Naruto fans have long-demanded an expansive line of high-end figures and statues, and after years of waiting, Tsume Art is the company that has stepped up to the plate and given fans the home run that they’ve been waiting for. Following up some of their biggest hits like the Madara Uchicha statue and the Itachi Uchiha HQS Statue, Tsume Art is now jumping back in time to give us the first “ultimate” antagonist in the Naruto manga and anime: the treacherous snake ninja Orochimaru is now up for order!

Although Orochimaru has long since been surpassed in both scope and abilities by other enemies in the Naruto Shippuden anime, he’ll always be remembered fondly (sort of) by longtime Naruto fans as the first truly major “boss” villain in the Naruto saga. After all, he managed to kill the Third Hokage, trash Konoha and bring Sasuke over to the dark side–all within the first two years of the Naruto anime. That’s quite a rap sheet!

To celebrate the legendary Sannin’s significance in the Naruto Shippuden anime, Tsume Art has now revealed a pretty spectacular Orochimaru DXTra Statue figure. Orochimari is the seventh figure in the Naruto Shippuden XTra Statue line by Tsume, but only the second figure to carry the DXtra label (after the awesome DXTra Madara Uchiha).

While Madara came with an extra face sculpt, what makes Orochimaru a “DXtra” statue is the great snake that Orochimaru has summoned to assist him in battle! It’s sort of sad that this a generic snake summons instead of the venerable Manda, but Manda is so gigantic that he would make Orochimaru look puny by comparison (and would also end up making this statue cost about quadruple what it does).

Along with his snake summons and poisonous fangs, the Orochimaru Tsume statue is also packing the Japanese sword of legend, the Sword of Kusanagi! Tsume included lots of great paint deco and sculpting detail on the Kusanagi sword, making it a real standout weapon in the line.

As with the rest of the Naruto Shippuden Tsume Art figures, Orochimaru is in the 1/10 scale and will stand just over 7″ tall. Scale is hugely important for creating an authentic Naruto universe in figure form, so I’m pleased to see that Tsume is continuing along with properly-scaled figures.

Like all of the Naruto Tsume Xtra figures, the Orochimaru XTra figure will come with the plain black base that matches those of the other figures released in the Naruto XTra figures line.

Unlike the earliest figures in the line, however, Tsume has changed things up as far as packaging goes, and Orochimaru will come in a window box so that you can see the figure right through the packaging–a big improvement over the first figures, where you had to open the box completely before you could see the figures at all!

The Tsume Art Orochimaru XTra statue figure is now available for order, and is scheduled to be released in spring 2015. As with all of the Tsume Naruto figures, Orochimaru is a strict limited edition, so if you think you’re going to want Orochimaru in your collection, you’d probably be best-served placing your order at least a couple months before the figure is actually do to be shipped out.

How do you like Tsume Art’s lucky seventh entry in the Naruto Shippuden XTra line, Naruto fans? Are you happy to see Orochimaru getting the exquisite figure treatment, or are there other characters you’d have preferred to see in Tsume form before Orochimaru?