Atlast! My Play Arts Kai Jun Kazama is here to the review, one of my favorite fighter in TEKKEN series! Owh, this Jun was actually from her appearance in TEKKEN Tag Tournament 2, the sequel of the spin-off game TEKKEN Tag Tournament franchise. I actually wanted her TEKKEN 2/TTT alternate costume… But, who cares, atleast I got to own one of her existing figure for the 1st time. So far, Jun was a long time absent character from T2 (Official canon) & TTT (Spin-off).. Appearing only 3 times as a playable character, but she had a cameo appearance & mentioned in several sequel TEKKEN games. For sure, mainly came from Jin, Kazuya, & Asuka since they had the biggest relationship with her, being a son (Jin), Ex-Lover (Kazuya), & her relative (Asuka Kazama). She made her new appearance in TTT2 as the final boss, after her defeat she will transform into the game’s true final boss, Unknown her non-canonical alternate form. Okay, enough for her history… Going to the review now, Play Arts Kai Jun has a flashy black to blueish & white colored box. The front view got a really cool graphics, & has a cover flap which can be opened to see the showcase of her figure inside. At the back of the front cover, there’s a further informations about TEKKEN stories & Jun Kazama herself of course. & on the showcase display, there’s a printed blue colored Jun’s figure graphics along with the font of TTT2. Okay, the back view of the box was pretty simple, so nothing really special I think. Except that there’s a picture of Play Arts Kai Kazuya Mishima as the supporting figure series of TEKKEN created by Play Arts Kai. In there, Kazuya is marked as the No. 01 series while Jun is No. 02. The box itself is bigger than the previous existing release of Play Arts Kai figures. However, despite having a bigger box Jun’s scales are way too small compare to my Solid Snake figures, well she’s a woman size. But not only that… From what I’ve saw in Play Arts Kai Kazuya’s review, even Kazuya himself are shorter than Solid Snake despite having the same size box as Jun. On the contrary Solid Snake’s box is smaller than Jun’s box. Eventhough her box is bigger, the figure only comes with a very-very few accessories which rather plain & the box feels like half empty… So, what’s inside the box then?
There you go… 2 optional hand parts, & pre-assembled display stand. Nice… That’s what I call cheap standard stuff… In this picture, you also get to see that the inner tray has the instructions manual printed on it.
Okay, like in TTT2 main costume, she’s wearing a single suit of dirty white colored tank-top to her pants with a nice motives of black & gray colored raven shape, a belt tied on her waist, a wide black to blue-ish colored scarf with a yellow colored motives on the right side (However, this pictures shows her left sides more dominant but you can still see them in several photos below), & black & dirty white colored sandals resembling the outfit. In the game, her outfit was actually a clean white with black & gray colored raven motives on it. Play Arts Kai figures are made from PVC, ATBC, POM, M according to the box itself, also she has over 26 points of articulations, & most of her joints were a ball shaped. Well, I can make tons of pose for her just like my Play Arts Kai Solid Snake.
… Clearly… Her face was totally inaccurate to the game, & I guess this is one of the reason she’s not worth to have. Although she didn’t look like it, they still made her face looked more adult & the image of her face sculpt shows her like a type of a motherly face. Of course, she’s Jin’s beloved mother… My… Nowonder Jin really misses his mother and still wishes that she were still with him. Jun’s hair was quite accurate to her game counterpart & Jun still dons her trademark headband. The overall sculpt was pretty outstanding, & her hair was made a bit soft to hold. The articulations are also good, we can swivel or bend up/down/side her head. However, my problem is I’ve been thinking like her neck was a bit too long & I have a bad feeling how she would look if I try to take off her scarf. & for goodness sake, she need atleast 1 extra faceplate! A serious one atleast during the battle.
