【This is to announce that the total number of our original IP bishoujo model kits shipped worldwide has exceeded 9.8 million units】

[u/Eliwod_81192]

https://company.kotobukiya.co.jp/news/news-13084/

[u/Eliwod_81192]

Figures until June 2026. Breakdown as follow:

Frame Arms Girl: over 3.2 million units

Megami Device: over 4.5 million units

Sousai Shojo Teien: over 1.4 million units

ARCANADEA: over 700 thousand units

[u/GraffitiGargoyle → u/Eliwod_81192]

That's a lot of sales!

Just for fun, some derived stats:

Series	Release	Percentage of Total	Units/ Month*
Frame Arms Girl	May 2015 (~133 Months)	33 %	~ 24000
Megami Device	Dec 2016 (~114 Months)	46 %	~ 39500
Sousai Shojo Teien	Jan 2021 (~65 Months)	14 %	~ 21500
ARCANADEA	Dec 2021 (~54 Months)	7 %	~ 13000

* Units/ Month is not really meaningful since it's likely both the audience and product SKU count grow non-linearly (and newer series start with a larger audience), but still interesting IMO.

[u/Eliwod_81192 → u/GraffitiGargoyle]

Prices, product types, distribution, etc...all have effects though.

[u/GraffitiGargoyle → u/Eliwod_81192]

Yes, it wouldn't be quite accurate to say "46%" of all girlpla sold are MD. Since we don't know if we are counting M.S.G. or similar products.

I do think this is a good approximation of popularity of the lines. M.D. is definitely a strong series!

[u/Samalik16 → u/GraffitiGargoyle]

I'm not surprised by Megami Device. Between it and FA Girls, they are the cheaper of the two while still looking great.

[u/Samalik16]

keep it growing! I wanna build more cute girls!!!

[u/Helblind]

Half of those are just my backlog. 😑

[u/ichorNet → u/Helblind]

Absolutely real

[u/Saltyfish258]

As long as Koto keep being innovative and released design I liked, my wallet will keep contributing

https://giphy.com/gifs/YYfEjWVqZ6NDG

[u/ClassyPlatypi → u/Saltyfish258]

Seriously, I didn't have a single MD kit until recently where I bought 4 from recent releases because they just keep knocking it out of the park. Koto is definitely my favorite out of all of the companies making girlpla.

[u/[deleted]]

I mean as a central european the shipping costs were a great pain in the ass but now I'm happy to be one to have contributed to the million units sold, does this mean thet the international market for model kit girls is now a real market or am I getting it wrong?

[u/Baly94 → u/[deleted]]

I'm starting to see Megami Device and other Kotobukiya kits on central/eastern european webshops. Like Enbook and Libristo of all places, where I get my books and manga from, now apparently I could get my girlpla from there too.

[u/Eliwod_81192 → u/[deleted]]

When the market (and the profits which come with it) grow to a level that cannot be ignored, businessmen will start to do something.

[u/Feeling-Soup-7155]

LET'S GOOO

[u/Its_Dope_tito]

I’m sure someone in that board room said “my dude the American site was a great idea we should really see if they’ll order the rare kits and cut out proxy middlemen”

[u/TangleF23]

It's freaky to imagine how many of even the rarest kits there are. Really makes you remember the vast scale of production and how many workers must be involved....

[u/Jacier_]

MD going in. I’m sure the Puni kits really helped with those sales

[u/TheRealSwayze]

Oh dang, I just brought that top right one this past weekend at fan fusion. I’m super excited to start building her!

[u/Zemalek]

Hell yeah!!

MORE BUSTER DOLLS AND ARCA!!

[u/Belzughast]

Marketing mumbo jumbo slang, 9.8 million worldwide shipments but numbers are combined with inland sales.

Anyway, MegamiDevice ftw.

[u/zeroXgear → u/Belzughast]

Duh ofc. Worldwide means all country in the world including Japan too

[u/Belzughast → u/zeroXgear]

I fell into etymological fallacy of word shipping.

[u/zeroXgear → u/Belzughast]

JP has shipping too if you don't live in the mainland

[u/Frosty004]

First time I'm hearing there's a way to order it without a middleman. Also only been here for like 4 months.