Its important to remember a lot of people buy model kits because they like the characters its tied to, on top of liking the design. If the anime was better, the kits probably would have sold out like crazy.
This. I love the mechanical designs of this line so much but the actual show itself was painfully boring. Even the animation while not bad perse lacked so much weight and energy; every fight was directed in such a plain and uninteresting way.
@cybobb it's baffling why. They just had to say "gimme uh Full metal panic but with imaginary Digimon" and would've had the perfect show for the designs.
On the other hand, Bandai has a line of model kits that don't have an associated media project but still sells well: their 30 Minute Label line. Asides from some blurbs on the manuals and the websites their 30MM, 30MS, and 30MF kits don't have any associated manga or anime, at least on launch, and yet the kits consistently sell well. I think the problem with Kyoukai Senki is that they did try to sell these kits through an anime, and thus when the anime proved painfully mid the kits suffered.
@StrikeNoir105E funny you should mention that bc it really feels like Bandai wasted the good designs on Borderline. I get what they're trying to do with 30mm but borderline's designs are so much more creative and no less modular and customizable whereas 30mm almost feels like Frame Arms at home Edit: meaning! I think borderline designs might've done better without a mediocre show! But alas
These kits have very, very good quality of engineering and parts separation. The designs may be unorthodox but the quality is fantastic. Unfortunately the anime was poorly done/received, and that most likely contributed to why the kits themselves are not popular at all
Yeah, it probably has the worst combination of failure - people weren't talking about the anime plus Gunpla fans pretty much refuse to buy kits. It's a sad fate 😢
I dont think it is the designs, some looks ugly while others looks awesome, but the problem is that the anime is bad, if there isn't any fan then nobody will want to look for these, I have been spending a few months indecisive over buying one because while I like the design I didn't like the show, so until this day the model kit is in my wishing list because I don't want it in my cabinet remembering me the bad anime it belong to.
@@princetrumz in canada they're more expensive than Average hg kits by 8-10$, and the anime is extremely underwhelming for a sunrise production. the kit designs themselves are fine, but at that price, we'd maybe buy their options parts, or use them for kitbashing when they're on sale.
I agree Kyoukai Senki kits are good such a shame they flopped people slept on it because the anime felt like carbon copy of Gundam mixed with Code Geass not to mention it felt like a filler because it was shown just months before Witch from Mercury which most are hyped on
The only good part about Kyoukai Senki is how Bandai obviously spent a ton of money on it thinking it was gonna be huge only for G Witch to effortlessly beat its ass
These are solid kits and high quality kits. Their plastic is definitely of higher quality than standard Bandai kits. But the issue it’s really expensive each kit US retail for at least $30. For a new IP that’s too much of an asking price. Had really good potential but the anime wasn’t well cooked and the kits are higher priced overall than standard Bandai offerings.
the prices are about right because they are bigger and of better quality. just look at the chars counterattack kits, all of them are bigger and cost more than a regular hg
The designs were pretty cool with some good components that'd make cool donor pieces for other models. I even tried to give the anime a go, but it was so lost and confused as to what it wanted to be(aside from trying to sell toys), I felt it would almost be better if the anime didn't exist at all...
These kits and their accessory packs are great! The problem is that the series and the kits themselves had little to no promotions or marketing. I only found out about the kits on a whim and then I found the anime from researching the kits. I love these designs too, they're awesome, hopefully others will come around...
The anime was all right. The model kits however are all bangers. They stray away from the 'humanish-Gundam' proportions and are totally a breath of fresh air. As a robot fan, loved building some of these that I could get my hands on.
i have never seen the show, (i might watch it for myself so i understand the kits better) But i love the designs of them. i got my hands on the HG Kenbu zan and i fell in love with them and even bought the Full mechanics of the Kenbu and the kenbu zan, i plain on buying more, i love these kits.
The designs were good but the issue was the price of the kits there were like $45-$50 a pop while you could get a zaku for $13 like you can get rg unicorn for $40
Short answer: Yes. The kits may be fine, but they’ve been shelf warming since the show dropped. Kyoukai Senki was just a mediocre mecha anime that lacked the staying power of Gundam. Meanwhile, 30MM showed that if you keep kits cheap and highly customizable, you don’t need a crappy anime to sell.
I’ve always wanted to get into this kit line, but the problem here (Puerto Rico) is that we get kits months and months after general release, so unpopular kits just don’t get distributed by stores here. Maybe online these kits are piling up, but in stores here they’re almost non-existent.
Bandai made the whole line of 30 Minutes Missions, gave us the snipbits of lore in each of their kits, and then didn't even think of adapting the whole line into an anime 🗿🤦♂️
There ment to be like Gundam version of Lego you just build what you want with them so really do not need a story as such though. But knowing current anime taste the Sisters or Fantasy line hads more chance than the Mecha part of line.
