It wasn’t enough that Ika had to be a quality stand-alone piece, she had to be cute to spite us. Even if you can’t fold her legs down as cleanly as you’d like to, in order to emulate her propulsive movement in the show, she makes up for it by being the perfect spin-able desk toy. It’d be easy to complain about those legs simply attaching to the back of Shinken-Oh, if they didn’t have a very specific reason for doing so. Her busou with DaiKai-Oh is slightly disappointing in comparison, but it does put all of Genta’s stuff in one place, and that always tickles a pleasure center for me. The BEST candidate for solo purchasing.
Comparisons of the various versions can be found below the cut.
4½ Sniped Treasures out of 5
The Bandai Asia and BoJ releases are virtually identical, as almost always. Bandai of America’s take is less than optimal. They called it the Octozord, for one. They also misrepresented the truth with their packaging photography, which claims she can be held by the Clawzord in the same way as she is in the Japanese original. Not true. She has to be held like a sword, of sorts. She’s a spear. Her connection with the US version of the IkaTenkuu Buster is rendered unstable, as she only mounts via her mouth/snout/ink-shooter/thingee and not via a secondary clip on the underside, like the original.
More than any other auxiliary, I can emphatically endorse a decision to purchase her in a vacuum. She’s a necessity for huge Genta fans, and for those who are (strangely) okay with only collecting Red and Sixth stuff, Ika is PERFECT. She encapsulates the relationship between Genta, Takeru, Mako, and Jii better than anything else in the line. Or, in the world, really.
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