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真誕生日おめ！ by 鶴井 [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[imasallstars]

[08/29] HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAKOTO KIKUCHI!

Voice Provider: Hiromi Hirata (平田宏美)

[silvertsundere]

【ドラマチック＊ヒロイン】 Kikuchi Makoto

[dailyfigures]

Kikuchi Makoto ; THE iDOLM@STER ☆ Phat Company

[itsukiitsuki1]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY　菊地真

[kurayamineko]

765PRO ALLSTARS - ToP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[forbiddnappl]

handful of idolmaster fanarts

[kubota-crackhead]

strange cat like creature

[wormgumz]

2008

[fuckthispost-andhappybirthday]

August 29: Happy Birthday Makoto Kikuchi (THE IDOLM@STER)!!!!

[degin00]

"Lemonade Boy"

I drew a The Idolm@ster fan comic where Makoto listened to Yukiho and Azusa's song titled "Lemonade" and oh boy, that did escalate things quickly 😏

[viofitz]

Review: Bandai S.H.Figuarts Makoto Kikuchi

Introduction:

Bandai S.H.Figuarts (SHF) is a popular line of high quality collectable figures made by Bandai. The toyline debuted in 2008 and is targeted towards the adult fans of the series with its higher price and show-accurate detailing of the figurines. The line started in Kamen Rider THE NEXT series and has expanded to many franchises. In this review, it will focus on Idolmaster character after for so long that Figma discontinued the line. From Figma to Bandai it's no surprise since idolmaster was originally owned by Bandai Namco, I'm guessing Good Smile Company discontinued the line because of either license problem and for sure low sales. In this release, Idolmaster is commemorating the inauguration of the Tamashii Nations ambassadors. Together with the producer, a special project to decide which members will be made into figures. The five members selected for the "Dancing Idol" theme are Makoto Kikuchi, Seira Mizuki, Ayumu Maihama, Ren Kizaki and Asahi Serizawa. Makoto Kikuchi is unfortunately another Premium Bandai (P-Bandai) releases so, she gets that brown case but, in this review I bought her second handed so, her actual brown case is a mess from the previous owner. Her main packaging, she was packaged with removable box sleeve in which features a gorgeous art of Makoto Kikuchi in both sides, the front part is mostly featured Makoto Kikuchi in the spotlight black with magenta gradation background with magenta layout. While the rear part also featured 2 identical Makoto Kikuchi artworks bust and full body with magenta and white colored background and there's a gold printed sign of Makoto Kikuchi herself. I know it's a gorgeous piece but, it's kind of boring to only feature a multiple same identical artwork front and rear. Her main box art is a classic window styled box which we can see the contents. The overall box art is black colored, the front part aside the window there's the usual promotional photo of the figure of Makoto Kikuchi with magenta colored star background as well as her name and the brand and the line logos. The rear part we get to see the entire background is mostly magenta and white, and features the product's promotional photos showing the figure's overall capability as well as the accessories. There's also the warning sign and the figure is for 15 years and up due to their small and sharp parts. I like how they kept the traditional looking box art on this one tbh, and unlike the box sleeve the main box art is mostly showing her promotional photos of the figure instead of her artwork.

Contents:

Out from the box, Makoto comes with her main figure, 4 option face parts, 8 option hand parts, 1 microphone and dedicated stand set. Pretty standard for a P-Bandai I gotta say.

Character introduction:

Makoto Kikuchi is an idol from 765 Production who lives in Shizuoka. She was introduced in the arcade game. She has made appearances in every console game that features 765 Production. Makoto is known as "The Pretty-boy Idol" and prince of 765 Production. She has more female fans than male ones and is very popular at her all girls high school. She is an energetic, determined and honest girl who deep-down wishes to make herself more feminine. She is very confident in her dancing skills, and though being self-taught, she is known to be one of the best dancers in 765 Production. Makoto also loves to do sports, in fact before her idol debut she used to train at an Aikido dojo near her house, leading her to also be physically strong. Makoto's family consists of herself and both her parents. Her dad is a professional race car driver who wished to have a son, and therefore has raised Makoto as a boy, leading to her tomboyish demeanor. After Makoto one day discussed with her dad how she wished to be more feminine, her dad came to the conclusion to make her an idol, and introduced Makoto to 765 Production. She is voiced by Hiromi Hirata. Well, despite how tomboy she became, she's still wanting herself to be feminine in her heart.