@@Acidonia150reborn I really wish Bandai could do something akin to the FA Girls Hand Scale, which is basically the FA Girls shrunk down into a Hexa Gear size. Maybe Bandai could do it with their 30MS with their Shodo joint engineering 🤷♂️
This is my hunch, but I'm seeing them trying to emulate how china does things with the girlpla stuff. Chinese girlpla demand is on the rise, even though their animations were sparse and the last one i remember was released around 5 years ago. Hence, most of them don't even have any video and other supplementary media for them other than product lore and some comics here and there. Splurging on a full series that can be a hit or miss and directionless with a hodgepodge of creative members trying to move together. Mind you, 30 minute sisters is a line they made to cash in on the demand created by chinese companies so they are in the catching up phase and for now and just following their lead. Mind you, these products are bought mostly on the merit of their quality, and thus no mass-media influence much of their demand. Another great (or terrible, depending on your angle) example would be the Zoids Wild line. They invested a ton in the series, but added questionable design elements that alienated established fans (they mount them like on horseback, and the shows are targetted to boys age 10-14). Also an equivalent zoids wild kit costs roughly twice for an equivalent gunpla kit (less for smaller zoids, but way more for the bigger ones) which i assume is to recoup animation cost. Zoids Wild anime has some of the most beautiful 3D battles I've seen during it's launch.
@@alfianfahmi5430 Ive seen fans make Small bodys for the Sisters heads before online. They should do like Limb/Set parts for MS/Fantasy too so you can make werewolfs.Lizzard,Skeletons and a Snake tail too. I do not think they will ever make parts for Male characters or figures though.
while they are on sale, the hits are generally more expensive than a lot of Gunpla. The Maelis Kenbu on sale is 9€ while I just got my standard Price HG Hi-Zack for less than 8€. Yes the Hi-Zack is oder, but I love the design.
One thing with the model kits is that with the scale, it's within the split for some of the more standard wargaming figures, though on the comparatively small side there which isn't as bad. They scale pretty close to 25mm figures, and still work with the 28-32mm ones for things, I'd gotten a few of the trucks and things because they work there for RPG use as well as terrain for modern/near future settings since they work rather well there.
I personally love this model kit from the first time i saw it. Especially the design. And after watching several japanese reviewers it blew my mind how fun this kit to pose. Unfortunately it's kinda expensive in Indonesia at least for me 😂 maybe I'm just too broke 😂
no you're not, it is too expensive in indonesia, I have to flew to jpn and found it only about 500.000 idr, and could become even cheaper with tourist taxfree
i bought 2 Ghost MK1s because the MK2 is not available but not because of the show, it's because i love the animal aesthetic of them compared to non-Mobile Armor Gundam kits add 30 Minuite Missions to the mix and they are kitbasher's heaven
The Anime was too much of a hybrid feeling. They can't do "War is hell", but also "Hey, look at this cute AI baby dog"! But the designs are awesome!!! P.S. the ONA, that's more serious got a better reception.
Yeah when I saw the kits they looked cool but the higher price point and other choices were chosen (mainly 30MM). I haven’t seen the anime tho but if I can get some of the kits for cheap I will cause they do look cool.
I got something like halfway into the first season of the anime as it aired. The anime really didn’t do any favors for these kits outside of the fights. Honestly tho, I love these kits, ghost is my favorite chunky boi and I love how well he poses. People really should try these kits cause it’s way less samey than a standard hg gundam build.
If only I could pay for the shipping at the moment, I'd try to spread those untouched kits around. Folks I know complain all the time about practicality in robot design. These could've vibed with em. I'm just busy and poor, so couldn't get em.
Has more to with market stagnation and publicly traded companies becoming hyper overvalued in share price. There is more and more pressure to increase earns to keep the P/E ratio down. Bandai's production cost haven't gone up, quite the opposite. They have started to shut down their higher cost factories in Jp in favor of outsourcing more and more to Cn.
I didn't pick these up back when the show was on the air because the kits were more pricey than a standard HG and the designs are pretty hit or miss. Favorites like the badass Jogan sold out quickly while I have absolutely no interest for the other two protagonist MAILeS since they look like Foghorn Leghorn and Tweety Bird. I did manage to grab the HG Byakuchi FGE Color when it was on sale and it's a pretty good kit. The Protogouyo is another badass kit from a spinoff short series but again, quite pricey.
I feel like gunpla is expensive when it comes to UC or seed kits But kits like Ibo, witch from mercury and the build franchise are still affordable It also depends on the gunpla's design, popularity and gimmicks
Here in my place these kits are as cheap as something like $3USD, people here basically only buy them as "weapon packs" because they are seriously cheaper than real weapon packs
They should make Nadesico model kits instead of Kyokai Senki I'm bet it would be successful especially if they did Reboot Nadesico with more story than the original
i have one kyokai senki kit which i love except for the legs on proto gouyo. i think anime was good and fights were awesome but what it suffered from not having those peak performance best music fights, even 86 had some those scenes kept pulling audience back to the anime and showed the interest in mechs. while the fights in kyokai senki were fast paced and had no subplot to look upto. the most interesting thing was the ghost ai mech but i felt it was a missed opportunity to create a solid villian and cement the anime in audience fans. thay made quality anime but story werent upto the par
@@princetrumz u got the best kits as standard type go. the feet are are messy but once on an action base i think thats where these kits shine. best of luck in your quest to collect these i do find easy and cheap deals on yahoo auction japan and mercari but only difficulty facing is in find ghost mk 1 and 2
This series have some of the best design mecha out there. It is a same that the anime was terrible. I only watch to the point where the Ghost show up, then I realized there is a nationalist undertone which I don't vibe with. The show portrait the foreign forces as an evil tyrannical power that suppress Japanese people. Also, all the invading forces are enemies of Japan during the second World War. While every Japanese in the show are always nice and ready to help strangers in need selflessly. The whole show feel like a hollow propaganda made by Japanese nationalists.
