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.

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.