A Sexy Addition To Your Punk Hazard Collection

The second Figuarts ZERO that was revealed during the Jump Festa 2014 event has already been given a pricing and release date. Figuarts ZERO - Baby 5 will be a June 2014 release and it will cost you 4,104 yen should you decide to own this sexy looking figure.

Baby 5 must be popular to be getting a Figuarts ZERO treatment rather than giving us Kinemon. Or maybe they are just simply continuing the Punk Hazard characters. They have already released Trafalgar Law, Caesar Clown, Smoker and Tashigi. Anyway, this figure seems to look nice. It's just that I'm not totally contented.

There are two ways to make a successful Baby 5 figure. One is to show the alluring aspects of this sexy character. Sure this figure looks sexy, but I still find it fell short. Second is to show a battle ready and fully armed Baby 5 showing her devil fruit ability will all the effects, gizmos and stuff which would end up being a Battle ver. It's not the case here. It's even lacking of those huge heavy artillery that she usually carries on her back which made her an interesting character.

Anyway, we can't really tell yet if she would come with some other weapons and optional accessories based on these event photos. Notice that shotgun barrel left arm? I'm sure there would be an interchangeable normal left arm. The goggles seems to be removable because as you can see in these photos, it isn't aligned properly. 

The pose however reminds me of a few Figuarts ZERO poses from their past releases. It's actually similar to the pose of Sanji (New World ver.), Portgas D. Ace (first version) and Smoker (pre-timeskip). Bandai seems to be recycling their previous Figuarts ZERO poses. They really need to hire someone that would boost their creativity.

I'm still on the other side of the fence for this one. I'm gonna need to see those official promo photos to help me decide. No word on the preorder date yet so just be sure to check my blog and Facebook page for future updates.

Update (2014-02-26): Preorders for Figuarts ZERO - Baby 5 will start on Monday, 3rd of March 2014 at 16:00 (JST).

Below are the photos from Jump Festa 2014