XXXG-01L2 Gundam Livelance Heaven
Deathscythe Hell reborn as an angel, six wings and all.
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Gundam Livelance Heaven · 1/144 · 2021
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This kit takes a suit everyone already loves in its Hell form and flips the whole idea on its head, and it works.
The white and gold recolor over the Deathscythe Hell frame reads clean on the shelf, the active cloak opens into a genuine six-wing seraphim silhouette, and the beam lance's three-mode transformation gives you more to fiddle with than most HG weapons. It is not a flawless build (the cloak halves have no positive lock and the stand peg lets the kit wobble in flight poses) but as a reinterpretation of a fan-favorite frame it earns its spot on the shelf.
Best for: Deathscythe fans who want the angelic mirror-universe version, and Gundam Breaker Battlogue viewers who want Touma Aizen's custom in hand
What it is
This is the angel to Deathscythe Hell's reaper, built on the same HGAC-derived frame but recolored white and gold with a six-winged active cloak standing in for the original's tattered wings. The moment I unfolded that cloak into its spread position, it clicked, the feather-panel shaping and the color-coded front faces genuinely sell the seraphim look rather than just being a reskin. The beam lance is the other highlight, cycling between a compact rod, an extended lance, and a full-size mode, which gives you a real reason to keep repositioning the kit instead of locking it into one pose and calling it done.
The catch
The white and gold main colors come molded and differentiated well, but the metallic blue accents and the cloak's yellow trim lean on stickers rather than molded plastic, so up close it is a mixed bag depending on lighting. The bigger annoyance is the active cloak itself: the two halves have no lock in the closed position, so getting them to sit flush together takes some patience and occasional refitting. The joints hold poses fine on a flat surface, but mount it on the included stand for a flight pose and there is some rattle at the connection point that keeps it from feeling fully secure.
Who it's for
Buy this if you already like the Deathscythe Hell frame and want to see it reimagined as something warmer and more heroic looking, or if you are working through the Gundam Breaker Battlogue kit line and want Touma Aizen's signature custom on the shelf next to the rest. Skip it if you need every accent color pre-molded with zero stickers, or if displaying exclusively in dynamic flight poses on the stand matters to you, since that is where the fit issues show up most. For a straightforward standing display or a hand-held lance pose, it holds up well and looks distinct from anything else in a Wing-era collection.
The build story
What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.
Runner cleanup follows the familiar HGAC Deathscythe pattern this kit is built from, so gate placement and part fit are predictable if you have built the base suit before. Nothing here fights you during assembly, the trickiest step is fitting the active cloak's two halves together since there is no locking tab to hold them flush, so expect to test-fit and adjust a few times before it sits right.
Where the kit earns its keep is the cloak engineering and the weapon. The cloak's front panels are color-coded so they articulate independently into the six-wing spread, and the resulting pose genuinely looks like a seraphim rather than a costume change. The beam lance's rod-to-lance-to-full-size transformation gives the kit more play value than a typical single-mode HG weapon, and joint holding power on a flat surface is solid even if the display stand connection is looser than I would like.
Lore & trivia
- 01Livelance Heaven is built on the same base design lineage as the XXXG-01D2 Gundam Deathscythe Hell, recolored and re-armed with an angel motif as the visual opposite of Deathscythe's God of Death theme
- 02In the Gundam Breaker Battlogue story, pilot Touma Aizen built the Livelance Heaven after his previous custom, Code Phi, was confiscated by Yotsuba Electric following a tournament loss
- 03The abdomen-mounted mega particle beam cannon, capable of disintegrating a mobile suit in one shot, is written as a component taken from the NRX-0013 Gundam Virsago
- 04Touma later gave the Livelance Heaven to fellow pilot Rindo Kuzunoha, who piloted it against Touma himself in the All-Japan Championship quarterfinals
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