I've been pretty all-in on Figure-Rise kits, but I think I'm going to have to skip this one? Trying to do the interior stickers on Faiz's base suit was soul-deadening, but at least I could cut a few corners by telling myself I mostly wouldn't see the results. Not the case with a dedicated Axel Form kit!

Still, I'm glad this kit exists, and I would also love to see Premium Bandai kits get more dependable international releases.

Just maybe not a kit that hated me.

Oh god yeah, I've heard from my gf that that kit is murderous with the stickers! So a release of Axel is definitely one I'm happy to just say, like... good for everyone who wants it, but no thanks personally

If Axel form is indeed coming as regular release, I'll gladly pick it up. I've always loved the suit design.

If it's P-Bandai, it's a skip from me. The base Faiz suit was nasty with the stickers but man the finished product sure looks good.

Is Faiz worse than Ex-Aid? Otherwise, I think I can handle it (stickers or paint).

I didn’t sticker the Faiz kit, but it’s mostly just small red stripes on all the silver bits. The whole of the back is unpainted but the stickers are manageable enough it seems.

The weapons are kind of rough though, because the stickers smooth out all the nice molded details

Ex-Aid is probably the worst. In addition to the insane amount of stickers, his colors aren't very common for color matching. Whereas Faiz uses a lot of red and silver - very common colors you probably already have.

Oh I just noticed that FRS OOO is back to the double jointed elbows!

https://i.imgur.com/BGnNnip.png

Ah, if he's not worse than Ex-Aid (who I stickered and then painted later on) then I should be all right whenever I get to him.

The mystery of the elbow joints continue!

And looks like Faiz Axel is actually coming to the US! Not sure how, though?

https://i.imgur.com/tgntOhk.png