Jun’s proportions are a bit weird in some area, mostly for me on her butt… For me, that ass is a little too big for her (looks to me Jun is wearing some kinda extra bloomer), & her ass along with her crotch were made from a soft material. & it’s pain in the ass whenever I try to do some leg pose. Since the crotch is made from a soft material, they always stucked between her thighs & I have to fix the crotch view to be in front of her thighs. However, the soft material was intended to make her articulations works more vast, but there’s a big physical problem is when we do the action pose involving her thighs. Yes, we can actually do an extreme pose on her thighs but it would make her crotch & bottom’s off from her thighs, & I hate the sound of her thigh’s articulations whenever I want to move her thighs. The articulations of her trunk are located in her upper chest, & waist, so we can swivel or bend up/down/side her trunk. The articulations on her knee is made very awkward as hell, & this is considered the biggest articulation’s flaw on most Play Arts Kai figures. Yeah, it is also why maybe she’s not a best selling compare to her ex-lover since this flaw was very2 visible on Jun. Well, if you want to make some pose, bending her knee intensely would make her knee looks weird. But atleast without bending them, her knee looked perfect. Jun’s arms are pretty standard, much like other action figure works. Unlike Solid Snake, I have no trouble at all moving them except her wrists is quite hard one. Her scarf is made from a soft material, & there’s a cleavage on the back. this allow us to lift up her scarf also move her arms more freely. The overall sculpt is pretty nice, especially her belt, made from a soft material. Lastly, she doesn’t have a cut joint on her front foot to make us rotate them.
This is how the scarf works on her, pretty nice but could be more better I think… On the begining I thought that scarf would be a troublesome to handle. Also, they’re made separated from her, but it’s glued between her neck to shoulder. So, removing them it’s impossible.
Articulations are movable head that can be rotate 180 degrees & bend down but, Jun cannot look up much due to the hair piece on the back. She can also stretch her waist to the back as well.
We can swivel her chest but, not full 180 degrees & bend her chest to the side.
Jun was included with upper bicep cut joints, so she can do a crossed arm pose perfectly easy. Unlike Snake, Jun can do a close hug arms pose pretty nicely despite she’s wearing scarf.
Jun’s legs are actually fine made, we can create many dynamic posing for her. Unfortunately, like I said earlier her knee joints looks very awkward & ugly. Her elbow works pretty easy but, we couldn’t bend them much. Feet articulations works slightly different & unlike Solid Snake there’s no cut joints on the feets. Jun can also bend her chest a little.
Her crotch articulations can do gymnastic split pose as well & she can perform high kick smoothly, even without her display stand she could still balance herself. She can also raise her arms to side perfectly easy & also bend her wrist joints very deep than Solid Snake.
Okay, one & the only optional parts for Jun has is a pair of open hands. Not really something but very nice to create many cool pose involving this. Gladly, putting her hand part to the wrist joint isn’t pain in the arse as my Snake which has a ball shaped one. Somehow, pretty much like how Figma progressed, using a peg jointed. Her default hands are fistful hands, the proportions looks better compare to my Solid Snake’s fistful hands. Funny thing that, in Jun’s prototype photos shown that her fistful hands are her extra optional part.
This time Square Enix provided a display stand for the figure itself on my Play Arts Kai Jun Kazama, in which included pre-assembled. In this we have to assemble it first, if you’re clueless you can always read the instruction manual on the inner tray. They also provided 2 kinds of stand tweezers, a big one & the small one. The big one for me atleast, doesn’t really necessary to use for Jun Kazama due to her small body, so I used the small one oftenly for her. But the big one could atleast suitable for my Solid Snake, since he’s big. Actually, without the display stand Jun can still stand with no problem for me, except when I’m going to create some pose that couldn’t balance her body. On the contrary, my Play Arts Kai Solid Snake really need this so badly as he can easily fell off to the ground..
Okay, that’s the only thing I can tell about her… So far Jun Kazama is my 2nd owned Play Arts Kai figure after Solid Snake, the rest would come later. Overall, I’m happy to get ahold her… Especially, she’s one of my favorite characters from TEKKEN Franchise. But, I can’t say this is a worth having Play Arts Kai, because she looked pretty strange whenever I tried to do an action scenes for her. Unless you like or being a fan of Jun Kazama, I think she’s worth to buy. If you ask me about why not getting Kazuya is, I never like him at all. Now, I’m waiting for Jin Kazama, & I want to pair Jun with her son as their tag team.
