Bandai Reveals HG Gundam Virsago Box Art Ahead of October 31 Release
The Virsago is a suit remembered for being strange, and the box art treats that strangeness as the selling point rather than something to smooth over.
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Bandai Spirits showed the package art for the HG 1/144 Gundam Virsago on October 25, ahead of the kit's October 31 release at 3,190 yen. The box depicts the After War Gundam X suit firing its megasonic cannon with its arms anchored, the pose fans associate with Shagia Frost's machine. Reactions split between approval of the composition and jokes that the pose reads as a dogeza.
The package image went up on the BANDAI HOBBY official account on October 25, six days before the kit ships. Bandai priced it at 3,190 yen including tax.
The art shows both of the suit's noted features at once: the megasonic cannon in its abdomen firing, and the extendable arms planted as anchors. It also includes the Gundam Ashtaron, the machine piloted by Shagia's younger brother Olba, somewhere in the frame, which readers picked out.
Not everyone read the anchored pose as intended. Some described it as a well-executed dogeza, and at least one comment placed the release date next to the suit's demon reputation.
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