Red King Swaps Muscle for Bones in Frog Tree's Yokai Sofubi
PLEX's ULTRA KAIJU VINYL ART Red King by sofubi collective Frog Tree is back as a Premium Bandai lottery in Japan, open until 26 October at ¥40,000.
Red King, one of Tsuburaya's Ultraman kaiju, has picked up a ghost story. UKVA Red King Mukuro no Ou (骸王) is a soft vinyl figure by Frog Tree, a sofubi artist collective that works around a Japanese "wa" theme. PLEX made it for ULTRA KAIJU VINYL ART, a project that pairs sofubi artists with Ultra kaiju, and Tsuburaya says Frog Tree's Red King is the first release in the line.
Frog Tree layered yokai and oni imagery over the monster. According to Tsuburaya, the ridged layers on the torso and arms are meant to recall the Gashadokuro, the skeleton yokai said to be born from the bodies of the battle dead, and the roaring mouth is sculpted to look like a skull. The paint pairs a bone colour with a pale, ghostly blue, which Tsuburaya describes as close to the original Red King's colours.
The figure first turned up in February. Frog Tree sold a glow-in-the-dark version in its own artist colour, called Red King Gashadokuro, at its Wonder Festival 2026 [Winter] booth on 8 February, and Tsuburaya Store ONLINE took preorders for this colourway from 25 February to 31 March.
Now there's another chance through Premium Bandai, as a lottery for P-GARAGE's special Tsuburaya Store pop-up sale, Dengeki Hobby Web reports. Entries run from 12:00 on 11 October to 23:00 on 26 October, Japan time (2pm in the UK), and it's one entry per person. Dengeki adds that entries may close early if they reach the number prepared. Winners should hear in late October, with figures due to ship in November.
It costs ¥40,000 including tax and stands about 28cm tall and 30cm long, which Dengeki points out is still a big armful for an adult.
Our favourite part is the head, with Red King's small pointed dome now sitting on a neck that looks to us like stacked vertebrae.
