《Advent of Marvelous League》
After WWIII, human civilization grows after a nuclear blast. Only 0.1% of the world’s population survived the holocaust. Many souls are unable to revive by entering the wheel of fortune, wandering between the spiritual world and our world. The spirits with a strong desire possess other people or an animal’s body, and even machines. They are called as “Armageddon-Atman.” These unstable and violent forms will become the nightmare and disasters of Armageddon.
In the Genesis Era 0143 (2250 AD), Dr. Miles Becker of Human Revival Inspectorate proves the existence of super-psion. And he worked with the Psionic Association to develop the spirit animating technique of transforming psion into stable energy. At the same time, he uses high molecular polymer and micromechanical cell technique to create Adana-Vijnana Mecha so that the Psionic Association can summon souls to become the most powerful troops to fight against the wandering spirits.
The twelve psionic bodies summoned by the spirit reincarnation ritual are…
In the past, it has been possible to find the records of these twelve heavenly generals in different cultures, but only in different names in different times and different forms that have been recorded until the end of the world. Now, human culture is encountering its greatest ordeal. Scientists use new science together with spiritual invitation technology to allow these twelve heavenly generals to reanimate into this world.
When Adana-Vijnana Mecha reanimates, it will reflect the forms of psionic bodies. The twelve psionic general will be reanimated in the form of twelve animals in the Chinese Zodiac. With the emotions of people, happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy, the psionic bodies’ abilities will be fully developed in this world through reincarnating as Adana-Vijnana Mecha. Each heavenly general has his own dharma tools.
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《General Antira》—the guarding god of the hours of shen (3-5 pm) has a red body, appeared to be in great anger, wearing a monkey-shape crow. According to the Medicine Buddha Sutra
The twelve Heavenly Generals or yaksha have different personalities. Some of them are fierce and some benign. Each of these twelve generals has seven thousand soldiers and dependents, and eighty-four hundred dharma mates. The twelve Heavenly Generals are divided into twelve earthly branches or twelve animal signs. They guard this world in turn 12 hours through days and nights, and the four seasons in twelve months (ancient classic).
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Studio Sundowner is a Taiwanese art studio who create their own line of stories and figures. The above is their own series called "Advent of Marvelous League", and Antira is their first figure release of this series. Perhaps for marketing purpose, their figures are always in limited run. My Antira is No. 272/300.
For the figure itself, I like how they infused the Chinese Zodiac mythology and sci-fi element together into this character. The articulation of this figure is excellent! Due to the clothing is half sleeves, nothing really hinder the movement of the joints. However, the toe joint is a hit and miss. It creates more movement on the feet but it also affected the balance of the figure, as the toe joint is a not tight enough. The staff is the only weaponry he has. There is a clip on the back of his hoodies where he can store his staff there.
Studio Sundowner is the 2nd Taiwanese original design company I collected from. The first Taiwanese original design company got my attention is JT Studio. Both of them are using Monkey character to launch their new series. What a coincidence!