Hirono Mime by POP MART: meaning of all 13 figures and the secret
As of 13 November 2026. HIRONO Mime Series Figures is a POP MART series starring Hirono, the character of Chinese artist Lang, released on 14 July 2023: 12 regular figures and the secret Silent. All 13, with “Have” and “Want” marks, are in the Hirono Mime checklist.
A stage where nobody speaks
Picture a tiny stage. One boy stands blindfolded, another tries to speak through a mouth taped shut, and a third kneels with a sandcastle on his head as if stuck in a prison he built himself. None of them says a word, yet each one tells a story. That is the whole idea of HIRONO Mime: a mime performs without speaking, and so does every figure in the box.
POP MART released the series on 14 July 2023 (US online sales opened on 13 July at 7 pm Pacific). The official poster carries the name Inner Flow next to the POP MART logo. A week earlier, on 7 July, The Toy Chronicle retold the launch notice: a short poem about wandering through a maze in search of light, and the line that identity is complex and beautiful. The notice did not offer a single answer, and neither do the figures.
Mark what you already have
Tap — “Have”, tap again — duplicate (×2, ×3…). Hold — “Want” or one less.
- Guardian
- Blind
- Seeker
- Devilry
- Drifter
- Fool
- Unspoken
- Patience
- Prison
- Destroy
- Poem
- Secrecy
- Silent
How many roles do we play in one day?
Most of us switch roles all day long: the confident colleague, the attentive friend, the dutiful son or daughter, and finally the person who can stop performing when the door closes. The sociologist Erving Goffman described everyday life in exactly these theatrical terms in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (first published in 1956, best known from the 1959 US edition): a “front stage” where we manage the impression we make, and a “back stage” where we can drop the role.
There is no evidence that Lang drew on Goffman. Still, the idea gives a neat way to read Mime: twelve regular figures as twelve roles of one boy who stays recognisable even when his face is half hidden.
Things that cannot be said, only shown
The clearest example is Unspoken. Hirono wears a grey elephant hood, his mouth is taped shut and one arm hangs in a sling, yet his other hand holds a green dinosaur puppet, as if the puppet could talk for him.
Secrecy turns the same silence into a choice. The boy presses a finger to his lips and holds a tin-can telephone to his ear; at the other end of the string sits a small green dinosaur. Unspoken cannot speak, Secrecy decides not to.
Blind sits on a tree stump with a white band over his eyes, moving on without seeing the whole picture. Prison kneels on a mound of sand in a striped shirt, tied up with rope, a sandcastle tower balanced on his head: a jail made of a children’s game.
Patience stands on a mossy rock, a rope running from his foot to a small heavy weight; in POP MART’s Chinese checklist his character is 等, “to wait”. Destroy is the opposite answer: a red devil hood with horns and both hands on a TNT detonator. His character is 逆, “against”.
These are readings, not the artist’s explanations. POP MART has published no official meaning for any single figure.
From scarecrow to jester
Not every figure is gloomy. Guardian is a scarecrow in a straw hat with a crow on his arm, guarding a field nobody seems to need guarded. Fool wears a party hat and beats a red drum, but his face is far from cheerful; POP MART’s captions add a wind-up key on his back and a gear-shaped base. Drifter hugs a red balloon, has small white wings and a weather vane on his head. Poem lies on sheets covered with handwritten lines, pencil in hand. Seeker stands on a little stool with an envelope in his mouth and brown wings, and Devilry hides inside a cardboard box costume with a toothy grin and the label DANGEROUS CARGO.
Why does the silent one have a TV for a head?
The secret Silent is the paradox of the series: in a lineup about not speaking, the hidden figure wears a television, the loudest medium there is. Hirono’s sleepy face fills the screen, his clown suit is split into red and blue halves, and a power cable trails behind him. A switch on the back lights up the screen; according to POP MART’s caption, the battery is included and replaceable.
You can read it as a joke about being on screen for everyone and still not being understood, but that is an interpretation, not the artist’s statement. Collectors mostly know Silent for its odds: the box prints 1:144 for the secret against 1:12 for each regular figure.
Where Mime sits in the Hirono story
Mime came two years after Lang’s debut series The Other One (2021), which first presented Hirono as a boy made of hidden feelings; how that started is told in our Hirono origin story. Mime pushes the same idea onto a stage. Later series in our catalogue include Hirono Echo (2025) and Hirono Tamed Wildgrass (2026).
On popmart.com/us a Mime box costs $19.99 and a whole set of 12 boxes $239.88 (13 November 2026). Prices for opened figures depend on the seller and the character.
All 13 Hirono Mime figures
| No. | Figure | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Guardian | Scarecrow, straw hat, crow |
| 2 | Blind | Blindfold, sits on a stump |
| 3 | Seeker | Envelope in mouth, wings, stool |
| 4 | Devilry | Toothy cardboard box costume |
| 5 | Drifter | Red balloon, weather vane |
| 6 | Fool | Party hat, red drum |
| 7 | Unspoken | Elephant hood, dino puppet |
| 8 | Patience | Rope tied to a weight |
| 9 | Prison | Sandcastle on head, rope |
| 10 | Destroy | Horned hood, TNT detonator |
| 11 | Poem | Lies on written pages |
| 12 | Secrecy | Finger to lips, can phone |
| 13 | Silent | Secret: light-up TV head |
Numbers follow POP MART’s official lineup. The Chinese checklist labels each figure with one character: 守 Guardian, 盲 Blind, 寻 Seeker, 戾 Devilry, 浮 Drifter, 愚 Fool, 噤 Unspoken, 等 Patience, 囚 Prison, 逆 Destroy, 诗 Poem, 秘 Secrecy, and 默, “silent”, for the secret.
You can mark every figure you own on ColleX, add the missing ones to “Want” and trade duplicates with other collectors in the Hirono Mime checklist.
Frequently asked questions
How many figures are in Hirono Mime?
13: twelve regular figures and the secret Silent. On ColleX the complete set is the twelve regular ones.
What is the Hirono Mime secret and what are the odds?
Silent, Hirono with a TV set for a head in a red-and-blue clown suit. The box prints 1:144 for the secret and 1:12 for each regular figure.
Does Hirono Mime Silent light up?
Yes. A switch on the back lights the TV screen; POP MART says the battery is included and can be replaced.
When did Hirono Mime come out?
On 14 July 2023 according to popmart.com; US online sales opened on 13 July at 7 pm Pacific time.
What do the Hirono Mime figures mean?
POP MART has not explained the individual figures; the launch notice speaks about the complexity of human identity. The readings in this article are the author’s, not the artist’s.
Can you tell the secret by the weight of the box?
People often search for “hirono mime secret weight”, but POP MART does not publish box weights and we have not weighed any, so we give no numbers.
How much is Hirono Mime?
$19.99 per box and $239.88 for a whole set on popmart.com/us (13 November 2026).