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Legendary shojo manga classics get reprints as miniature capsule toys with full-volume contents

Small packages contain a huge dose of girls’ comics history and nostalgia.

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Akihabara Radio Kaikan’s gacha capsule toy lucky bag is an otaku delight【Photos】

Anime characters and cute models are some of the surprise finds in this fukubukuro. 

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Tokyo capsule toy machine gives you real samurai-era antique coins, but are they worth anything?

Little capsules of history.

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Akihabara capsule toy lucky bag is filled with cute characters and cool crap (literally)【Photos】

Mulan Akiba delivers the randomized gacha goods.

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Daruma Man: The Japanese gacha capsule toy series we never knew we needed

Here to help you with the heavy work of making all your wishes come true.  

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Wear your love for Nissin Donbei noodle bowls on your bag with these cute mini charms

Udon or soba, kitsune or tempura…you can’t go wrong with any of these noodles.

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Gacha capsule toy machine sells…Japanese rice bags?!

Putting a new spin on the supermarket shop.

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Japan’s new Coins of Destiny capsule toys want to help you answer life’s most important questions

Such as “Should I get up now, or go back to sleep?”

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Gacha capsule toy machine sells Casio watch rings in Japan, and we try to get all of them

Will the gacha gods smile kindly on our desire to own all of these cute miniature watches?

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Our reporter gives up on 1,000-yen capsule machines, except for these ones… They feel different

They seem very sincere.

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Real-kitty-litter snow globes coming soon to Japan’s capsule toy vending machines【Photos】

All the excitement of your cat pawing up a storm at its litter box with none of the mess to clean up!

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Japan’s newest capsule toys: Capsules that Absolutely Won’t Open【Photos】

Our natural instinct is to open up our Gashapon capsules ASAP, but it’s not so simple here.

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Akihabara arcades aren’t dead yet! New six-floor game center opens in Tokyo otaku quarter next month

Namco steps in with its first-ever Akihabara arcade.

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Gacha gourmet — can we survive only eating meals that we pull a capsule toy replica version of?

May the odds (of getting a good gacha toy) be ever in your favour.

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Gacha machine backpack is Japan’s hottest new fashion statement

Wearable gacha machine is sure to turn heads wherever you go. 

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Octopus tentacle ear plugs coming to Japanese capsule toy machines

I’m a sucker for stylish ear protection.

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Japan’s super popular hamster-shaped monaka made into capsule toy form for all to enjoy

If you can’t eat ’em, wear ’em.

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Beautiful beefy Yoshinoya gacha capsule toys look good enough to eat or display【Photos】

Gyudon meets gacha.

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Japan’s newest capsule toys: Buff shirtless dude torso cushions, sometimes with very pink nipples

They’re not designed for human use, though.

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Tokyo’s new buses with onboard capsule toy gacha machines stocked with very appropriate prizes

It’s hard to think of a better place to offer these quirky capsule toys.

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