S.H.Figuarts shinkocchou Seihou Anhk Revealed
 

So Anhk is getting shinkocchou Seihou release...sort of.

3960 yen, January 2020 release.

I though his human form was getting a figuart? I did not see bandai doing a Anhk release without the body but still good to see. I wonder if he come with a stand for him? Also I'm way more hype for his Tajador form since Bandai is hinting at it with the medals.

Eh...I don't know about paying $40 for a disembodied arm, but it's also Ankh and I kinda need it....lol

Uh-huh. Yeah, not impressed. The old one looks just as good in my opinion.

A SENTIENT disembodied arm. :lolol
Wow, this really is a thing now.
This would be like selling a scaled-down figure of Thing from the Addams Family. :lolol

...I was excited for his human form.

$40 for an arm...screw that.

When I first got into Figuarts back in 2015, this was right around what a standard full figure costed, around 4000 yen. I just checked my account on AmiAmi and indeed, I paid exactly 3980 yen for Drive back in the day. A fair price.

Now Bandai is trying to sell an arm, a couple hands, a popsicle, a phone and about 100 tiny-ass medals for 3960 yen. Legitimately fuckin incredible. Legitimately, I'm more impressed and amused with the greeed on display here than anything else. It's just funny to think about the fact that they're doing this. I mean, who's going to buy this?

...Probably more people than I'd expect, honestly.

Wait, are they allowed to make a minature iPhone model?

Oh, man. Oh, man. Me. I'm going to buy it. I've never done a P-Bandai exclusive anything (thought for more than a minute about those WindScale clothes, tho), but holy hell am I doing this. Ice candy! Core medals! A pile of Cell medals that'd make Date Akira weep tears of joy! It's like Bandai saw into my secret dreams, dreams I never knew I had, and made them come true.

If there's no Apple logo, then technically they're not breaking any copyright laws :lolol

No way in hell am I going to buy this.
First, I'm not accustomed to OOO but I saw what Anhk looks like in one of the movies...
Second....A freaking arm...for 30€...Is that a joke?
The greeed is real

The absolute maximum acceptable price for this should be $20. Period.

I think I'll hesitantly skip this, at least for now. I just know that in the ideal display I want, an arm wouldn't work out.

ANOTHER Ankh arm,after literally teasing the figure? I HOPE THIS FAILS *SPECTACULARLY* This is just so incredibly GREEEDY. And LAME af,really-way to take Dump on the fans,Bandai. I hope no one is dumb enough to buy this so it fails...this actually pissed me off as I was hoping for a *real* figure,not an accessory

I more prefer if they make SHF Ankh in his human form and his Greeed right arm can be removable......

If ankh is out with his medal, does it mean tajador will be coming soon in the line? I will take this as a good news.

Considering that SS OOO line has the combo change gimmick, they most likely will.

This... sucks.

40+ bucks for a single arm and a few tiny accessories? This should've come with either OOO himself or an Ankh Greeed figure.

I'm really not a fan of how they're making accessories packs for high-end figures instead of just including it with them.

Going by Gatakiriba, it's fairly likely they'll do the combos in order. So we'll see Ratoratah, then Sagohzo before we see Tajador. Maybe Birth too. I would also argue that the only reason we're seeing Gatakiriba as soon as we are - compared to the release schedules of other Seihou lines, and how long it takes for even one more figure to come out in those - is so we're able to actually do the Combo Change gimmick in any capacity.

Keep in mind that the only 'super' forms we've seen in Seihou so far have been W's Fangjoker and Kuuga's Amazing Mighty. And in both of those cases, they only came just under 2 years after the release of the main form.

You could also count Kuuga's Rising Mighty, but that's of course a lot more minor in terms of new molding and still took a year to come out. Tajador will happen, just don't expect it to happen for a while yet.

I'm realising that I would have been happier with this if it came with the bike, or more accessories, or maybe even a random combo part like the Panda Arms or something. At the very least make a full-blown accessory kit; Gatakiriba's missing his arm-mounted active swords.

So no one else thinks this is awesome? Not that I'll be buying it since it isn't different enough from the original SHF Ankh, which I have, but I'm glad it exists.

Plus there's nothing to rule out a human form Ankh SHF at some point. Not long until this year's event.

Oh I think it looks great, it's just overpriced.

Fair point. I might be a bit jaded - being a UK-based fan I generally end up paying through the nose regardless of list price.

I mean hey, I'm the same. But this is still a bit much.

This is such a bizarre release. Leaving aside that it's an arm with a few accessories, Bandai already released a Figuarts Ankh arm with comparable accessories several years ago. It'll be slightly out of scale with Shinkocchou Seihou, but compatible enough for my taste.

I'm trying to figure out what they're adding that makes Bandai think a $40 price point is acceptable. Since we only have this image to go from, there's not a lot.

- It looks like the dangling flaps that were rendered as plastic in the original release are now cloth. I can't tell whether it's poseable or not; I don't see a wire.
- It looks like there are at least 10 individual cell medals, although I'm guessing the mass in the center is, like the original mass, one big piece.
- The iPhone and TaJaDor medals are new. I'm a little surprised it doesn't come with a couple more versions of the medal sets, since Ankh's main thing in battle was, "Eiji! Use these!"
- At least three alternate hands. This is a unique release because we're accustomed to thinking about hands in pairs, but the cost for additional hands for this one should be substantially less because there's only one arm.
- I'm assuming the paint is much more screen-accurate.
- Obviously, the arm and accessories are all scaled-up for Shinkocchou Seihou.

There's still not enough here for me to be tempted into a purchase, much less to justify it. I'm not sure what it would have to include in order for me to buy it. Maybe the Ride Vendor in vending machine form and some can animals. Definitely hands for OOO to hold the included accessories. Or, y'know. Ankh's human form.

Now watch the human and Greeed forms not include a right forearm, forcing you to buy this set.

The page lists 100 Cell Medals as an accessory, so it sounds like the pile is a legitimate pile. Still, I'm not sure 100 of a what, 2 mm maybe? little piece of plastic is exactly worth an extra 2000 or 3000 yen.

It also confirms it comes with a stand, and five alternate hands, which isn't nothing given how detailed those have to be, but still.

It's an arm!

Page?

I hope they don't expect customers to cut the cell medals off a damned sprue. It's an... interesting... addition, but I don't see a ton of display options for more than a couple of them unless the set comes with some sort of brilliant "exploding cell medals" display piece, in which case, I expect they'd have included it in the product image.

Kinda missed that this is a retail release, which does help with the price a bit, but still... anyways, pre-orders go up September 2nd in Japan.

https://tamashii.jp/item/13032/

http://www.tokunation.com/attachment...1&d=1567170190

It took me until I looked more closely at the images to understand one of the reasons why this is priced the way it is. When I'd only glanced at it, it looked like the cell medals were just the same medal x100. Looking more closely, it looks like this includes many - maybe all - the different types of cell medals; I'd totally forgotten that the reverse sides look like those of core medals. I don't quite have the patience to see whether all the different types are represented, but I noticed some movie-exclusive medals in there.

I still want some way to display them flying around, but I guess that's kind of pointless until they release Kamen Rider Birth, a Yummy, and/or a Greeed.