S.H. Figuarts Blade Broken Ver Official Images
 

Tamashii Web exclusive
April 2014
4320 yen

DOES NOT include an undamaged head, the Lighting effects, or the piece of rubble that the first release did.

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Well, this is rather unexpected, but not a bad surprise. I'm really glad Tamashii Nations is trying human faces for Toku again, especially since it looks like they've stepped up their game from the doofy anime style that previous faces have had. I hope this one sells well.

It does appear to be a barebones release with the express purpose of using that head... That certainly makes it less impressive and no alternative to the original figure, but that head is still darn cool.

...I still want it.

Same. I already have regular Blade and being able to buy an entirely separate extra Blade to display with the damaged head is perfect. Rather than swapping the head out on one figure I can just have both displayed simultaneously.

You can always display the two as an effect of the Gemini card lol

IDK, I think I'm with those that would have rather gotten a multi-pack of battle damaged heads.

This seems a little bit like fan-gouging, to not even include the effect pieces. But maybe I'm wrong.

This actually looks really good. I'm not surprised that it doesn't include everything regular Blade did, but I don't mind. The head is the real draw here, and it looks good enough that I'll probably pick this up.

The head looks cool. That's the only positive thing I can say about it.

I'm a little disappointed at the lack of the effects and the rubble, but that head more than makes up for it, since I don't have the original Blade release, this is going to be something sweet.