Source: 1kuji.comChecked 23 Aug 2026

DRAGON BALL GT Ichiban Kuji: What I Walked Away With

I had been waiting months for this one.

The A prize and the B prize are Super Saiyan 4 Goku and Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta, and the official page says the two are posed to stand back to back. I wanted both of them, on a shelf, facing away from each other the way they are meant to. That was the plan I left the house with, and my heart was going before I had drawn a single ticket.

Ichiban Kuji is a lottery you draw in a shop in Japan. Every ticket wins something. The Dragon Ball GT set went on sale at eight in the morning on 22 August 2026, a Saturday, and I went out after it as soon as it opened.

The First Shop

Five. One person, five tickets, and the shop was not moving on it.

The tickets sit on a board and you take one yourself. Nothing on the front of them tells you anything. That is the whole of it, and I stood there over the board anyway before I picked.

You peel a ticket open along its edge.

A B prize. Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta, twenty-three centimetres, in a box with a handle punched into the top. Five tickets in, and a figure already.

Then It Stopped

The next shop had none. Nor did the one after it.

I kept going. By the end of the morning I had walked into ten shops, and seven of them had nothing left to draw. The set had gone on sale that same morning.

That is the part nobody tells you about. Not the odds. The shops.

The Second Shop

They had not started selling when I got there.

I drove to another shop while I waited. It had already sold out. That was one of the seven.

Back at the second shop, selling still had not started. I waited in the car for about ten minutes. When a member of staff began setting out the boxes, I went in and waited inside instead.

A line formed. I was third in it.

I was not thinking about what I might win. I was thinking about how much of the box would be gone before my turn.

The first person drew one ticket.

The second drew ten.

Then it was mine, and I could see what was left in the box. I took twenty-five.

An A prize came out of those twenty-five. A second B came out too.

I stopped when the A came out. I read the ticket again, and then again.

Behind me the line was longer than when I had joined it, and the box was empty not long after.

The Third Shop

Five again. Another cap.

Two figures were still in that box, the C and the D. I counted what was left against the tickets still on the board and put the chance of pulling one at about forty per cent. A rough count, not a calculation.

It did not change anything. The shop had already decided the number for me.

Five tickets.

The C came out.

What It Came To

Five and a figure. Twenty-five and two. Five and one.

• A prize — Super Saiyan 4 Goku, one
• B prize — Super Saiyan 4 Vegeta, two
• C prize — Goku, one

• G prize — acrylic stands, eleven
• H prize — die-cut visual board, one
• I prize — clear file and sticker sets, several

Thirty-five tickets at ¥790 each. ¥27,650.

Two of the three shops capped what one person could take, and the caps were not the same. Everything printed on the kuji and around it was in Japanese. Payment was whatever a Lawson takes, which is most things.

Sets are sold until they run out, and this one had gone on sale that same day when I went looking. Whatever is on sale while you are in Japan will be a different set.

I wrote about DRAGON BALL STORE TOKYO after it opened inside Tokyo Station in November 2025, if you want to read about where the same characters turn up on a shop floor rather than in a box: DRAGON BALL STORE TOKYO: What to Know Before You Go.

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