【Shinobi Master Senran Kagura: New Link Hikage: Bunny Ver.】Faithfully reproducing the newly drawn illustration by character designer Nan Yaegashi! Wearing a black bunny suit and striking a bewitching pose, Hikage: Bunny Ver. appears on a 1/4 scale!

“If Hikage became a bunny girl, what on earth kind of figure would she be?”. An item as if making such imagination into a 3D model as is is “Shinobi Master Senran Kagura NEW LINK Hikage Bunny Ver. 1/4 Complete Figure”. Making “Hikage” appearing in “Shinobi Master Senran Kagura NEW LINK” into a figure in a bold bunny girl style, this work. Moreover, not a mere costume change, the place being produced based on a newly drawn illustration by character designer Nan Yaegashi cannot be missed. While clad in a bewitching atmosphere slightly different from her usual self, a presence where at a single glance you can feel “This is Hikage” properly remains. Precisely because of a favorite character, wanting to see a side different from usual. Responding to such fan psychology, it is a 3D work with a special feeling.

The moment displaying the figure, wouldn't some people feel “It is larger than I thought”? This work is 1/4 scale, total height is about 300mm. Because adopting a bold crouching spread legs pose, there is a volume that cannot be told by height alone, giving off an intense presence when displayed. Rather than earning size by standing figures, concentrating character charms inside low postures is the interesting place. In provocative glances added there, looking from the front or changing angles a little changes impressions. Rather than “placing on a shelf and gazing”, it is an intensity making you want to turn a whole corner into space for Hikage. Plastic and magnets are used for materials, and because dedicated pedestals are attached to the figure main unit, you can appreciate figures unique to complete products thoroughly.

What steals the eye first in this costume is after all the bunny costume based on black. By finishes holding glossy feelings, rather than becoming monotonous in solid black, 3D expressions are born depending on how light hits or viewing directions. Furthermore elements unique to bunny styles like fishnet tights, high heels, and rabbit ears decorating heads are reproduced delicately as well. Pushing out the concept “Hikage in bunny figure” easy to understand, by elaborately building up each part, perfection as a character figure is heightened. Eyes seem likely to go only to bold costumes and posings, but the more you gaze thoroughly, the more it is a single figure making you want to confirm details of sculpting and coloring.

“If the front is attractive, is that enough?”. No, in the case of this work, the back side is a place you want to look at properly too. On the back, largely spreading white wings are treated, creating a vivid contrast with black bunny costumes. Furthermore up to cute tails are reproduced, becoming a structure where features that newly drawn illustrations possessed can be enjoyed from various angles. Glossiness of black, gorgeousness of white wings, and glances typical of Hikage, differing elements are aggregated into a single sculpting, so every time changing viewing positions, eyes go to new points. Searching for favorite angles seems likely to become a way of enjoying unique to figures placing actual objects at hand.

Of course, even if newly drawn illustrations are attractive, to drop them into 3 dimensions requires solid techniques. In this work, Norimiki Ujikawa of Dragon Craft handled prototype production, yozakura handled coloring, and Dragon Craft participated in production cooperation. Basing on Hikage's figure drawn by Nan Yaegashi, points converting atmospheres possessed by flat illustrations into 3D objects of about 300mm are parts you want to gaze at consciously by all means. Not reproducing costumes alone, but including poses, line of sights, wings, feet, etc., it is summarized as a single worldview. If people who know original pictures, they can savor while comparing “Did they make here 3D like this?”, and if people who knew Hikage from the figure, they can enjoy the sculpting itself to their heart's content.

Costumes different from usual, designs unique to newly drawn, bold posings, and intensity of 1/4 scale. In “Hikage Bunny Ver.”, highlights that do not end with simply making characters into 3D models are packed. From black bunny costumes to white wings, fishnet tights, high heels, rabbit ears, and tails, by each element combining, a bewitching and gorgeous Hikage is produced. For fans feeling “I like usual Hikage too, but I wanted to see a figure like this too”, wouldn't this newly drawn version become an existence giving off a remarkably unique presence among collections?