>>8203984Finally, we can get back on topic. Even if you insist I'm someone I'm not.
The paint job being difficult to tell is just one of it's bad traits: the sculpt makes it clear what it's supposed to be from, although the less initiated could be forgiven for confusing the KiryuGoji with the MireGoji. That said, it being recognizable( a dubious claim at best) still doesn't make it a good paint job.
For starters, attempting to represent a glow effect in paint alone is a fool's errand. The best method is to use transparent resin and light it from behind, but alas, this is too expensive for anything so cheap. Certainly not suitable for a $30 figure.
The good alternative is to cast a new, 3 dimensional effect to capture to look of the effect; this is hands down the best method for something like this, as it means the sculpt doesn't need any changes and the paint can remain as standard.
The problem with this(and the reason NECA didn't do it) is cost: it would require sculpting and casting a new part, and adjusting the packaging to account for it. So they just decided to repaint the sculpt.
I don't find most gimmick paint jobs like this attractive: the BioGoji up there is easily one of the best, by virtue of replicating a liquid effect with a liquid. They're very obviously meant to push an old sculpt with minimal effort, which is made all the more obvious by the use of pure tube colors, which make them look garrish and ugly. NECAs are, generally, $30~ figures; a high end paint job isn't expected, and the base paints job for even SHMA are just ok(the photos tend not to show how flat they are; see
>>8201671), but when you add on some tube colors with an airbrush in five minutes, it tends to look bad. The lightning effect doesn't even look like lightning; it just looks like some random, mostly fixed width lines, and lacks the necessary angularity to pull off the effect at even the most basic level.
