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Decorate Your Home with Human-Sized Great Mazinger, Devilman Statues
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Beyond the realm of figure collecting, there is statue collecting — acquiring figures so big they look like they'd belong in a sculpture gallery. Some fans may have to settle for cheaper and more flexible substitutes like cardboard stands, but for the ambitious and deep-pocketed, there are human-sized recreations of giant anime characters. Mitsurin, the soft vinyl toy brand of the entertainment/hobby company Jungle, has a line of iconic characters from the works of Gō Nagai that'll impress any unsuspecting guests.
Why get Nagai's famous Mazinger Z when you can get Great Mazinger?
Devilman, from the manga/anime of the same name, assumes a famous pose from the anime's ending. It will come with a base that even resembles the scaffolding he sits on.
The "Kyūkyoku Makami" (Ultimate Wolf God) series is available to preorder on Jungle's website. Both Great Mazinger and Devilman are 190 cm tall (about 6'3''). They come at a price: Mazinger costs 354,240 yen ($3,457) and Devilman costs 375,840 yen ($3,668). Devilman will be available in October while Mazinger will be available in November.
Grendizer
Human-sized statues of Mazinger Z and UFO Robo Grendizer are also available right now. Other life-sized statues of anime characters include ones of Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress's Mumei, To Love-Ru -Trouble- Darkness's Momo and Urusei Yatsura's Lum. An Oreimo character will also get sculpted in life-size; which one, though, is up for the fans to decide.
