[Saint Cloth Myth] Poseidon Box Art

Again seen on Daisuki-Kei's blog, here are hi res photos of the box art for Poseidon "Anime" edition and "Royal Ornament" editions.

I must admit, I find the back of the Royal Ornament Edition rather amusing. "An arrow shot upright falls on the shooter's head". Makes me feel like going, "well duh! it's like spitting in the wind...". More to the point, I know where they're trying to get at but something a little more poetic would have been better like "The arrow let loose will always return to archer", kinda like "an eye for an eye", "Karma ripens for those who sow it" etc... Anyway, photos:

Now, as luck would have it, he also included a very helpful photo of the inside of the boxes. Why helpful? Because I like to try and decipher the "Saint Myth Code" you find on the front of the boxes, and the inside inscriptions did help to solve the puzzle. Yep a simple front scan no longer helps, now you need the whole box apparently...

Now Bandai has been more and more crafty with their codes and I had a suspicion these would complete eachother and I think I was right.

So to cut things short, I'm fairly certain the code for Poseidon "Anime" is BLACK STAR COME (as it was for Kassa, I think) and for the Royal Ornament I'm pretty sure we have GEMINI AMIME (sic).

Which means, next year the second renegade to be released will be Gemini Saga. Hardly a surprise but there you go.

Of course I could very well be wrong and my interpretation not being quite as accurate as what I think but given the circumstances, that's the best I can offer. Feel free to suggest something else.

[Saint Cloth Myth] Figure Oh 128

As every month, with a Hobby Japan, comes a Figure Oh, and vice-versa. This month has once again the upcoming special edition of Broken Pegasus Seiya in the spotlight... and it's been redesigned. 

The guys at bandai and Figure Oh are rather clever when they put the prototype up such a long time in advance (remember it comes out next April). This allows them to gather feedback on people's expectations. One thing that immediately strikes me with this redesign is something I pointed out in a forum (which they can't have picked up unless they speak French ^^) regarding how "clean" the body of Seiya is for such a damaged cloth. So sure enough, if you look at the new grey prototype, you'll notice slashes in the legs and damaged arm-bands. This truly enhances the feeling of damage sustained through relentless battles, not just "putting on a cloth I can't be bothered looking after" :p

The Pegasus Object has also been redesigned to be more stremalined and more pleasant to look at compared to the original Pegasus V2 Object.

Almost makes me feel like getting a copy... We shall see.

Thanks to Sorrento for the photos ^^

[Saint Cloth Myth] Hobby Japan 10 - Poseidon & Athena

Here are the scans of the latest Hobby Japan. I must say the Poseidon family shot looks rather colourful with the various shades of hair and the variations in the scales' colour.



And a few screenshots of the last Elysion episode, if you've not seen it yet.

Thanks to Cybergundam ;)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Figure Oh 127 & Athena Premium Throne

We'll start with the throne shall we?

This little beauty has been presented in the staff diary of Tamashii as the painted prototype of the throne which will be included with the Saint Cloth Myth Premium of Athena. It's quite a gorgeous little example of royal upholstery. If I compare that to Pope Arles' throne... well there's no comparison really ;)

Next we have this month's "Age of Myth" section of Figure Oh, which introduced detailed photos of the upcoming special edition of Pegasus Seiya Broken Version. It does promise to be a nice alternative of what we've had so far, now remember the magazine sells it for ¥5,000 (postage included) so if you see shops selling it for significantly more than that (I did, and won't say where), then be sure you're prepared to pay the extra money for something which a lot of people don't seem to show much interest in.

However, there's one little plus you can see if you look carefully, there will be an extra set of shoulder parts which are more damaged so you can choose your level of brokenness if you so desire ;)


This shows us that the head of Seiya Appendix will be adaptable on broken pegasus. Finally the extras included with Poseidon Royal Ornament Edition, which we saw previously from Saint Myth Chronicles are presented once more here.


Thanks to Sorrento for the images ;)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Julian Solo / Poseidon - a few more goodies

The following page is an excerpt from the Saint Myth Chronicles where you can see on the left-hand side a few of the things which will, at least, be included in the "Royal Ornament" edition of Julian Solo / Poseidon , namely:
- a set of imperial robes
- 2 pairs of hands to be used with Kanon plain clothes (Damn now I have to buy Sea Dragon :p)
- a pretty extensive set of hands


Thanks to Sorrento ;)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Figure Oh 126 + Hobby Japan 9

Oh hey look, I'm way behind in posting these again. Sorry folks but I have so much stuff going on life at the moment that I have to wait evenings like tonight to post all the jucy stuff which is currently going on. So bear with me.


We start with the Age of Myth section of Figure Oh, where you can see a pretty impressive set of shots of the upcoming Julian Solo / Poseidon Myth Cloth. I have personally opted for the "Royal Ornament" or "blonde Julian" version ;) What can I say, I like deities to have somewhere to sit :pNotice a few things on this page. One is the various concept designs of Kassa's hairstyle, as he's never seen without his helmet either in the manga or the anime. The other is more detailled pictures of the prototype of Figure Oh's special Myth Cloth: Pegasus Seiya, broken version. Since these came out, a photo of the coloured prototype has been released and I will put it in a later post but you can already see a pretty good job at reproducing the shattered cloth, even though it is "yet another Seiya"...

