HG 1/72 MAILeS Kenbu Review - Hobby Clubhouse | Kyoukai Senki Gunpla and Gundam Model
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- Now officially called AMAIM Warrior at the Borderline, we finally have the lead mech, the MAILeS Kenbu via the High Grade line in 1/72. Kyoukai Senki's proper kits start on a strong foot with this kit fixing many of the problems that plagued the Byakuchi and reusing far fewer parts from that kit than you'd ever guess.
Also, make sure to check out the other Kyoukai Senki reviews:
Hobby Japan Special 1/144 MAILeS Kenbu - • Hobby Japan Special 1/...
HG Byunyip Boomerang - • HG 1/72 Bunyip Boomera...
HG MAILeS Byakuchi - • HG 1/72 MAILeS Byakuch...
HG MAILeS Jogan - • HG 1/72 MAILeS Jogan R...
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Time Stamps:
0:00 - Introduction
0:37 - Release Info
1:33 - Box Contents
2:36 - Radical Design
4:22 - Colors and Details
6:06 - Alternate Form
6:43 - Shield
7:11 - Sword
7:39 - Weapon Rack
8:01 - 60mm Portable Autocannon
9:15 - Storage Mode
9:53 - Articulation
12:58 - Comparisons
13:44 - Three-point Verdict
15:49 - Thank you so much! - บันเทิง
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Even now I'm still surprised how TH-camr 2k subs has quality that exceeds other TH-camrs and your review is very clear, to the point, and detailed
Mechagaikotsu review is meh tbh
Man that's awesome to hear! It took a bit of time to find what was worth saying about the Kenbu after the Byakuchi:)
@@HobbyClubhouse Yeah your reviews really have good quality, as to me it has this aura of professionalism in them, not to say that other content creators don't. I really appreciate how to are very keen on the details and aspects of a kit, showing the pros and cons. I also appreciate your three-point verdict as it summarizes the whole review and helps see whether the kit is worth it or not. I can't wait to see how your channel grows in the future.
That was a very well placed diss of MechaGaikotsu 🤣
It makes me sad how often the kits are thrown around and twisted like a 🥨
@@HobbyClubhouse yeah. I honestly do that too, and I’ve broken parts before but now I’m experienced and realize these kits are collectibles, not toys.
I really appreciate how you approach your kit reviews with a sincere analysis of design aspects, shortcomings due to budgetary constraints, etc. It shows that, despite the entertaining delivery of your content, you take your kit assessments seriously. The earnestness of your reviews leaves your viewers armed with all the knowledge needed to make an informed decision when considering a possible purchase. Your reviews often make me reconsider a kit I had written off prior. (RIP wallet lol)
Nice to see Hobby living his best life, lounging around in the middle of a photo shoot :D
Thank you so much :) I do think it's important people get the basis for my observations and opinions to see if it's useful or not with what they're looking for in particular. Quite often even imperfect kits are products of honest effort which is indeed bad news for wallets all around...
Hobby has learned the times I shoot my videos and he parks himself at the table now so he's in every new video...
Yeah the design of the Kenbu is debatable, but after seeing it in the anime and in this review, it somehow now caught my interest. Thanks to this review I really now want to buy this kit, as I saw the elements that make the Kenbu a worthy kit, and also the areas that I would like to fix.
I sure hope more people will pick up the Kenbu too and get to enjoy the great engineering. Been seeing a lot of people say online they'll pass on the kit because of how it looks, which I do understand.
I fall into the camp of really liking the kenbu. I just really like the design of it.
this gona be one funky line and i for one am hyped
So much of it is outside the box from what we're used to seeing with Gundam things:)
I can’t wait for the Kenbu to be available and pose it to my heart’s content! And as always really informative and professional review!
Thank you so much! I've been surprised how nice it looks in poses even without an action base
I like how he mentions facts about some of the stuff unlike other reviewers.
lol
Now I just get more excited ☺️
Now it's time for the Bunyip, right? I wanna see that cute little guy, it's adorable
Yep, I'm actually shooting the box as we speak:)
@@HobbyClubhouse those clear part "stands" on the feet...
Ghost high heels
Cant wait to see the Full Mechanics version of Kenbu haha im gonna start to watch the siries
It's a shame they scheduled the kit so late. I'd love to have it right now as I watch the series
I agree the build is appealing to newer builders… like me. The scale is attractive for learning customization and weathering. It’s a lot easier to add scale-accurate weathering on a… ??6 meter machine compared to a 18 meter mobile suit.
They are wonderful for dioramas too with all the military stuff out there in 1/72 scale. I'd love to see people mix those kits in.
But yeah, this kit is also great as a learning project for modelers:)
The 3rd verdict, mate, so true !
