Shooting Proud Star

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The **Shooting Proud Star** (Japanese: シューティングプラウドスター, *Shūtingu Puraudo Sutā*, also known as 誇星シューティングプラウドスター in the manga) is a Mini 4WD PRO car released by Tamiya on July 18, 2015.

It was featured in the manga *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro* as Shinkuro Minami's machine.

## General info

The Shooting Proud Star is the sharper and modernized version of the Dash-3 Shooting Star which produces less drag. As with its predecessor, it has the CoroCoro Dragon mark and the stylized '3' mark on the bodyshell.

The main air-intake has been extended to the middle and above the canopy. Side air-ducts are also incorporated into the bodyshell and designed to dissipate heat from the batteries while running. The bodyshell is mainly in white with blue stripes and some silver parts. The damper props was also present but with a much simpler design.

### Standard variant

The standard variant featuring the white body color with blue highlights, a color scheme that was carried over from its predecessors.

It was also the first Mini 4WD car on the MA Chassis to have large diameter wheels (the white 4-spoke MS-type II) and the black Avante-type slick tires equipped by default. Like the Blast Arrow, the chassis frame and the A parts were molded in dark grey and blue respectively.

### Clear Blue Special variant

The limited Clear Blue Special variant, based on the 'Meteor Fall' colored sketch made by Takei, featuring the clear blue bodyshell with gold highlights.

It was equipped with the blue plated, large diameter 4-spoke MS-type II wheels paired with the black super hard Avante-type slick tires with white sideprints. The polycarbonate-mixed ABS chassis frame and A parts were molded in gray and pale respectively.

## In media

### *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*

Like the rest of the Hyper Dash machines, The Shooting Proud Star was equipped with the MA Chassis made of carbon-mixed nylon plastic.

Kaidanji Sumeragi shows the Hyper Dash machines (including the Shooting Proud Star) to the Dash Warriors members, however, he think it's not the time to give them to his team, much to Yonkuro and everyone's surprise.

During the race between Yonkuro's Dash-1 Emperor and Kill Crow's Night Seek Trigger inside Tamiya Plamodel Factory Shimbashi shop where Mr. Sumeragi works, Kill Crow becomes frustrated and couldn't accept the fact that Yonkuro's car overtaken his car. He attempts to detonate his own car using his cellphone but fortunately, Shinkuro arrived just in the nick of time and knocks the cellphone off of Kill Crow's hand with his new car, the Shooting Proud Star.

Kill Crow however managed to detonate his car with his wristwatch, causing an explosion from inside the model shop. Luckily, Shinkuro, along with Yonkuro, Mr. Sumeragi and Omaezaki, escaped unscathed, while Kill Crow goes missing.

During the race on the first course of Dark Dominion Castle race at Shinkuro's house (which was taken over by Dark Dominion, much to Shinkuro's dismay), Yonkuro's Emperor got damaged by the dragon series Mini 4WD cars. Fortunately, Shinkuro's Shooting Proud Star, now attached with the Shooting Container Booster (Which itself contains the reinforced parts for Yonkuro's Emperor), arrived in just time to provide and modified the Emperor into Rise-Emperor.

After seeing Punkuro lose against Comp Crow and his Night Seek Rod as his Cannonball was destroyed and fell into the abyss, Shinkuro begin to shiver in fear, but Yonkuro's words makes him realize that there's a meaning of the 'Clock Tower' course. Looking at the abyss between the starting point and the clock gears, he realized that there is a way to defeat Comp Crow. Shinkuro soon has his Shooting Proud Star equipped with the parts modified from his repaired Shooting Star to form the '33' configuration. By using the sea breezes created by the spring tide to his advantage, the Shooting Proud Star re-emerge from the second abyss and flying toward the goal ahead of Night Seek Rod, clearing the third course.

### *Mini 4WD Hyper Dash Grand Prix*

Although the standard Shooting Proud Star bodyshell wasn't implemented in the game until much later, a special game-exclusive variant of the Shooting Proud Star, known as **Shooting Infinite Star**, can be obtained in a *The Idolmaster: Million Live! Theater Days* collaboration time-limited gacha that was open from May 24 to June 9, 2021. The regular and the hologram sticker version can be obtain from the gacha.

The Shooting Infinite Star, based on the Infinite Sky costume that appears in *Million Live! Theater Days*, is a straight-attribute parts, with a significant body skill "Shooting Star", which increases speed, tire friction and wind resistance at 3 percent, 10 percent and 4000 points respectively.

With the June 25, 2022 update, the regular Shooting Proud Star was introduced along with its hologram sticker version. The regular Shooting Proud Star body has the dual-skill "Corner Stability Up+ & Efficiency Up+", which increases the corner stability and power efficiency to 50 percent and 40 percent respectively.

As the mid-motor chassis wasn't introduced in the game yet, both the Shooting Proud Star and the Shooting Infinite Star were made to be compatible with all rear-motor chassis in-game.

## Gallery

### Boxarts

Boxart of the standard variant.Boxart of Clear Blue Special
### Images

Shooting Proud Star and Dash-3 Shooting Star.Shooting Proud Star, with Beak Stinger G and Rise-Emperor.Shooting Proud Star and Rise-Emperor.The Hyper Dash Machines.
### Artworks

#### Concept arts

First design draft by Hiroyuki Takei.Second design draft by Hiroyukli Takei.Third design draft by Hiroyuki Takei.Fourth design draft by Hiroyuki Takei.Final design draft by Hiroyuki Takei.
#### Base designs

Artwork by Hiroyuki Takei.'33' by Hiroyuki Takei.Earlier artwork by Hiroyuki Takei.Earlier artwork by Hiroyuki Takei.Artwork by Hiroyuki Takei.With Shooting Container Booster attached.Lineart by Hiroyuki Takei.Orthographic views (With clear canopy) by Hiroyuki Takei.Orthographic views of 'Shooting Container Booster' by Hiroyuki Takei.Orthographic views (With clear canopy) of '33' by Hiroyuki Takei.
#### Color variants

'Meteor Fall' (Clear Blue Special) by Hiroyuki Takei.'Type-T' by Hiroyuki Takei.'Type-P' by Hiroyuki Takei.
## Trivia

* It was chosen to be a cover car for the 2015 season of Tamiya Japan Cup.
* It is the first MA Chassis car to be equipped with large-diameter wheels by default.
* It is the first Mini 4WD car to be designed by Hiroyuki Takei since Dash-3 Shooting Star.
* In the CoroCoro Aniki's 2nd issue, the sketch design of Shooting Proud Star used the MS Chassis instead of MA Chassis.
* The Eternal Ryusei Kaiser card that was included in the DMX-22 Super Black Box Pack of the *Duel Masters* TCG was based on Shooting Proud Star. Interestly, Hiroyuki Takei was the one who did the card's artwork.

## See also

* Dash-3 Shooting Star
* Dash-03 Super Shooting Star

## References

1. ↑ PHASE 1 and PHASE 2 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*
2. ↑ PHASE 2 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*
3. ↑ PHASE 3 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*
4. ↑ PHASE 7 of *Hyper Dash! Yonkuro*.

## External links

### Tamiya Japan

* Shooting Proud Star at Tamiya Japan
* Shooting Proud Star Clear Blue Special at Tamiya Japan

### Tamiya America

* Shooting Proud Star at Tamiya America
* Shooting Proud Star Clear Blue Special at Tamiya America