Kotobukiya May 2021 - A Little Bit Recap

Life is busy as always so I kinda cut my posting and skip on several announcements lately since I mostly cover it. The most recent one is Evoroid. Both EVR-01A JET-N and E-REX-S1 E-Rex will be separately released on December 2021 this year for 2,600 YEN (excl. tax). To be honest, I find this quite pricy 👎 for a deformed toy. A price like that is better off investing in Frame Arms or Frame Arms Girl even on Gunpla. I know that price will be lower from online retail shops in Japan. Looking at it, you are going to expect a discount within few months.

I was curious when a lot of the Frame Arms toys listing were gone in HLJ. Apparently, they were ready for the new update RE2 version to be a reissue. So far, 14 of them received RE2 update and will be seeing more in the future. The good news is, no price increase or change compared to the previously released. The below is a short recap of the changes in the packaging.

RE2 (Rebuild Edition 2) Version:

• Frame Architect Renewal Ver. for the base frame.
• The hips of Frame Architect uses the improved standard joints parts found in SA-16Ex STYLET Multi Weapon Expansion Test Type for more secure support.
• The hand parts use swing joints. M.S.G “FA Hand 2”

Do take note that, there are newly sculpted parts, “Frame Architect Joint Parts” that can only be found in Jin-Rai with Assualt Unit packaging at the moment.

Anyway, for fuck sake, Frame Arms Girl HS Gourai and Jin-Rai Armor 👀? Did Kotobukiya seriously run out of idea? I don't know about you guys, but this is the worst release for this year, btw, it retail for 5,400 YEN. Better stick with Frame Arms Girl HS Gourai with 20 Mechatro WeGo. 

The one hit insect kill Hoi Hoi-san is back with HOIHOI-SAN Mini with HOIHOI CARRY plus. This cure little thing will hit retail shops on October this year and selling for 4,500 YEN. I'm not going to lie, I will get this if it really can kill insect in my room one day 😂.

Ace Combat X-49 also coming on October but will cost you 6,000 YEN 😑. The license seriously cost Kotobukiya a lot to produce an airplane model kit. For that kinda of price, they better off just make a die-cast version. With that kind of price, you can get JGSDF Type 07-Ⅲ Tank Nacchin and maybe TAMOTU together. Again, better wait for the discount. Oh, don't forget Takemikazuchi Type-00F Mana Tsukuyomi Ver.1.5, Takemikazuchi Type-OOR Ver.1.5 and Type-00R Takemikazuchi from Muv-Luv getting reissue if you are interested.