Pros: I liked on how SE made her scarf works & the soft material is pretty flexible, same goes to her hair. Other interesting things that she’s not hard as Snake to stand without stand, even in some certain action pose I’m not having trouble balancing her body.
Cons: Physical appearance problem in some action pose, when she did that her proportions feels off.. That ass was a little too big, & whenever I made her legs bend frontally, her ass feels like off from her thighs. Moving her thigh & wrist joint was a little too hard for me, & I hated when I heard a “Tek Tek” sounds during moving her thighs. The packaging really sucks, bigger box but almost empty inside.. But the good thing there’s no part of her that suffers the same problem like my Solid Snake’s SOCOM Suppressor. Of course, she only got a pair of open splayed hands & they were put pretty safe in the blister box but, I hate black colored blister box! Originally, my real Play Arts Kai Jun stock has a small issues on her head sculpt (messy painting & paint transfer) but I made it to exchange the better quality, man thank god I checked her 1st before getting her… Well-well, I guess I made it to avoid my other badluck on having my 2nd Play Arts Kai figure.
Design: 4/5
Moveability: 4/5
Small Parts: 1/5
Substance: 3/5
Accuracy sculpt to promotional photo: 5/5
OMAKE:
Thank you for reading.
do you have any play arts street fighter?
I don’t have SF series right now, but soon I’ll have 1 since I’m currently waiting for my ordered Play Arts Kai Sakura. So far I only got 2 Play Arts Kai figures, Jun Kazama & Solid Snake. Anyway, thanks for dropping by there.
Very nice review! Thanks for the pictures, they’re really good! I ordered Jun a week ago and if everything goes right with the shipping I will have it 31 July. Maybe in the future I will also order Kazuya, not sure, I hope they will make more Tekken Action Figures! A question I have: Do you have to cut the box open to get the items out? Because I think it would be nice to keep the box too.
Very thank you for dropping by, mate! Play Arts Kai Jun is one of the few existing Jun’s action figure after Epoch one. Nice, how much you bought her?
& if you’re going to hunt Kazuya also, you better be a little faster.. From what I’ve saw, he’s more big sale than Jun. Because, I almost don’t see PAK Kazuya at all in the local store. Yes, I’m hoping them to create Jin Kazama & Ling Xiaoyu someday, those 2 are my favorite especially Jin.
No, you don’t have to cut the box at all, this is an ordinary PAK box with cover flap.
I live in Europe and I bought like €65 for her, kinda much in dollars. I just wanted her because I really am a fan of her how she appeared in Tekken Tag 2 and I liked how they now actually gave her more detail.
(In Tekken 2 and Tag it was just a headband, white top and black pants with black shoes and white socks, and the other one costume, wich the epoch figure. I didn’t buy that one because I just didn’t like it.)
I think they made her fighting style also much cooler, with the stances like Izumo and the other one with the difficult name.
Then I suppose I’ll wait ’till maybe more action figures from Tekken come out because Kazuya’s not my fave, haha!
Yeah, Xiaoyu and Jin would be nice! I hope they will make one of Lars, Lili or Nina. I actually wanted to have an action figure of Lili but Kotobikiya made figures of the girls from Tekken and one of them was Lili (don’t know if you know them) and just… I didn’t like how her face looked and I just wanted her normal outfit.
Too bad, but yeah. Now I will get the awesome Jun Kazama!
And I am so happy I don’t have to do that! I have a Chun-Li figure of Street Fighter IV, the one of NECA and I had to cut the box open. Sucked. The figure is really fragile, I had to put the right arm back once because it fell of, even though I was really careful. (That was a pain in the ass to do!)
One thing I do like is that with Jun, there comes a stand with her because Chun-Li can’t do any kick poses or really much action poses because she just will fall. Chun-li wasn’t actualu that expensive so well. Stupid girl with stupid big legs. (Lol!)