Makoto's hair has always been depicted to have dark grey short hair with side layered bangs, in this conversion I gotta admit Bandai did quite well but, not really a fan of her rear hair which looks like a bunch of leaves. Her proportions is shown to have slender body and she's wearing an original Tamashii Nations costume, which mostly feature black colored costume with red and some gold trims, it is inspired by the Tamashii Nations brand. Her costume consists of hair pin, choker, semi long sleeved vest with red and gold trim, sports bra, a pair of gloves, skirt with belt and ornament, spats with choker, two thigh chokers on her right thigh, long boot that stands to her lower right knee and long boot that stands to her left thigh. Gotta say the costume looks typical to idol getup which is very stylish and stand out but, kind of elegant because of the color.

Despite her costume, her articulations is pretty easy to move around so, we can make tons of pose for this figure. She got over 21 articulation points in total but, what surprises me she's given with a double jointed elbow despite the small size of her arms and articulated lower neck. Also, part of her costume cleverly hides her articulations such as choker that hides her neck cut, spats and boots that hides the cut of her legs. Since Makoto's characteristic is a tomboy and she had been portrayed as a martial artist, recreating a battle pose for her would be convenient enough especially with those pretty boy expressions.

Makoto comes with 5 interchangeable face parts in total; the one which already attached to her face is a standard smile expression, 2nd would be her tomboy/pretty boy expressions with open mouth smile, 3rd is the same like 2nd but, winking her right eyes while her left eye is looking to the left, 4th is special grinning expression with closed eyes showing her feminine side for the producer and last one would be her expressive face during her certain pose which I'm not quite familiar if this is her usual expressions from the game, since I only watched first anime and read certain mangas. Her expression is shown to have surprised eyes with a smile that barely exposing her tongue. Frankly, her standard smile and that expressive face are not that great with her mouth being light colored, because she looks mouthless in certain lighting and unfortunately I don't have a proper lighting for my photoshoot. But, her other faces are pretty good and convenient to make 2 side of Makoto.

Makoto is included with a microphone to recreate her singing pose and 8 interchangeable hands in total, that would be: a pair of open palm hands which already attached to her figure, a pair of pointy finger hands for recreating certain idol pose or other purposes, a pair of grasping hands for holding her microphone, a pair of fisted hands for recreating idol pose that uses her expressive face part or you can also use them to make a fighting pose for her, a left relaxed chopping hand for making her looking over and a right open splayed hand for shake hand with another Dancing Idol figure, in the promotional photos Makoto is shown to shake hand with Ayumu Maihama. But, in my photo session she's handshaking with my custom Takeshi Hongo a.k.a. Kamen Rider 1 figure.

Lastly, a dedicated stand set is included as well for her to display the figure without worrying to fall. Her stand set consists articulated clear pole and clear mandibles, while her base stand is clear dark red instead of magenta, the base is printed with a symbol for Makoto herself depicting like a Makoto's head as an angelic girl, I'm not sure with the actual ACG stands for but, could be Anime, Comics and Games? Her base also printed with her name and probably product code as well as ©T.K. (Toru Kitajima?) ©BNEI (Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) China.

Thoughts:

As one of collectors who used to collect SHF and Figma, this Makoto is a big improvement compared to SHF SailorMoon. Although still not quite a fond of her head and face compared to Figma idolmaster series but, I can see their improvement which is good. For a second hand, she plays pretty solid so far, my only issue is only on her standard smile face part which I spotted black dots that cannot be cleaned somehow. Luckily, the spots are located where her fringe covered her face so, when attached the spots aren't noticeable  but, still bothersome to see when I remove her fringe. I got this second hand for $32.16, complete with her brown case but, I didn't take photo of her brown case since it's slightly peeled and there's alot of seal traces. Tbh aside her luxurious packaging and being a Premium Bandai, she's pretty standard like shf sailormoon which they originally cost $25-30. Thus buying her retail price at $83 would be too much for her standard... Like Figma and previous releases, Idolmaster's price tends to drop. Therefore, I kinda predict these line would also drop and I was right eventhough I bought second handed but, she's still good as new.

[imasallstars]

SSR/SSR+ 【Dramatic＊Heroine】Makoto Kikuchi

“Producer, put your heart into it! Though, since you're against a kabedon master like me, don't think just anything wou-....h-huh!?“

FOCUS STAT 　　　9148/10244 VOCAL TOTAL APPEAL 　　　19698/22062 Skill:「Like A Dream」 　　　(Overheat) For every 11 seconds, there is a 65~75% chance that 3 LIFE will be consumed, then: SCORE/COMBO BONUS skills activating in the same time, will be boosted by 9% for 10 seconds. Center Skill:「Princess Harmony」 　　　All PRINCESS-type cards gain a 90% boost in their VOCAL stat.

※ this card is limited through scouting in Second Hairstyle Gacha boxes starting 28.02.2025

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yo international women’s day real???

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