As some of you may know Saber is my favourite character. For those not familiar with her, she is from the Fate/Stay Night series by Type-Moon.
This particular figure is not too old but also not a recently release. She’s been out for a while and I managed to luckily pick her up at Anime Festival Asia 2009. She’s not the greatest or most detailed figure but she does have some worthy points about her.
I love her aggressive pose, most Saber figures have her standing in a non aggressive manner which makes this one unique.
I love the floral pattern on her chest piece, its not the most detailed but it is certainly done well.
From certain angles Saber arm can appear overly twisted.
Her facial expressions seems kind wrong, I figured it would be more of a yelling or screaming face since she seems to do a lot in the anime.
The certainly did a good job on Excalibur and on her gauntlet. Nothing spectacular though.
Her battle garments and plating is pretty simple. Once again done pretty well, nothing fancy. Sometimes simple is good, to fancy or detailed gives it a higher chance of error in the paint job.
Nothing special on her back, her hair is pretty plain might I add.
Hmm, you may be wondering I even bought this. Well, like I said before she IS my favourite character, but besides the obvious, the aggressive pose and I suppose the simplicity is what attracted me to this specific figure. There is such thing as too simple but in this case I don’t think this figure has crossed that line.
Regardless I was happy to add this to my collection, I couldn’t be happier to have picked this up at normal price even though it was long sold at the present time of purchase.
Dynamic pose yes. But I can’t say much about the face……
I can’t deny its a derp looking face.
lol derp face…
like the angle on 4th pic!
The detailing of figures has come a long way. Just look at the upcoming GSC’s Saber – Excaliber. That figure makes this one look like scrub.
Ah nice observation. That’s very true, she’s like a 1st generation Saber while the soon to be released one is 2nd generation
They have certainly gone a long way.
Doesn’t have the serious angry cute look >.<
Derp face lol XD…
One might say the detailing aren’t the greatest in the world, but I love the pose…It’s like she is about to give some death blow to some she really doesn’t like (Gilgamesh maybe? ^^).
Be nice if they do the dark tyrant with a pose like this plus the evil grin on her face…
I can’t say I’m a fan of early GSC quality. Her face doesn’t remind me of Saber; it’s more like a generic elf face.
I’m glad GSC quality has improved DD= her Face DD= so i take it you’ve alrdy ordered Triumphant Excalibur?