Takara Tomy will release new gacha toys that makes various Sanrio mascots look like sushi. They’ll appear in gacha machines from mid-March 2024, and it’ll cost 300 JPY ($2) per try. [Thanks, Hobby ...

Sanrio and Takara Tomy announced a new Sanrio Characters Sushi 2 collection of gacha toys that will appear in capsule machines in Japan. They are set to appear starting around September 8, 2025, and ...

When it comes to Pokemon, there are more toys out there than fans can count. The franchise has put out tons of goodies in the past few decades, after all. From high-end figures to plushes, Pokemon has ...

Our reporter Yuuichiro Wasai was wandering around Harajuku the other day looking for something to eat but nothing seemed to call out to him. He scanned menus outside restaurants, searched online for ...

Kirby and Elfilin do a gacha pull. Kirby and the Forgotten Land is the franchise’s first mainline game installment since Kirby Star Allies was released in 2018. After four years of waiting for the ...

TOKONAME, Aichi -- Capsule toys sold from vending machines at Chubu Centrair International Airport are becoming a popular souvenir item for foreign tourists leaving Japan. Earlier this month, T-Arts ...

There are certain places in Japan where you can pretty much always find capsule toy vending machines. Electronics shops, for example, usually have a row of them near their entrance or in the corner of ...

TOTTORI--Tottori and Shimane have joined the list of prefectures with “gacha gacha” capsule vending machines offering the chance to win a necklace made of domestic pearls worth 20,000 yen ($146). It ...

This photo shows inside the Esta branch of the "#C-pla" store, which specializes in "gacha gacha" capsule toy vending machines, in Sapporo's Chuo Ward on April 28, 2021. A special booth to take photos ...