Give me the plug-suit 1/10 WAVE Rei everyday of the week.
You're right in that it looks like an abrupt shift in color, more than anything else. Meh.

Test Plug Suit, huh? Is that what the staff behind the Evangelion units are calling it? And how does one agree to put on something so revealing at such a young age? Oddly enough, I'm not seeing that with Wave's 1/10 scale Shikinami Asuka Langley Test Plug Suit version.
I know the outfit is suppose to look transparent but with the color job done on this figure, it just looks like tacky color choices to me. Wave did do an excellent job with the pleather look of the plug suit and Asuka's face is looking good so I will give them that. And as I study the figure, I can't help but notice that Asuka has absolutely no figure and is very petite. Then again, she is only 14. 14 years old and wearing something like this. Yikes!
I'm sure this will be met with mixed reviews but I'm definitely not that impressed. If she's to your liking, she is available for pre-order at AmiAmi and Hobby Search, retailing for 4500 yen. Release date is slated for May, 2010.
[via NekoMagic]