I tried watching the anime but after I wanna say maybe 4 to 5 episodes of the first season I just could not find Myself connected with anything. So this definitely screams those yeah the model kits are the best thing about the show and after seeing some reviews about them oh yeah they are really cool. If nothing else at least we had some cool robot designs.
Some months ago, I shared awareness of this line to the Facebook Captain power Future force group. Hopefully some fans of the 80s show can make some mileage out of making Bio Dreads out of these guys.
The design of these MS kits are amazing. The plastic is high quality. The joints are stable. There is, in my opinion, little to criticize about the design itself. However, I would attribute the lack of interest to the anime. The reason I didn’t invest in these kits is simply because there’s no physical person inside. There’s no cockpit. It’s a weird teleportation/neauralink thing? I don’t even know. I dropped the anime when I saw it was some weird no-cockpick situation, and then never bothered with the kits further.
when I first saw this line and the anime the first thing I remembered was a demo I played on a game phantom brigade, it kinda is similar in a lot of ways so I was interested but same as the anime fell off so did the line. great kits though
Sadly here in Indonesia their prices are the same as early RG or even some MG, even though I wanted some of them but I still thinking I'd be better go for a RG than HG Kyoukai Senki
I've been meaning to watch the show but I just can't find the right time to watch anime this year. As for the kits, I always find the limbs weird looking so I've been passing on them until I saw Protogouyo. Till now, it's the only Kyoukai Senki kit that I have.
Wanna know whats the interesting and funny part These line has pbandai kits but due to not so good sales and reception of the anime they decided to make it regular release😂
I actually bought some. I love some of its designs but sometimes it feels hollow on the arms and legs. I unfortunately didn't finish the anime, too much immature drama. But mech combat is great!
30MM was all about customizability and is relatively low cost, which people liked. Kyoukai senki was on the higher end of HG prices and you can't just kitbash them with other model kits.
I actually liked Kyokai Senki's first season. But truly is a very basic mech anime, I totally forgot there was a second season going on (too busy watching Macross F and Eureka Seven). But while I was skeptical about the designs at first glance, I felt some IBO-ish vibes on characters and mech proportions, and the anime managed to sell me the mechs. Sadly I couldnt get my hands on the kits yet.
People like collecting things long term, I guess. So the first wrong is the scale, should be a little bit smaller to 1:100 scale. The designer liked cars so they're metal cars scale. This is Bandai not Tomy though 😂 Really hard to start a new IP unless the products are dirt cheap. High production cost right now is not really the time.
Kyoukai senki kits are good and fun to build, but the issue lies with the marketing of the IP (the anime series). The fight scenes are good but the backstory is the type of "try to be edgy but not offend anyone" and a mismatch of concepts from different IP. It ends up like a chimera of misfits and fails to tell an interesting story.
The only thing i hate about protogouyo is the feet,i much prefer if he get genbu's feet instead,but less than a week i after i build it,i accidentally broke the waist peg,maybe because i play to much with it,anyway it's an easy fix but the i lose a lil articulation at waist but it doesn't stop it from make those awesome pose
I think the main problem is that the anime underperformed horribly in terms of plot character development. The show was a mess after the Ghost was defeated. The MC returned seemingly a changed man, but that didn't go far; he's back to being a snowflake quickly. And then the killer screw up is when the, uh... US counterpart(?) became too powerful. All of a sudden, Japan's resistance and all its other conquerors are all friends. Some of those people they actually worked with have good personalities, but they're still soldiers from conqueror factions. There's not enough tension between them as they worked together. But yes, the kits are good stuff. And there are boxes for weapon sets and support vehicles, so you can really put some love in your kits with ease. The ones I like the most are Byakuchi, Reiki, and Proto Gouyou.
I love the Kyoukai Senki kits, but NOBODY watched the anime. I watched the show and the OVA, but the main show was pretty basic. Underwhelming even. I still want to buy some of the kits, but Kyoukai Senki is a known flop unfortunately.
Because the show was degusting and quite frankly so bad at conveying it´s themes that it almost could have passed as satire. I really wanted to get the spinoff manga designs, but then i saw the first to second or third episode of the show and was so disgusted that i refuse to buy any of the kits from it.
@@verbatos9498 The show is basically the equivalent to a theoretical German show, where Germany is divided in to three parts and under the oppressive rule of Jewish people and other ethnicities that germany (or in this case japan) tried to genocide. In the first episode the main character literally goes on a monologue about how japanese people did not breed enough children and how they are now an oppressed group in japan thanks to that. Meanwhile the orphan main character lives in a nicer and larger apartment then most of the people in the first world.
