ThreeA - Popbot : Tomorrow King Oroshi 18.

Make that heartless

woman, O mountain storm

of Hatsuse Temple,

crueller still!"– this is not

what I prayed for, and yet ...

- Minamoto no Shunrai

 

A (mis) interpretation:

Category: Mass production replicants.

Model type: The Tomorrow Kings - GEN 3.0.

Unit type: Adept.
Rank: Fuku-honbucho.

ID: Oroshi / The Devilish Wind.

Manufacturer: The Luthor Bean Jr. Corporation.

Incept date: 28th Mar 1994.

Longevity: 4 years.
Serial no.: TKG03MAB28031994.
Function: Underverse over-guide / close assault.

Physical level: A.

Mental level: B.

Abilities: Panzer Kunst - anti-armour martial art; superhuman physiology; leadership.
Std. armaments: Carbon nanotubes woven fibre anorak x 1; monomolecular-edged katana x 2; Ion-cyclotron glove x 2.

 

The fourth year of the Ten Years of Darkness. The remaining TKs and TQs held the few bastion of defence against the onslaught of the Queen Mortis machine legions, denying her total victory and claim over the Leviathan 1 interstellar space colony. The Hatcheries or what left of the few ones still running, begin producing the third generation of the replicants genetically engineered super warriors. With the numbers of first and second generation TKs nearing extinction, Luthor Bean Jr. formulates and programmes a new series, the Oroshi and Waza TKs, using whatever left of the gene seeds and codex from the DNA Organ with new VIC40 update neural software. Oroshi and Waza possess the combat  and leadership skills of a Wakagashira, but being new born, lacks the required battlefield experience to qualify as one. As such, they are designated as an Underverse adept, and serves as an over-guide to his remaining brothers into each battle within the Underverse Warp rift to hold back the Mortis Legion.  

 

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The wave one (wave two is about to start) of the first TKlub figure arrives, Oroshi 18. It is basically a variant of early this year's Thailand Expo exclusive TK, Waza. Exclusive to 3AA members, ThreeA has also, typical of their business model, randomly insert all-black "darky" and grey Interloper versions. Nevertheless, I would very much prefer the original version. As I open the box (with "old school" style sticker, whatever that means), I heaved with relief that it isn't a variant, chase figure (one can still exchange the figure if manage to score the exclusive variants from 3A). Nothing much to say about a TK by this point. Same ole, same ole. I guess the thunder is still with Shogun TK. Maybe I should mention about the hair sculpt, trivial I know, but said to be the last to be released. But then again, if this old man remember correctly, 3A is supposedly to retire the slim body after KDA/KDO. Yet, Shogun and the current releases still sport the same body. I very much hope 3A would revert back to the original, broader body. Latest news from the Production Blog is that the shipped Oroshi is missing decals, and replacement is coming soon. Now that's customer service.