Retail Price: 790 Yen
Total Tickets: 80
Released Date: 28 Jan 2023
Ichiban Kuji: Selectable prizes for non-blinds small prizes. Double chance included if your country carries this Kuji.
Series Sequel: 8th QQ Kuji, First in 2023 !
Another QQ set awaits us and for QQ I think their format is quite consistent, we will have individual prizes for each of the sisters and each set features a theme. This set is a holiday theme where the sisters go out and have fun! Sounds, interesting, let’s go check it out!
Prize A/B/C/D/E (1 piece each)
Top Prize Appearance: 6th for all
Design: 5
Distribution: 5 x 1 piece each. You get what you pull, each character will be indicated in the tickets.
Prize Rating:
QQ figures never disappoint. The sisters look amazing here, they dress casually and seems like they just went to a carnival, each of them holds a balloon, Ichika holds a heart shaped balloon and a map of the park. Nino holds a diamond shaped balloon and a small plush. Miku holds only a normal balloon but she is going to be the most popular one anyway. Yotsuba holds a big plush and a star shaped balloon. Isuki holds popcorn cup, dons a bear hat and holds a double star shaped balloon. Each have their distinct items and together they look absolutely amazing! Sadly only 1 figure of each are in a set, so you really have to rely on your luck to pull them out, or save up more money to buy them off from somebody. Figures are all 18cm tall!
Prize F/G/H/I/J (1 piece each)
Design: 5
Distribution: 5 x 1 piece each. You get what you pull, each character will be indicated in the tickets.
Prize Rating:
Next we have sort of a big prize but not figures, they are Illustration Board. They are A3 in size so very big and you won’t feel like you are shortchanged. What I like about the designs, is that they are different setting, we have Ichika in a cowgirl costume. Nino as chef. Miku in a Halloween costume. Yotsuba in an adventure outfit and Isuki in a farming outfit. Feels different and I think if you pull it you should be able to sell them higher than your ticket cost if you don’t wish to keep it!
Prize K (20 pieces)
Design: 10
Distribution: 10 x 2 pieces each.
Prize Rating:
Moving onto the small prizes we have acrylic stands. They are nice, 11cm in size and featuring the Quintuplets in the outfit shown in the figures and also the Illustration board! If you can’t pull the top prizes then this would be a decent prize to go home with! They are not blinded too, so do play early if you want to choose!
Prize L (20 pieces)
Design: 5
Distribution: 5 x 4 pieces each.
Prize Rating:
Next we have folder set and I like the design of the holiday outing outfit as well as their individual different outfit, if you pull this prize, you can pick your favorite sister and each prize gives you 2 folders featuring 2 different outfits! Folder is standard A4 size, nothing to bad, just hope they have more designs since we are going to get a lot of these if we play a lot.
Prize M (30 pieces)
Design: 10
Distribution: 10 x 3 pieces each.
Prize Rating:
Lastly we have rubber charms and they also feature the outfit of the sisters in the top prize and illustration board prize. They are also not blinded so if you have a favorite to choose, you should play early especially if your favorite is Miku. Cute design and not blinded, so easy to collect as well.
Last Prize / Double Chance
Prize Rating:
As usual the last prize of the QQ set is an Illustration Board. This board is A4 in size, smaller than the A3 ones, but comes with a frame and feature all 5 of them in the Illustration board outfit. Normally the last wouldn’t be a very good items to buy out, but if you really want it you can look for a 4- buyout or 14- with at least one figure inside!
This is a double chance prize so you can check if you won it first before buying out a set if you have played a few tickets before!
Grading
Big Prize
Small Prize
Last Prize
Variety of Prize
Odds of big prizes
Value for Money
Collector’s Value
Overall: B-
Conclusion
This set is slightly better with the small prizes, the acrylic stand alone makes things a bit better. The charms have more designs, just that they have reduce the number of figures and we get large illustration board instead. Not too sure if fans are happy about this, but regardless it doesn’t change the fact that the figures are nice. I hope we go back to 2 figures per sister because just having 1 of them in a set can make a set dead if all figures are gone early, not good for shops selling as well.
Odds
Let’s calculate your odds to get the following with one ticket from a fresh board!
Chance to get a figure prize (A to E): 5/ 80 = 6.25%, lower than average
Chance to get a top prize (A to J): 10/ 80 = 12.5%, slightly higher than average
Recommendation
3 tickets for a chance at a figure.
Collectibles?
The Real Deal: The figures are definitely the good stuff that you should be aiming, they are very hard to pull, so set a budget and buy them from someone instead if it’s more reasonable to do so. Or you can just buy the sister that you fancy the most!
Nice to have: The illustration board and acrylic stand are nice, but the former is hard to collect given their rarity so no obligations, maybe just get the ones you like. The acrylic stand are slightly easier, just aim for 1 character and if you have the chance, get a set of the Quintuplets! The framed A4 illustration board is nice too, but don’t spend too much on it, it can also be a good replacement for the A3 board!
Collect only if you don’t already have: None
Skippable: Charms and folder, they are nice, but no value in collecting all designs, so pick what you like when you pull them is enough!
Image credits:
https://bpnavi.jp/s/kuji/pc/medias/show_by_key/5Hanayome8
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