Utilising the same body type as Geed also means the articulation is pretty great too, and Belial can comfortably pull off the all poses you'd want your favourite Fusion Rise-powered evil Ultra megalomanic you'd want him too. Still - if there was one area this figure was bound to impress in it was the sculpt and finish, and Bandai certainly haven't let Ultra fans down in that respect.
The one grievance I have is that it seems as though the grey paint on the body might get easily scratched, as my copy of the figure came with a small but noticeable blemish just above the waist joint. The effect is pulled off so well that it's hard to tell whether it's translucent plastic (which it is) or actual paint. The only splashes of colour here are the barely noticeable purple Colour Timer, and more importantly those striking two-tone yellow eyes. Said sections have also benefited magnificently from a wash of brown, bringing out all those shapes and detailing - especially the mouth on that piercing skull-like head sculpt. Gone is that smooth colourful body, replaced with murky matte finish covered in menacing bone-like protuberances. Even in the show Belial Atrocious debuted a completely new twist on the tried and tested Ultraman aesthetic, and it makes just as bigger difference here as a figure as it did onscreen. But enough about the bad, because boy does Belial Atrocious look good. It was a noticeable annoyance on Geed and it still is here, and makes you wonder what it is about this body that prevents it from doing it. The big giveaway? The fact the arms are completely incapable of resting parallel against the body in a realistic way. Figuarts Ultraman Belial has been built off the same base body as Ultraman Geed Primitive.
Despite the overall finish of the figure being different in pretty much every way, those with a keen eye will know straight away that S.H.