S.H. Figuarts One Piece

S.H. Figuarts is a series of 14 cm tall action figures made by Bandai. This series pertains to the Tamashii Nations top brand, Bandai's label for high quality articulated figures that can be compared to Kaiyodo ' s Revoltech or Max Factory ' s Figma distributed by Good Smile Company. Tamashii Nations encompasses several other well known action figure lines, as Saint Seiya Myth Cloth or Soul of Chogokin.

The brand name is composed of the acronym for "Simple Style" and "Heroic Action" and the playword on the words "Figure" and "Arts". Indeed, in Japanese, figure is pronounced as fi-gu-aa and arts as aa-tsu, giving way fo the new word fi-gu-aa-tsu by merging.

S.H. Figuarts actually came out at first with Kamen Rider figures in early 2008, but by mid-2009 started to expand with figures of other anime licences as G Gundam, Kakugo no Susume (Apocalypse Zero in the U.S.), PreCure, and during 2010 with figures of Dragon Ball Kai and One Piece.

Monkey D. Luffy
The very first version of S.H. Figuarts One Piece will be an incarnation of Luffy. To be released late August 2010 at 3,465¥, it should come with several accessories enabling it take the form of the famous Gear 2nd and Gear 3rd attack fame.

Portgas D. Ace
The second incarnation will be Luffy's brother, Ace. This figure will also come out late August 2010 at 3,465¥.