New images remind us why we wanted to forget about Revoltech Kenshin

5:00 PM on 10.12.2011   |   Andres Cerrato

After the initial images came out, I firmly placed any knowledge of Kenshin Himura's Revoltech representation into the far, dark recesses of my mind. Unfortunately, I came across some more photos of the finished product today and had the misfortune of all those memories flowing back. Some designs just do not lend themselves well to the Revoltech style and the two variations of the manslayer are just horrid.

I will say something nice though and say that his reverse blade sword is done pretty nicely and the effect part for it is a decent touch. Everything else though is complete garbage. The paint job on the hair is pretty horrid and the bottom portion of his top is just painted on his pants. The hair looks particularly horrid as well, as the two-tones just do not blend well at all together. The images speak for themselves when you look at how awkward the joints look with the outfit. It's just not something that could be easily blended together to look right, sadly.

Both versions of Himura, the red-clothe Kenshin and blue Battousai will be released in the next couple of days for 2,980 yen each. I'm just honestly disappointed with Kaiyodo's effort on this. The series deserves better than this. At least we got that with the PVC releases earlier this year. Mock this release and go buy the PVC instead.

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