Osha Aniseya — Star Wars The Black Series #ACO 01

Overview

The Phase 4 Acolyte Collection opens at #ACO 01 with Osha Aniseya — and it opens correctly. Osha is The Acolyte’s protagonist: the former Jedi Padawan who left the Order, became a meknek (a deep-space hull mechanic), and gets pulled back into a Jedi investigation when a former master is found murdered. She is the series’ centre of gravity, the character through whose experience the mystery unfolds, and the person who has the most to lose if the investigation reveals what she fears it might. The Phase 4 Acolyte Collection begins with her.

6 accessories including stun blaster and removable holster. 18 joints. $24.99. 2024.

Osha and The Acolyte’s Core Mystery

The Acolyte is a High Republic era mystery series — set approximately 100 years before The Phantom Menace, in the period when the Jedi Order is at the height of its institutional power. The mystery it pursues is specifically about what the Jedi Order might have done, or failed to do, that planted the seeds of the dark side threat to come. Osha is positioned at the centre of that mystery not because she is investigating it from outside, but because her own history — her twin sister Mae, their coven upbringing, the fire that destroyed her community — is woven into it.

The former Padawan configuration communicates all of this. Osha didn’t finish her training. She left, or was asked to leave, or left under circumstances the series makes deliberately ambiguous. The figure carries the practical clothing of someone who has been living as a working mechanic, not the Jedi robes of someone who completed the path.

Six Accessories — The Acolyte Collection’s Richest Loadout

Six accessories on the #ACO 01 opening figure sets the tone for the collection. The stun blaster is the weapon of a person who is currently a civilian rather than a combatant — non-lethal, practical, the sidearm of a mechanic who works in environments where accidents happen and threats are manageable. The removable holster is the display detail that allows the stun blaster to be worn rather than just held. The remaining accessories extend the character’s operational range across the figure’s 18-joint scheme.

The six-accessory count at $24.99 is strong value by Phase 4 standards — comparable to the ROTJ Collection’s Teebo and Wicket, both of whom received six accessories at similar price points.

18 Joints for the Former Padawan

At 18 joints including butterfly shoulders, rocker ankles, and swivel boots, Osha has the articulation range of someone who trained as a Jedi and retained the physical capability that training produces even if she never completed it. The butterfly shoulder joints enable the specific fighting stances of someone whose combat training was Jedi-rooted but whose current operational context is more improvised. The rocker ankle and swivel boot configuration enables grounded action poses appropriate for a hull mechanic who works in variable gravity conditions.

Osha and Mae: The Twin Display

Osha’s twin sister Mae is the series’ other central character — the one who chose a different path, who trained under the Sith, whose actions are what set the investigation in motion. If the Acolyte Collection eventually produces a Mae figure, the Osha/Mae twin display will be one of Phase 4’s most thematically charged two-figure arrangements: the same face, the same origin, radically different choices.

Secondary Market

Above-retail secondary market prices. 2024 standard retail. Verify all six accessories. No production variants documented.

Our Verdict

Osha Aniseya at #ACO 01 is the right figure to open the Acolyte Collection — the protagonist in the former Padawan configuration, with the collection’s richest accessory loadout, at the 18-joint Phase 4 standard. The High Republic era is new territory for the Black Series, and Osha is its entry point. Buy her.

The High Republic Era’s First Black Series Protagonist

Osha Aniseya is, to our knowledge, the first Phase 4 Black Series figure specifically rooted in the High Republic era — the period of Star Wars history that the publishing initiative has been developing since 2021 but that the live-action content had not yet explored before The Acolyte. The Phase 4 ACO Collection is the High Republic’s entry into the 6-inch Black Series, and Osha is its introduction.

That makes her a historically specific purchase regardless of how you feel about The Acolyte’s specific narrative. The High Republic era — the Jedi Order at its institutional peak, before the Clone Wars, before Palpatine’s long game, before everything the prequel trilogy establishes as the Order’s terminal condition — is now in Phase 4 plastic, and Osha Aniseya is its first protagonist figure.

The Removable Holster as Display Detail

The removable holster is a specific production investment that rewards the display collector. Most figures in the Phase 4 system carry their accessories in hand or have them sculpted to the figure. A removable holster means the stun blaster can be displayed holstered at the hip (the at-rest mechanic’s configuration) or drawn in hand (the active combat configuration). Two distinct display options from the same figure. The six-accessory count makes the most of that flexibility across the figure’s full 18-joint range.

Osha Aniseya’s six accessories, 18 joints, and High Republic provenance make her the most complete opening figure in any Phase 4 collection that isn’t a deluxe. She is the entry point to an era the Black Series had never covered before, in a configuration that’s among the most accessory-rich in the line. Buy her at $24.99. Build the Acolyte Collection around her.

The Acolyte Collection. The High Republic. The former Padawan with six accessories and 18 joints. Osha Aniseya opens it correctly.

Six accessories at $24.99. 18 joints. The High Republic’s first Black Series protagonist. The ACO Collection begins here and everything else follows from her.

The Phase 4 Acolyte Collection is the Black Series’ first sustained engagement with an era that predates everything collectors have known since 1977. Buy Osha Aniseya and open that era.

The High Republic era. One hundred years before the Phantom Menace. The Jedi Order at its institutional peak, and the first crack appearing. Osha Aniseya is the person who investigates that crack — or is investigated as part of it, or both, which is The Acolyte’s precise ambiguity. The figure with six accessories at $24.99 is the entry point to all of it.

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Part of Star Wars The Black Series | Phase 4 Acolyte Collection. Related: Jedi Master Sol P4-ACO-02 | Jedi Master Indara P4-ACO-05 | The Acolyte.