One Piece’s S-Hawk Seraphim Gets the Wafer Sticker Treatment

S-Hawk One Piece Wafer Sticker SW9-11 by Bandai

S-Hawk and the Seraphim of the Egghead Arc

One Piece’s Egghead Arc, which began in the manga around late 2022, introduced a new class of artificial warriors called the Seraphim. Each one was engineered by the scientist Dr. Vegapunk using DNA harvested from former Shichibukai — the select group of powerful pirates who once operated under a World Government sanction. S-Hawk is the Seraphim modelled on Dracule Mihawk, the character the story has long identified as the world’s greatest swordsman.

Like all Seraphim, S-Hawk carries the physical traits of the Lunarian race: dark skin, white hair, black wings, and the ability to generate fire. Those qualities are layered over the base character’s fighting style — in S-Hawk’s case, Mihawk’s swordsmanship. On this sticker, the character appears in SD (super-deformed) style, the compact, wide-eyed format standard across Bandai’s shokugan lines. The design shows the black wings, vivid green eyes, and a sword; “SERAPHIM” appears along the top and “S-HAWK” in red lettering at the bottom. The card itself carries a holographic finish that shifts with the viewing angle.

Shokugan: Japan’s Food-Toy Collecting Tradition

This sticker belongs to the shokugan category — a Japanese collectible format in which a small piece of candy or biscuit is packaged alongside a toy, card, or sticker. Bandai has produced One Piece wafer sticker series across multiple waves, each featuring a rotating character lineup. Individual packs are sold with a single randomly drawn sticker, a format that originally targeted children but has long attracted a dedicated adult collector base as well.

The product code SW9-11 most likely designates the ninth series in the wafer sticker line and card number eleven within it, though Bandai has not publicly detailed its exact numbering system, so that reading is inferred rather than confirmed. These series are sold through Japanese convenience stores, toy shops, and candy sections rather than through international retail, keeping distribution concentrated within Japan.

Why One Piece Fans Follow the S-Hawk Releases

Mihawk has been part of One Piece since the story’s earliest chapters — a long-standing benchmark for swordsmanship and one of the franchise’s most consistently recognised figures. S-Hawk reintroduces that reference point through a newer character design at a moment when the Egghead Arc brought both Mihawk and the Seraphim to the centre of the story. The anime adaptation of the arc began airing in 2024, sustaining the broader wave of fan attention.

Because the Seraphim only appeared in the manga from 2022 onward, merchandise tied to them is still in a relatively early phase compared to long-established One Piece characters. One Piece maintains active collector communities across North America, Europe, and Asia, and shokugan stickers — particularly those with holographic finishes — have their own dedicated following within that broader audience. Items circulated through the Japanese domestic market are not readily available through ordinary retail channels outside Japan, which shapes how international fans go about finding them.