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Bandai Namco updated its US and Canadian Gashapon site to confirm its capsule machines will soon offer the Hello Kitty and Friends Yokai Figure set ahead of Halloween 2025. There will be five possible characters, with none of them being the “secret.” There’s no exact date for when they’ll appear, but the should start showing up throughout October 2025. The product page also didn’t note how much a try for one will be in a machine. Typically, figures cost between three and four coins, and coins can cost between $2-3 each.
Each of the characters in the Hello Kitty and Friends Yokai Figure set features a mascot dressed as a monster from Japanese folklore. Hello Kitty herself appears to be a kitsune spirit, which is the traditional nine-tailed fox. Hangyodon the sea monster is a kappa, complete with cucumber. Pompompurin is nurikabe. Kuromi is dressed as an oni and even wields a club. Finally, Cinnamoroll rounds out the lineup and is a tanuki.
Here’s how each of the little figures will look.
This is one of the first Halloween 2025 collections of Hello Kitty and Sanrio merchandise confirmed for a worldwide release. A number of others are on the way, but only will apparently be in Japan so far. Some of these include a crossover with Magical DoReMithat makes characters witches, plush of Cinnamoroll with Hatsune Miku in costumes, and ones of characters in general costumes.
The Hello Kitty and Friends Yokai Figure collection are now in US and Canadian Bandai Namco gashapon capsule machines, following an earlier Japanese debut.
