While Good Smile Company and Max Factory are building out Dandadan's premium Nendoroid and figma side, Banpresto is covering the same franchise from the arcade and prize-figure angle, and its wave has moved faster than most collectors realize.
Banpresto's prize figures are a different buying experience from a pre-order-driven Nendoroid release. They are typically non-articulated, more affordable, and distributed through claim machines and retail partners rather than a single storefront pre-order window.
Two lines are doing the heavy lifting for Dandadan right now: Glitter & Glamours, covering Momo Ayase, and SOFVIMATES, covering the alien Serpoian with its first-ever figure.
Here is what has actually released, what is landing this month, and how this side of the collection differs from the Nendoroid and figma wave.
Prize figures are designed to be accessible: lower detail and articulation than a flagship Nendoroid or figma, but also a lower price point and far less pre-order friction.
For a franchise as new to the Western figure market as Dandadan, that accessibility matters, since it lets casual fans buy into the merchandise without committing to a premium figure's price or wait time.
The Momo Ayase Glitter & Glamours figure stands about 180mm, or roughly 7 inches, tall, cast in PVC and posed sitting in her maid outfit. It released in September 2026, which means it is already on shelves and in secondary circulation rather than still being a pre-order.
Pricing has run in the $25 to $40 USD range depending on retailer, putting it solidly in line with other Glitter & Glamours releases across Banpresto's catalog.
Banpresto's Big SOFVIMATES Serpoian, under its soft-vinyl prize line, stands about 18cm tall and recreates the alien's unsettling, human-mimicking design. It is the character's first-ever three-dimensional figure, released in Japan starting August 18, 2026, and it has already shipped into secondary-market and specialty-import inventory.
Soft vinyl, or sofubi, construction gives the figure a different texture and weight than a standard PVC prize figure, which is part of the appeal for collectors who specifically follow this format. A low acrylic riser keeps a loose sofubi figure like this one from toppling on an uneven shelf.
The figure's eyes use a dedicated glow-in-the-dark paint application built into this single release, not a separate special edition, and it plays directly into the character's unsettling design rather than feeling like a gimmick bolted on for novelty's sake.
Giving Serpoian a debut figure this detailed, rather than a plainer first pass at the character, is itself a signal that Banpresto sees real demand in this part of the cast, not just the two human leads.
Momo Ayase is the obvious choice as a lead character, but Serpoian getting dedicated prize-figure treatment this early, ahead of most of the rest of the cast, is a notable signal that Banpresto sees real demand in Dandadan's horror-comedy side, not just its two human leads.
That is consistent with how the manga itself treats the Serpoian arc as one of its most memorable early stretches, well before Turbo Granny or the later story arcs introduced more characters.
Because prize figures are distributed partly through claim machines in Japan, availability outside Japan depends entirely on secondary importers and specialty retailers restocking inventory, not a direct storefront pre-order.
That makes pricing more variable than a Nendoroid or figma release, and it is worth comparing a few specialty import retailers rather than buying the first listing you find.
With Momo Ayase and Serpoian both already covered by Banpresto, Okarun and Turbo Granny are the two obvious gaps left in the prize-figure side of this franchise, especially since both already have Good Smile coverage in other formats.
Given how quickly this wave has moved, a prize-figure version of either character arriving within the next year would not be a surprising next step.
A PVC prize-figure line focused on detailed, non-articulated character statues, including Momo Ayase from Dandadan.
Banpresto's soft-vinyl, or sofubi, prize-figure line, currently covering the alien Serpoian from Dandadan with his first-ever figure.
No, the glow-in-the-dark eyes are a built-in feature of the single Big SOFVIMATES Serpoian release, not a separate version.
They use simpler, non-articulated construction and a different distribution model built around volume rather than premium detail.
Banpresto's Dandadan wave rewards patience more than pre-order speed, since most of it reaches collectors through restocks rather than a single buying window. A display riser is a simple way to give each prize figure its own tier instead of a flat, crowded shelf.
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