Story sux, kid-friendly and war just doesn't work. That black mech was cool until the scene where it was trapped in a building full of TNT and leaving unscathed after the entire building exploded, no explanation whatsoever. Dropped the show after that
Its really a case of good design and product, but with poor anime reception. These units are awesome, I bought few and even the trucks. They are, sadly, being put on the stack because really, a lot more new gundam themed kits that are cooler.
Girl Gun Lady did worse butthey was based on a live action yet look anime. Sure the Human Figures was fine but the neon space themed Gun kits are a hard sell outside japan Even the one ad on pack they got was mostly reused as a 30min Sisters set this year.
I've looked over what kits are available over on HLJ, honestly most look pretty ugly to me due to their heads and colors, couple got some nice looking body designs but heads just ruin it, Ghost is best looking one out of them for me but i would still pick a gunpla over it any day. They are also stupidly overpriced in my own country in stores that bothered stocking them.
This is in huge constrast to the YuGiOh kits which are all selling out fast. Exodia and the Egyptian Gods sold out fast or had their prices jacked up. Bandai management (I like to characterize them like a bunch of old Japanese businessmen who still use fax machines) don't really know how to make hits. Sure, the kits themselves are all pretty good but it seems mismanagement is the norm to expect from them. Witch from Mercury did well but could have been longer and increased the length of the hype a bit longer. They also ruined Evolution by expecting the Gundam name to make a liveservice Overwatch clone do well. Way to much greed/pay2win in their games overall... They have access to some great IPs they could make kits for... Armored Core is one. Other FromSoft IP like Elden Ring are ripe for some IP crossovers. 30MM is pretty much a minimal investment but it only proves attachment to a franchise or IP is what catches the consumer eye.
I never watched the anime. I thought the were interesting and wanted to pick some up. But in the states when I found them they were really over priced.
I don't really watch anime but built a lot of mech plamos. Personally I find the KS HG's has limited articulation and the joints design will wear out faster than PC/non-PC joints if compared to most of Bandai HG gunplas.
I would recpmmmen adding into your kyokai senki list is the carrier thing the HGHG Armored Special Carrier its perfect as a carrying vehicle for other hg/Rg kits and its in sale right now in some shops in Ghills
The anime story was crap, the MC was a selfish piece of crap who drove viewers off with his behavior, and the mechas' face design looks appealing to neither kids nor adults...
Its important to remember a lot of people buy model kits because they like the characters its tied to, on top of liking the design. If the anime was better, the kits probably would have sold out like crazy.
This this this. The designs are amazing, but the show is so aggressively mediocre.
This. I love the mechanical designs of this line so much but the actual show itself was painfully boring. Even the animation while not bad perse lacked so much weight and energy; every fight was directed in such a plain and uninteresting way.
@cybobb it's baffling why. They just had to say "gimme uh Full metal panic but with imaginary Digimon" and would've had the perfect show for the designs.
On the other hand, Bandai has a line of model kits that don't have an associated media project but still sells well: their 30 Minute Label line. Asides from some blurbs on the manuals and the websites their 30MM, 30MS, and 30MF kits don't have any associated manga or anime, at least on launch, and yet the kits consistently sell well.
I think the problem with Kyoukai Senki is that they did try to sell these kits through an anime, and thus when the anime proved painfully mid the kits suffered.
@StrikeNoir105E funny you should mention that bc it really feels like Bandai wasted the good designs on Borderline. I get what they're trying to do with 30mm but borderline's designs are so much more creative and no less modular and customizable whereas 30mm almost feels like Frame Arms at home
Edit: meaning! I think borderline designs might've done better without a mediocre show! But alas
These kits have very, very good quality of engineering and parts separation. The designs may be unorthodox but the quality is fantastic. Unfortunately the anime was poorly done/received, and that most likely contributed to why the kits themselves are not popular at all
It's just really sad how these guys were received. I love these designs to death but people just don't want to accept them
Yeah, it probably has the worst combination of failure - people weren't talking about the anime plus Gunpla fans pretty much refuse to buy kits. It's a sad fate 😢
I dont think it is the designs, some looks ugly while others looks awesome, but the problem is that the anime is bad, if there isn't any fan then nobody will want to look for these, I have been spending a few months indecisive over buying one because while I like the design I didn't like the show, so until this day the model kit is in my wishing list because I don't want it in my cabinet remembering me the bad anime it belong to.
@@princetrumz in canada they're more expensive than Average hg kits by 8-10$, and the anime is extremely underwhelming for a sunrise production. the kit designs themselves are fine, but at that price, we'd maybe buy their options parts, or use them for kitbashing when they're on sale.
