Last year we have our first glimpses atthe sheer insanityof Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts designer Tetsuya Nomura ’s take on Gotham ’s Dark Knight for the Play Arts Kai Variant Series . But now Square - Enix have revealed an even better tone at the wing , claws , and power armour of this truly bizarre Batman .
https://gizmodo.com/this-final-fantasy-style-redesigned-action-figure-of-b-1610394577
Yes , even in the double-dyed light of promotional pictorial matter , Nomura ’s take on Batman is still an absurd puppet to lay eyes on . With mantle - wings and nipper it ’s less Batman and moreBahamut - man , but then … power armor ? A mammoth spiked helmet everlasting with hood - ear that you could probably gore several the great unwashed on ? Our very own Rob Bricken initially key out it as thus :
It ’s like Batman Beyond had sexual practice with Deathscythe from Gundam Wing and then the Christian Bale Batman had sex with Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII , and each twosome had a kid who were raised and mature up together as best friends and one day as adults on the spur of the moment realized they were perfect for each other and had always been in beloved , and then they get under one’s skin married and consummated their union with Champagne-Ardenne on a bed of blush wine and nine months later had a baby that looked like this .
And candidly , I ca n’t quite think of anything else to add .
It ’s got to be one of the most batshit insane ( pun fully mean ) interpretations of Batman I ’ve ever picture , and consider this is from the same troupe currently working on aCowboy Batmantoy , that ’s probably saying something . And that something is : Play Arts Kai ’s craziness is back , and I am very much a fan !
The bod , in scale with Play Arts Kai ’s other chassis , comes with an fittingly baffling set of accessories of well . First off are excess armour piece for the second joint to feign the legs of the power - armor popping open to reveal a authentic buttload of Batarangs being hold within . Then there ’s extra spiky versions of armour pieces for the elbows , articulatio radiocarpea , shins and other areas to swop out so this plaything can be somehow even peaky then it already is . Then there ’s two substitute set of hands — one span of clenched fist for Batman himself , and then a duad of ginormous extended claws that sit as part of Batman ’s cape / wing lusus naturae on his back .
Because you recognise , THIS BATMAN HAS FOUR arm AND CLAWS AND STUFF BECAUSE OH GOD .
Testuya Nomura ’s Variant Batman figure will release in Japan this July , with a higher - than - usual price tag — you know , Nomura Tax , Batman Tax , Oh God seem At All The Claws Tax , to be expected really — of 21,000 hankering , or around $ 175 .
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