S.H. Figuarts Carmeara

From last year's Ultraman Trigger series hails one of the giants of darkness, Carmeara. Despite not being a big fan of the show, this character was another rare female Ultra, so I picked her up. She's based on Camearra from the film Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey. Carmeara here has the honor of being the first female Ultra figure to be released in the 1:12 scale S.H. Figuarts line (Ultra Mother and Yullian are somewhere giving serious side eye). She turned out nice.

She's painted in silver, grey, gold and black, and molded with pointed head spikes, and golden sashes that hang down from both sides of her arms. The only other colors she has are translucent blue on her color timer, and a purple painted under lip. She looks great and very accurate to the character, tall and curvy. Her accessories include 6 pairs of hands (fists, open fingers, and a few curved and relaxed palms), one right pointing hand, and another that's connected to her whip. And finally, the Zeperion Beam that goes with Ultraman Trigger, since that figure didn't come with one.

Her articulation includes head on a peg, neck on a ball joint, ball jointed upper torso and waist, ball jointed, hinged shoulders and drop down thighs with swivel, double jointed elbows and knees, ankle rockers and toe hinge. The sashes that hang from her arms are a soft plastic, so they won't get in the way when moving her arms, which have a good amount or range, as do her legs, which can kick far forward and spread out almost to a T. Her whip effect has a bendy wire in it, so you can articulate it in many different directions, giving you many options for posing. This is an example of a fine use of bendy wire, unlike the tail on the Golza figure. Overall, her engineering is great, everything moves well and smoothly.

Trigger's Zeperion Beam is molded in a milky, semi-translucent white, with jagged edges. They did a good job reproducing it. Like most beams, it's attached to a hand that you peg into the wrist joint, and it fits well on other Ultra figures, including the 50th anniversary Ultraman that was just released.

S.H. Figuarts Carmeara is a nicely realized action figure from Tamashii Nations. For being their first female Ultra warrior, she looks great, moves well, and comes with a nice amount of accessories to make her worth purchasing. Ultraman Trigger was a disappointing series, but it's nice to know that the figures they've released from it have been good (at least the ones I've purchased). Now my Trigger can have his mate to romance and spar with.

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