Hirono Tamed Wildgrass by POP MART: meaning of all 13 figures
As of 6 November 2026. Hirono Tamed Wildgrass (Hirono Tamed Wildgrass Series Figures) is a POP MART blind box series released online on 2 April 2026: 12 regular figures and the secret Boundary. All 13, with “Have” and “Want” marks, are in the Hirono Tamed Wildgrass set.
Welcome to adult life, Hirono
Wake up. Check your messages. Get to work. Finish every task. Pay the bills. Remember to rest. Repeat tomorrow. Sounds familiar? Hirono seems to have learned the routine too.
In this series the small, melancholy boy tries on roles that adults know far too well: an office worker with a monitor for a head, a schoolboy buried in lessons, a bird in a cage, even a little Sisyphus dragging a huge stone. The name means grass that was wild and has been tamed. Wild grass grows without asking, breaks through asphalt and puts down roots wherever it likes. Make it grow only where it is allowed, and it may adapt, or one day forget it ever grew any other way.
POP MART has not published an official meaning for each figure, so what follows is our author’s reading, not the maker’s explanation.
Mark what you already have
Tap — “Have”, tap again — duplicate (×2, ×3…). Hold — “Want” or one less.
- Camping
- Canned Dreams
- Sisyphean Work
- Live Under Receipts
- Boiling Frog
- Full-time
- Caged Bird
- Digital Bind
- Self-Anchored
- Fated
- City Escape
- Overload
- Boundary
Sisyphus got a job, no days off
Sisyphean Work bends under a huge boulder roped to his back as he climbs a rocky slope, a crown slipping off his head. In the Greek myth Sisyphus must push a stone uphill forever; it rolls back down just before the top. Today the stone looks different: endless work tasks, chores that never end, to-do lists where three new items appear for every one you tick off.
Full-time fits right next to him: shirt, tie, briefcase, and an old computer monitor instead of a head. Someone has grown so close to their job that their face has literally ended up inside the screen. Overload takes us back to school: the boy holds a board with the week’s subjects (P.E. is crossed out) and wears a red headband and a paper crown. Adult life, it seems, is rehearsed early: timetables, duties, grades, expectations and a constant “you must”.
A frog that should have jumped long ago
Boiling Frog is one of the most telling figures: Hirono in a green frog hood sits in a pot over a fire, sweat on his face and a “hot surface” warning on the pot. It refers to the popular story of a frog that doesn’t notice the water slowly heating up. Biologists say real frogs do jump out, but as a metaphor for getting used to bad conditions it lives on. Nobody agrees at once to a life with no time for themselves; it starts with small concessions, staying late today, skipping a day off this week, until one day it is simply how you live.
What really keeps us in place?
Caged Bird wears a large golden birdcage over his head, and its little door is open. Hirono stands on his own feet; nobody has locked him in completely. Sometimes the strongest cage is not around us but in our ideas of what we are allowed to do. In Self-Anchored the boy wears an old diving helmet and is chained to an anchor, a name you could read as “tied himself down”. Digital Bind points to another familiar trap: paper strips wrapped round his head, a phone in his hand. Work, shopping, news, friends and rest all live in that phone, and it is hard to say when using it turns into depending on it.
Hirono fights no monsters here. His opponents are far more ordinary: habits, rules, fears and limits that are easy to get used to.
Between running away and fitting in
Next to the exhausted figures, City Escape looks like a small act of rebellion: Hirono strides ahead with a traffic cone on his head and a tiny green dinosaur at his side, as if someone decided that was enough adult life for one day.
The rest show other ways of coping. Live Under Receipts wears a dress of receipts and a paper hat printed with “SALE” and “-50%”, shopping bags in hand. In Canned Dreams Hirono, dressed as a fish, dozes in a tin marked CANNED SALTED FISH. Camping lies under a blue “TASK LIST” folder propped up like a tent, wearing paper 3D glasses and hugging a keyboard. And in Fated a boy in a business suit hangs from the claw of a crane game.
Boundary: allowed to grow, not to be free
Boundary is the only secret in the series. POP MART does not announce odds; sellers say it turns up in about one box in 144. Unlike the regular figures, it is not a scene from daily life. Hirono has turned into a tree-like creature wrapped in woody shapes, roots and green shoots, under a clear dome on a wooden base marked HIRONO; according to everytoys, the base lights up (switch underneath, three LR44 batteries). A tree lives, grows and reaches for light, but its space ends at the glass. Is it enough to grow if the direction and limits of your growth are already set? This is one possible reading, not POP MART’s explanation, but it echoes the series name: wild grass can stay alive after being tamed; the question is whether it is still wild.
All 13 Hirono Tamed Wildgrass figures
| No. | Figure | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Camping | 3D glasses, folder tent, keyboard |
| 2 | Canned Dreams | Fish costume in a tin |
| 3 | Sisyphean Work | Boulder on his back, crown |
| 4 | Live Under Receipts | Receipt dress, shopping bags |
| 5 | Boiling Frog | Frog hood, pot over a fire |
| 6 | Full-time | Head inside a monitor |
| 7 | Caged Bird | Birdcage over his head |
| 8 | Digital Bind | Paper strips, phone |
| 9 | Self-Anchored | Diving helmet, anchor |
| 10 | Fated | Held by a crane-game claw |
| 11 | City Escape | Traffic cone, little dinosaur |
| 12 | Overload | Timetable board, headband |
| 13 | Boundary | Secret: tree under a dome |
The order follows POP MART’s official lineup on popmart.com.
How to collect all 13
Figures come one per sealed box and stand 7–11 cm tall. Under POP MART’s rules a whole set is 12 boxes without duplicates, but the secret, if it appears, replaces one regular figure. On POP NOW in the US a box costs $19.99 (popmart.com, 6 November 2026).
On ColleX you can track the full Hirono Tamed Wildgrass checklist, mark what you have and what you want, and find collectors to trade duplicates with. More Hirono in the catalogue: Hirono Echo, Hirono Shelter, Hirono × Le Petit Prince and Hirono × Harry Potter. And instead of picking the cutest figure, try asking which one looks most like your life right now. Wild grass doesn’t have to stay where it was planted.
Frequently asked questions
How many figures are in Hirono Tamed Wildgrass?
13: 12 regular figures and the secret Boundary. On ColleX the complete set is the 12 regular ones.
What is the Hirono Tamed Wildgrass secret and what are the odds?
Boundary, Hirono curled inside a tree under a glass dome. POP MART does not state odds; sellers quote 1 in 144.
Does Boundary light up?
POP MART lists electronic components for the series; according to everytoys, Boundary’s base lights up, with a switch underneath and three LR44 batteries. Check the instructions in your box.
What does Tamed Wildgrass mean?
Wild grass that has been tamed. POP MART has published no official meaning for the figures; this article gives our author’s reading: work, habits and limits we get used to, and the wish to break free.
When was Hirono Tamed Wildgrass released?
On 2 April 2026 at 7 pm Pacific time on popmart.com, already 3 April in Europe.
Can you tell the secret by the box weight?
Collectors look for weight and shaking tips, but POP MART does not publish box weights and we have not weighed any, so we give no figures.
Is this Boiling Frog the same as the one in Little Mischief?
No. HIRONO Little Mischief has its own Boiling Frog; the Tamed Wildgrass one sits in a pot over a fire wearing a frog hood.
How much does Hirono Tamed Wildgrass cost?
$19.99 per box on POP NOW in the US (popmart.com, 6 November 2026). POP MART’s site currently shows no whole-set price.