@@princetrumzDon't get me start with the anime…… It's the reason I avoid it back why it came out.
no, it's definitely the designs. also they cost like $10 more than regular hg gundam kits@@Sergio-gy3il
I agree Kyoukai Senki kits are good such a shame they flopped people slept on it because the anime felt like carbon copy of Gundam mixed with Code Geass not to mention it felt like a filler because it was shown just months before Witch from Mercury which most are hyped on
Built the full mechanics a while back
And that kit SLAPS
Super frickin solid
And got it on sale for 30 bucks
Fantastic kit
The only good part about Kyoukai Senki is how Bandai obviously spent a ton of money on it thinking it was gonna be huge only for G Witch to effortlessly beat its ass
These are solid kits and high quality kits. Their plastic is definitely of higher quality than standard Bandai kits. But the issue it’s really expensive each kit US retail for at least $30. For a new IP that’s too much of an asking price.
Had really good potential but the anime wasn’t well cooked and the kits are higher priced overall than standard Bandai offerings.
the prices are about right because they are bigger and of better quality. just look at the chars counterattack kits, all of them are bigger and cost more than a regular hg
I love this whole line. Even the accessories packs were awesome
The designs were pretty cool with some good components that'd make cool donor pieces for other models. I even tried to give the anime a go, but it was so lost and confused as to what it wanted to be(aside from trying to sell toys), I felt it would almost be better if the anime didn't exist at all...
These kits and their accessory packs are great! The problem is that the series and the kits themselves had little to no promotions or marketing. I only found out about the kits on a whim and then I found the anime from researching the kits. I love these designs too, they're awesome, hopefully others will come around...
The anime was all right.
The model kits however are all bangers. They stray away from the 'humanish-Gundam' proportions and are totally a breath of fresh air. As a robot fan, loved building some of these that I could get my hands on.
i have never seen the show, (i might watch it for myself so i understand the kits better) But i love the designs of them. i got my hands on the HG Kenbu zan and i fell in love with them and even bought the Full mechanics of the Kenbu and the kenbu zan, i plain on buying more, i love these kits.
The designs were good but the issue was the price of the kits there were like $45-$50 a pop while you could get a zaku for $13 like you can get rg unicorn for $40
40 to 50usd? Holy fuck you can get limited kits like RG Nu ff for that price if you visit any gundam base tour in the US.
@MaidenlessScrub my local hobby lobby has the fucking monster know as the xi gundam for 60☠️☠️☠️ and rg unicorn and banshee for 39 a pop 😭😭😭
Short answer: Yes. The kits may be fine, but they’ve been shelf warming since the show dropped. Kyoukai Senki was just a mediocre mecha anime that lacked the staying power of Gundam. Meanwhile, 30MM showed that if you keep kits cheap and highly customizable, you don’t need a crappy anime to sell.
I’ve always wanted to get into this kit line, but the problem here (Puerto Rico) is that we get kits months and months after general release, so unpopular kits just don’t get distributed by stores here. Maybe online these kits are piling up, but in stores here they’re almost non-existent.
The kit design was so good but man the anime flop so hard that I managed to buy the full mechanic Kenbu Zan with the pride of a HG right now.
it is the same team who work with ibo,, :P but the witch frpm mercury is cobsidered as a semi successor since its the same designers as well
Bandai made the whole line of 30 Minutes Missions, gave us the snipbits of lore in each of their kits, and then didn't even think of adapting the whole line into an anime 🗿🤦♂️
There ment to be like Gundam version of Lego you just build what you want with them so really do not need a story as such though. But knowing current anime taste the Sisters or Fantasy line hads more chance than the Mecha part of line.
@@Acidonia150reborn I really wish Bandai could do something akin to the FA Girls Hand Scale, which is basically the FA Girls shrunk down into a Hexa Gear size. Maybe Bandai could do it with their 30MS with their Shodo joint engineering 🤷♂️
This is my hunch, but I'm seeing them trying to emulate how china does things with the girlpla stuff. Chinese girlpla demand is on the rise, even though their animations were sparse and the last one i remember was released around 5 years ago. Hence, most of them don't even have any video and other supplementary media for them other than product lore and some comics here and there. Splurging on a full series that can be a hit or miss and directionless with a hodgepodge of creative members trying to move together. Mind you, 30 minute sisters is a line they made to cash in on the demand created by chinese companies so they are in the catching up phase and for now and just following their lead.
Mind you, these products are bought mostly on the merit of their quality, and thus no mass-media influence much of their demand.
Another great (or terrible, depending on your angle) example would be the Zoids Wild line. They invested a ton in the series, but added questionable design elements that alienated established fans (they mount them like on horseback, and the shows are targetted to boys age 10-14). Also an equivalent zoids wild kit costs roughly twice for an equivalent gunpla kit (less for smaller zoids, but way more for the bigger ones) which i assume is to recoup animation cost. Zoids Wild anime has some of the most beautiful 3D battles I've seen during it's launch.
@@alfianfahmi5430 Ive seen fans make Small bodys for the Sisters heads before online. They should do like Limb/Set parts for MS/Fantasy too so you can make werewolfs.Lizzard,Skeletons and a Snake tail too. I do not think they will ever make parts for Male characters or figures though.
