We have often commented on the desirability of more options in terms of size and skintone when it comes to seamless bodies. The new Kamisoul MAF Extreme body definitely checks these boxes, while leaving a whole lot to be desired.
The body arrives in a nice enough brown cardboard shipper box, containing the actual shoe box-style product box, which has a black lid and a white body. The bottom of the box has some instructions and precautions, almost entirely in Chinese. Inside this, the body itself lies in a white foam bed, together with a baggie with the accessories and the bodysuit. The feet and all of the hands are in the baggie, none of them on the body right out of the box. In the photo, the body is already wearing the bodysuit.
The body comes with a pair of detachable feet, one pair of knife-grip hands, one pair of spread-fingered hands, and one pair of pointing hands. There are special cylindrical inserts that go into the holes on the feet, and receive the ankle pegs. There is also a small baggie with four alternative plastic joints (for the neck?). For the bodysuit, see at end.
I hope you like your bodies pale and that your eyes are not easily hurt by exceedingly bright pale surfaces, because that will be the first thing that strikes you about the body. The promotional images did not lie. The color is most comparable to TBLeague's current (female) pale bodies (see the high heeled legs in the photo below), and a bit paler than the Jiaou Doll "natural" (or YS = Yellow Skin) skintone (as in the 11C-YS body). The body type is closest to but distinct from Jiaou Doll's "teenage" 10A body (I didn't own a 10A-YS, so settled for the 10A-BS version for comparison). The TBLeague M33 is only there for general articulation comparison. The MAF body is taller than the others, standing about 31 cm with a head. It is also more slender and with longer limbs.
The body feels very much like a Jiaou body, and it features those good-for-breeding wide hips that have been a shortcoming of Jiaou male bodies -- and in this case they are even more pronounced, in part due to the fairly tiny waistline. Also like Jiaou, the body's mold includes a diminutive "secret male part" -- and just like Jiaou, to paraphrase the elegant wording of There's Something About Mary, they got the franks but not the beans -- hence the need for the digital smiley faces. Unlike Jiaou, there is no included assortment of more realistic and quite exaggerated attachable alternatives, nor any pair of additional feet. The ankle joints are a little loose, but that can be mitigated in the usual ways. The hands, on the other hand, slide fairly smoothly but securely onto the unusual metal pegs. The movement of the limbs feels similar to Jiaou's, but the figure is perhaps just a little more unstable (due to the ankles).
I had no head pale enough to really match the skin tone handy, and had to settle for what turned out a fairly distant approximation (some unpainted resin casts are actually fairly close). So here is how it compares with Jiaou's 10A-BS and TBLeague's M33.
Flex at the biceps is better than Jiaou's, but probably slightly worse than TBLeague's (despite its bulkier musculature).
Kneeling on one leg is pretty good across all three (probably slightly weaker in Jiaou).
Bending backwards, MAF is in the lead (in part due to lankier limbs), TBLeague is almost as good (despite shorter limbs and an unhelpful longhaired molded hair sculpt), Jiaou is a distant third.
Bending forward, MAF once again is in the lead, the other two about even with each other. But note that MAF and Jiaou both bunch up at the shoulders.
All three can do the splits and raise their hands vertically upwards very well; MAF does have more of a bunch up at the shoulder.
All three can sit naturally.
Bending the knee, TBLeague is in the lead, the other two about even with each other.
All three bodies can extend their arms horizontally at a right angle from the body's axis, but MAF has the worst bunching up at the shoulders; the problem is least manifested in TBLeague.
The hands that come with the MAF body are made of relatively soft plastic and have a finer sculpt than the others; MAF's fingers are also longer and thinner, I suppose to go with the longer and more slender limbs. In this, Jiaou lags farthest behind.
The feet that come with the MAF body are made of harder plastic. They require the cylindrical inserts to receive the ankle pegs on the body. Once again, MAF's sculpting is superior to TBLeague and Jiaou's (the latter being a copy of the former), with more detail and individual toes.
The bodysuit is a strange affair. I half suspect it isn't meant as actual clothing as much as a fabric layer to go over the body and visually look more or less indistinguishable from the skin, while facilitating clothing the body over it. And helping protect the body from staining or dirt/dust.
It zips up over the back.
I am divided on the Kamisoul MAF body, although there is a lot to disappoint: those horrid hips, those annoyingly loose ankles, and that impossible-to-match skin tone. I thought perhaps this was aimed at Anime characters, but the only male Anime sculpt I happen to have (for customs) turned out too tan to match. Of course, I'm aware that not all Anime is uniformly pale, but that just confirmed the questionable nature of the choice, unless it was meant for something extremely specific and particular that is beyond my comprehension.
On a personal note: This spikey-haired F***er took a tumble and his hair left a pair of bloody snake-teeth-like marks in my hand. Thank you, MAF ankles. And thank you, Anime hair. He's getting "shaved" and rehaired (and probably turned into a girl) soon. As for the body, it is totally going to be subjected to a recoloring experiment.
In summary:
Good: the packaging; the metal wrist pegs, allowing for easy but secure swapping of hands; the very good articulation/range of motion; the detailed sculpt of the body and especially of the hands and feet.
Neutral: the body's height -- a body this slim might work best for a younger character, and in that case the height might be a little too tall; the bodysuit.
Bad: the skin tone (are polar bears this pale?); the wide hips; the loose ankles; the bunching over the shoulders.
