>>6484842In general the problems with Play Arts Kai are:
- Weird sizes that are never in scale with anything else
- Frequently have weird sculpts and ugly joints
- Way overdone shading/paint washes where you're kind of playing the lottery trying to find one that doesn't look fucked
- idk if this has gotten any better recently but as of the last time I checked, fragile joints, easy to break (they seem to use stiffer, thinner, more brittle plastic on their joints than they do on like the main body chunks of the figure, it makes no sense to me)
-The prices just kept going up and up and up and up and now they're absolutely batshit and I have no idea why someone would pay them (I remember the prices used to be more sensible so idk if Spike specifically is easier to find for a reasonable amount)
The good things about them are that like the plastic usually feels nice and weighty, the articulation is usually good, and they do at least have very intricate/detailed sculpts and paint although they tend to be sloppy.
In general I recommend them for characters that don't have any other remotely good figures because they're not totally awful or anything but I also avoid them as much as possible.