I was thinking the same thing , good minimalistic look aside, its nearly impossible that this kit stops right here ,
i bet , bandai will release some expansion for this line, like the weapon packs we get from HGBD or the HGIBO support packs.
honestly this is why i have trust issue with bandai over the years .
anyways , good review mate! you have a great day ahead .
Thank you as always:)
If they release separate packs for weapons and accessories, that'd be the best approach. Sure hope they don't do the scummy thing and repackage the whole kit with some new additions... That autocannon and the sword can't last the whole war so surely something is down the line
I only hype about hg battlogue line.. can't wait for the review
Might be quite a while before Bandai feels like letting me get them ._.
Time to wait for next week for the Bootleg Wodom, This review was great as always and When I saw the Kenbu the first time I immediately thought of IBO and Now seeing that the main suits are more or less interchangeable with their limbs and That incomplete form, Yeah it seems like it's gonna be IBO all over Again, I mean look at the Incomplete form, Left arm gauntlet and Incomplete shoulder armor, That's just 1st form Barbatos
It really is a lot like Barbatos in that first form. I do think the mix-friendly design will lead to a lot of really nice custom builds. Maybe I should see if the Boomerang legs fit onto these guys...
I love the design of this one haha the head especialy! Not a big fan of the feet either though but I can live with em. The other kits seem to have pretty alien looking heads too. The only one with a more traditional mecha head design is the byakuchi, isnt it? Might be that bandai wanted to use that one to give people an excuse to get into the line that werent sold on the weird heads yet :p
Anyways, the effort you put into your videos clearly shows as usual, good job!
Thank you as always:)
Someone said the Kenbu's head is like SCP-173 and I can't get that out of my head. I do think the Byakuchi intentionally leans closer to traditional designs to ease people into the radical new style. I wonder if it's working...
not sure about other regions but this series flopped hard in my area, pretty much DOA along with the clearance sale staples from early build fighters' early sisters kits - can't believe they're almost a decade old on those shelves. funny how bamco tried to push this hard while it was WFM that really resonated both for the anime and the model kit line.
how i wish we'd seen more old kit reviews instead, during Mr. Hobby's last days.
Idk why everyone i see resent the design,maybe because its new line so people may need some time to liked the design😅,for me its good
The looks have really split model fans quite cleanly, though you'll be surprised how numerous and vocal the dislikers(?) are, especially with English-speaking circles
I think the font is great.
The font has someone fighting for it:) Have a like from me
Now that you mentioned about the Kenbu probably getting repackaged soon now I wanna see what they will do more
I think it'd be interesting with more heavy weapons or specialized loadouts. I don't think these guys can fly with just a backpack judging by the carrier plane. The autocannon is cool, but it can't fight a whole war:)
Can i ask,
Before those review of this kit is upload, i have watch the most early video in Malaysia shop was got the simple kit and looks like it is loosing move it,
For you, this kit is really like this?
Hm, on my kit all the joints are very firm and strong so I don't think it's a common problem
'you can't cheat any expression' dude that is like, the intentions of the design. This is more 'real robot' designing vs gundam designing.
My main issue with this is the colors. Something about the red, yellow, and white seems so basic and makes the design seem like a weird Gundam. Looks great in the series though so it might grow on me
If all the kits were out, as a consumer I don't thin my first choice from the series would be any of the MAILeS. Honestly, I'd be eager to get the Boomerang or Brady Hound or the carrier (god I love that thing) so there's definitely lots of nice things to look forward to in the series
Any interest in receiving the 30 Minutes Sisters? I'd love to get your take on Bandai's girl kits especially since your review of Madoka and Ritsuka was so thorough.
I wanted to review them but I haven't been able to get them at all. Sure hope they print some more soon (or maybe I'll finally get one of the upcoming Lulucie)
is that a sleeping cat at 1:02 😹
Yes it is! Hobby parked himself there at some point during my shooting
as nice as the industrial aspects are, it's hard to ignore the contradictory head/eyes/feet design ( not to mention hand-held weapons...).
it's forgiveable for the late70s-80s gundams to have those "V - antenna" / "antenna - fin",
but 2020s semi-industrial design with rooster comb / yellow duck beak, and the questionable feet ( along the IBO high-heels - makes me really doubt the engineers at bandai ), and we're still doing hand-held weapons?
I've seen a lot of people mention online that they're not interested in the Kenbu because of the looks. It ranges from a general lack of enticement to outright not liking the looks... which really caught my eye the past few weeks because it does seem the Ken Okuyama Design collab may have had some blind spots.
I remember one person saying the Kenbu's face looks like SCP-173... I wanted to be nice to the kit so I didn't relay that comment in the review...
