There are hundreds of companies that produce model kits; you may know these names from your cool uncle’s house or your gramps’ house. Names like Revell, Tamiya, Trumpeter and Airfix will probably be familiar to those of you just coming into the hobby from the mainstream.
However, there likely only about 30 odd companies that specifically produce girlpla or mecha musume kits, or did so at one point. As we are gigantic nerds and like talking about the history of these guys, we’ve decided to put smaller profiles about the more historically significant companies to provide context to the history of girlpla in a way that might be easier to do if you don’t have to read like seven different articles on various model kits.
Also, this section here to show that simply because a company does not show up very often in this guide does not mean that they are insignificant in the hobby space; companies like Wave and Volks are significant players in the hobby space and have played gigantic roles in the eventual solidification of today’s girlpla scene, but for various reasons do not make many girlpla of their own.
Similarly, a company may not be on this list simply because, bluntly, their story is boring. Not much to tell about a company that forms and does its job quietly with no interaction with the history of the hobby scene as a whole. This is not to say that the company isn’t worth paying attention to, however, and if a company that is not in this article suddenly has far more interesting things happen to them, you can bet we will be the first to talk about it.
This list will only mention lines that are specifically girlpla or contain girlpla. Many of these companies produce other lines of model kits or other toys, but those aren’t our concern.