Kingdom Hearts turns twenty-five this year, and Bandai Spirits is marking the milestone the way it marks every big anniversary in Japan: with an Ichiban Kuji lottery. The Ichiban Kuji Kingdom Hearts 25th Anniversary set releases in physical stores across Japan on August 15, 2026, built around two stained-glass statues of Sora and Riku that fans have wanted since the series' Chain of Memories era artwork first started circulating online.
Unlike a lot of recent Ichiban Kuji lines that lean on chibi figures or blind-box keychains as the headline prize, this release goes bigger. The top prizes are full-size display statues built around the Dive to the Heart stained-glass floor motif, backed up by a blanket, desk figures of King Mickey, Donald, and Goofy, an art plate, hand towels, and two waves of Keyblade-themed charms. It is a broad collection spanning nearly every merchandise category a long-running RPG series can produce.
This guide breaks down what is confirmed about the release, how the Ichiban Kuji format works if you have never bought into one before, and what to do once your prizes arrive so a statue you may have chased across import sites does not end up gathering dust or dinged on a shelf.
The release date, price, and headline prizes are consistent across multiple sources covering the announcement, including dedicated import retailers and English-language gaming press:
Bandai has not announced an online sales channel for this set, so the realistic paths for collectors outside Japan are a proxy or forwarding service, or the secondary market once the initial run sells through. Milestone-anniversary Ichiban Kuji lines headlined by a matched statue pair tend to move quickly, so planning ahead matters more than usual here.
Each lottery run has a fixed number of tickets split across lettered prize tiers from A down through the lower alphabet, plus a guaranteed Last One Prize that goes to whoever draws the final ticket in a store's box. Every ticket wins something, so there is no chance of walking away empty-handed, but your odds of landing a top-tier prize like the Sora statue depend on how many total tickets that store received and how early you draw.
With no confirmed online sales, importing typically means a proxy buying service that purchases in-store on your behalf, or watching secondary marketplaces like Mercari and Yahoo Auctions Japan once the set is live. Either route adds shipping time and cost on top of the base 790 yen draw price, so budget for the full landed cost of a statue rather than just the sticker price.
Beyond the two headline statues, the confirmed prize list covers a wide range of formats:
Most collectors who complete a full round of draws will end up with a mix of wearable or bag-clippable charms, a couple of desk-sized items, and a shot at one of the two statues if luck cooperates. Decide which prize tier you actually want before spending on tickets, since chasing every tier at once gets expensive fast.
Kingdom Hearts has had Ichiban Kuji releases before, including a 20th Anniversary wave that also featured a Sora statue as its top prize. What makes this 25th Anniversary set different is the explicit Sora-and-Riku pairing: coverage of the announcement specifically notes this is the first time Riku has appeared as a stained-glass Dive to the Heart statue in the Ichiban Kuji line, designed from the start to sit alongside the Prize A Sora statue rather than stand alone. For a franchise with nearly as many spin-offs as mainline entries, a matched two-character display piece tied to a real anniversary milestone tends to hold collector interest well past its launch window.
EVORETRO does not carry a Kingdom Hearts-specific protector, since this is a newly announced release with no exact-fit product on the market yet. The statue and charm formats here do map cleanly onto general-purpose display gear already sized for similarly scaled anime and game figures. For the roughly 15cm Sora and Riku statues, a tiered acrylic riser gives each piece its own shelf presence without the two figures blocking each other, useful if you want to display them as the matched pair they were designed to be.
The charm prizes are easier to plan for. Both the Keyblade charm collection and the world-logo charms are small enough to clip onto a bag or keyring, but if you would rather keep them display-ready and scratch-free, a keychain-sized PET protector built for Funko Pop keychains is close enough in scale to work for metal and rubber charms in the same size range. As with any closest-scale approximation, measure your specific charm before ordering rather than assuming a universal fit.
If you are planning to display or protect anything you pull from this release, these EVORETRO products are a practical starting point:
It releases in Japanese stores on August 15, 2026, at 790 yen per draw. No online sales channel has been announced.
The realistic options are a proxy or forwarding service that can purchase in-store on your behalf, or watching secondary marketplaces after the initial run sells through.
It is a guaranteed prize, in this case a Riku statue, awarded to whoever draws the final ticket from a store's box. The same statue is also available through a Double Chance Campaign running until the end of November 2026.
Yes. Both share the same stained-glass Dive to the Heart backdrop design, and coverage of the release frames them as a matched pair rather than two unrelated prizes.
A 25th anniversary is exactly the kind of milestone that gets a franchise's best merchandise made, and this Ichiban Kuji delivers with a genuinely wide prize spread rather than a single headline figure padded out with filler tiers. If the Sora and Riku pairing is the reason you are watching this release, plan your import route early and think about how you want to display them together before they arrive. Once anything from this set lands, whether it is a 15cm statue or a handful of Keyblade charms, proper display and protection is what keeps a limited Japan-exclusive release looking as good in five years as it did the day it showed up in the mail.
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