Unboxing: Banpresto's Kuroko Tetsuya

"Kuroko Tetsuya (黒子 テツヤ) is the main character for the hit anime series Kuroko no Basuke (黑子のバスケ). He is known as the "Phantom Man" because of his absence of presence. Being part of the Generation of Miracles, Kuroko is the sixth man where he helps his teammates with his 'Misdirection' ability where he steals the opponent's ball & shift the trajectories of passes to suit his team without being noticed by opponents."

I finally got a chance to get my hands on this Kuroko figure by Banpresto. I first stumbled upon it on Google and was quite interested in it. Although from the images, I can tell that the details might not be so good; but hey it's Kuroko, and the price is fairly reasonable so I did not hesitate. I also ordered the Kuroko figure from Megahouse, which I will be reviewing in another post, so stay tuned. :)

Moving on... 

From the box, one might think that Kuroko is gonna be freaking short/small. From what I read, the figure stands at 23cm tall while the box is only 18cm (hmm). But when I opened it, and this is what I saw. 

As you can now see, the leg is separated from his body, this explains so much on the height thing. The whole box consists of:


         ◇  Body
         ◇  Legs
         ◇  Basketball Jacket
         ◇  Leg Stand

As you can see, I was too excited that I tore open the package already,forgetting that I was suppose to take a photo first.

The legs are labeled so you won't mess up which leg goes where. 

Behold leg-less Kuroko... looks creepy huh (but still cool)

This is how the jacket fits... you're suppose to just adjust it to the back of his neck...

and voila! It's done.

And like I've said before, the details did not look so fine; which yea, kinda figured it. From the hair, one can tell that the paint/airbrush job was horrible, c'mon the gradient effect is horrid from my point of view. 

However, the basketball did not disappoint. I think it looks like the real thing, which is a thumbs up! 

Detailing of the uniform is quite sensible I guess, the foldings are quite decently done. However, there are still certain areas that need to be paid attention more.

Overall, I'd say I give this figure a 7/10? It looks amazing, seriously (from afar that is), but if you were to look closely, well that's a diff story altogether. No matter, I might give Kuroko a new paint job; am thinking of repainting the hair so it looks better.

Ending it with a photoshoot I did with Kuroko. ^^

Hope this review helps u... a bit. heehee~ 
xo.

pic © me, taken with Nikon D5200 50mm F1.8