Thank you for your reaction!
Whoa, ic… Happy to know there’s another fan of Jun here besides me. Yeah, in TTT2 they tried to gave Jun more signature from her design-wise & how the character works.
Yeah, T2 & TTT design feels too casual on her, they could have made those as the alternate costumes for player.
That stance is pretty gorgeous somehow, especially how her hands works & this is one of her new signature atleast… In T2 & TTT her stance is plain boring to see, but I loved how her movelist works to play.
Hahaha, I see… I never liked Kazuya at all here, but because of him that my favorite character Jin Kazama was born.
Well, those 2 felt like an unseparable lover & team somehow, as I saw many of Xiaoyu’s ending & to make Xiaoyu as Jin’s loyal sidekick in Street Fighter VS TEKKEN. Anyway, Kotobukiya is currently working for their own Jun Kazama figure. Are you going to get her too?
Ah, you mean by cut… Yes, there’s something you will have to cut from the inner tray of the box, but not the figure itself. It’s a preassembled stand, as you can see on my 3rd picture above.
Hahahaha, stupid girl with stupid big legs, hillarious… Well, atleast Play Arts Kai Chun Li got more extras like face plate, & Kikouken FX.
U welcome, & to you too.
About the new Kotobukiya figure? Well, I don’t know.. I first want to see it finished and how much it will cost and stuff. From what I saw she had pathetically huge b**bs. But I’ll see how the figure will turn out!
Xiaoyu and Jin are so cute together but secretly Jin doesn’t give anything about her! Jin almost appears in every ending of Xiao except for her Tekken 3 ending, and Xiao never made an appearing in one of Jin’s endings, haha!
Oh, but with cut you don’t mean I have to cut the box into thousand pieces? It’s just the stand I have to get off? Well I don’t think that’s a big problem.
Yes, Play Arts Chun-Li seems pretty nice, but I’m not that big of a Street Fighter fan. It’s just because she is one of the well known characters of SF. I and a friend where talking randomly one time and then we started to talk about how Capcom should make like a little horror movie about how Chun-Li got her scary big legs. I laughed so hard about it!
I also saw that on the Tekkenpedia Jun is kinda announced to be in the new crossover of Street Fighter X Tekken; Tekken X Street Fighter. It’s not sure but one of the game producers; Yoshinori Ono (who worked on SF IV) stated he wanted her in the game. I hope she will be in it!
hello I am looking at buying this figure I was wondering if the scarf near her neck a separate piece ?
could it be cut off from her or is it sculpted on
Hi
Ah… Now, that you mentioned I forgot to tell this… As for the scarf, they’re made separated but it’s glued between her neck to shoulder. So I don’t think it’s possible to try removing the scarf.
Hi there! I’ve been wondering all this time…. How much did this figure cost, and where did you get it?
Because, I want to start my own collection of figures. Also, I too, am a Jun Kazama gal(Didn’t even care if I got my behind kicked countless times by her! xD) as well, and I want it so much! ❤
Hello! As far as I know she’s now cost around 55 (HLJ) or 48 USD (Amiami/Amazon), which means her price got dropped from her original PO price 68 USD. Maybe it’s like what I mentioned that not many people interested on her. I got her from a local seller in my country Indonesia.
Hahaha, I see… You could try Amiami or Amazon, those 2 web provides her close to 48 USD.
Hi! I’d like to thank you for this really thought-out and informative review. I’ve been eyeing on this Jun figure for a long time, and now after seeing it I may just hold off on purchasing her.
The figure really isn’t that perfect now that I’ve seen it up close, compared to the all the pictures I saw in the past. But even though this figure isn’t, Jun herself will always be perfect! 🙂
You welcome !
I understand how you feel, to be frank I don’t like how she turned out to be like this too but, eversince I like Jun & never get a chance to get her other figure/toys. I bought this & like in my review I didn’t recommend people to get her unless you’re a big fan or madly in love with Jun.
The choice is yours. 😉