Finally for Figure Oh, the cover of their special edition "Saint Cloth Chronicle", which I have ordered and having seen some scans, promises to be a must-have for a comprehensive review of Saint Seiya official figurines.


The Hobby Japan scan show more or less the same as above, so I'll just let you enjoy the photos.


Credits to the usual suspects, Sorrento and the guys at all4seiya ;)

[Saint Cloth Myth] Tokyo Toy Show - Alioth Fenrir, Hypnos and more...

Okay folks, so that wasn't a particularily long wait (I wasn't really expecting it to be to be honest). Photos from the Tokyo Toy Show that we saw some glimpses of yesterday have started emerging... lots of them. Well not "Tamashii Nation" -lots but still enough to make me all giddy and excited about the upcoming releases.

So without further ado, I present my greatest expectation:

Epsilon star, Alioth Fenrir:




He has a certain air of "don't mess up with me or else", which to my mind (and trust me, I know something about this) does transcribe rather well the feeling of being a lone-wolf rejected from the world, ready to take on whatever comes at you.

Now on more design issues, I have to admit of being quite please overall. There are separate knee parts which, despite it generic similarity with the Zeta God Robe, make the leg part a lot tighter in design and thus more sleek. The claws seem to also be a separate part which either gets clipped on the hand parts or the end of the forearms. This should help clipping the hands in more easily I hope. The fur skirt has also been included (it wasn't on the Vintage figurine), though it is made of plastic, so we'll se how it looks overall with the colour on. The mask's proportions seem to be just right and give a well balance overall look to the figurine (Hagen's for instance was too high to my liking). Finally, the face and hair seem to be really well worked. Now it'll be a case of waiting to see the coloured version and what he looks like without the eyepiece of the mask, or just without the mask.

One but can dream but if only they could include Ging his wolf companion as well as a blue tunic to allow for a "casual clothes" version, it would be fantastic...

Next on is

God of Sleep, Hypnos


That particular photo make him look almost transparent. There's not much else to say I don't think, other than confirming it will take a hell of a lot of space, especially because of the side peacock feathers but overall, it will nicely complete the twin pair of Elysion lower gods...

Lyumnades Kassa




Those are rather better quality images than what's been available so far. The face is still the same, and I doubt they'll change it now (though you never know, they did change Syd's at the last minute last year) but the scale is rather well done. What's more is that the colours seem to be consistent with Scylla Io's, that is to say, quite faithful to what we saw in the original anime. Now of course that mean they'll both clash with the 5 other sea generals, ah well. Not quite sure what Bandai was thinking there...

Saori - Athena

No new image of the figurine itself as of yet, but a nice bonus to be included, the jar in which Hypnos traps her as she arrives in Elysion. It makes me wonder if the head part will be adaptable to the jar now...

Julian Solo / Poseidon



The first two are of the "Royal Ornament" edition and the last two, the regular edition. I'm quite impressed that they're including a face with closed eyes, they seem to have gone back into the habit of doing so and that's quite a welcome little bonus as we sometimes mostly picture some of these characters with their eyes closed.

Other than that, the colours are quite spiffy and I can't wait to get mine (though I'm yet to work out where I'll put it ...)

Thanks again to Sorrento and all the guys on ma-deesse who relayed the photos ^^

[Saint Cloth Myth] Julian Solo / Poseidon - Larger Images available

Thanks again to Sorrento for finding us those little treasures.

You can see a little bit more clearly the differences between the Deluxe version (top) and the Normal version (bottom)

Now it seems that the Deluxe version will not just comprise the one scale, but both the manga and anime version of it. Suddenly it makes the steep price of ¥10,000 a little more justified. It's unclear whether there will also be two bodies with this packaging but I'm sure we'll find out in due course.

Meanwhile, to buy or not to buy is going to be a bit of a dilemma for me. Whilst the face is a little too "gentle" a la Orphee, I'm quite fond of the orangey colour of the manga version of the scale, not to mention the throne which would accompany Shun/Hades quite well in style...

[Saint Cloth Myth] Julian Solo / Poseidon, First full visuals

Ok folks, hold on tight to this one. The myth cloth of Julian Solo / Poseidon will not only be released as early as this coming September but it will come in two different flavours:

- The first one, priced at ¥5,500 will be a "normal" myth meaning one body and its armour (scale in this case) which you can re-assemble in its object form.

- The second one, priced at ¥10,000, will be the "DX" version with a few more goodies added for good measure. Not only does it come with a throne, a trident with the ribbon around its shaft, a better quality cape, a stand for the trident, an extra base for the legless form of the object (the original one) and some kind of hidden compartment in the throne for an undetermined purpose so far, it also has blonde hair and its scale coloured in accordance with the manga, as opposed to the Anime version of the "normal" release (yeah I know the colours aren't quite right but we're used to that now with the marinas... ;))

Check it out, and thanks to Sorrento again for the pic ;-)