@@Acidonia150reborn Shodo-sized 30MF and 30MS would go hard, ngl...
while they are on sale, the hits are generally more expensive than a lot of Gunpla. The Maelis Kenbu on sale is 9€ while I just got my standard Price HG Hi-Zack for less than 8€. Yes the Hi-Zack is oder, but I love the design.
In my country years ago when Amaim series recently released, it has similar price with regular RG kits (older RG but still, its an RG)
cuz its old
One thing with the model kits is that with the scale, it's within the split for some of the more standard wargaming figures, though on the comparatively small side there which isn't as bad. They scale pretty close to 25mm figures, and still work with the 28-32mm ones for things, I'd gotten a few of the trucks and things because they work there for RPG use as well as terrain for modern/near future settings since they work rather well there.
I personally love this model kit from the first time i saw it. Especially the design. And after watching several japanese reviewers it blew my mind how fun this kit to pose. Unfortunately it's kinda expensive in Indonesia at least for me 😂 maybe I'm just too broke 😂
no you're not, it is too expensive in indonesia, I have to flew to jpn and found it only about 500.000 idr, and could become even cheaper with tourist taxfree
I just realized you're the same person that made the third party video. Good Stuff👍
i bought 2 Ghost MK1s because the MK2 is not available
but not because of the show, it's because i love the animal aesthetic of them compared to non-Mobile Armor Gundam kits
add 30 Minuite Missions to the mix and they are kitbasher's heaven
If I'm being honest, i wasn't really a fan myself when i saw their design. But up until my sister bought me one as a gift, i might grab more.
Bandai should have continue making military models but make it snap fit like gunpla. I would totally buy that, i'm just not good with glue and paint.
The Anime was too much of a hybrid feeling. They can't do "War is hell", but also "Hey, look at this cute AI baby dog"! But the designs are awesome!!! P.S. the ONA, that's more serious got a better reception.
Yeah when I saw the kits they looked cool but the higher price point and other choices were chosen (mainly 30MM). I haven’t seen the anime tho but if I can get some of the kits for cheap I will cause they do look cool.
I got something like halfway into the first season of the anime as it aired. The anime really didn’t do any favors for these kits outside of the fights. Honestly tho, I love these kits, ghost is my favorite chunky boi and I love how well he poses. People really should try these kits cause it’s way less samey than a standard hg gundam build.
If only I could pay for the shipping at the moment, I'd try to spread those untouched kits around.
Folks I know complain all the time about practicality in robot design. These could've vibed with em.
I'm just busy and poor, so couldn't get em.
Has more to with market stagnation and publicly traded companies becoming hyper overvalued in share price. There is more and more pressure to increase earns to keep the P/E ratio down. Bandai's production cost haven't gone up, quite the opposite. They have started to shut down their higher cost factories in Jp in favor of outsourcing more and more to Cn.
The fact that I love these to bits, but only 1 out of GOSHDANG TWELVE kyokai senki kits I own is not at a 50% discount says a lot...
I didn't pick these up back when the show was on the air because the kits were more pricey than a standard HG and the designs are pretty hit or miss. Favorites like the badass Jogan sold out quickly while I have absolutely no interest for the other two protagonist MAILeS since they look like Foghorn Leghorn and Tweety Bird. I did manage to grab the HG Byakuchi FGE Color when it was on sale and it's a pretty good kit. The Protogouyo is another badass kit from a spinoff short series but again, quite pricey.
Ghost was my only favorite character
Duribg recessions prices should actually go down
My only problem with these kits is their price here in my country, almost double or sometimes more then the double the price of a normal HG.
I feel like gunpla is expensive when it comes to UC or seed kits
But kits like Ibo, witch from mercury and the build franchise are still affordable
It also depends on the gunpla's design, popularity and gimmicks
I have three of the kits and I thoroughly enjoyed the bills, but sometimes the price is a little expensive hence why I haven’t gotten that many kits
I love the designs but the anime whas like if someone tried to remake Code Geass without all the camp that made it work.
I like the design. I saw them everytime I visit hobby shops. It's just that they are too expensive for something that's not very famous.
I honestly like these better then Gundams, especially the Ghost.
Sucks the quality of the show wasn't there cause the KS kits are excellent builds.
Here in my place these kits are as cheap as something like $3USD, people here basically only buy them as "weapon packs" because they are seriously cheaper than real weapon packs
They should make Nadesico model kits instead of Kyokai Senki
I'm bet it would be successful especially if they did Reboot Nadesico with more story than the original
I want Bandai to keep supporting the kits as a pure toy line like 30MM, but that's wishful thinking.
i have one kyokai senki kit which i love except for the legs on proto gouyo. i think anime was good and fights were awesome but what it suffered from not having those peak performance best music fights, even 86 had some those scenes kept pulling audience back to the anime and showed the interest in mechs. while the fights in kyokai senki were fast paced and had no subplot to look upto. the most interesting thing was the ghost ai mech but i felt it was a missed opportunity to create a solid villian and cement the anime in audience fans. thay made quality anime but story werent upto the par
@1996starter Yep, for now my protogouyo feet is not loose but i do sometimes worry if it falls off with me not noticing 😅
@@princetrumz u got the best kits as standard type go. the feet are are messy but once on an action base i think thats where these kits shine. best of luck in your quest to collect these i do find easy and cheap deals on yahoo auction japan and mercari but only difficulty facing is in find ghost mk 1 and 2
This series have some of the best design mecha out there. It is a same that the anime was terrible. I only watch to the point where the Ghost show up, then I realized there is a nationalist undertone which I don't vibe with. The show portrait the foreign forces as an evil tyrannical power that suppress Japanese people. Also, all the invading forces are enemies of Japan during the second World War. While every Japanese in the show are always nice and ready to help strangers in need selflessly. The whole show feel like a hollow propaganda made by Japanese nationalists.
