Jada Toys Street Fighter II Ken review

The Street Fighter reviews keep on coming, and I can happily say that the quality continues being great for the price they go for. We looked at Ryu and Chun-Li, but now we have an additional character to look at beyond those two, and who else but Ken. Sorry, Fei Long and some others I didn't get to yet...some may think of Ken as just another dude similar to Ryu, but perhaps there's more to this close friend of his than people don"t realize, as we'll discuss in today's review.

Here we have Ken in-hand. The figure appears to use about the same base tooling that Ryu has, though we'll get more into that later down in the review. That being said, his tunic is much less jagged than that of his closest friend, fitting the more happy-go-lucky attitude Ken has in the series. The fingerless gloves are now brown to go with the red attire, and he also retains a black belt. 

His main head has the aforementioned attitude he was known for in the series, with a confident grin that only he can pull off. Since he and Ryu share the same articulation, the neck is on double ball pegs, the shoulders swivel front and back, hinge in and out, swivel at the biceps, bend at two points for the elbows, swivel at the wrists, and hinge inwards for the hands (outward movement is hindered due to the sculpt of the gloves). There are butterfly joints, two joints for the torso (one for the diaphragm and one connecting the lower torso to the waist). The hips move front and back, in and out (with the waist piece being equally flexible PVC as the gi), thighs swivel, knees bend at two points (which are pinless along with the elbows), there are swivels above the feet while the ankles can hinge and pivot. He also has a similar effect part to Ryu, down to the hands inside said piece.

As far as his variant is concerned, he comes in a white karate gi not unlike Ryu. He also has a new effect part not included with the regular self you want, you could swap heads with Ryu to sort of recreate that look, but know that the sleeves will be inaccurate, and Ken should be slightly taller. Either way, Ken is equally as good as Ryu, so let this quick review be a reminder of me loving the Ryu we got in 2023. Kind of like a re-review in a way.

Final ranking: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ and a half out of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