One Piece's heroines line up for a February Ichiban Kuji
Bandai Spirits has dated the third One Piece heroine lottery for 5 February 2027, with five characters split across two MASTERLISE sculpt ranges at 790 yen a draw.
Bandai Spirits has dated the third entry in its One Piece heroine lottery line, and it puts five characters on the shelf at once.
What is coming
The draw is Ichiban Kuji One Piece Memory of Heroines -Royal Princess-. It goes on sale from 5 February 2027, at 790 yen a ticket with tax included, through Ichiban Kuji ONLINE, the Ichiban Kuji official shops, ONE PIECE Mugiwara Stores and other participating retailers, while stocks last.
Five figures across two scales
Four of the five characters named in the notice — Vivi, Rebecca, Reiju and Bonney — are being sculpted for MASTERLISE EXPIECE, the range Ichiban Kuji uses for its standard-scale figure prizes. Shirahoshi is going into MASTERLISE EXTRA, the larger format the line reserves for characters whose size is part of the point. Bandai Spirits says further details will follow, and the notice carries the usual caveat that the photography is illustrative and the finished pieces may differ.
Our opinion
An Ichiban Kuji is a lottery dressed as a shopping trip, and the honesty of the format is that it is the cheapest way a licence can sell a large cast all at once. What the Memory of Heroines line actually solves is a casting problem: One Piece's main figure output has always gravitated towards Luffy, Zoro and the rest of the front line, while the women who carry entire arcs — Vivi's Alabasta, Rebecca's Dressrosa, Reiju and Bonney's turns in Whole Cake and Egghead — rarely get a standalone release. Splitting four of them onto MASTERLISE EXPIECE and sending Shirahoshi to the bigger EXTRA mould is also a quiet statement about scale as a selling point, because a Shirahoshi rendered at ordinary size would be a joke. At 790 yen a draw the appeal is obvious and the arithmetic is not, since completing a set out of a lottery costs a great deal more than the sum of its parts. That is not cynicism; it is the business model, and it is why a licence this old keeps looking for rooms it has not swept yet. The heroines' room still had floor space.