Curiosities about the toy and variants
Ikki is the Bronze Saint of Phoenix and brother of Shun of Andromeda. Together with his companions, they protect the goddess Athena from all kinds of dangers throughout the series.
Over the course of the series, the design of the Bronze Knights' armor evolves, resulting in different figures of the same character with some changes to the armor.
In this case, we have the V1 version of the Phoenix armor, which is the first version of the armor and the one Ikki uses throughout the Sanctuary saga.
This figure was released in Japan in 1987 and came in two different types of boxes, known as "First Born" and "Window Box." The figure itself is exactly the same, the only difference being the box, with the "Window Box" having a transparent part from which the figure can be seen and the "First Born" being completely closed. Differences in the design and illustration of these can also be seen.
The V1 version of the Bronze Knights also arrived in Europe a few years later, but it was only distributed with the box in French.