Honkai Impact 3rd 1/8 Herrscher of Void Kiana

 Made by Chinese Company Mihoyo, Honkai Impact 3 is one of the more well known mobile game out there and now the series is popular enough for Alter making a Premium figure for one of the main heroine. The game is rather different for a Gacha as it features fast-paced hack and slash for its gameplay with Waifus as the playable character and it got some impressive budget for Visuals. I used to play Honkai Impact 3rd for quite some time before finally giving up since it is too high maintenance for Mobile game and the Yuri crap gets unbearable at times. It is undeniable that Honkai do have some Top tier Heroine designs but the story had too many Mary Sue BS for my taste.

 So for the first Honkai Impact 3 figure made by renowned figure maker, Alter picked Herrscher of Void AKA God Kiana as their choice. The figure is released for 22800 Yen Price tag with June 2021 schedule. Rather pricey for 1/8 Figure but the sculpt doesn't disappoint for sure.

 I happened to have HoV available in my Valkyrie  roster even complete with her S-rank weapon. While Herrscher is not as overpowered anymore, this version of Kiana is very easy to pick up. God Kiana is one of the few ranged-oriented valkyrie in Honkai Impact and a very good one, her  gameplay is basically raining down infinite amount of projectiles toward the enemies to impunity just like Gilgamesh's Gate of Babylon

 In the story of Honkai Impact 3, Herrscher of Void is the evil version of the main heroine Kiana as a god-like being hijacked her body through some circumstances and become an Existence with sole purpose to bring destruction upon humanity. I might hate the yuri-crap of Honkai with absolute prejudice but at very least still able to like Herrscher of Void's design as her depiction as a flawless beauty contrasted with her role as the ultimate adversary for Humanity had its own kind of charm. No doubt during her debut, many people whaled for God Kiana with her gorgeous design.

 Whether Mihoyo staffs played Rance series or not, God Kiana's design no doubt had close resemblance with Demon King Gele, albeit Safe-for-work version of her with slight influence of Hornet. This is because both character happened to play the same role in their respective game where they start as pure innocent maiden archetype but through some unfortunate circumstances given tremendous power and existed to bring absolute despair to Humanity. I think Herrscher of Void close resemblance with Gele is what makes me like the character even though i hate the game with passion. While i am through with Honkai, i will get God Kiana if she had a Nendoroid which is quite likely considering several of her fellow Valkyries had made it already.

Here is the comparison shot of God Kiana with Maou Gele and Hornet just to point out their similarities