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First Design and Sculpt Reveal for Kotobukiya Bishoujo Series Transformers Convoy, Megatron

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Kotobukiya has been producing Bishoujo statues for Hasbro properties such as My Little Pony and G.I. Joe in their Bishoujo line for a bit now. Now Kotobukiya has moved to adding Transformers to their statue product line! This announcement was made during the Kotobukiya Collection [Winter] online event livestream for figures and statues, and the line is off to a great start, beginning with the leader of the Autobots, Convoy! During the YouTube livestream, the concept art was shown, along with a video of the first sculpt on a pedestal. Convoy is decked out with shades, a jacket, a briefcase based on the trailer, and a Matrix necklace. Additionally, banner images from the figure page also show the Decepticon despot Megatron getting the Bishoujo treatment, with the new design wielding a giant fusion cannon bazooka.

The Bishoujo line is purposely done in an anime style for female characters, as per their description for it:

The Bishoujo Statue is a series of statues based off of Shunya Yamashita’s illustrations of various movie, game, and comic characters in the Japanese bishoujo (young beautiful girls) style. All of these statues are 1/7 in scale and make a great collection when displayed together.

Check out images collected from the stream and social media after the jump!

Update: Official English promotional video via Kobotukiya TV YouTube channel added.

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PrimalMotive Avatar
neospark1

For straight guys. I guess?

Lmfao what does that have to do with the statue

Trevor Belmont Avatar
Jeddostotle7

kinky?? kinky????? do you even know what the word means????????

Haha, I'm sure you can help me out with a more fitting word here. "Peculiar" maybe? It is weirdly kinda slightly sexualised transformers material

Jeddostotle7 Avatar
Trevor Belmont

:lol  They do have a point you know? These "representations" are a bit kinky, like rule 69, or whatever it was ("if it exists there's porn of it"). Now, while I don't hate this, I can't say I like it. The Japanese market probably has a whole different mentality and is thrilled about those

kinky?? kinky????? do you even know what the word means????????

Trevor Belmont Avatar
CactusReporter

What a gross mentality.

:lol  They do have a point you know? These "representations" are a bit kinky, like rule 69, or whatever it was ("if it exists there's porn of it"). Now, while I don't hate this, I can't say I like it. The Japanese market probably has a whole different mentality and is thrilled about those

General Tekno Avatar
Grimlocka go-go

Why can't people just like what they like

I despise beast machines, but if they announced a new…nightscream? was that a character? Then I'd be excited for the people that were happy!

need some more positivity on this site dag nabit

And I'd be that person who would be excited for a new Nightscream.

(Which funnily wouldn't have been me as a kid.)

Runamuck86 Avatar

Optimus Prime should definately carry his trailer as a bag in robot mode 

Fafnir72 Avatar
Grimlocka go-go

Why can't people just like what they like

I despise beast machines, but if they announced a new…nightscream? was that a character? Then I'd be excited for the people that were happy!

need some more positivity on this site dag nabit

RKStrikerJK5

Same. I'd be, "Well, I hope the folks who like Nightscream like his new toy," and that'd be it. Happy for them, but not buying it.

As for me? Preordered. I think she and the Megatron ones look fantastic.

Same soap, wash, rinse, spin and dry routine! Never gets old! Just ask Flame Toys Windblade and MP Arcee (not to much with Nightbird).:ev: 

RKStrikerJK5 Avatar
Grimlocka go-go

Why can't people just like what they like

I despise beast machines, but if they announced a new…nightscream? was that a character? Then I'd be excited for the people that were happy!

need some more positivity on this site dag nabit

Same. I'd be, "Well, I hope the folks who like Nightscream like his new toy," and that'd be it. Happy for them, but not buying it.

As for me? Preordered. I think she and the Megatron ones look fantastic.

Grimlocka go-go Avatar

Why can't people just like what they like

I despise beast machines, but if they announced a new…nightscream? was that a character? Then I'd be excited for the people that were happy!

need some more positivity on this site dag nabit

lord ginrai Avatar
Actar

Pre-ordered! (^o^)

Honestly, my one issue with people hating on female anime figures is that they're basing their hate on a misconception that anime girls = inherently sexy, even though they might be very conservatively dressed, and that the people who collect them are pervs. Yes, most, if not all, of them are "aesthetically pleasing," but that's par for the course for almost every fictional character meant for mass-market appeal, male or female.

