Kotobukiya have been producing G.I. Joe statues in their Bishoujo line for a bit now. They currently have pieces for Barnoness, Scarlett and Lady Jaye. 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.
Kotobukiya recently sent us a couple pieces to take a look at. Baroness – in her 25th Anniversary Blue color variant scheme, and Scarlett in a sky blue and silver palette. Baroness also comes (but not featured here) in traditional black and Crimson Guard red. Scarlett has a traditional color version and this one. Lady Jaye, not featured here, is also available via a traditional color version.
All in all they are well done pieces. You have to be into the look, they are very unique and won’t fit in all collections. But if you like to mix it up with different incarnations of G.I. Joe on your shelves, these will add something new for sure.
Read on to check out our shots, all are available at select retailers now!
Quick Look at the Kotobukiya Bishoujo Barnoness and Scarlett Statues
They look cute; not a big fan of these decos though.
I have the original decos and really like them.
Nice Glenda.
I love the Kotobukiya Bishoujo series, I have several statues. Scarlett IMO is the best of the 3 GI Joe ones, I was pretty disappointed on how my girl Lady Jaye came out. Baroness came out ok, nothing special.
Lady Jaye is a dud for me (its the dog tags and hat I think) so I skipped her.
I think I like Baroness best just because she's my fav, but I can admit her pose lacks the personality and dynamism that Scarlett has. Scarlett looks like she's been snipped from a larger scene, where she's actually doing something, and Baroness is just looking cute and popping her butt out for an imaginary camera. Lady Jaye's just there, though, I don't know what's up with that. :/
I collect the Marvel and DC lines of these, and have to say these look cute, and love how they incorporated the box art for them too. It would be interesting if they ever did a snake eyes and storm shadow variant in this line.
I would agree that Scarlett is the best of the three, but I think the anime style along with the $100+ price tag may limit these a very small niche.
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