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Oh!great + Kishi Omori "Scale Girls / Scale Arms"
Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage Tokyo Gallery
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Oh!great, Kishi Omori
We will hold an exhibition titled SCALE GIRLS/SCALE ARMS, featuring works by Oh!great and Kishi Omori.
A scale model is a faithful representation of an object that has been scaled to a certain size.
Manga artist Oh!great uses his unparalleled artistry to depict a wide range of characters, machines, and worlds. His works include Tenjho Tenge, Air Gear, Biorg Trinity, Bakemonogatari, and Kaijin Fugeki. The delicately detailed depictions of the girls in each of these stories are so enchanting that they convey a sense of texture and warmth. These girls, who run, dance, slash, get slashed, and leap as we turn the pages, are referred to as Scale Girls in this exhibition.
Set in contrast with these Scale Girls are Scale Arms, which are three-dimensional, scratch-built works using plastic model parts. They are fictional weapons made by Kishi Omori, a professional modeler and contemporary artist. In addition to his work as a professional modeler contributing scale models and other pieces to hobby magazines, Omori has produced original creations under the title MIXINGSCAPE. These were made using the technique of kitbashing, which involves combining parts from various plastic models. On the other hand, as a sculptor, he has also created unique forms of expression by combining plastic model decals with works made
using metals such as aluminum and bronze.
Decals designed by Oh!great have been pasted onto plastic models built to various scales, such as 1:35, 1:12, and 1:6. This connects the manga worlds depicted by Oh!great to the kitbashed plastic model worlds created by Kishi Omori.
“Kishi Omori’s MIXINGSCAPE is awesome. The details and the combinations are incredible. It’s exciting to see. I want everyone to experience the incredible impact of his work at the venue! When I think about it, I feel like I have the same roots in me. When I was in elementary school, I liked Hobby Japan magazine. What I was especially fascinated by were the plastic models of Maschinen Krieger by Kow Yokoyama. I was more excited about the powered suits, which are closer to human scale, than about giant robots. My manga includes scenes where girls seem to fuse together with machines. I think my fascination with machines melting into human elements has remained unchanged since childhood,” Oh!great relates.
“In Biorg Trinity and Air Gear, the way people and machines intermingle was very refreshing. Rather than people hopping onto giant robots to integrate with them, it’s the machines that are moving toward the people, bringing their scale together, or something like that. In my MIXINGSCAPE series, I create mechanical designs using a method called kitbashing, where I combine parts from multiple plastic models into one mechanical form. As I combine parts from kits of various scales like 1:35 and 1:24 and project my own full-scale (1:1) self onto them, I find myself fascinated by the transformations that begin to appear. I am looking forward to seeing how these scenes (or scapes) will further mix together with the scale of Oh!great’s work,” Omori says.
Also on display at this exhibition will be scale models of a Honda Monkey and a Harley-Davidson, motorcycles that Oh!great dreamed of as a high school student. The example build of the 1:6 scale Tamiya motorcycle was created by Early Chop!!! It features a color scheme chosen by Oh!great, along with custom decals he designed.
An actual Honda Monkey will also be on display in the tea room.
We hope you enjoy traversing the worlds of Scale Girls and Scale Arms in various scales, from 1:1 to 1:6, 1:12, 1:35, and so on.
A scale model is a faithful representation of an object that has been scaled to a certain size.
Manga artist Oh!great uses his unparalleled artistry to depict a wide range of characters, machines, and worlds. His works include Tenjho Tenge, Air Gear, Biorg Trinity, Bakemonogatari, and Kaijin Fugeki. The delicately detailed depictions of the girls in each of these stories are so enchanting that they convey a sense of texture and warmth. These girls, who run, dance, slash, get slashed, and leap as we turn the pages, are referred to as Scale Girls in this exhibition.
Set in contrast with these Scale Girls are Scale Arms, which are three-dimensional, scratch-built works using plastic model parts. They are fictional weapons made by Kishi Omori, a professional modeler and contemporary artist. In addition to his work as a professional modeler contributing scale models and other pieces to hobby magazines, Omori has produced original creations under the title MIXINGSCAPE. These were made using the technique of kitbashing, which involves combining parts from various plastic models. On the other hand, as a sculptor, he has also created unique forms of expression by combining plastic model decals with works made
using metals such as aluminum and bronze.
Decals designed by Oh!great have been pasted onto plastic models built to various scales, such as 1:35, 1:12, and 1:6. This connects the manga worlds depicted by Oh!great to the kitbashed plastic model worlds created by Kishi Omori.
“Kishi Omori’s MIXINGSCAPE is awesome. The details and the combinations are incredible. It’s exciting to see. I want everyone to experience the incredible impact of his work at the venue! When I think about it, I feel like I have the same roots in me. When I was in elementary school, I liked Hobby Japan magazine. What I was especially fascinated by were the plastic models of Maschinen Krieger by Kow Yokoyama. I was more excited about the powered suits, which are closer to human scale, than about giant robots. My manga includes scenes where girls seem to fuse together with machines. I think my fascination with machines melting into human elements has remained unchanged since childhood,” Oh!great relates.
“In Biorg Trinity and Air Gear, the way people and machines intermingle was very refreshing. Rather than people hopping onto giant robots to integrate with them, it’s the machines that are moving toward the people, bringing their scale together, or something like that. In my MIXINGSCAPE series, I create mechanical designs using a method called kitbashing, where I combine parts from multiple plastic models into one mechanical form. As I combine parts from kits of various scales like 1:35 and 1:24 and project my own full-scale (1:1) self onto them, I find myself fascinated by the transformations that begin to appear. I am looking forward to seeing how these scenes (or scapes) will further mix together with the scale of Oh!great’s work,” Omori says.
Also on display at this exhibition will be scale models of a Honda Monkey and a Harley-Davidson, motorcycles that Oh!great dreamed of as a high school student. The example build of the 1:6 scale Tamiya motorcycle was created by Early Chop!!! It features a color scheme chosen by Oh!great, along with custom decals he designed.
An actual Honda Monkey will also be on display in the tea room.
We hope you enjoy traversing the worlds of Scale Girls and Scale Arms in various scales, from 1:1 to 1:6, 1:12, 1:35, and so on.
Schedule | Jun 3 (Tue) 2025-Sep 21 (Sun) 2025 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://mangaart.jp/exhibitions/scale-girls-scale-arms | ||||
| Venue | Shueisha Manga-Art Heritage Tokyo Gallery https://mangaart.jp/ | ||||
| Location | B1F Azabudai Hills Garden Plaza A, 5-8-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-0001 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 5 at Kamiyacho Station on the Hibiya line, 9 minute walk from exit 2 at Roppongi-itchome Station on the Namboku line. | ||||
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