The figures design is based on an redjuice illustration, the person who was in charge of the Beatless LN art.

Kouka was manufactured by Good Smile Company. The figure was released in June 2023, the release was pushed forward for Kouka figure, before she was officially supposed to be released in 2024. The sculptor Kamiture Sayoko, the same person who sculpted the Lacia figure in 2021 was hired to make a matching Kouka.It’s great that GSC hired the same person for as for the Kouka figure.

Kouka is scaled 1/8, although the base is lifting her up to 320 mm of overall height. The figures prototype was already ready in 2018, until mass production it took some more time for whatever reason.

The criteria for figure manufacturing is often still a mystery to me. I should actually be grateful that the figures production wasn’t axed in between.

Kouka is a character from the Beatless LN written by Hase, Satoshi. It was popular enough to get an anime adaptation counting 20 + 4 episodes. The anime unfortunately faced some serious production issues, they aired the last 4 episodes around 4 months later.

It was a bit unfortunate for the anime, but I would say it’s quite the enjoyable Boy meets Girl story within an ambitious sci fi context.

The figure is looking great, the sculpting shows many details on outfit and body. Kouka has nice long hair with the strands dynamically flying around behind her. The tidily parted bangs show a lot of the figures forehead.

Her red eyes are very detailed and show a strong expression with a piercing glance. The cat like appearance is quite obviously present with cute ears and fangs in her mouth, it makes her appear rather wild and dangerous while till maintaining a flirty atmosphere around herself.

In Beatless Kouka is a very lively, but also unpredictable character, when she appeared on the scene, the anime always added a Spanish guitar riff which was a quite funny addition.

The figure with it’s 1/8 scale is small, especially compared to the nowadays mainly present 1/7 scaled figures, but the high resolution sculpting and generally detail richness of the figure makes up for it,

I would even say that this size makes her more precious. Kouka is wearing a futuristic outfit, the main part of her outfit is a fusion of a leotard and a corsage, the thigh high boots are a logic choice, design and color add a nice contrast to the skin of the character.

The bare arms and shoulders are quite nice and pretty. The figures modest and shapely chest is quite attractive. I also like how they sculpted the legs and especially the thighs on this figure are beautiful.

Her gigantic weapon is called <BLOOD PRAYERS> and it’s looking really great, there are nice details all over it. It can be taken off and on easily, compared to Lacia this figure is more lightweight and easy to assemble.

The petite girl has a very pretty body line the anatomic details are very well made, such as the fingers or the collarbones.

The lines on her arms and legs indicate that Kouka is indeed a cyborg, a quite pretty one nevertheless.

In summary this is a fantastic figure, Kouka features an expressive sculpt with a generally cool design. It is faithfully following the direction that illustrator redjuice generally creates in his distinctive and unique style. I adore her feminine and also petite proportions, the body line with the narrow waist and nicely shaped chest part is very attractive. Kouka is extremely detailed for an 1/8 scale figure. The predator like smile is really great combined with the characters beautiful face.

Lacia is scaled 1/8 and measures 200 mm on her own when subtracting the base. This figure was cursed with a number of delays, in the end I have been overjoyed to finally receive her this April 2021.

There were two versions available, the Lacia 2018 Black Monolith Deployed version was sold for 18.333 Yen, the simple Lacia 2018 figure 10.926 Yen. Since I was a big fan of Beatless and Lacia I’ve bought the elaborate figure. The elaborate version because it looks damn great when the figure is combined with Black Monolith Deployed base.

Lacia is from the anime adaption from Beatless. 2018 I watched the anime. It paired Boy meets Girl with an ambitious sci-fi story about the future of artificial intelligence and super computers.

A great watch, I already watched it 3 times, I was cheering for the kind, naive boy to get a happy end with the cyborg girlfriend Lacia. Lacia was voiced by Nao Touyama, every character she lends her voice to sounds like an angel, also in this anime it was no exception.

The author of Beatless is Hase Satoshi, albeit the more popular illustrator redjuice was in charge of the character design for it.The show had a few production problems, to fill the gaps there were at least three recap episodes and the end was made after a few months of waiting. The worth of an anime should not be measured by such things, when watched as a whole Beatless was a nice anime.

When I have to assemble more than 3 parts on a figure I already start to become nervous, to assemble Lacia and the Black Monolith base, I had to put at least 16 together parts, before I could display the beautiful figure as a whole.

It’s a bit worrisome that the black pieces are springy and not as stiff as I would like them to be, but that are the limits of ABS material when being turned into thin plastic shapes. GSC gave a light appearance more priority than rock solid base stability, which is all right.

Good Smile Company was kind enough to provide a simple round base alternative in case the customer feels uneasy with the bigger and complex base. The base is a huge pillar in the middle surrounded by 6 smaller “wings”.

The part in the middle is especially well made, it features a complex design it’s painted in black and silver with some shading effects here and there and a few clear parts are also part of the design.

I will go more into detail about the figure itself now. In this figure adaptation Lacia has a nicely chiseled face with pretty lips. Her expression is stoic and serious, a smile would probably the wrong choice when she carrying around the huge weapon to kick some ass.

Unfortunately, this Lacia figure is a little less kawaii, still a bit of cuteness has been added to the figures face. Compared to her body the head is relatively big, the eyes are very nice and show a strong expression, you might have noticed that the color scheme is a bit unsaturated, but it’s just following the character design.

Her lavender purple hair is painted with a beautiful gradient to blue effect. It’s so nicely sculpted that it is hard to believe that she is actually scaled 1/8. Her futuristic battle suit features a combination of shiny black and white colors and it is also a bit skin revealing, it’s a tight suit and compliments the figures bodyline very well. The figure simply looks very well done and appealing.

I really like the fingerless gloves and shiny black thigh highs. Oh and she also wears great looking shoes.
What I always liked about 1/8 scaled figures were the separately sculpted fingers, they are so adorable.

In terms of quality there is not a single thing to complain about, it’s a great example of figure manufacturing. Surely they could have made this figure at 1/7 scale, but the already big base had probably consumed more space. 1/8 scale is fine for her, they put a lot of effort into her sculpt.
Fortunately I really like how this figure of Lacia turned out, she looks wonderful.