And it should be noted, Japanese ultranationalists genuinely think every other country wants to colonize Japan
Those senki kit are phenomenal but the anime doesn't do well but I do think they gonna stick with them for a while cause these kit are fire
I tried watching the anime but after I wanna say maybe 4 to 5 episodes of the first season I just could not find Myself connected with anything. So this definitely screams those yeah the model kits are the best thing about the show and after seeing some reviews about them oh yeah they are really cool. If nothing else at least we had some cool robot designs.
Some months ago, I shared awareness of this line to the Facebook Captain power Future force group. Hopefully some fans of the 80s show can make some mileage out of making Bio Dreads out of these guys.
The design of these MS kits are amazing. The plastic is high quality. The joints are stable. There is, in my opinion, little to criticize about the design itself.
However, I would attribute the lack of interest to the anime. The reason I didn’t invest in these kits is simply because there’s no physical person inside. There’s no cockpit. It’s a weird teleportation/neauralink thing? I don’t even know. I dropped the anime when I saw it was some weird no-cockpick situation, and then never bothered with the kits further.
There is a cockpit but they got locked in and kinda like a vr headset or something if my memory is right
when I first saw this line and the anime the first thing I remembered was a demo I played on a game phantom brigade, it kinda is similar in a lot of ways so I was interested but same as the anime fell off so did the line. great kits though
I bought one when they first released, but unfortunately I have limited "resources" and it wasn't interesting enough for me to buy more
Sadly here in Indonesia their prices are the same as early RG or even some MG, even though I wanted some of them but I still thinking I'd be better go for a RG than HG Kyoukai Senki
I've been meaning to watch the show but I just can't find the right time to watch anime this year.
As for the kits, I always find the limbs weird looking so I've been passing on them until I saw Protogouyo.
Till now, it's the only Kyoukai Senki kit that I have.
Wanna know whats the interesting and funny part
These line has pbandai kits but due to not so good sales and reception of the anime they decided to make it regular release😂
Actually I look passed these kits because they are much more expensive than regular HG
Too bad I was planning to do a kitbash of it
I actually bought some. I love some of its designs but sometimes it feels hollow on the arms and legs. I unfortunately didn't finish the anime, too much immature drama. But mech combat is great!
Interesting that 30MM kits blew up while Kyoukai Senki got ignored.
30MM was all about customizability and is relatively low cost, which people liked. Kyoukai senki was on the higher end of HG prices and you can't just kitbash them with other model kits.
@@flamerounin2welp there additional weapon and limbs part but still to paint tho for kyoukai one... kinda agree with you 👍
incredible line of kit, flop was caused by the badly received anime and also because it is not gundam.
i got a kenbu zan and it was awsome
This was a sad example of amazing model kits held back by a bland anime. I was actually really interested in these kits until I watched the show.
I actually liked Kyokai Senki's first season. But truly is a very basic mech anime, I totally forgot there was a second season going on (too busy watching Macross F and Eureka Seven). But while I was skeptical about the designs at first glance, I felt some IBO-ish vibes on characters and mech proportions, and the anime managed to sell me the mechs. Sadly I couldnt get my hands on the kits yet.
Wait what? I'm seeing all of these kits at 25+ USD on US web stores
People like collecting things long term, I guess. So the first wrong is the scale, should be a little bit smaller to 1:100 scale. The designer liked cars so they're metal cars scale. This is Bandai not Tomy though 😂
Really hard to start a new IP unless the products are dirt cheap. High production cost right now is not really the time.
Kyoukai senki kits are good and fun to build, but the issue lies with the marketing of the IP (the anime series). The fight scenes are good but the backstory is the type of "try to be edgy but not offend anyone" and a mismatch of concepts from different IP. It ends up like a chimera of misfits and fails to tell an interesting story.
I hope this is not gonna happen to the 30 minute mission kit of armored core 😢.
The only thing i hate about protogouyo is the feet,i much prefer if he get genbu's feet instead,but less than a week i after i build it,i accidentally broke the waist peg,maybe because i play to much with it,anyway it's an easy fix but the i lose a lil articulation at waist but it doesn't stop it from make those awesome pose
Kyoukai senki is a good hg kit,but the price for big kit like ghost,protogouyo and ginga was a lil too pricey for bootleg enjoyer like me
I think the main problem is that the anime underperformed horribly in terms of plot character development. The show was a mess after the Ghost was defeated. The MC returned seemingly a changed man, but that didn't go far; he's back to being a snowflake quickly. And then the killer screw up is when the, uh... US counterpart(?) became too powerful. All of a sudden, Japan's resistance and all its other conquerors are all friends. Some of those people they actually worked with have good personalities, but they're still soldiers from conqueror factions. There's not enough tension between them as they worked together.
