Following along in the theme of ‘Things That I Love But Completely Don’t Understand’ comes the twelfth installment of Yanonman’s Demon’s Chronicle gashapon, titled ‘Exercitus Caelestis’. After exploring the zodiac, Egypitian mythologies, and plenty of naked-chick-spirit-animals, this newest series drives a theme of ‘demon sidekicks’ to assemble a series of eleven amazingly crafted miniature figures. As a hardcore collector of these who has come no closer to understanding them, I can personally maintain that these are artful and unusual enough to warrant a place in any collection.
As with most gashapon, they’re blind-boxed and available almost exclusively overseas. Will you get the brass-playing cat (Byleth’s Cat), the baby-demon riding the two-headed dragon (Varak’s cherubim), the goose lion (servant of Ipos), or the (present in almost every series) bare-chested harpy? Each figure also comes in two versions - painted, and a statuesque beige. The eleventh figure remains unlisted and mysterious, but if history is any judge, it’ll be far stranger than any of these here - like, a praying mantis in a derby eating a small naked man out of a skull or something.
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