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Thursday, November 4, 2010

BUILT UP!!

Go Nagai's Kotetsushin Jeeg takes place fifty years after the original 1975 Steel Jeeg animation and features a new cast of characters - primarily the new main character Kenji Kusanagi, a high school student and motorcycle racer who becomes Kotetsushin Jeeg to fight the sudden reappearance of Haniwa Phantom Gods or clay robots  from the Jamada Empire ruled by Queen Himika. Other characters include Tsubaki Tamashiro (granddaughter of Miwa Uzuki) and Kyo Misumi, Kenji's partners. Other main characters from the original series also appear again including the original Jeeg.
Though only 13 episodes this anime brings back the old Jeeg genre, revamped it and made it much slicker. Bandai Soul of Chogokin line brings us the steel God toy, GX-42 Kotetsushin Jeeg with real magnetic parts just like the original. 
The magnet robot features alot of similarities with original Jeeg with most of the accessories that appeared in the animation with the classic Soul of chogokin stand to display all the parts...

With 2 closed fists, it also comes with 4 extra fists, 2 open hands, 1 for holding his Jeeg Crusher and hell slap open hand. Total of 6 interchangable hands....
The parts are interchangeable via magnetic ball joints, that also makes for the ball-jointed articulation also.
Besides all the cool accessories, Jeeg also comes with 2 heads, a transformable head and another anime accurate one. The transformable head transforms into Raikoba, Kenji's motorbike.

The only bad news, Jeeg is kinda flimsy in posing and parts tend to come off when in play. No playable gimmicks and no Baruba (a huge white sabretooth tiger) to merge with, unlike the Original Steel Jeeg which came with Panzeriod, the Soul of chogokin version didn't release any other companion piece for GX-42 or have any plans to in the future.
Other than the minor flaws, he still looks cool and very slick in any chogokin display.....

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