HGUniversal Century

YMS-15KRT02 Gyancelot

A Zeon lance knight built out of pure gunpla love for the original Gyan.

MechaGrade Score

3.7/5

Gyancelot · 1/144 · 2016

GradeHG

Scale1/144

Released2016

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This kit made me appreciate what a good redesign can do with an old silhouette I already loved.

Bandai took the YMS-15 Gyan, a suit most people remember for its giant shoulder shield and one working arm, and turned it into a lance-wielding knight without losing what made the original charming. It is not a flawless build, the head cannot do a full turn and the thing does not like standing on its own, but the parts they added are genuinely clever and the price is fair for what you get.

Best for: Gundam Build Fighters fans and Gyan loyalists who want the knight-themed redesign without paying MG money

The full review

What it is

The Gyancelot is Kaoruko Sazaki's rebuild of her signature Gyan into a medieval knight, and the kit leans into that hard. You get the original Gyan's beam saber and missile shield alongside a new lance whose blades fan out into a shape that echoes the Zeon crest, plus a beam cape rig on the back with emitter fins that tilt and rotate. Building it felt less like assembling a generic HG and more like finishing a costume for a suit I already knew. The alternate open-tip spear head was a nice touch I did not expect at this price point, and swapping it in changes the whole silhouette.

The catch

The head cannot rotate a full 360 degrees by design, it tilts up and down well but the turn radius is limited. The big shoulder armor also blocks the arms from swinging fully outward unless you pull the backpack off, at which point you get a full spin back. All the gold trim, and there is a lot of it, comes from foil stickers rather than molded plastic, so careful application matters if you want it to look crisp. The most common complaint I found echoed across builds is that the kit struggles to balance and stand on its own, which is annoying for a suit this pose-happy.

Who it's for

If you already have a soft spot for the Gyan or you followed Gundam Build Fighters Try, this is an easy recommend, it gives you two suits worth of parts and a genuinely fun redesign for HG money. If you are chasing showroom-perfect gold accents or a kit that stands rock solid straight out of the box without a stand, this one will frustrate you more than it should. I would also point newer builders toward practicing sticker placement before tackling the cape emitters, since that is where the finished look lives or dies.

The build story

What the build is actually like, and the engineering worth knowing about.

Assembly runs like a straightforward Gyan variant build, nothing fights you at the runners and the alternate parts snap on cleanly. The one rough patch reviewers flag is around the feet, where you need to remove some of the snap-fit nubs to get the original Gyan foot option working right, everything else goes together without drama.

The design work is where this kit earns its keep. The lance with its fan-blade tip, the swivel-gimmick hand, and the beam cape fins that both tilt and rotate give it more posing personality than a typical HG at this price. Elbow movement is strong and the arms can hit a full 360 once the backpack comes off, though with it on the shoulder armor blocks outward swing. Head movement is good vertically but capped on rotation by the helmet design.

Lore & trivia

01The Gyancelot is Kaoruko 'Gyanko' Sazaki's redesign of the YMS-15 Gyan, built to fit a medieval knight theme, and first appears in Gundam Build Fighters Try: Island Wars.
02Kaoruko Sazaki is the younger sister of Yuuki Tatsuya's rival Susumu Sazaki from the original Gundam Build Fighters, and she inherited her brother's obsession with the Gyan.
03The lance's blades unfold into a fanned pattern that echoes the Zeon emblem, a nod to the Gyan's Principality of Zeon origins in the original Universal Century timeline.
04The kit was released as HGBF number 046 in August 2016, part of the same HG line scale (1/144) as standard HGUC releases despite the different sub-line stamp.