Robo Luchador

So recently I reviewed the 1st volume of the new manga ULTRAMAN on this blog (you can read that post here ). Now as a tokusatsu fan I deeply enjoy the Ultraman franchise. I discovered it when i was young and just getting into the whole giant robo and kaiju thing. The show instantly pulled me in and kept me entertained. Now as an Adult Collector you would think I jump at the chance to collect high quality figures of the franchise. Now you would be right with one exception the Ultra-Act figures by Tamashii Nations are far too numerous and had fast collector price mark up than I have ever seen. So I stayed away sadly however when Tamashii Nation announced that Ultra-Act and S.H. figuarts  would be crossing over for a Ultraman figure based on the manga I was all on board.

So welcome to Out of the Box a series of blogs that will review the figures that I am collecting.  So this entry I will be looking at S.H.Figuarts Luigi.

So In this most recent podcast I mentioned that I’m trying to get back into anime. Then I got to thinking about my top 10. Now if anyone is interested in that, I'll include that in a separate post. One of my favorite anime and manga properties is a Shōnen series called Kinnikuman (Japanese: キン肉マン , lit. "Muscleman"). It’s a story about superheroes who wrestle, it's kind of awesome. I mentioned this series a few months back in an IT CAME FROM JAPAN segment on the on the podcast. The only thing I love more than comics and cartoons are action figures from said comics and cartoons. I, however, have very little Kinnikuman merch at all. The reason for this is when I got into the series was when the Ultimate Muscle anime was on the Fox Box (remember that one kids) and dubbed by 4kids . Bandai of America did have toys for the anime. They brought over the Kinkeshi rubber-mini figures as well as 6 inch hyper-pose-able figures. I had one or two of the 6 inch figures...