Osiris of sculpting circle Heavy Gauge is one of the most skilled hands working in the PVC figure arena today (Holstein Hanako-san, Guernsey), and it’s unsurprising that his personal garage kit work is equally remarkable. Along with his Heavy Gauge colleague Kana he participated at WHF Ariake 18 yesterday under the circle name “3D Megane”, where the painted prototype of his Persona 3 Aegis (Aigis) kit was on display. The results of an ensuing photographic frenzy can be found below:
Aegis/Aigis
(アイギス Aigisu)
by
Osiris
Note: “Aegis” an alternate romanization of Aigis, the spelling used in the English release of Persona 3 to refer to the character named アイギス (Aigisu) in the original Japanese version. She is commonly referred to by both romanizations.
longneck is LONG
I don’t think it’s long at all. And besides, she’s a monster fighting robot; her neck stores vital circuitry and wiring.
…shove it
This is my favorite sculpt of Aigis. I paid good money for her on YJA.
excellent sculpt.
The proportions looks way off to me :-/
(and that face….)
Pretty cool. If the face weren’t off, it would be the nearly perfect Aegis figure.
Nah, I have thwe Alter version, and have stared at the game persona for hours (she is my favourite character), and I like the Alter version best – it’s really her to a T.
This one is nice, and I do notice skill when I see it, but it’s not character-correct to me, so I’d not buy it. Personally, I’ve never liked too much that’s come out of Heavy Gauge, except for the MegaHouse QB figures..
I honestly wish I could appreciate this sculpt but it reminds me of this vapid idiot I once had to work with who had a similar face and body type. So, yeah. If it weren’t for that I’d probably like the figure.
You know, this has bothered me for a while. Is it Aigis or Aegis? The original Japanese version uses Aigis, but the NA version used Aegis.
Should I assume they are interchangeable?
Gratz on your win Serogan!! I love this sculpt! But I really really like the character- but I know nothing about her…..LOL. I just love the design aspect of her….
Whoops….way to mistype your name….Serogane.
Sorry about that.
Haha, no worries. She’s from the Shin Megami Tensei series by Atlus. It’s basically this RPG where the hero has to go to school during the day, and explore a dungeon by night (Which the school transforms into during midnight). They have to figure out why this is happening and why shadows are appearing during the night to drain people of their will to live (aka Apathy syndrome).
Aigis (I’ll stick with this) is an anti-shadow weapon in the game that joins you later on. Any more and I’ll ruin the plot.
Thank you. As far as I know, only two copies have made it to YJA. I got the only one from the last WF (Only 20 released then), and I saw another one on YJA from this WHF.
http://page11.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/n59554139
>>serogane
Regarding the Aegis/Aigis distinction: as far as I know the spellings are interchangeable, though you’re right – for comprehensiveness I should have used both. I’ll edit the post to suit, thanks for pointing it out.
Aegis is the official romanization. Atlus changed it to “Aigis” because of copyright issues apparently.
Then they changed the name of Episode Yourself to “The Journey” Episode Aegis in to “The Answer”, which are both very silly.
>>Link
Do you have a reference for the copyright issues with the name “Aegis”? It’s a word in common English usage, I don’t see how it could be copyrighted such that it couldn’t be used as a fictional character name.
>>>Link
Ah right, “Episode Aegis” in the Japanese version. So then the English version used Aigis (Courtesy of Atlus US).
Correct?
It’s supposed to be Aegis, really, look at her persona (if you have the game), get the allusion?
>>>Shingo
Perhaps it was the “Aegis Combat System” that did it? (lol)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegis_combat_system
>>>Karasu
You speak of the Aegis shield adorned by Pallas Athena in Greek mythology, yes?
Never made the connection before. That’s pretty interesting.