I hope this has been helpful. As always, what do you think?
The body arrives in a nice enough brown cardboard shipper box, containing the actual shoe box-style product box, which has a black lid and a white body. The bottom of the box has some instructions and precautions, almost entirely in Chinese. Inside this, the body itself lies in a white foam bed, together with a baggie with the accessories and the bodysuit. The feet and all of the hands are in the baggie, none of them on the body right out of the box. In the photo, the body is already wearing the bodysuit.
The body comes with a pair of detachable feet, one pair of knife-grip hands, one pair of spread-fingered hands, and one pair of pointing hands. There are special cylindrical inserts that go into the holes on the feet, and receive the ankle pegs. There is also a small baggie with four alternative plastic joints (for the neck?). For the bodysuit, see at end.
I hope you like your bodies pale and that your eyes are not easily hurt by exceedingly bright pale surfaces, because that will be the first thing that strikes you about the body. The promotional images did not lie. The color is most comparable to TBLeague's current (female) pale bodies (see the high heeled legs in the photo below), and a bit paler than the Jiaou Doll "natural" (or YS = Yellow Skin) skintone (as in the 11C-YS body). The body type is closest to but distinct from Jiaou Doll's "teenage" 10A body (I didn't own a 10A-YS, so settled for the 10A-BS version for comparison). The TBLeague M33 is only there for general articulation comparison. The MAF body is taller than the others, standing about 31 cm with a head. It is also more slender and with longer limbs.
The body feels very much like a Jiaou body, and it features those good-for-breeding wide hips that have been a shortcoming of Jiaou male bodies -- and in this case they are even more pronounced, in part due to the fairly tiny waistline. Also like Jiaou, the body's mold includes a diminutive "secret male part" -- and just like Jiaou, to paraphrase the elegant wording of There's Something About Mary, they got the franks but not the beans -- hence the need for the digital smiley faces. Unlike Jiaou, there is no included assortment of more realistic and quite exaggerated attachable alternatives, nor any pair of additional feet. The ankle joints are a little loose, but that can be mitigated in the usual ways. The hands, on the other hand, slide fairly smoothly but securely onto the unusual metal pegs. The movement of the limbs feels similar to Jiaou's, but the figure is perhaps just a little more unstable (due to the ankles).
I had no head pale enough to really match the skin tone handy, and had to settle for what turned out a fairly distant approximation (some unpainted resin casts are actually fairly close). So here is how it compares with Jiaou's 10A-BS and TBLeague's M33.
Flex at the biceps is better than Jiaou's, but probably slightly worse than TBLeague's (despite its bulkier musculature).
Kneeling on one leg is pretty good across all three (probably slightly weaker in Jiaou).
Bending backwards, MAF is in the lead (in part due to lankier limbs), TBLeague is almost as good (despite shorter limbs and an unhelpful longhaired molded hair sculpt), Jiaou is a distant third.
Bending forward, MAF once again is in the lead, the other two about even with each other. But note that MAF and Jiaou both bunch up at the shoulders.
All three can do the splits and raise their hands vertically upwards very well; MAF does have more of a bunch up at the shoulder.
All three can sit naturally.
Bending the knee, TBLeague is in the lead, the other two about even with each other.
All three bodies can extend their arms horizontally at a right angle from the body's axis, but MAF has the worst bunching up at the shoulders; the problem is least manifested in TBLeague.
The hands that come with the MAF body are made of relatively soft plastic and have a finer sculpt than the others; MAF's fingers are also longer and thinner, I suppose to go with the longer and more slender limbs. In this, Jiaou lags farthest behind.
The feet that come with the MAF body are made of harder plastic. They require the cylindrical inserts to receive the ankle pegs on the body. Once again, MAF's sculpting is superior to TBLeague and Jiaou's (the latter being a copy of the former), with more detail and individual toes.
The bodysuit is a strange affair. I half suspect it isn't meant as actual clothing as much as a fabric layer to go over the body and visually look more or less indistinguishable from the skin, while facilitating clothing the body over it. And helping protect the body from staining or dirt/dust.
It zips up over the back.
I am divided on the Kamisoul MAF body, although there is a lot to disappoint: those horrid hips, those annoyingly loose ankles, and that impossible-to-match skin tone. I thought perhaps this was aimed at Anime characters, but the only male Anime sculpt I happen to have (for customs) turned out too tan to match. Of course, I'm aware that not all Anime is uniformly pale, but that just confirmed the questionable nature of the choice, unless it was meant for something extremely specific and particular that is beyond my comprehension.
On a personal note: This spikey-haired F***er took a tumble and his hair left a pair of bloody snake-teeth-like marks in my hand. Thank you, MAF ankles. And thank you, Anime hair. He's getting "shaved" and rehaired (and probably turned into a girl) soon. As for the body, it is totally going to be subjected to a recoloring experiment.
In summary:
Good: the packaging; the metal wrist pegs, allowing for easy but secure swapping of hands; the very good articulation/range of motion; the detailed sculpt of the body and especially of the hands and feet.
Neutral: the body's height -- a body this slim might work best for a younger character, and in that case the height might be a little too tall; the bodysuit.
Bad: the skin tone (are polar bears this pale?); the wide hips; the loose ankles; the bunching over the shoulders.
I hope this has been helpful. As always, what do you think?
That one was really interesting. I know some people want a really pale body for a game witcher char, but i feel this one is not the perfect shape for him. 
