Goku Goes Mini in Dragon Ball DAIMA’s Ichiban Kuji Stand

Super Saiyan Goku (Mini) from Dragon Ball DAIMA — Ichiban Kuji ACLLECT Stand

An Acrylic Stand from Japan’s Ichiban Kuji Prize System

This is a Bandai Spirits ACLLECT Stand: a die-cut acrylic panel of original character artwork mounted on a glossy black rectangular base. Unlike a three-dimensional figure, the design is flat but contour-cut along the character’s outline — a compact, shelf-ready format. The item arrives factory-sealed in its original transparent vinyl bag and carries a “MADE IN JAPAN” marking.

It comes from the Ichiban Kuji prize-lottery system, a Bandai Spirits format sold at Japanese convenience stores such as Lawson and FamilyMart, as well as hobby shops. Buyers purchase individual pulls from a lot; each pull reveals a prize grade ranging from top-tier A downward through the alphabet. The J Prize sits toward the middle-to-lower end of that range. ACLLECT is Bandai Spirits’ dedicated brand for this style of acrylic collection stand, and the company itself is the collector-hobby subsidiary of the Bandai Namco group.

Dragon Ball DAIMA: Toriyama’s Final Animated Series

Dragon Ball DAIMA is a new television anime series based on Akira Toriyama’s original work, broadcast on Fuji TV from October 2024. It carries particular significance: Toriyama passed away in March 2024 before the series went to air, making DAIMA his last creative project. Produced by Toei Animation under credits from Shueisha and Bird Studio, the series was first announced publicly at San Diego Comic-Con in 2023.

The story’s central device is that Goku and the other Z fighters are reduced to small, child-like bodies by an unknown antagonist — DAIMA roughly translates to “great evil” or “great demon” in Japanese. Despite their diminished size, they retain their full fighting abilities. The result is the defining visual tension of the series: a miniature Goku who can still achieve Super Saiyan transformation. That form — golden spiky hair, blue-green eyes, blazing aura — has been one of Dragon Ball’s most recognizable images since the anime first depicted it in 1991. This stand’s artwork shows the child-sized Goku in a dynamic energy-blast pose, leaning directly into that contrast between small frame and overwhelming power.

The Global Dragon Ball Fanbase and Ichiban Kuji’s Place in It

Ichiban Kuji merchandise circulates primarily within Japan. Lots are sometimes bought in bulk by shops and the individual prizes sold separately, which is how items like this one reach international buyers through import channels. Acrylic stands became a standard anime merchandise category in the late 2010s — lower-footprint and more affordable to produce than PVC or resin figures, yet collected alongside them rather than treated as a lesser format.

Dragon Ball is among the most widely recognized anime franchises worldwide, with established audiences across North America, Europe, and Latin America. DAIMA simulcast internationally via Crunchyroll, so the series reached overseas fans alongside its Japanese premiere. For that global fanbase, a project that Toriyama shaped until close to the end of his life carries a different kind of meaning than a standard sequel — and the “mini” visual, specific to this storyline, gives DAIMA merchandise a look that stands clearly apart from the rest of the Dragon Ball catalog.