But yes, the kits are good stuff. And there are boxes for weapon sets and support vehicles, so you can really put some love in your kits with ease. The ones I like the most are Byakuchi, Reiki, and Proto Gouyou.
IMO 30 Minute Mission/Sister/Fantasy prob their more success line....
not even have anime and many ppl buying
I love the Kyoukai Senki kits, but NOBODY watched the anime. I watched the show and the OVA, but the main show was pretty basic. Underwhelming even.
I still want to buy some of the kits, but Kyoukai Senki is a known flop unfortunately.
Because the show was degusting and quite frankly so bad at conveying it´s themes that it almost could have passed as satire. I really wanted to get the spinoff manga designs, but then i saw the first to second or third episode of the show and was so disgusted that i refuse to buy any of the kits from it.
Why were you disgusted by the show? I haven't watched it yet and want to know if it might not be worth it.
@@verbatos9498 The show is basically the equivalent to a theoretical German show, where Germany is divided in to three parts and under the oppressive rule of Jewish people and other ethnicities that germany (or in this case japan) tried to genocide.
In the first episode the main character literally goes on a monologue about how japanese people did not breed enough children and how they are now an oppressed group in japan thanks to that. Meanwhile the orphan main character lives in a nicer and larger apartment then most of the people in the first world.
Oh wow
Story sux, kid-friendly and war just doesn't work. That black mech was cool until the scene where it was trapped in a building full of TNT and leaving unscathed after the entire building exploded, no explanation whatsoever. Dropped the show after that
Its really a case of good design and product, but with poor anime reception. These units are awesome, I bought few and even the trucks. They are, sadly, being put on the stack because really, a lot more new gundam themed kits that are cooler.
Girl Gun Lady did worse butthey was based on a live action yet look anime. Sure the Human Figures was fine but the neon space themed Gun kits are a hard sell outside japan Even the one ad on pack they got was mostly reused as a 30min Sisters set this year.
I own one of them, because i like gunpla with alot guns, the rest melee unit are not my thing 😂😂
I've looked over what kits are available over on HLJ, honestly most look pretty ugly to me due to their heads and colors, couple got some nice looking body designs but heads just ruin it, Ghost is best looking one out of them for me but i would still pick a gunpla over it any day.
They are also stupidly overpriced in my own country in stores that bothered stocking them.
This is in huge constrast to the YuGiOh kits which are all selling out fast. Exodia and the Egyptian Gods sold out fast or had their prices jacked up.
Bandai management (I like to characterize them like a bunch of old Japanese businessmen who still use fax machines) don't really know how to make hits. Sure, the kits themselves are all pretty good but it seems mismanagement is the norm to expect from them. Witch from Mercury did well but could have been longer and increased the length of the hype a bit longer. They also ruined Evolution by expecting the Gundam name to make a liveservice Overwatch clone do well. Way to much greed/pay2win in their games overall...
They have access to some great IPs they could make kits for... Armored Core is one. Other FromSoft IP like Elden Ring are ripe for some IP crossovers. 30MM is pretty much a minimal investment but it only proves attachment to a franchise or IP is what catches the consumer eye.
I want to buy the auxiliary transport vehicle but after seeing the price, i said hell nah and dropped any interest i had to the series.
I never watched the anime. I thought the were interesting and wanted to pick some up. But in the states when I found them they were really over priced.
I don't really watch anime but built a lot of mech plamos.
Personally I find the KS HG's has limited articulation and the joints design will wear out faster than PC/non-PC joints if compared to most of Bandai HG gunplas.
Theyre just too expensive for their size
No doubt. The Anime was a complete failure so these kits wouldn't sell.
Because the anime flopped. Imagine making a mystery why mc look like they become emotionless just to explain the reason is he killed someone, LOL
I would recpmmmen adding into your kyokai senki list is the carrier thing the HGHG Armored Special Carrier its perfect as a carrying vehicle for other hg/Rg kits and its in sale right now in some shops in Ghills
Also scalper has show bandai they can make more money
AMAIM was so terrible. Why didn't they just make a 30MM anime?
The anime story was crap, the MC was a selfish piece of crap who drove viewers off with his behavior, and the mechas' face design looks appealing to neither kids nor adults...
The model kits are amazing, but the show was terrible.
it was mid series, well not bad but also not great and memorable.
Pinoy?
Still no where near as bad as legos
I think in today's anime/manga word isekai is the trend so maybe they should try a Knights & Magic angle
crazy to see kyoukai senki kits sells there around 500 yen, hella cheap 🥲
I have three of the kits and I thoroughly enjoyed the bills, but sometimes the price is a little expensive hence why I haven’t gotten that many kits