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Just got the SHMA Shin Goji today. It's not bad at all despite a few things that throw me off.
First off, the neck, while bad, wasn't too awful...depending on the angle. I found that when kneeling down facing it from the front, it looks pretty screen accurate. However, any other angle, and it looks weird. You kind of have to trick your mind to get used to it. I will say the promo photos made it look a bit worse than it actually is, but what it actually is only a little better. Like, the photos make it look like a 3/10, when it's more of a 4/10. It'd be a five, however, if the paint on his neck matched the rest of his body. It's too red. His body is too, but not to the extent his head is. It's nowhere near as severe as the Neca GMK Goji's green head, but it still is there. I found that having a room with less the blinds only slightly open and the overhead light off will help the figure look nicer and even more accurate, but you really shouldn't have to do that.
The red is an interesting color on him yet works pretty well. Be even better if it were equally applied on head and body. Which it isn't. The original black would work a lot better. His spines are probably my favorite of all SHMA Gojis so far. Sadly, his nails are only decently painted. It takes some noticing to really see that they didn't paint them all the way, which is odd considering that they could with the 1954 Goji's feet. The little texture his nails have in comparison to other Goji's are also painted a mild tannish peach. Again, it's not that noticeable, but it isn't desirable.
Posing is not that bad. No where near Neca's of course, but still pretty good for a SHMA fig. It's almost as good as 1994 Goji if not for his awkward neck sculpt limited lack of up or down movement. Painting the neck will be your friend in this case.
The figure itself is a 7/10. The paint were better, I'd give it more. It's not that bad of a toy, though. I'd recommend it.