Wtf is wrong with handheld weapons
Well i kinda skip this one to wait for the aiman ghost instead and with the ep4 preview i think i made a right choice.
But i still some what like this and other MAILeS design though, just not as much as ghost.
And the 1/72 HG is really awesome af.
I do think the MAILeS units have some stiff competition from the other lines. The Bunyip Boomerang is wonderful, and I really want a Brady Hound. It's quite exciting to see these interesting new designs all getting kits down the line
The byakuchi does have limited articulation, with the knees only going back instead of both ways xd
the full mechanics miles kenbu gonna look way better with the open cockpit hatch and pilot, it does remind me of fullmetal panic arms slaves
I'm really curious to see that back skirt with the extra platform inside along with that full cockpit. It's such a shame it's so far off because I bet lots of people would want it now as they start watching the show
I really want to see the full mechanics version.
Me too. I especially want to check out the cockpit and all its details
Great work as always dude, now I'm confused because I like the design of the Byakuchi more but this has eliminated the problems so... I'll probably get both eventually 😅
Exactly: "Why not both?" - heck, slap a Bunyip Boomerang on top as well:) I wonder if they'll be easy to get hold of
I finally got one its a little basic with the lack of panel lines but its a nice kit overall. I think my only disappointment is honestly the price. I mean you have the HGAC Leo for half the price but this it feels a lot simpler and like you're getting a lot less
Yeah, the line overall is a little pricey for what you get. There's a lot of volume because they're pretty large, but that doesn't quite add value to us pound-for-pound. The Leo (and all the new grunt suits really) really are so darn amazing
@@HobbyClubhouse yeah agreed I picked one up and it was like 28-29 USD which is a little pricey it was more money than one of the RX-79G HGs
Have you tried kitbashing the kits?
No I haven't, but you can probably mix the Kenbu and Byakuchi (and probably the Jogan and Reiki) however you like since they all use the same joints
True, but the Byakuchi looks better than the Kenbu
I feel like the byakuchi was just a test for the line as a frame to see reactions
The poor Kenbu has been selling really poorly, a store owner told me when I asked. The Byakuchi seems to do okay since I see new shipments sell out. Maybe they made the Byakuchi too handsome compared to the Kenbu...
It’s weird, because I personally prefer the kenbu to the byakuchi
arsene gundam x coming soon
I have the kit and he's on the schedule:)
Two things I feel you'd like to know dude.
1: In the case of the designs, keep in mind that the lead designer was most famous for designing Planes, Trains, and Cars, and all of those designs were with speed in mind.
I think you briefly touched on this last time, but I think it's a case of the designers past poking through his present if you catch my drift.
2: Your lack of trust may, or may not, be unwarranted, because it DOES NOT look like Bandai will be repackages the Mailes, rather they seem to be packaging their expansions(rather small ones but hey-hoe) in the Transporter kits.
The Armoured Special Carrier comes with a new Claw Shield for the Kenbu, and the Stork Carry comes with new shoulder shield and a pair of pistols(Second trigger hand included) for the Mailes Jogan, that's the blue one with the GREAT BIG HONKING GUN!!!
Seriously LOOK at that thing!
I'll bet both Lockons would be greener then their Gundams at the site of that thing, IT'S FUCKING HUGE!!!
... ahem, uh sorry about that, lost my head there for a bit.
What were we talking about again?
Hey there my man
For 1, the design firm's style is definitely a factor in the funky angles whereas the Byakuchi seems to have only gotten the overall MAILeS layout (probably wasn't among the things worked on by Mr. Yuya Koyanagi, the guy from Ken Okuyama Design working on this). I get what you mean.
For 2... nah, I don't trust Bandai. They're doing a lot of things right here, but I'll still preach caution:) You're right about the truck and the extra weapons though. I'd sure want them to not pull the rug from under my feet and make a superior Kenbu later. (*also, I really want the truck and carrier)
@@HobbyClubhouse Well think of it like this, even if they do pull fast one, you'll be sitting pretty with the robots and their bells and whistles, plus the bonus of the Truck and Plane.
So the joke will be on Bandai in the end. XD
1:02 what the cat doin' ?
He's sleeping in the corner there which he has claimed as his property:)
"I don't trust Bandai"
One season later, Kenbu gets totaled (Ep13 spoilers). So... yeah. If Bandai spits out a remodeled Kenbu I wouldn't be surprised.
Bandai look push hard for Kyokai senki in the market, but it's shame lose the potential because the story kinda half backed want to kids series or heavy political like gundam/ code geass.
Kinda rare seen someone talking this series besides the models kit
Yeah, I have really mixed feelings about the animation despite having high hopes for it. The nationalism is creepy and a historically tone-deaf
Great kits though, love these things
I cannot stand his pronunciation of Byakuchi