>>5876264Well promo shots have perfected prototypes and professional photographers who usually play with lighting to give the figure a more detailed appearance (See: MGS2 Snake, Cobra). Whereas in-hand are mass produced and usually photographed by amateurs who use a macro lens to exaggerate the flaws that one wouldn't actually see by just looking at it.
I'm not defending Saitama by any means, I was looking forward to him but now i'm kinda bummed simply because he looks so... lazy. Like a throwaway they shoved out because the series is popular. While they focus more love and attention to characters like Gilgamesh or Link because those aren't trying to hit on a popular thing while its still popular so it ends up being a far better figure while ones dumped out at the peak of something's popularity (Like 90% of their schoolgirl releases which surprisingly seem to have died down immensely) tend to peak for a short while before ending up like all those old Haruhi figmas sitting at 500 yen on Mandarake.