Japanese retailers have started accepting pre-orders for Kotobukiya's upcoming 1/8th scale figure of Zero, the main heroine from Kakeru Kobashiri's Zero Kara Hajimeru Mahou no Sho (Magic Book to Start from Zero) light novel series, for a January 2017 release. The price for the 165mm-tall pre-painted item is 11,880 yen (about 118.5 US dollars).

The author's debut novel won the Grand Prix in the 20th Dengeki Novel Taisho in 2013 when she was 26 years old. So far seven volumes are available in Japan and its manga adaptation illustrated by Takashi Iwasaki has three volumes. The Zero figure is inspired by the cover illustration of the novel's second volume drawn by Yoshinori Shizuma.

Novel 2nd volume cover

Source: Kotobukiya

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