[SPLIT LIP]

I am in love with this.



All my adult collecting life I'm been looking for the perfect action figure for me. Not what I like the most, just what feels to me like a perfect acton figure. This is not it, but it is very, very close.



Everything about it screams refinement. I only have two other Figuarts, but those feel like prototypes to Ryuki's final product.



Like his hands. W's hands are a nightmare to swap and he coems with a pisspoor selection, Sieg's hands almost too slick to get a decent grip on, plus have W's selection problem, but otherwise swap fine. These hands have plenty of grip and swap like a breeze. Plus they give you every one you'll need. The materials overall are also much better. He feels solid and makes my other two Figuarts feel kind of cheap.



The paintwork is exceptional bar a few small, I dare say microscopic, areas of slop. The paint itself is gorgeous. Matte Black and Red complemented by shiny silver while Dragredder and the dragvisor gets shiney everything. Looks great, and the only colour faux pas I see is the joints on Dragredder being Ryuki's light-maroon. Hardly a deal breaker and I can see why they weren't painted.



I don't think anyone's unaware of his amazing accesory count. The little advent cars are sweet. Plastic, printed, rounded edges, they're really nice. And they fit in the dragvisor enough to get the pliers out.



Ryuki's posability is perfect. No crazy triple joints where not needed, no dumb new-age hipster hips. Basic, practical action figure joints made more visually attractive. Everything gets free, rational range of movement except the biceps which are a bit tight on mine. It feels like maybe the black shoulder piece is causing tension. They move, just kind of scarily.



Ryuki is something I thought all but absent in high-end Japanese toys: practicality. Nothing is overdone, nothing is needlessly complex. There's nothing that feels like more could be accomplished with one less joint. It makes sense. The most redundant thing about him is the need to swap the plaugs on his body... which I completely agree with because if they were regular ports the paint would either scrape or they'd be cheap-looking holes. This way they look great and barely effect functionality.



"The difference is in our refinement." Sieg once said. Well, he's certainly not wrong. Also I noticed Ryuki's a bit short... but he's shorter in the show (next to everyone else I mean) and W's supposed to be a tall dude I think. Sieg towers over him, but then he really should have his head higher than everyone else.



SEE WHAT I MEAN ABOUT THOSE STUPID HIPS! Yeah I don't know why Ryuki would ever have to kneel unless he found a rabbit or a puppy or something, but at least he can. And he can sit! Like a normal human being, his legs go forward and he can sit. Look at those two other chumps. They have to cross their legs in weird ways. People keep saying those hips with the drop-down joint offer more posability like high kicks. Bullshit. They only drop down to make up for the inability to achive basic poses, and they don't do a good job of it.