MGSD Sengokuden Musha Shichinin Shuu Hen (Musha Gundam series)

Musha Gundam Mk-II Tokugawa Ieyasu [Nanban-Dogusoku ver.]

A 2010 MG samurai classic dressed up in black lacquer and chrome for a shrine dedication, and it earns the occasion.

MechaGrade Score

3.9/5

Musha Gundam Mk-II Tokugawa Ieyasu [Nanban-Dogusoku ver.] · 1/100 · 2025

GradeMG

Scale1/100

Released2025

Runnersn/a

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The verdict

This is a genuinely good MG wearing a genuinely special coat of paint.

The bones underneath are the 2010 MG Musha Gundam Mk-II, a kit that already had a reputation for undergate tech and gold-plated flash, and the Nanban-Dogusoku colorway leans into black and chrome plating with Japanese-paper stickers modeled on the real armor Tokugawa Ieyasu is said to have worn at Sekigahara. I like it a lot as a display piece and as a piece of crossover history between Gunpla and an actual Shinto shrine. I do not love that you have to hunt it down through P-Bandai or a shrine tie-in to get it.

Best for: Musha Gundam collectors and P-Bandai hunters who want the Sekigahara commemorative colorway, not first-time builders looking for something easy to find

The full review

What it is

Underneath the finish, this is the same MG Musha Gundam Mk-II skeleton Bandai has been running since 2010: ball-jointed shoulders, elbows, and hips, double-jointed knees, poly-capped wrists and ankles, and a torso built to swing two Kotetsu Maru swords plus the Senkou Maru naginata and Shoryu Maru back-mounted gun. The Nanban-Dogusoku version reworks that into black and chrome plating with a newly molded helmet copying the real Nanban Dogusoku helmet shape, and red kusazuri tassets rendered in Japanese-paper stickers rather than plain vinyl. Building it feels like assembling a well-proven MG that happens to be dressed for a very specific occasion, and the shoulder axis and thigh-to-knee linkage genuinely widen the pose range over a plain samurai figure.

The catch

The red kusazuri and the Mitsuba Aoi family crests are stickers, full stop, made of a textured Japanese paper rather than a printed part, and that means careful placement and zero tolerance for a crooked application on a very visible part of the torso. Chrome-plated runners scratch and show fingerprints more readily than matte plastic, so gate cleanup needs a lighter hand than usual. It was a Nikko Toshogu Shrine and Premium Bandai release at 7,700 yen, which puts it above a standard MG price band and means secondary market pricing is the real cost once the initial run and its 2025 reissue dry up.

Who it's for

If you already like the Musha Gundam line, or you want a Gunpla piece that ties directly into real Japanese history rather than an anime storyline, this is worth chasing down. The underlying MG is mechanically solid, so you are not paying a premium purely for a reskin with worse engineering. Skip it if you want a kit you can walk into a store and buy today, or if sticker-based color separation on a chrome finish sounds like more stress than you want on a display piece. Builders who want the cheapest way into a Musha Gundam should look at the original gold-and-silver MG release instead.

What works

Proven MG Musha Gundam Mk-II frame with ball-jointed shoulders, elbows, hips, and double-jointed knees that hold samurai-style sword poses
Black and chrome plating plus a newly molded Nanban Dogusoku helmet give it a genuinely distinct look from the standard release
Comes with the full Musha Gundam Mk-II loadout: two Kotetsu Maru swords, the Senkou Maru naginata, and the Shoryu Maru gun

Worth knowing

Red kusazuri and crest details rely on Japanese-paper stickers rather than molded color, which punishes a shaky hand
Chrome-plated parts are more scratch- and fingerprint-prone during gate cleanup than standard plastic
P-Bandai and shrine-exclusive distribution at 7,700 yen makes it harder and pricier to find than a standard-release MG

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The build story

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

The frame benefits from Bandai's undergate approach on the original 2010 Musha Gundam Mk-II tooling, so a lot of nub marks land in seams and joints rather than on flat armor faces. The chrome and black-plated runners on this version need a gentler touch when clipping and cleaning, since shiny plating shows scuffs that matte plastic hides. The paper-textured stickers for the kusazuri and Mitsuba Aoi crests go on cleanly if you take your time, but they are unforgiving of a second attempt.

Where the kit earns its keep is articulation for a samurai-shaped MG: the shoulder joint carries a movable axis for dynamic action poses, and the thigh armor is linked to the knee's motion so the skirt slides out of the way instead of blocking a wide stance. That, combined with poly-capped wrists and ankles, means it can actually hold two-sword and naginata poses instead of just standing there in armor. Weapon loadout is generous for the price band, three distinct melee and ranged options, and the new helmet tooling plus commemorative plating add real value over a simple recolor.

Lore & trivia

01The Musha Gundam Mk-II is the brother unit of the original Musha Gundam in the SD Sengokuden Musha Shichinin Shuu Hen storyline, a late-1980s samurai-themed spinoff of Gundam.
02This colorway is designed after the Nanban Dogusoku, a suit of armor associated with Tokugawa Ieyasu and said to have been worn during the Battle of Sekigahara.
03The kit was dedicated to Nikko Toshogu Shrine, the actual shrine complex built to enshrine Tokugawa Ieyasu, with pre-release sales starting there on May 27, 2024 before wider Premium Bandai distribution.
04The underlying MG Musha Gundam Mk-II mold dates back to a May 2010 release that used Bandai's undergate technology and gold-plated runners, and it was itself derived from a Dynasty Warriors: Gundam character design.