Tamed Wildgrass is a series that looks like any other Pop Mart collection — a cute boy with a big head, pastel accents, blind boxes. But look a little closer and everything shifts. Hirono is carrying a stone that cannot be put down. Drowning under a pile of receipts. Sitting in a cage he built himself. This series is not about cuteness. It's about how the city tames you.
Concept of Tamed Wildness
The title of the series — Tamed Wildgrass — is a paradox. Wildgrass shouldn't be tamed. It grows on its own, where it wants, how it wants. Yet every day we look at lawns someone has trimmed to an inch. At people who came to the city with something wild in them and slowly smoothed themselves out.
Each figure in this series is a different moment in this process. A different kind of cage. A different way life shapes you.
We grow where they put us. Like wildgrass in a greenhouse — still alive, but already changed.
Lang — creator of Hirono
Behind the character of Hirono is Lang, a Chinese artist who built this brand around one idea: to show emotions that people can't name. Hirono doesn't have one story. He is a projection. Each series is a different chapter of an inner world in which you can see yourself.
Previous Hirono collections revolved around loneliness, childhood, distance. Tamed Wildgrass goes further and deeper — it's a series about adult life in the city. About compromises you make for so long that you stop noticing them.
All figures in the series
The series includes twelve regular figures and one secret figure. Each has its own name and meaning — some are literal, others metaphorical, but all combine to form a single story.
Boundary — secret figure
In every Pop Mart series, there is one figure that is not on the box. Here it's called Boundary. The chance of drawing it is 1 in 144, which is statistically once per full carton.
Boundary
It's no coincidence that the secret figure of the entire series about being tamed is called "Boundary." It's the only figure that doesn't show failure or compromise. It's the moment you say: enough. Lang hid this answer at the end of the series — so you have to go through everything else before you find it.
How to read this series
You can treat Tamed Wildgrass as pretty figures for your shelf — and that's okay. But if you delve into the names, they form a single story about adult life. Work, debt, fatigue, screen, cage, escape. And somewhere at the end — a boundary.
Some collectors arrange them in order like a comic. Some choose only one — the one that resonates most with them at a given moment in life. Both methods are good. Art works when you see yourself in it.
Each figure is a mirror. The only question is which one you place on your desk today.
Why you should own it
Tamed Wildgrass is one of Pop Mart's most mature series in a long time. It doesn't try to be cute. It doesn't try to please. It says things that people don't usually say over coffee — and it does so through a plastic figure with a big head, which is absolutely brilliant.
If you've been collecting Hirono for a long time — this is a must-have chapter. If you're just starting — it's a great entry point, because each figure also works as a standalone item.
Tamed Wildgrass is waiting at Kickomi.
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