Retail Price: 750 Yen
Total Tickets: 80
Released Date: 22 Apr 2023
Ichiban Kuji: Selectable prizes for non-blinds small prizes. Double chance included if your country carries this Kuji.
Series Sequel: 3rd Tokyo Revengers Set, first in 2023!
Recommended for: Tokyo Revenger fans who wants their figure!
It is time for another Tokyo Revenger Kuji and this is a long awaited Kuji set because it finally feature the character figures! The past two sets top prizes were plush and jumbo towel, although there are some nice prizes in between, but those are nothing compare to the figures! So let’s dive into the prizes!
Prize A (1 piece)
Top Prize Appearance: debut!
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We kick things off with the main character of the anime, which is Hanagaki and he looks great here. No fancy fighting pose, just a nice half kneeling position. The figure this time round is Masterlise! So expert good quality and bulky figure! His figure is the shortest at 13cm tall, but of course he is not small, just that he is kneeling down. What surprises me is that he is a unique piece! Like the main character out of everyone is a unique piece?! Wow, that makes him the popular piece without a doubt, so do make sure he is available before you play!
Prize B (2 pieces)
Top Prize Appearance: debut!
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Next we have Manjiro and he looks cool, like just him standing with his hands in the pocket, minding his own business, if you are collecting you probably would want everyone in the set! His figure is also Masterlise and he stands at 22cm tall, you can place him back to back with Ken as shown in the picture for some nice display. 2 pieces to go around, I was afraid that everyone is going to be a unique piece in the set.
Prize C (2 pieces) / Double Chance
Top Prize Appearance: Debut!
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Next up is Ken and he looks great as well, also with the hands in pocket pose, which is why when you place him and Manjiro side by side they do look nice together. He too is Masterlise and stands at 25cm tall, the tallest amongst them all, and also 2 pieces in the set!
What I am also surprised is that he is the double chance prize! Do pause and check your winning first before continuing playing more tickets!
Prize D (3 pieces)
Top Prize Appearance: 18th
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The last figure to be able to pull is Chifuyu and he looks amazing. He looks like he is ready to battle and his figure is also Masterlise and he stands at 22cm tall. I am not sure why there are 3 pieces of Chifuyu and only 2 Hanagaki, it would be perfect to get 2 pieces of each character right. Anyway all of them are essential so do get all 4!
Prize E (12 pieces)
Design: 4
Distribution: 4 x 3 pieces each. Blind box.
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Next we move onto the small prizes, they are plastic cups and I am surprised that the characters featured are not the ones in the top prizes, we have Hanagaki, Mitsuya, Inui and Kokonoi, basically 2 from the Tokyo Manji and 2 from the Black Dragon gang, not sure why this particular line up, but anyway the cups are one of the rarer small prizes, it’s a useful item, nothing bad upon pulling it, I do hope we have more characters design though.
Prize F (12 pieces)
Design: 12
Distribution: 6 x 2 pieces each.
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Next we have towels, as much as I don’t like towels, I still find it amazing that they are only giving 12 of these in the set! Like how is towel a rarer prize. Anyway the character design looks good, we have Manjiro, Ken, Chifuyu, Mitsuya, Inui and Kokonoi, how strange for this line up and no Hanagaki as well. No complains here, I mean they are reducing the number of towels for us, I would take that as a win anyday!
Prize G (24 pieces)
Design: 8
Distribution: 8 x 3 pieces each.
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Next we have 2 prizes for 1 ticket, if you pull Prize G, you will have a A4 Folder featuring members of the different Gangs plus a sticker affiliated with the gang, the design for the folder is quite nice so nothing bad about it, they could have more pieces of folder, not that it matter but will be cool if they gave us 2 folders and a sticker in a prize!
Prize H (24 pieces)
Design: 15
Distribution: 9 x 2 pieces each. 6 x 1 piece each. Blind box.
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Lastly we have rubber charms and they featured a lot of different characters, ranging from different gang! I think it’s they featured the side characters because the main ones will be released quite often so it’s good we have some of the uncommon ones here! Standard rubber charm, nothing too bad.
Last Prize
Prize Rating:
If you are unable to pull Prize B, a buyout will give you the Manjiro Masterlise figure which is similar to the Prize B figure, the only difference is the expression! The prize B one smirks while this one is more calm, so if you don’t mind the expression the Last Prize is a good substitute! Still would prefer Hanagaki to be the last prize since he is the unique piece but no complaints here, they could give us more chifuyu rght. You can look for a 8- buyout or 14- with at least one other figures!
Grading
Big Prize
4 Masterlise figure, all good!
Small Prize
I think small prizes could be better in terms of the design and appeal, they are quite standard Kuji prizes, I know this set is mainly attracting using the figures but the small prizes are important too!
Last Prize
A Manjiro Masterlise is not a bad thing!
Variety of Prize
With 4 small prizes, it’s quite decent but their variety is quite limited for the cups and towel, the charms play well with 15 different characters, but overall, so quite decent.
Odds of big prizes
80 tickets with 8 top prizes is pretty standard
Value for Money
You will have a good chance of a Masterlise figure but also don’t get too much hope for the small prizes, they aren’t the most appealing one, but as a fan you should find it just fine.
Collector’s Value
Overall: B
Conclusion
This one barely gets a B due to the small prizes less appeal, but overall it’s a good Kuji, I mean at least we have a decent distribution for the top prizes! I still find the Hanagaki figure a question mark, like why do they only gave 1 of him? Regardless, it’s a good Kuji to start on your Figure collection, we have been waiting for the figures for a while!
Odds
Let’s calculate your odds to get the following with one ticket from a fresh board!
Chance to get a top prize (A to D): 10 / 80 = 10%, average
Recommendation
3 tickets for a chance at a figure or look for a good buyout with all of them inside, or simply play for a chance and then hunt down the rest in the Market Place!
Collectibles?
The Real Deal:
- Prize A to D, can substitute B with Last, Masterlise figure: This is definitely what you are in for, so do just your hands on all 4 of them as this is just the beginning of the figurine collection, so having the 4 of them can ease your collection later on even if they have another figure!
Nice to have:
- Prize H Charms: If you have a way to get all 15 characters, they do look nice altogether, they can be hard to get since it’s blind box, but with some effort you should be able to have all 15 in no time!
Collect only if you don’t already have: NA
Skippable:
- Prize E Cups: They are useful but with only 4 characters and not all 4 have Masterlise, just use them for your daily usage, don’t need to collect it.
- Prize F Towels: Same reason as above
- Prize G Folder + Sticker: They are nice, but I don’t see a theme in collecting all 8 of them, just use them and paste the sticker somewhere nice so you can admire them!
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