Hobby Review : Banpresto SCultures Tenkaichi Budokai vol 01 - Son Gokou Casual Suit ver.

Goku is chill out in statue pose !

I have already said that i want to review this one in many weeks ago. Now is the time i think. Sorry for the long delay. 

Company : BANPRESTO 
Release : October 2011
From Series : Dragon Ball
Prize Figure
PVC

This is just one of another Goku figurine that has many variant and size from all over brands until today. I choose this because SCultures is one of my favorite product in this statue / figure. Why? This product is as a result from the competition against many talented sculptor, that the event annualy and this is makes me interest with this product. And also, this is the first edition of SCultures, and also this Son Goku is the first time i hold my own Dragon Ball statue.
It is fascinating.








 

Now, next into the product. I think the box has been designed really well as a first edition of Dragon Ball's SCultures. It has a nice layout and simple composition, with the major orange color as a background. Here is the box, i make some review with stop-motion technique as a GIF.

The figure itself is the main thing, and it is awesome. The size of figure is fit with my taste, and it is easy to place wherever you want, without hesitating the height itself. This is contains with figure and base as a two pieces only, so you can easily do the assembly. The hawaiian shirt with some alphabetical pattern is great and it is eye catching for the first time you seeing this. It has the vivid color with nice gradient. The jeans itself sculpted really well, we can see the wave of the jeans and it feels detailed. Then, the skin itself painted really well, the muscle, curve, and gradient is nice. And you can see the flip flop (in Indonesia called "Sandal Jepit"), it is really detailed. Last, it feels relieved when you see that base. It is really special. Just see the 360 degree of this Goku.

SCultures itself often do the dynamic pose for their product, but this one is also unique, because i think there is only a few statue that has a nice and casual style like this one. Here is some of Goku photograph that i took. Enjoy.

For they that admire Dragon Ball, especially the Goku, it is one of collection that you must have. It is quite vintage too because i think it is quite hard to hunt this one nowadays.


Oh yeah, this is my logo (watermark) if you need to know.

Thank you for read my review.


Terima kasih.

Review of Rurouni Kenshin Live-Action Movie (Kyoto Inferno & The Legend Ends)

Battle of Past & Future

Story :

 

Story begins when Makoto Shisio (Tatsuya Fujiwara), the main antagonist, has been found by Hajime Saitô (Yôsuke Eguchi). World begins to know that Shishio, another samurai that known as Battosai (means Killer), is still alive, and he wants revenge to the Japanese Government becuase of the act that Government did in the past to him. Then, he wants to rule Japan by himself. Our main protagonist, Himura Kenshin (Takeru Sato), has been chosen by the prime minister in Meiji era, Toshimichi Ookubo (Kazufumi Miyazawa), to fight against Shisio. He is chosen by Ookubo because Himura well known as the real Battosai, and choose to not draw his sword to kill people. 

Following the story, after his katana broken by Sojiro Seta (Ryûnosuke Kamiki), one of Shisio's men, Himura follow back his road to the land of his Sakabato's Blacksmith (Sakabato is the name of his sword). After he got a new sword, he must fight with police offcer against Shisio's army in Kyoto. After battle, Himura felt there is something wrong behind that. There is no Shisio in this battle. Then, he went to the position where his friends fought. Kaoru Kamiya (Emi Takei), one of Himura friends is Kidnapped by Shisio's men (Sojiro). He runs really fast to chase the enemy. After a while, he found the big ship and that is recognized as Shisio's ship. Himura jump over to the ship and looking for Kaoru. He clashed with Shisio's men and the Shisio himself in a short term. Last, Himura jumps to the sea, to help Kaoru that throwed by enemy.

The legend ends begin when Himura has been helped by a mysterious man from the beach. Kenshin knew that he is not strong enough and learns the final style of Hiten-Mitsurugi from his teacher (the mysterious man), a path to defeat the final opponent, Shisio. Seijuro Hiko (Masaharu Fukuyama), the teacher and also founder of Hiten-Mitsurugi style, told Himura to thinks that something wrong inside himself. He trained really hard to found what is the important thing from his way of samurai and the style of Hiten-Mitsurugi. After Himura finish his training, he went to the place where he must be, and looking for Kaoru. He went back to Misao Makimachi (Tao Tsuchiya) 's inn, the core of Hidden Watchers of Kyoto . He kept his identity from public because he announced as a wanted by government because the government has been threated by Shisio's instructions as he said to kill Himura Kenshin. He must go to Kamiya Dojo to find his friends, and he must follow the secret passage of Kyoto's Hidden Watcher track. On his journey, he found Aoshi Shinomori (Yûsuke Iseya), one of  the best ninja and fighters from hidden watchers. He really desperate to defeat Kenshin and wants to be the greatest, because of his title, Battosai. Himura defeats Aoshi, and keep moving forward. After he arrived in Kamiya Dojo, he surrendered to government and meet the new minister. Government brings Himura to Shisio's base, and continue to execution plan by killing Himura.
 

Saitô as the executioner, create a fake situation and release Himura, then they and Sanosuke Sagara (Munetaka Aoki) go to the Shisio's main ship. Himura, Saitô, and Sanosuke fight against Shisio by himself, and they power is can't stand against him. In the middle of fight, Aoshi comes as a extra power to fight Shisio. The battles is continues begins four of them against single enemy, Shisio. One by one they started to fall and can't fight, until battle between Himura and Shisio. Finally, they decided to go with their last power and clash. Himura wins against Shisio. Story ends when government has decided to erase the past of Battosai and starts a new over again to all.

Opinion :

This movie is really fascinating, from the manga series that started in April 11, 1994, this i could say it is success. The Kyoto Inferno released August 1, 2014 (Japan) and September 10, 2014 (Indonesia). Legend Ends released in September 13, 2014 (Japan) and October 22, 2014 (Indonesia). In Indonesia itself, aired in limited cinema theater, which is in Blitz Megaplex. The way of the director, Keishi Ōtomo, translating into this live-action is the best. He choose a perfect actor to play Kenshin Himura, as he is Takeru Sato. 

What is the best i could say from this movie is: Dynamic movement of the shot, great battle scene, accuracy of appropriate against the original manga (character, story), beautiful compositon of photography, the stupid but entertain Sanosuke, and consistent quality movie until end.

For a 2 hours of duration each, what is missing from this movie is just a bit lack of music and a few shot that looked "wrong" from the acting. I give 9 out of 10 points for this movie. Nonetheless, it is a great movie you must watch.

A NEW BEGINNING

HELLO ..

So, today i am celebrating my new blog. This blog i created for purpose of collect and post my works in art, toys, photography, music, etc. This is as replacement for my own website. (It is needed for personal works and portfolio's container) 
I don't hope any, i just do anything i could.
Oh, i am using english because of universal language and could be read by people in all over countries.

For now, let me do my first post for today. I don't know what i'm gonna post, i just take random artwork from me. I Don't mind to hear all compliment, critique and comments here.


You've got a friend in me.
Nikon D3100, and using some adjustment in Adobe Photoshop.