I can't speak for every anime figure collector out there, but for me and most of the collectors I know, it's more about who and what the figure represents, more so than the actual figure itself. While an outsider might look at a figure and go "figure of generic anime girl number 10," that figure is almost always a physical representation of a character from an anime series, manga, etc… with a full backstory and hours upon hours of character development and/or story behind her. But that's not all.

Every one of the anime figures in my collection is of a character who spoke to me on a personal level or whose shows I thoroughly enjoyed. When I look at an anime figure on my shelf, I'm reminded of a character who I spent a significant amount of time getting to know over the course of an anime series and the memories that are associated with it, be it the laughs and tears, the childhood nostalgia, or some of the best shared experiences with family and friends. To have that invalidated and trivialized to "only perves collect anime figures" is frankly insulting.

For this particular bishojo Optimus figure, I'm buying her not because "sexy anime girl," but because it's an amalgamation of two of my biggest loves – anime and Transformers. Can't get really any more perfect than this! (^o^)

Hear hear! It’s about character representation on your shelf.
One of my best friends is gay as fuck but he has a huge collection of “sexy” anime girl statues.

Some of the reactions on here are hilarious XD

Actar Avatar

Pre-ordered! (^o^)

Honestly, my one issue with people hating on female anime figures is that they're basing their hate on a misconception that anime girls = inherently sexy, even though they might be very conservatively dressed, and that the people who collect them are pervs. Yes, most, if not all, of them are "aesthetically pleasing," but that's par for the course for almost every fictional character meant for mass-market appeal, male or female.

I can't speak for every anime figure collector out there, but for me and most of the collectors I know, it's more about who and what the figure represents, more so than the actual figure itself. While an outsider might look at a figure and go "figure of generic anime girl number 10," that figure is almost always a physical representation of a character from an anime series, manga, etc… with a full backstory and hours upon hours of character development and/or story behind her. But that's not all.

Every one of the anime figures in my collection is of a character who spoke to me on a personal level or whose shows I thoroughly enjoyed. When I look at an anime figure on my shelf, I'm reminded of a character who I spent a significant amount of time getting to know over the course of an anime series and the memories that are associated with it, be it the laughs and tears, the childhood nostalgia, or some of the best shared experiences with family and friends. To have that invalidated and trivialized to "only perves collect anime figures" is frankly insulting.

For this particular bishojo Optimus figure, I'm buying her not because "sexy anime girl," but because it's an amalgamation of two of my biggest loves – anime and Transformers. Can't get really any more perfect than this! (^o^)

G.B. Blackrock Avatar
Ackar

anyone got more of those anime woman megatron pics

its for a homeweork

Not of the figure, but there was this cosplay at TFConLA 2022.
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Ackar Avatar

anyone got more of those anime woman megatron pics

its for a homeweork

puma Avatar
Max Tower

I think she's kinda great, she isn't in anyway immodestly dressed or immodestly posed she just looks cool and street smart and "fun" she also has georgous blue eyes – so props for the way they rendered those into the deco so nicely.

If one want's an "explanation" as to why she exists there is plenty of headcanons one can come up with to explain her.

I just think she's a really cool chick and she has the added benefit of opening up Optimus Prime as a legitimate female cosplay that can be considered "canon" now so – I don't think a bunch of young woman walking around dressed like this can be ever considered a bad thing.

I'd certainly 'Gush' if I saw one.

A Cosplayer in Japan already knocked it out of the park.
https://twitter.com/tfmarvel/status/1510619292072837122?s=21&t=GjzdgW0_jT71_EgLKvEW5A

Max Tower Avatar

I think she's kinda great, she isn't in anyway immodestly dressed or immodestly posed she just looks cool and street smart and "fun" she also has georgous blue eyes – so props for the way they rendered those into the deco so nicely.

If one want's an "explanation" as to why she exists there is plenty of headcanons one can come up with to explain her.

I just think she's a really cool chick and she has the added benefit of opening up Optimus Prime as a legitimate female cosplay that can be considered "canon" now so – I don't think a bunch of young woman walking around dressed like this can be ever considered a bad thing.

I'd certainly 'Gush' if I saw one.

reave Avatar

Make this a Fortnite skin and I'm buying it.

MetroSupreme Avatar

Maybe they'll do an Arcee some day. That at least makes some sense to my very Western brain.

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