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Part two of the 11th episode of Japacon TV, “Modeling Business! The Latent Potential of the Figure Maker,” has been broadcast. Japacon TV is a program that introduces “Japan content” (Japacon) from Japan’s subcultures. This program currently broadcasts on Fuji Satellite Broadcasting at 12:00 a.m. every Friday.
The first half of the episode centers on an interview with Bome who is a representative figure maker of Kaiyodo, one of Japan’s leading figure makers. Bome is indeed a genius figure maker who, in the span of 30 years, continues to master the art of sculpting figures of beautiful girls. In 2001, he was invited to France’s Cartier Modern Arts Foundation, which is known throughout the world. At an auction in New York in 2003, Takashi Murakami’s beautiful girl figure “Miss Ko2,” which Bome sculpted, gathered a huge reaction when it sold for 66 million yen.
When Bome sculpts, what he is careful about conveying is a “cool prettiness.” Bome also uses various works by famous Italian sculptor Michelangelo as reference material. It seems that this talented sculptor whom Japan is proud of looks to the world’s greatest sculptors of the past for support and inspiration.
In the second half of the episode, “Capsule Q Museum,” a new product series by Kaiyodo that is gaining attention, was introduced. The series features figures inside of capsules. At the center of Kaiyodo’s strategy for this new product line is the “Choco Egg,” a small toy sold with candy that was released in 1999 and has sold more than 120 million units. Will, Kaiyodo’s new product be the “Choco Egg” of this decade? You’ll have to watch the program for the answer!
This is a Tokyo Otaku Mode original article.
