>>10784879You don't have to ride Kaiyodo until their pelvis disintegrates. They do good stuff, but sometimes they make a mistake. This is one of them.
You cannot, you absolutely cannot begin to tell me in good conscience that completely swappable upper torsos where you just click them in and out of a ball socket in the waist are more at risk of breaking than *this*. You literally just can't. You're either dumb or fibbing to insist on that. Those tiny pegs at the top of the chest *are* going to snap at some point when you're disassembling and reassembling it.
And I'm going to tell you now that most people are going to pop him off the waist to get easier access/have an easier time disassembling it to begin with, so your point is moot to begin with.
Thirdly: this also means that the torso pieces aren't flush together. If they had just been entirely self-contained upper torso replacements, they wouldn't have required the "pulling it apart and rebuilding it" gimmick, which in turn means they could've just sealed the seam between the two parts.
There is no way in which what Kaiyodo does is in any way better than the alternative, other than the notion that they saved 2 yen in plastic cost per release by molding the skeletal piece that holds the alternate parts as one solid chunk rather than giving it the same articulation that the actually functional skeletal part comes with. (which is literally just the difference between one having a solid molded waist and one having a ball peg and socket.
