Saint Cloth Myth - Capricorn Shura

Story
Capricorn Shura, a Gold Saint said to be the most loyal to Athena and for this, he is granted Excalibur, a scared sword, hidden in his right arm. When Aioros is running away from the Sanctuary with the baby Athena, Ares make use of Shura's blind loyalty and sent him out to hunt the fugitives. Shura mortally injured Aioros but could not bear to kill the infant.

Much later, when the Bronze Saints is intruding the Sanctuary, Shura guarded the Capricorn palace and duel with Shiryu. His most powerful attack, Excalibur, could cut through anything that is in it ways including Shiryu legendary Dragon Shield, which is believe to be invisible. In that particular duel, Shiryu trap Shura and catapult both of them together to the atmosphere. Shiryu act of selflessness woke up Shura and he realizes his loyalty is misplaced. He repented by saving Shiryu with his Capricorn Gold Cloth but Shura ended up dead, burn up in the atmosphere.

He later returns in Chapter Hades with a mission to assassinate Athena along with other revived Gold Saints. Can the once noted to be the most loyal Saint to Athena becomes a traitor?

Packaging
Capricorn Shura is the fifth release of Gold Saint in Saint Cloth Myth series and comes packaged in the standard yellow ‘book box’. The box opens in the middle to reveal two windowed boxes; in one side is a well-articulated figure of Shura along with some of his armor parts whereas the other is the rest of his Capricorn Object parts.

The following are the parts count and items in bold are of metal:

This package also comes with 6-pages colored instruction manual and a cloak. The clock is the standard design as in Leo Aioria and Aquarius Camus. This mean that it is made of soft PVC and it comes with two plastics plugs to attach to the back of the chest armor.

The 'book-box' opens to reveal that it consists of two window boxes.

Capricorn Object
Constructing the Capricorn object is straightforward and I found it to be surprisingly simple. I made a record time in constructing Saint Cloth Myth Object with this one. The chest armor with the skirt armor is attached to the main section frame provided. Whereas, arm and leg armors are dressed to Capricorn four limbs. The shoulder armor is put on to the chest and back of Capricorn. There is a choice of to use the full helm or half helm on Capricorn head whether to follow the design as seen in Chapter Hades or in TV Series.

The Object frame itself consists of 11 detachable parts and are required to detach and reattach before and after donning the armor parts. It uses some sort of black polycaps like plastic where the legs and the main body joints. The polycaps joints might not look as good as in Leo Aioria but it is better than nothing is.

Once the Object is ready, you will have a beautiful golden mountain goat for display. The Capricorn is standing on it four limbs and there is nothing much you can do with it. Unlike the Leo Object, which uses thicker and better polycaps on joints, you cannot really pose or play with this Object.

Shura Figure
All Saint Cloth Myth series of PVC figures comes with a fully articulated body and Bandai did not include any improvement on the superb articulated body since Pegasus Seiya. Shura is of no exception and came in the standard body. The only difference here is that the body is in purple and has a different head sculpt.

A challenge that seen in this figure is that the head has to accommodate either a full helm or a half helm. This is done by having 2 separate removable pieces of hair; one in the front and the other at the back. When Shura is donning the half helm, the back portion of his hair should remain and while he is wearing the full helm, both pieces should be removed. This requirement of a full helm and a half helm design is created in Chapter Hades since the animator decided to promote the Gold Saint face. The half helm with its horns protruding from the front is never gold in color as seen in Chapter Hades.

The Gold Cloth in armor is solid, hefty in weight and immediately increment Shura’s height by a centimeter or two. The paint job is beautifully done with the entire armor plated in gold decorated with intricate patterns. The armor gold color is more towards white and has the palest color among all releases of gold saint so far. The shoulder armor connected to the chest via a metal catch, a feature that is absent since Leo Aioria that is much durable than the flimsy connector on those plastic shoulder armor. Capricorn should be an agile warrior. For this, the armor is made towards a slender design. As oppose to other gold saints, the armor parts fits perfectly bringing a figure that does not have too many parts falling off during play.

There is no extra figure head that comes along with Shura. This is to be expected since nobody really donned the Capricorn Cloth beside Shura. I believe Shiryu temporary usage of the armor during his atmospheric re-entry does not count.

Conclusion
Capricorn is the second animal zodiac that has been release so far in the Saint Cloth Myth Series. Although this package does not comes with anything extraordinary that had not been seen before, this simple yet elegant design of the gold armor should not be miss.

Shura and his goat	Figure front view	PVC figure rear view

The Capricorn Object The goat without a tail

The chest armor is place sideway on the frame Object with full helm as in TV Series Object with half helm as in Chapter Hades

I don't remember Shura to be this handsome in the TV series The bald guy with both hair pieces removed for wearing a full helm

Capricorn Gold Saint with a cloak	Side view. Large shoulders and a slender body	Rear view.

Shura returns in Chapter Hades with a half helm.	Capricorn ultimate attack! Excalibur!	I am not shaking your hand. I am chopping you!