kitaro. He was all alone in the store and it seems i am the only one in Mexico who knows this characters (or is willing to buy figures of them).

Part of the Takeya Takayuki series of Revoltech, this guy is kind of smaller than your standar action figures but given his cartoony features, every detail stands out a lot. Like Kitaro and the daddy eye, the paint is incrediblly vibrant and realistic in the rigth elements (like the base) and make him looks like a maquete.

Like with Kitaro, his base comes in tree pieces: the flooer, the buda statues and the postal box (whos owner is actually Kitaro) and while the elemenst are small, they are jamp packed with details, like letter on the postal box and an offering of rice for the statues.

He comes with a collection of extra hands for different gestures and a face with open mouth and closed eyes. The eyes can be removed and swaped actually. He also have a dead fish and a bunch of money. The fish is not special but the money is horriblly detailed and realistic, the impression is actually both painted and sculpted in the small accesory.

The articulations are pretty good, tough is pretty pointless on his legs. Hes supposed to have two sepparated legs with interwinded layes of rags around them but is pretty tricky to move them in a way they looks rigth. This is not Kaiyodos fault tough.

Now i have the full collection. I never liked the Revoltech series too much actually, i think they looks kinda cheap and blocky tough this 3 are a big exception to that rule.

MEDAMA OYAJI

When i got the Kitaro figure from Kaiyodo i was very excited to get the Medama Oyaji figure as well tough he was the hardest to get i was able to get him. I am not sure of the Kaiyodo figures are difficult to find since i dont have too many, but this guy belongs to theyr Takeya Takayuki line that seems to be focused on japanese monsters.

He comes in the same vintage looking box as Kitarou and with a lot of extra hands, a “soup bone” base and the tea cup to take his bath, a cartoonish eye, a realistic eye and a criying eye.

To put him on the cup he needs his torso to be separated from his lower body and insert it on the "water" and the feet must be inserted too. The process is a little delicate thans to the small joints but pretty easy and the details on the cup are really nice since theres even a soft pink on the water to suggest his entire body is there.

The cartoonish eye make him fits with Kitarou but the realistic eye is much much better since it have a pretty impresive depth and reflection.

The criying eye was soo cleaver…i love the dimension it have and it was my favorite accesory alongisde the tea cup.

Hes not in the same scale as Kitarou but hes pretty much scale 1/1 in relation with real life. And unlike his kid, he cant stand on his own thanks to his huge head soo he really needs the bone base with the arm attached to his back.

He is ubber simplistic, i mean, he is totally nude and have absolutelly no texture and no details aside of the paint, a soft pink on his body with some very soft shadows and a totally white head. Yet he is totally fun to play with thanks to all the articulations and how theres nothing to get on theyr way.

The last figure i got was the Nesumi Otoko but i never liked him too much. I would prefer Neko Musume deffinetly but overall, i think this figure is the most amazing and fun from the collection.

KITARO

Years ago i went to a convention. I was looking for Berserk Figma figures of something about Metal Gear. I didnt find anything except this little guy that made me jump when i saw him. Its very rare to see items of him and i wasnt expecting a full action figure at all.

Gegege no Kitaro is an essential part of my childhood; one of the first animes i saw and one of the most disturbing soo far. Maybe is for its time period (the 50s) but this characters manage to be cute, fun and really creppy and dark as well. Something like the japanese version of Tim Burton.

I was in love of this little guy when i saw him. Not only hes fully articulated as a true action figure, but hes soo rich in textures and the paint is soo ghostly and dark (his skin is purplish and his hair is grey) it looks like a 3D illustration from the original manga. The joints get stuck sometimes and dosnt flow as perfect as the Figmas but his range of movement is still pretty good.

Even his base is incrediblly detailed and cartoony and grotesque enough to fit him perfectly as well as the his box that looks pretty ancient and old school even if its brand new. And overall, with base and figure, i dont know if its the colour or the texture material but he almost looks like a pencil illustration.

He can stand on his own perfectly tough beside of his base he have lots of accesoryes. First of all, the base has 3 pieces: the tree, the floor and the tombstone and its pretty easy to assemble it. He also comes with a lot of tiny hands and two extra faces, one angry and one sleeping tough the "eye" piece can be exchanged freely between all faces. And lastly he comes with Medama Oyaji that can sit on his hand or on top of his head.

The brand is Kaiyodo Revoltech and hes from the Takeya Takayuki series. They also have the Nezumi Otoko/ Ratman, wich i dislike a lot…i would prefer the Neko Musume/ Catgirl instead, and the Medama Oyaji/ Daddy Eye wich i really really want because hes literally scale 1/1.

Another grotesque and ghostly toy for my shelve.