Kit Review

Straight build + Stickers

Size comparison with a cigarette pack

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Various angles (1/6)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Various angles (2/6)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Various angles (3/6)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Various angles (4/6)

Various angles

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Detail shots (1/4)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Detail shots (2/4)

Detail shots

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - You can swap between 4 different facial expressions. The far left face comes pre-print

You can swap between 4 different facial expressions.
The far left face comes pre-printed by default, while the other 3 on the right require you to apply the eyes using waterslide decals.

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Both a straight strap and a double-band style leather strap part are included. Each ty

Both a straight strap and a double-band style leather strap part are included.
Each type actually comes with 2 duplicates.

The first double-band leather strap is used to recreate the gas mask headband.

Weapons include an axe, a standard rifle, and a handgun.

The straight leather strap is applied as a sling on the standard rifle.

The axe handle is articulated, making it easy to fit into the hand.

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - A total of 7 hands are included, using a shared back-of-hand part with swappable palm/

A total of 7 hands are included, using a shared back-of-hand part with swappable palm/finger sections.

Decent limb articulation

You can pull the hip joints downward to get a better range of motion.

The forward/backward range of motion at the shoulders is a bit limited.

Waist articulation

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Axe pose (1/5)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Axe pose (2/5)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Axe pose (3/5)

Axe pose

Handgun kneeling pose

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Standard rifle pose (1/4)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya - Standard rifle pose (2/4)

Standard rifle pose

Together with the Figure-rise Standard Kaiju No. 8.

This kit is Kikoru Shinomiya released as part of the Figure-rise Standard series. She's the heroine from the anime Kaiju No. 8, and the kit comes in her Defense Force uniform from the show. The visuals and proportions are pulled off really nicely — she's got a great girlpla look to her.

First off, the color separation and molded color combination do a great job of nailing the design colors. Limb articulation is about average, but the stable joint strength makes this an easy kit to pose. That said, the shoulder joint tends to pop out when you bend it forward, so you'll want to be careful when moving the shoulders.

Weapons include a large axe, a standard rifle, and a handgun, all of which fit nicely with their dedicated hands. Two types of leather straps are included, which can be applied to the gas mask straps on the face and the sling on the standard rifle. Attaching the gas mask leather strap to the face is trickier than you'd expect, and you might accidentally snap it — (I did...) — so perhaps in anticipation of that, an extra spare strap is included for each type. There are also 7 swappable hands, and an interesting system is used where the wrist section is shared while only the hand portion is swapped out.

All in all, this is a solid Figure-rise Standard kit with clean visuals and great proportions, and if you enjoyed Kaiju No. 8, this one is definitely worth picking up. :-)

Figurerise Standard Kikoru Shinomiya | 2024.6 | ¥4,200

AIThis page was translated by Claude Sonnet.