Announced last March, the Kenbu joins the Tamashii Nations new ROBOT SPIRITS <SIDE AMAIM> line of high end action figures. Kenbu appears as the main mecha for Bandai Spirits and Sunrise BEYOND’s upcoming fall TV anime project, Kyōkai Senki (Boundary War Machine).
Kenbu is a close-combat MAILES (AMAIM equipped with I-LeS), built from scrap parts and piloted by Amou and the AI Gai. The combination of Amou and Gai gives this MAILES the performance and mobility that overwhelms other AMAIMs.
Accessories
- Additional left and right hands, three each
- Straight sword
- 60mm portable machine gun
- Dagger with shield
- Weapon Rack
The ROBOT SPIRITS <SIDE AMAIM> Kenbu is priced at 4,950 yen with an October 2021 release date.
Story
Set in the year 2061, with Japan under a state of occupation by multiple states. The world, including Japan, has been consolidated under the rule of four trade blocs. The entire archipelago now the frontline of conflict. The Japanese people live under a state of constant occupation and oppression, with humanoid war machines called AMAIM patrolling its streets.
Characters
Amou Shiiba: An introverted 16-year-old with a hobby of collecting parts, but his world changes when he meets the autonomous AI “Gai”. Amou pilots the AMAIM “Kenbu”.
Gashin Tezuka: A 16-year-old member of a Japanese resistance organization, he is a blunt and reticent person. Gashin is in pursuit of the mysterious AMAIM “Ghost,” to avenge his father’s death.
Staff
Fafner’s Nobuyoshi Habara is directing the anime at Sunrise BEYOND, with Gundam Build Divers’s Noboru Kimura on script supervision. Kenichi Ohnuki of Gundam Build Fighters fame is designing the characters and Rasmus Faber is composing the music.
Industrial designer Ken Okuyama and his Ken Okuyama Design company are supervising mechanical design, while the company’s designer Yūya Koyanagi is credited for mechanical design alongside Gundam mainstays Kanetake Ebikawa, Kenji Teraoka, and Ippei Gyōbu.
Source: Tamashii Nations
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