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PRESENTING EARTH'S GREATEST DEFENDER - MR. SATAN!
I love Mr. Satan (or if you've never seen the Japanese version of DBZ, Hercule). He is a caricature of basically every popular athlete there ever was. Despite being an extremely competent martial artist and actually being crowned the Champion of Earth, he still wants more, striving to get deals and endorsement and increase his street rep.
It was actually going quite well until Cell casually smacked him into the side of a mountain. Poor guy - he survived, which is impressive on its own, but his world was never the same. He knew there were people and beings in the world that completely overshadowed his abilities.
I've actually been on the lookout for a Mr. Satan Figuart for a while now, but last I checked because he was an exclusive he was a bit harder to find at sane pricing. It seems that prices have finally come down on the figure, so I was able to get one at what I would deem a reasonable price point.
Retailing for 6,200 Yen, the contents of the set are reasonable. You get the figure complete with cape and Worlds Championship Belt, along with four faces (neutral, yelling, excited, and of course scared out of his mind), two additional belts (another gold belt and his combat worn simple cloth belt), Bee the puppy (whom he befriends during the Buu Saga) and of course a variety of posing hands.
Oh right - he also comes with this ridiculously easy to lose piece that plugs into the hole where the cape sits, so try to hang on to that.
Mr. Satan may be a fighter, but he's definitely not packaged as so in his Figuarts.. not that I mind. This is definitely comic relief Mr. Satan - his head is giant, his shoulders aren't as squared, and the vast majority of his hands are for the purposes of grandstanding or cowering in fear.
The overall silhouette for Mr. Satan is very much perfect, especially the size of the face and his Afro. Limbs are appropriately sized. The only thing I would have liked to see is to keep the squareness of the shoulders on his outfit, but for the sake of articulation I understand the hit. Great detailing can be found all over the figure, including those hairs on his chest and forearms.
The usual array of Figuarts joints are present on this body, namely toes, ankles, double jointed knees, hips with thigh twist, waist, mid torso, shoulders with chest compress, bicep swivel, double jointed elbows, wrists, neck, and head. What you will find, however, is that due to bulk and, to be completely honest that lack of need, you'll find that range of motion of the elbows, knees, , and hips, isn't as extreme as say on your typical fighter - you can't even pull the hips down for extra motion.
Not that it matters, with the giant rubber skirt of front and back motion of the legs. Furthermore, based on the way the skirt is cut on the sides, there's no real room for give so any motion beyond what is currently allotted would result in a torn outfit for Mr. Satan.
The good news, however, is that his bulk allows for the concealment of joints, even when bent, quite well. So all poses with bent limbs will still look quite nice.. perfect for flexing to the audience.
Bee, the dog, can swivel its head side to side.
Paint job is nice and crisp. It's not exactly high art, even by Dragonball character standards, but it is nicely done. No paint oversprays, crisp masking, very nice detail paint apps and decal application. It's nice to see that the detailing in the hair was not lost despite being basically drowned in matte black paint.
Finally, there's build quality. As you can probably guess, not an issue here to report. All parts have a good finish on them, with no QC issues to report. Joints hold poses just fine, and everything fits together nicely.
So overall, The Champ is everything I expected of him. Some would complain that he should be able to pose as dynamically as the rest of the Z fighters, but for me, the inability to do that basically expected anyway. It's only proper the guy who can't fight to Z levels shouldn't be able to pose to those levels. If you collect figures of all the greats, then look no further.
There's no greater man than Mr. Satan.
So the next little while will be exciting. I've got some leftovers I've still got to get to, but there's also a shipment of stuff I've been dying to get my hands on for quite some time. I'm pretty much going to have to flip a coin to see which comes next.
See you next time!
DSC_4202
PRESENTING EARTH'S GREATEST DEFENDER - MR. SATAN!
I love Mr. Satan (or if you've never seen the Japanese version of DBZ, Hercule). He is a caricature of basically every popular athlete there ever was. Despite being an extremely competent martial artist and actually being crowned the Champion of Earth, he still wants more, striving to get deals and endorsement and increase his street rep.
It was actually going quite well until Cell casually smacked him into the side of a mountain. Poor guy - he survived, which is impressive on its own, but his world was never the same. He knew there were people and beings in the world that completely overshadowed his abilities.
I've actually been on the lookout for a Mr. Satan Figuart for a while now, but last I checked because he was an exclusive he was a bit harder to find at sane pricing. It seems that prices have finally come down on the figure, so I was able to get one at what I would deem a reasonable price point.
Retailing for 6,200 Yen, the contents of the set are reasonable. You get the figure complete with cape and Worlds Championship Belt, along with four faces (neutral, yelling, excited, and of course scared out of his mind), two additional belts (another gold belt and his combat worn simple cloth belt), Bee the puppy (whom he befriends during the Buu Saga) and of course a variety of posing hands.
Oh right - he also comes with this ridiculously easy to lose piece that plugs into the hole where the cape sits, so try to hang on to that.
Mr. Satan may be a fighter, but he's definitely not packaged as so in his Figuarts.. not that I mind. This is definitely comic relief Mr. Satan - his head is giant, his shoulders aren't as squared, and the vast majority of his hands are for the purposes of grandstanding or cowering in fear.
The overall silhouette for Mr. Satan is very much perfect, especially the size of the face and his Afro. Limbs are appropriately sized. The only thing I would have liked to see is to keep the squareness of the shoulders on his outfit, but for the sake of articulation I understand the hit. Great detailing can be found all over the figure, including those hairs on his chest and forearms.
The usual array of Figuarts joints are present on this body, namely toes, ankles, double jointed knees, hips with thigh twist, waist, mid torso, shoulders with chest compress, bicep swivel, double jointed elbows, wrists, neck, and head. What you will find, however, is that due to bulk and, to be completely honest that lack of need, you'll find that range of motion of the elbows, knees, , and hips, isn't as extreme as say on your typical fighter - you can't even pull the hips down for extra motion.
Not that it matters, with the giant rubber skirt of front and back motion of the legs. Furthermore, based on the way the skirt is cut on the sides, there's no real room for give so any motion beyond what is currently allotted would result in a torn outfit for Mr. Satan.
The good news, however, is that his bulk allows for the concealment of joints, even when bent, quite well. So all poses with bent limbs will still look quite nice.. perfect for flexing to the audience.
Bee, the dog, can swivel its head side to side.
Paint job is nice and crisp. It's not exactly high art, even by Dragonball character standards, but it is nicely done. No paint oversprays, crisp masking, very nice detail paint apps and decal application. It's nice to see that the detailing in the hair was not lost despite being basically drowned in matte black paint.
Finally, there's build quality. As you can probably guess, not an issue here to report. All parts have a good finish on them, with no QC issues to report. Joints hold poses just fine, and everything fits together nicely.
So overall, The Champ is everything I expected of him. Some would complain that he should be able to pose as dynamically as the rest of the Z fighters, but for me, the inability to do that basically expected anyway. It's only proper the guy who can't fight to Z levels shouldn't be able to pose to those levels. If you collect figures of all the greats, then look no further.
There's no greater man than Mr. Satan.
So the next little while will be exciting. I've got some leftovers I've still got to get to, but there's also a shipment of stuff I've been dying to get my hands on for quite some time. I'm pretty much going to have to flip a coin to see which comes next.
See you next time!