Weekly So-Do blog post is up!

New OOO P-Bandai set, Birth and Birth Prototype.
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Includes all the Birth Day parts as well!
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How could you leave out the best part?!

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Because I'm a horrible person who's never watched OOO despite developing a crush on Eiji from the crossovers I've seen him in and as a result have no idea what that is

Eiji is -super- good taste

That's a can that the first Birth lugs around to collect his cell medals in; and the book on top is an actual instruction manual for Birth!

Akira Date is the best Kamen Rider Birth in my opinion :D

Befittingly the Proto Birth. :lolol

Look, I don't want to derail this SO-DO thread, because those Births are fantastic and ordered on sight (they included the Birth operator's manual!!!), but if we're ranking the men of OOO, it's got to be:

1. Ankh
2. Akira
3. Shintaro
4. Nobunaga
5. Ankh when he's just a hand
6. then Eiji

Anything else is heresy, and the only wrong opinion you can have in the Kamen Rider fandom.

I'll have to get back to you on that someday. Current plan for OOO is to watch it after Kabuto after I finally watch the second half of Faiz after I finally get caught up on the last 19 episodes of Zero-One

Lunchtime SO-DO!

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Put this tiny man together after lunch today, and, uh, I love him.

I always thought the various Evol(t) suits were cool, but Black Hole wasn't really a favorite. (Rabbit, then Dragon, then Black Hole, then Cobra.) This figure, though, man. The stickers make it pop. The skirt stickers go on easy and have a great metallic sheen to them, providing a nice gradient up from the dark red to black. Plus, there's paint all over this guy, meaning it doesn't take a whole lot of stickering over his arms and legs. It's mostly just some black stickers to break up the white, and they don't really shout STICKERS like some other figures might. (That SharkBike one I did last night, your eye can really get pulled to the stickers of the Shark pauldron.)

He's about zero percent stable without his stand, but I kind-of always want my Evol(t) Black Hole to be hovering so it's not a big deal to me. Still, a bit of a bummer that he's so dependent on his stand. For a theatrical dude like Evol(t), it's a shame his final form only really has one or two poses to it.

Minor quibbles to me, though. I love how this tiny man looks. I've not put together a ton of SO-DO yet, maybe seven or so tiny mans, but this guy is easily the best-looking one I've handled so far. Gorgeous, and at an insanely low price.

Yeah, So-Do didn't really have the hang of big cloaks skirts and capes at that point. They're getting better, the cloak on Zonjis looks pretty good. You're gonna have to deal with the same thing on Cross-ZBuild and Cross-ZEvol. Blood's cloak is even worse in a way, his plug on his back is completely blocked by it, you can only use the plug on his foot for the peg on the base of the stand