Junji Ito Pop Up Store Zankyo Opens at Hands Omiya on October 20
The Graveyard Gallery event, known for its Tomie-themed goods, is confirmed for a nationwide tour, and Hands Omiya is one of the stops.
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Zenith Asurada Joins Cyber Formula Collection In Shakedown Color
The shakedown color variant ties the miniature line to the new short anime's rollout, giving the C.F.C series a product timed to the production announcement rather than the finished race livery.
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acosta Ikebukuro Cosplay Roundup Names 12 Cosplayers From Games And VTubers
The lineup tracks which games and VTuber agencies still carry cosplay turnout at Ikebukuro: Genshin Impact, Blue Archive, and Chinese titles on the game side, Nijisanji across most of the VTuber slots.
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Bandai Spirits Sets October Gunpla Release Dates, Led by HG Gundam Virsago
Shipping the entry-level Gundam Assemble starter, expansions, and paint pack on the same October 31 date as the Virsago kit bundles a new play format and a standard HG release into one retail drop.
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MAGI ARTS Opens Preorders for CLANNAD's Nagisa Furukawa 1/6 Scale Figure
The figure gives CLANNAD's central character a large-format release with alternate face parts, and the discount off the reference price signals AmiAmi is positioning it as a preorder-driven item.
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Bandai Spirits Reveals GUNDAM XMX Gunpla Brand For China
Bandai Spirits is building a Gunpla line from the design up for Chinese buyers, starting at under 60 yuan and leading with a SEED suit rather than the RX-78-2, with the RX-78-2 held back for the second lineup and 00 and UC to follow.
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Ichiban Kuji Gundam Universal Century Saga Interlude Lineup Revealed
The lineup runs almost entirely on Zaku variants and One Year War imagery, which tells you where Bandai Spirits expects the spending to come from on this set.
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Ichiban Kuji Estar Bunny ROMANCE ANGEL Set For November 7
The line extends Estar Bunny from a character design into merchandise, and the prize structure points the rollout at drugstores, bookstores, and convenience stores rather than the hobby channel alone.
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Taito Plans Frieren Desktop Cute Figure for November
Taito is adding to a run of Frieren merchandise tied to specific scenes rather than the present-day cast, and it is placing that bet in its low-cost prize figure line rather than a premium scale release.
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Hanabee Opens Preorders For 9-nine- Ruler's Crown Miyako Kujo Figure
A full-scale heroine figure plus a bundled acrylic stand edition points to Hanabee treating 9-nine- Ruler's Crown as merchandise worth two price tiers rather than a single release.
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Good Smile Opens Pre-Orders For DECO*27-Designed Hatsune Miku Dekomiku Figures In L Size
The listing puts DECO*27's Dekomiku designs into Good Smile's larger L Size format, which raises the scale and price point of a Miku figure line tied to a producer rather than to an anime or game release.
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Gundam Head Mejirushi Accessory Vol. 3 Opens Pre-Orders With Six SEED FREEDOM Units
The lineup puts the SEED FREEDOM theatrical film's mobile suits into a 400-yen capsule format, a lower price point than the model kits and figures that have carried the film's merchandise since its release.
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Banpresto Shows Painted Prototypes for Fuwamoco hololive IF Relax Time Figures
Banpresto is putting the twins into the same crane game figure line that has carried other Hololive members, and the colored prototypes, not a teaser silhouette, signal the sculpt is far enough along to lock the March 2027 rollout.
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Preorders Open for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Switch 2 Edition Acrylic Stands
The merchandise line ties its character selection to what the Switch 2 Edition added, so the new Pyra and Mythra outfits now carry into goods sold alongside the base roster.
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Suica Penguin Pop-Up Shop Tour Opens At NEWoMan Shinjuku
The tour gives the character a physical retail run before it leaves at the end of fiscal 2026 in March 2027, in the same period JR East is taking votes on a successor design.
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Bandai's mofusand Gashapon Casts Cats as School Lunch Monitors
A themed capsule set with no anime or game tie-in shows where Bandai is placing mofusand: on nostalgic daily-life props that sell at the 400-yen gashapon price point.
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Bandai's Gyaru Neko Mejirushi Gashapon Ships In Five Types
The gashapon run follows the pop-up event's four-city run, moving an SNS-popular character into a 300-yen capsule format with a five-item set.
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BanG Dream! Nendoroid Of Fuji Miyako Opens For Preorder
BanG Dream! figure releases usually arrive through dedicated hobby channels first, so a Nendoroid of a Mugendai Mewtype member appearing on Amazon.co.jp at a fixed price with a set release date gives the band's overseas and casual buyers the same access as specialty shop customers.
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Pokemon Apparel Goes On Sale At Don Quijote On October 10
The drop splits one franchise into two price tiers and two jobs, a character costume piece and a plain everyday hoodie, which is how Pokemon apparel reaches buyers who would not wear a face on their head.
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FamilyMart to Sell DISNEY Christmas Ornament Kuji 2026 from November 7
The new Year Ornament Prize is designed as a yearly collectible at about 10 cm, which turns a seasonal kuji into an annual series customers are meant to stack up rather than one-off holiday merchandise.
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Final Fantasy Tactics Apparel Lands on Amazon Merch on Demand
The Ivalice Chronicles merchandise is running through Amazon's print-on-demand pipeline, which keeps Square Enix's inventory risk low while putting the game's pixel art on everyday wear rather than collector goods.
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SmashCore Opens Orders for Yuki Yomichi C'CLOCK Digital Clock
The per-buyer name recording turns a made-to-order clock into a limited personal recording session, which is why the order window is split into four phases over a year rather than run as a single sale.
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Winnie the Pooh 100th Anniversary Mascots Roll Out At Molly Fantasy And PALO
A 100-piece prize lineup is an unusually large commitment for crane-game prizes, and spreading it across two volumes with a stock-limited window suggests the goods are meant to pull repeat visits to the arcades rather than sell through in one weekend.
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Hello Kitty Joins ARTISAN&ARTIST* For Eight Styles On October 7
The lineup is aimed at adult women and priced as such, ranging up to 49,500 yen, so this is Sanrio's character licensing positioned against a bag brand's existing long-selling stock rather than a goods drop for kids.
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