Toukon Shop Kokushi Muso Super Start Figure Collection 47 review

Our next figure coverage is all about one of the many alter-egos of Keiji Mutoh. In blog #66,
we'll be taking a look at Toukon Shop's Kokushi Muso Super Star Figure Collection 47 figure.

                                

Released in 2001 through New Japan Pro-Wrestling's Toukon Shop
store. the packaging of the Kokushi Muso figure contains the NJPW
logo and a full-colour graphic of Muso

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In the same style as Keiji Mutoh's alter-ego The Great Muta, the back
of the packaging features a separate bio focusing solely on Kokushi

Muso's accolades (once again, this gimmick was treated as a separate
Wrestler altogether).

The back of the packaging also contains two great graphics of Muso.

Now, let's take a closer look at an unboxed example:

                               

The Kokushi Muso figure uses a mixture of Toukon Shop's Keiji
Mutoh head sculpt and upper torso while mixing in Great Muta's
ring pants (with a newly added belt).

The front of Kokushi's included monk staff accessory reads
"BADASS TRANSLATE TRADING" or simply B.A.T.T.
which was the name of Keiji Mutoh's cross-promotion
Wrestling stable at the time.

                                    


The back of the monk staff contains various Japanese Kanji. The
second half reads "黒師無双" (Kokushi Muso).As a play on Muso's
B.A.T.T. team mate and long-time rival, Jinsei Shinzaki, the Kokushi
Muso Toukon Shop figure features monk-inspired "tattoos" scrawled
across Muso's upper body.

On closer inspection,t he tattoos on Muso's chest reads "PROWRE
'S LOVE" (a nod to Mutoh's "Pro-Wrestling LOVE" slogan) and
"BAD ASS TRANS TRADING".

The only problem I have with the Kokushi Muso figure is it's
hand molds. Neither hands can properly grip the included staff
accessory.


                         

Muso's mixture of Kanji and English writing is also printed
along the left side of Muso's pants and arms.


                 


The right side of Muso's pants contains "Cross Wizard" graphics,
a design that Keiji Mutoh began wearing as part of his ring and
entrance from B.A.T.T.'s creation through Mutoh's early AJPW
run starting in 2002.


                    

The back of the Kokushi Muso figure contains a mixture of the
tattoos featured on the front in both English and Japanese.

The Kokushi Muso Super Star Collection Figure would be the
last figure released of Mutoh under New Japan's Toukon Shop
banner; as Mutoh would leave New Japan Pro-Wrestling for
rival promotion All Japan Pro-Wrestling in 2002.

As Mutoh only used the monk-inspired Muso gimmick for
a brief period (which originally ended in 2002 when Mutoh
resurrected his Great Muta gimmick in AJPW - only to be
brought back for special occasions from then on), there are
only three Kokushi Muso figures in existence.